This guitar tour was like being with Andrew Sagovia in Madrid Spain with the Legendary Great est Luthier, Antonio Torres. The Sound and the Artistry captures the magnificent Golden era the Romantic Sound that only the great Luthiers can create when building the guitar. The Guitar is a universe on it's own Evolution, from the wood to the polish to the interior and exterior, to the Machine tuners, to the strings,and final construction the completion
They should get paid the common gig price of a 4-man band instead of the price of a 2-man band, considering there was a singer, guitar player, alto sax player, and tenor sax player.
The book by Trevor Gore and Gerard Gilet are something you should not miss "The contemporary Acoustic Guitar". Trevor is a Mechanical Engineer and the books are far beyond a PhD in research and analysis
а для чего вы оставляете такие огромные потеки клея внутри гитары? Клеевые кляксы и капли делают лучше акустику гитары за счет отражений и интерференции звука?
Steve Connor has created an artistic, creative, fun, rewarding and financially successful life. Kudos! I just finished my first complete guitar build and, though, it is lovely to look at and wonderful to play, it is not nearly in the same league as a Connor. I wonder how many guitars he has built since 2009? What a treat to see and hear his story.
Boy, does this make me want to try using a strap! The comfort level is obvious. I don't know how the older players did traditional posture for decades.
Than you Steve for this video, I understand the urge of building beutiful instruments. Would like to meet with you and talk about guitar building, if you visit Europe let me know 😀. www.tguitars.com
We applaud your experimentation! I don't think any of those bracing patterns fall out of fractal geometry. Perhaps you collected data on the performance of these bracing patterns, if not, all your work is lost, save for something you discovered by chance and remembered. It is likely you did not discover anything worthwhile, as the guitar building world is not recommending your methods.
As north americas finest poet /musician and painter said-- iF YOU THROW SAND at an oyster ..you get pearls ...BUT if you throw sand at a man you only get ULCERS.
Steve Connor's guitars are NOT worth anywhere near $8k. A real maker like Petros Guitars - I can totally understand them being at $8k or more due to their EXTREME attention to detail on all their models. Steve sounds like a trust fund baby in the way he talks about money which it seems he really doesnt know the value of a dollar.
What an awesome video. Thank you for sharing it. I saw this video a few years ago. I joined your channel. But I never received any more videos. Do you still post videos? Also. What kind of glue do you use? I hope you will post more videos.
Oh my goodness, why so many haters on here? Yes the guy may be a bit different from other Luthiers, doesn't mean he can't go fishing, hang out with his "lovely wife" and charge 35K for his guitars - that's up to him and good on him. Certainly does not make him an "asshole"! Oh boy, there are some horrible people around!
Your guitar doesn't look or sound any better than a $500 Yamaha, and nowhere near as good as a $2,000 Gibson... How are you able to sell for $8,000 to a student, who can own a better guitar for under $2,000? I think you are full of shit. I think you got some start up money from Dad and are living off it while indulging your ego. Geometric patterns in the bracing do not make better resonance. That was a failed experiment. Minimal bracing is the secret to the best sounding guitars.
He does nothing of the sort, and if he did, such frequency would changed in the completed instrument. He admitted he is guided more by intuition, than science, and the science he does mention are just fluff and puff buzz words, like fractals. Does he even know the fractal equation?
@@NeverTalkToCops1 The lattice bracing in the video is somewhat fractal, in fact there are some main struts that are bigger than the struts between them, and he could have made a third series of even smaller struts to put between the second ones. It's very easy to produce fractal structures, even if you don't know the equations. The point is whether using fractals gives good results in guitar making. Does a too dense lattice structure make a better sounding guitar? They say that it is better to put as little bracing as possible. The secret to make good guitars is to tap tune the top properly, whatever the bracing system, not to invent weird bracings because you can't make good guitars with the standard ones.
@@NeverTalkToCops1 I agree. I would rather have a guitar built by someone who believes in physics, than whatever just comes to mind. Kind of a rookie and lazy way to build.
