Handmade guitars, cittern, bouzouki, tenor guitar and mandolin by English luthier, Nigel Forster - Living and working in SE Queensland, Australia. "How to make a guitar" video, step by step luthier instruction, and video featuring top Celtic music performers. Writer of ebooks for luthiers.
Not only is Mr. Forster a genius luthier, clearly he's expert in the musicology of this and his other fine instruments. Thanks for sharing. Wonderful sound.
I get what you say, Mr. Forster, however, I am reminded of the sayhing attributed to Thomas Edison. Regardless of some of the controversy about the man, his saying has some truth in it. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Great accomplishments depend not so much on ingenuity as on hard work. This is a saying of the American inventor Thomas Edison." To that end, that is how I regard your work. Inspirational and filled with determination. Best wishes!@@Nkforster
Brian's a top bloke taught me all I know about how guitars work. I traded guitars I found and restored with him when the shop was still open. Don't know who I'll take skip finds to now
This is definitely one of the best sounding guitars I’ve ever heard, if not the best. And I’ve got 12 excellent guitars. It has that meaty sound and girth, chewy bass, mids and treble, and definition and clarity. I think it’s the builder in the end that gets that out of the wood. I’d like to know the cost of that guitar you’re playing?
Woah!!! So many amazing ideas in one short video. I love this and will be referring back to it. I never stop learning. I run DT Guitar Tech in Gateshead. (Very small scale - do it cos I love it more than anything) Thanks for this. I have done many fret jobs over the years including stainless, and these ideas would have come in very useful. Why on earth have I never made a dummy fretboard before!
This is awesome! I did the frets on my current build last weekend, using calipers, a crowning file and an arbor press. It was tedious, but the result was much cleaner than trying to round the frets after installation. I just placed my order for the grinding tool to make things easier in future.
Thank you! I am doing a shaving on one of my guitars, it is a finished guitar but I don't like the sound and I can see the back braces are way overbuilt too, so I was wondering should I shave and taper the end and also the middle part as well? Or only the end or only the middle part, I know it is way way more complicated than to just summarize it in a yes or no answer but still I am very interested in your opinion! Thank you!
The issue probably isn't the back. If it is overbuilt, you've probably just made a dead back, which is no bad thing. Your issue will probably be the top.
@@Nkforster Thank you for your answer. I was a bit too short with my story . So the guitar is overbuilt in every way and I already started to shave the top braces. The legs of the X and the sound bars and side braces as well, shaving and scalloping them all. I try do to it step by step, and between steps I always put the strings back and play it for some time, usually some days or weeks. It seems like the sound started to open up. I was just a bit confused about what to do with the back as I found much less info about that. I know I can have some more bass for sure with the back braes shaving just wasn't sure should I taper the end for be able to move more or just in general shave it to loose weight so it moves more by that or both?
