Welcome to Strings and Sawdust! I'm Matt, based in heart of the East Midlands, UK. Join me as I turn planks of wood into custom guitars right from my garage. On this channel, you'll see every step of the process, building guitars within a small garage workshop without crazy expensive tools. Whether you're an amateur luthier, a guitar enthusiast, or just curious about the process of guitar making. Subscribe and follow along as I learn, experiment, and document my journey learning new techniques for creating music through craftsmanship. Let's build some guitars together!
Haha, it escalated pretty quickly for me, I don’t regret it. Have just used it at the weekend to process some 8 foot 5x2’s for a workbench I’m building and it was a breeze. (That video is coming out next Thursday)
I just used a cheap hacksaw, it cuts really easily . For the initial shaping I used 600 grit sandpaper, then finished it up to about 1200 once I was happy with the shape.