How to make a guitar and my approach to build from scratch with no building plans.
This is an acoustic baritone guitar with "Half Nashville" tuning.
I´m a huge fan of Pat Metheny and his albums "What´s It All About" and "One Quiet Night" where he uses a special acoustic baritone guitar build by Linda Manzer.
It is low tuned from A to A (sometimes Ab to Ab) but the two middle strings is one octave higher. Also called Half Nashville tuning
I decided to try and build my own version and the video shows my approach to build a guitar from scratch with no building plans.
It has been finished one week before this video and it is my new favorite guitar. I almost can't stop playing...:)
After the intro video with Metheny playing "Don´t Know Why" the music is me playing and improvising on this guitar.
I lost the part where i bend the sides due to a bad SD card, but you can see me do that in some of my other videos.
Containing these steps:
Drawing the design 0:46
Building materials 2:43
Some details, the form, the roset and the end strip etc 3:16
Bracing the top 5:05
Voicing the top 8:04
Closing the box 9:04
Making the guitar neck 13:21
Guitar binding 16:41
Shaping the neck 19:07
Making the fingerboard 19:20
Finishing 22:34
Playing the new guitar 23:07
19 сен 2024
