Answering Google's most asked LUTHIER QUESTIONS!!

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00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Question 1 - What is a luthier?
00:30 - Question 2 - What is it called 'luthier'?
00:59 - Question 3 - How much money do luthiers make?
01:45 - Question 4 - How do I start in lutherie?
02:55 - Questions 5 - What does it take to become a good luthier?
04:20 - Question 6 - How many hours does it take to build a guitar?
05:20 - Question 7 - Is it easier to build an electric or acoustic?
06:42 - Question 8 - What makes a good luthier?
07:40 - Question 9 - Who's the most famous luthier?
09:10 - Question 10 - Are guitar sales declining?

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Комментарии : 51

@abydosianchulac2 Год назад

Guitarchitect. Brilliant.

@electricladyguitarsdevonuk1414 Год назад

What makes a 'Good' anything.????? A: Steve Morse was asked how someone could be as good as him at playing guitar (reshaped question to 'being the best/ most competent that they could be) then said the following - Application! If someone asks you to clean the floor, do it to the best of your ability!. Embracing the menial aspects of life will give you the right mindset for fulfilling goals/tasks that are important to you. Making the inside of your guitar as beautiful & clean as the visible exterior is one example. It starts with desire, it's driven by determination and it never ends - one life ain't enough!

@andrewbowen6875 Год назад

Cool comment. Sometimes the actual answers are as simple as this

@gregorcrothers4256 Год назад

Thanks for the video Tom. Always look forward to it. I would much rather see a Tommys Tonewoods or build video, but Ill take what I can get!

@TomSandsGuitars Год назад

There’s more coming!

@MatthewPeskay Год назад

Youre videos are the best Tom! I am hooked on your channel and have learned so much and i dont even make guitars. Thanks for all of the great content!

@TomSandsGuitars Год назад

So welcome

@WillKillen Год назад

You and your solid gold cars.

@aaronlucasguitars Год назад

Sweet video!!! Your gold chariots are awesome!

@TomSandsGuitars Год назад

I’ll give you a ride sometime

@aaronlucasguitars Год назад

@@TomSandsGuitars 😜

@johngriswold2213 Год назад

Enjoyable video as usual...as to the genesis of the term luthier, luthiers originally built lutes, strummed, plucked and sometimes bowed instruments that some say go back 3000 years. Lutes have several strings, a long narrow neck, a bowl shaped body, and of course are built out of wood;)

@stinkiepot185 Год назад

I learned so much with that

@TomSandsGuitars 10 месяцев назад

Thank you

@andrewbowen6875 Год назад

Fantastic Tom so good your channel. If ever there was a case for someone living the dream and ending up in one of those “Yorkshire Life” magazines then it’s Tom Sands. Seriously though I don’t think any Luthier has ever gotten into making guitars with thoughts of becoming rich as the materials and hours do explain the price imo

@TomSandsGuitars Год назад

Thanks Andrew

@Sanhaparkluthier Год назад

I really like the answer to the last question! As a noobthier, now I know the future is solid. Solid as your gold car.

@TomSandsGuitars 10 месяцев назад

🤣

@andrewbowen6875 Год назад

The most obvious name of what we view as handmade boutique guitars would have to be your mentor Ervin Symogyi

@TomSandsGuitars Год назад

Agreed

@quinchorus-40 Год назад

I wish there was a job fair for luthier apprenticeships where you could be hooked up with some professionals looking for some underlings

@TomSandsGuitars 11 месяцев назад

You don’t need a job fair when you have the most powerful communication device in history in the palm of your hand. Just send out emails, DM’s, WhatsApp’s, you’ll make the right connection! Persist! 💪

@quinchorus-40 11 месяцев назад

@@TomSandsGuitars ….oh yeah 🤦‍♂️

@allanpablo2224 Год назад

"What is a luthier" The question that defined and set the mood of the video💯🔥

@TomSandsGuitars Год назад

Thanks for watching Allan

@RAkers-tu1ey Год назад

Good video. Which is harder, acoustic or electric - good question, good answer. Which is harder to make, a Sam Malouf chair, or a Louis XIV chair - if made perfectly, they are the same. 😉

@TomSandsGuitars 10 месяцев назад

Well said!

@brucekahn7190 Год назад

Loved the video Tom but I don’t believe Martin started offering steel strings until the early 1900’s-1910’s.

@ElenaChuckYT Год назад

Tom only says he moved to nyc around 1833

@ElenaChuckYT Год назад

Love it ❤ now do 73 questions like vogue

@TomSandsGuitars Год назад

Will have to look that one up!

@myguitarworkshop Год назад

Very interesting Tom, a luthier is a box with strings maker with a neck. So what's a piano builder called? It's a big box with strings and keys no neck 😊 1, Antonio Stradivari 2. C F Martin 3 Tom Sands Hehe

@TomSandsGuitars 10 месяцев назад

🙏🙏🙏

@davidharris7431 Год назад

Tom , if it's not prying too much , what's it like to work with Ervin ?

@TomSandsGuitars Год назад

That’s one for another video!

@julesbrunton1728 Год назад

Luthiers question for the tap tone-aholics. Why do luthiers on RU-vid only ever demo tap tone while the wood is not resembling a guitar? I'd love to see you tap a piece of rectangular 5mm thick wood and then tap the same piece when it's 2 or 3 mm thick, braced and shaped like a guitar. The difference between these tones is the important info we don't get from anyone...yet. Love your stuff anyway :)

@quinchorus-40 Год назад

They just want to see if it has resonance to begin with.

@graemegoetz6436 11 месяцев назад

While you want a resonant piece to begin with, once you have the top thicknessed and braces glued, I’d say a good starting point to listen for is tapping it at least 3 different points around in a triangle around the bridge plate. Listen for those pitches to be different. Good rule of thumb is to have clear different tones in different places around the top. The braces are only there for support of the string pressure and you want the top to vibrate as much as possible, so really the process is bringing it as close to collapsing as possible without actually doing so. This is my understanding of it at least. Dana Bourgeois has a great video here on RU-vid of brace carving and what to look for!

@TomSandsGuitars 10 месяцев назад

All pieces of wood are different, even from the same species and the same tree. The tap test will give you an indication of how resonant a piece of wood is comparatively. I do like your idea of comparing the same piece of wood to itself at varying degrees of thickness etc.

@TomSandsGuitars 10 месяцев назад

This is why I love guitar making, everyone has a different approach. Mine is to make sure that the tones are the same at equidistant points and graduate evenly in respect of the perimeter/rim. I would also argue that bracing is not only for reintroducing structure to a thinned place but as conduit for the transmission of vibrational energy. 🙏