At The Heart Is The Guitar 

No guitar is worth $30.000. If a guitar goes rapidly out of tune when first strung, just play your guitar for two more hours before making the video.

Sounds more like an intonation problem.

William Laskin invented the sound port and arm bevel a true genius and great Canadian luthier!!!

He'll use a tenon joint into the heel block, as is used in most steel string guitars. Not so common for classical instruments.

G George You are certainly wrong in everything your statement says

A world of sports cars and country estates.

How much do you think a good violin or cello for student in a conservatory will cost ? He is talking about serious students. However there are good handmade instruments for half of that. There are students and there are students.

Well, I'd add the recommendation to have a competent player do the playing when you are pitching instruments to players who you can reasonably expect to know the difference between good and poor playing and/or are familiar with the repertoire being presented. I must say though, the guy has a good eye for beautiful timbers.

What’s the point of those luxurious machine heads if you don’t use them! Lol

Did it ever occur to any of you that new strings take a few days to break in?

Don’t hate buddy

Uhh.........yeah?

Don’t hate

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.

Yes , painful to watch . I don't think Titebond belongs on an expensive instrument . Animal glue please

BEST WAY TO DI IT: be really wealthy & wake up one day & say "Daddy, Mommy I need millions of dollars for a lighthouse & guitar making equipment"

R. Cumpiano, "Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology", Chronicle Books Complete description of the making of both traditional acoustic and classical guitars.

Francisco Tárrega - Capricho árabe

WesFanMan Sure, betcha can chop down a tree with bare hands

That's the Prelude from the Bach Cello Suite No.1

ill giver er a go mate

Prelude No.3 by Villa-Lobos

So Im not the only one? Great! Last time my ear got better probably because all the time i think guitars are out of tune.

who is to say what sounds right? WHO?

Wood isn't that expensive. Master grade cedar, spruce, koa, and other back/sides woods would cost about $500 per guitar, on the high side, for the GOOD stuff.

boblob2003 even with Brazilian rosewood, alpine spruce, cuban mahogany for neck, ebony for board and bridge Adirondack for braces and other appointments that would be $1500 - $2000, I bet he would charge $20000 for guitar like that.

Robert Johnson started out on three wires nailed to a shed wall ;)

It's shellac, not paint, and some of the greatest luthiers of all time, such as I Fleta, did it. It is for aesthetic reasons and because helps the timber handle changes in humidity.

@@rjlchristie So let's paint the interior of the top, for aesthetic reasons! XD

@@andsalomoni If you think that's a good idea, you go ahead and do that. The rest of us would regard that as patently foolish.

@@rjlchristie It's just as good as painting the interior of the back! XD XD

@@andsalomoni Since you're the expert, you go tell that to Ignacio Fleta and sons and other elite luthiers. I'll just stick to relaying facts.

Yeah, he'll keep doing it well until one day, you know, he won't, then ouch, spurt. + I couldn't help but notice the bandage on his fingers in the shot immediately after the juggling shot.

He seems pretentious. He also seems like he inherited money to begin with; I know a lot of the top luthiers in my area which is considered the guitar mecca of the world, and I've never heard his name, not once. It doesn't make sense. He's selling student models for $8,000? Who is he selling to? Probably friends of his parents who are probably filthy rich, thinking he can just start at the top if he slaps a certain price tag on his instruments. Look at the top music schools in the country... How much do you think those guitarists are spending on their guitars? The answer is between $800 - $2,500 and those are guys that technically aren't beginners but students. Now look at the professional industry. The only people paying this much for guitars are the top of the top when it comes to live classical performance, and again, I've never even heard his name. I smell a trust fund baby. Just calling it now.

Yeah...he was exaggerating of his valuable guitars valued at $8,000 to $30K. I never hear of his name in the luthier world. Even Jose Ramirez top model guitar sold for $20K . Who is Steve Connor? IS he build better guitar than Jose Ramirez or Antonio Torres? I would love to buy an original A. Torres guitar for $30K

You can actually buy a hand crafted guitars at low end Price ($1,000 - $3,000 only ) and you all check this amazing value classical guitars made by Luca Waldner (based in Italy) and his website is www.lucawaldner.com/. He made 2 models; : Almedina and Almedina Limited Edition model. Go to his website to check this amazing guitars.

He is quite a well regarded luthier. Eliot Fisk, David Tannenboum, Odair Assad all play his instruments in concert as did Ernesto Tamoy before he died.

Over priced. Look at all the great makers and you can find classics for 8k that'll get get you in the concert hall. Classic Hausers are 35k to 100k or Fredirich, Damman etc. You can get a newer Romanillos for 34k if you're lucky enough to find one.

Not all of it. There's some fine stuff starting at 13:25. Data compression, transcoding, etc. is not going to give us the very best audio/video.

he is driving a Porsche 924....nuff said?

@@lancethrustworthy Yeah, well, the tuning starting then is acceptable.

LOL - looks like David's guitar.

he drives a Porsche 924, nuff said?

It raises the "air" resonance frequency, which you could obtain by increasing the sound hole diameter. What's the point in making holes in the sides? But I've seen worse things in guitar making... nowadays everyone comes out with pointless "innovations".

***** your avg learners (not counting the prodigies) would not know the difference....as I said I know the cream of the crop music students that do with less. to answer your question...Nothing, there's nothing wrong with Y C40

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