How To Build An Acoustic Guitar Episode 25 (Re-doing The Arm Bevel) 

I had to fast forward through the chiseling part. I'm to go for a walk to calm myself down. :P

By the time he finishes this guitar we’ll all be 81 !

Haha, same. 47 though (at least when I started watching this video).

likewise, i havent had this level of ffocus attention and entertainment since "the big comfy couch" when I was 5

Yep. Was thinking the same myself. I might try and use this on a parts caster i-m assembling. The body has a nice figured maple top, but the neck's headstock is just plain maple.. Would like to add a flamed veneer, and then stain and oil to match the top of the body. Was wondering how best to do this, so this "Do-It-Yourself" approach to making an iron-on veneer is exactly what I want. Thanks, Chris for this excellent tip!

Isn't everything ever "literally an artifact of history"?

@@xdoctorblindx not necessarily, an artifact is an item made by humans that has cultural or historical interest. Clearly this man made object has historical significance.

hey by the time they finish the series, there'll be more ancient wood available. including me! ever seen a mummy wood guitar?

I was thinking the same, or the sealing irons sold at craft stores for scrapbooking, etc...looks like a tiny clothes iron on a straight handle.

I just saw your order! We’ll get it out for you tomorrow.

i use the barrel of my ak-47. great for cooking bacon as well.

That's exactly what I use. A curling iron with the clippy thumb part removed.

I’m redoing one right now because I had the same problem of not flattening. Also figured I had too thick of veneer. Probably .030” is a good thickness.. also depends on how flexible the veneer is. That being said I also made a palm-away bevel, gluing on to very curved edge with a .050” lacewood veneer. I ironed the heck out of it though.

No not at all. I mean, you’d have to wear through the finish first and that’d be a feat in and of it’s self.

Not a void, it’s filled with transparent glue.

Move along sir, nothing to see here.

a candle for your deceased veneer.

PS, there are other things about the composition that betray a certain naivete about writing, namely the rhythm. 8th 8th 8threst 8th 8threst 8th 8threst tied 8th into long value, that's also a serious rhythmic cliche. there are a bazillion tunes with that rhythmic trope. Just another thing to be aware of. The way to improve this skill is to take special and detailed notice of famous tunes and really examine just how exotic and weird the rhythms are, and how crucial rhythmic novelty is. A few examples: Hello Goodbye by the Beatles Come out and Play by the offspring Thriller by MJ Birdhouse in your soul by they might be giants Wouldn't it be nice by the Beach Boys just take notice at how much DYNAMITE goes on in the rhythmic composing. Examine where short values and long values come where you don't expect them. Empty space is used where you don't expect it, how long and short values are ordered one way, then suddenly swapped "wouldn't it be nice IF WE----so we wouldn't have TO WAIT--" those little swaps, little details, create seduction and electricity and make these melodies absolutely unlike each other, and unlike anything else. What you're doing in your jingle is what I call "channeling." You're a gifted musician with great chops, and you kind of sit at the guitar and let the music sort of fall out of you. This is how MOST singer songwriters today write. But if you really take some time with those songs and really break them down, the ones above, you'll start to notice just how much counter-intuitive stuff there is, and how much CARE went into every phrase. I know I'm yelling into the void and nobody cares, but on the off chance these were valuable pointers, I figured I'd mention it.

Uuuuum all of the music you hear in this video is just filler music we got online through our video music supplier. We didn’t write it, record it, or compose it. We just license it for the one video. I appreciate the effort you pot into this message, but we just don’t have anything to do with the song you’re referring to.

@@DriftwoodGuitars oh thank God. Use a different song! Run away from this service as quickly as you can! Someone who doesn't know what they're doing is marauding around writing jingles