How To Do A Sexy Book Matched maple Top 

You’re not encased in bubble wrap! Safety alert! Safety alert! Really like your videos. Keep them coming!

If you're making acoustics, and even if electrics, it's a good idea to "candle" that joint, that is, look at it with light behind it to see if there's any gaps. When it's perfect, not a glint of light will shine through. It doesn't need to be perfect, but it does need to be touching in most places from end to end. Another tip, kind of obvious to any experienced woodworker, is to joint both edges simultaneously with the book-matched closed face to face. This way any deviation from a perfect 90 degrees cancels out. It won't help with keeping things straight though, and will accentuate any gap. The gap should never be at the ends, but a slight one is acceptable in the middle. This is called a spring joint. Violin makers sometimes go for that on purpose.

Had to go to San Francisco last week to get some parts... saw a few people there that were Flamed.

Got to have some Texas Toast, Great video here, You remind me of my cousin Dale, I Dig your Style, , I want to touch this wood , A Better New Year to All, Cousin Figel

Sunny evening and some snacks in my garden and a vid with Matt... It made my day :) Sadly i never will have the chance to meet him in person. Keep going bro!!!

Hahaha! (I would be the safety trolls worst nightmare!) I want to see Matt in a beard and hair net in the next video. That ponytail is asking for trouble.

Show some tips on how to get good re-saws of top wood. Blade tooth specs you've found most success with and so on. I have a bandsaw I need to order a blade for and I might as well order one that increases my success as re-sawing as that is what I'll be doing first.

Thanks so much, you make it look so easy.

"What do you put on your pancakes?!"... haha

A pancake with maple dust, sounds yummy, maybe a little glue instead of maple syrup, since we already made it of maple flour.

I have a walnut topper wood at 1/2” thick. Is a band saw’s blade width less than 1/4” ok for a guitar top? The claro walnut top is so amazing, that I’d like to get two sets out of it, unless it would be too thin for a guitar top or bottom. Does this make any sense? This is my first build and I don’t want to destroy the wood selection. Is 1/2” too thick for a topper? Thanks for any advice!

A good tip to use for book matching is to place the piece next to a mirror. Sometimes, the best duplicated pattern isn't at the sawn off edge.

I have that same Rikon bandsaw its awesome, you should check out there new over sized, spring loaded guide bearings they are amazing. Takes about 10 seconds to set up the guides and they work killer for re-sawing. They only fit Rikons too so you can make fun of your buddies who bought the wrong bandsaws.

Good job with the Gibson Fan shirt, should keep Agnesi from hovering...

Nice job! I love that sander!👍😎🎸🎶

What do you put on pancakes? LMFAO LOVE IT!

I LOOOOVE rhe comments on safety..!!!!...dumb people are gonna be dumb no matter what ya say...hahha!

What if you don't have a thickness sander?

Lol "not ridiculous paul reed smith kind of flame maple top". Sometimes I scan the maple wood library at the local big box lumber store when I'm there to pick something else up and see what people have sorted out, sometimes I find good flame and buy it! Tip: go in October as they get the whole year worth of maple stock then.

Great video. I’d like to see you make an off set guitar like a Talman style. I think that would be a fun time

I think the safety weasels would like to send you to the "collective farm" for retraining! As for Fender, I get it. It's a bummer, but I understand! No need for retraining there!😆

Is this for an electric or acoustic? For an acoustic how thin would you cut it on bandsaw?

The word cops will allow the term S style. They are everywhere😁

Hey man my names Brian by the way. I'm trying to go thru and watch all your vids. Lol like that will take forever... Im good be using your methods for site and give you credit wren I do get started on my. Luthiery journey. Well I've kinda been on it by learning. But more than that I really enjoy all the builders videos.

Nicely figured, but not hippie wood. I like it !

Ignore the safety dorks! I don’t watch your videos or any others to sharpen up on my safety bullshit. Does anyone look at safety tutorials? I didn’t think so. Keep being you!

Hey Matt. what is the softest wood you would say to use for making a guitar body from, I have an old pine bed in my garage that is doing nothing useful. should I turn it into a guitar or just set fire to it?

just measure the body of the guitar you want to do, divide its width in half and add roughly 1/4 inch. No need to trace 1/2 a body line because that line wont even matter if you have to joint off 1/8 or so to square up the surfaces to be glued. Your going to have to re trace a new body line again after you get done gluing it up because the jointer removes material "where the centerline is"from the body line you just traced. In the end, your just tracing 1/2 a body line on there for nothing only to do it again after you joint it.

That was cool. Now tell me how you match from the middle going out at a slight angle giving it a slight arrow effect. I think it's called Chevron but not sure.

Interesting that you could rely on the jointed edge that you did before re-sawing to close the centre joint the way it did. Do you find that this always works, or does the wood sometimes move enough after re-sawing that you have to rejoin the centre? I can see that this shouldn't move that much, if at all, but wood is wood... So to speak!

Blood type mother slim nice clam mother a go by isle well done

Do you have an opinion on some of the 'exotics', like Bocote' , Bubinga, Coco Bolo or Goncalo Alves? Too pricey, difficult to work, availability...?

Good video.... the only thing that I would have liked to see is maybe a nice clear still shot of the top at the end of the video so we can see how well the book match looks. I know it looks good, but in the video you're kind of moving it around a little and there is some light glare, so it makes it difficult to see the grain pattern ect.... probably doesn't help that I'm not wearing my glasses tho... 😜

Where can I find a sheet of flame or quilted maple that I can veneer onto an existing guitar body?

Matt is that the technique you'll be doing on mine?

I bought Woodglut once and now I have lifetime access to thousands of woodworking projects.

big fan of pov clips here, the segment was too short

Just realized I say Stratacaster.

Cool, now do the same without any power tools and hand planes. Come on!!! :)

I find it hilarious that ppl are complaining about safety issues. Some ppl just have no life.

Safety shmavty

Safety Nazi's piss me off ...mind your own business. On a side note: My next investment is a thickness sander. Tired of getting slight tear out using the surface planner even after changing out the cutter head to a SHELIX Helical Cutter Head.

Hmmm, safety stuff……those are the same people that use safety glasses and ear protectors for a battery powered drill. F&“%k them I say.

Yer lucky you made those safety remarks all the way back in 2018, you try and joke with the weirdo woke mob these days and they'll seriously come after you haha. Shit's getting weird. Every time I see that Jet pin router behind you a little tear drop rolls down my cheek like the Italian Indian in the old anti littering commercial from the 70's. That thing is boobies beyond, I still have my homemade one I built a while ago, it works great but I don't have the cool pneumatics like the cool guys do.