How to use a Handplane and Expert Gluing Guide for Guitar Body Blanks

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Welcome back to the channel! For those new here, I'm Seán and I am a luthier and guitar-building teacher. For this video I want to show how to use a number 7 handplane to get a perfect join on a guitar body. I'll also show you my setup for gluing said body.
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@dso2525 6 месяцев назад

As someone looking to eventually move from kit builds into scratch builds, I'm loving this content! Thank you

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoy it! Best of luck with your builds when you start them

@davidwellings2783 6 месяцев назад

Clearly explained and demonstrated, as ever! Planing, when you get it right, is one of the most satisfying areas of woodworking and thus guitar building. That first time, your plane is set up correctly, the blade sharp and you take that whisper thin pass on the workpiece, is simply magical! Cheers Sean! 🥰🥰🍷🍷🎸🎸

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

I couldn't agree more! At some stage the whole concept just clicks and it's the best feeling. There are days I just want to plane and plane until there is no wood left

@robtoothill 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for an excellent tutorial... I've been moving more to hand planing (as I don't have space for that sort of machinery). These techniques will be invaluable on my next build - from a raw plank of black walnut 😉

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

Can't go wrong with black walnut! I'm glad the video helped

@EntropiaGuitars 6 месяцев назад

Oh thank fuck, this is exactly what I needed. Cheers Sean! Having a beer right now watching the entirety of this.

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

Glad to be the knight in shining armour, as it were!

@jackcanada6082 6 месяцев назад

Very useful, seems obvious, but I never thought the way you showed to check if the blade is centered, thanks

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@robertr4193 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the information on the use of a joiner.

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@Furtheronmusic 6 месяцев назад

Super tutorial. Look forward to more like these.

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

Glad you like it!

@sam127001 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing this info - it helped clear up a few things.

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

You're welcome! Glad to help

@Ramplcro 6 месяцев назад

Great video. I would just add - make sure to check the flatness of a sole of a plane. The longer the plane more flat it has to be. So be ready to flatten it now and then on a flat surface (thick piece of float glass for example).

@dickwright9609 6 месяцев назад

Float glass is not usually flat enough for the job. Also, sticking wet and dry to a flat surface and rubbing the plane on it tends to produce a convex sole. The best method is to smear a flat surface with micrometer blue and place the plane on it. Applying pressure only to the middle, move the plane. The high spots will be marked. Remove the high spots with a file and repeat adnousium.

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

Sole flatness is one of those topics that I see ruffling feathers all the time in hand tools groups. Realistcally the sole only really needs to be flat around the mouth and at either end for it to work well. Personally, I do prefer a flatter sole because it makes me feel better, but I don't notice a performance difference after getting the mouth and like an inch either end flat. I use a precision granite block for my levelling

@ObiWanAugus 6 месяцев назад

Very good tutorial. Thank you so much for sharing it.

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

You're very welcome!

@MixingGBP 6 месяцев назад

I like to use the table saw to get complimentary angled surfaces on each board. Basically you fold them like a book and then run the edges through the saw blade. It doesn't matter if you saw is exactly at 90 degrees and you get a perfect joint.

@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars 6 месяцев назад

I find a hand plane will always give a superior gluing surface than any machine can, simply due to the subtlety of the blade and the "resolution" of the shaving. Saying that, there is absolutely a point of diminishing returns. Our thickness planer gives an almost perfect finish too, well within the realm of "good enough" but the handplane can elevate it just that hair more.

@MixingGBP 6 месяцев назад

@@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars Fair enough. I am not as skilled with my hand planes and always struggle to get the edges square to the faces.