Lutherie Demystified Ep. 2 | Techniques: Making Wheat Purfling 

I’ve always wanted to know how purfling was done down the center of the back. All that labor is so worth it, beautiful design and such a great touch.

This is the best description of wheat purfling construction that I have seen. A labor of love.

I'm very inspired and grateful to you. Thanks

favourite inlay ever!.....nice work!

Fantastic work and a stunning end result.

Beautiful at all!!!

That was awesome!

very cool! thanks for paying this forward... cheers

Lovely work! Thanks!

Beautiful purfling Garrett!

Loving this ❤

Ton of work - great job!

Beautiful craftsmanship!

Amazing and Beautiful, thank you for sharing.

It was fun to watch this video while following along with my 2019 Garrett Lee guitar. So nice to own a guitar that looks as beautiful as it sounds.

That was awesome , thank you so much for taking the time for us , such a gorgeous end product full of original and valuable goods , wow ! great job . Merci

I love the bold choice of starting the series with a purely decorative step!

What a fascinating video! I'm getting ready to close the box on my first acoustic, while I'm not planning fancy purfling, this gives me a lot of inspiration for future builds! Thank you.

Awesome, thanks a lot.

Amazing job. Thank you Gary.

Muito lindo, parabéns!

Beautiful, fascinating art. Thanks for sharing!

Kudos! One more on board!

BEAUTYFUL!

Really enjoyed your work and love the design. I've always loved grass seeds and the wheat seed head is lovely. It reminded me of a documentary I filmed of a shepherd who grew his own wheat and made corn dollies. I also made pottery with scraffito wheat heads. I have yet to make purfling. I keep putting it off, but it is a good skill to be able to design & produce. You are right. Building the guitar is one thing, but things like purfling inlay into the headstock and back etc is the artistry. Thanks.

Fascinating, Gary! I'll be waiting in front of my my computer with baited breath for each new episode!!! Thank you for taking the time to conceive and produce this series.

Muito bom Garret Lee. Obrigado por compartilhar o seu conhecimento. Estou aqui no interior do Brasil e compartilhei o seu vídeo com amigos.

Excelent! Thank you!

Love this! So much nicer than the simple two line purfling.

Helps me to appreciate the artistry in your instruments! Thanks, Gary.

Thanks for sharing this technique in detail

awesome

Great result

Gorgeous...

My guitar sounds so much better now that I've seen your video. Thank you for sharing this 🙂

So time consuming, but so satisfying to see the end result.

Linda arte! Imenso prazer em ver essa criação

Garrett me solucionaste un gran problema estudio lutheria en Buenos Aires Argentina y tenia que hacer un filete parecido y se me complicaba entender como pero gracias a este video todo fue mas facil GRACIAS!!!

That is pretty cool! Also, Palouse is everywhere. One of my kids got a tattoo of wheat on her ankle - we lived in Moscow for years.

That's slick purfling

Very beautiful work and a unique pattern. Well done and nicely demonstrated. I know making videos takes lot of time but I would be interrested in a video where you demonstrate how to install such purfling alongside the binding around a guitar body... what tools you use, how to make everything fit, what tools you use to finish the process, etc. Thanks.

Wow. Would you have information on rope binding? Thank you.

Wonderful video. Question could you you fish or hide glue on the parallel glue-ups??

Where do you get your veneers to make these? Most of the lengths I see online are 12 inches. Super cool video btw!

Is that a Tatay guitar behind you on the top shelf?

Qual é o grau desse corte?

Thank you for very informative video. I'm already somewhat familiar with the technique of a "symetrical' wheat pattern, but I much prefer the offset style. But I'm a bit confused. What I see you doing physically in the video with the individual halves - and what the result that you are showing is - appear to be two different things entirely. Am I wrong or are you making two 'different' layered stick patterns and then gluing them opposite each other? I completely understand if you are trying to simply highlight the technique without giving away all your secrets, but if that is the case you might mention it under the video as this could end up costing someone (like me _ grin) a lot of money when trying to emulate. That aside, I seriously appreciate your attacking the subject at all. You are the only one on RU-vid doing "wheat" specifically.

Go Cougs!