For a few years I worked with a crazy harpmaker as his somewhat erstwhile apprentice. The old man died before he could teach me enough to carry on the business in his absence and his relatives claimed all his woodworking tools, preventing me from teaching myself. This brings back all sorts of memories of sawdust filled afternoons refining a few pieces of wood into something beautiful. Thank you, and beautiful work.
i love to watch you work.....quite beautiful....great hands and sharp tools.......i hope to hear the guitar ........if it sounds half as good as it looks wonderful!!!
I build electric guitars so please pardon my lack of understanding, but wouldn’t that position for a sound hole make it much weaker than where a traditional sound hole would go?
Great video🎥.. Very well explained and shown from start to end.. Great information for someone to learn.please do keep posting such videos🎥. Thanks Warm regards The UnknownManCub👍😎
@@st.michaelthearchangel7774 so clean,and funny, dude! I'm trying to cuss less,and use descriptive words instead, so thanks for helping, and making me laugh!
Above all else, this guy knows how to really sharpen bladed tools! It's a skill that gets little attention, but it's imperative. Thanks for the video! Also, stunning instrument. Great job, just fantastic.
Marcos Robertson, in the Last Minute you can see how they fit in the tailpiece. It looks like just putting them into the holes for the strings from behind in the slot he made. Great solution as the whole guitar is stunning.
beautiful instrument ! great build just missing the sound test at the end , you should add it in your video , it would make them even more awesome! keep up the great work of art
Man incredible build, but the music destroys me, I feel like non midi jazz would fit better with the building of an instrument, anyway great video as always !
People might say that you're a fine Craftsman, coz of the guitar you built. But, I say you're a Brilliant Artiste man!!! Kudos and Cheers. Love, from Shillong.
An absolute work of art! The kind of thing that makes people gasp when you take it out of the case and makes their minds struggle to take it all in. Simplicity, grace, elegance. Thanks for the video.
@@andrewwolfe2071 Sorry, I thought that like me, you had a button to translate into your language. I said: “I too have a beginner luthier list and another luthier. The second corresponds to your list “when I can afford it” 😊😉” Indeed, it’s positive!
I am screaming SMART, SMART when I see the neck being glued with small dowels to keep the head stock from sliding off when clamping. Man, this is guitar-build porn...
What I see in this video is : Skills + equpiment + experience = work of Art...... Thx 4 sharing this video, man....... You jusr earned another Subcriber 😊
Beautiful guitar! Did you notch the fret tangs before your installed them? I assume you needed to as a result of that subtle binding on the fretboard. If so, what method did you employ?
Thank you! Yes, the fret tangs were notched before installation. I used a fret tang nipper from stew mac. If you're interested in seeing how I did it, go to part 9 of my archtop making series and skip to 4:40
Всё понравилось кроме верхнего порожка(на грифе).Так я иногда делаю для своих "дров",да и то высоту(глубину пропилов) регулирую не на глаз и на ощупь,а подбираю шаблон.Вообще уважаю модели с нулевым ладом.Но как то на видео видел металлопластиковый порожек,тоже впечатлило.Подозреваю что ваш рассчитан на перспективу доводки под музыканта и частую замену))
Well, I liked the background music... does that make me a psycho? 😂 Got to say very impressive work and interessting to see how much work is behind a „simple“ guitar.
Fine Luthier work. Truly, a well trained and talented lad. But, um, why the round wounds? News. Fully handmade Jazz boxes are no longer necessary. Quality has nothing do with this. Give me as much CNC manufacturing as possible. Look how long it took to get the nut right! CNC could have done as well or better in a couple of minutes, and ALL the guitars on that production run would have nuts just as good or better. CNC is far more accurate, faster, the guitar will tune better, and probably sound better. Each CNC made guitar will also sound unique, because no two pieces of wood are the same. However, they will ALL play like butter. Additionally, 15% - 25% of the labour will ALWAYS require a talented luthier. Gibson has an analogue archtop lathing machine and jig that will produce far more consistent and deadly refined carved tops, And, STILL some hand finishing is required. No one need lose their gig. Alas, there is also NO NEED to spend more than $10,000 for the finest Jazz box imaginable. The standard Gibson CES L-5 remains under $12,000 -new. It's still overpriced and not as good as it might be because; for reasons I cannot fathom, Gibson, after carving a wonderful top, insists upon mounting TWO full-sized humbuckers DIRECTLY into that beautiful solid spruce carved top! This significantly negates what a solid carved top Jazz box is supposed to do...VIBRATE. This is why, in a better world, Jazz PUPs are FLOATED at the neck. Since you are NOT playing pop or Heavy Mental, -unless a PAYING producer ask for such sounds, AND, you need the bread,, you can always bring a Telecaster, -E.g., with a mini or full sized humbucker installed at the neck position, and simply use the bridge PUP or combine the neck and bridge PUPs. This will satisfy ANY producer. The bridge PUP on a Tele is wonderful. -Mostly for country and pop, and IS the most unique electric guitar sound there is. A $200 Squier Affinity will do this a play like butter. I am an old fart Jazz player. My go-to archtop is a prewar 17" Epi (1942) with a modern Jazz Scale and nut (24.75" scale with a 42 - 43 mm nut). Hey, I dig the luthier's art and know a few of these lads. But the lutheris I respect most are great wood detectives and understand what non-invasive repair and modification mean. There are for more difficult neck sets out there that need to happen than the USA has luthiers to perform. As great as what this lad is doing in this video, resetting a 75 year old neck on an old L-7 or even MY 1942 box is FAR more difficult than ANYTHING this guy is doing building a NEW box. And YES, my 1942 Epi needs a neck set I am willing to pay the going rate and more. FINDING a luthier that has the time and is geographically desirable is not easy because there is a SHORTAGE of luthiers who truly know what they are doing and have the tools to perform this delicate operation. Neck-sets on archtops are probably the most difficult common repair on the professional luthier menu. Hey, I don't want to pee in this lad's cornflakes. He's quite GOOD at his art. And there are surely some rich amateurs who can afford a fully hand built Jazz box. But The Eastman Company, Peerless, Heritage, etc, have a better way. Many amateurs slab I am an OLD SCHOOL, OLD FART Jazz-trained player. This means I have spent more than half my life playing pop music. -Not as much money in Jazz, sorry. I see ALL cut-aways as wasting valuable air space for nothing. (guitars sound better without a cut-a-way.). If you think you need to hit above the 12th fret (the octave fret), then you are probably doing it wrong. AND, you will save a lot of money NOT buying CUT-A-WAYs. IF a producer demands that you play a note above the 12 fret, -okay; throw a Gibson mini humbucker on your Telecaster (at the neck) or buy a cheap Gibson SG. Perhaps, a Strat. These are the three best slab-o-wood electric guitar designs we have. Yes, a Les Paul is great, but you had better have some muscles as they weigh a lot. Try to find ANY Tele that weighs less than 6 lbs. Heavy Teles can sound OK, but LIGHTWEIGHT Teles sound better and are easier to lug all night. Here is a secret, The Mexican Squire Affinity series often play and sound better than any other new Fender guitars. But you must lose your snobbery and concentrate on the MUSIC. E.g., The Beatles could have had ANYTHING they wanted, but chose, instead, common, affordable guitars based on the sounds they were trying to make. Not until Chris Martin took over, after Fred passed, did Martin have endorsees who got free guitars. Fred Martin ALWAYS refused do that. Professionals will play what works best in the studio or live. Regardless of hype. When its you mortgage and food money, you tend not to care about hype. The only reason I have Pre-Columbian Tele is because I AM OLD. $45,000 for a 1959 Strat, slab-o-wood?!!! Have you lost your freakin' mind? Or, you are a billionaire and have no compassion for worthy charities. Disgusting. I suggest playing the MUSIC, NOT the the hype. Heck, in NYC, in order to get a cab, I use a single Telecaster with a mini humbucker at the neck, along with a Fender Deluxe -most Fender standard circuits are almost identical, despite a lot of people who DON'T have E.E., university degrees.. I stopped carrying 3 guitars and two amps so I could get a cab and go to work. Oh yeah, I do NOT have a proper university music degree, but an electrical engineering (E.E.) degree, and 10+ years as a kid pre-learning what they taught me at university. My music education comes from watching a lot of players in the clubs and from records. AND, I studied with late GREAT Richard Lieberson. -Probably a few years longer than Richard should have tolerated me. I was THE most difficult student he ever had. Golly, I still have pounds of lessons Richard wrote out on blank staf paper. I.e. '-more than 10 years after Richard's passing , and I am still finding lessons he wrote out for me that I have not completed. Shame on me. I think that makes me an AWFUL student. But I am still learning from Richard and others. I am slow, but no lesson is impossible. Play the music NOT the hype
For your support bars! Find a nice smooth concrete floor, sit on the end of a chair and at knee height drop the support bars on there ends and lesson to the tone when they strike the floor. Each bar should make a nice tone, should. you will notice when one of the support bars make a thunk notice, which means they are not good for transmitting sound across the top or back. YOU HAVE TO DO THIS TO EVERY SUPPORT BAR OR YOU TAKE A CHANCE OF MAKING A BEAUTIFUL CHUNK OF LOG! This is how we did it at G&^%$$!
Exquisite..I'd only ask for standard F-holes instead, I love the softness of the arch and the headstock the bindings EVERYTHING ( but f-holes) It's beautiful the hole you made..but it freaks me out.
I was curious where that hole was going to be used. Nice touch with the fret markers as well. The all-wood hinge is an additional crafty touch. Confession: I used a chisel ONCE for recessing the pockets for door hinges, it's a good thing my friend (a luthier) was there. Wonderful video thank you.
Whoever invented the "pencil through the washer" trick to get the right curvature for the inner braces should've gotten millions of dollars......I first saw that on Ted Woodfords channel...Amazing!
Really stupid question, sorry: Why do you carve the back out of a thick piece (convex back, concave inside), instead of planing it flat (thinner), then steaming it and forming it? Does it have something to do with the sound/resonance?
Sweet. Dig that heater for shaping wood. I found an old element for Tractor trailer/big rig drivers & mechanics to heat up oil before filling up the motor, I've used it on nonsense so far but thanks to this video I got an idea. Cool T-shirt by the W. Very cool VIDEO THANX
Funny that this awesome video about creating a beautiful musical instrument has a basically unlistenable soundtrack lol. What even is it? AI attempting jazz?😂
I'm ordering the Chinese custom shop version soon. Can't see how the quality would be any different. ( For those of you born without an irony gland, this was intended to be humorous.) I'll let myself out...........
Y después de todo ese trabajo ,eso suena? Me hubiera gustado escuchar algo. porque de pinta esta muy linda pero no se sabe que sonido tiene. No es eléctrica. Tal vez electroacústica, pero no he visto nada de eso. Saludos Cordiales
I see only one terrible thing here is a background music. Everything else... Oh, I'm speechless. There are a lot of guitar projects on the tube but none of them even close to your Masterpiece. Thanks for the pleasure of watching this remarkable work and beautiful design. Wow
