Repair- HD 28 finishing the scallop 

This guy is the man. I could watch this channel all day long.

This is a great video. I was lucky, the alghorythm just popped this video up. Did see it 4 years ago but people would pay for all this knowledge. Great useful info.

Bryan thats impressive work! Thank you for sharing all these videos that are excellent and I know very time consuming. I enjoy them all and a few of my favorites are the How I tune a guitar ,the string comparison video, and the difference in pick videos. Your playing is excellent and I enjoy that as well. Thanks

Thanks for sharing your expertise.... these videos you're putting out are fantastic!

The camera mic doesn't like being in the guitar. That made me laugh. Im definitely gonna spend sometime on my guitar braces. Great video.

This is a great instructional video! Unfortunately, I live up in Alberta, Canada so I can't bring my acoustic to you. It sounds pretty good, but I know it can be much better. I don't know anyone around here who would have the experience that you have. Thanks again.

lol I have finger planes, but not the right sizes for the job. All I have is a shureform, a 2 inch length of plastic pipe with 80 or 100 grit sandpaper glued to it & a finer grit sanding sponge for smoothing things out in the end. lol That's probably why it took me about three months to finish it. I had to think ahead & leave the braces a little high because in the end, they would wind up being pretty close by the time I had smoothed out all that work from the shureform. That shureform ended up being worth it's weight in gold & did the bulk of the main work for taking off material. I also cut a little length off my handle as well, but not quite as much as you did. lol I like to trim some of that hump near the ends of the X. Some scallops usually have a bad hump in this area & it's another good place to correct some of the cookie cut. My forearms are a little big for reaching back that far in the guitar so I need a little bit of handle for this. Guess I should do like you & invest in a few of them. lol I've done about 6 or 7 trims/shaves by myself now. I started with several hours of research & observation before I ever made my first cut. I bought me a couple cheap guitars as good practice runs. They weren't perfectly done, but I ended up learning a ton & both of them sold within two or three weeks of their weight loss program. lol Both buyers fully knew about any & all work I'd done. The last of my trims/shaves to date were 70's D-28's. Both of which I had an experienced luthier friend either watching over my shoulders or guiding me through the process by phone. On the first of these, I had to clean up a set of "McDonald's arches"...……..cough, cough...…….I mean the tone bars of a 72. My personal 73 D-28 would be the last one I've done & almost a yr ago to the day. I would get to start with a clean slate on this guitar as the braces were completely stock & entirely too tall. Everything went really easy with the usual exception of the tone bars being tricky to reach. I think they might have even run at a steeper angle than standard. You never know what you'll find in a 70's Martin, but I really took my time with it & had fun. I think that's why it seemed so much easier & also why I learned more. It was really fun to see what braces effected what tones & how the guitar as a whole would react over a couple of weeks of playing. By taking my time, I learned a lot more, made fewer mistakes & I really enjoyed the work I was doing. I was doing some research & in the mid 40's it seems, Martin experimented with a tapered or a pyramid style bracing on some of their guitars. Have you run across many of these?

What was that guitar at the start? Too much pearl to be a HD 28. It’s lovely. All your posts are so very informative and interesting, thanks for sharing your knowledge, Bryan. Thanks to you I was able to sand down my 2001 D28 saddle and get an action that suits me. I’ve learnt so much from your channel and continue to do so. Thanks.

Norman Blake said he didn’t trust a guitar that didn’t have a belly.

This is fantastic

Very informative, thank you!

Good job. Thanks for sharing.

I was always wondering how you scalloped the braces - as far as the method.

Hello Bryan I have just acquired a 1963 D21 that had a bridge doctor in it. I removed the Bridge Doctor and it has a smal hump behind the bridge. After buying this guitar and removing the BD I discovered the the braces had already been scalloped. After removing the BD the action and top seems stable. I check it daily. The hump is minimal behind the bridge and only about an 1/8" on either side of the straight edge. The scallop does not run all the way to the X. After watching your video I though this would be perfect for my guitar. Didn't know if your guitar had a hump before finishing the scallop or not. We are also replacing the bridge because somewhat already replaced it with a non period correct bridge and saddle..I wish I had a way to discuss this with you and be able to share pictures. My Luthier friend Nathan Wright in Nashville Tennessee has agreed to the restoration efforts but was unsure of finishing the scalloping. I've sent him these videos for him to ponder on. Do you think we risk messing this guitar up based off of what I've told you?

I am the guy who asked about sandpaper…this video is really helpful! I think ‘punky’ is a good description. I know exactly what you mean. Would it solidify or reinforce it to let some superglue soak into the area?

This would be a great video if you did one without the back so we could see. I have a 93 D28 I'm thinking about doing this too. Thanks for the video.

Hi, may I ask what's the trick to keep the strings on the pegs? Thank you!

Any other way to do it without the fingerplanes?

I assume that this voids the warranty if the guitar is owned by the original purchaser?

What about cutting out lightening holes instead of scalloping. I want to mod my D28, but Not to much like a HD28.

What changes in tone, balance, bass, volume can be expected from this?

So… you only modify the X braces and not the finger braces and tone bars? Thanks!

LOL...this video reminds me I’m overdue seeing my proctologist!

What are trying to do exactly ?

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