Jigs

Making a Guitar Mold – Video Tutorial

I resaw, dimension and slot a fretboard out of a waste piece of Ziricote for Guitar #56

Ramon visits the shop to work on a cool radial rosette design with black limba, burl, and fiber strips. We’re using the Radial Rosette Maker Jig available here: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

I build a simple jig for cleaning up and planing binding and purfling strips down to their intended dimensions, using scrap wood, an old handplane blade, a threaded rod, and a dowel.

A friend gifts me a rusty old jointer! I remove the rust, level the the infeed and outfeed tables, level the fence, set the infeed table coplanar to the outfeed table, and clean the cutterhead.

I break down some estimated costs for tools, jigs, parts and materials to get started in acoustic guitar making. I also talk about the cost of education in lutherie.

For Guitar #57 I prep a figured, and potentially difficult, set of sides for bending. I explain why the layout is very important.

I demonstrate the use of the radial rosette maker jig to add an offset to a radial rosette pattern on an acoustic guitar build.

Step-by-step, how I create beautiful, radial wood rosettes to make my guitars really stand out, visually...

After 6 years of iterating on the design of this jig, I am proud to say that the Radial Rosette Maker is now available! The Radial Rosette Maker is an all-in-one rosette workstation that facilitates the design and creation of....

A recap of all the 2019 Acoustic Guitar Building Workshops at Eric Schaefer Guitars! This is an 8 day course where students build their very own flattop acoustic guitar out of exotic tonewoods, from start to finish! This is no...

For this course, we are going to use an outside guitar mold. The mold is used during the side bending process and the soundbox assembly process. It also helps you mark out important dimensions in the early stages of the build......