Tools

I show how I use specialty joining boards to glue purfling strips to the edge of binding strips in order to create side purfling.

Q&A – Pickguards, Rosettes, and $20k Guitars

I cut a channel with a gramil and a chisel and bind the tip of the florentine style cutaway with flamed maple strips on guitar #57

I create and install a decorative end seam inlay for guitar #56

Cutting square binding channels really comes down to good binding prep, that is, making the sides meticulously flat and square prior to commiting your guitar to the router. I provide some tips for flattening the sides effectively as I prepare...

I fashion a bundle of guitar neck blanks from billets of Honduran Mahogany using the jointer, table saw and planar to make them perfectly flat, square and consistent.

Q&A – X-bracing, Taptuning, and Lattice Bracing

Q&A – Buffing Tru Oil, the 14th fret hump, and the best woods for side bending

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.

How to get started in Lutherie! I discuss things like having basic tool skills, learning to sharpen, whether or not you should build from a kit or from scratch, and whether or not you should specialize in acoustic guitars or....

For Guitar #56, the soundbox has been closed and it is ready for binding!