Template Duplicating Solutions Part 3 – Trimming Overhang This series looks a improving your results when duplicating patterns in the shop. This is especially important for luthiers as we use templates for headstock, bridge, guitar body, and fretboard tongue shapes. Want more of this? Subscribe below for Weekly Guitar Making Tips from DIY Guitarmaking [...]
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Template Duplicating Solutions Part 2 – Router Bit Options
Template Duplicating Solutions Part 2 – Router Bit Options This series looks a improving your results when duplicating patterns in the shop. This is especially important for luthiers as we use templates for headstock, bridge, guitar body, and fretboard tongue shapes. Want more of this? Subscribe below for Weekly Guitar Making Tips from DIY [...]
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Template Duplicating Solutions Part 1 – Cleaning Bits
Template Duplicating Solutions Part 1 – Cleaning Bits Routers can be a serious source of frustration for woodworkers. I designed this series of videos to explain the solutions to common router problems that I’ve identified. I’ve specified pattern bits because pattern, or template, routing is a very common usage of routers in the guitar [...]
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What’s on the Bench for 1-17-18
What’s on the Bench for 1-17-18 Join me as I discuss: – My binding jig table – Dedicated workspaces in the shop – Tru Oil Finishing – Repairs on an Epiphone Zenith – Updates on 2018 Hands-On Workshops and more… Want more of this? Subscribe below for Weekly Guitar Making Tips from DIY Guitarmaking [...]
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The One Tool that I Carry Everywhere
The One Tool that I Carry Everywhere This episode features the one tool that I keep on my person at all times in the shop: The Gerber EAB Lite utility knife. I also give tips for maintaining flat surfaces by trimming the ends on your sanding blocks and my ideas on keeping the right [...]
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Simple Saddle Thicknessing Jig
Simple Saddle Thicknessing Jig While working on some of the final touches to Nick’s guitar, I make a simple fixture for holding the saddle blank. This makes the task of thicknessing the saddle to fit the saddle slot ( a task that I’ve never really liked) a breeze! Want more of this? Subscribe below [...]
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Variable Pitch Bandsaw Blades: A No-Brainer for Resaw Work
Variable Pitch Bandsaw Blades: A No-Brainer for Resaw Work This past summer I spent some time and money improving my setup for resaw work, specifically for resawing tops and back and side sets. I want to share a simple alteration that had a pretty significant impact on the quality of my cuts: That is; [...]
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The Proper Way to Pull a Fret
The Proper Way to Pull a Fret A back to basics episode, I demonstrate how to remove a fret without getting chipout on the fretboard face, using a set of nippers and a soldering iron. Questions on this topic or anything else related to acoustic instrument construction? Please e-mail [email protected] with the subject [...]
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Nut Slotting: Part 3
Nut Slotting: Part 3 In these 3 episodes I delve into nut slotting. I discuss methods for such things as determining string spacing, determining nut slot depth and radius, marking string spacing, filing the slots, shaping the nut and more. This is an excerpt from the online course “Building an OM Acoustic.” Questions on [...]
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Nut Slotting: Part 2
Nut Slotting: Part 2 In these 3 episodes I delve into nut slotting. I discuss methods for such things as determining string spacing, determining nut slot depth and radius, marking string spacing, filing the slots, shaping the nut and more. This is an excerpt from the online course “Building an OM Acoustic.” Questions on [...]
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Nut Slotting: Part 1
Nut Slotting: Part 1 In these 3 episodes I delve into nut slotting. I discuss methods for such things as determining string spacing, determining nut slot depth and radius, marking string spacing, filing the slots, shaping the nut and more. This is an excerpt from the online course “Building an OM Acoustic.” Questions on [...]
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“Knives” for Removal of Fretboards and Bridges
“Knives” for Removal of Fretboards and Bridges Well, in this case they are not really “knives.” My favorites are all kitchen spatulas modified for removing glue joints. In this episode of DIY Guitarmaking, I discuss my favorite implements for bridge and fretboard removal and for removing double stick tape on templates. Questions on this [...]
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