Chris Willman
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Pre war guitar co Mahogany D vs Willman Guitars D-81
Hello this is a comparison between my own guitar build and my favorite guitar company! They both feature Torrified Adirondack tops, and Mahogany back and sides, as well as the same Medium gauge elixir 80 20 strings. Please leave a comment of the differences you hear! Thanks y’all!
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Відео

Jerusalem Ridge ~ Chris Willman
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Jerusalem Ridge with a backing track #bluegrass #bluegrassguitar #flatpicking
Basic Bluegrass Flatpicking - Bass Walks.
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Please like and subscribe! This video is a basic demonstration of bass line walks for country or bluegrass rhythm in G. #bluegrass #bluegrassguitar #flatpicking #rhythm #chriswillman
Guitar History 101!
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This video shares facts and info on how we came to the modern steel string acoustic guitar. #guitarmaking #luthier #luthiery #history #guitarhistory #byhand #martinguitar #willmanguitar
Installing a 3 ring rosette. Timelapse
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quick video of after routing the channels and hand fitting the 3 ring rosette.
Carving guitar bracing basics.
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how to carve guitar braces. #luthier #luthiery #guitarmaking
Compass Spoke shave for neck carving.
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This video shows you a cool overlooked tool for woodcarving and luthiery. Neck carving especially. #guitarmaking #luthier #luthiery
How to Sharpen a chisel by hand, and add a microbevel.
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how to sharpen #sharpening #chisel #woodworking #handmade #byhand #waterstones #guitarmaking #luthier
Shady Grove on Willman - D82 Torrified Adirondack Top, Madagascar Rosewood back and sides.
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this is a sound demo of a guitar I built for a customer.
Willman WD-18 demo vs Pre War Herringbone Dread.
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short video to demo one of my builds. This is the only one labeled WD-18. My future builds are all labeled D-81s for mahogany back and sides. it has pre war specs. Details are on reverb. Only selling to build more guitars because wood is expensive.
Carving a Pre War Martin Style Top Bracing - Part 1
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copying a 1937 pre war Martin top bracing. #scalloped #prewar #martin #martinguitar #luthiery #luthier #guitarmaking #bracing #spruce #adirondack
Making an X Brace.
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Quick video of making an X Brace. Music is Dreamless by Chris Willman
Torrified Adirondack VS Old Growth Adirondack - Tap Tone Test.
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Comparing 2 pieces of top wood 1 Torrified Vs Old Growth Adirondack.
Chris Willman - Love & Hate - Video
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Music video for my original song Love & Hate Please Subscribe, and Follow me on Spotify, or Apple music! I am also on bandcamp for easy purchases.
Chris Willman Guitars - Custom D Torrified Adirondack, and Madagascar Rosewood.
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Chris Willman Guitars - Custom D Torrified Adirondack, and Madagascar Rosewood.
New Camptown Races - Flatpicking Tune A Day - Day 6
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New Camptown Races - Flatpicking Tune A Day - Day 6
Lost Indian - Flatpickin Fiddle tune a day - day 5
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Lost Indian - Flatpickin Fiddle tune a day - day 5
Salt Creek - Flatpicking Fiddle tune a day - day 4.
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Salt Creek - Flatpicking Fiddle tune a day - day 4.
Whiskey Before Breakfast - Flatpickin Fiddle tune a day - day 3.
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Whiskey Before Breakfast - Flatpickin Fiddle tune a day - day 3.
Red Haired Boy - Flatpick tune a day - day 2.
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Red Haired Boy - Flatpick tune a day - day 2.
Beaumont Rag - Flatpick Tune a day. day 1
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Beaumont Rag - Flatpick Tune a day. day 1
Bluegrass Flatpicking - Holding the pick & Basic Right hand technique.
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Bluegrass Flatpicking - Holding the pick & Basic Right hand technique.
Gold Rush - Chris Willman
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Gold Rush - Chris Willman
New Camptown Races - SPBGMA 2022
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New Camptown Races - SPBGMA 2022
Pore filling a mahogany neck.
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Pore filling a mahogany neck.
Alan Bibey - Bluegrass Stomp - SPBGMA 2022
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Alan Bibey - Bluegrass Stomp - SPBGMA 2022
All The Words - Chris Willman - Demo
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All The Words - Chris Willman - Demo
Dive Right In - Chris Willman - Demo
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Dive Right In - Chris Willman - Demo
When You Wake - Chris Willman - Demo
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When You Wake - Chris Willman - Demo
9.42 Blues - Chris Willman - Demo
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9.42 Blues - Chris Willman - Demo

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @chriswillmanmusic
    @chriswillmanmusic 29 днів тому

    Watching this for myself years later. I have not been the best UA-camr. Thank you guys for all the love on this one. I like to teach more advanced stuff.

    • @chriswillmanmusic
      @chriswillmanmusic 29 днів тому

      Seriously though if you can keep your hand relaxed and choose open or closed and practice it. Some will say blah and some will say blah. At the end we all end up old with a pile of guitars. Enjoy the ride friends

  • @user-oj6oe9tu2i
    @user-oj6oe9tu2i Місяць тому

    Wawww great ,you see am far from you 20,000km but i feel as am seems like here in te tutor class. Which is perfect presentation, i hope by next detial about, x angle line, senier bar,tall bar

  • @dwightrobertson275
    @dwightrobertson275 2 місяці тому

    You afraid of getting your hands dirty!

  • @tribestribes2555
    @tribestribes2555 2 місяці тому

    That was a kind of supporting bar under the fretboard. It,s like a timber log, more or less.

  • @chriswillmanmusic
    @chriswillmanmusic 3 місяці тому

    Wow I was bad at mixing lol

  • @ronuyeyama4020
    @ronuyeyama4020 3 місяці тому

    Really nice guitar build!

  • @timmuto7824
    @timmuto7824 5 місяців тому

    Thanks bud, I'm just now changing my grip to something like this. Only been playing a few years but it feels foreign. I'm noticing that the pick angle is opposite when I gold it this way, compared to how I was holding it (not curling the index finger)

  • @gingerjam2192
    @gingerjam2192 6 місяців тому

    Really nice tool, I’d like to find one.

  • @gigel99324
    @gigel99324 9 місяців тому

    What grit is the stone? you should use the outer edges too to keep from hollowing it out in the middle :)

  • @defo4235
    @defo4235 11 місяців тому

    Willman has more shine, Martin has more depth, the sound is very similar..You made a great instrument!

  • @luckyloop7503
    @luckyloop7503 Рік тому

    Thanks dude, got into bluegrass recently and this really helps. like your sound!

  • @jonhart-dj7fn
    @jonhart-dj7fn Рік тому

    I like the specifics .. I too am trying to learn a bunch of different options.. hybrid like works{ think watching Clarence white tony rice so many .. so it all depends yes there are certain applications,, as for picks.. I have yet to try any bluechip but likly tp48 .. I like using the jazz3 xl ultex also a few others sound great on acoustic strings.. usa Clayton 1.26mm.. think this helped me too ty for sharing

  • @florianexpert
    @florianexpert Рік тому

    Very instructive

  • @cajunqueen5125
    @cajunqueen5125 Рік тому

    👍👍👍

  • @evanwilcox82
    @evanwilcox82 Рік тому

    The Willman D-81 takes the cake on this one. Unbelievable tone and fullness. You can tell when an instrument has 'the magic'. You sir, know how to build guitars. Well done!

  • @evanwilcox82
    @evanwilcox82 Рік тому

    Awesome playing man! And that looks and sounds like a terrific instrument. Great work!

  • @learnguitarwithandy
    @learnguitarwithandy Рік тому

    Great tips. And great teaching style. There’s definitely a spectrum of picking hand techniques out there. If you haven’t seen his content, Troy Grady goes into some crazy details.

  • @tcjensen1
    @tcjensen1 Рік тому

    Are you anchoring your wrist on the bridge? It looks like you have a contact point at least?

  • @Andluth
    @Andluth Рік тому

    Great video! Where can I get the spec sheet? DO you have an email or website?

  • @sunnyray7819
    @sunnyray7819 Рік тому

    Nice Pickin'!

  • @njgl2010
    @njgl2010 Рік тому

    What year model is that ole guitar? Great sound.

  • @leascaart
    @leascaart Рік тому

    I'm so dying to learn this, but I find it so difficult to find a good tutorial. I wish tutorials just showed an exercise, say in a C or G chord and demo a step by step, finger by finger, stop...? The angles get weird and hard to tell where right hand and left fingers are, which strings are played. . Maybe, it's just me.

    • @chriswillmanmusic
      @chriswillmanmusic Рік тому

      I'll see if I can make something to help you can you be more specific at exactly what you'd like?

  • @Don-ui8oz
    @Don-ui8oz Рік тому

    I just subscribed. Liked your info a lot. I’ve been looking for the/a better right hand technique and yours has the elements I’ve been finding to be the best but the detail of your vid has been the the most helpful. I’m having trouble with dragging my fingers on the strings. Any advice about this? Thanks, Don

    • @chriswillmanmusic
      @chriswillmanmusic Рік тому

      Hey thank you for your interest. Just practice more holding your pinkie ring and middle finger in a “relaxed closed hand fist” you don’t want to squeeze though

  • @5150show
    @5150show Рік тому

    Cool ,just subbed

  • @patrickbly4170
    @patrickbly4170 Рік тому

    You have an excellent voice ...you would be good at narating a golf tournament or as a host on a Fishing show ... Powerful and Enthusiastic Presentation.

  • @guitarman1477
    @guitarman1477 Рік тому

    Your kidding? Your a beginner yourself, and your trying to tell people how to hold a pick? Fucks sake

  • @earlsinstrumentsandtunes9732

    It sounds like you have it figured out. To me they sound very much alike in tone and punch.

  • @softsouthernknight
    @softsouthernknight Рік тому

    I think they did actually sand the braces too. They had a feature with Dick Boak where they stated the pre-war tops and braces were hand sanded.

  • @stevenburton7922
    @stevenburton7922 Рік тому

    Good video...thanks for posting

  • @AN-uw1jc
    @AN-uw1jc Рік тому

    Has probado con un guante y los dedos para la aplicación ?

  • @bobsmith-ji2uh
    @bobsmith-ji2uh Рік тому

    You built that? Well done best of luck with it.

  • @danbromberg
    @danbromberg Рік тому

    Nicely done (but next time get that desktop out of the way so we can better see your picking hand :-)!

  • @SouthernItalyHomestead
    @SouthernItalyHomestead Рік тому

    Dave's Shaves in New Hampshire makes new compass spokeshaves with wooden handles. The one you have is really nice.

  • @wilhelmrogue1
    @wilhelmrogue1 Рік тому

    I think yours sounded better..

  • @jimdefazio2802
    @jimdefazio2802 Рік тому

    Looks like you lightly anchor your wrist on the bridge, like Molly does. Can you do a video now about the parts of your fingers, wrist, and arm motion? Oh and also pick angles. Thanks.

  • @altonacker9546
    @altonacker9546 Рік тому

    No way that the bridge plate should have diagonal grain direction, it goes with the bridge plate. Also, Martin didn't use Rosewood bridge plates until after WW2. The bridge plate is way too small dimensionally. It shouldn't mimic the bridge shape, it supports it, which means it should be larger in area. Better to use Maple anyway. Looks like you're using a radius dish to work on. The top and back have a radius built into them and that's something that starts with gluing bracing to the top and back. The radius is different for them, not a bad thing to mention. Also is a good thing to adjust truss rid from the sound hole. Very hard to preserve the peghead with a truss rod cover planted over the access to an upper truss rod access. And Martin didn't have torrified wood in their prewar guitars. That's not where they got their greatness.

    • @chriswillmanmusic
      @chriswillmanmusic Рік тому

      The diagonal grain prevents top cracking and the plate itself from cracking. A lot of old Martins get a split in the plate when the grain is 90 degrees off the top grain. Also the bridge plate is an exact pre war martin size. Thank you

    • @Caarloscig
      @Caarloscig Рік тому

      ​@@chriswillmanmusicexactly

  • @pearsoncourtneys4671
    @pearsoncourtneys4671 Рік тому

    You said if you want these specs… there from a guy who measured his 1937 d18… and then never told us where to get them… can you provide that info .. maybe? Please.. thanks for the video!

    • @chriswillmanmusic
      @chriswillmanmusic Рік тому

      Whats you email?

    • @HenningSundstedt
      @HenningSundstedt 11 місяців тому

      I'd like to get the 1937 D18 specs too, please :)💯

    • @damncrazyasian
      @damncrazyasian 11 місяців тому

      I'm trying to scallop the inside of a guitar with a thumb plane to match these specs! If you could send me a copy of the spec sheet I'd appreciate it!

  • @DougSloss
    @DougSloss Рік тому

    Sweet!

  • @wilhelmrogue1
    @wilhelmrogue1 Рік тому

    Looks dam nice and sounds good, nice choice on the pick guard too….

  • @larrybegnaud7811
    @larrybegnaud7811 Рік тому

    I started learning the guitar with finger picking, and I'm just starting to learn flat picking, and it's challenging to adjust, but enjoying the learning process. When occasionally playing the electric guitar, I used a .88 Dunlop, but since trying to learn flat picking on acoustic, I've switched to the Blue Chip TP48, which seems to make it easier and sounds much better. Then there's the issue of holding the pick, which brought me to your video. Your method of keeping the fist closed, but relaxed, is also shown in a couple of other videos, which confirms to me that this is a reliable way to hold the pick. I like the floating freedom of the hand while picking, and can see how this will enable greater speed when I'm more proficient with using the pick and learning flat picking and bluegrass. Great video! Thank you!

  • @mmerriman4995
    @mmerriman4995 Рік тому

    You are terrific! Thanks.

  • @AlternateUniverse
    @AlternateUniverse Рік тому

    No nitrile gloves and a t-shirt piece soaked in the filler? Seemed like it would have been much easier to get it into the grain and way faster too. Oh well...

  • @philwillman3982
    @philwillman3982 Рік тому

    Just like Johnny Cash !

  • @jasper_north
    @jasper_north Рік тому

    What is your opinion on the Boucher BG42? May buy one

    • @chriswillmanmusic
      @chriswillmanmusic Рік тому

      I have played those Elderly and a few other places they sound great I think.

  • @jasper_north
    @jasper_north Рік тому

    Beautiful guitar man…respect

  • @jasper_north
    @jasper_north Рік тому

    Who makes the decision on AA or AAAA? No international rules in my opinion… Torrified is darker- baked. Makes sense

  • @chrisbarns7281
    @chrisbarns7281 Рік тому

    This one my favorite

  • @zachd5242
    @zachd5242 Рік тому

    Nice I got the tp-48 it’s a great one

  • @jasper_north
    @jasper_north Рік тому

    Like the Elliot

  • @redlobo3361
    @redlobo3361 Рік тому

    Hi, watched your video on right hand pick techniques. I concluded that I was doing it just as you described already. My problem is after practicing a song like Blackberry Blossom even at a slower 70 bpm tempo the right hand starts to spaz out at about the two minutes mark and then I get sloppy. I've been finger picking last 20 yr or so but started to try incorporating flat picking for the past year. I practice 2-3 hr a day. Is it just a matter of more time so my right hand can stay relaxed through at least a 3 or 4 minute song?