Dude, your build is so far out of the box, you're in outer space! And you have the sound to match! You're an exceptional specimen and I am very grateful you documented this for all of us to see. Thanks
Exceptional work! I've been a woodworker for over 35 years and played guitar for 45... Programming a CNC in the way you have is as you mentioned a lot harder than doing it by hand and using it just brings the craftsmanship up another level. Every process is at the peak of highly technical craftsmanship. Really inspires me to start building guitars again! Thanks for the time to make the video
Ich hab wirklich überhaupt keine Ahnung von der Materie, trotzdem war es super spannend den kompletten Bauprozess zu verfolgen. Unglaublich wieviel Arbeit in so einer Gitarre steckt
You sir are a true craftsman. Such multifaceted talent...old school craftsman meets new technology! As a guitarist, toolmaker turned engineer and CNC programming department leader I deeply appreciate your well thought process and product. BRAVO to you! And don't let anyone tell you not to embrace your CNC abilities as applied to guitar building. That would be like saying the true chef doesn't apply electricity or gas to his/her cooking. Thanks for a very entertaining hour!
Not only is the design here super fascinating, it sounds absolutely incredible. Very well done. I mourn that being from the US, I may never be able to play your guitars. You are so talented!
@@cannaguitars4593 that would be amazing! Yes there's the artisan show in Pennsylvania, as well as Fretboard summit in Chicago. But NAMM is the biggest for sure. Anyway, I would travel to any of them in a heartbeat :)
@@RickyPLopezMusic It has been an interesting experience, for sure. When I get into the boutique guitar showcase area, I'll go. Last time I was with another company in the basement somewhere. But I think the mentality in the states is more open to new ideas. The Artisan looks nice. I'll keep that in mind.
@@cannaguitars4593that's really cool, and either way I'd love to travel to Europe one day and try out guitars from certain builders, canna being at the top of the list. Thank you for sharing Jakob!
What a work of art! You sir, have some mad skills and the attention to detail is crazy. People that have never had experience running a CNC don't realize how hard and time consuming it is to learn, much less master. It is simply another tool in your shop that takes a lot of time and experience to do the things you are doing. The software side, (CAD) is where the magic happens and is where the steepest learning curve comes into play. In these types of videos, you only see the piece being machined (CAM) and gives the illusion that the CNC router makes this easy. Your video is the ultimate example of where using technology and the handcraft of woodworking come together. Your work is nothing short of inspirational!
Blown away by all the custom made tools and jigs you built. The design is brilliant with being able to move the action too. Seriously some spectacular work here. Subscribed.
I rarely comment on UA-cam videos, but I'm making an exception - What an impressive display of artistry! The guitar is gorgeous and its sound gave me goosebumps. Add in all of the engineering that you had to do to make it all come together. Stunning!
I'm speechless... words fail to describe what I just witnessed. All I can think of is that Antoni Stradivari would be in awe of your skills and would probably give you two of his violins for one of your guitars. Thank you for allowing us to watch you create a masterpiece of design and beauty.
i have been a joiner for 50 years from liverpool but retired in the black forest. a cnc machine is just progresion it will never replace hand craft but its just a tool to be used keep up your craft its more like a piece of art to be appreciated but can be played
What an amazing build, I loved watching this and I think you using the cnc is just a natural progression for guitar building and utilising awesome new technologies which allows for greater creative freedom 😎👌
Nice build and great to see you document it in this much detail, thanks! Normally watching people build guitars using CNC's can be a bit boring, but like you said, you're doing something unique here which would be otherwise either impossible or very time consuming. I also believe that most people who complain about CNC use are hobbyist builders who can take their time and do everything manually. It's just not viable when you're running a business.
Gracias por tus vídeos. Un placer ver tu trabajo, se nota que tienes claro lo que quieres y lo haces a un gran nivel. El sonido de ésta guitarra se aprecia con muy buena calidad. 😉
Very impressive build! Even with using the CNC there seems to have been a whole lot of manual work involved. This is the first of your videos I have seen: I'll definitely be looking for more of your stuff!
Thats an increddble guitar build,qnd it sounds pure amazing,,have the Micro sounding cvints suronding the notes,,,this is the best guitarnild I have ever seen, KUDOS
Unfortunately I could never ever afford one of your guitars but the craftmanship and concept I really liked. I wonder if a flamenco version would be possible. Ah to have the skill and tools to make my own guitarras, what a dream! Inspiring video!
Wow! That’s one of the most beautiful acoustic guitars I’ve ever seen. I like the combo of cnc and hand tools. Modern design, modern tooling mixed with classic building. I’d love to see more carbon fiber as a focal point. I just think it looks cool. I know nothing about its sound characteristics. Thanks.
While not exactly my style, I loved the creativity and craftsmanship. I would wager this guitar (and those like it) would work fantastic with electronics as well. Acoustic Guitars without a front soundhole always look odd to me, but like I said, very nice work. Keep it up! Cheers.
🤯 You have amazing 3D skills, mental and physical. You created whole new processes and jigs on the fly. It takes a lot of courage. You're one of the few builders I know of who is truly innovating on the acoustic guitar. Very inspiring. By the way, the Trevor Gore book is available for sale again.
Thanks for the praise, and the Info! I just watched the O'Brian stream with Trevor. I got the Giuliano Nicoletti book. Do you think the Gore book is worth getting as well?
@@cannaguitars4593 Well, I don't have the Nicoletti book, so I can't compare. Giuliano is an acoustics engineer, so I'm sure there must be some original content in his book, but mostly (from what he's said) it's a summary of Gore's book and easier to understand. Gore's book reads more like a college textbook. It goes into a lot of detail, cites sources, derives equations, probably covers areas Giuliano doesn't cover. I personally really like it, but it's not for everybody. By the way, I have posted spreadsheets of all the useful formulas from Gore's book over on anzfl (sorry, I can't put the full URL here, or UA-cam will delete this comment). That website is down at the moment though....🙁
Extraordinario trabajo Sr. Me gustaría tener una guitarra como esa, pero el trabajo que hace usted lo vale, (el precio) un saludo cordial con mucho respeto!!!
So many cool ideas! Have you tried a steambox for bending thicker material? Depending on how much you'd use the thicker material, it could very much be worth it. Also really like the scarf joint on the neck, not only does the wave lock it in place it also increases the surface area making it stronger. Hella cool guitar in the end.
If you have the time ever, I would love to see your process for designing an odd shape like those walnut glue blocks that you put on the inside. Also, the people who say using a CNC isn’t a real craft have never used a CNC before. They don’t realize the skill it takes.
Dude, for how long are you using your CNC again? A year? Next level stuff - I got swetty palms seeing you machine the almost finished body over and over again. I know from experience - One mistake and everything is crushed into pieces. In a complexity like this I would not even expect my first attempt would work at all. Chapeau! Btw. what I found the most impressive is what you were saying in the beginning, that you're not using any resins in your hemp bodies - only water and pigments! THATS next level!
I like your design. It's very creative and people that complain about you cheating with your c&c can bite their tongues. I watched you doing a lot of hand work on this build. Also setting up a c&c to help with the cutting is an art form of it's own! You also explained what you were doing quite well. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing more. By the way, did you make a custom case for this guitar? If not, you should.
I thought about making a case. But I don't want to have jet another project I have to work on. There are deep bowl cases that fit the guitar very well.
"he used CNC" and then you hear he is manually using the CNC machine like a hand tool. what a savage you are absolutely brilliant. the way you applied the veneer shows your level of detail. bravo.
that's pretty awesome. important recommendation: for those reinforcement blocks/cleats that you are gluing without clamping pressure, you should do a few experimental comparison blocks with different glues, and try to pop them off with a chisel. and by compare, I mean compare the titebond you're using to hot hide glue (or even rabbit glue, that is probably the best specifically for unclamped joints, but needs to be prepared uncommonly viscous to work properly and then it has extremely short open time). hot hide glue is far superior to cold glues (including cold fish glue) specifically in unclamped joints, because the fact that it first gels and then shrinks, rather than shrinking as an increasingly viscous fluid, makes it pull the wood together rather than pulling in air into the joint from the sides. you need to work fast and/or warm enough to push or rub the joint together with the glue still liquid, and ideally you then want the glue to gel immediately, then you get a far better joint than with room temperature wood glues. heat guns and heat lamps can be very useful, but you don't want to keep the glue liquid while it dries, that would destroy its key advantage. yes, I am a violin maker. xD
Thanks for your detailed advice! I have been working with hot hide glue before. You are absolutely right, it's far better than the bottled stuff. Heard that the 'Isinglass Glue' is the best. Been a bit lazy about it to be honest. It's a lot of setup to do for it to work. Will try to use it for bracings in the future and see if it improves the sound. Cheers :)
@cannaguitars4593 I think if you use clamps, it makes very little difference to a harder type of liquid wood glue, like the titebond variants. only the gummy white stuff is plausible to me as being acoustically inferior. but the advantage specifically in unclamped joints is very significant. with hot animal glues, clamping seems to yield little if any improvement in joint strength, while non-gelling glues depend heavily on clamping. it looks to me like you're doing only very few joints unclamped (the cleats between the back sections; which btw. I also would space closer and maybe make them thinner in exchange, though that is a hassle when you need to fit them to a corner rather than using flat cleats). I've never used vacuum bags, but my gut feeling is that that method may be an edge case, which may produce slightly insufficient pressure in some spots for non-gelling glues, in which case a hot glue would be slightly advantageous. but then you definitely need to use some heating method, because if you use hot glue and produce a thicker glue layer because you assemble the joint already gelled, you get a much weaker (badly aging) joint than even a common wood glue. thick layers of animal glue crack over time and become very much easier to break open. I believe isinglass is the softest of the animal glues and preferable mostly for gluing paper and other bookbinding materials - I'm not sure if that's just because those soft materials that require less brittle glue, or if it's also particularly good when used unclamped. in terms of acoustics, it should be closer to a gummy white glue than any other animal glue. I have had some bad experiences with rabbit glue because I didn't know that its very high gel strength and liquid viscosity means that you need to use it with little water at very high viscosity and extremely short open time - if you thin it to normal hide glue or bone glue viscosity, it basically disappears out of the joint during drying. but if it's mixed thick enough, it contracts the joint more than hide or bone glue. regular (cattle) hide glue is arguably best for everything, bone glue is only better for joints intended to eventually be opened for repairs/replacements.
Whether or not using CNC for guitar building is cheating is besides the point, this is just an alternate way of building an instrument...why not use technology? It does not diminish the fact that you know how to work wood. Great job! Tolle Arbeit! Gefällt mir! Weiter so!
There is a review of this guitar from Michael Watts. Check it out---> ua-cam.com/video/J1WlD2MI1gE/v-deo.html
Dude, your build is so far out of the box, you're in outer space! And you have the sound to match! You're an exceptional specimen and I am very grateful you documented this for all of us to see. Thanks
Out of the box is where I feel comfy :D
Bro you so right! It’s tight! And outta sight!! Outer space!!
Exceptional work! I've been a woodworker for over 35 years and played guitar for 45... Programming a CNC in the way you have is as you mentioned a lot harder than doing it by hand and using it just brings the craftsmanship up another level. Every process is at the peak of highly technical craftsmanship. Really inspires me to start building guitars again! Thanks for the time to make the video
Hope you do build guitars again! But beware, it's addictive! :D
Ich hab wirklich überhaupt keine Ahnung von der Materie, trotzdem war es super spannend den kompletten Bauprozess zu verfolgen. Unglaublich wieviel Arbeit in so einer Gitarre steckt
die war halt auch besonders aufwendig... aber ja, dauert ne Minute ;)
You sir are a true craftsman. Such multifaceted talent...old school craftsman meets new technology!
As a guitarist, toolmaker turned engineer and CNC programming department leader I deeply appreciate your well thought process and product. BRAVO to you!
And don't let anyone tell you not to embrace your CNC abilities as applied to guitar building. That would be like saying the true chef doesn't apply electricity or gas to his/her cooking.
Thanks for a very entertaining hour!
I hit a nerve with the CNC topic :D Good to hear that most people appreciate it as a craft.
You are not only making guitars. You are also making history.
honestly looks way more comfortable, every space is utilized. good job
I absolutely love your guitars, I think they are the perfect blend of art, music and engineering all wrapped into a fine sounding instrument.
Not only is the design here super fascinating, it sounds absolutely incredible. Very well done. I mourn that being from the US, I may never be able to play your guitars. You are so talented!
I might go to NAAM or some other show. Have been there 2020. Maybe next year again.... We'll see.
@@cannaguitars4593 that would be amazing! Yes there's the artisan show in Pennsylvania, as well as Fretboard summit in Chicago. But NAMM is the biggest for sure. Anyway, I would travel to any of them in a heartbeat :)
@@cannaguitars4593 how was your experience in 2020?
@@RickyPLopezMusic It has been an interesting experience, for sure. When I get into the boutique guitar showcase area, I'll go. Last time I was with another company in the basement somewhere. But I think the mentality in the states is more open to new ideas. The Artisan looks nice. I'll keep that in mind.
@@cannaguitars4593that's really cool, and either way I'd love to travel to Europe one day and try out guitars from certain builders, canna being at the top of the list. Thank you for sharing Jakob!
your skill as a Luthier show's in both the quality of your designs as well as the sound of your guitars. wonderfully done!
Amazing design and build. Wow! Congratulations.💯 🇲🇹
What a work of art! You sir, have some mad skills and the attention to detail is crazy. People that have never had experience running a CNC don't realize how hard and time consuming it is to learn, much less master. It is simply another tool in your shop that takes a lot of time and experience to do the things you are doing. The software side, (CAD) is where the magic happens and is where the steepest learning curve comes into play. In these types of videos, you only see the piece being machined (CAM) and gives the illusion that the CNC router makes this easy. Your video is the ultimate example of where using technology and the handcraft of woodworking come together. Your work is nothing short of inspirational!
Thank you sir! I couldn't have said it better. It's just another tool to master. Glad I can inspire people to maybe try something similar. Cheers!
Amazing guitar!
I absolutely love these guitars.what a beautiful sound . Beautifully designed. Ground breaking. Thank you for your creativity.
Exquisite design, amazing construction skills , superb all round craftsmanship.
Phenomenal! Absolutely beautiful in looks, function and tone. Your amazing
That is the best & most innovative acoustic guitar build ever I’ve seen 👍 Thoroughly enjoyed every minute watching this thankyou 😮
Ein Meisterwerk, das die Gitarrenwelt bereichert….. Excellent work! Vielen Dank fürs Zeigen des Herstellungsprozesses!
Danke für die Blumen Jürgen :-)
Great guitar. I really appreciate the dedication, skill, effort, time and talent to make this masterpiece 💯💎
Blown away by all the custom made tools and jigs you built. The design is brilliant with being able to move the action too. Seriously some spectacular work here. Subscribed.
The most beautiful guitar build in the world… and I’ve watched many… absolutely 💕💕💕it!
I rarely comment on UA-cam videos, but I'm making an exception -
What an impressive display of artistry! The guitar is gorgeous and its sound gave me goosebumps. Add in all of the engineering that you had to do to make it all come together. Stunning!
I rarely reply to the comments, but I'll make an exception. Thank you ❤ ;-)
Can't get enough of how gorgeous this guitar is. It's artwork. And it sounds very rich as well.
Wow! You are a cnc programming kung fu genius. Stunning result!
thanks, I consider myself still a noob. But it's fun to figure things out :)
That is a very neat guitar and sounds as great as it looks, great work!
Possiy the most beautiful thing I've seen a Luthier make. It really is art. Well done, thank you for sharing
Outstanding craftsmanship and vision. A beautiful guitar. Incredible sustain and sound.
I'm speechless... words fail to describe what I just witnessed. All I can think of is that Antoni Stradivari would be in awe of your skills and would probably give you two of his violins for one of your guitars.
Thank you for allowing us to watch you create a masterpiece of design and beauty.
I find it phenomenal. I also understand why I can't afford one. Outstanding build A+
i have been a joiner for 50 years from liverpool but retired in the black forest. a cnc machine is just progresion it will never replace hand craft but its just a tool to be used keep up your craft its more like a piece of art to be appreciated but can be played
Well said.
Astounding - never been so riveted to a video before. Stunning design and superb craftsmanship. Thank you so much for sharing
What's a creation ! Very inspiring and exceptional ! Well done.
The amount of effort and thought going into something that seems so simple is incredible to see. Amazing work!
Wow, what a fantastic example of following through on a creative vision! Just beautiful!
What an awesome thinker and doer this guy is. Power to you and much appreciated.
The most beautiful sounding guitar I have heard EVER and a beauty to look at. Absolutely hands down the best guitar build I've seen ..wow ❤
Sir, your « out of the box » methods are truely inspiring. First time on your channel, defenetly not the last! Greetings from Québec Canada!
You're an amazing guitar maker, really want one of your guitars.
Brilliant! And what a delicate sound... That's the sound I like in my guitar.
Incredible build! Congratulations.
Riveting, absolutely riveting! Your playing showed off the sound of that beautiful instrument!😮
I love the way you use your CNC ! What a job !
What an amazing build, I loved watching this and I think you using the cnc is just a natural progression for guitar building and utilising awesome new technologies which allows for greater creative freedom 😎👌
Nice build and great to see you document it in this much detail, thanks! Normally watching people build guitars using CNC's can be a bit boring, but like you said, you're doing something unique here which would be otherwise either impossible or very time consuming. I also believe that most people who complain about CNC use are hobbyist builders who can take their time and do everything manually. It's just not viable when you're running a business.
Gracias por tus vídeos. Un placer ver tu trabajo, se nota que tienes claro lo que quieres y lo haces a un gran nivel. El sonido de ésta guitarra se aprecia con muy buena calidad. 😉
Muchas gracias por sus amables palabras :-)
I don't know how practical it is but design is very pleasant and easthetic. Beautyful guitar, sounds very nice.
This video was a journey! Thanks for sharing and what an amazing guitar ❤
Using a CNC is absolutely a craft. Beautiful guitar, lot's of creativity.
Very impressive build! Even with using the CNC there seems to have been a whole lot of manual work involved. This is the first of your videos I have seen: I'll definitely be looking for more of your stuff!
That's a beautiful guitar , exellent job !!
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wonderful work of art. artists like you generate great motivation
Absolutely beautiful guitar and amazing playing too!
Superb. Such dedication and skill. Great guitarist too.
Exceptional craftsmanship!
Makes for an outstanding Guitar !
Thank you...
I'm impressed.
Thats an increddble guitar build,qnd it sounds pure amazing,,have the Micro sounding cvints suronding the notes,,,this is the best guitarnild I have ever seen, KUDOS
Absolutely superb craftsmanship.
Beautiful playing, and your guitar resonates beautifully.
Man that guitar sounds great! I didn’t expect that with how different it is.
Unfortunately I could never ever afford one of your guitars but the craftmanship and concept I really liked. I wonder if a flamenco version would be possible. Ah to have the skill and tools to make my own guitarras, what a dream! Inspiring video!
beautiful craftsmanship. very impressive.
Love the use of the cnc machine in construction
love that you are using Ned Steinbergers guitar head, we (Melobar) had to pay a licensing fee to put it on our Melobro and Melobar Lap Steels
What a beautiful guitar and sounds amazing...great job...God gave you an amazing talent
Really impressed with your guitars! Hoping I’ll be able to try (and buy!) one some day!
What a beautiful guitar!
Wow! That’s one of the most beautiful acoustic guitars I’ve ever seen. I like the combo of cnc and hand tools. Modern design, modern tooling mixed with classic building. I’d love to see more carbon fiber as a focal point. I just think it looks cool. I know nothing about its sound characteristics. Thanks.
Inspiring build...got a lot of ideas from this for future projects.
Great Guitar and great sound i like the build proses Sucse full
Inspiring!. Love your processes.
thanks, keep up the good wrk as well!
What an incredibly innovative guitar build. I can say with confidence that you are leading the way into the future of acoustic guitar design.
Beautiful and unique build. Thanks for the video.
While not exactly my style, I loved the creativity and craftsmanship. I would wager this guitar (and those like it) would work fantastic with electronics as well. Acoustic Guitars without a front soundhole always look odd to me, but like I said, very nice work. Keep it up! Cheers.
That children's cover at the end 👌🔥🎶
Excellent work.. pushing guitar building forward with new ideas.. on a level with Ken Parker !!
No quite but thanks for comparing me to Ken :-)
Absolutely amazing.
beautiful design, great job
absolutely beautiful, incredible.
🤯 You have amazing 3D skills, mental and physical. You created whole new processes and jigs on the fly. It takes a lot of courage. You're one of the few builders I know of who is truly innovating on the acoustic guitar. Very inspiring.
By the way, the Trevor Gore book is available for sale again.
Thanks for the praise, and the Info! I just watched the O'Brian stream with Trevor. I got the Giuliano Nicoletti book. Do you think the Gore book is worth getting as well?
@@cannaguitars4593 Well, I don't have the Nicoletti book, so I can't compare. Giuliano is an acoustics engineer, so I'm sure there must be some original content in his book, but mostly (from what he's said) it's a summary of Gore's book and easier to understand. Gore's book reads more like a college textbook. It goes into a lot of detail, cites sources, derives equations, probably covers areas Giuliano doesn't cover. I personally really like it, but it's not for everybody.
By the way, I have posted spreadsheets of all the useful formulas from Gore's book over on anzfl (sorry, I can't put the full URL here, or UA-cam will delete this comment). That website is down at the moment though....🙁
beautiful unique guitar and sounds amazing i liked the music too.
Amazing!
Amazing skills, thank you for sharing!
Extraordinario trabajo Sr.
Me gustaría tener una guitarra como esa, pero el trabajo que hace usted lo vale, (el precio) un saludo cordial con mucho respeto!!!
What a sustain !
She's lying about not good guitasist and good recorded, freaking awesome sirrr....
So many cool ideas! Have you tried a steambox for bending thicker material? Depending on how much you'd use the thicker material, it could very much be worth it. Also really like the scarf joint on the neck, not only does the wave lock it in place it also increases the surface area making it stronger. Hella cool guitar in the end.
great work, impressive, well done and thanks for sharing 👌👍
Sounds excellent also looks beautiful , I like to hear a classical guitar you make
Looks and sounds amazing! congrats
If you have the time ever, I would love to see your process for designing an odd shape like those walnut glue blocks that you put on the inside.
Also, the people who say using a CNC isn’t a real craft have never used a CNC before. They don’t realize the skill it takes.
Awesome build. Would love to strum it!
Thanks you for your work!
Dude, for how long are you using your CNC again? A year? Next level stuff - I got swetty palms seeing you machine the almost finished body over and over again. I know from experience - One mistake and everything is crushed into pieces. In a complexity like this I would not even expect my first attempt would work at all. Chapeau!
Btw. what I found the most impressive is what you were saying in the beginning, that you're not using any resins in your hemp bodies - only water and pigments! THATS next level!
Very nice work and a cool looking guitar!
Nice rendition of Robert Miles' Chlidren at the end!
Hello from Canada. Wow.
I like your design. It's very creative and people that complain about you cheating with your c&c can bite their tongues. I watched you doing a lot of hand work on this build. Also setting up a c&c to help with the cutting is an art form of it's own! You also explained what you were doing quite well. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing more. By the way, did you make a custom case for this guitar? If not, you should.
I thought about making a case. But I don't want to have jet another project I have to work on. There are deep bowl cases that fit the guitar very well.
"he used CNC" and then you hear he is manually using the CNC machine like a hand tool. what a savage you are absolutely brilliant. the way you applied the veneer shows your level of detail. bravo.
More of necessity to compansate for bad planning. But you can use a CNC almost like a hand tool...almost
@@cannaguitars4593 It is just humorous the people who can barely hold a pencil will complain about CNC use. Love what you did.
that's pretty awesome.
important recommendation: for those reinforcement blocks/cleats that you are gluing without clamping pressure, you should do a few experimental comparison blocks with different glues, and try to pop them off with a chisel. and by compare, I mean compare the titebond you're using to hot hide glue (or even rabbit glue, that is probably the best specifically for unclamped joints, but needs to be prepared uncommonly viscous to work properly and then it has extremely short open time). hot hide glue is far superior to cold glues (including cold fish glue) specifically in unclamped joints, because the fact that it first gels and then shrinks, rather than shrinking as an increasingly viscous fluid, makes it pull the wood together rather than pulling in air into the joint from the sides. you need to work fast and/or warm enough to push or rub the joint together with the glue still liquid, and ideally you then want the glue to gel immediately, then you get a far better joint than with room temperature wood glues. heat guns and heat lamps can be very useful, but you don't want to keep the glue liquid while it dries, that would destroy its key advantage.
yes, I am a violin maker. xD
Thanks for your detailed advice! I have been working with hot hide glue before. You are absolutely right, it's far better than the bottled stuff. Heard that the 'Isinglass Glue' is the best. Been a bit lazy about it to be honest. It's a lot of setup to do for it to work. Will try to use it for bracings in the future and see if it improves the sound. Cheers :)
@cannaguitars4593 I think if you use clamps, it makes very little difference to a harder type of liquid wood glue, like the titebond variants. only the gummy white stuff is plausible to me as being acoustically inferior. but the advantage specifically in unclamped joints is very significant. with hot animal glues, clamping seems to yield little if any improvement in joint strength, while non-gelling glues depend heavily on clamping. it looks to me like you're doing only very few joints unclamped (the cleats between the back sections; which btw. I also would space closer and maybe make them thinner in exchange, though that is a hassle when you need to fit them to a corner rather than using flat cleats). I've never used vacuum bags, but my gut feeling is that that method may be an edge case, which may produce slightly insufficient pressure in some spots for non-gelling glues, in which case a hot glue would be slightly advantageous. but then you definitely need to use some heating method, because if you use hot glue and produce a thicker glue layer because you assemble the joint already gelled, you get a much weaker (badly aging) joint than even a common wood glue. thick layers of animal glue crack over time and become very much easier to break open.
I believe isinglass is the softest of the animal glues and preferable mostly for gluing paper and other bookbinding materials - I'm not sure if that's just because those soft materials that require less brittle glue, or if it's also particularly good when used unclamped. in terms of acoustics, it should be closer to a gummy white glue than any other animal glue. I have had some bad experiences with rabbit glue because I didn't know that its very high gel strength and liquid viscosity means that you need to use it with little water at very high viscosity and extremely short open time - if you thin it to normal hide glue or bone glue viscosity, it basically disappears out of the joint during drying. but if it's mixed thick enough, it contracts the joint more than hide or bone glue. regular (cattle) hide glue is arguably best for everything, bone glue is only better for joints intended to eventually be opened for repairs/replacements.
Whether or not using CNC for guitar building is cheating is besides the point, this is just an alternate way of building an instrument...why not use technology? It does not diminish the fact that you know how to work wood. Great job! Tolle Arbeit! Gefällt mir! Weiter so!
Danke, wird gemacht :-D
Страдивари нашего века, браво!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻