Acoustic Guitar Made From One, Local Maple Tree
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2023
- I love this one.
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I'm a simple man, I see a new Tim Sway video and I click on it. Thanks for being awesome!
I love mixed metaphors and once sent one of my customers a greetings card in which I wrote: May your feet never slip on the fingerboard of life. Seeing the inlays on this guitar reminded me of that.
I love it. I have also used wood from trees lost to the emerald ash borer on my property to build guitars. So many local trees in Wisconsin have to be removed due to storm damage, insects, interference with electrical power lines etc. Oak, maple, box elder, ash, honey locust, black walnut, willow, hickory, and many other species. All perfectly fine for instruments both electric and acoustic. Keep up the fight, Tim.
So many great trees grow here and get turned to pulp and firewood. Why we gotta ship more trees over?
This is the nicest and most intriguing guitar build I've ever seen.
Thanks!
What a gorgeous piece of work! It's been so cool to see all the work you've put into your acoustic guitar designs pay off. Very well-shot and relaxing video too.
The guitar sounds fantastic!
Nice! I really like the ethos behind this, and the progress of these acoustic models from the first prototypes you showed us is really impressive.
Sounds and looks amazing..your luthier skills are growing.
Really nice guitar,good job tim 👍
Nice! A number of San Antonio luthiers have been making instruments from a local pecan tree that came down. The instruments turned out great!
That guitar is beautiful . Great job .
Sounds beautiful. Like the whole thing has the same resonance. Its like it's own pocket and consistent tone in its range.
Cool to see this build from one piece, well done.
I adore your straightforward, utilitarian style. Every decision feels functional, and it still looks nice when you're done. Just ordered my CenterSqWAYre and radius gauges. I'm just about finished with my very first guitar, and I hope to see you still going and inspiring new ideas and approaches many years from now.
Awesome! Thanks for your support and kind words.
Great video, very calming. Cool to see the order of the build process. The backstory is so cool. The guitar is beautiful and sounds awesome. Mahalo for sharing! : )
I started a bass build from goat willow I found chopping firewood.. Never would have considered it without your videos, so thanks I guess. Will be interesting to see how it sounds.
So much good stuff in the firewood pile
Nice job on this one! I've got four slabs of local maple hanging in my garage (besides an attic full of other local woods), I hope it turns into something this beautiful.
Look how far you've come dude! You keep blowing my mind. Very cool build
This is a beautiful instrument inside and out! Maple is a wonderful warm wood and offers lovely tone. 😊
I love it when you do something like this Tim. It's got so much heart in it. The meaning and connection to your creations runs deep.
It’s my fav part of the job.
Very nice work on that Acoustic guitar Tim! Having made one myself, way back when, I know what it takes to accomplish that task. Hope that all is well. 👍👍🎸🎸👏👏
I applaud your use of non-standard materials for the top and i admire the sound you achieved with this guitar.
You're definitely getting better. Solid work here!
Sourcing local wood for guitar building is a great idea. A job well done.
Absolutely gorgeous
Lovely looking and sounding guitar.
Let those trees grow! 🌳💚
Love the closing statement and purpose!!
It looks and sounds great Tim!
And yes, we don't need those magic tonewoods, this maple guitar sounds awesome.
For me, the best content I've seen.
Start to to finish guided through at pace yet still comprehensible. Maybe not for new visitors unaccustomed to Tims backlog.
Please follow, learn and understand how he gives 100%.
He is a Luthier, par excellence made from a different mold.
This video. One plank. His skill and experience.
Result. A thing of beauty.
Wonderful stuff.
Thanks man. Glad you dig it. Sometimes it feels like such an uphill battle from the work to the filming… it’s nice to know that it’s appreciated.
Wow, what a cool idea for the inlays!! The whole thing turned out pretty great
I think the world needs a tutorial on the "center punch jaw technique" remarkably executed here !
Tim I love the footprints on the neck. Reminds me of walking barefoot in the sand. Another beautiful piece.
Beautiful.
Excellent video Tim. Maple is such a great timber. As you demonstrate here. Heavier timbers can have lighter bracing.
Love the footprints
Love the foot print fret board
My favorite wood. I made a small body acoustic 12 string (got stolen )back in the day that sounded like a Rickenbacker through a Vox amp.
Delightful build on this one. The maple is lovely, and I dig the footprint motif and the pickguard details. Also my favorite style of video, letting the work speak for itself. I think you might be starting to get good at this. 😁 Thanks for sharing!
Lol. Hopefully someday I’ll get good at this. The other guitar I made for the client has bear foot prints. This one has bare footprints. Get it? :)
Good stuff man! Cool build.
Great job, nice shop!
Looking forward to the outcome...
Thank you
I love this channel.
I've been tuning in about a year now. I did not realize, greetings from Woodbury Ct.!!! I thought that maple sounded like it had a touch of nutmeg in it! Stunning work.
Hey neighbor! Not to worry, this was not the Charter Oak (although there is a museum in Hartford with a bunch of furniture made from THE actual Charter Oak. Kinda cool to see).
@@timsway Been there. You certainly are Sway-ing(sorry, I'm hopeless where dad jokes are concerned!), me to get off my old butt and get my workshop going. Thanks.
Here's a question for you. Have you ever made a bowed stringed instrument? I play a size 16 viola and I have a cherry tree in my yard that is dead and waiting to come down. I'd LOVE to hear what a cherry wood viola sounds like or what it's like to play on.
I made one upright bass a few years ago and a couple erhus. While it sounds like fun, I think you’d be better served by a pro who has all the molds and experience. Unless you want to do some wacky electric version that would make the purists cringe, then I’m your man :)
Dialed in!
the little foot glued to the inside to be visible from the soundhole!!!
Guitar sounds great. Everyone should be using sustainable woods for all guitars. I really appreciate you making that point. I want to get into guitar building and repair but I don't feel great about the industry constantly trying to sell me endangered woods.
That is exactly why we need YOU! Join me in helping to change the system!
Great to see local timber being used, until very recently I had a local timber supplier who only sold wood from the surrounding area that was felled due to disease of safety concerns but sadly they’ve had to close as the demand for local sustainable timber isn’t there.
PS, having a 4” dust port on a bench top thickness planner is proper flexing, as the kids say
Right. I hope my work/videos helps increase demand to help places like that stay in biz and change the lumber footprint. I was just talking to an arborist last night about this: all these great trees getting taken down for natural reasons, but we’re still shipping dead trees all over the world?
@@timsway it’s crazy and can’t be sustainable in the long run.
The Jumbo acoustic that Elvis was often seen with was all maple.... Cool project as always.
Classic Diresta, if he made acoustic guitars. Seriously it was quite satisfying to see all the steps in the process knowing your journey to get here. Beautiful instrument. I’d totally rock a guitar with a Make Good Music fretboard.
I made a 32” acoustic bass alongside this as I develop that product. That’s what the make good music fingerboard is on. I’m currently playing that bass to see what it needs to be a viable product.
I adore everything about that acoustic!! I especially LOVE the bolt on neck. I've always been a huge fan of bolt on necks, they allow so much more adjustment than through bodies and the rest.. I'm a Jackson player. Bolt-ons sacrifice nothing, no sustain is lost, no tone, none of that crap they come up with. Silly propaganda.. A bolt on acoustic is so pretty to me, especially the way you've done it! I would only personally change 2 things.. Get rid of the little footsies, lol. Give me something more symmetrical, more standard-ish. And a sitka spruce top. That's it, just two tiny changes. I know you wouldn't be fond of the sitka spruce top, but you just can't deny that sound..
Amazing guitar sir, and love the message, all of my guitars are built from ether reclaimed materials or made out of Oak from my local area 😊
Awesome. It’s up to us to change the norms. Traditions are poison!
The only thing I like as much as maple is walnut - NICE!
That's a happy accident, it looks delicious 😋 and I learned a handy technique to open my clamps 😊
7:29 You're using that chisel upside down ;) Beveled edge ALWAYS goes down against the work so you are less likely to cut too deeply, or to create a deep gouge you can't back out of. The way you have it, when you cut too deep the only way to go is deeper (worse).
Yes, if you’re not careful! :)
You ever thought about bending carved backs for your acoustics? I think you could jerry-rig something with vaccuum storage bags and a vaccuum cleaner. You will have to open the bag so the moisture can escape IG but once it's formed with vacuum you could just clamp on a reversed shaped mold on top of it before you open the bag? Idk just spit balling DIY ideas 😊
Archtops are in my future but I’ll probably carve them instead of trying to form them? Not sure yet…
I also have an idea for hydraulic clamps. Once there's water in the system, you don't need much to apply pressure. Just like a syringe at the other end. Could be a way to get several clamps to clamp down with equal force at the same time... for some purpose idk 😂
Izzy swan made an hydraulic (or air?) pressure clamping system for panels a few years ago that was pretty inspiring. It is a totally plausible idea.
Wow Tim, the sound from that is *exactly* what I expected from a full maple guitar - wondering if you put the piezo under the bridge? How does it sound with a balanced mix pickup sound? I bet it sounds amazing! Brilliant stuff! I like bright guitars, it gives a different frequency in a song.
Yea, a typical fishman saddle piezo on this one. Does everything it needs to do.
Awesome video! 16min without blinking is not good to my eyes :D nevertheless I really like that natural look of this guitar... Good job m8!
Should have added an ASMR tag, Tim.
Lol
I noticed that you're using a yogurt cup to connect your vacuum system to your plainer. lol Also, that center point finder tool of yours is cool. The way I've went about it was to measure to the approximate middle and then measure the same amount from the other side and eyeball a line between the other two lines.
That’s why I made that tool! If you do a lot of that type of work it comes in handy. SqWAYreTools.com. Yogurt containers make good morris tapers for duct connections. I need to replace that one though. They wear down and crack :)
I just had one, local Maple tree take out my car.
That sucks
100% with you against deforestation. Admiration for the upright cutting on the bandsaw 😳 great looking guitar. Did I miss a pickup?
I was impressed by his badsaw skills, too.
This one has just a piezo under the bridge. Client didn’t want or need a magnetic one. Cheers
@@GianmarioScottiyou might not have noticed, but I cut 3” on 4 sides of the board on the table saw first, so the bandsaw was only cutting the remaining middle of the board, about 3”. That wood is so dense and my bandsaw is so underpowered it would not have been able to do it in one slice. It then gets planed to be evened out.
@@timsway I see it now! Great trick, you got us fooled! 😅
Tim I would like to hear a song from the 70s played on this guitar.
Its "The Northern Lights," by Renaissance.
I'd prefer to hear "The Northern lights of old Aberdeen" if we're doing aurora borealis based requests. Thanks in advance.
PS. Loved the backing track on this video, who was it by?
Definitately reduced your 'footprint' on this one, Tim - I see what you did there. Anyway, I've heard you call yourself a, woodworker and a guitar maker but watching this vid what I saw was a fully fledged luthier. And a progressive one at that! Tradition can often be just a fallacy, but that's a discussion for another day! Beautiful piece of work.
cheers. I often say "traditions are poison" and most people look at me like I have three heads when I say it! Glad to hear I'm not the only one who gets it. To me, tradition means "let's keep doing things the same was as people before us who had less information - for no practical reason."
And I always hate reality TV that tries to 'see' if a group can live like, say StoneAge ppl. They always act out a type of 'this is how they used to do it' approach, whereas if I'd have been in that era [or any other] I'd always be trying to improvise better solutions to everyday challenges. I'm sure those 'primatives' did, or we'd never have stood on the moon or transplanted a heart - not to mention J. Robert Oppenheimer. . .
#@@timsway
Tim how do you keep the laser from freezing in the winter?
A mix of clear glycol and distilled water, changed once or twice a year. Can run your laser just about anywhere like that.
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Chins are 3rd hands!
100%. The only reason I prefer my old awl to the Diresta ice pick/ more comfortable on the chin:)
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instead of playing starfield you do something useful
rrespek!😁
I really like your video and your approach is also very meaningful!
Thank you! 😃
Dear Tim... Excellent job (again you have made it possible) my respects... congratulations and congratulations... I would like to recommend "open tunings" (perhaps you have already tried these tunings): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings Cordial greetings from Madrid (Spain)!!!...
I have a hard time getting my brain and hands to work together in alternate tunings :)