Your explanations are fantastic! Love that kind of informative presentation/you know much about wood and woodworking/so intelligent/ thank you for all your great videos!
Susan, That back is incredible I cannot wait too see this guitar come together, Im in the process of building a drum sander somewhat like yours. Thank you for all the vids
Hi Susan, the thinner that walnut (or any wood for that matter) gets the harder it is to make it behave when the RH in the shop changes.. what source of heat do you have in your shop? the drier it is the better, since musical instruments require a moisture content between 5 and 7% as soon as your RH (relative humidity) in the shop goes over 30% you're gonna see some pretty crazy warping in your veneers going on... cheers mike
Had a weird experience with American walnut recently giving off fumes from hand bending on a hot iron.... interested to see if that happens when you come to bend.
I'd be inclined not to leave the sides sitting around for too long before bending. One good reason for using a blanket and form is that I've found it flattens out any cupping. Harder to do hand bending unless you're an expert like Pete Howlett - don't have enough experience hand bending to say. I have hand bent walnut sides though and it was a breeze!
A word of advise leave the gluing of the struts to.the back as long as you can otherwise the back might split in the heat. Assemble the front and sides first then you will not have as much time for the back to split before finishing the guitar.
Your. Gonna get worm holes in rosewood now there's not much left so there useing whT they can but the will fill invisable can't remember the channel they coated it with something after filling holes I want to say ps4 but I've never used it or heard of it can out beautiful it's almost a slow cyanoacrilate
Stick to the construction,inlays can wait and will take you ages and drive you insane.Once you have that body together you may well revise your thinking on more inlays..........................
Your explanations are fantastic! Love that kind of informative presentation/you know much about wood and woodworking/so intelligent/ thank you for all your great videos!
Susan, That back is incredible I cannot wait too see this guitar come together, Im in the process of building a drum sander somewhat like yours. Thank you for all the vids
That back is going to look fantastic when finished. Another great video. Thanks.
Thanks for making videos on musical instruments
I export back and sides rose wood 🪵 spruce .. mahogany Nd many more
thank you . that back is stunning
Hi Susan,
the thinner that walnut (or any wood for that matter) gets the harder it is to make it behave when the RH in the shop changes.. what source of heat do you have in your shop? the drier it is the better, since musical instruments require a moisture content between 5 and 7%
as soon as your RH (relative humidity) in the shop goes over 30% you're gonna see some pretty crazy warping in your veneers going on...
cheers
mike
HolzMichel Yes must be clamped like mad.
Had a weird experience with American walnut recently giving off fumes from hand bending on a hot iron.... interested to see if that happens when you come to bend.
I'd be inclined not to leave the sides sitting around for too long before bending. One good reason for using a blanket and form is that I've found it flattens out any cupping. Harder to do hand bending unless you're an expert like Pete Howlett - don't have enough experience hand bending to say. I have hand bent walnut sides though and it was a breeze!
As beautiful as it is, Georgia O'Keefe would have a field day with that back. Lol
Lovely
If you are going to narrow those sides anyway and cupping is a problem, if you narrow them first the cup has less effect.
A word of advise leave the gluing of the struts to.the back as long as you can otherwise the back might split in the heat. Assemble the front and sides first then you will not have as much time for the back to split before finishing the guitar.
Your. Gonna get worm holes in rosewood now there's not much left so there useing whT they can but the will fill invisable can't remember the channel they coated it with something after filling holes I want to say ps4 but I've never used it or heard of it can out beautiful it's almost a slow cyanoacrilate
Use 36 grit paper to hog off the excess.
Stick to the construction,inlays can wait and will take you ages and drive you insane.Once you have that body together you may well revise your thinking on more inlays..........................