Tips On Selecting Wood For Making A Guitar
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- A couple of ideas on how selecting wood for your next guitar build. This isn't about tonewood so don't get excited. This is about humidity, moisture content, and acclimation.
Very good video, my local woodwerks told me they keep domestics in the back for 2 weeks and tropics at least a month. Made me feel better about all the bocote I bought a bit ago
Excellent! Thanks bro 🎸🎸👍
For those that are not aware. Home centers (Home Depot, Menards, Lowes etc) are not ideal as lumber sources because they rarely if ever carry wood suitable for guitar building. Certain home centers store wood outside, in buildings not climate controlled, and are often warped/twisted. Most of their wood is for home construction and common builds so the wood is thinner (far less than 1 3/4" or 2").
I have only one decent source I can travel to conveniently, but they are limited to what they sell, and though they are do have good sources of wood for guitar making, I've found that much in store is not the right thickness. Plus I can't just drop $500 or even $300 for a plank of wood.
To be honest you can use StewMac for body blanks, but they don't carry purpleheart wood as an example. They ONLY carry the more common species of wood in "Generica" guitars (Alder, maple, swamp ash (they never seem to carry regular ash) mahogany etc.)
for me I have to deal with 4 seasons where the weather can be very A.D.D. and unpredictable. So acclimating is not so simple. It's very very very hard for most who don't have shop space or are working out of our homes to find quality wood that can be stored.
kjemradio woodcrafters is good im not certain they are a chain though
Good video. I'm sure this can be generalized to fine woodworking as a whole, especially if one harvests their own wood.
I'm in Tennessee and have a few friends in the logging businesses and theres walnut cherry , hard maple pine cedar and even Batabhi lol the Brazilian Norwood is being a little different to come by here latley lol
Hi! Awesome video, just seeing it now. A huge locust tree fell in my yard a few years ago. I recently got some woodworking equipment and got the idea to cut a slab out of the tree for an electric guitar body. Is the a good idea? I appreciate your help.
Great tips! Thank you for sharing! With sources near you already you may not have to, but have you ever had to order wood online? I'm trying to set up a new shop and am considering trying to build a guitar. I'd have to order for anything other than what's at Lowes haha! Any tips on ordering wood?
Water/moisture boils in a vacuum. Can’t use just vacuum pump a piece of wood overnight to get most of the moisture out and nearly completely dry?
Or does vacuum not work for wood??
What kind of moisture content meter do you got? There are so many different kinds out there.
Hello I'm wondering what would be the best wood to buy, for making the costum keyboard.
What wood would sound the best? What kind of options should I go for?
I don't think you can go wrong with either Mahogany or Maple. It all depends on the look you want as both will yield excellent tone.
what moisture meter do you use?
I have a question: how do you go about drying the wood, and measuring/estimating the moisture content?
Unless you ahve the equipment and storage it's best to buy the wood that has gone through that process.
@Lowdollar23 for how long to kill the bugs and eggs? and what temp for a 2 inch thick body blank 6 to 8 inches wide? thanks by the way i dont mind the baked colour
thanks for the reply do you bake the 2 inch slabs hardwoods and kill the insects deep inside this way? I mean i heard that the bugs bore out then lay the eggs back inside the existing tunnels... pretty sure the heat should get into those tunnels after 6 hours or so baking and kill all eggs and beetles.... its weather it will kill the actuall worm larvae and pupus stage in the wood at the core!?? what do you think I have english ash and similar 2 inch thick and 6 - 8 inch wide at 17% moisture or so... I am wanting to do the oven bake method you said to sterolise the slabs, but I dont want to bring wood with bugs in the house! how many hardwood slabs have you baked this way and did the insects die off for sure? thanks
Do you have any tele bodies around you might be persuaded into selling it ...because I WILL be purchasing something by this weekend...as long as its within reason of corse..😁
I don't make parts or knock-offs. Sorry
local!? EIGHT HOUR PERIOD?
Does moisture content make it heavier?
Technically, yes.
I can attest to shifting wood ruining a neck, even with quartersawn maple. And it's too bad most of us can't store wood in climate controlled areas. Once you get into building, you realize problems can hit you from all directions.