The sound of this thing tells you everything you need to know. If someone had told me it was a super expensive vintage jazz archtop, I would have believed them. Great music too.
whenever i seek an easy going inspirational build to watch, i always come back to your triad of videos! it calms me down, and the techniques are such amazing to watch
Again, MAGNIFIQUE ! I would love to make a bass like this.. but juste to buy the equipment needed would cost me a lot more than an already made custom one I think… and since I have NO idea what I would need, welll, I keep on dreaming. LOL
Very beautiful video and the third part will probably be after New Year's Eve. And I wish you a lot of success in the new year and a lot of packages under the tree
Hi Anders, Amazing video. Could I ask what is the model of table saw you are using to cut the fretboard? I'm assuming you are using the stewmac fret saw blade? Thanks.
Hi Nick. Thank you! It is a Proxxon Table Saw FET and i use one of Proxxons saw blades i have grinded to correct thickness. I will recommend using the Stewmac blade though.😊
Great videos. I’ve built two acoustic guitars and of course I’m still learning. I enjoyed seeing some of of your methods that I plan to try in my next build. My first guitar used scrap wood also. (A cedar top from scrap shake shingles and hard wood scrap from my furniture making-walnut and mahogany.) It is similar to a OOO size and has great tone and volume…the building materials are part of the formula, but they are not the major reason for a great guitar. Your builds certainly support this too! Your this video series gives me courage to try an arch top design in the future. Thanks!
Hi, thank you for this nice video. I'm looping for the tool and the saw you use for the fret spot. Could you gîte me reference please ? Are you ok Witherspoon this material ! Thank you again, nice job and can't wait for the third part, really wanna see the results and listen it.
Hi Kevin. It is all wood. The fingerboard, tailpiece, bridge, pickup case and headstock plate is ebony. Binding is maple. The rest (body and neck) is pallet wood.
Hey Anders. Another awesome build video, thank you very much. You mentioned to me in a previous correspondence that you didn't want to add any colour to your build because you wanted to show off the knots and grain etc. I now agree with you so I would not paint the neck black, besides, it would render adding the black veneer like you did null and void. I mentioned before that I was really looking forward to how you go about building your necks. I'm very intrigued by this, you make yours from 'slats' and glue them 'perpendicular'. That's a very cool approach. I would want to take a piece of 2"x3" and just splice in a scarf joint then glue a stack in for a heel. Your process is like a 90 deg opposite. do you find this make the neck stronger or is it just your visual preference. Truly looking forward to part 3. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family. Carl
Hi Carl. I had some chip out on the headstock, when using the router, and i had to repair it with some inlay pieces. At the heel there is some glue marks as well and that made me think of painting the hole neck and headstock black. I'm also restoring an old Høfner you maybe see in the background sometimes. It has a black neck and a sunburst body. That looks cool to me. But you're right. It is part of the charm...... Another one asked me in the comments not to stain the guitar and just make it natural. Lets see.........:) Regarding the 3 piece neck. Vertical grain is the strongest, so a good quarter sawn piece of hardwood (maybe mahogany or even stronger maple) is really good and often used. But it depends on the guitar (and what kind of strings) how strong you need the neck to be. You want the neck to make a little up bow when it is strung up. I mostly make my necks this way (2 or 3 piece), it is easy to shape and you can have a nice decorative strip down the neck using different colors of veneer or thin boards. In this case i did not have any choice because the boards from the pallet is flat sawn and this way the neck blank became quarter sawn. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you also!
Any musical instrument is about as better as possible sound, thus the best luthiers spent their lives searching for materials, forms and technics to give musicians the best instruments they could. To me, building a guitar from scrap, is an insult to those masters. Is it all about making the next UA-cam video? More subscribers? Realy?
Hi there. Thank you for your comment. I will say this is a homage to the luthiers techniques, skills and tools. Most luthiers would say that the Choice of wood is not the most important, but it is about what you do with it. As i mentioned in the video series, there is plenty of good reasons to use traditional tonewood. It is easier to work with, more stable, much prettier and there is more reliability what kind of sound you get. But i welcome your opinion and think it is an interesting discussion.😊
It's about story telling and finding out the story this wood has to tell. Maybe it's a bit ragged and has seen better days. But it's true to itself. I love it!
The sound of this thing tells you everything you need to know. If someone had told me it was a super expensive vintage jazz archtop, I would have believed them. Great music too.
Thank you❤️
whenever i seek an easy going inspirational build to watch, i always come back to your triad of videos! it calms me down, and the techniques are such amazing to watch
Thank you❤️
Made my night watching this, and really enjoyed your jazz standards in the background!!
Thank you!
Again, MAGNIFIQUE ! I would love to make a bass like this.. but juste to buy the equipment needed would cost me a lot more than an already made custom one I think… and since I have NO idea what I would need, welll, I keep on dreaming. LOL
Thanks. Yes, you need some specifik tools, but it is great fun and rewarding😜
Awesome video series. I truly enjoyed it. Thank you!
Thanks Chris
Very beautiful video and the third part will probably be after New Year's Eve. And I wish you a lot of success in the new year and a lot of packages under the tree
Thank you, and you too!
Hi Anders, Amazing video. Could I ask what is the model of table saw you are using to cut the fretboard? I'm assuming you are using the stewmac fret saw blade? Thanks.
Hi Nick. Thank you!
It is a Proxxon Table Saw FET and i use one of Proxxons saw blades i have grinded to correct thickness. I will recommend using the Stewmac blade though.😊
Great videos. I’ve built two acoustic guitars and of course I’m still learning. I enjoyed seeing some of of your methods that I plan to try in my next build. My first guitar used scrap wood also. (A cedar top from scrap shake shingles and hard wood scrap from my furniture making-walnut and mahogany.) It is similar to a OOO size and has great tone and volume…the building materials are part of the formula, but they are not the major reason for a great guitar. Your builds certainly support this too! Your this video series gives me courage to try an arch top design in the future. Thanks!
Thank you, and good luck with your build!
Hi, I would like to buy your guitar, where I can buy it?
Hi Salvador. Thank you:)
It is not for sale, but i could build one for you……
Hi, thank you for this nice video. I'm looping for the tool and the saw you use for the fret spot. Could you gîte me reference please ? Are you ok Witherspoon this material !
Thank you again, nice job and can't wait for the third part, really wanna see the results and listen it.
Hi David. Thank you.
I will make a little video on how i cut the fret slots soon......
And I like to think I'm making a guitar according to your part one and part two but I would use a maple on the back
My next archtop will definitely be some hardwood as well.......:)
What is the veneer material used I these guitars? Is it a phonelic? A carbon?
Hi Kevin. It is all wood.
The fingerboard, tailpiece, bridge, pickup case and headstock plate is ebony. Binding is maple. The rest (body and neck) is pallet wood.
@@AndersWestfall That black line was wood? Hmm, ok. Thank you
Hey Anders. Another awesome build video, thank you very much. You mentioned to me in a previous correspondence that you didn't want to add any colour to your build because you wanted to show off the knots and grain etc. I now agree with you so I would not paint the neck black, besides, it would render adding the black veneer like you did null and void. I mentioned before that I was really looking forward to how you go about building your necks. I'm very intrigued by this, you make yours from 'slats' and glue them 'perpendicular'. That's a very cool approach. I would want to take a piece of 2"x3" and just splice in a scarf joint then glue a stack in for a heel. Your process is like a 90 deg opposite. do you find this make the neck stronger or is it just your visual preference. Truly looking forward to part 3. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family. Carl
Hi Carl.
I had some chip out on the headstock, when using the router, and i had to repair it with some inlay pieces. At the heel there is some glue marks as well and that made me think of painting the hole neck and headstock black. I'm also restoring an old Høfner you maybe see in the background sometimes. It has a black neck and a sunburst body. That looks cool to me.
But you're right. It is part of the charm......
Another one asked me in the comments not to stain the guitar and just make it natural. Lets see.........:)
Regarding the 3 piece neck. Vertical grain is the strongest, so a good quarter sawn piece of hardwood (maybe mahogany or even stronger maple) is really good and often used. But it depends on the guitar (and what kind of strings) how strong you need the neck to be. You want the neck to make a little up bow when it is strung up.
I mostly make my necks this way (2 or 3 piece), it is easy to shape and you can have a nice decorative strip down the neck using different colors of veneer or thin boards.
In this case i did not have any choice because the boards from the pallet is flat sawn and this way the neck blank became quarter sawn.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you also!
Awesome so far! Is part 3 coming?
Thank you! I'll soon start on the finish. So it won't be long......:)
@@AndersWestfall Cant wait!
Any musical instrument is about as better as possible sound, thus the best luthiers spent their lives searching for materials, forms and technics to give musicians the best instruments they could. To me, building a guitar from scrap, is an insult to those masters. Is it all about making the next UA-cam video? More subscribers? Realy?
Hi there. Thank you for your comment.
I will say this is a homage to the luthiers techniques, skills and tools.
Most luthiers would say that the Choice of wood is not the most important, but it is about what you do with it.
As i mentioned in the video series, there is plenty of good reasons to use traditional tonewood.
It is easier to work with, more stable, much prettier and there is more reliability what kind of sound you get.
But i welcome your opinion and think it is an interesting discussion.😊
It's about story telling and finding out the story this wood has to tell. Maybe it's a bit ragged and has seen better days. But it's true to itself. I love it!