Bronze Resonator Guitar Build | Ep2 | Body construction & new CNC tech
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2023
- Building Mr Paul Welten's Bronze Resonator Guitar. This episode we shape some backs and finish construction on the resonator body. Then we jump head first into the deep end of CNC machining. #luthier #luthierlife #resonatorguitar #guitarbuilding #guitar #guitarbuild #guitar
What a great present. It was good to see your family helping you. Onwards and upwards for 2024
Man! That Body on Paul's guitar is looking great. I really enjoy watching your resonator builds , I'm trying to learn all I can as I am starting my own build. Thank you so much for s sharing this.
Thanks Chuck. Hopefully you've seen the latest video, I talk about your adventures and several other people's efforts in that one. Looking forward to seeing your progress.
Great work 😊
Exciting!
Dear James, what a family - great present - great work - the reso is puurfect the way you have it! Happy new year! Can’t wait to have it in the hand.
Mr Paul Welten
Happy new year ! How cool your kids got you a cnc machine, well done family :)
Your progress is impressive. Sooner or later you will find electroplating equipment around you....
Two note on soldering: as you use large metal objects during the process you are having a solid heat sink either: you are heating them too, instead of concentrating the heat to the joint only. It can be a plus to you, but can be negative either.
The other thing is to thinking on some kind of "solder mask", eg. a lacquer layer, which cannot be covered by the solder. You can minimize your material usage.
Another one: there are solder pastes too. They can be used for some area better than the usual solid wire medium.
Thanks for the tips. I'm very interested in the solder mask idea. It's very difficult to clean the excess solder off the inside when I solder the top on. I probably won't get into the electroplating equipment, too many chemicals and where I live that would be frowned upon.
Putting the curves in the back will stiffen it more than a flat back so giving a better stability for the bead rolling
That makes perfect sense. It's funny, I usually ask myself why things are the way they are but on that one I guess I was just focused on getting it done and didn't even think to ask myself why that order of operations was correct.
Congratulations on getting a CNC machine! This is on my horizon (I hope), as well.
Thanks. Everyday I think of a new use for the CNC, I can't wait to be good at it.
It's the "good at it" part that makes me most hesitant. So many years as a software engineer, and a computer driven thing has me mildly nervous.
Great job on those backs. Where you are raising the lows by hand with a dolly and hammer, I find a slapper much more forgiving than a hammer, I have some quite flexible ones which don't leave marks.
I totally agree on the slapper. It's the next evolution in my tools. I set aside an old file to make one, but I have also seen wooden slapper spoons with leather on them which might be even better for my application. Thanks for the tip.
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I too have a leather covered wooden one, which of course doesn't leave marks, but I find it not as fast as a metal slapper, which I guess is stretching the metal where the metal is "on the dolly". I often work with aluminium and prefer my very flexible one made from a 2 inch wide 2mm thick strip of gauge plate, which is bent into a gentle curve (to give hand clearance and a smaller hit spot). You are producing some beautiful guitars, which I am in awe of. Bravo.
It all looks really fantastic so far.
You are so lucky to have 3 techy kids to help you with this cnc stuff! I would never figure that stuff out!
The progress you have made is really impressive, so keep on keeping on.
Thanks Rod. This would be really slow going without the kids helping me... very lucky indeed.
@@Ninety2guits I mean, a three person tech support team? I bet not even National has that!
I was pretty excited about how great the solder joints looked on this one and how beautiful the backs turned out. And then the new CNC. WOW! That was really great of your kids! What brand is that CNC?
It's a Fireball Meteor, which means nothing to me I guess. I'm figuring out it's not so much the brand of the machine that's important, it's more the CNC controller and software that makes a big difference. I forget the brand of the controller though. Let me know if you need anything cut, I could use the practice.
The backs look fantastic, beautiful job! Congratulations, the cnc will be so handy at speeding some processes up, especially tedious stuff, leaving you with more fun productive time. Happy New Year!
Thanks. I'm hoping it will be like having two of me around here. I was doing other things yesterday while it was busy cutting those neck templates, I'm starting to see some real potential with this machine.
Use the theory of relativity. You know, the theory that a younger relative can tell you how to use it.
Hahahahaha! That's a good one.