How to build an acoustic guitar. Episode 1
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Master Luthier Chris Alvarado begins the process of build an Acoustic Guitar from scratch. In this video he discussed the instrument and begins joining the soundboard.
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I’m never going to build a guitar, but this is still fascinating just to see the tools, the effort, the complexity of the process. Oh, and the wood’s look and history is just amazing and seems so exotic to me.
Really enjoy your casual but informative presentation style too. Well done.
I appreciate that! Hope you’ll subscribe and follow along with the whole process.
In one month, I'll start my first acoustic guitar, an Ignacio Fleta (concert). I am glad to find your channel! I waiting forward to watching the next videos.
Grate explanations, detailing the possible errors is the best part! Thank you a lot for posting.
This playlist is one of the best things I've ever watched on the internet. Best regards from Brasil, my friend!
Thanks for consistently building a great video series. Just to throw my glue experiences into the ring, I have been building for 40 years now, and for years I used aliphatic resin (Titebond) as long as it was up to me. A couple of years ago a customer requested hide glue, and a luthier friend suggested we go with fish glue instead. I was doubtful at first, but I ended up loving the stuff. It is a biological-based glue but needs no heating, has no smell, and dries super hard, unlike the more elastic yellow glue I was used to. I wouldn't have believed it, but I have actually found acoustic improvements (due to its hardness, I suspect) in my guitars and other stringed instruments. It is not a massive difference, but definitely an improvement. I suggest any luthier at least try it out, especially if your customer wants a hide glue build. (just make sure they know you are using the fish glue instead, of course).
Thanks guys what an amazing gift to everyone
Jointing is creating joinable edges.
Joining is the marrying of two jointed edges with matching joints.
enthralled ! is a good word, this is a series not to be missed,
This is an exciting piece of wood. I'm interested to hear what the ebony box is going to do to the tone. I've never played an ebony guitar, so this will be a new reference for my mental library.
Just found this series and I’m very excited to watch the rest! I’m building my first guitar currently so I’m taking notes! I’m at the point on my guitar where I’m ready to add the binding. Anyway, thanks for sharing the knowledge.
A rabbit hole I didn't know I needed. Amazing project!
I've just discovered your channel. I'm really excited to follow this series. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Man, that ancient sitka is something special. I've been eyeing the sets on Alaskan specialty woods, it's so tempting to get one while they are available. Buuut I am just barely approaching the end of my first acoustic build, so maybe i better wait to start buying luxury woods. Have you built with bog oak yet? That's another lovely looking wood. Hoping to find a distributor in the states for some sets.
Thanks for posting these videos, these are really well made and you guys have really charming and fun personalities.... Oh yeah plus I guess that the guitar is pretty cool... Totally not drooling over that wood.... Not at all..... Fine I'm super jelly!
I've watched a few of your videos and enjoyed them (whether or not I'll ever build a guitar is questionable though) I think I'll enjoy the rest of this series too, so a well deserved sub from me guys!
Kinda looks like a Martin j40 shape. Neat
I'm jealous, that's a beautiful top!
Thanks for this series. Building my 3rd and 4th guitars now and so nice to see how someone with more experience does it. Beautiful work!
My pleasure!
Just wondering if you can share what info you “journal” for each guitar you build. I suspect thicknesses of top, and I think you mentioned brace shape/size.
The only rule I have with glue is, non water based glues for the neck and fretboard. Why put moisture back into something you invested time and money into getting as dry as possible
Here's the comment about hyde glue...as Jerry Rosa says, "hyde glue was the very best glue available when horse and cart was the very best mode of transportation".
Hi there. You have nice join(t)ing jig :) Im sure you love it... but what do you think about using just streched tape? I just found this today on YT and Im fascinated how primitive and functional method is that :) and for such a small glueing area it looks like streched tape makes enough pressure... Tomas
I am excited to watch this process, don't believe I'll be purchasing 3000 yr old wood to follow along though.
Really love the videos, you had me at just said “doodie”
Hi Chris….hoping you will still be able to find this.
Less expensive guitars will always have laminated sides. Will those sides be a double thickness like what you are doing now or are they single 2 to 2.5 mm thickness??? Thanks for the videos!
In the vast majority of cases, those cheaper guitars have literal plywood sides with a thin veneer of matching wood on the outside, not full thickness laminate sides like i talk about here.
Nice
I am sure you know this already, but you are planing way too high. You will get better results planing at a lower height. Ideally, you would be able to do all of your #4-#8 hand planing around waist height. That being said, I think a shooting board would be the best way to go here. I know you said your #7 is not square, but you could probably lap it square enough with a slab of granite and some sandpaper. You might even be able to send it to Lie-Nielsen to have them flatten and square it up for you. However, since it looks like you can afford Bridge City tools, I would just buy a #7 or #8 from Clifton or Veritas (or wherever you prefer) and then repurpose the Stanley as a large scrub plane.
Agreed!
Hey guys, I’m up to episode 18. Question. I’m looking at building first acoustic guitar. Does front back and sides need to be quarter sawn or does it matter? I want to use what’s best.
Yes, you definitely want quarter sawn wood. Otherwise it’ll warp and crack over time
What is the tool called that he used from Veritas? 20:00 Thank you in advance
What apron are you wearing? Thanks!
You gotta worry about silica dust w this stuff?
joining via jointing?
What model bandsaw and light is that? I can see it’s Grizzly and Laguna respectively?
It baffles me people's obsession with the age of things, EVERYTHING is at least 15 billion years years old. Different forms, that's all.
I should be practicing right now but instead I'm watching a video about a 3,000 year olo guitar..
I can make a guitar like this with the price 300 US$ with the same quality and composition, macassar ebony back side, top spruce
Can I buy one!!!
@@DriftwoodGuitars yess of coors
Yes .... yes I do, I lose my tools all
the time.
I've titebonded my butt to my chair for this build.
Please please PLEASE...... ALWAYS rest your plane on its side when you put it down!!! You risk damaging the blade when you rest it on its face!!
nice teeth
This guitar is going to be a soulless piece of shit since you have forgone hide glue.... How DARE you.
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As nouns the difference between jointing and joining
is that jointing is the act of making a joint while joining is the act or result of joining; a joint or juncture.
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What is the different between join and joint?
This is because “join” is a verb (something you do). “Joint” is an adjective (it describes the quality of something) or a noun (it's a name of a place in the body or where two things are joined together).Dec 20, 2018
So, you make the joint, then join the pieces.
Great vids. Love the artistry without the snobbery.
Question: would it be a good thing to plane/sand from both directions when making the bookmatch joint?
Thanks!
This is epic. I'm so excited to watch this entire build!
Excited to have you aboard
Really looking forward to seeing the entire build - and grateful to be a spectator - thanks for sharing this process😊👍👏👏
Good to see wood that is still usable before per-mineralisation takes it further towards fossilisation
Great series, Matt and Chris! I was fortunate to be detailed from Sitka to work with a USFS fisheries crew from Juneau for two weeks out of Naukati on Prince of Wales Island in 1983 (or 4?) north of Craig. Interesting place as young-of-year coho salmon were twice the length (80mm) compared to those of northern SE Alaska, and weight/volume varies as a cube compared to area, so those fish were much heavier. This is explained by the limestone geology of Prince of Wales vs. the granitic geology elsewhere. PoW has many limestone caves, and a lot of material preserved by the calcium carbonate, providing many ancient discoveries.
Unfortunately I am watching you from a third day in the hospital surviving a heart attack but keeping these videos on hand to follow along . I absolutely love guitars, cannot play for crap ( huge disconnection from the mind to the fingers with movement ) but I’ll do my best ! Love the videos . Keeping me entertained in these past few days . Good luck with the series !
Well I’m glad you’re still with the living my friend. You hang in there and we’ll keep the videos coming. I hope you can get home soon.
Get well soon!
@@robertbernardo783 Thank you Robert . Three stints later ( that should have been placed when the “minor blockages “ were found like 3 years ago) everything is going well so far !
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Brother, I love your videos, and am learning so much. This beats anything on Netflix! I'm sharing this with all my guitar buddies. Keep up the great work!
Hot damn! Thanks for that!
Same here. I don’t even watch tv. Chris has one of my top channels.
It helps with the jointing to avoid the first and last inch of the edge, unless it is already concave along its length. Because the plane just has a natural tendency to take more off at the beginning and end of the cut when its bed is partially unsupported. This produces a hill shape. So put some lines about a half an inch or inch in from either end, and “land” and “take off” the plane at the marks. Once you take several passes and the edge is now ever so slightly concave along its length, now scribble along the whole edge with a pencil and then take full passes with a light cut. When all that remains of your pencil is an inch of so in the middle of the board, it is dead straight. To help with holding the plane a perfect 90 degrees to the face of the boards, you could double it up again and do four edges at a time. Just make sure the grain is all lined up so you don’t get tear-out. With all this planing another essential key is that your blade is installed straight so it cuts evenly. Check and adjust this by turning the plane upside down and sighting down the sole, observe the protruding cutting edge with the blade facing you, now tilt the plane slowly so the edge disappears from view. This allows you to see if one side is a tiny bit “high.”
Fascinating - I am curious about that plate jig and why it used ropes and wedges rather than a mechanical clamp? Is it that the ropes and wedges apply both top and side pressure to the pieces? loving this thanks for doing it
You’re 100% correct.
This is so awesome. You're basically immortalizing an ancient tree. Now it's going to live on even longer.
With a voice.
Hey! Now that LMI is sadly no more, do you know what the black components are on the plate jointing jig, that clamp the lines into place are called? I'd like to build my own version of their jig, but I've never seen those black plastic bits anywhere else.
Love your videos. Looking forward to following this build. I really enjoy this kind of content. Keep it up.
That’s a perfect size. The Grand Symphony has been my favourite Taylor size for a long time now.
BTW,just build a little rest on the bottom of the window for checking light leaks. 🧐
Very excited for this series! You're already off to a great start :)
Great vid.
What happened to the finishing guitar series?
It’s coming! Multiple guitars, in multiple places of their progress.
Looks like a cool series. Looking forward to it.
🔵 so nice ❕much like sinker redwood uniqueness and rare as The Tree ❕🐸
Similar in game as The Tree, but this is just one log, and not an entire tree so it’s WAY more rare.
Loving this build already, it's going to be a great series. I build electrics but I built my first acoustic a few months back and I was surprised at how different the process is so you have my total respect, your guitars are beautiful.
Thanks a lot, we’re happy to have you along for the journey.
Wow you dropped on with that Sitka. I'm not sure but i think the Methusala tree is the oldest living tree, it's in Africa. Wow 3000 years old. This is going to be good.
Who the hell is Stanley?
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 - 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy
Now you know.
That ancient spruce its just beautiful and also a ecological source of wood
First let me say I love your videos.
I have seen some tables made using an interesting piece of wood & a "poured plastic epoxy". This got me thinking about the stripe in the center. What if you kept the edges & used the clear / coloured plastic to fill in the imperfections? I don't think strength would be an issue, but I have no idea what the musical properties would be . Of course try only a top from some "cheap wood" first. How about a video on this, building 2 tops from the same tree, one with a "plastic" seam & one without for comparison. If this works , an LED back light .... ???
Hi I’ve just started watching your Chanel few weeks ago. What caught my att. was cutting guitars in half.. At first it really pissed me off hahaa. But now I love it, and it is amazing on what their hiding. Love your show keep up great work.Also I’m learning something from a great luthier. Thanks
May I suggest that the next time you begin making a guitar on camera you begin by sounding the wood so we can hear sing. The history and look of the wood is great but I believe you will agree that great instruments come from great sounding wood so the first lesson, it seems to me, is teaching how to pick great wood by sound or at least demonstrating it. I see you have a later episode that covers it which I haven't watched yet but feel a little let down that you didn't begin at the beginning. Just discovered the channel. Lots of catching up to do.
You kinda look james franco heheheh.. love all your videos.. Luthier here from Olongapo Philippines
So... I have made a few electric guitars which I’m quite happy with and I really want to try making an acoustic. But how much harder is it to make an acoustic? I mean, I already make my own necks and set them so I that should ok (maybe) but all the wood bending, inlaying and purfling just looks crazy hard. Looking forward to following along with this build in any case.
You'd be well set with tooling and some knowledge, but in my experience, an Electric guitar is about 1/10th as hard as an acoustic. There's a TON more that goes into it, especially to make a good sounding one. But I fully recommend you give it a try! Its a TON of fun and you'll love it. Who knows, maybe you'll kill it right out of the gate!
@@DriftwoodGuitars Yeah, that’s kind of what I thought... I’ll go with the “killing it right out of the gate” option please. TBH I’ll be happy if the first one is playable and doesn’t colapse on itself.
I've always wanted to know how they get the joins on the front so good! thanks. awesome video series. I will be watching them all! I really enjoy your vids!
What a craftsman. Thanks for posting. I am enjoying these.
If a rope has a specific purpose, it's a "line".
See, Chris! This guy gets it! Hahaha
I'm half of a mind to ignore the rest of these vids until the last so that I can binge watch it all at once - but I know I won't. I'm practically quivering with anticipation to see the next and the rest. This must be (deservedly) one HUGELY expensive guitar if it costs nearly $3000 just for the top wood. I just hope the sound is as good as I can tell it's going to look. Great job so far guys.
It should sound incredible if it’s anything like the last guitar I made from this wood.
Anyone else lose their sh*t when he mentioned how much this piece of wood cost? Given 2021 I feel like I should not be surprised. Pretty soon a 2X4 from Home Depot will cost this.
amazing video, thanks for showing the process!
Love it! Except...WHY DIDNT YOU USE HIDE GLUE?!?! 😂 jk #justglueit
the practice of joining to bits of wood together is called joinery. the rolling up of some sticky icky is called jointery XD
I really thought before you started that you were going to join t like I do, I use a table jointer and have had great success with it. I’m working on guitars 6 through 8 at the moment, building has brought so much enjoyment, I am really considering trying to work it into something other than a hobby.
Mine started as a hobby, and now it’s my career! Keep at it and the rest will fall in place my friend!
Looks like a nice word I heard you top tapping on it had a good sound I’ve got a harmony that I think it’s from the 60s it has a good sound even though I think it’s so plywood
Nice job! I’m an aspiring guitar builder and have learned a lot already. Excited for the build! Keep it up!!
It is I am going use a jointer. To join the edges. Jointer is the machine. Joining is the act of putting together. So either way works. Sorta
Very nice series! You two are very good at presenting the process. It is educative but not boring. Keep going! This channel is going to grow fast. Cheers!
love the old-school way of doing it!
Had I dug up a rotten looking log like that I would probably have just burn it.
Also I watch a lot of these guitar videos some experts are saying that they think they get a better sound out of three pieces of wood than two what do you think about that
great series of videos, thank you. And to think that this top comes from the time of the trojan war...
I dont recall hearing about guitars being around in the bronze age, so what gives?
Love the videos, I can’t wait to see the finished guitar👍😁 incredible top it looks amazing
Would love to know what your personal favorite accoustic guitar is
So basically it was beginning the petrification process.
Looking forward to watching more of your videos. I just had a look at your website and the inlay work is insane!
Where can i get dimensions of the mold? Do you use cnc to cut it out?
This process is so exciting! I would love to have a guitar made out of this wood in this size. I am curious as to the cost of this guitar? Is there more wood left to make another?
How much would a red sandlewood back and guitar cost?
OMG i am german! You confused me!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you build a 3000 year old guitar isn’t it brand new?
your guitar is worth a fortune.in my country with that same price you can buy a house.
how nervous do you get using such special wood?
Why do you not use a solid piece of wood for the soundboard, but rather join two pieces together? Is there a tonal benefit? Structural?
That’s how all guitar tops are made. It’s mostly done because it’s hard to get wood wide enough to make a one piece top. It’s also done so the top has a nice uniform appearance to it due to the book matching.
I don't even want to know what you pay for that piece of wood
Damn that's a cool story to have for your acoustic. Also, I'd be getting one of those cameras archaeologists use to see large objects underground and hunt for more fallen trees in the same space
they're called geophysical surveyers, sadly they are only really good at finding changes in density and wood isn't significantly different enough to earth to reasonably find other trees.
That jig is better constructed than most guitars...