Eric Schaefer Guitars’ Online Guitar Building School This is a free video from the “Building an OM Acoustic” Course. Click here for more free video tutorials. Lesson Transcript: The shooting board is a jig used in conjunction with a handplane to square up stock. The workpiece rests on the upper shelf against the backstop […]
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Making a Guitar Mold
Eric Schaefer Guitars’ Online Guitar Building School This is a free video from the “Building an OM Acoustic” Course. Click here for more free video tutorials. Lesson Transcript: For this course, we are going to use an outside guitar mold. The mold is used during the side bending process and the soundbox assembly […]
Jointing the Plates
Eric Schaefer Guitars’ Online Guitar Building School This is a free video from the “Building an OM Acoustic” Course. Click here for more free video tutorials. Was this useful? I would love to hear your questions or comments! I try to answer every e-mail I receive, so please be patient with me eric@ericschaeferguitars.com Want […]
Building a Steel String Acoustic Guitar: An Overview
*This is an inside look at The May 2015 Acoustic Guitar Workshop at Eric Schaefer Guitars. The class is an 8 day intensive course in Guitar Making with a maximum of only 2 students to a class. For more information on the courses go to Guitar Making Classes. In May of 2015 Chris (left) and Jim(right) built […]
Acoustic Guitar Design: Fretboard Woods
In part I of “Acoustic Guitar Design: An Insight into the Choices Made by Luthiers” I discussed body dimensions, scale length, string spacing, fretboard radius, neck profiles, fretwire size, wood selection and bracing. It was a very superficial glimpse into a number of complex topics. So much so that it is worthy of this disclaimer: *Disclaimer: This […]
Clamps: How many is too many?
Spoiler alert. The correct answer is… You can never have too many! This is no longer a statement of opinion, but rather a statement of fact, as evidenced by this trucker hat: It is safe to say that the question of “how many clamps” is not a point of contention in the woodworking […]
Acoustic Guitar Design: An Insight into the Choices made by Luthiers
This article is intended as a basic primer into some of the acoustic, structural and aesthetic choices one must make when constructing a steel string acoustic guitar. The following includes notes on body dimensions, scale length, string spacing, fretboard radius, neck profiles, fretwire size, wood selection and bracing. Guitar players and woodworkers, amateur and professional alike, will […]
Install a “Workbench Light-box”
Functionally, A lightbox is nothing more than a translucent, backlit work surface. Ordinarily this takes the form of a wooden box which houses a light source and has one face of clear Plexiglas or acrylic. This box can be pulled out when needed and stowed away for later use. Installing a backlight directly into your regular worksurface, however, has the advantage […]