Category Archives: Q & A
Q&A | Building Jigs and Forms, Fretboard Polish, Rosette Cutters
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
– tonewood suppliers
– Electric Guitar neck angles
– Rosette cutting jigs
– What material to use for molds forms and jigs
– What do you use to oil or polish up the fretboard?
🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/
Q&A | Buying or Building Side Benders, Where did EVO Gold Fretwire Go, and More!
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
– Fixing cracked sides
– Sharpening plane blades and chisels
– Buying or building a side bending machine?
– Using cactus juice to harden wood
– Bending tips for Wenge
– How much nut relief to use on a bass guitar
– Is EVO gold fretwire discontinued?
– Unboxing videos are stupid
– How much I charge for my guitars
🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/
Q&A | Side Bending Tips, Joining Bookmatched Pairs, Controlling Shop Humidity and More!
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
– Introducing my new “Florentine Cutaway and Advanced Binding/Purfling Methods” Workshop! (https://ericschaeferguitars.com/florentine-cutaway-and-advanced-binding-purfling-methods-workshop-build-options/)
– I have Wenge for sale! email me at eric@ericschaeferguitars.com
– Where to find prefab materials like bent sides and slotted fretboards
– side bending tips to avoid splits or scorching
– recommended thicknesses for bending sides
– alternate jigs to joining boards – How to control humidity in your shop
– How to control humidity in your guitar showroom
– Removing frets without a soldering iron
– Finding parts for building a side bender – Using fiberglass arrows as gobars
– Question of the week: Is there a specific tonewood that blows your socks off!?
🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/
Q&A | Fixing Finish Runs, Installing Mylar Pickguards, Making Cutaways and More!
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
– What is the best way to fix a finish drip?
– How to install a clear mylar pickguard without bubbles
– The most expensive lutherie tool yet!
– Go bar rods from home depot
– Building a cutaway as a first guitar
– Radial offset rosettes
🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/
QA | Refretting with Larger Fretwire, Buying Go Bars, Wild Grain and more!
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
– Should you use Carbon Fiber Rods and a Truss Rod?
– Making your own bulk binding strips
– wild grain versus homogenous grain
– Buying go bars
– Changing fretwire size when refretting
– Where to buy a gramil?
– Issues with small soundholes
🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 Register for a 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/
Q&A | Taptuning Tops, Tonewood Myths, Best Guitar Brands, and More!
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
– Mount Gretna Outdoor Art Show
– Favorite Guitar brands/companies
– Fret slotting saws
– Marketing your guitars
– How many pounds of pressure do go-bars produce?
– Inlaying into dark woods as opposed to light woods
– Lazy builders
– Jim Lill debunking electric guitar tonewood debate
– Neck profiling jigs do accomodate all profiles! (I got this wrong in last QA!)
– Am I going to build a 12 string?
– What notes/pitches do you listen for when taptuning?
– What is a leg tapering jig?
– What ‘YMMV’ means and why I can’t keep up with the internet
– Why nobody is watching my Refretting Masterclass video that I worked so damn hard to make!?
– Buying instruments for the aesthetic value of the wood/materials
– Johnson Paste Wax and the Everything Shortage caused by that which shall not be named!
🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/
Q&A | Sizing Fretwire, Neck Profiling Jigs, Electric Guitar Tonewood Myths and More!
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
– Do headstock templates include space for the nut?
– A jig for profiling necks with a router
– An audio example of a student’s guitar
– Choosing fretwire with the right tang size for your fret slots
– Leg tapering jigs for the bandsaw
– A case for titebond over hot hide glue
– Bevelling fret slots
– Why Strats and Les Pauls sound different
🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 Register for a 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/
Q&A | Purfling Depth, Instrument Glue Recommendations, Mold Making and More!
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR Questions!
Questions/Topics:
– hide glue vs. titebond
– fish glue
– how deep should purfling be inlaid?
– inlaying turqoise
– The “Best” Guitar show
– Using waxed wood strips like Teflon strips
– Top thickness
– french polishing and tru oil
– fastening latches to molds
– the neutral zone for a dual action truss rod
🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 Register for a 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/
Q&A | Resonating vs Reflecting Backs, Top Thickness, Scrapwood uses, and more!
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
– What do you do with your scrap wood?
– Buying pre-bent sides
– Best heating blanket for side bending – radial rosettes – thicknessing backs as a resonator or a reflector – Thicknessing tops
– Plate gluing jig
– laminated sides
– inlaying Opal for fret marker dots
– What is the purpose of a shooting board
– modifying an existing guitar to increase the bass response
– inlaying mother of pearl without teflon strips
🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/