DIY Guitar Making Videos
Q&A – X-bracing, Taptuning, and Lattice Bracing
Q&A – Buffing Tru Oil, the 14th fret hump, and the best woods for side bending
Restoring an Old Craftsman Jointer
A friend gifts me a rusty old jointer! In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I remove the rust, level the the infeed and outfeed tables, level the fence, set the infeed table coplanar to the outfeed table, and clean the cutterhead.
Q&A – Backstrip Woods, Headplate Thickness, and Butt Joints
Mario’s Guitar Speaks for the First Time
Reflections – On Steel String vs. Classical Guitar Culture
Updates from Quarantine
Cost of Getting Started in Lutherie
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I break down some estimated costs for tools, jigs, parts and materials to get started in acoustic guitar making. I also talk about the cost of education in lutherie.
Getting Started as a Guitar Maker
How to get started in Lutherie! In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss things like having basic tool skills, learning to sharpen, whether or not you should build from a kit or from scratch, and whether or not you should specialize in acoustic guitars or go broad and build electrics, ukuleles etc…
Recommended books for new builders:
William Cumpiano’s “Guitarmaking: an Art and Tradition”
Alex Willis’ “Step-by-step Guitar Making”
David Russell Young’s “The Steel String Guitar: Construction and Repair”
Jim Williams’ “A Guitar Maker’s Manual”
Also recommended is a subscription to “American Lutherie” magazine: https://luth.org/journal/
and/or a subscription to “Guitarmaker” magazine: https://www.asiartisans.org/content/magazine.html
More advanced books for further refinement later on in your Lutherie journey:
Ervin Somogyi’s “The Responsive Guitar”
Ervin Somogyi’s “Making the Responsive Guitar”
🔴 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/
🔴Check out the online course: Tru Oil Finishing: A Method for Acoustic Guitar: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course/tru-oil-finishing-method-acoustic-guitar/
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