DIY Guitar Making
By: Eric Schaefer
Language: en-us
Categories: Education, Leisure, Hobbies, Crafts, How To
Luthier Eric Schaefer dives deep into acoustic guitar building techniques, sharing secrets of the craft so that you can step up your lutherie game! From soundboard bracing to neck angles to fretwork, no stone is left unturned. Sometimes it is a solo show that delves into a particular topic. Sometimes it is a Q and A show featuring member's of Eric's online guitar building course. Sometimes it is an interview with another luthier, woodworker, or guitar repair tech.
Episodes
Guitar Making Q&A | Wolf Notes, Shop Humidity and Sealing Cracks
Dec 10, 2025To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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For information on the Hands-on Guitar Building Workshops and online guitar building courses visit:
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Guitarmaking Q&A | Side Bending and Adapting Guitar Plans
Nov 25, 2025To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Guitarmaking Q&A | How a Guitar's Tone Evolves Over Time
Nov 24, 2025To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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First Luthier Q&A in the New Shop Location!
Jul 28, 2025To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Harp Guitar Resto, Fretboard Polish, Top Cracks, and More!
Feb 12, 2025To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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For information on the Hands-on Guitar Building Workshops and online guitar building courses visit:
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Resawing for Lutherie and Q&A
Oct 17, 2024To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Guitarmaking Q&A | Setting up your Lutherie Shop and More!
Aug 31, 2024In this episode of DIY Guitarmaking, I answer YOUR questions!
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🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/
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Q&A Building Jigs and Forms, Fretboard Polish, Rosette Cutters
Aug 13, 2024In 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?
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🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
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Q&A | Buying or Building Side Benders, Where did EVO Gold Fretwire Go, and More!
Jun 24, 2024In 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
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Q&A |Side Bending Tips, Joining Bookmatched Pairs, Controlling Shop Humidity and More!
Jun 12, 2024In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
- Introducing my new "Florentine Cutaway and Advanced Binding/Purfling Methods" Workshop! (https://www.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...
Q&A | Fixing Finish Runs, Installing Mylar Pickguards, Making Cutaways and More!
Jun 02, 2024In 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
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QA | Refretting with Larger Fretwire, Buying Go Bars, Wild Grain and more!
May 22, 2024In 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
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Q&A | Taptuning Tops, Tonewood Myths, Best Guitar Brands, and More!
Apr 27, 2024In 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?
...
Q&A | Sizing Fretwire, Neck Profiling Jigs, Electric Guitar Tonewood Myths and More!
Apr 21, 2024In 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
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Q&A | Purfling Depth, Instrument Glue Recommendations, Mold Making and More!
Mar 22, 2024In 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
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Q&A | Resonating vs Reflecting Backs, Top Thickness, Scrapwood uses, and more!
Mar 17, 2024In 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
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Duration: 00:26:26Q&A | Chisel Sharpening, Mesquite for Fretboards, Happy Accidents and more!
Feb 21, 2024In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
- Chisel Sharpening
- source for dyed purfling strips
- bridge wood
- amp repair
- mesquite for fretboards?
- happy accidents
- what to do with "mistakes"
- the role of patience and focus in nut slotting technique
- bird's eyes on silver maple
- why does sugar maple burn so easily?
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Q&A | Scarf Joint Jig, Choosing Top Wood for a Parlor, Using Slotted or Unslotted Bridge Pins...
Feb 07, 2024In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
- Can backs be flatsawn?
- a miter box design for cutting scarf joints
- Best wood bindings to replace white plastic bindings
- Best topwood for a parlor size instrument
- using slotted or unslotted bridge pins
- building a light box/ light box alternatives
- the 14th fret hump
- sourcing backstrip material
- fixing soundboard tearout along the binding edge
- lint free cloth in the Netherlands
- flatsawn maple<...
Q&A | Radial Rosettes, Soundhole Binding, Pinless Bridges, and More!
Jan 13, 2024In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
- Tasmanian Blackwood
- Radial rosettes
- Binding the inside of the soundhole
- Making radius dishes
- Paste wax for preventing glue from sticking to jigs
- Pinless bridges
- Box elder for guitars?
- What is your sharpening process for chisels and planes?
- Inexpensive Wenge
- Avoiding lint and dust in finish
- more on shattered saddles
- Stewmac's customer service
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Q&A | Saddle Height, Lint in Finish, Why is My Saddle so long?, and More!
Jan 05, 2024In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
- Soundhole Binding
- Bone nut/saddle porosity
- Saddle height
- vacuum bags for laminating sides
- solid linings
- fixing misplaced fretboard dots
- carbon fiber humbucker covers
- sanding the contour of the bridge wings
- how to deal with lint and dust in the finish
- flat sawn lumber for sides
- maple as a back and side wood
- shooting boards
- spline joints
...
Q&A | Shrinkage Cracks in the Top, Purfling Materials, Nut Slotting and More!
Dec 16, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Questions/Topics:
- Soundboard cracks and humidity
- Eastern White Cedar for Tops
- Purfling materials for a headplate
- How deep to cut your nut slots
- The role of patience and perseverance in lutherie
- more suggestions on what I should build next!
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🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://w...
Q&A | My next build, how to store wood, planers vs. jointers, and more!
Dec 10, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Topics/Questions:
- Slide Guitar Nut Compensation
- Buy a planer or a jointer first?
- Stewmac side bending machines
- What should me next build be?
- Best way to store wood
- bridge plates
- Quilted Mahogany
- Soundboard radius in the upper bout
- More about "The Tree"
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Q&A | Aluminum Bridge Plates, Bending Solid Linings, Fretboard Radii for Acoustics, "The Tree" Mahogany, and More!
Nov 26, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
Topics/Questions:
- Flattening the top radius in the upper bout to glue the fretboard tongue
- Bending solid linings or laminating solid linings
- What is the lowest fretboard radius used for acoustic guitars?
- Bosch Colt trim routers
- The story of "The Tree" mahogany
- Measuring top deflection
- Countersinking tuners
- Stainless steel frets
- Aluminum bridge plates
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Q&A | Nut Compensation, Buying a Planer, Bridge Repairs and More
Nov 21, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I am answering YOUR questions!
Topics include:
- What Material Choices have made a noticeable difference, tonally?
- An Acoustic Bridge replacement
- When to Install Frets?
- Adding Compensation at the Nut
- What's the next Build?
- Uses for the Planer
- Buying Fretboards versus Making them yourself
And More!
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Q&A | How much Inlay is Too Much, Making a Saddle Slotting Jig, Tool Flatness and More!
Nov 06, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Woodstock Show, Gluing Frets, Automotive Finishes and More!
Oct 30, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Wood Pickguards, Learning CNC, Florentine Cutaways, and More! | Shop Talk with Robert Livingston
Oct 23, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Smelliest Woods, Haze in Finish, Best Wood and Tool Suppliers, and More!!
Oct 17, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Luthier's Mercantile is Closing!!!
Sep 12, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Using Pine for Guitar Tops, Shop Injuries, Roasted Flamed Maple and More!
Sep 10, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | How to Install Abalone Purfling
Sep 08, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | How Soundbox Depth Affects Tone
Sep 06, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Should you use Nickel Silver, Evo Gold, or Stainless Steel Frets?
Sep 04, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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040 Q&A | Hand Cut Binding Channels
Aug 28, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Lattice Bracing
Aug 21, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Will I Build Enough Guitars Before I Die?!
Aug 14, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | UV Cured Finishes
Aug 07, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Titebond vs. Hide Glue
Jul 31, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | What has the Greatest Impact on Tone?
Jul 24, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | How to Make a Radius Dish
Jul 06, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Are Flattop Guitars really Flat?
Jul 02, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | What do YOU use Scrapwood for?
Jun 29, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Why use Carbon Fiber Neck Reinforcements?
Jun 25, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Do Pickguards affect Tone?
Jun 22, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Can I Build a Guitar without a Radius Dish?
Jun 18, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Cutting All your Nut Slots with just ONE File!
Jun 15, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | How Long does it take to Build an Acoustic Guitar?
Jun 11, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Preventing 'Ghost Vibrations' from your Truss Rod
Jun 08, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Should I Finish the Inside of the Soundbox?
Jun 04, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Are Equal String Break Angles at the Nut Important?
Jun 01, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Is AAAA Engelmann Spruce Better than Grade A Sitka?
May 28, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A | Do I need to Pore Fill before Finish?
May 25, 2023To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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Q&A February 18 2022
Apr 16, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I am answering YOUR questions!
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Q&A plus A New Guitar Speaks for the First Time
Apr 12, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
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Guitar Making Q&A from February 2022
Apr 09, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I am answering YOUR questions!
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Q&A | Buffing Tru Oil, the 14th Fret Hump, Best Woods for Side Bending
Apr 05, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I am answering YOUR questions!
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Q&A | Backstrip Woods, Headplate Thickness, and Butt Joints
Apr 02, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I am answering YOUR questions!
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Q&A | Teak Tonewood, Jackplane Angles and Katalox Necks
Mar 29, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR QUESTIONS!
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Guitar Making Q&A from October 2018
Mar 26, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I am answering YOUR questions!
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Guitar Making Q&A from August 2018
Mar 22, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR QUESTIONS!
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Chisels and Planes for Luthiers
Mar 19, 2023In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, we are talking chisels and handplanes!
First I talk about what it means for a tool to be sharp and how that relates to purchasing the right type of chisels for your shop. We also talk about tool steel and how quality translates into better edge retention.
Lastly, I discuss the various handplanes a beginner guitar maker would want to collect.
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Handsaws for Luthiers
Nov 13, 2022In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, we are talking handsaws!
First I cover the difference between western saws and japanese saws.
Then I discuss razor saws, dovetail saws, carcass saws, coping saws, jeweler's saws, and more.
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Measuring and Marking Tools for Luthiers
Oct 26, 2022In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, we are talking about the tools one might use to measure and mark.
Squares, straightedges, calipers, feeler gauges, protractors, radius guages, marking gauges and the string spacing ruler.
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Clamps for Guitar Making
Mar 10, 2022In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, we are talking clamps, clamps, clamps! Cam clamps, c-clamps, spring clamps, bridge clamps and more! You are going to be sick of hearing about clamps by the end of this one.
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Buying Equipment for Guitar Making
Oct 24, 2021In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss stationary power tools and the considerations that go into purchasing them for a luthier's shop.
We cover the bandsaw, the table saw, the planer, the drum sander, industrial thickness sanders, belt sanders, disc sanders, spindle sanders, edge sanders, router table setups, the drill press and the jointer.
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Duration: 00:39:46Torrefied Wood Explained
Oct 15, 2021In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the torrefaction process, the tonal implications of torrefied wood for guitar parts such as tops, backs, and necks, and the inherent stability of torrefied wood and more.
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www.ericschaeferguitars.com
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Understanding Guitar Body Sizes
Sep 16, 2021In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the history of Martin Guitars and how their designation system for body sizes is something that guitar makers use today. I discuss the dimensional differences as well as the tonal differences that you can expect. These are the models that I discuss in detail:
00 (Grand Concert)
000 (Auditorium)
OM (Orchestra Model)
D (Dreadnought)
J (Jumbo)
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Q&A - Natural Harmonics, Reverse Kerfing, and Bevelling Side Braces
Dec 29, 2020This is a Q&A episode of DIY Guitar Making where I answer questions from the Member's Forum in the Online Guitar Building School at ericschaeferguitars.com
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Analyzing the Guitar String
Oct 28, 2020In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss all things strings: string gauges, scale lengths, hex core vs. round core, phosphor bronze, 80/20 bronze etc...
String Tension Guide:
https://www.daddario.com/globalassets/pdfs/accessories/tension_chart_13934.pdf
Compensation Calculator:
https://www.liutaiomottola.com/formulae/compensation.htm
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Duration: 00:22:42Interview with Jim Harris
Oct 26, 2020In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I have a conversation with Jim Harris of the popular woodworking youtube channel LastingBuild. Jim is a woodworker and he is getting started on his first acoustic guitar build.
Check out LastingBuild at his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Fui0XnhXKJ8inSOfOg42A
Or check out his Acoustic Guitar Build series at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAc-TSV4SAA&list=PLObh4DTL46MoVtTmD7E2urQLZcISMLrrw
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Sourcing Wood for Guitar Builds
Oct 23, 2020In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss options for sourcing acoustic guitar tonewoods from online luthier suppliers, from local hardwood suppliers, and even from the forest floor itself! (but dont' do that...)
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Fretting
Oct 22, 2020In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I cover some fret installation basics including fretboard materials, fretwire selection, hammering frets versus pressing frets, securing fret ends, dealing with chipout, and gluing in frets.
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Introduction and the Role of the Soundbox
Oct 21, 2020Episode ONE! Dun, dun dun...I introduce what we'll be doing here with DIY Guitar Making and talk a little bit about my own background.
Then we get into it with a discussion of the acoustic guitar soundbox and how that system works.
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Duration: 00:19:27