DIY Guitar Making

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://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/

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
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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://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/

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
https://www.reveilleguitarproject.org/donate

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://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/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
https://www.reveilleguitarproject.org/donate

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://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/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
https://www.reveilleguitarproject.org/donate

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://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/

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
https://www.reveilleguitarproject.org/donate

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://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/  Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
https://www.reveilleguitarproject.org/donate

In 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?



🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 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://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
https://www.reveilleguitarproject.org/donate

In 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
- The 'Best Guitar Show' in Altoona, Pennsylvania, February 25th 

🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 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://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
https://www.reveilleguitarproject.org/donate

In 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

🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 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://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
https://www.reveilleguitarproject.org/donate

In 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
- difference between rosewood and walnut
- Why my saddles extend out toward the bass side

🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
🔴 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://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Register for a Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

🔴 Check out the Online Guitar Building School:
https://ericschaeferguitars.com/course-directory/

🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ 

🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig:
https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

🔴 Donate and Support US Military Special Operators through the Art of Guitar Building:
https://www.reveilleguitarproject.org/donate