In this episode of DIY Guitar Making: Can you use Teak as an instrument wood? Standard angle or alternate angles for jackplanes? How does Katalox compare to Rosewood for guitar necks?
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Q&A – Teak tonewood, Jackplane Angles and Katalox necks
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Easy Soundboard Split Repair
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Keeping a Luthier’s Notebook
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Creating a Custom Bridge Clamp
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Building a Guitar in 8 Days – A Recap of the 2018 Workshops
A recap of all the 2018 Acoustic Guitar Building Workshops at Eric Schaefer Guitars! Building a Guitar in 8 Days – A Recap of the 2018 Workshops from Eric Schaefer on Vimeo. Want more of this? Subscribe below for Weekly…
Guitarmaking Q&A for October 2018
Today’s topics include: bending florentine cutaways, sourcing guitar plans, creating headstock inlays, deciding the dimensions of a mortise and tenon, installing fretboard inlays on a finished guitar, radiusing fretwire, and radiusing the soundbox. Want more of this? Subscribe below for…
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