Steve's Guitar Making - Part 3 - Soundboard 1 of 6

[WannaBeatle]

these videos are quite interesting and fun to watch. too bad I don't have any woodworking skills, but, I've always loved watching this stuff. The only thing I CAN do is a basic setup.

Hey Steve-with your hair longer, ya look a lot like a Canadian Dave Gilmour haha

[almostswedish]

why d you need 2 peaces of wood for the top?

[lostcowhand]

1: because it's difficult and expensive to obtain one solid piece of wood that size.

2: because only the largest and most expensive planers and surface sanders wil handle a piece of wood that large.

3: because it creates "book-matching", which he explained in the very first video of the series

[kmh196700]

does one always plane diagnal across the board and always go with the grain when sanding?????

[lostcowhand]

99% of the time, Yes

[raindanncer]

hi nice work i love it , but your clok make much more sound "noise "

hh : ) .

[msfifii]

jst found ur site on you tube lately and have been utterly impressed with ur building techniques. av a lot of learning to do but look forward to it now ive found a resource as good as this. am new to this but av learnt a lot frm ya so far and the future is out there

[guild1978]

Hi Steve, Could you use a thicknesser here?

[bobloblaw1701]

If you have a thicknesser that can handle 16 inch widths, it would work well. I know people who have thickness sanders with an open side so they can thickness the soundboard in two passes.

[miley96314]

wow!really good but u talk to much.

[jjmaclellan]

Hey Steve, I haven't watched your entire video set yet, but all the methods I've seen so far appear to from Natelson & Cumpiano's book, Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology. Is this where you learned to build? It was for me. I built my first guitar about 12 years ago, pretty much verbatim from their book. Thanks for sharing.

JJ

[bobloblaw1701]

You're absolutely correct. It's a great book and I recommend it to anyone thinking of getting into this. William tells me that he is thinking of producing a video series which should be great.

[jjmaclellan]

You know William? Excellent. Glad to hear there's possibly something modern on the horizon. I'm not knocking the book, but some of those vintage 70's photos.... As I was getting started I had the opportunity to get some face/talk time with Grit Laskin, Sergei de Jonge, Sheldon Schwartz and Mr. Lado himself, Joe Kovacic. Some were more helpful than others, but in the days of pre Youtube, talking to people in-the-know back in the days pre Youtube was second to none. Thanks again for sharing. JJ

[devourment666]

why not a jointer?

[bobloblaw1701]

A jointer leaves a series of curved cuts due the circular path of the blades. The end result is that the gluing surface is not as strong. At least that's the theory. Maybe it's just that a plane is more fun.

[vintageguitarguru]

@bobloblaw1701 Really? I have never heard that theory. I asked John Monteleone

how he joints his sound boards and he said he uses a jointer.

[crazynewf1973]

good to see someone using a hand plane. With all the noisy machinery available these days its hard to find a artist unless you count machined parts as art.

[christgarland]

Steve, this is brilliant stuff, thanks a million: a picture's worth a thousand words, and a video's got 30 frames a second... enough said.

[duey101]

Thanks Steve this is super great and very helpful to all of us!

[buhulutz]

Steve ..please tell me the sizes of the sound board and the sizes of the sides....THANK YOU

[karennerakkaren]

Wonderful. Thank you so much!!

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[longhunglow42]

Great detail.....Thanks

[manfromhale]

wow over 2000 views and only one comment? great job man. thanks for doing this series.

[ckngumbo]

This is a great series! Thanks for sharing!