Steve's Guitar Making Part 1 - Materials

[1996PhYcOmExIcAn]

omm how much it costed u all togher

[miserablerottensmurf]

Great video steve. You should be a teacher. I have never learned so much in such a short space of time. I actually feel quite confident I could build an acoustic now If I had access to a shop. I Think I will. Canadian Guitars are the best btw. Cheers

[Bertziethegreat]

Where do you buy your woods?

[GameLevelEditor]

This trade appeals to me. I been a moldmaker since I was 20 and did some odd carpentry jobs till now in my 40s. As a second career I was just thinking of repair work mostly involving setup, fret work, misc electronics. Making a guitar now that is much more involving! Job satisfaction over money is more appealing in the balance of things for me anyhow. It all works out.

[tracorslow]

Hey Steve, thanks a tonne, I may think about this as a hobbie, pretty detailed!

[oochicooch]

Hi Steve, just watched all your videos and thought they were great. Such detail. Please can you tell me if the neck is simply bolted on or is it glued as well ? Also how do you shape and polish the bone for the nut. Also how do you determine the string spacings. I have not yet started to build a guitar but as a keen woodworker your clear and precise instructions have led me to believe that i can do it. Thankyou for taking the time to pass on your knowledge to so many people around the world.

[richard025749]

Very Patient man. Very nice to share all his knowledege for the making of such a beautiful instrument. Thank you for sharing.

[united4life7]

He sounds like Elmo.

[musicalmoses]

I have watched the whole series. Wonderfully informative!!! Thank you!!

[juancillo2000]

what guitar music piece sounds on the video?

[max7164]

Evocacion from Jose Luis Merlin

[sillykidssong]

is rosewood still the top choice for fretboard?

[BlackJack2088]

I believe it is both rosewood and maple now. not 100% sure

[Wallrunner1992]

Rosewood is standard, Ebony is also a popular choice.

[CooleyCoolenson]

i wouldnt say the top choice, but definitely the most common

[IDR2k]

Hey, may i ask what song is playing in the background? its beautiful

and great video by the way, do you build electrics too?

[andrew12095]

Evocacion- eric cabalo

[chboswell]

Steve, I'm in the middle of my first build -- a from scratch electric. I watched all your videos, and I have to say (and you've heard it before), probably the best collected set of vids out there on this. Great job. My advice to you, re-do them (even better!), get professionally edited, and self publish and put out on Amazon. You're a natural. The Norm of Luthier. Thanks for the master class.

[JimmyPageWannaBe]

How much will this all cost, and could I get it all together in some sort of kit or something?

Will I be able to make a guitar using the tools found in an ordinary high school shop?

[HutchisonGuitars]

Steve, that looks like a McPherson guitar you have hanging on the wall behind you. Do you make your bracing on the inside like McPherson's? I took a tour at their factory in Sparta, Wisconsin last summer and John Mayes works there.

[bobloblaw1701]

That guitar was a grand experiment (that turned out rather well). There are some more details on it on my old guitar web site. Do a goolge search for "steve dickie guitars" and check out the gallery for pics.

[HutchisonGuitars]

Steve, thanks for posting these sets of videos. They are an inspiration.

God bless

[pantherpawed]

Hey - thanks for a great video on guitar making - a lifelong dream.

[3inatreemusic]

this really is a great tutorial steve. very helpful. well done. i was wondering whether building guitars in warmer climates could effect the wood. eg 32 degrees celcius and very humid, would effect the wood and the sound? keep up the good work man!

[DeepzThinker]

the key to great woodworking of any sort.. is for the wood to equalize in humidity to the enviornment it will spend its life in. instruments built in a dry area will suffer in a humid area.. instruments built in a humid area will possibly buckle and crack in a dry area.

Does this help any?

[amallgib]

I don't build guitars (i just break 'em) but i LOVE videos like this. 5 stars!

[blowitaly2]

thanks steve!you are great and your video is so helpful!!i'm from italy and im entering (also thanks to you!)into this magic universe of guitar building

greetings from italy!

[buhulutz]

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

[bobloblaw1701]

The thickness of guitar plates is an age old discussion full of differing opinions, methods and theorys. If you're using spruce for the soundboard, try 0.125". Backs are thinner such as 0.100". Sides are thinner still at around 0.085". I'm talking steel string guitars here, tops and backs are around 0.020 thinner for a classical.

Having said all that, lots of builders out there would have a different opinion. My suggestion is always to try it and refine.

Steve

[laripsspiral]

This kind of vids are what makes youtube great!

Thank you!

[fjsm33]

Thanks for posting these videos Steve. I've been thinking a great deal about a career building guitars recently and have been looking for a course, but in Central Scotland they're not easy to find! these vids could be my first step!

[bobloblaw1701]

Thanks. A great book is "Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology". It was certainly my primary reference for my first few guitars.

[robogat]

All these video are very intersting fro anybody would attempt to mak a guitar.

My only comment is about the difficuolt to find the sequence of the video, it is quite hard with my poor knowledge of youtube functions.

Can you please give me some hint for this purpose? Otherwise, is there on the web a site where the video are available with easy to access sequence?

Thank you very much

Roberto

[bobloblaw1701]

You are right. Because YouTube doesn't show the whole name, the Part information is cut off when you display all the videos on my channel. I'll try and go through and rename them all this weekend so they show up in order. Thanks for the the comment.

[gilbertlufc]

Thanks for these videos Steve. A really useful set. I just embarked on building a StewMac kit guitar so and I've watched all of your videos and the task seems a lot less daunting now. Can't wait to build my first "from scratch" dreadnought using the tips and tricks in these vids. Do you work from blueprints for various types of guitar?

[bobloblaw1701]

I built one of the StewMac kits for a friend who started it and couldn't get around to finishing it. It was an interesting build and the guitar turned out fine. My personal feeling is that the kit doesn't really save much effort, but it's designed well. Have fun! I highly recommend William Cumpiano's "Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology"

[dragoons889]

can u make an electric guitaar

[bobloblaw1701]

I haven't tried that yet.

[albertaboyz]

Steve,

Thank you so much for this series. I haven't finished watching all of them but the half dozen I have seen so far are just excellent. The best on YouTube.

[hgfkjybvtfrvjuytbgjv]

Is he James May's secret son?! :-)

[snakesonaplayne6]

lol, he must make guitars very slowly.

[gtrmusic69]

If it wasn't for that background music this video would be very watchable.

[bobloblaw1701]

Ya, I know. It was the first one I did and I've lost the original video without the music in it. On later videos, I dumped background music altogether and substituted noisy power tools ;-)

[misterzen]

Hi steve

I think your video serie is very interesting and generous in terms of useful and fonctionnal informations. Very detailed and visual......