Interview with a Luthier hand made classical nylon string guitars with shop tour part 1

[alexis221woodworks]

Great shop and quality work!!

[SuperOlds88]

nice looking guitar, but in reality, its not really hand made, and your saying that right on the video, takes too long, probably does, would make it way more expensive...but I wouldnt call them truly hand made, there is too much high tech machinery involved to call it hand made. Still a very nice looking product.

[scrollandkey]

would have been better if the music playing was classical guitar instead of steel string

[jakebleh]

'everything i do here i do totally by hand, now let me show you my giant sanding machine which does all the work'

[bmf3oh3]

@jakebleh the sander dosnt make the guitar and its just for ruff plaining

[017524062]

Brazilian rosewood is NOT a tone wood, that's why it's not used for guitar tops, only back and sides.

[Tanikaze2]

you have a very odd definition of tone wood, but it's generally used for topwood, true.

[oxidindigo]

really good interview, nice to see how its done. those are some beautiful guitars.

[WompaHippo]

i have a classical 60's acoustic guitar its sounds awesome

[WERTY123]

lol @ 9:51

someone likes stroking wood...

[AccioJo]

wooow it looks really hard .. i never thought about it :D love the vid!

[MeltedProphet71]

Love it. That guy is an artist.

[rubberband3456]

i want to go there

[hmmm5000]

I understand why you guys are doing this kind of vid but seriously. Give us something we can actually afford to do. How many of your viewers do you think can afford this kind of stuff. Its cool how the man does it and that it's all hand made but the common joe can't afford this.

[rockongoodpeople]

Hi - we try and mix it up - we did a full video tour of the Taylor guitar factory - check out all the parts on on channel - they make guitars at all price points - but we thought it would be cool and interesting to see how a lutherier makes them completely by hand - enjoy and rock oN!

DT

[hmmm5000]

I went to this guys website. The cheepest guitar starts @ $7000 dollars. That's right $7000.00! I'd have to take out a loan for that:( I don't care how much work goes into it. It's not worth $7000!! what a rip!

[Kaflanko]

@hmmm5000: You know... I usually don't reply to trolls like you, but here it goes: the guy makes a custom guitar by hand, it is worth more than that, IMHO.

It's not a rip off if you don't want to buy it or consider the guitar overpriced. It would be a rip off if you bought it and it was a piece of crap.

There are people willing to pay for it. I would, if I could afford it.

[hmmm5000]

Funny I give my opinion and get called a troll for it. Since you did reply I guess that makes you a troll as well. I also understand people are willing to pay for it. I said the Common Joe can't afford it. I also said what he's doing and how is cool. Did you even read my two posts. Get your shit straight before you try to be a computer bad ass chump. cheers doucher

[yanhpitan]

I agree the common joe cannot afford it and you are definately not a troll. Kaflanko is and asswipe for jis comment

[hmmm5000]

Thank you!

[riseagainsttheunion]

i wanna know how nylon strings can sound so steel like they do at the beginning of this video. o.O

[216trixie]

they can't. that's a steel string guitar they're faking classical playing on .

[WNCL987]

cool

[javier7high]

awesome video!

[JayLacelle]

actually the holy grail of tone woods is madagascar rosewood but there have been laws placed to restrict the export, and unlike brazilian rosewood it is virtually impossible to find for sale outside it's home country

[aurelianobuendia555]

hand made, brazilian rosewood may be cedar top(i like) i kill for that

[RedBloodDoom]

brings me back to my woodworking days at school

[tcrangle963]

is brazillian rosewood not protected now?

[tcrangle963]

oops... shoulda watched it all first!

[nickbaldeagle01]

Why don't they plant some more rosewood trees? Bingo. More rosewood..

[strabbs1]

i love this shit, ive been a carpenter for 23 years and would pay to work with this guy, its progression to have all this stuff automated, and makes it cheaper for us, the consumer, but its also sad that this is a dying art

[strabbs1]

love it ive been studying colassical for a year and its improved my rock, jazz blues like you wouldnt believe

[SeexyyAmbeer]

my cam is running abd i am really bored with all that stuff

[RALPH7109]

Very interesting

[zhadow7]

Sweeeet!

Can his name get any closer to Lucifer/Luther combined? lol

[Maten123]

not to mention his last name is HELLer

[zhadow7]

Oh wow

[zhadow7]

my bad he's a Luthier maker lol

[luckyjinxer]

AWESOME please PLEASE do more of these

[ibanezjem224]

wow perfect timing, i was just planning on making a nylon string.

[curbshoppin]

7 grand for a and ade gutar is not bad at all.........even a hobby guitar player could swing that if they wanted.....i have friends who have 20 grand boats and 10 grand snowmobiles and ill bet ya if you keep one of these guitars in great shape it will be worth much more someday

[UltimateDud]

they only get better with age as well. A snow mobile or boat loses almost all it's value eventually

[averageanarchist]

I wonder if those two guitars he has listed on his website are a special price.

He has probably a few thousand dollars invested in just the wood for one insturment, and he only makes 12 guitars a year. $7000.00 seems really low to me (not saying 7k is not allot of money, because it is) $10,000-12,000 is probably closer to what you would pay for one custom made from him.

[kidroach89]

He makes furniture too, at the end of the video, if you paid attention. 12 Guitars sound kinda low. I think he's just doing this as a side job, in addition to making furniture and other woodwork. :)

[Bertziethegreat]

12 guitars a year at 7k a piece is 84k a year net income. So even if he's spending 5k on wood per guitar, that's still 34k in pure profit a year. So for one guy that's a reasonable income.

[averageanarchist]

Think about that though, He gots more overhead than just wood/glue/hardware for the guitars. His time for one. But he that he still dose some furniture so I'm sure he does okay.

I still bet your paying close to 10-12k if you call him an put in an order for a custom. They look like they are worth every penny too. (And 10-12k is not outrageous for this level of Classical Guitar, check around at some of spanish Luthiers sites and you will see 15k or so is not uncommon)

[mclegg721]

@Bertziethegreat Obviously you don't live in California, maybe mississippi. Lol 34k for all that work isn't going to get you squat. I believe this luthier is in California.

[Bertziethegreat]

@mclegg721 I live in Wisconsin. :) Where the air is cleaner, the people are nicer, and the prices aren't inflated out the ass. For 34k a year, I'd be able to live quite comfortably.

[hungrysparrow]

Luthier has to be one of the coolest jobs going. I'd love to learn how to make my own guitar one day.

[Zed1967]

Awesome stuff.

This is the point where the guitar is not only a practical musical instrument but it's also a beautiful work of art.

Can't wait for part 2 :)

[Feelgood2009]

Nice video - can't wait for part 2.

[YouTabacco]

wow - beautiful

[Sick1982]

Nice, but a good tip: Give the man a chance to introduce himself and let him participate in the introduction. The guy just stands there feeling really uncomfortable :/

[chrissept21]

if you think about it people they didnt have a bigggggg sander and by hand and the hardness of that wood would take days and days to sand and when they needed a new tool they had to pay the black smith and the black smith may take days to make a tool

so this guy even has it easy

[Gregster86]

SKIILLLLLS!! nice.

[wallofjustin]

When this guy dies, his guitars will ROCKET UP! Buy them while u still can!

I live too far to buy one of those =(

[seekah1]

Lets just chat on and on about David's cap for fucks sake. As mentioned perhaps not exactly in the beginner's budget but a fascinating tour all the same. Cheers David, great work as always, on to pt 2,,,

[gab204]

nice guitars but the one played in the video is a steel string. would be nice to hear one of the luthier's

[pepeledog]

Fascinating. Takes a massive amount of patience to do that work by hand.

[redbird963]

$7,000.00 damn, Maybe someday tho

[lynleyinlondon]

Great vid! I am mostly a Brit-Rock player but I have studied Classical/Flamenco guitar in my youth. I once was allowed to play a $15,000.00 handmade classical guitar - stat's and Les Paul's cannot even come close in terms of elegance, sound quality, and playability. It may seem that I am comparing apples and oranges but in the end music is music, in whatever form it takes. I wish I could afford one of these - maybe next year.

[wiggy1988]

A brit-rock player?

Me and thee are on the same level.

[lynleyinlondon]

To: Wiggy 1988 - Are you into Brit-rocK as well? I am into all sorts of music but there is something special about the likes of Johnny Marr, Barat & Doherty, and the Fab-Four. You can have 5 minute guitar solos, I'll take a tight melodic 4-bar solo like Nowhere Man or Time For Heroes! With that said, I love Segovia and Rodrigo y Gabriel.

[ALTITUDE15]

Wow that is really impressive.

[yugoboy17]

Wow have you seen the prices on the site??

These instruments are not for beginners who usually watch videos by nexlevelguitar. But the guitars do look amazing...

[rockdfunk]

i'm just sick of his cap, I think he will stop breathing if it's not on his head 24/7

[Rage00Against]

I notice he's growing out his hair. Hm wonder what he'd look like with long hair eventually....

[mclick13]

I wonder what he would look like without a backwards black hat.

[mathnerdm]

lol yeah i dont think iv ever seen him without a hat

[tak178]

This is what YouTube was made for. Great job!

[DEFkon001]

good to see the old arts aren't completely lost yet.

[DuskY1991]

Awesome video.

[yugoboy17]

Nice to see the process.

1 question though, did this guy pay you to come and film this?

[rockongoodpeople]

No monies were exchanged at all - we dont do that. Here at NLG we try and bring cool guitar or musical stuff that we is interesting and people would like to learn about. Plus Thomas does this all old school by hand so its a real interesting story and process.

rock on!

DT

[lynleyinlondon]

I love this sort of mini-documentary. It's really interesting to see how a beautiful intrument goes from a block of wood to the finished product. Please include more vid's like this.

Cheers!

[yoyodunno]

really cool stuff and such pretty woods lol!

[eduardofver]

it must be expensive.

Brazilian Rosewood!

Thanks from Brazil

[rickyjshiznit]

it says on wikipedia its endangered and its illegal to buy/sell it

[JmJones2]

kinda, i believe there is one guy who is still allowed to cut it down, but it is all stump wood (not that that is a bad thing, the stump wood is right next to that wood that was used on vintaged D-28s etc),

as long as you can prove that the wood was harvested before it was illegal (can remember the date, look on the CITES website if you care) then there is no problem selling it and taking it into other countries (though the wood will need its own passports, so to speak).

[styrofoamtomato]

fascinating. love it!

[flyingmonkey456]

But is my comment not below yours?

[marcusmarkmus]

=O yeah it is!