KIM WALKER 03 | Tap Tone Wood

[mojoefly]

just saw his website. 7 to 8 years waiting list. A 500 dollar non refundable deposit is to be made. hell what if hundreds of people made that deposit and the worst was to happen. lets say, you badly fractured your hands/arms or other things. I know its not a scam but It's certainly a new way of making a quick buck easy.

[kungarike]

@mojoefly Well, he builds very expensive guitars. And he has to pay for the materials, What if you custom order a guitar, then you fracture your wrist so you cant play for a few years and you want to cancel the order? Then he's left with a guitar or a half finished guitar build that nobody else might want to buy? Thats money down the drain. And a waste of rare woods.

[mojoefly]

@kungarike i suggest you read his ordering policy on his website. he will not start building your guitar. only after 8 years he will ask for 30% downpayment of $14,000. before he actually starts. $500 gets you on the waiting list.

[mojoefly]

what is the characteristics of basswood? how do you define the sound?

[jp6l6]

Extraordinary video ! I'd like to progress in guitar building with him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mxsound7]

Well now we know gibson 3798 can't build a guitar. Thanks gutarcapostarting to understand this complex subject. Please go back to kindergarten and get socialized gibson 3798.

[donepearce]

For goodness sake man. It is DAMPING, not DAMPENING.

[alvaritooooooooo]

I saw in a video that a pitchfork is used to select tone woods. Is it true? How does that work? Thanks

[koolhandvuk]

Knock... Knock... Knocking on heaven's door. 

[gibson3798]

guitarcapo - doubt you know more about guitar building than Mr. Walker...what a joke

[guitarcapo]

@gibson3798

I actually build acoustic guitars myself. I learned a long time ago from experience that the sound you get has mostly to do with things like the box volume, body dimensions, scale length, soundboard thickness, bracing pattern, soundhole size, soundboard species, bridge plate, kerfing, soundhole location, scalloping the braces....pretty much dozens of other factors that totally overwhelm what small contrbution the back and sides make. It really is barking up the wrong tree.

[guitarcapo]

A marimba has all these pieces of wood that are the same species but when you tap on them they all sound different. Pardon me while I laugh at you.

[thesanaka]

You've completely missed the point. He even says the pitch is not the important thing about tap tone. Of course marimba keys all sound at their appointed pitch - they are SIZED to do so. Pay atttention before laughing.

[guitarcapo]

No, I get the point exactly. But any species of wood can be shaped to make a certain sound. That's what guitar builders do. But to tap wood and claim it to have a specific inherent sound is the opposite of that idea. Tapping on wood before building a guitar and claiming that it it's meaningful is the biggest load of crap ever invented. Cork sniffery. A good luthier can repond to the wood's qualities and shape it . So many factors go into a guitar's sound that tapping on wood is comical.

[shipleyshipster]

@guitarcapo You have never played acoustic guitars with different woods then. There is DRASTIC differences.

[blauschuh]

@thesanaka

haha, owned

[fakename7543]

AHHHH! The lines!!!!!

[greekflatpicker]

Very interesting video.

Thank you.

[karineblues]

Thanks !

[TheUltraworld]

Great job micing this up. Really demonstrates the tones of these woods.