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Just posted a full build video for the last mandolin batch over on YouTube. Give it a watch folks, its 25 mins long. And there should be a few woodworking tips there for some of you, and some lovely tunes all played on my work.

YouTube video on how to Glue a Cracked Top Brace With Hot Hide Glue 

Hi all, I am a newer guitar tech and after dozens of repairs this particular Simon & Patrick Luthier Cedar top SP6 acoustic dreadnought from the 90-ies with a bolt-on maple neck has been an incredible challenge. It came with a maxed out and stuck truss rod with a considerable up bow in the neck, extremely low saddle with barely any string break angle, so it needed a neck reset. Later on I figured out that it also has a pretty dras…

Fun set of clips featuring appraisals of old guitars.

Hi all. Brand new member. I’ve been building a classical guitar via kit from LMI for a couple of years now. I keep putting it off but recently became motivated to get back to it. Unfortunately LMI is out of business so I now have no one to go to to ask questions. I’m at the stage where I’m putting the sides together in the form. I followed the dimensions for the form based on the plans as I measured them, but the sides overlap pretty ba…

Just something I stumbled across on YouTube. He has also built an acoustic guitar from a 5 gallon bucket.

I just updated Fusion 360 and there are some significant changes in workflows. I kept looking for New Component and couldn’t find it anywhere. Frustrating! It is still available in the Hybrid workflow. The new workflow is split into individual Parts and Assembly’s made of those Parts. This YouTube video explains the changes very well.

YouTuber has been developing this for a while. I thought I would share it here. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X6RLN-sLtVA&pp=ygUQdGhlIG5leHQgcHJvamVjdA%3D%3D

I bought the O'brien vacuum clamp and a pump to clamp bridges on new builds, but also to use for repair work. I got tired of making custom top and bottom cauls for every odd-shaped bridge that comes in my shop. The vacuum clamp works great on a flat surface with no pick guard. I put it on a J45 with a pick guard, and it won't seal. The gasket is too hard to form over the pick guard. I've seen YouTube videos of other folks using vacu…

New Youtube video tutorial on how to thoroughly repair Martin Binding failures.

Hey folks, I put together a video showing how I measure the long, cross, and transverse frequencies on guitar top plates before thicknessing, following the Gore method. I also walk through using the calculator I built (based on Trevor Gore’s equations) to get target thickness and track density / young's modulus. Fair warning: the video’s a bit YouTube-y in tone thumbnail faces, a little energy for the algorithm, but the content is genuine…

New YouTube video documenting carbon fiber headstock repair and graining replication

Heres a link to a youtube video I just quickly put up unedited of my latest build!

[ The majority of my learning has come from the Blues Creek Guitars YouTube videos and reading books (i.e. no mentor/formal training). ] When I checked the centerline (picture with ruler is pre-adjustment), I was slightly off the perpendicular. So I removed a tiny amount from the cheek (side with the purple tape), getting that nice and flush and centerline where I want it. But now I have a .035" gap on the other side. What should I check…

This is an update to a video that I put out about 6 months ago where I gave an overview of a Squier Debut Series Stratocaster. Since then, I've been using this guitar as my main shop guitar, and this new video covers how its held up, and what upgrades I did to it since I got it. The previous video I did on this topic has been the most successful one on my YouTube channel so far, and I'm trying to regularly make videos showing some of wh…

There are two new sub forums in New Builds and Repair and Restoration called “share your content”. Got a new youtube video ? Share it there. Got a new Instagram Reel ? Share it there. Did you just cut a killer new miter and just want to share it ? Share it there. Anything you want to share that doesn’t involve a question, share it there. Speaking of which, I should probably share this there.