I am only at 14+ minutes and as an experienced builder, this is the best bracing tutorial I have seen
@sambow4u
2 жыл бұрын
An Ole Cabinet builder taught me a trick about Glue squeeze out several years back , that works great ! You can take a simple drinking straw with either open end against the corner of your piece and run it along the corner to " scoop" up the squeeze out ! it will conform to the square corner and a simple wipe of a rag after words and your corner is clean ! Afterwards a mash and pull with your fingers and your straw has been cleaned out for reuse over and over! cutting a small angle on the end of the straw works even better !
@HBSuccess
7 жыл бұрын
Pressing in the middle of the brace while sanding on the dish will get you a thinner brace but not a radiussed brace. Hold by the ends only and sand till the middle touches
@watchnlearn2731
2 жыл бұрын
Eric you talk about working with sharp chisels. But wow that is one dull chisel
@electricwally
7 жыл бұрын
Eric, this was a well documented video! It answered a lot of my questions! Thank you very much for your patience and time!
@gannonnathan7058
3 жыл бұрын
i know Im randomly asking but does someone know of a way to get back into an Instagram account..? I somehow lost the login password. I love any assistance you can give me!
@kysonpablo6733
3 жыл бұрын
@Gannon Nathan instablaster ;)
@gannonnathan7058
3 жыл бұрын
@Kyson Pablo Thanks so much for your reply. I found the site through google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@gannonnathan7058
3 жыл бұрын
@Kyson Pablo it did the trick and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy:D Thank you so much, you saved my account!
@kysonpablo6733
3 жыл бұрын
@Gannon Nathan glad I could help :)
@marcuscicero9587
4 жыл бұрын
this guy has an excellent eye for freehand parallel lines
@walterrider9600
8 жыл бұрын
thank you and you did a good job on putting the info out .very help full to me .
@timothywatson9617
5 жыл бұрын
please don't take me wrong because you doing a very fine job and there's a lot of little detail work that you're not explaining which you probably don't have time but it comes with experience and if me and you was together I would teach you those things that really helps toy bringing the sound of a guitar thank you baby
@ronmiller7916
4 жыл бұрын
assumptions and history. I'd love to see a luthier truly explain bracing and voicing by building a guitar body in a unique shape and then going thru the process. say a diamond shape or a clover.
@frankmormon2503
4 жыл бұрын
Instead of the double stick tape consider a bench hook with a but of cork on part to mimic the radius for the tone bars. And more cork for the bench hook end to more firmly hold the end of the brace
@charlescurrie5301
5 жыл бұрын
To save using the heating gun and the lifter, just don't use the double sided tape on the ends that are to be sculptured. The rest of the length should hold solid enough
@gbye007
2 жыл бұрын
Great instruction video. Why don't you radius the underside of the bridge plate?
@timothywatson9617
5 жыл бұрын
there is so much that I could help you with with your guitar building and I wished I could I hope that I haven't insulted you in any kind of way but truly I have built them for years and have developed and have my own meal ideas that really might not get tar stand out in sound so much better but you was doing a very fine job thank you for letting me watch
@brianstai8239
5 жыл бұрын
Very Helpful!
@timothywatson9617
5 жыл бұрын
A chisel with the upward Piper to it would work so much better for carving your braces on your top
@timothywatson9617
5 жыл бұрын
I am 57 years old I have built guitars all my life and during that time I developed my own x brakes pattern which makes my guitar sound so much better which I will not reveal but it looks like that you're doing a fine job there and there's lots of little things that they can be done that makes a guitar sound a lot better I will not reveal because that's my way of doing in my my secrets but keep up the good work
@sunavila
5 жыл бұрын
HI Timothy. What is the x brakes pattern that you use? Also, what little things could be done to make the guitar sound a lot better?
@timothywatson9617
5 жыл бұрын
@@sunavila sorry but hard to explain .most of it would have to be shown .tone tapping for one thing but then again you have to know what to listen for witch takes a good ear
@singingflowers3418
2 жыл бұрын
Super!!!
@MrMcsbr
Жыл бұрын
Save your coasters they make good sanding drums.
@karffiol
4 жыл бұрын
why dont you put radius to bridge plate as well? doesnt it defeat a purpose of top radius?
@nathanbarnette1162
2 жыл бұрын
I noticed that you didn’t radius the bridge plate. Is that to keep a more flat area where the bridge will be mounted?
@embwee
5 жыл бұрын
Great video and instruction --curious as to why the four short flat side braces below the sound hole don't reach all the way to the edge of the guitar top? unless they are (mostly) to prevent soundboard cracking.
@EricSchaeferGuitars
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! This is a great question and I'll try to answer it in a simple way... We'll see if I succeed... They do mitigate splitting in those areas, but that's not the real reason they are there. If that was the only concern, a graft would work better than a brace. The finger braces and the tone bars are not structural. If you built a guitar without them, that guitar would still hold up over time. These braces harmonically couple what would otherwise be unstiff areas of the soundboard. Think of it this way: if you look at the bracing pattern as a whole you will notice that there aren't any large unbraced or thinly braced areas. If the top is braced in such a way that it is uniformly stiff in all areas of the lower bout without being too stiff overall, well then that top can move with good monopole action, especially if the perimeter is less stiff than the interior of the bout. This essentially means the whole bout, more or less, can "pump" as a single unit, which is generally desirable for the things you want in an acoustic guitar. Whereas if you were to remove those braces, yes the top would be less stiff overall, but it would lose significant monopole response and have far more cross dipole and long dipole response instead. Essentially, the stiffly braced areas (like the center of the x and the perimeter at the x brace arms) would be de-coupled from the unbraced areas allowing the top to move in a less uniform way. The more uniform the pumping action is, the better the pump, and the acoustic guitar is nothing but an air pump.
@wangwang5722
3 жыл бұрын
@@EricSchaeferGuitars clear and great answers. big thumb!
@akfisher7138
3 жыл бұрын
why not drill holes in the braces?
@stevetool7023
6 жыл бұрын
An excellent video, chock-full of information. One thing: I don't get how the tone bars affect tone. Why are some parallel, and some converge toward the rim or toward the x-brace?
@wangwang5722
3 жыл бұрын
why the upper bout brace doesn't share a radius?
@dassouki
4 жыл бұрын
I hav watched the video a few times. I love it. At about the 33:10 mark you mention that the clamp will pull everything towards the sound hole. Can you explain why that is as I didn't quite understand. Thanks
@walterperry4565
6 жыл бұрын
Sharpen chisel 😁
@MA-uy5vz
3 жыл бұрын
I’m a little confused on the sequencing here. Is the fretboard graft radiused against the dish but the transverse brace is glued against a flat surface? Or are they both glued against a flat surface?
@markhusbands2037
4 жыл бұрын
What is the purpose of the asymmetry of the lower bout braces/tone bars?
@alexiskruljac9201
5 жыл бұрын
I am using a book outlining how to build a dreadnought model (its written by John Kinkead), but he does not specify the radius he uses... he actually uses an alternative method but I definitely prefer yours. If his plans do not specify a radius for the soundboard and back, is it okay to use the same radius as you do in this video? Or does the radius typically depend on the model?
@EricSchaeferGuitars
5 жыл бұрын
The radii of the plates, in my opinion, is very adaptable. There is likely no structural reason you cannot use a different set of radii than a set of plans calls for. Technically, the amount of radius that you give to the plates changes the structural requirements of the braces, but plans tend to have far oversized dimensions anyway so changing the radius won't make or break anything, as long as there is a radius. I play around with different radii all the time.
@alexiskruljac9201
5 жыл бұрын
@@EricSchaeferGuitars Great!! Thank you so much for the reply!
@dontsubscribeme9547
4 жыл бұрын
1:06:40 then why you drilled the hole in dead center in transverse bar..😕😕
@MOHANMSHARMA
Жыл бұрын
45 mins are ok for gluing with titebond ?
@singinganewsong7662
4 жыл бұрын
Sir How to take the measurement and mapping please explain me
@cornbobrimlove7892
6 жыл бұрын
Dale Jr. builds guitars.....hahahaha
@singinganewsong7662
4 жыл бұрын
Hello Sir how to make my own acoustic guitar step by step, and what things(tools) I need to beginning start making it can you explain me
@MyHouseOnTheMoon
4 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@short6691
5 жыл бұрын
Very informative! How many cam clamps do you routinely use? What span (distance from metal bar to tip of jaw)? I have just built 8 clamps that can span about 4.5” and open up 5.5”. Looks like your clamps can span 8-9” or so. I will be building ukuleles but may build a guitar some day...
@EricSchaeferGuitars
5 жыл бұрын
I have cam clamps that span 4.5" and deeper reach ones that span 8.5". They all open to about 8 or 9 inches. With ukes I would imagine that you would not need the deep reach ones, although having one or two for special situations is always a good idea. If I'm only building one guitar at a time, I would at most be using about 20 -30 clamps (specifically for attaching the plates). If that sounds like a lot of clamps (and it is) then you can always go the route of building a go bar deck for gluing braces and the plates.
@short6691
5 жыл бұрын
Many thanks! I will go ahead and make 4 deep reach clamps. The go-bar deck looks a good bit faster for glueing braces. I will have to balance tooling expense and storage with ease of use for this hobby.
@RickDeevey
5 жыл бұрын
Is the bridge plate caul radiused? Is there any benefit to doing that?
@EricSchaeferGuitars
5 жыл бұрын
No. Not really. The bridge plate should be thin enough to readily flex to match the radius of the top anyway. If, for some reason, your bridge plate is too rigid to flex under clamping pressure, you might consider it. I experiment with a lot of different materials for the bridge plate and I can think of a few times where I have radiused the bridge plate. But even when I did, I never felt like it was a very critical decision. I think either way, the bridge plate is going to flex to make up the difference under clamping pressure.
@EricSchaeferGuitars
5 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming, by the way, that you didn't mean to say "bridge plate caul" and that you just meant "bridge plate". If you did mean to "caul", then I'm not really sure why you would ask that
@RickDeevey
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, I did mean to say caul. That way, it would flex the plate against the top, matching the radius when gluing it in place.
@wangwang5722
3 жыл бұрын
@@RickDeevey you can simply glue the plate first then the X brace as cumpiano book suggested.
@schctrg
6 жыл бұрын
Question, with the radius of the braces why do you want to glue a pin plate that is flat? wouldn't that counter pull the braces. Working on my second build and trying to understand why not radius the pinplate?. Also when you glue the bridge do you radius it to the top? How do you prevent gaps from underneath the pin plate if your hand sanding? Thanks in advance for your expertise!
@EricSchaeferGuitars
6 жыл бұрын
The bridge plate is really a graft. It is thin enough to not counter the braces. Rather the curve of the soundboard will pull the bridge plate to conform. There is no need to radius it. The bridge IS radiused to fit the top. Essentially, sandpaper is placed on the top and it is sanded in place. Theres more to it. I cover it more in the "Locating and Gluing the Bridge" video lesson in the online course. But you gotta buy the online course for that and the other 61 video lessons: www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/ I hope that helps!
@juliantaylor7663
4 жыл бұрын
Great video as always Is there a reason you leave the clamps on for a short amount of time?
@EricSchaeferGuitars
4 жыл бұрын
You can always leave the clamps in longer. It never hurts. I just came back from my 2 week honeymoon and I left something clamped up just because. 45 minutes is really just a good minimum clamp up time. I always make sure I wait atleast that long before removing the clamps, atleast for bracing. Large surfaces and glue joints that are subjected to some kind of tension or pressure require a longer minimum clamping time.
@juliantaylor7663
4 жыл бұрын
Eric Schaefer Cool Thanks Hope you had a great honeymoon
@jeffreydouglas351
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the videos Eric. I want to put a sinker mahogany top on my Guild jumbo jr and I want to maximize the bass response since it's a smaller guitar with a short scale. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you
@EricSchaeferGuitars
7 жыл бұрын
Sorry Jeffrey but this would take me an hour to answer appropriately, and it would still be difficult to say that it applies specifically to your situation... But with that disclaimer in mind... Here are some generalities: first of all, a small bodied instrument doesn't mean that the guitar will have a poor bass response, but still some things you can do... smaller soundhole = more bass response flatter radius = more bass response (radius the braces and the rims to 40')
@jeffreydouglas351
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks! That helps.
@totzenarciso4062
5 жыл бұрын
Is it required for the x brace and tone bar to have a radius?
@EricSchaeferGuitars
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, if you want the instrument to maintain well and not split and buckle from tension. If you have no arch at all to the plates, then the structure of the braces does not resist warping in front of and behind the bridge. Also the top and back split along the grain lines as tension, and humdity and temperature changes cause wood movement. I guess you could get around having a radius by massively overbuilding the braces so that it doesn't need the structure that doming affords. However, you would still be susceptible to splits from wood movement, so it's far from ideal or even an acceptable compromise. Yeah, I just would find a way to get them radiused. If you don't want to spend the money on a radius dish, you can make or buy a radius gauge, stick sandpaper to that and sand the radius that way.
@yvesvb4578
4 жыл бұрын
Sharpen chisel
@franciscoherrerogonzalez6669
7 жыл бұрын
hazla maziza asi meteras menos madera, demasiadas baretas y refuerzos asi te cargas la sonoridad de la caja.que una guitarra no es almacen de maderas exagerado.
@shawncharton9416
7 жыл бұрын
Did you radius the bridge plate somewhere and I just missed it? If not why not? It seems to be placed at almost the apex of the curve of the top.
@EricSchaeferGuitars
7 жыл бұрын
Shawn Charton, I dont radius the bridge plate because the bridge plate is technically a graft, and is too thin to have the rigidity to make the soundboard comply to its radius like a brace does. the bridge plate is pulled to radius by the soundboard, which is radiused by the x braces and tone bars.
@timothywatson9617
5 жыл бұрын
Would you please give me her thoughts on what I have said to you and thank you buddy
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