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  • In this episode of DIY Guitarmaking, I answer YOUR questions!

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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - tonewood suppliers
    - Electric Guitar neck angles
    - Rosette cutting jigs
    - What material to use for molds forms and jigs
    - What do you use to oil or polish up the fretboard?

    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - Fixing cracked sides
    - Sharpening plane blades and chisels
    - Buying or building a side bending machine?
    - Using cactus juice to harden wood
    - Bending tips for Wenge
    - How much nut relief to use on a bass guitar
    - Is EVO gold fretwire discontinued?
    - Unboxing videos are stupid
    - How much I charge for my guitars

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    🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:

    - Introducing my new "Florentine Cutaway and Advanced Binding/Purfling Methods" Workshop! (https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/florentine-cutaway-and-advanced-binding-purfling-methods-workshop-build-options/)

    - I have Wenge for sale! email me at [email protected]

    - Where to find prefab materials like bent sides and slotted fretboards
    - side bending tips to avoid splits or scorching
    - recommended thicknesses for bending sides
    - alternate jigs to joining boards
    - How to control humidity in your shop
    - How to control humidity in your guitar showroom
    - Removing frets without a soldering iron
    - Finding parts for building a side bender
    - Using fiberglass arrows as gobars
    - Question of the week: Is there a specific tonewood that blows your socks off!?


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    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - What is the best way to fix a finish drip?
    - How to install a clear mylar pickguard without bubbles
    - The most expensive lutherie tool yet!
    - Go bar rods from home depot
    - Building a cutaway as a first guitar
    - Radial offset rosettes

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    🔴 Register for an 8 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

    To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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    For information on the Hands-on Guitar Building Workshops and online guitar building courses visit:
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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - Should you use Carbon Fiber Rods and a Truss Rod?
    - Making your own bulk binding strips
    - wild grain versus homogenous grain
    - Buying go bars
    - Changing fretwire size when refretting
    - Where to buy a gramil?
    - Issues with small soundholes


    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for a 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

    To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
    www.diyguitarmaking.com

    For information on the Hands-on Guitar Building Workshops and online guitar building courses visit:
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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - Mount Gretna Outdoor Art Show
    - Favorite Guitar brands/companies
    - Fret slotting saws
    - Marketing your guitars
    - How many pounds of pressure do go-bars produce?
    - Inlaying into dark woods as opposed to light woods
    - Lazy builders
    - Jim Lill debunking electric guitar tonewood debate
    - Neck profiling jigs do accomodate all profiles! (I got this wrong in last QA!)
    - Am I going to build a 12 string?
    - What notes/pitches do you listen for when taptuning?
    - What is a leg tapering jig?
    - What 'YMMV' means and why I can't keep up with the internet
    - Why nobody is watching my Refretting Masterclass video that I worked so damn hard to make!?
    - Buying instruments for the aesthetic value of the wood/materials
    - Johnson Paste Wax and the Everything Shortage caused by that which shall not be named!

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    🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

    To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
    www.diyguitarmaking.com

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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - Do headstock templates include space for the nut?
    - A jig for profiling necks with a router
    - An audio example of a student's guitar
    - Choosing fretwire with the right tang size for your fret slots
    - Leg tapering jigs for the bandsaw
    - A case for titebond over hot hide glue
    - Bevelling fret slots
    - Why Strats and Les Pauls sound different


    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for a 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

    To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
    www.diyguitarmaking.com

    For information on the Hands-on Guitar Building Workshops and online guitar building courses visit:
    www.ericschaeferguitars.com

  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR Questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - hide glue vs. titebond
    - fish glue
    - how deep should purfling be inlaid?
    - inlaying turqoise
    - The "Best" Guitar show
    - Using waxed wood strips like Teflon strips
    - Top thickness
    - french polishing and tru oil
    - fastening latches to molds
    - the neutral zone for a dual action truss rod

    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for a 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

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    www.diyguitarmaking.com

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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:

    – What do you do with your scrap wood?

    – Buying pre-bent sides

    – Best heating blanket for side bending – radial rosettes – thicknessing backs as a resonator or a reflector – Thicknessing tops

    – Plate gluing jig

    – laminated sides

    – inlaying Opal for fret marker dots

    – What is the purpose of a shooting board

    – modifying an existing guitar to increase the bass response

    – inlaying mother of pearl without teflon strips

    All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com

    Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/

    Check out the online course “Building an OM Acoustic”: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/

    To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/ Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/



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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
    Questions/Topics:
    - Chisel Sharpening
    - source for dyed purfling strips
    - bridge wood
    - amp repair
    - mesquite for fretboards?
    - happy accidents
    - what to do with "mistakes"
    - the role of patience and focus in nut slotting technique
    - bird's eyes on silver maple
    - why does sugar maple burn so easily?



    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
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    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - Can backs be flatsawn?
    - a miter box design for cutting scarf joints
    - Best wood bindings to replace white plastic bindings
    - Best topwood for a parlor size instrument
    - using slotted or unslotted bridge pins
    - building a light box/ light box alternatives
    - the 14th fret hump
    - sourcing backstrip material
    - fixing soundboard tearout along the binding edge
    - lint free cloth in the Netherlands
    - flatsawn maple
    - The 'Best Guitar Show' in Altoona, Pennsylvania, February 25th

    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - Tasmanian Blackwood
    - Radial rosettes
    - Binding the inside of the soundhole
    - Making radius dishes
    - Paste wax for preventing glue from sticking to jigs
    - Pinless bridges
    - Box elder for guitars?
    - What is your sharpening process for chisels and planes?
    - Inexpensive Wenge
    - Avoiding lint and dust in finish
    - more on shattered saddles
    - Stewmac's customer service

    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - Soundhole Binding
    - Bone nut/saddle porosity
    - Saddle height
    - vacuum bags for laminating sides
    - solid linings
    - fixing misplaced fretboard dots
    - carbon fiber humbucker covers
    - sanding the contour of the bridge wings
    - how to deal with lint and dust in the finish
    - flat sawn lumber for sides
    - maple as a back and side wood
    - shooting boards
    - spline joints
    - difference between rosewood and walnut
    - Why my saddles extend out toward the bass side

    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
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    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

    To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Questions/Topics:
    - Soundboard cracks and humidity
    - Eastern White Cedar for Tops
    - Purfling materials for a headplate
    - How deep to cut your nut slots
    - The role of patience and perseverance in lutherie
    - more suggestions on what I should build next!

    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

    To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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    For information on the Hands-on Guitar Building Workshops and online guitar building courses visit:
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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!

    Topics/Questions:
    - Slide Guitar Nut Compensation
    - Buy a planer or a jointer first?
    - Stewmac side bending machines
    - What should me next build be?
    - Best way to store wood
    - bridge plates
    - Quilted Mahogany
    - Soundboard radius in the upper bout
    - More about "The Tree"

    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/
    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

    To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I answer YOUR questions!
    Topics/Questions:
    - Flattening the top radius in the upper bout to glue the fretboard tongue
    - Bending solid linings or laminating solid linings
    - What is the lowest fretboard radius used for acoustic guitars?
    - Bosch Colt trim routers
    - The story of "The Tree" mahogany
    - Measuring top deflection
    - Countersinking tuners
    - Stainless steel frets
    - Aluminum bridge plates

    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

    To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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  • In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I am answering YOUR questions!

    Topics include:
    - What Material Choices have made a noticeable difference, tonally?
    - An Acoustic Bridge replacement
    - When to Install Frets?
    - Adding Compensation at the Nut
    - What's the next Build?
    - Uses for the Planer
    - Buying Fretboards versus Making them yourself
    And More!

    🔴 All episodes available at diyguitarmaking.com
    🔴 Register for an 9 day Hands-On Guitar Building Workshop in Bernville, Pennsylvania: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/learn-to-build-your-own-guitar/
    🔴 Check out the online course "Building an OM Acoustic": https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/course/building-an-om-acoustic/
    🔴 To commission an instrument from Eric: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/instruments-ordering/

    🔴 Check out the Radial Rosette Maker Jig: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

    To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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    For information on the Hands-on Guitar Building Workshops and online guitar building courses visit:
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  • To find the "DIY Guitar Making" podcasts AND videos all in one place visit:
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    For information on the Hands-on Guitar Building Workshops and online guitar building courses visit:
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