I just want to say I appreciate your efforts in making these videos. I'm a functional woodworker myself and a 40+ year guitarist to boot. I have too many irons in the fire to get into making guitars myself, but I understand wood and music both to some extent. So your videos hit all the marks for me. Thanks from Ontario.

19/32nds of an inch... 15mm, every day in every way, I appreciate the metric system more and more....

Thank you for the time, effort, and myriad of questions that I've asked and you answered since joining your channel. I always look forward to what you post.

Thanks for all the detail and information. I think I'm starting to understand what to look doing my first build. Thank you for sharing

A very educational video - thank you!

The plan I'm using to build my two 000 12 fret guitars was was drawn by Don McCroskey for stewmac. It's a Martin guitar copy. It shows the thinnest part of the scallops at 5/16". Which seems pretty thin to me. I carved one top so far and it sounds good to me and seems to have the right amount of flex. I haven't check it against a tone generator like you showed in a previous video but I will with the next on I carve.

Excellent video!

Here---hear.....!

Great info! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

That was great! Thanks!

Brillant

Excellent video once more !!

I have enjoyed your approach and your insights into guitar building. I have been building for about 10 years (Specimen Products in Chicago) and I am just now getting an intuitive feel as I build. I have been reading a book called "Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build", by Trevor Gore and Gerard Gilet. They write about scientific analysis usually in guitar building. (Reading their work takes me back to my college physics classes in 1980). What I like is they mirror the practice experimentation that you have done over the years. The iterative process you have done in building guitars over the years is supported by their scientific analyses! I love it when that happens in life. Like when the Buddhists figured out many things about the brain, that scientists are just showing to be true. That was harder to write than I thought it would be. Keep up the good work, someday I would love to have a beer and talk around a campfire...or assist you in a workshop...or both.

Thank You

Great video Kevin! Some really good tips on bracing. So if you wanted a little more lower end but not muddy, how would you brace for a jumbo torrified Adirondack top with Sapele back and sides? Hertz wise?

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I'm building my first guitar, an OM kit from stewmac. As the X bracing is already contoured there are large gaps in the cross-halving joint. I notice you have a reinforcing cap of a different material across the joint. I can see this will get back some of the lost stiffness. What wood is that? Great videos by the way. Thanks from San Marcos, CA.

When voicing a guitar top, what frequency range are you trying to achieve? Secondly, what are the primary methods for achieving a higher frequency? Simply reducing the bracing?

Is there any way to contact you directly to get a guitar made?

can ya share with us where ya go the mini plane with a handle on it

Show us your sharpening thing for your drill press! (stropping)

You sound like you're a fan of parabolic bracing.

Why are your tone bars opposite of most Martin style guitars?

Do you play picking with your left hand?

So say you’re assumption is wrong about not needing that finger brace how long down the road do you think it would take before you found out it wasn’t a good idea or that it was? -Asking a someone who watches you’re videos, not a Lutheir of any kind

10:05 - You give a specific frequency. How do you identify that? Even as talented as you are, I'd still guess you have to rely on some technology to get that.