Just finished watching your build the other night. You have inspired me. I have all the handtools to do what you've already done. I've been complaining over tools i dont have, power type tools. You have proven it can be done. Thanks for the kick in the pants so to speak.

@@Riffme81 Thank you, I'm honoured. I used to put off building because I wasn't able to use a router in the apartment storage room that I called a workshop. Then I discovered Paul Sellers and router planes and my whole outlook changed! Today I could use a router, or other power tools, but I still choose not to. Go for it!

@@rauschguitars Thanks mate. I too am a Paul Sellers fan. Have learnt heaps from his videos and blogs. I noticed while watching your videos elements from the man also. Any more videos coming from you in the future?

​@@Riffme81 Definitely! My current build ran into some issues during the finishing stage, but I'll be able to assemble it and finish the edit in a few weeks.

I'm happy you like it and I'm sure I will like the one you're making as well. God bless.

Well, let me know when you're ready. When I'm still building at the time, we may give it a try. ;-)

Dear Gabi, Thank you for the reply back to me. I am not sure if I am spelling, Gabby correctly, I am not trying to mess up your name, I promise. I am definitely not trying to do that. Thank you for saying that maybe one day you might consider making me a guitar when I am ready, and that you would see how it goes. I appreciate that you would even consider it because I know that you are very busy, I am ecstatic! Dr. guitar maker that is my nickname for you only because I admire you; I think that you are a great guitar maker, I think that you have a great spirit and a great heart! Sincerely, Raymond Velasquez

@@raymondvelasques6330 Well, if/when you are ready, you may use my Instagram for contact. Cheers, Gabi

Hi Jeff, bocote belongs to the family of walnuts, that's why it is steam bendable. Cheers.

@@GabiM3112 Hi Gabriel, my next two guitars I build I want to using black walnut one as a dreadnought and the other with a cutaway using Englewood spruce for top. I got a real pretty sound on my first build with mahogany back and sides. I don't know how to send you pictures and can't wait to build again. 🙂

Err that video was before the finger, so it hasn‘t healed yet. Actually today some dead parts dropped off. Well, only time will tell…

@@GabiM3112 Ouch, sorry to hear that. Look into moist wound therapy it works.

I'm making the guitar for Gabi. I put a short video up, You can see how it will look. I'm sure it will be a fine instrument to play, hopefully.

I use two old iphone ses.

Cool, isn't it? ;-)

Thanks, but if I ever were going to write a book, it most likely would be about preparing lessons and correcting papaers for school more effectively and economically, (so that you have time for guitar building and other wood working.) ;-)

Well, some say that the back and sides don't contribute too much to the tone. Whe I remember correctly there have been experiments with cardboard backs and sides to emphasize that, but I may be wrong. Chris Alvarado (Driftwood Guitars) compares the sound of a guitar to a meal. He describes the back and sides as "spices" to the overall sound. I find that explanation quite fitting, even though it's not scientific. Of course there is material out there showing the frequency responses of woods and that may give an idea in which direction the overall sound will be going. I have no further knowledge about the science and to me that doesn't matter too much, since I build from materials that aren't normally traditionally used for bodies or tops on acoustics. I have even combined woods for backs and sides, making guitars half this wood and half that wood, to see what it sounds like. As I said in a previous video, no two guitars I make sound the same but I think there is not a single one that doesn't sound good to my ears. As for making the neck and bridge plate, they all turn out in a different way, since each is hand built and the necks are supposed to feel good to my hand and the bridge plates must fit the place where the bridge goes nicely. I have tried different neck profiles and when somebody wants to buy a guitar of mine, I'll have them play the different profiles (I have flatter and rounder ones) and they decide what they want. I'm afraid that's all I can say.

It has a very small contact plate, which means the domes don't matter too much. It has a copying ring and a spacer below where it touches the sides of the guitar, so that there is always the same distance. It's this one: www.amazon.de/Makita-3709-Kachel-Router-240-Volt/dp/B001JEOW7S

Hi there. It's just plain water.

Hey, there Mark. Never had any problems with it so far. I glue the fretboard on but that's that. Maybe I will add a tenon to some future guitars... we will see.

Hi, there. The heel is cut at an angle, of course, you can see that from 17:49. Cheers.

@@GabiM3112 thanks I obviously missed that bit 🙂

Hi there, Doug. That's just plain wood glue. :-)

Sorry, this one's gone. I built it for another builder in the GGBO.

Well, that's just the cutoff from the other half. But sometimes I put in a thin strip of wood in between the mold and the sides to protect the mold from being sawn into. But with this mold I have alread sawn into, so it doesn't matter. ;-)

@@GabiM3112 thank you very much . . I'm a novice builder and am very much trying to learn from you, your videos are so inspiring

Hey, keep going and share your progress. Let us see what you're doing.

Hi there Rick, it has been a tradition for 11 years. This will be the twelth but since I still cannot play due to my tablesaw accident it might be tight this year... but we'll see.

They are fibreglass. For the new go-bar deck I'm using sticks that are used to hold plants. They are 8mm in diameter and come 1000mm long. I cut them to the desired length and put rubber caps on them.

@@GabiM3112 Thank you very much! That is helpful. I will look at the plant sticks as well.

No, I haven't. What's that? Ah, Just checked it. That's funny.