MY TOP 5 LUTHIER HACKS (grab a pen)

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@chrisosseweijer2798 Жыл бұрын

The scratchblock is new to me. Thank you !

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Let me know if you try it out!

@fdort3971 6 ай бұрын

@TomSands thanks for the lesson!

@walterrider9600 Жыл бұрын

thank you Tom

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Welcome Walter!

@acusticsix 2 ай бұрын

thanks for sharing your tips and tricks.... really like the dowel sandpaper cutter and chalk in the kerf tricks... they are all great cheers!

@marimaeabreu 8 ай бұрын

These have been super helpful!!

@chriswilliams-lilley3069 4 ай бұрын

Here’s a question for ya. Can you do a blog on how to fill a ding on a satin wood acoustic guitar (…Taylor 322ce…). Some suggestions include, thin glue mixed with chalk, or thin glue then use wire wool 000 to get the satin finish. The only other issue, it’s close to the strap button / input cable and close to binding. Mainly a cosmetic finish issue, but would make the guitar perfect once again. 🙏🏻🇬🇧📺👏

@gregorcrothers4256 Жыл бұрын

Excellent Tom! Perfect with coffee. Really appreciate your content and personality. Maybe start a video series that documents your whole build process? From wood selection to finishing? It would provide you with a clear path for your videos and allow you to segue into operational hacks. : ) I am of course just babbling and any content you provide us with is just fine.

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Hi Gregor, thank you! Yes it’s something that I’d love to do in the future, it’s quite the undertaking logistically but one day we’ll make it work.

@JScottAudio Жыл бұрын

Brilliant...thanks Tom!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Jeff

@Taylor314ce Жыл бұрын

You are so nice to share all of that. God Bless!

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! You too!

@peterjames2580 Жыл бұрын

Great tips ! Thank you!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Cheers Peter

@tonydigregorio3806 5 ай бұрын

Nicely done. I also have a tip for you. When you’re measuring depth with a calliper like you did with the block and screw, you can use the opposite side of the calliper. The very head of the calibre is also a shelf that you can measure against but it is much larger so it will register against a flat surface giving a more stable reading.

@TomSandsGuitars 5 ай бұрын

LOVE IT!!

@Tiborguitars Жыл бұрын

Great tips Tom! Will keep them in mind ❤

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@duspar1 Жыл бұрын

Excellent assortment of tips! Thanks for window into the parts of the process that can be the most troubling, and rectifying them. The semi-permanent fixing is a really great idea in particular, and the thickness/removal jig.

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

The superglue trick has so many applications

@mattclarke1838 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant tips!

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@JoseMabok 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! You’ve made this old man feel better about himself and the future by being the first wood nerd worsethan myself. Granted I don’t hang with luthiers but have done very high end cabinets and trim for 20 years. Great stuff!

@TomSandsGuitars 8 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@davidharris7431 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Tom .

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching David

@normbarrows Жыл бұрын

The plywood and screw trick is very clever - despite being of little use for electric builds. The sanding board and chalk line tricks are useful for all types of builds. The masking tape and superglue trick is so common it probably shouldn't even count. Tricks that are essentially using a fancy tool are not really tricks. Doing the same thing with a paperclip, a rubber band, and popsicle sticks (for example) - now THAT would be a trick!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Fair point!

@hjlim8993 Жыл бұрын

Great tip! Thanks!!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@michaeldailey3336 Жыл бұрын

Great tips man! You’re awesome

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Thanks brother!

@maderasbarberofficial Жыл бұрын

Great tips! 👏👏👏

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@scottdiller1893 Жыл бұрын

good ones Tom! thank you!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Welcome Scott!

@oliveragnew8415 Жыл бұрын

Tom I have found all of your tips invaluable it's certainly going to enhance a lot of things in my building thank you so much

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Very welcome Oliver!

@GarlandStringedInstruments Жыл бұрын

Great tips, Tom, thanks for sharing. Only knew one and a half of them... will definitely be using the others!

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

@Scatwav Жыл бұрын

wow, excelent tips! the last one is really a simple game changer, thank you!!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

So welcome dude

@jemari2 Жыл бұрын

GREAT Video! thanks!

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@Juanserc9 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing all this knowledge, make it available to everyone and inspire people, I hope I can someday do the same

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

You can do it!

@TheBurdenOfHope Жыл бұрын

You’re a clever cookie Tom. Your work is utterly inspiring mate.

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

🙏

@WillKillen Жыл бұрын

You're my favourite luthier ever x

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

You’re my favourite camera guy/least favourite chess opponent.

@jessegrant8666 Жыл бұрын

Thank you brother😊

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jesse

@CMRWoodworks Жыл бұрын

Great tips. Thanks for sharing with us!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Sammywhat Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Liked, Subscribed. That flat board neck sanding was worth the price of admission! Thank you, kindly!!

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

@stephenandkayleemusic Жыл бұрын

I’m currently on my second build ever. These tips are very helpful, especially the neck sanding and bridge placement. Wow

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful!

@aaronlucasguitars Жыл бұрын

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Awesome!!!!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

You’re awesome

@kurtshort7896 Жыл бұрын

These all are very helpful tips. I also have problems with pencil lines, so the chalk tip will be put to good use. Thanks!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@russparker1647 9 ай бұрын

Great tips, thanks Tom. I am working on guitar #70 and I will use these tips. Always more to learn.

@TomSandsGuitars 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Russ!

@gibbo675 Жыл бұрын

All very interesting and even more useful. I have used a similar trick to your screw method when fitting patches into steel fabrications where I would use a grinder to nick the edges of a plate to the depth that I required removing. As with your screw method once the nicks disappear the plate ought to be to size and fit into place.

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Perfect!

@jessejonescomposer Жыл бұрын

First commenter, yet again! - Thanks for the tips!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Boom!

@jeremypappenfus4662 Жыл бұрын

Great tips, the depth scratch is genius, but I don’t know if I have the guts to do it.

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

It’s surprisingly accurate!

@sobellfanatic Жыл бұрын

I don’t make guitars. So why did I find this so fascinating?!

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

Maybe you should!!

@emmsone Жыл бұрын

You mentioned in a previous video a while back about the neck-carving-sanding-board method. I think i've done 4 or 5 necks with that technique now, not sure how I ever managed without it! Also, if you need white pencils, and want a propelling pencil version, it took forever to find some but found that you can get those from dress makers. They use it for writing on material. Way better than endlessly sharpening a white pencil. I like the idea of the scalpel-chalk option for marking cut lines but it's probably not so ideal for quick marking, putting measurements on etc.

@TomSandsGuitars 11 ай бұрын

Wow! I need to find some!

@bibekbose5676 9 ай бұрын

Wow wow wow.. thankyou thankyou thankyou

@TomSandsGuitars 9 ай бұрын

Most welcome 😊

@enriquegomez7625 8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing, would be possible please to show a technique (we are sure you master? on how to build a fret board, how you transfer the positions of the frets in the wood and more important maybe, how to make a template from scratch, what tools to use materials etc, so we don't have to pay a certain company to make it for us. It would be greatly appreciated !!

@TomSandsGuitars 7 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

@NoahHormann Жыл бұрын

Dope shit.

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

They’re the kind of shits I like.

@NoahHormann Жыл бұрын

@@TomSandsGuitars I've already used the tape+CA like 100 times in one guitar build since you posted the video. + the flat board and and the chalk in the line... This video is paying dividends.

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

@@NoahHormann incredible. Thanks man

@squidwardjtentacles 10 ай бұрын

Great video. I would love to know what your most expensive mistake was in your guutar making journey?

@TomSandsGuitars 10 ай бұрын

Probably deciding to become a luthier in the first place 😉 - thankfully I’ve had nothing catastrophic, I’ve broken sets and dinged lacquer, maybe carved a neck too thin or maybe over worked a bridge but nothing that hasn’t just required time to fix.

@aaronlucasguitars Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a super in depth video about the neck to body joint…… but that probably just me.

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

How it’s made?

@aaronlucasguitars Жыл бұрын

@@TomSandsGuitars Yes Sir, the bolt on neck assembly.

@terrywright7893 Жыл бұрын

Cunning carpentry meets learned luthiery - alternative alliterations available…

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

Lol

@VictorMatsunaga Жыл бұрын

Hello Tom, one little question: When calculating where the bridge needs to be glued you basically project the distance between fret 0 (nut) to the 12th fret from the 12th fret until the bridge position, correct? On that sense, the alignment needs to be where the saddle will be or where the bridge will begin?

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

That particular jig can be used either with the saddle slot or the front of the bridge as a reference point. If you intend to use a compensated saddle I suggest using the stewmac fret calculator on their website to get accurate measurements for where your saddle needs be based on you desired scale length.

@VictorMatsunaga Жыл бұрын

@@TomSandsGuitars thank you Tom 🙏

@petermorello1051 10 ай бұрын

Great tips. Can you sort out a 50% discount on the elevate bridge jig😂

@TomSandsGuitars 10 ай бұрын

I wish!

@electricladyguitarsdevonuk1414 Жыл бұрын

Sanding & polishing transition of body to neck heel please

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

I made a whole video about neck carving

@electricladyguitarsdevonuk1414 Жыл бұрын

@Tom Sands Slowly catching up with your content - very good! Not carving, but finishing especially tight into the 90° corner where fine sanding guitar can easily cause a sanding track on neck heel & visa versa. Quite a challenge!

@TomSandsGuitars Жыл бұрын

@@electricladyguitarsdevonuk1414 it’s included in the video I think 💜

@sambow4u 7 ай бұрын

I always wondered ,,, WHY , In a Violin or Fiddle in My Region of the world , there's a " Soundpost" , That's friction Fit Placed , directly under the Bridge and against the back of the Violin ,,, Inside most times somewhere about 3/8's in diameter ! This Soundpost , greatly amplifys the volume of the instrument and brings it alive ! So why doesn't a Mandolin or Guitar , Benefit from that same Thinking ? A viola, cello , Bass has them ,,, ? And if it's because we Play the Mandolin or Guitar against our Body and would Dampen the sonic resonance ,,, What would be the Answer to that problem ?

@TomSandsGuitars 7 ай бұрын

I get this question a lot and it boils down to the fundamental difference in the mechanics of the respective family of instruments, primarily how the strings are played, ie bowed vs plucked. There’s quite a lot written about this online so I won’t butcher the explanation here! 🙏