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This set of videos covers what is probably the most important part of building acoustic guitars. It covers all aspects of voicing. Voicing is not just tapping the top and
carving braces. While it certinally does entail that there is so much more. It starts with brace placements, bridge plate materials size, brace sizes and profiles, and
lso encorporates tapping and carving, until the desired tone is acheived. Through this set of videos he takes no shortcuts to show you how he approaches voicing an
acoustic guitar. Techniques on tapping, material placement and selection, brace gluing, brace making, jigs, nodal points, flexing, and so much more are covered.
Both DVD's include a Blooper reel and also include full size diagrams of his bracing pattern of the top and the back.
(about 90 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on December 09, 2005 in Lutherie.
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The two videos on voicing are nicely produced. The video and sound quality is good(exept you can't hear the tap tones well). They are a basic introduction to voicing and mostly cover how to build a steel string guitar top and fabricate braces. Both videos approach voicing with a hands on intuitive approach rather than a scientific or "left brain" approach. The guts of final top voicing is covered only on the second half of the second video. My only criticism is that the videos lack some of the why's of voicing and concentrates on how Mr. Mayes does his. I will purchase the videos for my library.
Great DVD! Highly recommended! It helps to give you an understanding of voicing that you can't get from a book.
This DVD was sort of mis-advertised. Disc one only shows him gluing in braces and cleaning up glue squeeze out on the back. Disc two shows the same processes on the top. Each brace is glued down and the glue squeeze out is cleaned up. How many times do you need to see that? The last 10 minutes of Disc 2 show the actual tap tuning and brace carving. That part was good. But he should have shown that process on several tops instead of all the glue squeeze out cleanup. I got really frustrated with this lack of content. I am just glad I didn't buy the video.
Mayes is a wonderful teacher. He is knowledgeable, he his humble, he takes the time to review difficult portions in detail and has the common sense (and courtesy) to speed through repetitive or simple tasks to get to the meat of the knowledge and/or technique. I have bought or rented every DVD he’s put out with the exception of the new inlay course and I liked them all very much. If you rent them, pull out a pen & paper because you will want to make notes on his techniques, tips, vendors & jigs. He uses modest equipment, good technique & horse-sense … and he makes the lessons fun. One couldn’t ask for more in a luthiery instruction video. If he made a book to accompany these DVD’s I’d order it the day it became published.
This one was ok. I basicly learned a bit about bracing, but he should both bracing DVD's on one set. I would just skip to the second Voicing DVD of this series as this is a very basic intro with mush of the basics covered by Robert O'brians How to Build a Steel String Guitar, which is a must have. Dont forget to take notes!
The video what pretty good except it was very scratched up and did a lot of skipping. That was very frustrating.
Very scratched up, The video was very hard to watch
The DVD had a lot of good information and was also entertaining. Mayes gave some web addresses of suppliers he used for tops and for tools and that was also very useful.
I have built classical guitars but the DVD is oriented to steel-string acoustic guitars. The tops for classical are thinner and of course the bracing in different. I don't know if Mr. Mayes has done any classical building but that would be a nice addition.
Anyway, I liked the DVD even though it wasn't an exact fit for a classical builder.
