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This Video will Cover the top and backs. John will take a Top and back from raw form to the point where they are ready to have the braces glued on them.
The Video will cover, Wood Layout, Selection, Gluing, Joining, Rosette Cutting and Instalation, Soundhole Cutting, and Thickness Sanding.
Note from the author:
This is one of my first videos so the sound quality is not as good as the newer ones, but all you have to do is turn up
the volume some and it is fine,
(about 60 minutes)
The Video will cover all aspects of making a standard acoustic 6 string bridge. I take the bridge from a rough ebony blank to a finished product ready to glue to the guitar.
Topics Covered:
* Design
* rough shaping
* pin holes, and variations
* routing the saddle slot
* shaping of brige
* fine sanding
* Polishing
* scooping wings
* alternate woods, and effects
(about 60 minutes)
This segment covers how to do binding on a steel string guitar. Some topics covered will be:
* Preparing the binding
* Bending the binding, and purfling
* routing overhang
* leveling sides
* binding jigs
* routing the binding channels
* cleaning up channels
* installing binding
* Cleaning up binding
* rounding over edges and more!
(about 60 minutes)
This video will cover two topics!! It will cover neck angles and how to set a neck to the body to acheive the proper angle so that the guitar will play and sound great.
Secondly he will be showing the neck joint he uses. It is a double Mortise and tenon. By that he means the neck and the fingerboard extension bolt on.
With this system you can remove your neck for adjustments in less than three minutes! He will show the joint and how to incorporate it into your building!
(about 60 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on December 09, 2005 in Lutherie.
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Mayes is a wonderful teacher. He is knowledgeable, he is 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 techniques. 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.
The DVD was very good, worth seeing, many ideas.
Very little information is given in view of the cost of a dvd. Three times as much info (or more) could have been put onto one video. The material that was covered could have been covered in more depth. Based on average being 3 stars on a one to five scale, I would give the video two stars, but only because I can't give it 1 1/2 stars.
