What a sweet tactic to use two tool paths on the same piece of wood that you’re cutting, since the threshold of the CNC is shorter then your wood blank. The dowel holes, were they given to you by the illustrator, or how’d that pan out? Never seen your vids, don’t know you, but somehow am still proud of you for figuring this out. Hahahaha. 😅🎉

Hello, sorry for bothering, i got some question. I'm gonna start doing myself an electric guitar, and i was asking myself: do you use any program to take those paper templates? how do i get them? and then where can i find neck and body measurements?

Beautiful job put the candy apple on the body. Question how much time in between coats when you're spraying 5 minutes 10 minutes we're just continued spraying thank you for sharing this video

God bless you

Man! David, I only just found your channel, but I want to thank you for the way you teach/demonstrate the building of a guitar from forest to finish. I've always Loved the guitars that I play, but the thought of building one outright seemed awfully daunting. Now, I won't say that it looks easy now (I'll have to borrow about 50% of the tools from my brother), but at least this gives me a template to draw from, and on a guitar body that I'm actually tempted to attempt building. I appreciate all you do, not to mention, if I want to build beautiful guitars, I can't think of a better person to emulate. Cheers, my friend!

I've been hoping to see more Ewor build videos, it's been a while. I hope you are doing well.

Do yourself a favor and get a self centering drillbit set that’s used for drilling door hinges. Use that when drilling the holes for the screws for the bridge. That will guarantee your hole is in the center no mistakes.

Just the video I was looking for, explanations are clear, excellent, thanks! I have one questions: You drew the perpendicular line right at the 25.5" mark on the body, then lined up the the center of the saddles over the line. The saddles you had adjusted as far forward (toward the neck) as you were comfortable with. Wouldn't this eliminate any intonation adjustment of the saddles toward the neck? I'm very much a novice, just having neck blanks #2 and 3 out in the garage, and finished neck #1 still awaiting a body. I estimate the amount of saddle adjustment for intonation to be about 1/4", maybe a bit more. Maybe adjustability isn't as necessary in that direction?

I think its great! Got a Vision 2550 cnc router table at a fantastic price and couldn’t pass on it..I like you, knew absolutely nothing about the programming or operation of the machine. But I am determined to learn it, and i want to build guitars also. I want to build a Les Paul and the top carve may be challenging to get correct, but your videos are inspiring. Thanks!, I really enjoy watching them.

That is gorgeous. It looks very similar to the Carvin/Kiesel Allan Holdsworth Fatboy model. Incredibly similar. At any rate, that's a beautiful guitar and I love that color as well. What's the color called?

Quick tip: If you dont have a center finding ruler , take a 20cm ruler , put some white electrical tape and write 0 on the 10cm mark , 1cm on the 9 and 11cm mark ecc 😊

life's a dance you learn as you go I'm amazed you are going as good as you are

That guitar turned out mindblowing, Master Level Handwork right there! Subscribed to the channel, keep up the good work.

I just want to say I appreciate your videos. This one is especially well explained. Thank you

I agree with most of what you say, but would like t comment on relief. I’ve played electric guitars and many acoustic instruments over the years. I agree to level flat and adjust relief with the truss rod. The thing I’ve noticed over the years is that electrics in general don’t need any relief. Acoustics are a different story. If you are playing over a mike or playing in something like a bluegrass band, you tend to play louder and harder, and relief is a necessity. A straight acoustic neck played hard will buzz far more easily than one with some relief.

Spending a decade and a little more in the machining world after my "war" I am looking forward to getting started in this same pursuit. Metal and wood may be two different worlds...but I will figure it out!

If I remove 4 poles and replace it with plastic ones, will the pickup just absorb the tone from the strings relative to the remaining 2 poles? Thanks in advance for the answer. :)

Really enjoying, appreciate this content. Nice with the details.

Thanks

Best tutorial I've seen so far on making straight edged neck templates. Thank you!

Been a player, luthier & carpenter since 1988, actually played a lot longer, never seen a belt sander like that! 🤷‍♂️🤣🤷‍♂️

Isn’t that Winder a kit ? I’ve seen them before .?

the bridge twisted as you put in that second screw, It looked like it moved quite a bit. Did you recheck after?

22:27 +1 for the Bob Ross reference.

BEAUTIFUL

when you said old school i thought you were going to do it like me with a hand saw then you said table saw lol.

I made a tool to line up the bridge with out of a IKEA plastic cutting board, I speak Swedish on the video but you get the idea kzbin.info/www/bejne/anjZmJ6opb9sjrssi=D17nmZBA7YI1_HLR

That's a fret Job👍🙏

Wow! looks Gorgeous!

Thx u!!

How many hours did you spend on this build? Looks like you spent at least 120 hours.

You could have used a round over bit in the CNC.

Nice work and thanks for explaining the TOM and neck alignment. I like setting necks too. Seems more finished. Thanks for posting!!

Nice! I already subscribed.

See you. It seems like a long time to me from 1985 to now. I realize that there are many mistakes, especially from myself, in dealing with various electric and acoustic guitar problems. Until now I have not witnessed changes that result in accurate installation. Leveling seems to be the mainstay and the pressradius tool is the main pressure. There are many other factors beyond that that must be considered. Until now I have concluded that many people lack enthusiasm for guitar problems. So I feel this is the best. Even though there is a lot that has been missed. Hopefully this can be my reflection. Have a good fight. My greetings from Indonesia. If you need help, I'm ready to do it as long as it's not part of my confidentiality in handling especially freting.

Great video!

I have a similar setup and I use a Router with a 90degree drive head and a small slitting saw (40mm x ?thick) Rotozip kit type thing. Good for fret slots and with a wider cutter for neck shaping.

thanks for the video!! hoping i find the video where you profile the back of the neck. Im thinking you use a molding toolpath.. trying to find all the info i can on profiling tool paths 2.5D so i can use Vcarve pro.

Can’t see where nut goes, logo would be better on top right not bottom right

Your logo is getting on the way

No schematic on how you built the winder? I'm sure there were more people who were interested, and hell...you could even sell the schematic like other people are doing for $1.00 each download if you wanted, and buy some coffee.

One comment for you... TETELESTAI!!!!!

Wow, amazing finish sir! And it's a good thing you don't mass produce guitars because you're level of care and attention to detail just wouldn't be possible...but imagine if you did and it was ;) The guitar-playing public would be in for quite the treat!

5in / min for both. Cut Ebony fretboards quite often.

Can you make, or have you already made, a video on how to build the winder? I don't want to pay the insane prices for the premade ones.

when you create fallaway wouldn't there be I different height between the 6th and 5th fret, and wouldn't the fret rocker rock on that spot? please advise. thanks!

again, thank you for sharing. But what was the formula for calculating the taper?

dont know if this is relevant anymore but a good starting point for fretboard feeds and speeds or any tiny bit is .5 of the bit thickness for depth of cut and 2-4 ipm at about 18,000 rpm. its very slow but you can radius the fret slots so thats kind of a nice way to reduce air/glue gap at bottom of fret tangs. Im just starting making an ibanez jem tribute guitar out of african mahogany and burl pickguards and plates similar to the woody guitar but im looking for a dark almost ebony burl instead of poplar burl.I still havent attempted making a neck yet because i dont have any proper fretting tools. Beautiful work.

Fantastic step by step instruction. After watching, I'm ready to tackle the frets on my first guitar build. Thanks for making this video!

Do you ever wax pot them?