i love what you are making-BUT i am much older than you and for the life of me you could cut some time off from your vid.

Use a suction cup you to force thinned glue into the crack.

awesome!!

Looks great 👍

Does the compounding method change if the guitar has a satin finish?

im 45. just started wood working and fishing last year X_x. I was so stupid. what wonderful hobbies. Ive got to teach my son asap. hes just 6 now. so ill have to wait a bit on the wood working hhaha. went fishing 10 times, zero fish, learned something every time,i blame the rivers near my house in nagoya for sure. First fish was 40cm. Mullet. I think im spoiled to catching huge fish now haha ! Im not very good at catching fish yet but, ive caught half a dozen crabs with walking widths of a good 6 inchs and i now know where to find unlimited baby crabs for bait. not too shabby. got my first circular saw last week. been studying about all the dangers and techniques. cant wait to get started. !

Bro that drill bit is very dull

This helped me a lot. Thanks

You don't know me but you and I have a lot in common. For one we both do hand tool wood working and we share the same teacher, of course I,m talking about Mr. Sellers. The man is the real deal! We also share interest in music, I have been playing guitar from age 11 and I am 69. My grand dad got me started. I like old Country, bluegrass and some old country rock, some of my favorites are Merl Haggard, George Jones, Glen Campbell, John Fogerty, The Eagles to name a few. I also love fishing and hunting although I'm getting so old and feeble I don't hunt much anymore. I live in a small town very near the Mississippi river, makes big cat fishing pretty handy. So this is why I feel like you and myself have a lot in common and consider us friends . Oh, and I'm a big-o redneck and it take one to know one! I have binge watched just about all of your videos in the last few days. mostly your woodworking videos and how you struggled in the beginning with lack of tools, I felt your pain brother. I enjoyed your videos immensely. I'm also interested in building an acoustic guitar, even though I have 6 acoustics stashed in the living room, a bass and amp and a stratt and two amps in the basement. Can you have too many? Gotta go for now my friend, take care, Later.

Make your hollow molds, you make everything else, you have a router, make a sled at the radius that you need and get to cutti'n man!

it's a masonite end cap molding

nothing dulls a plane iron faster than paint, you must adjust your iron at least and just under the paint layer.

You need to take your crappiest plane and grind about 8" or 9" radius camber on the iron, open the mouth accordingly, this plane will remove up to an 1/8" of wood at every stroke thereby cutting you planing time enormously!

You need to make yourself a small router plane for that job.

Its an old video, with so few views but this is EXACTLY what i was looking for as i dont have any fancy power tools but ive acquired some lovely pieces of wood and want to build some electric guitars. Thank you for sharing this

the best joints come right off the plain, sanding rounds off the corners no matter what you use for a backer.

The number five is the jack of all planes. It's a favorite of mine.

Hello buddy, it looks like you’re in the south, I’m in the New Orleans area. Nice work.

Nice work and thanks for your explanation of what you’re doing. What saw are you using?

Hello, I appreciate you doing this video. I just retired and need a hobby, hand tool woodworking seems to appeal to me and so I’m early on my journey. Hope to see more of your projects.

How do you load that toolbox out into your yard? Love the outdoor bench. Been working on mine.

When working on the shooting board, it seemed like the camera was a little bit low so when you were showing what sides were not square we could not see it. That being said, love the commentary, subbed :D ! Looking forward to build my own shooting board soon

The horns are very difficult. Im doing by hand in my projects, since I dont have the appropriate tools. I am going to level the sides by hand too with a sanding block. Do you think it is going to work? I already hand sanded to get it round, but as you said I made a lot of bumps. This is my first try. Thank you for your video.

Just because you paid a dollar for something doesn't mean it isn't worth more than what you paid. Could you go out today and get another one for a dollar? Probably not. I bought a 10" Disston backsaw from the teens for $3. Would I sell it for just $3? Not a chance. It took me 30 years to find a saw like that. I just don't have that kind of time left to find another one either.

You've got a lot of good tools. Better than anything I have. I just have whatever I can find at yard sales and flea markets. I never run onto good stuff those places.

Thanks for sharing your tool "arsenal". I love your minimalist approach. Lately I've decided it's time to start using the tools I've acquired over the years and selling the ones I won't use. Ultimately, my goal is to make all my own hand planes and sell the majority of my metal bodied planes and thin my tools down to what I use/need and let the rest go. I've been more of a hand tool collector than user for the last 15 years. I'm a sucker for inexpensive vintage tools. I don't buy a lot of tools but I'll admit I find it difficult to pass up a good deal on a quality hand saw priced at $3-$5, a cheap brace for $3, or even a cheap Stanley plane for $5. I enjoy buying them and bringing them back to life.

Great tools… great going… will like to ask you 1) why have you put cleats at the lower bout and 2) what kind of neck joint you’re planning to use ?

You have a lot of woodworking skill to be able to make all those great guitar using just hand tools! Probably you can make more with a few hand tools then many can with expensive power tools.

Thanks for the tool tour!

I agree with your point that you don't need a lot of tools to work wood. When I first started thinking I wanted to be a woodworker I bought a table saw, router, band saw, scroll saw - two of them to be exact, a lathe, etc... They all gather dust since I mostly use hand tools for my projects. For bigger projects I'll use the power tools, but I much prefer the peace and quiet that comes from hand tools the older I get.

Enjoy watching all your projects. You do a great job.

Nicely done!

What is your circle cutter tool?

Nice solution to the problem. I expecting so your bench screwed to some treated 4x4's sunk 3 ft into the ground. Your solution was much simpler and cheaper too!

Great idea! How about using an L bracket to lag that leg to the paver by the vise. Wouldn't cause interference?!

I found saws similar to yours being sold with a maple miterbox. The height of the blade was just right to lay in the bottom of the box and the handle hangs out. Keeps the saw teeth protected. It cuts the miters very good.

Is that spanish cedar? Looks good

Very cool saw Mike! My dad was quite the craftsman in his younger days . I have a few things he made using only dove tails to join pieces...I'm a bit of a knife nut and I'm wondering what that pocket knife is you opened your package with?

Congratulations on your new saw! Veritas makes some very nice back saws. Nice looking dovetails btw. I'm looking forward to seeing this put to use in future videos.

Coming by on the overnight shift to say howdy mike. I hope you are well , and your loved ones also. May your light shine always. -cam-

I have a Sitka top and a set of Khaya back and sides for an upcoming project. Thanks for sharing!

You have great hand tool skills! Beautiful wood and meditative and informative to watch you squaring up the wood!

Good Teacher. THANX. I learned a lot from watching this.

Nice find. Looks like she'll make a great additional to your hand tool arsenal.

I never considered the top splitting during the trimming process. Would a thinner blade with less coarse teeth, like used with a jeweler's/Knew Concepts fret saw, help minimize that risk?

You're making progress and that joint came together nicely. Looking forward to your next video.

Which method did you find easier to use to put the radius on the braces... the first or second? What size plane are you using? I'm looking forward to seeing how this build progresses.

Very cool mike.

Nicely executed marking knife. I had thought about doing that some years ago, even went looking for some used paring knifes, and then life got in the way and I completely forgot to do it. Something to add back onto my to do list. If you can source some leather, you might be able to screw it down from the top of the vise, so the leather hangs down. I believe Paul Sellers did something similar years ago. Another option would be to stretch the leather it across the inner chops and screw it to the sides of the chops. If you screw to the sides the wood should not come into contact with the screws.

Great old handsaws. The dovetail looks perfect - always remember if needed shims can be glued on the tenon/mortise sides and the fretboard, bridge and saddle positioned to make everything exact.