Excellent information and a great sound.

Your work?

Awwwwww…..c’mon, Beau, show us the rest of it!!!!🤯😜

Beau Thank you for sharing this, Those Tuners are Stunning works of art & complement Your outstanding craftsmanship of the guitar…. ✌️🎸🎼👨🏻‍🦯👨🏻‍🦯

I must admit it never would've occurred to me to do a refret this way, to meticulously replicate every original fret before installing them so that the new ones fit perfectly, and to pre-create the hemispherical fret ends. I've tried filing in the hemispherical fret ends after installing them, but with limited success. Will have to try this some time!

You know that person who has to tell everyone they are a vegan? I get the same effect from octave mandolin players regularly out here on the other side of the divide.

One tip for tuning the two strings in a course is to deaden one string with a free finger tip and tune the other string to pitch with a tuner. This avoids interference from picking two possibly out of tune strings at the same time which can confuse a tuner. To then get the second string in the course to pitch you can bring it to pitch by picking both strings together and tuning the second string to match the first one by ear listening for when the beat frequency goes to zero. Or you can damp the first string and tune the second string with the tuner, but I find the first method gives better results.

That stuff really is pretty impressive. I took a job for a little while in the hardware department of a local store. The old man that trained me on all of the products, paint mixing, and key making wanted to show me that product one day. He pulled a REALLY dirty penny out of his pocket and shined it to a sheen of brand new and under 20 seconds.

I saw Sarah Jaroz in Boulder a little bit ago and she plays one a lot. I had to ask my friend who is a lot smarter than me exactly what the instrument was.

This tuning is based on the current standard for design and test of musical instruments. It is like a tuning base that can get most instruments designed to work with each other. The frequencies and labels like A4 are part of a scientific system that is the standard. It is a great idea to use this tuning and frequencies to start a session and do some technical things like check intonation and whether the instrument is working or needs new strings etc.. But once the instrument has been tested and its time to start the creative music, does a creative musician need to be married to A4=440Hz? Will the octave mandolin function properly if the creative musician decides to adjust the tuning higher or lower to suit the atmosphere? It is always annoying for someone to be out of tune, so if there are multiple players, everyone needs to be in tune and in some circumstances the best thing is to just stick to the standard tuning. However, for advanced players and bands of musicians skilled in tuning by ear, should they just tune to the standard and then adjust the A4 audio frequency up or down to be creative and fit the atmosphere of the tune? What is the range of audio frequencies they can use for the A note and still have a working musical instrument? The advent of tuning apps that show the audio frequencies and allow adjustment of A4 reference can save a lot of tuning time, but in the end it is the ears of the creative musician that matter most, do you have a more advanced tuning process that takes advantage of the technology, but ends up with the musicians ears being the final test for tuning up or down around the A4=440Hz reference?

Beau, how does one get in touch with you?

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Use it to clean your eyeglasses it puts a protective coating preventing smudges. And also when the guy was demonstrating it about 40 years ago to me he put some in his mouth it's completely non-toxic

this doesn’t make sense. just because something is heavier does not mean it will reduce or slow vibrations. all materials have several properties besides just mass. metal is heavy but it also is really good at conducting. it can conduct heat, electricity and kinetic energy. if you look at symbols you can see them rippling like water. if you drop a silver coin or ring it sounds like a bell. even a huge anvil made of solid metal will ring when you hit it and make your hammer bounce back. maybe you don’t like the sound but it’s just not true that heavier pins reduce certain frequencies. sure it might weigh down the guitar top but the difference of grams would be small. that’s less than an ounce.

My local climate is not friendly to guitars (significant rapid temperature changes and low humidity). As I am considering a Seagull, I called a local luthier who said he has seen problems with many brands like Taylor, Gibson, Martin etc but none of the brands made in Quebec

Why do u need so large audio jack If u used a smaller jack like 3.5mm one or even 2.5mm one, you would not need to drill any holes into the guitar

Great stuff, been using for 40 yrs.

I've used Brasso for decades - cheap and really effective

That’s such a beautiful and unique neck

THAT STUFF IS TOTAL MAGiC ESPECIALLY ON BRASS CYMBALS😊

Nice video, and stunning inlay. Preferred it when you talked, though.

Pushing in those expensive machine heads must be so rewarding, knowing that only a handful of luthiers of your caliber will ever experience...thanks for showing

I would love to see the process of adding the fish ?.

I noticed you installed the middle tuner first, any particular reason why?

Thanks very much, Beau! This was super informative and a great overview of your well-thought-out and meticulous process for gluing on an acoustic guitar bridge with hot hide glue. The bridge on my last guitar, which was glued on with Titebond Original and a vacuum clamp, has SLOWLY crept away from the guitar top on the back edge, to the extent that I must now remove and reglue it. I assume hot hide glue, which has essentially zero "creep" would be ideal for this application. Thank you again for all the really good info. Cheers!

This has been very helpful ...thank you Beau.

I don't understand how a comparison can be made, given the wildy different dimensions of the pieces...?

You have too want to spend the money... NOT necessary.

I’m glad those tuners covered the chewed up mess around the tuner holes.

2:23 Was that luxury guitar porn?

I wouldn’t come anywhere near that beautiful instrument with a sharp object, nice work❤

Probably works pretty well on splinters too if your tweezers or nail clippers aren't handy. If StewMac sees this they might raise their price even higher and call it a medical device.

Good points… and another thing StewMac has done in the past couple of years is change their marketing strategy. To me, it seems like they’ve raised their prices and then offer items on sale to stimulate acquisition. My guess is they’re hoping they’ll balance the demand generated through sales to also precipitate additional purchases at that higher margin. And that’s the pattern that I’ve observed has emerged with them. If you don’t like the prices, wait a week or two and you’ll likely get it on sale. As a result, I think they’ve been caught in the “there’s always a sale” trap where, if customers don’t like their non-sale high prices, they’ll just wait it to go on sale in the next couple of weeks. This is the type of behavior we saw with department stores like Sears, Macy’s and Kmart before they went out of business. It’s a problem because it morphs into a margin problem where they can’t generate enough revenue to buy more inventory - and inventory on hand is a bad thing because it locks up their liquidity - so they keep having sales to generate revenue. A vicious cycle. And like you said, they also need to offset their operational costs (video content and money back guarantees) - and that’s a critical unique value proposition for them. But is it enough to warrant their higher costs? I’m not so sure.

What a beauty ... Please share the details around the guitar i would be scared to touch that finish. Never heard for Rodgers ....Please if you can share the gear ratio .... I always love the look and tuning stability of Waverly's 21:1 open back by Stewmac one of the best

Overpriced and idolized item..

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Rivetting stuff! Every penny worth the 966 bucks - not to mention the cost of the guitar. Excellently shot and edited video. Keep it up!

Thanks for that Beau. Did much the same on my dreadnought some time ago. Huge recommend as a choice for solid headstock. The grail of tuning machines!

A World Class video ! never seen anything this good on youtube or any where else.Amazing thank you.

thank you . are they that good and why pretty yes

Excellent!

Mr Beau, what about fish glue? Hot fish glue, not the equivalent Titebond 501/3 Hide Glue. Will it close the crack as durable as hide glue? I think i can remember Ted Woodford talking about fish glue for crack repairs? Thanks you!

That is outragous, I have the machinery and skills capable of making tuners and could probably make a set in a day or a day and a half and that's working slow and methodical, when you get into the realms of manufacturing for retail sale, you could turn over some decent money as long as you get enough people to purchase them at that price. I am not saying I could make them better than Rodgers can, far from it, but I could design and manufacture a very proficient set. These Rodgers ones are beautiful, however, I would not spend that kind of money on a set of tuners.

Amazing work, what a beautiful set o tuners for a beautiful looking instrument

The “pucker factor” when working on the lovely finish and inlay has to be substantial. Adding the extra bother of filming… I would be a nervous wreck. You have nerves of steel! A lovely video!

Waooo, genious!!

Serious question. Why are they so expensive?

I was on the edge of my seat watching you drill the holes out! What a fab video and your work is exquisite as always. What type of wood is the headstock facing please? Thanks very much Beau, take care. David.

No doubt they are attractive, but the cost..

Such work deserves film on top of it, same as screens or plates with pickups at electric guitars...