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french woodworking files, (upbeat music) (acoustic guitar music) this is a good saw bladefor sawing veneers. it's got a curved saw bladeon both top and bottom
so that the point that iscontacting the material is always the tangent of this curve. so you always have good contact when you're drawing it across. the problem is that it'sdesigned for veneers. so the saw was never really meant to cut through anything super thick and i don't know if youcan see this or not, i'm going to try to getas close as i can here.
the teeth of the saw areactually beveled on one side. this is the beveled side. and they're flush on thisside and you can actually see where it was honed on the back side. so what happens is thatas i'm drawing this across the fretboard here i can't go very deepbecause the teeth are only doing the cutting down here. they're only cutting thethickness of the teeth
and not the thicknessof the saw body itself. so after a certain amount of time i'll just get a bunch ofheat buildup on my blade instead of actuallycutting any wood with it. so i'm going to try one thingand if that doesn't work i'm headed to the woodworking store to buy probably a japanese styledove tail saw or something. this is my little handheld saw here and it's flat on the bottom and the handle
will prevent me from actually being able to saw that properly, althoughit's the right thickness because the teeth and the thickness of the blade are the same. so i'm going to try to chisel this off now and i don't know, maybe i won't do that that really sounds like a bad idea. i think i'll just go to woodcraft and buy myself a new saw blade.
(intermission commercial) okay, here it is, a brand new saw. if this doesn't work then i have a brand new router bit that i can try, but i don't want to usethis if i can avoid it. now it'll work. well, i think i totallydodged the bullet on that one. i think this turned out asgood as i could've expected it. the sides are nice and flush with the neck
and you really can't tellunless you look really close. you know i thoughtmaybe it was going to be really noticeable but i wasreally focusing on that area and when you step back andtake a look at the whole thing it really doesn't show up that much. so i'm quite pleased withthe way that it turned out. i certainly will notbe making that mistake when it comes to number two,if it comes to number two. (jazzy music)
well we finally made it. the guitar is completed. it's not finished yet, but it's completed. everything that needs to bedone on it is done on it. the only step left to dois apply the actual finish. so the finish i'd like to puton the guitar is french polish. the only difference isthat my wife prefers satin finishes over superhigh gear glossy finishes. so the finish i'd liketo put on this guitar
would be satin finish. i'd still like to try a little bit of the french polishing techniquesso i will be using shellac as kind of the base coatfor the guitar using some of the pumice to do somepore-filling techniques just try a little bit ofthings i've never tried before. it's probably not a good ideato experiment on the guitar but i guess if things go really bad that's what sandpaper is for.
every resource that i haveread, seen, or watched they all seem to be different. there isn't one that's the same. so what i'm going to be doing is kind of a combination of several differenttechniques that i've seen. some parts of sometechniques that i've liked and some parts that i've like of others. what it really meansto me is that there is no one right way to do it.
so i'm sure that therewill be people out there screaming "oh you shouldn'tof done it that way." and other people that are then saying, "well that's the only wayyou should've done it." so bear with me and we're going to start the finishing process. hopefully if all goes well it'll be nice and satiny when it's done. (guitar music)
so for ease of finishingi have hung the guitar from the ceiling like so and that way i don't have toset it down on any surfaces or worry about it touchingthe tabletop and getting dusty or nicked up or havingit stick to the surface. but this way i can hangit and work on all sides and not have to worry abouta table getting in the way. so then the next thing wehave to do to the bridge is to drill the holeson the backside of it
for the strings to pass through. i'm using the little teeny-tiny drill bit. it's about 48,000thdiameter, really small. but it doesn't need to be a big hole. so here we go. okay, the guitar is finallyready for the bridge. a new way to do it is witha bridge vacuum clamp. and basically what it isit's a little aluminum box with a big piece of foamaround the outside here,
it's a gasket, and then the clampitself is a really thick but stretchy rubber. i'm sure that there are technical terms for all of these products but i don't know what they are. and i've hooked up my vacuum hose to it and so what you do is youget ready to glue it down put that on top of the guitar
turn on the vacuum pressure and it sucks everything right down. so i'm hoping this works well. (tuning the guitar) well, the guitar is finally finished. completed, done, andready for the big time. so here it is. for the most part i'm totallythrilled with how it turned out. it's loud, the tone is fairlydecent, and all the frets
seem to create the proper note. the only major issue is the open g string. there's some kind ofweird harmonic going on and when the g is plucked loudly the guitar rings like a bell. it's difficult to noticewhen playing the guitar but when the g is plucked all by itself you can really hear it. the rogue frequency isa high a or 1,760 hertz.
i've tried different strings, different string tensions, different nuts, and stringing it on different tuning pegs. i've even stuffed bags oflead shot in the sound hole to try and dampen any strange harmonics that might be present in the guitar body but nothing seems to getrid of the rogue frequency. if there are any[unintelligible] out there
that might have some sort of suggestion i'd be open pretty much to anything. nonetheless, the project was a blast. the amount of knowledge igained from this experience will surely spill over into myfuture woodworking projects. and taking this journey hastaught me that not all projects necessarily need to befinished in a weekend. i gave erin the guitar on sunday the 13th. many of my friends and family commented
that i should have waited until the 25th but that's just too bad. it's my gift and i didn't wantto make her wait any longer. i also wanted to take thisopportunity so you could see the guitar stand thati made for her as well. i've been working on this off and on when the project had its downtime moments and i'm also very happywith the way it turned out. it's made out of walnut and some leftover
fretboard scraps and ithink it looks a lot nicer in our living room than oneof those cheap metal stands you can buy at guitar centers. this is a good opportunityfor me to also thank one of the coolest woodworkers i know, marc spagnuolo, aka the wood whisperer, for inspiring me to breakout of the cad world and try my hand at somerelative dimensioning. i'd also like to thank marcfor graciously offering
to showcase my videos on his blog. he did a far better job than iin editing my building footage and i really hope you takea look at his website. i'd like to thank rick, my father-in-law, for the inspiration to do this project and his continued support andsuggestions as i went along. as i said before in the first video i would never have thought itpossible to do this project if it weren't for him.
thanks also to all my family and friends who kept watching the videos even though they got to be a bit longin the tooth at times. i appreciate all of your feedback and words of encouragement. and last, but not least, i'd like to thank everyone who subscribedto my youtube videos. it was nice to see that people other than my immediatecircle of friends and family
were interested in the project. so to everyone watching thanks for taking this journey with me.
