Luthiery/Guitar-making

[Joel S]

Would anyone be interested in a luthiery (guitar/fretted instrument-making)/fretting/pickup winding/guitar wiring/guitar setup night? I have the tools and know-how, but many of the luthiery tools are expensive, some are easy to break if you're not familiar with them, and others are easy to lose/swipe. Therefore I would be willing to make the stuff available under supervision, including files, fretting gear, radiusing blocks, pickup winders, and so on.

(Though I'm not in a position to donate my tools right now, some of the equipment I believe the AR community has the equipment and expertise to fabricate, like this or this or this fantastically overpriced turns-counter billed as a pickup winder.)

And so you know I'm not a crank, here's a video of an electric charango I built from scratch.

I'll be out of town for much of this month, so it wouldn't happen until January, earliest.

Let me know.

Joel

[Minerva Lopez]

I am interested and would be willing to buy some tools in order to avoid usage/breakage of yours.

When where you thinking of starting to teach this?

ML

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[Joel S]

I could start in January, whenever; I live nearby AR. That said, don't have the equipment to steam/shape acoustic instrument sides, so if you want to build an totally acoustic instrument completely from scratch, we'd have to scrounge that gear. Otherwise, I have just about everything for electric building and neck/fret work.

j

[Andrew Beals]

One can build a steam box out of PVC:

http://www.instructables.com/id/PVC-Steambox-to-Steam-Wood/

I believe that my instructor had something similar when we did the steam-bending class.

tl;dr: steam from teapot flows through loosely-closed large-diameter PVC pipe.

WARNING: Steam makes things hot.  Use proper protection (e.g. pitmaster gloves) when handling steamed wood.

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[Minerva Lopez]

Understood.  Let's try it.  If we decide to build an acoustic we can look into it then.

Touch base early January?

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[George Fetters]

I have steamed wood with a wallpaper steamer it works reasonably well.

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[Joel S]

Interesting idea. Yeah, January works.

Minerva - Was there specifically any skill you were looking to learn or practice? I'll be travelling fairly frequently for my job, so scheduling a start-to-finish instrument class might be hard to arrange, while one-offs like "set-up night" or "fretwork night" would be much easier.

j

[Minerva Lopez]

I'm looking at adquiring skills to maintain my guitars.  I would understand your traveling, I'm also quite busy so I wouldn't mind a bi-monthly, or monthly meeting.

M

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[Drew Freiberger]

I'd be interested in this topic. I've always wanted to learn how to dress frets, and eventually would like to find a project bass to make fretless. I also have an acoustic guitar that's in pretty rough shape that could be used as a guinea pig