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I met an old college friend the other day and he is now making custom guitars. He was getting ready to start a new one and we started to talk about wood types.Then he took me outside and showed me tree trunk about 3 ft tall and with a diameter of about 24 inches and that’s where he starts. I always assumed that small shop luthiers started with wood already cut to workable dimensions. He could see a spruce guitar top, all I could see was firewood.

update, I stopped by  the luthiers house this morning, I was curious how he managed to cut the spruce log. He had it all cut. He told me he started with a chain saw then commercial  band saw, 10 joiner, 20 inch planer, and then a wide belt sander. Then he painted the ends and stacked the wood to dry. So, if you have a chain saw and the other wood working tools you can start with a log.

What really surprised me was that he never took a class, he just learned by trail and error.He was a highly skilled cabinetmaker.

It was a blue spruce not Sitka.

 

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