Lutherie Demystified Ep. 9 | Concepts: Understanding and Selecting Soundboards, Part 2

Lutherie Demystified is a video series hosted by Garrett Lee that explores the world of classical guitar building--from techniques and theory to commentary and perspectives about the instruments, players and lutherie profession.

[droneblake]

This is probably one of the if not the best video to very clearly understand the difference between spruce and cedar soundboards

[jiri_markalous]

Thank you Garrett for sharing your knowledge with us. What a great series!

[titidadgad]

Thanks a lot to share your knowledge. It's awesome.

[JoseOchoa-dwvk]

Another masterful video into the world of guitar building. Thanks for sharing your insights.

[YegresAL]

The most complicated thing for beginner - as I understood from this video - is selection of the board's shape one should keep his/her stock of soundboards))) To get consistency of comparison in future...

To be serious, thanks for video! Now main factor for me is "I like tap tone" or "I don't like tap tone"... the time has come for me to buy notebook and start writing down all data for comparison.

[leemorse]

I appreciate you sharing this information. Excellent resource!

[davidharris]

I've been watching and trying to learn from you . Straight forward logical information . There's a recipe in all this somewhere Garreth . Peace ✌

[chrisbk]

Oh, man. Finally some science interjected into the acoustic world. Love this stuff. Subscribed, and PLEASE more videos like this!

[midnighttutor]

Very interesting presentation. To my ear the engelman spruce when tapped always has a more musical sound. When you look at the spectrum it appears that the engelman has lower values between the harmonics -- the curve dips down more. Could you please comment on whether this damping between harmonics is a real factor in how musical an instrument sounds? Thank you.

[BartZuidemaGuitars]

Hey Gareth thanks for your great video's. Im also trying to apply science in my builds and explain why things are happening. I have 2 questions maybe some more but i restrict myself to 2.
1. In the first part of this video you have thinned down the higher density board to match the longgrain resonance freq. Based on my calculations, based on normal sized board, the lower density board is about will be around 149 grams vs 163 grams for the higher density. Roughly 10% difference. What is your opinion about that?
2. Did you also consider to measure the crossgrain stifness in terms of resonance frequency, this because the guitar has also vibration in that mode?

Please keep the video's coming.