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This may be of some interest to any new builders...I just finished watching a guitar instructional making video by Steve Dickie "Steves Guitar Making" on You Tube....Lots of good information. He even gives a tutorial on French Polishing....Sorry I don't know how to supply a link but it should be easy to find.....Larry

Larry,

Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out.

J.R.

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He starts the French Polish video off by advertising it's non-toxicity, and then pulls out methyl alcohol!! ??   

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Larry-
Thanks for the info.
Rod-
Thanks for the live link.

I thought the FP videos were pretty good- at least he does show the FP process on the sides, which I'd not seen before on video.
BTW, if you use pumice for pore filling (like 'Steve' does), you can add some artist's dry pigment to the pumice to make it darker and avoid white spots in the pores, if that's a problem.

Cheers
John

Hey Kirby, That's my Canadian Cousin.    

Just watched 3 of 4 parts of the classical neck making, pretty cool, and two nice jigs for scarfing. A no nonsense approach and he is concerned with safety. He was using hearing protection when doing the truss rod.
Not much dust collecting going on though.

I invited Steve Dickie over, maybe he'll make it? He's not too far from Bob C there at Buffalo. Steve lives about 85 miles north of Toronto which itself is just north of Buffalo.

My family name was spelled Dickie until my grandfather went off the France in WWI, when he came home it had changed to the English spelling Dickey. No doubt all Dickeys come from Antrim Ireland or close by.

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It is a nice series.

Steve went through an amazing tonsorial transformation during this series

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I find it refreshing that he doesn't use a single tool from LMI or Stew Mac.

Nice series of videos. He is certainly a bare-bones luthier. I was interested in how he builds without a radius dish or a mold...different than I do it but is nonetheless very effective.

As always, I learn a great deal...much like standing behind someone who is at a computer using Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc. Even though I use those programs every day, I always seem to learn something new.

It takes over an hour (it seemed) to get through all of his videos but I thought it was well worth the time. This You-Tube thing has some amazing potential for our craft...I hope some of the pros are listening!

Thanks for posting, Larry!

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i actually copied all the videos and put them in my ipod (yup.... what a
nerd). all together is about 4 hours worth of material. good times.
brandon.   

How do you copy a you-tube video?

Ray

This site does it for you

http://keepvid.com/

Hello all, Steve Dickie (aka bobloblaw1701) here.  Thanks to Bruce for letting me know there was some discussion on my YouTube videos here.  Thanks for all the comments.  (What?  Methyl Hydrate isn't drinkable? That explains the hair loss.) 

I shot these videos back in 2004 just to document the process and just recently decided to stick them on YouTube for others to enjoy and hopefully get some people who thought lutherie was "too hard" to give it a try.  I will certainly never be a professional calibre builder, but I certainly get a thrill out of playing something that I built with my own two hands.

Sadly, in the final days of finishing, the stupid guitar decided to jump off it's hanger and fall onto the corner of my table saw and then crash to the floor.  Lots of scratches and chips.  Sigh...  I've since repaired the damage and put on the bridge, but I've never put on the nut and saddle and strung it up.  Hense, the videos have kind of stopped.  Now that I have people on YouTube asking me to see the finished product, I may actually get around to finishing it.

Welcome to OLF, Steve.   the videos are really great.  Good production, easy to follow.  Nice work.  Glad to have you here.  Stick around and keep us in the loop.  There are a lot of new builders here, me included, and the information shared here is really outstanding.

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Steve, I'm watching the French Polishing videos right now. I really enjoy
them, and I enjoy your personality. I agree with Waddy that they're easy
to follow. I'm glad that they're not rushed. Thanks for making them and
posting them.

Steve-
Welcome to the OLF!

Thanks again for the videos.

Cheers
John

You Dickey / Dickie Boys get around.  I wonder if there is a creative gene somewhere in the DNA thread?

Enjoyed the videos, keep up the great work.

If you find your way down to Buffalo, don't forget to look up our uncle Bob Cefalu.  He's the proprietor of www.rctonewoods.com and has some really cool wood.  If I lived close, he'd have to shoo me away.

Steve, thanks for sharing.

Steve,

Excellent videos. Thanks for sharing. You do a great job of explaing what you doing. You do make it look awefully easy. Please consider finishing the guitar on video. I would love to see more of your building. I'm sure it was a heart breaker when you dropped the guitar. Anyhow, I love your videos, thats for sharing----Snick

[QUOTE=Bruce Dickey]No doubt all Dickeys come from Antrim Ireland or close by.[/QUOTE]

funny, I live in Antrim and I've never met one!!

Seriously, I teach in a high school and used to manage a restaurant so I have more people's names across my radar than most folks........

Good vids mate, well done!!

I LOVE youtube. there are so many good folks who have done video demos of how to do all kinds of stuff!!

M

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