Making Acoustic Steel-string Guitars Support our series by subscribing and on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/stereokroma Did you enjoy this video? Please rate and leave a comment for us! (｡◕‿‿◕｡) Sign up to our newsletter for web series updates and future giveaway contests: http://eepurl.com/bLFBXP Meet Michael Greenfield, a musician who began tuning, repairing, restoring, and making guitars in the 70s and since then has become a seasoned luthier of bespoke guitars. Having experience with vintage and antique guitar repair and restoration, he brings a unique insight to his craft, creating personalized musical instruments and functional works of art for artists, collectors and those who deserve the very best. His workshop is based in Montreal, where we visited over a period of 5 months, filming as he and his apprentice, Julien, transformed slices of spruce, ebony, mahogany, and other tree species into glistening guitars. It was all of our collective vision to present the process in the most candid, down-to-earth fashion, so in this hour-long documentary you will see all the glue, smudges, shavings, dust, and callouses. His guitars feature Florentine cutaways with spalted beech rosettes, violin-style body purflings and simple decorative purflings along edges, Laskin style arm rests and rib rests, amongst other features. This documentary follows several different steel-string guitars from beginning to finish. As Michael puts it, the guitar still thinks it’s a tree until it receives its first set of strings and that is when the instrument is born. After many months of work, the magical moment when we hear a guitar’s first notes is like hearing a child’s first words. Visit Greenfield Guitars on the web ~ Official website: http://greenfieldguitars.com Michael’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/GreenfieldGuitars Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Greenfield-Guitars-152000994906532 Amazon Links ~ Making master guitars: http://amzn.to/2c70HEW Guitar picks: http://amzn.to/2cn0bDq We shot this video on a Panasonic GH3: http://amzn.to/2cOoMmK Using a Benro tripod: http://amzn.to/2clpEd2 Subtitle Credits ~ Laos: Daosavanh Bannavong Thai: Varatit Kiratikit, of Kirati Guitars Visit Kirati Guitars on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kiratiguitars/ Additional Subtitle Contributors ~ Enzo Mendez, Ivo Cabrera Music Credits ~ The music featured in this film is by musicians using only Greenfield guitars and used with their permission. If you enjoyed the music, please check out the links below: “Mountain Air” composed & performed by Scott A. McAllister Listen to the full song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBWnZFPwoHI “Prelude to cello suite No. 1” Bach - cover by Scott A. McAllister Listen to the full song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn2nIIw34RU “Impossible Story” written, arranged & performed by Brooke Miller Listen to the full song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEaHFZJxBRw Official site: http://www.brookemiller.ca Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/BrookeMillerMusic Her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/brookie.miller “V’la L’bon Vent” arranged and performed by Lizzy Hoyt Listen to the full song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aeC2fvYQJc Visit her site at: http://lizzyhoyt.com Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCITTLxMXyMFoiP4UAnWtydA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lizzyhoytmusic On Amazon, “New Lady on the Prairie” album, featuring the track “V’la L’bon Vent”: http://amzn.to/2cNAC0p Stereokroma ~ Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/stereokroma © 2016 Stereokroma Creative Services G.P. See more at: http://tv.stereokroma.com