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This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, was recorded at the Guitar Build Institute held at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, California in 2018. In the video Nancy Chang and Steve Brown demonstrate applying Tru-Oil to a sanded electric guitar body. The video runs 3:46 minutes in...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a demonstration of making a guitar body spread as part of the computer numerical control (CNC) process. Topics covered include selecting the appropriate wood type, gluing the wood pieces together, attaching clamps, planing to desired...

This page from the STEM Guitar Project provides a number of videos on the design and manufacturing of guitars. Videos cover topics like performing basic wood repairs on guitars, soldering and wiring techniques, gluing fretboards to guitar necks and assembling the pickups to the pickup rings. Video...

This video, from the LEAD with Guitars in STEM project, demonstrates the use of a buffing wheel on guitar bodies after the wet sanding process. The host, Doug Hunt, explains the importance of the buffing process and introduces viewers to the components of the buffing wheel and how it works on the...

This video, from the LEAD with Guitars in STEM project, demonstrates the process of buffing a wet-sanded guitar body without the use of a mechanical buffing wheel or in places where the wheel can't reach. The host, Doug Hunt, introduces the two car products he'll use before demonstrating the process...

This video, from the LEAD with Guitars in STEM project, demonstrates the process of spray painting a sealed electric guitar body with a can of spray paint. The host, Doug Hunt, explains the process of preparing the guitar body for painting, and offers some tips and tricks for the spray painting...

This video, from the LEAD with Guitars in STEM project, demonstrates the process of wet sanding the body a guitar after spray painting in order to prepare it for buffing and polishing. The host, Doug Hunt, explains the importance of wet sanding before demonstrating the set-up process and the...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a demonstration of adjustment of the neck pocket depth during electric guitar construction. Adjusting neck pocket depth is described as a way to repair over-sanding of the guitar face and/or issues with neck thickness. The video runs 5:33...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, was recorded at the Guitar Build Institute held at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, California in 2018. In the video Steve Brown demonstrates hand sanding a wooden electric guitar body. The video runs 3:52 minutes in length and is part of...

This video from CUNY Kingsborough Community College describes how to heat fix a bacterial culture to a slide. The demonstration is described step by step and would be easy to replicate in a laboratory setting. Running time for the video is 1:41.