Ep 13 - CRISIS AVERTED | Hand Tool Only Acoustic Travel Guitar Build - Guitar from a 4x4 FENCE POST

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Welcome to Crimson Guitars ru-vid.com... and Ben's home workshop.
In this episode, CRISIS is averted. Ben solves the problem he created in the previous episode with the truss rod - and glues in the neck.
#luthier #guitarbuilder #travelguitar #handtoolsonly #acousticguitar
You asked and Ben will deliver...our eccentric (read insane) Luthier will be building an entire guitar out of a single piece of Mahogany! With hand tools only...hopefully!
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:22 The neck and the truss rod dilemma! Ben discusses the options
2:51 Decision made - on with the build .....
11:57 It all worked and the neck is in place. Now to finesse the fit.
19:11 Measuring the break angle
21:25 Adding strength to the neck pocket
22:35 Shaping and sanding the neck - some more!
24:14 Preparing to stain the sides of the fretboard
25:00 Using Crimson Black Spirit Based and Amber Water Based Stains
26:48 Glue in neck pocket cured - in with the neck
27:39 Glueing and clamping the neck
33:04 Conclusion
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@aaax9410 Год назад

I prefer the home workshop :)

@BavarianBarbarian69 Год назад

Agree, it was way more chill and more private without sounds from other People working

@indiebekonn Год назад

Same! ✊🏻

@markbader4942 Год назад

11:40, re: miscalumulated, my son who's now 15, when he was first learning to talk said, 'reneckonize' when he meant 'recognize'. He quickly outgrew his mistake, but the rest of us still use the non-word, cuz it's fun.

@sichiatric1079 Год назад

"When working with chamfers, you don't want to cut corners" - This Old Tony

@Kevin-nr9lj Год назад

So relieved to see the neck installed to the body. Can't wait for the next episode.

@darylccc Год назад

25:54 For staining straight lines like that, I've found electrical tape is the perfect tape for this, will get you a perfect line with no crinkley edges and will not let anything wick under it. Unless you add too much stain and the wood itself wicks it under the tape... Looking forward to seeing this finally finished! It's been just a little wee while ;)

@GP-Music. Год назад

Over a year in the making! Finally coming together! Uncle Ben never ceases to impress me, Its been a long time coming.

@DylanGladstoneMusic Год назад

I’d love it if your next project was a carved arch top jazz guitar. With your background in violin family instruments the carving would be very interesting to watch.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars Год назад

Just picked up some really nice thumb planes.. and one of my next guitars is a Kauri 335 style with hand carved top and back.. so you will get your wish my friend!

@DylanGladstoneMusic Год назад

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Awesome! Thank you!

@davidwellings2783 Год назад

This build is proving better (…and more nail-biting!) than any thriller! Can’t wait to see/hear this instrument!😊😊❤️❤️🍷🍷🎸🎸

@averagejoe4521 Год назад

As always. Inspiring. I have a cool idea for a finish. Since the wood was a fence post. You could use barbed wire. Heat up the barbed wire and brand the wire into the wood around the outside perimeter of the top, and maybe around the sound hole rosette. Also branding a big C for Crimson into the top. Burn it! LOL. Thank you.

@brucefaulkner30 Год назад

Ben, you are learning! I loved how you started to ask us how we would finish the detail on the guitar and then stopped in your tracks. Let's face it, asking the community would have been carnage.

@poe8259 Год назад

Beveling the edges to make it pretty was for the future luthier that does a repair to admire.

@normbarrows Год назад

"Go make some sawdust. Stop watching me. Get in the workshop." I watch these videos while I work in the workshop. While watching this video I sanded clear coat on a trem claw screw block, and applied clear coat to a trem claw screw block and a curved triangle guitar body. I'll be cutting out another curved triangle guitar body while I watch the next Crimson video.

@MrGREYMATTERS Год назад

Imust say that the intro was BRILLIANT!

@bramweinreder2346 Год назад

I really admire how you get every job "just right" so that it only needs a minimal amount of finishing. What always killed me was getting rid of all the tool marks, mistakes etc, and then I told myself that everyone makes mistakes, and that every detail that gives away parts of the process is a maker's signature. It's all a matter of experience. I should have started younger, kept it up, invest more time and equipment etc. It really is great fun. Even RU-vid interprets the tool sounds as music and laughter.

@danwittmayer6539 Год назад

The guitar looks so beautiful with the neck installed! So resonant when you tap!

@dominictramonte2687 Год назад

Hey Ben. I love this guitar build. In fact, I love all your guitar builds. Electric, acoustic, doesn't matter to me. I come to watch a master at work, and that you are. Frankly, I don't love the other videos so much; but then I don't have to watch them either. I understand that repairing guitars or refurbishing them must be a large part of any luthier's life, but I don't want to watch them doing it. I am not a luthier-- perhaps I should start-- but I am a woodworker. I gain much knowledge-- at 65 years old I already have a bit, but I am living proof you can never learn it all-- from watching how you solve the inevitable problems. But I would be equally entranced by your building a cabinet or a jewelry box or hand carving a walking stick or doing anything with wood. You build guitars. So be it. That counts as woodworking as far as I am concerned. And your hand tool only build? I'm in hog heaven. I don't mind your using the bandsaw to carve out the general shape. I use both species of tools as my needs change and the job requires, myself. But oh yes! Bring us more hand tool builds. That's fantastic.

@brianblair1478 Год назад

I've been watching you for years. I've just realized that every time you are stressed, I am entertained. Literally laugh out loud at your demeanor & facial expressions. If I wasn't a guitar builder, it would still be enjoyable. Thank you, for being you! Not that you could be anyone else.

@ianthomson9363 Год назад

I loved the evolution of the back of the neck joint, and it has much more resonance than I'd expect from such a small-bodied instrument. Can't wait to see the final result!

@jipes Год назад

Excellent Ben, love these steps ! Would love to see a decoration of branches and leaves taking their roots at the bottom of the body !

@bramweinreder2346 Год назад

Now that you mentioned it, I would exactly have made it like a Les Paul neckpocket. It would have been very easy to glue the inserts in, and the narrow pocket would make a dead stop for the neck, increasing sustain by stronger contact due to string tension. It would be a blind solution, nobody would be any wiser, and it would have accidentally turned into a stronger construction :)

@alexhodson3205 Год назад

As an old school Joiner by trade, budding luthier by hobby, I'm loving this build mate.

@Forest_Fifer Год назад

13:08 OK I giggled. So did you. If you say you didn't you're lying....

@robertmansell3667 Год назад

I want you make a rubber stringed acoustic bass twin for this little beauty 😍

@dwightpries8330 Год назад

It would be interesting to see a build where you left all the tiny facets on the body created by your chisel work. Rustic but also like faces on a jewel. Then contrast the body with a beautifully shaped neck.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars Год назад

That is a really cool effect actually, Gibson have done it on some production guitars and I loved it

@bjorn8357 Год назад

Nice solution, it is coming together. And now more personal note. Be careful to not overwork and end up crashed into a wall. I know that you have zillions of exciting things going on, and projects to do and so on, but in this video got a feeling that you might be on your way of overworking. I sincerely hope I am wrong. Out of personal experience I know that you can do it and have fun at the same time and live on new exiting projects and positive feedback (and more coffee, for those of you who use that) for a long time until it just stops. And that really s**ks. Don't try that one! And the worst part from my own experience and a lot of other people I know is that most of us don't get back to what we were before. Some lucky people manage to do so, but probably not most of us. Listen to what people close to you tell you. They most often knows better than you think. And for us, your followers on YT, we have just to accept if you slow down a bit. That is far more better than a video telling us that you have to stop for a unspecified time. The fact that the luthier teardown more and more is made by other people, and you get others involved in the videos is good. Lowering the workload a bit. It is hard to slow down but it is even harder when you hardly manage to get out of bed one morning because all you systems say no. I have learned a lot from your videos, and hope to do so in the future too. And I love the creative process, mostly not straight forward (should it ever be that?), creating really nice things. Take care! (And yes, I am a very bad user of social media and haven't yet managed to get a Telegram account)

@jessieward2964 Год назад

I love seeing the excitement in Ben's face when an idea comes together haha, it's quite inspiring and funny in a fun way lol. Thanks for another great video!

@nickguitar737 Год назад

It's looking awesome, glad you managed to squeeze in the neck without changing the pocket. The finger board looks great with the stain! And it rings nicely, can't wait to hear it in action. Great to meet you at the show the other week. Cheers!

@lorenzofaglia9796 Год назад

21'42" ... Actually Ben read my mind: "Are you seriously using the guitar as a bench???" 😁

@muttcrewmusic Год назад

Really great stuff. Such a pleasure to see you "figure it out as you go along" - like we do. Can't wait for the bridge and finish, and finally the first sound check.

@jonnya9803 Год назад

Absolutely loving this build, it’s really interesting to see how you work through the problems that get thrown up during a build. Although I’m not sure it’s good for my blood pressure!

@sfawke1 Год назад

Really enjoying this! One hack for avoiding wicking of stain under the masking tape could be to use Frog Tape. It gives a nice crisp line when use with paint so might work with stains too

@twissted1277 Год назад

I made a cobble wood floor with some 4×6 beams that I cut each tile then rounded the edges of each tile. Then glued to the subfloor and used the sawdust with the clear coat to use as grout. Sanded after that and finish with 3 more coats of just the clear. Fun stuff. I really enjoy your work.

@chriszook222 Год назад

Lol “it’s fine we’re fine we’re good” … really enjoying this series

@bobbyjackson4452 Год назад

Here in the United States, there's a painter's tape called Frog Tape. It's specifically made to not allow paint/stain to wick under the edge like with standard masking tape. I'm sure you could order it from Amazon to give it a try.

@guitfidle Год назад

Fun stuff!! I can't wait to see how this turns out. I am actually watching this in the background while I am cleaning up the fret ends on my second ever refret on a bound fretboard. So much more difficult than making one from scratch, but it went pretty well, I'm happy with the results. Almost done with this old Harmony 😍😍

@patriklindholm7576 Год назад

At 17:25 you're powdering the thing with fairy dust 🧙‍♂

@rauschguitars Год назад

Nice to see this one coming together! I love that sanding stick, need to get one.

@gregoryh4601 Год назад

Ben have a Great Holidays. Glad to see You Back Home at your Workshop 👍🏻

@danielchristensen4780 Год назад

I kept eagerly checking the channel for this update! I know you do a lot of Electrics, but I really like you Acoustics. I was worried last time that the mistake was going to table this build for more than 2 months. Looks like your over the hump though. I imagine you'll be done in 2 or 3 videos now. Christmas Guitar?

@chrishooker7727 Год назад

Great job so far, Ben! Can't wait for more!

@MrLinkDay Год назад

Coming together beautifully!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars Год назад

Thank-you

@jimgraves4197 Год назад

Well saved, Ben. I had "steam the top off" on my bingo card....

@CrimsonCustomGuitars Год назад

I am.so glad I didn't need to do that!

@jimgraves4197 Год назад

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Indeed!

@matt_phistopheles Год назад

A while ago I used the superglue trick to attach the clamping blocks to the clamps to keep them in place while positioning them. This connection will have enough flexibility for movement while still holding everything together until the clamp pressure takes over.

@anthonyjones7871 Год назад

Thank you for this and other video series. Very relaxing and inspiring. To strengthen super glue joints, you can add bicarbonate of soda. You can also add pencil lead scrapings for even more strength

@CrimsonCustomGuitars Год назад

Thanks for the tip!

@bevo65 Год назад

The next journey? I must say that I like your one-off hollowbodies. They’re fascinating!

@robertr4193 Год назад

Looking good getting close.

@SergeantSphynx Год назад

I have really enjoyed this series. So much so that I even preordered the kit that is based on it and cannot wait until that ships. I may be a little biased, being a bass player, but I would love to see another bass build and am curious to how you would do an electro-acoustic bass.

@tonymurphy2624 Год назад

On a build without tool constraints, I'd have lopped off the adjuster end of the truss rod and made a joint so I could shorten it to within a short length of centimetres of the block, so it could be inserted in home position but angled on entry. Attacking the problem from the other side, in other words. Sod mucking about with all that with only hand tools, though. Been missing the streams a bit. Must come and make some memes at you.

@Craftlngo Год назад

Ben, thanks for introducing me to Triton Tools and ISOtunes! I've bought the Triton track saw and the ISOtunes free aware so far. And I couldn't be more happy with the decission to spend my money on it

@CrimsonCustomGuitars Год назад

Great to hear!

@sinocte Год назад

Collect the shavings from your various projects, all that amazing wood, and mix them into clear resin for a guitar body. I feel like it would be pretty amazing to have sort of a playable history of your builds.

@rayrayokmusic Год назад

Loving this build. Like the old Ben Crowe. Thinking on his feet.

@glarrymoreme Год назад

You should Paint it as a skyscraper with the head stock as the top of the building

@stuartgrier5605 Год назад

I was doubtful in this guitar, but i am enjoying this build.

@dalgguitars Год назад

Great series. thanks so much.

@dezreltro7526 Год назад

Love the build, and would love to see a scrap wood/off cut guitar build for the future!

@shoutykat Год назад

That tap test at 27:05 was a bit special!

@simonorchard1115 Год назад

I'm still maintaining it's a Star Destroyer with added guitar neck ;)

@MangledGuitars Год назад

That worked a treat!

@wrstew1272 Год назад

Frog tape was made expressly for the situation with the fretboard staining. If not available there, blue Scotch is your friend. Just saying… with your shop you can justify a bulk order to keep the price reasonable. From a boat shop supervisor/ parts guy

@MrEdnap Год назад

It’s looking great! I love that you still make time related promises😂 I’ll put money on you getting carried away with the purfling 💵

@peejay6930 Год назад

The blue masking tape you can get from Screwfix is far less "crêpey" and gives a solid edge

@giuseppeforesta5215 Год назад

Bravo Ben!

@brantradcliffe3478 Год назад

I want to see him do a power tool only build I have seen hand tool only builds but with the amount he uses hand tools I think it would be a fun change of pace

@moogoomoogoo5990 Год назад

Great solution

@TheScubaboy56 Год назад

Yesssss new vid!

@CastlebayNet_Music Год назад

Carving the heel: this is why I'm thankful to be ambidextrous.

@fepatton Год назад

20/20 hindsight and all that, but would it have been better to use a mandolin truss rod even if it meant sacrificing a few cm of coverage? Loving this build!

@n3wnestor266 Год назад

i tried to build this guitar too, and i also f***** up at joining the neck to the body. Even i saw your mistake in last episode... AHHHH Stay healthy and make some sawdust ben :)

@MrFengen Год назад

For once I'd like a "worn" finish - to mimic the rough internal wood.

@jimmytree1936 Год назад

The next GIANT journey should be exactly that; travel somewhere where they harvest sustainable woods used in commercial guitar building. Its a win-win situation, gets you out of the "office" for a few days and brings awareness to those companies doing "the right thing". I love this build so far, the tone of the wood-tapping so far sounds promising!

@samuelhcohen Год назад

Ben: after watching you drum your fingers on the body to test the resonance, YOU SHOULD BUILD A CAJON! Not a guitar (duh), but it would be fun to watch.

@blindcanseemusic Год назад

Acoustic pick up, would make this guitar more useable. Pick up choices would be interesting

@oldshad65 Год назад

Love that guitar,

@selsdon7073 Год назад

As I'm sure others have already suggested, use fine line tape, instead of masking tape, to get a better line

@bobtrussell2865 Год назад

Very nice, really good video work.

@JamesMears76 Год назад

It's really looking good 👍

@pvdguitars2951 Год назад

Rectangle the neck pocket and glue in wedges from the outside.

@toblexson5020 Год назад

Just had a thought. You could have the fretboard stain transition to the neck with a burst/fade rather than a solid line. That's something I've never seen. Sort of like a sunburst neck.

@mikewilliams1576 Год назад

Next project... POWER TOOL ONLY BUILD... "going to do some delicate detailing around the sound hole, but I have to use an SDS hammer drill... wish me luck!".

@Intermernet Год назад

"should only take a couple of episodes"... ❤️

@markmilligan8773 Год назад

Wonderful solution 👌 👍 and if you hadn't said anything it would have looked like it was planned😀

@Birkguitars Год назад

Already planning the next build? Well with Sophia arriving and all of the goodies in the last delivery it has to be a full acoustic.

@wmlye1 Год назад

I think this is the first time I've heard you say "cool, but not today". Adulting is hard!

@grubsrust299 Год назад

Have ya tried vinyl masking tape? It's mostly used for auto body paint but it tends to have a lot less bleed through

@realitystudioscustomshop Год назад

coming together nicely... am I the only one that heard a slight rattle when you tap tested the top?

@coulos1971 Год назад

I love your job. I envy your skills...

@wertawonka Год назад

Gibson Grabber style bass maybe with a smaller body and a nicer scratch plate. Keep the sliding pickup idea

@cheapskate8656 Год назад

I think you may have just "hit on" a cool drum design. That shape allowed for a lot of different sounds. As a guitar, its looking very cool. This is something I would definitely own and play.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars Год назад

Cool, thanks!

@atakdragonfly1675 Год назад

Ben's chisels always look like if I had one in my hand, I could kill a charging rhinoceros with it!

@davidglynnguitars8119 Год назад

Too late now, but did you think about wetting the wood of the neck and compressing it with C Clamps just enough to make it fit. when it dries, it will expand back out and make a tight joint. Just a thought, but I know that goes against the idea of keeping the wood very dry.

@kennethdon3619 Год назад

so did the extended part of the truss rod not simply screw off?

@mickcarr2744 Год назад

You should read the comments in the last video, you did pretty much what I suggested.

@harugrin Год назад

Lovely guitar! Excellent craftsmanship. Will be there plans available on the site? I would love to build one of those for myself. Peace and long life! 🖖

@CrimsonCustomGuitars Год назад

We will be. Please email office@crimsonguitars.com to let Rikki know you are interested. Tell him Ben said you should be first in the queue. Ben

@bryaghoflegend2796 Год назад

I would love to see a 12 string electric 🎸.

@OssianEMills Год назад

So, you’ve made a fretted cajon? 😊

@thegingerdrumtech4253 Год назад

I love your videos Ben; I am saving up to do a 3-month acoustic guitar building course next year. would i be able to do it with just hand tool? no elastic trickery... not even a battery pistol drill or polishing wheel ;)

@CrimsonCustomGuitars Год назад

You would.. mostly.. bending the sides and thicknessing the wood are not things I would want to do without electricity 😫