Ben it is awesome to see you having fun and I can promise you always bring fun and joy to me. That is why I love watching your videos. I learn so much watching you, but the infectious joy you project is wonderful and a true calling card for Crimson.
Well, thanks to this video I now know I can hold my breath for several minutes!! Kudos to the video producers by the way, the complete absence of background music during the fine work was a perfect choice.
What an emotional rollercoaster. When you snapped the inlay, I jumped in shock, then my eyes filled with tears. And then when you nearly poked yourself in the eyes with your ironic safety glasses, I chuckled. Keep up the good work. Looking fantastic.
I think perfection & precision have their place, which is in high production factory line work. Hand made, especially one-offs, will have their own character. It's expected &, by the right consumer, admired.
same might happen with oil as well..fumes from finishing oil in hot days might start a fire in a place full of dry wood, saw dust, and many thingies fire fells in love with! that is my only comment..as for the build???? i just found myself holding its breath numerous times! well done Crimson people! well done crimson Ben!
Yes, indeed, the close up video brings us much nearer to the difficulty, and to the amount of control needed to accomplish this type of work. Great video!!!
I watched a video of a snowboarder buried head first in deep snow earlier today where he couldn’t breath until rescued and it was less tense than this :D Excellent result as always!
Ben, first off Amazing work👍👍👍👍 Iam glad you brought up this question regarding inlay work, I see a lot of people useing cnc machines that’s fine but to inlay all by hand & I mean the use of a multi tool also that is awesome to see the imperfections ect it lets you know a Human did this*** . Iam blind in one eye & have limited vision in my good eye so I do most of my woodworking & guitar building with hand tools. I did an inlay of a sunflower for my wife last year it was made up of over 25- pieces of maple cut carved dyed & inlayed into a peice of walnut, it took me almost a month to complete it Thank you Ben for teaching me so much over the years. 👍🎸🎼🎹👨🏻🦯👨🏻🦯
I remember an interview with Paul Reed Smith where he said that his CNC machines were so accurate that they`d to "oversize" the cut`s for inlays to allow room for the glue! Wow, that`s accuracy!
He's done it before. He just finished supergluing side marker dots into a neck, sprayed it with accelerant, then set light to it. Then just looked at the camera with THAT FACE as if to just say "what?"
That is a nice chisel. I could have done with a verry narrow one a couple of weeks ago when I was carving out a 3mm wide socket for a joint. I had to use a scaple to make the narrow cut at the end of the joint.
It's shaping up a treat! So glad to have a new build video this morning; I could happily watch those close-ups for hours. And we got fire too - what more could a girl ask for? Loving it!
FYI: Sharpened jewelers screwdrivers make awesome (albeit temporary) fine work chisels. They don't have the longevity of a hardened chisel but they hold an edge long enough to do fine details.
Ben says that carbon dating is how he knows the age of the tree, but he actually cut it down 42,000 years ago and has just been procrastinating using it. He just doesn't want us to know that he is an immortal being prone to distraction.
Great Video, Langcaster Guitars by Joh Lang from New Zealand, Were the First to Make guitars from Swamp Kauri, Not easy to work with. Keep up the ood Work..
On quite a tangent, Birmingham, years ago now, a theatre hired someone to render the outside of the building frontage. The work was held up because he was sick or something and they figured if they had it done by someone else it would look different. It was finally finished and the texture can't by read after about 10m away. Cost a fortune.
Tiny chisel carving ASMR for the win! Using Super Glue as a pre-finish? Interesting. This series has been really amazing. Glad to see you using a variety of tools and techniques, rather that the guys who do an entire build with an angle grinder and an orbital sander. I have a friend wanting to get into woodworking. I've sent her links to several of your videos (including this one) so she can learn the techniques used for fine detail carving. Thank you for everything you do, Ben.
I haven't seen all of this series so I don't know if this was explained at some point, but I always kept wondering how on earth this wood is 42 000 years old. Today I googled it. "Buried under a peat swamp by an unexplained act of nature at the end of the last Ice Age, the trees have survived the centuries underground, sealed in a chemically balanced environment that has preserved the timber in almost perfect condition." Fascinating stuff. I can't wait to hear how it sounds!
The end of the last ice age would be around 12000 years ago so i dont think it has anything to do with this wood. The buried underground part would most likely be the same though.
@@FINsoininen Oh, you're totally right. I made the mistake of trusting wikipedia blindly. Still, the rest checks out according to other sources too, including NZ government sites, and I am just dumbstruck by the fact that it is workable timber after 40k years underground.
Fantastic, just wonderful. I did wonder what you were up to with that lighter, but then your catchphrase is “Burn it” so I shouldn’t have been surprised. I am just loving this build.
Ben, I would angle the logo so that the neck in the logo follows the same angle as the headstock contour - similarly to what Charvel do with the San Dimas start-shaped headstock.
For me that enjoy seeing engraving inlays by hand, it's awesome :). This inlay looks like a sign marked with old "pen" (calligraphy from ancient asia, something like that), really cool ! And cool little chisel Ben, definitively in my 2023 santa list :D !
Bourbon Moth channel just YESTERDAY put out a video on spontaneous combustion of shop rags soaked in oil. Everybody - yes EVERYBODY - who works in wood should watch it. And then go buy a fire-proof disposal container and make sure your fire extinguisher is good.
Love the way you show your mistakes....and I think the Martin guitar inlays shows that to be human is to make errors....the skill is to get out of those errors. Great vid.... keep em coming.
The placement of the inlay is very well thought out. It's interesting to hear an artistic concept explained in such plain terms. With the lines, it looks like the "Crimson clef" on a music staff. 🤘
For the inlay question, I will always value the work of human hands more than the work of a cnc. My favourite acoustic has those dark sports around the dots on the fingerboard and I love it. It shows that a human put their time and effort into that guitar, rather than someone pressing a button on a cnc. (yes i know people who operate cncs are talented in their own right, but I prefer the perfection of imperfection)
I hope it plays as Beautifully as it will look!🤞🥰 Great Job! Always a pleasure to watch someone take chances and push their skills and their confidence in themselves to a new level!👍 "That'll Do Pig, That'll Do!"🐷😁 Mike in San Diego.🌞🎸🚀🖖
yes, i would love to see more closeups, it would be nice to see more on doing inlays. with closeup, and more on how to fix problems. also how to replace an inlay, and not just dot inlays! i have an early 80's super strat that the mother of toilet seat shark fin inlays are latterly falling out of, and would like to replace with real mother of pearl or abalone.
Super stuff! I was a bit worried about how the logo was going to turn out - especially when the corner started splitting and the logo itself snapped, but it's come out brilliantly. From a quick look it almost seems printed or painted on the surface, but when you look closer and see it is an inlay - super! This guitar is going to be a beauty, but enough about the guitar - what about those gorgeous chisel close-ups? That's what we're really here for ;)
Great work with the inlay! The guitar is turning out great and we can see how much you enjoy the build. I really like the current series and the fact that the build videos are coming more regularly. It's just the best to wake up with a nice coffee and a well made guitar building video on a Saturday morning. To offer some constructive criticism. I do miss some good music. It's a bit too quiet for my taste. A good example were the Nebula 2.0 and Shred video series.
Wondered if you could have used some soft pencil and covered the bottom of the inlay. Then pressed it to the headstock, leaving enough to transfer to the surface. Then cut around the graphite impression? dunno, might not have worked, but might have been worth a try.
Why not use the inlay as an inverse stamping template: place inlay in desired position, a fine carbon/graphite dusting over the inlay, remove inlay, ad fixing spray on the outline and cut away not worrying about the brittle inlay at all. Then gently sand off fixed powder residue.
Would pressing the inlay into the carved section be an option opposed to hammering it in? Or even to create the impression of the inlay into the headstock prior to carving, and maybe using a metal inlay as the template for pressing. Awesome work.
Re your comments on the Martin guitar inlay - I spent many months trying to master marquetry & abandoned the craft because, as soon as you look closely enough, it's never perfection. Huge filled gaps in even the greatest works, which my OCD wouldn't permit.
Sir Ben. Love the close up on craving, maybe next time make Your Logo GOLD color. Also would it be Easier to make a Cookie Cutter Logo First ? How the Number Backpack 🎒🎸doing these Days? Peace Be With You and Wifely and Family
Would a small laser engraver not be a better way to mark out the logo on the headstock then cut the lines with the scalpel? Maybe better than a pencil and tape.? Some of the small lasers are amazing little tools
Ben, To be honest, I'm surprised you didn't put a headstock veneer on it. Normally w/ multi-laminate lines on the headstock , you would cover it up ... Can I ask ; Why didn't you put a veneer on the headstock ??
