I Made A 100% Pine Guitar! 

Brilliant build, it turned out really nice and sounds great too. I also picked up a few good tips! Currently building my own so they'll come in handy!

Absolutely great build! Well done! I got so much inspiration and advice from your video. Thank you!

Fantastic and fun to watch build. Thank you Thomsen

Wow, I’m blown away by this beauty. And it sounds awesome, mean metal machine! Just subscribed, think I’m gonna have a lot of joy discovering the rest of your channel. Happy new year young man & master luthier! 👍👌

I have been in this field for only 15 years , I must say your knowledge and skills are outstanding what a great job and sharing it online wish you the best my friend

My local guitar shop had a pine telecaster style guitar built by a local guitar builder. This guitar was beautiful- it had hand wound pickups by the guitar maker and a 4 way switch for parallel/series. He only wanted $800, I asked why it hadn’t sold and the shop owner told me people were turned off when they found out it was pine. Because of this, I thought pine was a terrible choice for a guitar but after playing a friends guitar, I decided I wanted to try out this tonewood. I’m currently building a offset tele with a chambered pine body and big leaf maple neck. This guitar is inspired by the pine guitar that sat in the shop for all those years.

Pine is a wonderful material for guitars! As long as it is bled out (older) so there is no sap. I made a one piece from an old table, just finishing it up now. I love how pine looks when it is finished and the resonance is amazing

WOWWWWWIE!! That thing sounds awesome!! Huge resonance!!

Thanks for taking the time to shoot this whole build, and for your honesty in including the things that perhaps didn't go how you would have liked. I also build guitars but have never dared, yet, build a neck from pine, mainly because of fears about strength. I think the idea of making the neck multi-laminate is a really good one, to optimize grain orientation. And the process of steeping the fretboard in epoxy resin is something that never occurred to me, but seemed to give you a great result. It's all good food for thought. Maybe we really don't need to deplete the rainforests of all the exotic hardwoods! Thanks again.

(Short version now available: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JfJpqMFT4NQ.html ) After such a long while, the wait is finally over. Here is the master edit of the ENTIRE Pine Guitar build from start to finish!

I have to build one for school. That's the perfect video for it. Tysm.

Sounds good, looks awesome !

Thank you for this great journey

Great build!

the guitar turned out beautiful!!!! I love that red burnt finish!!!!

Great work and very inspiring

Love the finish came out pretty cool

Great job Mate!

Structural engineer here, it seems worth noting that most pine species have comparable or better bending values than the typical hardwoods used in guitar builds per our (USA) building codes. You definitely run into problems when knots get involved to be sure but using softer woods like pine doesn't mean it's weak.

👍 For red stain on the burnt pine... Subtle but hell of an improvement! I love burnt wood and the red really seems to even out the sploshiness that often occurs... I'll have to give that a try..

Awesome build homie domie

even the strings are pine too that is very impressive!!

Beautiful instrument

Thank you so much for showing the dogs. When they came into the frame I thought "damn, yeah yeah guitars and all... SHOW US THE DOGS!!!". Fantastic build btw 👍

It is actually very common to build guitars from pine, just going to a lumberstore like you did is not the best way because it needs to dry out for several months or even years before its good to use, how ever i think your build turned out cool and you did a pretty good job with it, even though i see some serious safety issues with the machines during the build, also you get very much better results on the bandsaw if you lower the bladeguide closer to the material you are cutting, and there is several ways to getter results when drilling and such, you are still young and have quite a few things to learn about guitarbuilding... this guitar is a way in the right direction because it turned out great.

I BUILT a pine Strat body 40 yrs ago. --bit soft --but it worked --owner still has it --says its playing superb !

That is abso-fookin-lutely gorgeous man! Congratulations! Best Regards and Best Wishes! If it works for Novo guitars.....

Pretty cool build, I enjoyed it very much. I've been thinking of building a guitar from local arctic birch, I live in Finnmark, Norway. Maybe pine body with a birch top and laminated birch neck. Have to start picking the trees to cut down on my property. Keep up the good work.

Never mind --long as its a solid joint ---pine resonates ok with strings ---built mine 40 years ago --still sounds good !

thats cool in pine its more work to get that smooth look in a finish nice guitar rock on

This dude is a craftsman.

Here I started to watch your video, not watching it wholeheartedly at that moment. Only when I noticed the Finnish text on the planer I rewinded and picked up on your accent. Jätkä oliki suomalainen! :) Eniveis. Jatkan katsomista.

This is a great guitar sir... and i love that you filmd the whole process. I started building a guitar with pine... and it really sounds fairly good... the only issue i had with my pine guitar is that is can easily dent.... and a rat ate/bit a small chuck to it... so i decided to change my guitar body to mahogany...

This is by right a great guitar. One pickup is enough. For versatility, I would strongly suggest adding a tone knob. Love this video and keep up the good work.

I’ve started making my first electric, so naturally I’m researching on RU-vid. This is a great video! Thank you for taking the time to do this!! Unfortunately I will be ordering a neck, lack of hand tools plays a role in my build. How about a poor mans build WITH poor mans tools? (Mainly for my enjoyment lol). I’m working with a table saw, chop saw, chisel set, a jig saw and router. And endless amounts of sandpaper. I’ve put all this to work on the best pieces of pallets I could find...I think I will be investing in some luthier tools after this. Again, great video and THANK YOU!

Pine body with maple necks and single coils is my favorite.

Nice "painting". Looks great 😂

This was a great video...thanks very much for sharing your knowledge. Im thinking of making a pine guitar...simply because i have pine readily available and i have basic tools, so its given me a bit insight. Ive always asdumed pine would be structurally sound enough to make a guitar neck..ive witnessed some tough pine in my day. Its also a very easy wood to work with, when you havent got the greatest heavy duty tools.

Man, when you pulled out that spade bit, my heart stopped for a second. They tend to be so messy, tear out central. Forstner bits are the way to go. Really enjoyed watching your work tho.

Thanks for the very interesting build video. The guitar sounds very resonant, and totally works with metal type gain. For my taste the clean tone is perhaps a bit too dark. Did you use a 250k potentiometer? The burning/staining/finish work came out really great as well!

Neat videos

Beautiful guitar sir! I would try this challenge myself, IF i had a huge professional wood shop like you do... but I do not.

nice guitar man, I am just getting into building, and decided to make one out of pine myself

I‘m mainly an acoustic player, but the guitar sounds great to me. Pretty cool project. Seems like something like this would be a cheap way to learn guitar making. If you screw something up, it won‘t hurt the wallet so bad. Anyway, cool video!

After more than a year’s time is there any noticeable neck movement? I made an all pine guitar 2years ago and it’s still perfectly straight. I reinforced the neck wit carbon rods and an epoxy resin “shell” though. Next one up will be an all accoya pine 7 string. Nice work!

How dis you align the neck ? No gaps in the joint!

i believe that if you had glued the neck boards with epoxy you would get a stronger neck because it s less elastic than wood glue. Great project, great result!

Thats a great build mate. I’m a firm believer in the wood making bugger all difference to the tone of a guitar. The neck is impressive but since you laminated it, should be pretty stable. Only slightly odd thing is the pickup placement, it’s in a bit of no mans land there lol Having it further back would brighten up the cleans and make the distortion more punchy. Going to do one with plywood for my next build, the last one was wenge and mahogany, so a bit of a difference lol

My Squire Classic Vibe tele has a solid pine body. I think they all do.

The paint was a problem on the body --so I used 3 coats of wood primer --then old fashioned auto enamel metallic blue ---peeled slightly --

Nice

Excellent video and content.. pretty rough.. crafty and handy for this one! I loved that.. I’m doing my own guitar project.. CADing.. sketching and drawing meanwhile I get with the woods and tools.. but I have one question.. how do you managed to don’t get all rocky frets hammering those into the fretboard? I know the post leveling with the level sanding will let them nice and even! But I would appreciate some enlightenment about how it would done with some device or tool to match with the radius!

amazing job! :) so there is no real issue with a pine wood for the neck???

Is balsa wood in a hardwood cadagory . Douglas fir is harder then most hard woods.

Here in Australia we have King Billy Pine and the no- longer harvested Huon Pine (it is sourced from a damn in Tasmania now - yes Underwater!). ANYWAY Nowt wrong with Pine! Can be Beautiful. Many early instruments like Viol de Gamba's and some Double basses are made of Pine. Huon Pine looks like Ivory sometimes. Try some King Billy on an Acoustic. Well done, Brother.

Great build nice video I don't think I would waste my time with the Pine Neck though just too soft I'd be afraid of it warping in the future

How has the neck held up? Has it developed any twist or other issues?

Hey, Awesome build! what did you do to the buzzing frets? (:

Great video! What was the name of the epoxy used on the neck?

cool.. how is the neck 2 years later? Is the neck angle adequate to prevent string buzz without using string trees? It looks pretty awesome. Good job

I would build a jig for the neck to keep it from wiggling around while sawing the fret slots, And have you ever tried wipe on polyurethane? It’s absolutely Brilliant and no need for the mask. And since it is Pine would offer a beautiful finish minus the buffing and polishing. Cheers!

Where do you buy all hardware from? Meaning, bridge, pickups, frets, pots, pegs, etc. And is there a brand you would recommend for a balanced Price-quality relation. Thank you in avance.

Yes, I use cotton as well.

Wow

Great build nice video I don't think I would waste my time with the Pine Neck though just too soft I'd be afraid of it warping in the future but doing it the way you did will probably be okay because you turn the Grain on his Edge so you might get away with that we'll see

I had to build one from scatch for my studies at Harvard. I just pretended like I was Jack Black in the School of Rock.

I was not surprised about the body, but the neck with a pine fretboard really threw me. Although, I also was greatly surprised that it actually worked. There must be some physics involved why this neck worked as well as it did.

Yeah, spade bits always feel like you're fighting your way through the wood by repeatedly punching it. I feel more comfortable using a stepper bit to get most of the way there, then clear out the hole with a spade bit. But I'm no means an expert. It'll be interesting how it stands up over time, I don't doubt the body will be fine - and because you laminated a lot of bits of the neck perhaps there'll be no movement there. I enjoyed that.

Okay. So very high quality pine can probably be used to build electric guitars. Like old growth Southern yellow pine which is harder and more stable than many hardwoods. But only the best with fine, straight grain and no knots. But that wood is actually more expensive than many hardwoods like ash and locust. The pine at the home center, even “select pine”, is very soft, can be almost any species, and will bend and twist and warp all over the place. For a guitar body it doesn’t really matter much. But for necks, forget pine. Leo Fender found that out 70 years ago.

Exceptional work man !!! And sound s impressive , with 2 knobs an2 pickups would make a big difference....a friend of mine did one guitar from his mother s onion chopper 😂

One year later, how would you say the neck has held up? I would expect at least a little bass-side twist.

34:25 is the top of the neck flat to the top of the body ?

i love the riffs you played on "clean" tone. what are the songs you played? :)

Now you just need to add a black Tele knob for the finishing touch.

How do you calculate where the pickup should go?

Bodywise, pine is perfect. Resonants very well and is lightweight. I would not use it for the neck or the fretboard. Just make sure you avoid big pockets of sap.

The problem is that "pine" is often a generic term for common construction lumber...which might actually be any of a dozen or more kinds of actual "pine" or other coniferous wood such as fir, spruce, cedar with varying degrees of hardness. In that regard, spruce or cedar is already the preferred wood for acoustic guitar tops...and strong cypress is preferred for flamenco guitars. (...with backs & sides as thin as 1/8 inch). BTW, since large lumber purveyors store hardware & such goods indoors, but much of the lumber in outdoor racks in the "yard", the most common name for such a place, at least in the USA, is as a "lumber-yard", while the company itself is likely to refer to itself simply as a "lumber company". Southern (USA) Yellow Pine, which is commonly available in Europe....though significantly softer than Maple or Rosewood...is significantly harder than the Alder, Poplar & especially Cottonwood (...Basswood) that solid-body electric guitars are often made of. Plus, for a premium in price (but still less than "hardwood" lumber) construction timber is available in "clear" grade...no knots. And, softwoods, as if done with maple, can be hardened somewhat by "roasting" at close to 400 degrees F for an hour or so. Bamboo is laminated all in one grain direction, unlike normal plywood. So, I don't see why that or SW - "strand woven" bamboo can't be used for fingerboards, as this can have a Janka hardness rating of up to 4000...similar to ebony & more than twice that of rosewood or maple And, it is dimensionally stable at varying temperatures & humidity. You could start with a piece of bamboo flooring, costing a few dollars, that can be planed & sanded to the appropriate radius, with uniform color thru & thru (unlike laminated oak flooring that is really a form of hardwood plywood) and I bet you could create a dense fingerboard to be proud of..

Brilliant process, kudos! But it's not clear to me if the fretboard is pine as well, and if yes if you can share your thoughts about this solution. Thanks!

What guitar pickup did you use?

Does crimson guitars have a luthier school for online because I'm from the United States of America

you play much better that I can

Thank you for saying that microfiber cloths leave scratches. Personal experience tells me so, yet anyone ive encontered who has an opinion stubbornly argues the contrary. They dont beleive whats in front of their nose, or if they do maybe they dont trust their vision, or perhaps blind.

How can I hear what the guitar sounds like when you play clean tones with reverb. Shame, I would really liked to have heard it without effect. The idea was great though.

How has the guitar stood the test of time? Any warping to speak of?

i'm about to make one out of pine. probably pine anyway. assorted scrap wood at my place, i figure i could make three guitars and the wood is old dry and hard as a rock. so i'll watch this for some ideas.

At one time I may have read or heard I can't remember that squire guitars had pine bodys

What is that Amps software you use sir?

On the bandsaw, sometimes your thumb got a little too close to the blade. Please use a push stick, and you'll keep all 10 fingers.

No relief cuts is wild

Beautiful guitar! It seems that pine is a "tonewood". I think it's possible to make a guitar out of any wood (except, perhaps balsa, although even that could be entertaining).

The problem with pine is that it has to be very, very dry because otherwise it splinters easily. But I don't see why pine can't be used as a material to make the body of an electric guitar. The neck would undoubtedly be made of maple, since it is harder and withstands the tension of the strings better.

Leo Fender made early Tele's out of pine (in the 1950s), so why would it not work now?

How thick is your fretboard?

If you want more snark and sass use naughty pine

Do you think pine good for guitar neck build?

How is the pine neck after 3 years? Super curious!

Those are pretty good tools, where did you go to do the woodworking? Is it like a community place?

I am half way through an all pine telecaster. This pops up.

Is the fretboard and neck also pine! This is such a cool guitar

Carmine Guitars make wonderful guitars out of vintage pine nothing wrong with it at all,as you have proved.