@@KurvyWoodworking All wood ”moves” with temperature and humidity so a truss rod is a must to adjust the guitar to a acceptable ”action”. However your 3-piece neck reduce the risk of a headstock break to a minimum…
@@peterhansson7967 agreed but laminations even parallel to the direction of the stresses help to resist the movement. I also reversed the grain pattern between the two exterior bloodwoods in an attempt to counteract the movement but your right, truss rod is a must regardless
@@KurvyWoodworking You are using two (fingerboard not counted) different wood which means that the will/might/must react differently to temperature and humidity. And even the fingerboard may react differently due to spiecies or grain direction. If the fingerboard expands more then the materials in the neck you risk so called back bow, which could render your guitar unplayable if lacking adjustability. Many guitars have laminated necks and they always have a trussrod installed… Many necks even have carbon fibre rods installed and yet the have a trussrod. In the adjustment of the string height we are talking about fractions of millimeters and some like a little relief in a neck, others want it perfectly straight.
Gibson Slibson.. This is how it's done.. The SG is Without doubt my favourite style of Guitar.. I have several different makes and Models... But this is on another planet.. I'd love to know the outcome of this work of art.. 🔥
@@KurvyWoodworking When do we get to see them? My favorite guitars were luthier-built, my favorite 'stock' guitar was a '74 SG...you combined them with this beauty!
@@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1 haha thats awesome. Both videos are posted on my channel. Links: Double Neck - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kAMTse3Ni7E.html Les Paul Style - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pPtaf3pgCZI.html
for the electronics you can always route out the back...I love sg's when using the rasp on each end of the neck...wouldn't it be easier to use a planer to blend them together than to continue with the rasp...just my 2 cents.
Yes youre right, the bloodwood felt like a piece of steel with its density. The overall weight is 12 pounds (heavy for sure). I think standard gibson sg's weight around 6-8 pounds by using a mahogany body
You could have saved a lot of wood on the neck by glueing ”wings” on the headstock. That is what Gibson does 😉 How did you get the laquer of the frets after the spray painting?
yea picked up the wing trick on the build im currently doing. Helps with the truss rod installation as well. For the frets i used tape and a dremel tool with a high grit sandpaper. I changed it with my les paul build to lacquer it first but it was a nightmare to install the frets afterwards. For my current build im back to installing the frets first
This is a great looking guitar, lovely. I think a consultation with a proper luthier would have helped a bunch, I can tell from the video that the neck and body are very thick, and the nut and fretwork need refining. It’s very cool to see where an incredibly skilled woodworker goes with things that someone who’s strictly a luthier might not. The electronics channel for example, I really like that and how generous the tunnel was. Must’ve made getting the pickup wires through it much easier than a traditional drill hole. I’ve built guitars with wenge before and that stuff is not easy so I give you props for doing it! Stuff splinters like nobodies business and that can be a pain, feels killer under the hands when playing a neck made of it though, fast feeling. You should consider building another but refining it further, I’ll bet with the level of skill you put into this one the second one would be phenomenal, I’d love to see another from you. Overall, great job and great video.
Appreciate it! I agree this is definitely more crude and took a very long time over-thinking every step. I tried talking to a couple luthiers near me but find a lot want to keep information close to the chest but luckily youtube is a good teacher. I actually have made 2 since this video where i resolved the weight and neck issues. First one is a les paul style and the second is a fully custom designed double neck guitar (12-string and 6-string). Process is getting more refined and i still have a couple of kinks to work out but if you're interested in seeing them, they're the latest two videos i have uploaded on my channel!
@@KurvyWoodworking awesome possum, I’ll check those out. Glad to hear you’ve kept going with guitars, my first couple builds were absolute trash compared with those one so you’re off to a great run I think. I’m sorry you ran into luthiers who were stingy with their info, most I’ve associated with were the opposite and very great resources to chat with.
nothing yet but the plan is to pay for the backstage passes on their next tour. Figure a signature on this guitar would be worth the extra couple hundred bucks. Just waiting for them to finally announce another tour!
different guitar styles have different slopes for the neck. It helps with the stresses from the strings so it doesnt bow as easily. since this video, i now cut the slope into the neck of the guitar for accuracy. You can see that in my les paul and my double neck builds
Depends on the step, the plunge router is extremely loud so always use ear muffs when using that tool, but most power tools in the shop arent too bad. The newer generation tools are more quiet.
Did you just glue that neck on the body? No screws or anything. I’ve been wanting to build an sg for a while but the only thing that’s holding me back is the body to neck I can’t find any templates or anything on how to make the bottom end of the neck
Yes i did! Easiest way is to continue the cut straight from the neck pickup void. The cap you install over the neck pickup will cover up the transition. I would continue the neck "trajectory" towards the opening in the neck pickup, and cut the neck slope off of the neck itself. I made two other guitars where i went into more detail for that step (Also, id advise to not make the heel if your doing a glue-up, just straight from the body to the neck)
Its all together just havent taped anyone playing it, in my Gibson Les Paul video i taped a friend of mine who agreed to play it but your right, i should start to look for someone to play it
Awesome project, based on saying " exspecially" i automatically assumed you were in Canada and most likely Alberta lol. Ive never heard such a common word mispronounced so much aside from Espresso again here in Alberta lol.
Nice- you need to reduce the heel though. Why didn't you take the lightning bolts through the upper frets? It kinda looks like you gave up on them half way through 🤣
would have had to shrink the length to accommodate the lightning bolts at the end. I made the inlays but it didn't look right so went for the straight option. Yea started to make a Gibson Les paul look alike and going to reduce the heel and the width of the neck as well.
Depends on the material and style of construction but if i were to make another single neck it would run between $4000-$6000. Latest video i made a double neck though which I would ask for approximately $10k
i removed the lacquer from the frets afterwards. I opted to go with the stratocaster method to spray it all then remove from the frets. As for the fret board i just lacquered as normal. I know some prefer oil but i like the aging you get with lacquer over years of playing
This is the second SG build ive watched and both of you guys used the wrong truss rods , why wouldn't you want to put a Gibson style truss rod not a Chinese truss rod
@@KurvyWoodworking Those are exotic woods and are rarely used in places other than fretboards. I really cannot find ebony and rosewood any more. I just felt bad when I saw that amount of wood in one guitar. Nothing is wrong actually.
@ahh understood. Ebony and rosewood are a lot more rare than these woods (wenge and bloodwood). When i use more rare pieces, i try to laminate the body to get more character / use out of the ultra exotics
quicky .......... essential parts of the built are filmed in very fast speed....... it's probably not ment to be used .......................... so it's useless to look at the movie to learn a thing
nah all my videos are time-lapse but you're right in terms of the quality not being the highest being my first build. I've built two more since of higher quality and hopefully, continue that trend. Check em out!
