Thank you for sharing your guitar hang-ups! Always a pleasure to see your process and always impressive that you share your mistakes along with your triumphs.

This is an awesome system! I will definitely be making it for my paint/finish shop. I look forward to you posting the DXF files. Thanks for all you do for the guitar building community.

Very well thought out, clean and most of all functional! Nicely done!

Love the video. It's great to see the problem solving and innovation you put into your process. The lounge music cracks me up.

Great video guys! Killer set up!

Really cool thanks for sharing

Well done and well designed!

Very smart ! Thanks for sharing

Awesome... what a great idea!!

That system would work for all kinds of stuff. Not just guitars. Really neat idea. 👌

Great solution!

Freaking genius! Good for starting a shop too

Super handy. Like them a lot. Only suggestion, sunlight thru the windows if they hang a long time. Very nice.

Cool idea!

very similar concept as the camera strap system from peak design. Awesome tool!

Thank you, for sharing a great idea. Take care.

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing!

Very cool boys! Cheers

If you need a place to hang multiple guitars you are welcome to send them over to Melbourne Australia. They can hang at my place...can't guarantee I'll return them though 🤪love your work...very helpful and inspiring. Just finished my first maccaferri style gypsy guitar and I cannot wait to put what I've learned from you into the next one.. thanks xo

Looks great. My thought would be keep the size or larger and have two hangers per unit. Maybe angle them out 30-40 degrees from vertical so guitars clear each other. Twice the storage per unit!

Love the hanger system. One small tip not for the hangers, get some window screen to put over the air-vent for the shed to reduce potential bug issues.

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I hadn’t thought of that! Great tip. I’m at Home Depot now, so I can grab it right away haha

I like how you used instrument glue for this. Poetic

Nice job. Can't help thinking it's a bit of an over-engineered solution though. A few laths of wood strung between the joists with a series of CNC cut dovetail mortices in the faces would have held the ends of the body/neck handles, if the handles came off the CNC with dovetails on the end. Even metal bars with hooks on the end would have been cheaper and easier to make. But I suppose when you've got all that expensive kit sitting there, and time on your hands to be able to design and engineer it all, the temptation must be to make something complicated with it.😉

As an aside, just to let you know that I tried out your* trick for applying a veneer with dried titebond and an an iron. And it worked beautifully, first time for me, even though i'm not a luthier, at all. Had a tele body with a nice figured maple top which i bought ages ago. Had stained it and oil finished it, and really liked the sort of washed out denim kind of colour it ended up with. But the neck i had bought was just plain maple. So i tried the titebond veneer trick to cover up the plain headstock with a nice figured maple. Just soaked the veneer initially to curve it to match the profile on the headstock, and then used the Titebond. Worked so well. Thanks for passing on this excellent tip *Can't remember offhand where it originally came from. I think you mentioned it when you were showing us how it worked when applying a veneer to the arm comfort bevel in your 3000 year old guitar series.

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Well shit, it sure sounds like you're a luthier now haha! I'm glad I could help you out my friend! I wish we could post photos in the comments because I'd love to see how it came out!

@timbeaton5045

2 жыл бұрын

@@DriftwoodGuitars Yep, no photos... anyway, I am definitely not a luthier ...yet. But next project is a 5 string bass, for which bought a neck, but it needs fret dressing, and a set up, but i will make the body etc from bare wood. If that goes OK, then it's on to a full 5 string bass build, neck and all. And just to be awkward, it'll be a multiscale. Have drawn up the dimensions and the various string scales (in Affinity designer), so will print out at 1:1, and use a rectangular aluminium extrusion to create a ruler for the sizes I want for the frets. Going to take a while, but baby steps, as they say!

using the noodle aka brain (at least in my book), I think that is the main prerequisite for working on guitars. think out of the box, make your own tools, that work for your situation. live to fight another day. cheers and ty for sharing.

Try compression bit. Best of both worlds… nice top and bottom finish

Nice!

That's really cool! One thing I'm wondering - is the temp and humidity needed for the wood the same as what you should have for drying lacquer?

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Correct.

Bold move giving it away, when finished with the design, you should licence this out to Stew Mac for mass production - that way anyone without a CNC can have this great tool.

Haha, I been telling my co works at Gibson that we need to let the guitar rest for 2 weeks before wet sanding. At Gibson the guitars dry for 8 hours and if they are lucky, 3 days.

@kevinmorris7722

2 жыл бұрын

At least two weeks. The new SG has been here for 4 months and it has visible srink. Was perfect when it arrived. Now you see small small waves. And tiny grits from the paper used. Tiny, but there.

Nice.

Heck, as a hobbyist I’d buy a smaller version for my shed. Seriously, you should sell those.

Looks cool. Seems like drilling a hole in the handles and hanging them on nails would have done the trick though.

Great design. I'm *slightly* worried about the glue+pin-nail joint from the large guitar holders to the horizontal supports. I would think a screw in that long-grain to end-grain connection would be a 'good idea' - would hate to see that glue joint give way under the hot FL sun and drop a guitar to the floor!

@nolimitsldr

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think there will be much front to back force to separate the two pieces. And the weight of the guitar isn’t going to put pressure on the glue joint.

Maybe a date labeling system?

Clever design. I was wondering how you were going to prevent the guitars from swinging at the bottom.

@enjoybrad81

2 жыл бұрын

They don't swing tho.

have yall seen rex kruegers series on moving into a professional shop space? pretty informative stuff and i highly recommend his channel in general for all sorts of woodworking stuff

should you not add the celing sheets first? :)

Hey guys , Im in a 2 car garage,packed to the gills with tools. Id sure like to see a shop tour .seems you have more walk around room and a small booth? 🙀🙀 thanks

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

We're just about to do an entire series about our new upcoming shop remodel, so stay tuned!

Thought I was watching an old Bob Vila show. 🤣

"I went ahead and pre-drilled the sides" - the point at which you realize that if you'd thought of it sooner, you could have had the CNC do the work. :-)

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

100%

Did you put enough screws in to secure those hangers? 😅 Nice job!

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

I guess we'll find out haha!

Gonna be honest, I wasn't even aware you built solid body guitars. How did I miss that?

@enjoybrad81

2 жыл бұрын

He put out a video a little while back talking about it, as well as, some videos of them making the new electrics.

Not wanting to be that guy but I really think what made you guys work best on here was the non scripted approach.

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the feedback, and you'll still see some of that here, but we want to do the type of videos that make us excited, and this is more like it. I cant be everything to everyone, so I think it's time that I do what makes ME happy.

@Buildingskynet

2 жыл бұрын

@@DriftwoodGuitars I hope I do not sound as if I am putting down your efforts, could not be further from it. I also am impressed by the production value you guys have been focused providing. Great content with great information, it was just something that stuck out to me on this one.

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Not at all man. I totally hear ya.

Good solve why did it take so long

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Dont move to a bigger shop for as long as you can ,ask me how I know.

@DriftwoodGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Wise words. Thanks you.

o poopy?

I am worried that you are turning yourself into a production laborer. Is a factory in your future. Talk to PRS and see what he thinks about sacrificing your artisanry. How many batches of 20 do you want to do? Aren't you rich enough already? I am old and build studio furniture one piece at a time. Would you rather be an artist or a labor boss? I love your acoustics, but aren't there enough solid body electircs already?

Nothing worse than guitar body wind chimes!