"The client has given me carte blanche..." *Flamethrower has entered the chat*

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Love it, so true ;) B

Ben, most of your videos show us dabblers how easy guitar building can be, but every now and then it gets brought to our attention just how complicated and precise you have to be to get something perfect, thankyou, I really like the paradox of it all. I do.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

a paradox indeed and I too love it all so so much! Thank you for watching and for your support! B

Just because perfection is impossible to achieve is no reason to not go after it with abandon.

That speeding up then slowing down coinciding exactly with what was being said was well done.

I want to give props to the editor, because the editing is funny but not overbearing... some people over-edit their videos for the sake of being extra funny but it usually doesn't work well. The purpose of the channel is to be informative more than entertaining, so the dosage of editing is juuuuust right IMO.

Sunday morning, Starbucks coffee in hand. Watching Ben make a guitar from scratch again in a shed. Can it get anymore relaxing?

@MR-vg7yn

3 жыл бұрын

You could try good coffee the next time. :)

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

you could have the coffee on your bench and be building your own guitar alongside me? The sound of a good sharp plane is my meditation! B

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

lol :) you meanie B

@rayrayokmusic

3 жыл бұрын

I was building a neck this morning with my cup of coffee. Parallel universe. #buildwhatyouvegot having some fun with the unofficials.

The comment at the end saying "I hope to have it finished within 1 or 2 months"!!! We are now 9 months later and the build is still going :D Loving this series though!

I can't believe it took me nearly 3 years to realize that Ben is the human embodiment of the feeling you get when you see we fluffy white baby bunny wabbit - pure innocent joy with a touch of craziness. Guess his head tattoo threw me a bit off of that realization... Stay the way you are Ben!

The editor having some fun with Ben's monologing was a good giggle 😂

He claims he thinks we were bored.... to most of us, this is probably our favorite part of watching you build the guitar. The building of a great neck is such amazing craftsmanship. BRAVO!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.. I really was worried that this episode would be a bit flat. happy to be proved wrong though, thanks for letting me know. B

I’ve been putting off gluing my neck just because of how stressful it is and I think I have enough courage from this video to do it today!!

@James_Dawes

3 жыл бұрын

Just make sure you used lots of clamps, and only undo them when you know the glue is hard dried because waiting another hour can save many making a new neck- good luck:)

@asharwasim

3 жыл бұрын

Man you are a beast, good luck

@lueymeteora1410

3 жыл бұрын

Godspeed Brother!

That was a Mr Tawny, it's the smaller missus which has the higher-pitched t-wit. We have a few down my way in Cornwall, they're far more pleasant to hear than the black-tipped/herring gulls!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I agree.. it is somehow a much more friendly noise. B

It's never boring to watch a Master at work !! NOW THAT'S A NECK !!!

Ben, always a pleasure watching your builds, can't wait to watch the next video.

Excellence takes time. Love watching the channel. I’m new to the woodworking/ guitar building arena. Thanks for all the demonstrations and informative videos. Will continue to watch and learn.

I appreciate your experience fully and thank you whole heartedly for your spread of knowledge as it is not only inspiring and useful but therapeutic! Haha! I built one burnt guitar so far and am happy thx to your vids and plan on getting more deeper in luthier-land! Your stains are fantastic! Keep forward and Godspeed!

When he picked up no.7, that was golden. Made my day :) i made guitars when i was a teen and have not done it since, but avidly been itching at buying my tools again and doing it. Therapy for the soul man

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Talitha is adding a lot of little awesome bits into the edits these days.. I love it! And you certainly need to get some tools and get building again, as you say, therapy for the soul! B

I love multilaminates when done well, and you sir, do them very well.

OH MY LORD FINALLY! Ben, I have been waiting for you to build a fanned fret guitar for years. I have not even watched the video and I am so excited!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I thank you for your patience but, there is more to come! so much more! B

I love the multi-laminate necks with veneers that you make, they always look classy. I was beginning to wonder about the double layer of masking tape under a relatively thin workpiece affecting the cut, but I needn't have worried as you dealt with that. Not having to rush to beat an arbitrary deadline is definitely better, it gives you time to think, make design changes and introduce all the little extras that make Crimson guitars unique. I watched the gouges video and enjoyed it, though alas I have none. Maybe one day...

23:27 Sweet multiscale glue application, my hat's off to you sir!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I had to click it to see what you were on about! A happy accident! B

Ben, I enjoy the video content, I've learned more than a few valuable tidbits, even with loving music all my life, playing guitar and bass over 30 years, working on guitars and basses since the second day I owned my first guitar at 14, and building custom, handmade guitars and basses for around 25 years. I can say that we do share mindset and viewpoint on many things, especially the family, wife and kids, being the TOP priority, however, I must disagree with you on something. I can say, without a shred of doubt, that I derive satisfaction, I find fulfillment, and I am rewarded with joy, happiness, and pleasure, from being extremely productive, and efficient with my beautifully sonorous vertical mill (it's like a nicely modernized Bridgeport mill), but I'm equally, if not more uplifted by being even more extremely accurate, and precise, literally removing microns if I'd like, creating beautiful surface finishes in as much or as little time as what suits me, enjoying every chip and fleck if dust I producing, whether working with delicate figured spalted burls, or oily, abrasive and surprisingly resilient and hard, exotic and domestic figured hardwoods, or buttery aluminum or brass, or hard, resonant, and tough Bell Bronze, or any number of tool steels, stainless, and chrome-moly, steels, in normalized, through or case hardened, or comfortably drawn back, or, my favorite materials (nicknamed dtm, difficult to machine), the materials that so many shops feared, didn't know how to handle, and so many shops handed these lucrative jobs to me, involving Superalloys like Inconels, Incoloys, Hastelloy, and Alloy X. Best of all, I can do all of these things, be as brutal hogging material, or as fine and delicate, as I see fit and I can focus on developing a great process, with the most efficient tooling, the most rigid setups, the most repeatable setups, the safest setups and programs, the smartest programming the easiest for the person running the machine mode and unload and come out with perfect parts every time, of course the machine we don't use the word perfect, I can do all those things and have a great CMC process and go work on process is running, or I can stay at that machine and run machine and manual mode where every movement is my movement, and those super fine increment moving hand wheels are so every bit as sensitive and tactile as any other tool in my shop. That Mill may be one of the largest tools, if not the largest tool, in my shop, but it still is just that, it is a tool, and the tools we use are only as good as the skills of the person who has that tool under their control. You love your hand planes, but if that hand plane were put into the hands of my brother, who is the most skilled welder I have ever seen in life, he would probably hand you back a very damaged and very sad Lane is through with it. Tools are only as good, and only as satisfying and only as pleasurable as we can make them as artists as pursuers of our craft. I'll stop rambling and battling and yammering now I apologize if there are grammatical or spelling errors, or if something is nonsensical gibberish, I spoke this monologue into my phone and I don't have time to edit this, I really need to get back to my shop and being productive. Next time I may take issue with your statement on quarter song versus flats on wood in a multi-laminate neck. Because I just always have a problem with generalizations and blanket statements. Take care, Ben, I hope you and your family are doing well.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

no matter the tool or the quality of it in the end it is the maker that makes it work? I feel I would love to meet you and your workshop one day! B

I make laminated longbows. I use a wooden form with an inflated fire hose as a clamp to give even pressure when laminating strips of wood and fiberglass.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to use that clamping technique in the factory for years, saw it in one of the big factories.. maybe gibson? and it is pure genius. I would love to make a bow or two one day at that :) B

I also watch content from woodsmiths (not just luthiers) from around the world, and I discovered a trick to help stop slipping during a glue-up, Ben. Apparently, lightly sprinkling salt onto the glued surfaces before combining them will help prevent any slippage!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Paul, I have heard this and while I haven't tried it yet I absolutely believe it is fact. B

Good to see you building again!

To the Editor. You proper champion!

The roasted sycamore looks awesome! How about to put a small stained chop of that burl top as an inlay on the 12th fret? You know, to make it look more natural.

You make guitar building look so easy

I think that the term you were looking for regarding the benefit of adding the veneers is 'definition' ... As always, an excellent edition made much more interesting than just the technical techniques by your 'story-telling' mannerisms. Inspiring stuff.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

definition! That is it.. that is also a word that I seem incapable of spelling first time around, like.. ever! B

Laminated bowbuilders often use a sandwich contraption with wood block (for recurve shape in this case), firehose, laminates to squeeze, firehose, wood block. Wood blocks get clamped slightly, firehose fills with air. Blocks have protruding side stops. Maybe it's something for a luthier, maybe it's not, maybe you knew this already :)

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I have seen it before in only one guitar workshop.. I think it is at Gibson somewhere tbh and I love the idea! I really want to use it at Crimson one day and really really will if I can make it happen. B

@leif-andersbanan5590

3 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@leif-andersbanan5590

3 жыл бұрын

Was going to say you could build a bow-guitar with that, but I stopped myself because it's a really stupid idea.

Bit chilly this morning... as he has a coffee next to him with Mr.Cool on the cup... priceless

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I stole my sons mug.. but a great unplanned pun nonethless :) B

Good Saturday morning Ben. Thank you for the content. Awesome as always

Really enjoying this more instructive approach to the videos.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.. I do too, very much so. B

Definitely ganna try that rod alignment technique on my next neck glue up. Thanks for the lesson!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Any time! Wax up the steel first though to make extraction a bit easier.. B

This is the exact step I’m on so heckin perfect

Ben, you use a lot of jargon regarding wood types. Would you be able to make a video explainer about what each term means and how that effect is created? For example, how does a plank get the flaming? Or what causes a tree to become burled? Keep it up. Love watching proper woodcarving and the crazy ideas you come up with.

Hi Ben, if you are making this guitar for a customer that has given you carte blanche and it is a Nebula style, why not find out their zodiac sign and do that on the back. You could use CZ's of differing sizes set in silver and silver wire inlay for the star pattern and figure outline. The back is so often ignored except for wood figuring and access covers.

I watched your gouge video! I even then ordered a couple from your other business...looking forward to trying some carving with them. What I need now is a guide to sharpening gouges 😎

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate your support! Here is the sharpening video.. it is very old but still basically how I do it today. B kzread.info/dash/bejne/pGpn1s-gcdWomdo.html

My local wood store has pre-cut strip kits optimized for making cutting boards. I’m tempted to assume these are already “perfect” and ready for glue-up and may just try building a neck from these. I’m not sure that the cost would be reasonable but as I don’t have any planers, jointer or even a bandsaw in my shop I think it’s worth a shot. I don’t feel it could turn out worse than the dowels I’m currently using in my CBG-inspired 3-string instruments.

also you should get some 75mm wide masking tape so you have a level surface under the board and dont have to use weird paper shims to approximate it. thats where the MT+CA trick really shines anyway. ive never seen good double sided tape anywhere in that width, and when you look into special ordering it it costs a fortune if you can even find a supplier. also, when you make the tape wider than the work piece, you never glue the work by mistake when you’re putting the tape down.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

you make a very very good point.. wide masking tape has just been ordered! B

Brilliant neck pack

thank you Ben . great info about the dowel . oh hey i watched the gouge one too.

I'm loving the build so far, but I have to compliment the editor. Very fun lol, good shit.

I enjoy watching all your videos.. they are all very informative :D

Thanks for all the detail. You are inspiring.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome, thank you for watching and for your support! B

Been watching you guys since almost the beginning. Can we have less talk about what you are not going to do and more about the build? / more footage? Nebula 1 is my fave so far though! Love you work Ben

Good move with the metal dowels!

21:46 That's sad indeed, Ben. I found it cool and informative.

Hey Ben, not so gloomy, I just enjoy watching you build guitars. Cheers Dave

Oh, we need an episode about planes. Two things that could demonstrate different planes come into my mind: carving archtops and creating those ultra-thin patterned veneers Japanese use to decorate some of their boxes and other wood items. Might look plenty nice on a neck too.

I love the coffee cup...Mr. Cool.

@Jester-Riddle

3 жыл бұрын

'Beans' must be on the other side ... 😂

Got a good feeling about this one!!!!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

me too, and thank you!

Talethia, you were on fire for this one😁.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. T

not just flat sawn..but booked matched because it will mirror the forces so will not twist

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

did I not explain that in the video? it must have not made the cut.. well spotted Matty! B

Cant wait for the next epi

Love the work ben happy to see a new nebula i thought the first was brain melting esthetically and by the fretboard im guessing that'll continue

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliment, I was incredibly happy with Nebulla 1.. hopefully I can do even better this time. fingers crossed! B

I always wondered, once something as narrow as a neck gets 7 pieces, isn't it by definition, plywood?

@Jester-Riddle

3 жыл бұрын

... Except for those who get their 'Laminate' from the flooring section of B&Q ... !

@mattyburrows9059

3 жыл бұрын

yes correct..but commercial ply is full of voids and normally made from crap..so its one step from saying isnt that just wood..yes it is just wood but....

@Erowens98

3 жыл бұрын

Extremely high quality plywood.

It was the Mister, The female says" Twwwit" and the male says "TooooWhhooo" Ben. And I thought you read all these comments.

@Jester-Riddle

3 жыл бұрын

All Males need to know whether Females are calling them 'Twits' ... so, being wise, Owls ask them directly. Allegedly, in the old days, the Males used to hoot 'ToooWhooom', but hey, standards are slipping ...

So so cool Ben!!

Lovely watch!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.. bronze and snowflake hands.. one of my favourites!

Very nice video! Watched slightly high and thoroughly enjoyed. Editing was great, your presence on camera is becoming so much more natural! Not going to lie, I kind of enjoyed the slightly sped up monologue section. Sped up without the pitch change would be delightful. I often speed up KZread videos to fit them in to my day, although I ugh I watched this at standard speed and enjoyed the pace. Well done, sir. She going to be a pretty Guitar!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a ton!.. I will tell Talitha, I really do feel that we are starting to gel as a team and are producing our best work ever! B

I watched your video on gouges! Please don't be sad, I do enjoy all your content!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

You are wonderful, thank you!! B

Fast and Slow time warp detected.

@philanaemic

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it's known as the "wafflecellerator".

Hi ben alex here so full of excitement that all I heard at the end if the video was inlay I am now so exited oh p.s I love the choose of woods here that caramalized maple looks stunning

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers man.. I'm loving this build so far and am really happy that it is getting a positive reaction! Now, I need to figure out the inlay.. I'm afraid it is going to be a fairly simple one this time.. .B

Craftsman!! Excellent!

You are the first besides myself😎to realize that the tape affects your planing thickness. 👍🏻

Vivement l'épisode 3 !!!!!

Learning about machining has been really useful, Ben! Don't apologise! :)

holy damn! thats some neck'st level stuff. love it already

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

thank you :)

This neck already looks beautiful 🥰 so cool to see you build from « scratch »

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🤗 B

I love this video. I typically buy guitars based off of the neck quality.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

it really is super important.. we were discussing the necks on our new range of guitars today.. I am sure they will pass muster! B

@markinthemix6055

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars I think my first comment was kinda misleading and oh well I was in a car riding and I guess I was blurbing out may thoughts. I was meaning to say that on the veneer pieces add holes throughout the length of the veneer so that the glue would better adhere to the wood on each side of the veneered segment of the neck. You would essentially have wood glued to wood in sections and wood glued to the veneer on sections. I can't see how this would miss.

I've always been scared of plains..... I'll give them a go again

I watch all your videos! I find it fascinating to learn about making guitars! I have do many ideas about making different guitars, but no talent with wood work?

@stormbound_guitars

2 жыл бұрын

I believe talent is a term that is overused and abused. I learned to play guitar with practice, not talent, and I’m learning to build them the same way. Best of luck to you!

Also, why not use a #8 plane? Go all in I'm a serious fan of handplanes as well. That neck blank looks amazing BTW. Thanks for the tip on the pins- I have done several laminate necks, that's my preferred neck, and the pins will come in quite handy.

I really need to save up enough for Ben to build me a bass. With something like 50 broken bones, I think he'll be able to come up with something amazing, and still comfortable to play and manage with the related disabilities. But with 2 kids, one in college and another getting ready to start, it'll be a while....

Personally, I like watching these steps.

Another great build Ben! I’m going to give the gouge video a pity watch now 😜 (I’m only joking, it is in my watch later pile so I would have got around to it!)

Whoa! New video - saw it #18 from Texas

Great video! Could your next build be a semi hollow guitar with minimal tools please? I hope to build a guitar soon thanks to your helpful videos!

Opinion... on the veneer pieces l did see you rough up the shiny finish for better glue adhesive. I wonder if alot holes were added along the full length to the neck then glue would actually adhere to the wood on each side. 🤔

21:40 Ben's Puddles the Clown impression....

Nice tawny owl there!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

my invisible friend in the night. B

@GunnarCreutz

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Tonight I had a tawny owl in my garden too. Sadly it wasn't the male territorial hoot, just an upset "kewick-kewick-kewick". According to Swedish folklore it means that someone here will die tonight ... hopefully it's just a little mouse that will die ...

Would the "salt in the wood-glue trick" not help prevent slipping of the pieces as well or would that affect the why the glue sets too much for your liking?

Very interesting keep them coming .

Dude, you’re freaking me out!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

sorry..? B

This series has a much nicer "feel" to it, more instructional, more natural. Please do include more of the small work, the detail stuff is quite interesting, even if seeming repetitive over all the videos you've made. Keep up the great work, very inspirational.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I realised that I much prefer teaching and while I still plan to do some pure click baitesque and insane builds 'for the views' I will always and repeatedly default to teaching wherever possible.. I am so glad that it is getting a positive reaction in the comments.. B

I assume you’ve tried Exhibition tape? Much better than regular double sided tape

I saw the last vid... my order from vintagetoolshop arrived today ;) :)

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support, and I am glad to hear that while I am away filming etc my staff at the tool shop are being efficient and safe.. did the tools (gouges?) please? B

@robtoothill

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars not tried the gouge yet... work is insane at the moment, but I would be interested in a mini tutorial on gouge sharpening ;)

"... the headstock angle will be broken in... " are you building a gibson???

@ooinvsaoo

3 жыл бұрын

gibson? doing something modern!? 😂😂😂

@ooinvsaoo

3 жыл бұрын

@@joebryant8500 and they were all bulldozed! i will concede the modern flying V bc it has modern in the name 😂😂

@ashscott6068

3 жыл бұрын

He said broken in, not broken off! :P

Of course, the thing that made me laugh is, I started watching this series after seeing episode 24(?) Earlier today... I'd only seen a couple of your vids before (BBC guitar and river/ resin one). You do like making life difficult for yourself... Lol. Excellent looking final product does make the effort worthwhile though.

Is that a Tudor Black Bay? Lovely watch...

God i think i could watch a 3h video of you building a guitar.. 30 minutes is way to short 😂😂😂 Keep going ben you rock!

@PaulCooksStuff

3 жыл бұрын

There's a 6hr build challenge, 9hr build, and 12hr build in full in the archives whenever you want to overdose. 😉 (Though on the 10% speedup dilemma, I admit I watched them at 1.5x speed lol)

@89190alexis

3 жыл бұрын

Yup already saw them.. and all the videos of the channel... 😂😂😂

Rick Harrison has awesome skills

This is the way .....great video thanks.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! B

Can you talk some more about torrefied maple - pros, cons, does it take color differently, etc? Only recently learned about it and I'm a little cautious that it just looks too yellow/orange off the bat to take stain nicely.

In Number Seven we trust. 😀

I've known a few people with head/neck/face tattoos, and without exception they have all been complete and utter dimwits (actually a polite way of saying what I really think). That is until I saw yours, then I changed my mind. Makes a change to see someone with a head tattoo who is articulate and knowledgable. Looking forward to the rest of this build, it looks like it's going to be awesome. BTW I don't mean to be disparaging of people with tattooos, just speaking from personal experience, which (I admit) may be limited and somewhat distorted.

It’s a Saturday night I’m watching a bald Englishman with eerie tattoos on his head rhapsodizing about wood and guitars on KZread......I have a very full life😎. Thank Ben you inspire me, I’m bald, no tattoos and work in steel.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Kevin, a very full life indeed! Now.. you can make guitars out of steel and head tattoos are only a questionable life choice away :) B

You are, however, on par with Sir David Attenborough in my book. I have a list of my 5 idols, Richard Dawkins, David Attenborough, Simon Sinek, Jim Butcher and Ben Crowe.

The pins are a great idea, that I will be pinching :)