I'm working on a headless at the moment, as it's also fretless , bridgeless and pupless...it may be more accurately described as a stick, but I'm working on it.

@SHR3DtheSky

2 жыл бұрын

Comedy gold

Those student instruments look amazing. Hopefully we can get back to the "What's on the Bench" series so they can be showcased again.

That inlay is a masterpiece! It's tiny details like this that make the difference between a good piece of work and a great piece of work.

Oooooh man, that ring-inlay! The one ring to rule them all... This guitar deserves an elvish name!

Ben is really engaging to watch. His enthusiasm for the craft and art of building any guitar is just infectious

Beautiful woods, lovely tools (the tiny plane & spokeshave are just fantastic!), precision woodworking and a squirrel- who could ask for more?

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

coffee.. more coffee but other than that I agree :) B

The attention to detail on every project, is outstanding. I've learned so much from watching all your videos.

Watching you make a headless guitar will be funzies!

Enjoying this build. I’m extremely happy with this format. Reminds me of the older videos. Why l subscribed.

We love you too, Ben. This guitar is coming together rather nicely. It is a shame that I have to wait another week for the next episode...

re: binding - as you are having to make it out of pieces anyway, could you incorporate fret dots into the binding? small pieces of fretboard material as square dots along it would hide the joints of the maple and use of smaller sections... Whatever you do, it would look gorgeous!

I have been watching your videos since you were originally working out of your shed and I swear you've had the same pencil and pen since then. I'm impressed.

Forged in one piece INCLUDING the spring? Now that is a How it's Made episode I NEED to see.

For the inlay, you could have also mounted it to a waste block and used your lathe with very sharp tools to create both edges of the ring perfectly round.

As usual, some amazing work... and was particularly enjoying the return of the squirrel during the sanding section! (16:55) Beautiful work Ben!

I love the fact that you wing it most of the time. I understand that you have final vision but the process of you getting there is brilliant. Your ideas seem to change throughout the build. But.... the end result has always been exceptional. Bravo sir,.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Anthony, I have mixed feelings about this.. I think I would love to have the entire thing mapped out and then execute it to perfection.. then again that also seems rather boring in the abstract doesn't it? I think the most important thing to me is learning, and trying new things as I go.. anyway, thanks for your support! B

Love this. Very good. Very entertaining. Very educational. Soothes the savage beast of Creativity. Much satisfaction in this series, keep up the great work.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you John, I certainly will! B

I am completely chuffed by the quality of work per usual Ben !

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Andy.. I'm enjoying this one very much indeed. B

That “YES” from the editor… 😂

I love everything ben does. I would have came across the pond by now for a class or two if it weren't for this coronacrap.

This Nebula guitar is going to be so fantastically beautiful !!! I love the circle inlay tremendously !! Impatiently waiting for the next episode !!!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Me too Mike, me too! B

That neck inlay looks superb!

Love the squirrel digression!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

me too, Talitha is having fun! B

I'm loving the build so far I can't wait for the next video 😁✌

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😁 B

Greetings from Greece! Enjoy the Hols! Miss the UK, hope to visit soon!

You’re a man after my own heart Ben

To the Video Editor: you do a great job! I laughed so many times at the little editing details! Also Ben, I’ve been thinking about building something like this for a while so I’m excited to see the rest of your process before I build mine.

You are right, Ben. It is looking very good.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Let's see how next week goes. B

A quick pause at 15:19 in the video, because it dawns on me, on another high-end build, the circle you just made, would be a beautiful "poker chip" on a guitar that called for one.

The template should be named “Less Paul”.

@djstringsmusic2994

3 жыл бұрын

More paul?

@ryanriggs9963

3 жыл бұрын

Average Paul

@ebandcamp

3 жыл бұрын

Had a 3 / way switch ring engraved LES / MORE

@christophereppig7156

3 жыл бұрын

less paul than paul

@mattyburrows9059

3 жыл бұрын

had enough of paul

That ring inlay is absolutely perfect, great work

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! B

In this video I'm going to eat a fried ham and egg sandwich, drink half a pot of coffee and watch this crazy guy with a tool fetish build a guitar. What a great way to spend a morning

@therealwonkydog

3 жыл бұрын

In this video I'm going to cook food for the family, put washing in the tumble drier and watch this crazy guy with a tool fetish build a guitar. What a great way to spend the afternoon.

Inlay is very beautiful Ben!

I'm intrigued! More, please. :)

Excellent experience!

this is going to be another incredible guitar. I love it already

What's up with that squirrel? Haha, I had to rewind to make sure I saw that right. Funny!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Talitha (the editor) having fun! B

Awesome series

wow that burl maple is stunning

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't it just? I hope I do it justice with this build. B

@stephencarey6114

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars you will

Putting the “Subscribe” on the strait edge was brilliant

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.. Talitha is having such fun with the edits these days. B

@pukkimi

3 жыл бұрын

Does she watch This Old Tony? :)

Ben, you’re friggin awesome!

Don't think i've ever seen a headless Electro/accoustic might be a fun build Ben, But i really love that wood your using for the top and back it should look killer with a clear coat over it.

Been refreshing the channel page for this video :D

The black fanned fret 8-string does things to my body.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

well.. me too! We hired the builder!! B

Thank you Ben, watching the series so far has given me the motivation to pick up my Crimson guitar tools and get building again! Still want to build a guitar alongside you as well! Beardy Ben ( Flakey)

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Flakey :) I'll look forward to seeing what you come up with. B

Always admired Bens watch collection. Listens to Hodinkee radio....nice

I love to tiny planes. Been debating getting some or making some myself.

I dig those shoes.

I would only be happier with it if I were able to do such fine work myself.

If you are going to make the binding out of multiple pieces of the burl, why not make the joints where the side fret markers would be , make the joints a 2mm gap filed with a contrasting wood like padauk? Just an thought. Love the vids.

You definitely have a evil genius look with the hand curl when you look and successfully book match beautiful timbers

I was working on some smaller circle inlays on my latest build more similar to the Raw Series. I found using various diameters of brass tube, chopped down and sharpened, worked as a decent replacement to a multi tool for getting fairly regular shaped circles. I’m not sure what crimson uses to drill those smaller circle inlays on your production guitars but it was a decent option in case you wanted to build another tool for yourself.

A semi precious stone inlaid right in the center of that inlay would make it look like an interesting planet!

Nice, beautiful maple for a kitchen? Yaahh. I love to cook and I love fine cabinetry such beautiful wood probably inspired and helped accentuate the create of some amazingly delicious meals. Perhaps one can only hope it's a kitchen for a Michelin chef. After a career of stainless stee and horrid drab kitchens such a marvelous kitchen would be uplifting.

You do fantastic work!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! B

Hello, Ben, thank you for such an interesting content! I think the circles would be easier to make on a lathe. Tighten the circles to the piece of plywood or something with a bolt and put it in a chuck. Shape the outside and then with the parting tool the inside diameter. I am making jewelry from wood and resin and that is the way i am making round earrings.

Looking cool.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers! BB

Make a fretboard binding out of little strips of alternating colors, each strip as long as the distance between two frets. A sort of marquee pattern, I guess. That should look particularly interesting with the multi-scale thing.

thank you Ben

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Thank you! B

Yes I did. Kiesel is making KIESEL ZEUS HEADLESS ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC GUITAR

Lol we always have moments like that, the difference is the finishing of all before awesome neck shape .

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Totally! B

4:45 Kiesel Zeus acoustic is a headless acoustic with a real sound hole

I'd love to see an organic, flowy looking headless guitar. That Riviera bridge you got looks fantastic. Also, 29:19 you should absolutely use those natural cutouts in the maple as sound-holes and make that matched leaf the top and the whole build semi-hollow. Incredible watching a master at work!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I am putting my thoughts to headless more and more often of late.. you will see something interesting coming down the pipeline very soon.. maybe headless with fanned frets and natural soundholes in the other pieces I have here? B

Oh look, a squirrel! Ahh geez I LOVE your editor’s (still your sister Ben?) sense of humour. Sitting in a KFC restaurant in Brisbane watching this and absolutely laughed out loud at that; not the first time this has happened either thanks to her editing!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect! Our job here is done. And She is still my sister.. and still my editor. We feel we are starting to hit our stride now and I am loving her work! B

@matt69cp

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Yes, I’ve been loving her work ever since I discovered your channel (something like 18 months ago). She really gives the channel a feel of drawing us viewers into being part of the ‘inner circle’ of your family and friends. That’s a special thing and I hope it never changes. Thank you both for giving me something to look forward to on my nights away from home with work (airline pilot) and for always putting a smile on my silly dial.

Hi Ben. I don't know what you've been smoking today, but that's NOTHING like A Perfect Circle's logo! ;)

The Video Editor is BRILLIANT!!! GREAT Sense of Humour!! (BTW, They need a Wage increase!) P.S. No, I'm not (that I know of) a relative. Cheers!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

comment deleted before she saw it! .. or, well.. not ;) B

I've not got to the point where you choose where to get the 'ring' from the burl, but I'd use the space where the control cavity cover is, and also make a ring of the same size from the neck material, and a fresh control cavity cover from some of the other neck wood so that you have a congruence of tied materials.

23:00 feel like that bit was for Dan. How many times did he glue his eye shut on the 3 month course? 2, 3 times?

Don't look now, Ben, but I think there might be a squirrel in your tool rack!

oh! i like that watch.

Lordy, enough adverts this time for it to have been broadcast on Sky. Still awe inspiring though to see a master craftsman at work.

As always an amazing video, Ben 😁 Honestly the original Nebula is one of my favourite guitars you've ever built so 2.0 greatly excites me 😁 now that you've released the new finish products I don't suppose you could do a video on them even if it is on the extras channel? Especially excited about the rub on lacquer 😁 I have a tin of Northwest Guitars rub on stuff on my desk that I think I will need to renconsider using with this new development. Sorry NW Guitars 😅 ~Steven

Molto bravo😉

Looks awsome Ben!!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Blake. B

Kiesel makes lots of headless acoustic electrics. I’ve been eyeing one for a while

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Well now, thanks for the tip.. I am rather surprised I hadn't seen those before. I think I have been a bit too focussed on my own work for the past few years. B

@averydeadhorse

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Nothing wrong with focusing on your own stuff. As long as yours looks different or maybe improves on something I say go for it.

8:58 I actually bowed my head.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

as is only right and just. B

nice job again ...

I'm still pining for that awesome hole in the first planned bookmatched pair to be a soundhole in a guitar somewhere... it looks to cool no to be used that way

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, It would be a perfect addition to our raw series.. B

“Nebula,” should be a trademark shape for crimson. Or at least a kit. That would be awesome. I would definitely buy a nebula kit from crimson custom guitars.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I am very tempted to add it to the new production series we are working on.. in fact I hope that you will be very impressed with what we have planned for our guitars.. Kits now.. that is another thought! B

Just purchased two ISOtunes pairs with your BOGO code. Thank you very much :)

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Legend! Thank you for your support, I love it when there are deals like this, we both get something out of it in the end. B

Looking forward to this build going on as well as the headless guitar in the future! Have you ever looked into the Sophia bridges from Coherent Light and Sound? Seems up your alley

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't had the pleasure, yet... they look incredible! B

If I had that workshop I would never leave home

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. that is what I am working towards tbh. I would love to go full recluse if I could B

a thought for cutting smaller "perfect circles" use the masking tape and super glue trick to make a waste wood/ good wood/ waste wood turning blank, and turn it.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

The lathe was my first thought but not enough people have access to one so I wanted to do something a bit simpler this time.. B

Aw Ben, why you gotta show me cool tools like that (ok, the little plane and the dividers...)? I have an old Spofford pattern brace, where the entire unit, including the split chuck to accept the bit, is forged from a single piece of steel. The rosewood knob is attached with a ring on the bottom, and the side handle is 2 pieces of rosewood held together with pewter rings. Love that stuff!!

Ooft Ben that circle is nice... I'd love it if you could add the rest of the inlay markers with much smaller peices... 3rd 5th 7th fret markers. It occurred to me the other day the importance of atleast side dot inlays, it's a sutble importance that we overlook, until we actually are playing it 😅 Looking great though👍 Some abalone or gemstone inlays might add a something new and different 🤔 adding to that nebula planetary vibe

Good work on the less ads!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Takes more work from poor Talitha but, well.. While necessary I do rather hate seeing so many too! B

I saw a squirrel at 16:55!

Love the videos, always have. Only negative is the flashing transition. Bothers me somewhat.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I'll admonish Talitha soundly.. or, um.. will quietly mention it then duck ;) B

Unfortunately I watched this video on monday and the isotunes offer had already ended. However I ordered a set of pro 1 for 55 pounds including shipping to Finland. It took less than two days and they were delivered to my door. In Finland! I already giftwrapped them and put the packet (with my own name) under a christmas tree :)

Hey peeps. I recently had my vintage VS6’S neck snap and was wondering if there’s a way to fix it or should/can I just use pieces of it to Improve my other guitar?

11:24 hilarious...your editor has a good sense of humor...

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, and she is really letting loose these days! B

As it happens, you are the thing I'm listening to that is completely unrelated to what I'm doing

Hey Ben, amazing work as always! Would you mind telling what model your watch is? Looks great.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, and I don't mind at all. It is a Bremont ALT1-C White and Black dial.. there was a massive sale on pre black friday and I couldn't resist, a wonderful watch and also a UK company at that. B

For headless guitar inspiration. Look at any of Buck Dharma from Blue Oyster Cult's Steinberger guitars.

Awesome

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! B

Amazing work on the inlay, absolutely terrifying to imagine my trying that 🤢

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

You can absolutely do it if you wanted to.. just practice a bit before you get to the final pieces! B

Ben a abalone inlay would look amazing down the feet board. I think I it would contrast very well

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

it would be quite subtle but very lovely. B

Perhaps Ben should find a vintage Shopsmith for his shed-shop.

I appreciate the eye and breathing protection while using the rotary tool. NOW PUT YOUR ISOTUNES IN TO PROTECT YOUR HEARING. I have yelled.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I would normally agree, but with such fine tolerances, and more to the point, delicate blades I prefer to hear exactly what is going on.. with all other machines etc you would be, of course, listened to and obeyed. B

so talented...

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Denis, thank you, thank you very much! B