Purchased the High Build oil... have used it on two bodies... excellent product. Working on a 12-coat finish now with this product. The glow is incredible. Well worth the purchase price and following his methods.

Yore are it. You're the guy to come to when I need a real, in-depth lesson from a pro. Thank you for what you do.

@Jenisonc

2 жыл бұрын

You're*

This guy's presentation style is genius.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! B

ROFL at 1:27 as Ben says "I have a really nice relationship with a gentleman at a finishing manufacturing company" as he's sliding on his blue rubber gloves like a true proctologist lol

@sangirardiecavicchi648

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Palummo ah ah ah ahah

Thanks so much Ben for developing this oil, and for this great tutorial for it! This is the oil that I have been dreaming of finding for years, and my search is finally over now!

Ben. That finish is absolutely unequivocally stunning.

Ben, you are an absolute inspiration to me, as I (at the tender age of 42) embark on a career in lutherie. I am of course terrified, but steady on. I will look to you often for wisdom.

Man, both those guitars are so beautiful with the oil finish. It's amazing that you get such an amazing finish with just oil. That's a sweet gloss.

I made a tele and I finished it with the Crimson guitar finish and it looked stunning. Thank you Crimson guitars!

That's a truly stunning piece of wood to begin with, then when you start adding oil... Wow, I was almost speechless!

Wonderful result here. A pal had his worse-of-wear Spanish guitar renovated and French polished. He was thrilled, so that's alright then, but I thought it looked as though it had been made out of a display cabinet.

Hey Ben, Love your work and your channel I've been watching since you were in the shed. What you have done with your business and art in such a short period of time is inspiring. I'm a full time Tattooer and part time guitar builder and I have learned a ton from your videos. Thank you for posting them and keep up the good work.

What a beautiful piece of wood! There is nothing more satisfying than applying a finish to something like that. Nice!

The bits from 17:36 and onward, where the camera pans across the guitars, is amazing. I like it.

You might try this oil recipe: 1 part boiled linseed oil, 1 part polyurethane, 1 part vegetable turpentine. Wipe on, wipe off excess and let dry, repeat. Note when you say the oil penetrates, yes it does more than a surface coating but if you cut a profile to inspect the penetration you will see almost no penetration; its less than half a mm. When people say the oil penetrates you get the feeling its goes in quite a few mm but it doesn't. Nice piece of Elm.

clicked on this because your guitar looks a lot like my burl maple strat-style guitar. Great looking guitar!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.. you have great taste in guitars it seems 😋

That finish is stunning, and I really like the shape!

This oil is amazing ! I have done about 70% of my guitar in this oil including the neck. After 6 months of playing, this is the best feeling neck I have. I think I ended up sanding it with 1200 grit or higher after it cured. The result is silky smooth with some grain texture and this helps slide-ability of the palm. I am literally finishing all my necks in this from now on. Also it is a quite thin viscosity which makes it a dream to apply. Not too stinky either

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate you coming back and saying this, having unsolicited reviews like this really really helps. Thank you! B

@theo4312

3 жыл бұрын

I see there are 2 finishing oils on the website now - which one did you use? (And what’s the difference)

Unbelievably beautiful ! Thanks for sharing this wonder of nature with us and all the hard work it took to bring out the best !

I just ordered a bottle of your finish along with some other tools recently to prepare for my next guitar build. It looks great, so I'm looking forward to giving it try.

BTW that is one absolutely stunning guitar. Looking forward to seeing its completion!

That guitar is an amazing looking instrument. I've see a couple of the vids on this and it's a beauty.

I need to give a thumbs up, and leave a comment, because I've learned so much from this video. It explains why my finishes were less than satisfactory. Thanks for the awesome video

Wow -- both gorgeous guitar finishes!

Vous êtes connus et apprécié pour votre travail et vos conseils chez nous en France , merci pour tout se que vous faites et un grand bravo pour votre école 😉

Absolutely Beautiful Timber, excellent advice, Thank you. Melbourne, Australia.

stunning work on them . thank you for sharing

Absolutely stunning Burr

One of my favorite videos.

Just received my first bottle of oil. really looking forward to using it.

Your finishes are amazing as always. I think I will go back to my guitar body and try the wet dry snadpaper thing.

I never thought I would say this about another man’s wood, but that is beautiful.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Oh now! Ta. ;) B

Staining or oiling is the luthiers reward for all that sanding!

definitely getting my hands on a bottle of this and the fretboard oil, along with some ren wax for my figured ash & ziricote guitar. I'll be using it as a resume piece for applying to a custom guitar company :D thanks for all the great videos Ben, I know I wouldn't be anywhere near where I am now if it hadn't been for all these tutorials and crazy one off build videos

I finished my first partscaster with a 1:1 blend of boiled linseed oil and paraffin. American red alder body. 5 coats of oil, left in the hot African sun to soak in, finishing with 1200 grit wet and dry paper. Lovely and warm satin finish. But my application method was very close to what Ben is showing here.

Beautiful finish Ben.

That is a gorgeous shape!

Thanks for the video, the wood on that guitar body looked sick , ''that means good'', where i come from. After you were finished working on the Body, That Guitar Looks Like a MILLION BUCKS, just awesome, Cousin Figel

Apologies, yesterday this video had audio issues and a complaint about the video quality. This is all fixed now.

@cyanidejunkie

8 жыл бұрын

We all appreciate your valuable time, effort, and skill... Thank you.

@PetreRodan

8 жыл бұрын

thank you for the re-upload. this oil of yours is very interesting

@juliocavalera9293

8 жыл бұрын

hello mr.crimson im would ask to you how to do place the pot volume and tone into the guitar body

@leandropineros9717

7 жыл бұрын

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Watco danish oil also suggests rubbing in their oil with fine grit sandpaper,as you have suggested.They said it also allows the sanding dust from the wood to aid in packing the open pores..Although I do not use Danish oil,it is a great tip.I would like to try your oil in the future.I have used your techniques with gunstock oils and have had very pleasing results.Way back in the 80's I teased Stuart Spector for using oil rather than lacquer.Stu finally relented and gave my shop the contract to finish all the guitars from then on until his selling to Kramer. He asked that we use a using a finish.Now that I look back at this,and see how nice an oiled and rubbed finish can be,I must write Stu an apology.

I used the oil on the neck of my latest build, this time a canjo, and am incredibly pleased with the results. I shall never use another oil again.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

8 жыл бұрын

+jpcgordon thank you for your support!

Gorgeous!

I wish i could afford a guitar like this one. I cant play for an inch, but this is pure art.

I love this oil! 5/5 Will Use again

Holly amazing pieces of wood :)

Thanks for fixing the audio issue

A Really nice job, Thanks for the video. Very helpful.

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful, thanks for watching!

I just bought me a buttload of crimson toys, and I love the behind the scenes action in the emails! Showing me that it's actually a pack of llamas who assemble my stuff, and a fifth army's worth of eagles bringing the goodies from Middle Earth (Europe) to America, where they belong!

As an amateur luthier, I am usually pretty particular in what I consider a perfect guitar design. But honestly, there is not ONE thing I don't love about this guitar. I absolutely love this design!! And that wood grain is incredible!

that is the best grain i have ever seen

Ben how timely. I just in fact applied my first coat of CG Finishing oil to my home build the other night. Unfortunately it partially dissolved my underlying green dye job and now I am having to reevaluate my gameplan going forward. You previously made the video based on my comments/questions and I took cues from your 12 hour build as to how to proceed but I am an amateur after all. I am now considering a wipe on gel in either green or white which might hopefully salvage the results of my color scheme before I apply the remainder of the coats from my bottle of my CG Finishing Oil and then Renaissance wax. Wish me luck! If it is halfway decent, I'll send you some pictures. Cheers! -Matt B

Wow! Your shop looks as good as your guitar,both super nice, right on 👌

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.. I have a weakness for nice tools and feel that that comes though in the builds a bit? B

love that wood

Beautiful

Awesome, thank you so much!!

I would love to get some birdseye maple and use your oil on that, it would look spectacular. The guitars that you had on looked great and with a little wax would last for years and years of use.

When Ben got that glove out with a flourish I had flashbacks to the colonoscopy I had 2 weeks ago….

Wow. Im a drummer who has done some nice things in my little carreer and i always love the woodfinish. The guitar you are workibg on and show at the end is fucking awesome. What a nice looking finish is that🤘🤘🤘

Hello, I must comment on your Shop area, it is very nice, very well put together , everything in it's place, i wish i had a shop like yours, Cheers, Cousin Figel

YOUR OIL FINISH APEARS TO BE THINNER THAN TRUE OIL WICH I LIKE, I ALWAYS THIN DOWN THE FIRST COUPLE COATS ANYWAY SO IT WILL ABSORB DEEPER INTO THE WOOD, SPECIALLY ON SOFTER WOODS I'VE NOTICED IF YOU DON'T GET GOOD PENETRATION WITH THE FIRST COUPLE PASSES THE BODY WILL DENT AND SCRATCH MUCH EASIER. AWESOME GUITAR, I LOVE THIS VIDEO, YOU ARE RIGHT THERE IS NOTHING BETTER IN A BUILD THEN THE FIRST PASS WITH WHATEVER FINISH YOU ARE USING. ALL OF THE HARD WORK IS FINALLY SHOWN. HA, JUST NOTICED I WATCHED THIS VIDEO A YEAR AGO.

@vincentmadden6112

6 жыл бұрын

COOL MAN :)

Thanks for this tutorial, the finish looks fantastic! If I was to use this technique on a straight grained wood instead of a burl would I still be ok to use a circular motion with the wet/dry or would I run with the grain only?

Great finish Ben. Does your finishing oil have VOCs that should be vented during use? I love finishing oils, but I have noticed nasal irritation when working in a confined space. I'm embarking on my first guitar build soon, a little early since I can't play for toffee, so thanks for all the tutorials you've put out.

Crazy beautiful piece of wood. I have (sparingly) used a hair dryer on a piece of wood that was sweating oil to help get the excess to the surface. Can you ship your oil to the states?

Really enjoyed this video. Thanks for posting. Question: on the additional coats do you use the same method, with the sandpaper and tissue... or just the tissue?

I like this body :)

Thanks for creating these amazingly informative vids. After seeing your upgrade of a nasty kit guitar, I'm now INSPIRED to get stuck into a similar project using a £40 guitar off eBay (because I love it's neck) and a nice slab of figured maple. It's frets are shot beyond dressing sadly. Fretwork is the one area that scares me. I'm torn between ripping out the frets and cobbling together or buying some kind of fret press to match the radius, or using a compound radius slotted stewmac board I have acquired and one of those little hammers. Any advice for someone that will probably do a guitar only once? Would Crimson be able to quote for this one aspect of the project?

I'd be interested in seeing how it'd finish if you put it in a vacuum chamber covered in oil, draw all the air out and then slowly depressurise the chamber. The oil would replace the air in the wood and go in really deep. Alternatively, straight up pressure treating it instead.

What are considerations when to apply oil-based / water-based finishes? I wonder about hydrophilic and hydrophobic types of woods and issues about their stability when finishes are applied.

I ordered some of this oil today, I'm looking forward to applying it. I was wondering how long I should leave it to cure between coats. Hours or days?

top video! subscribed!

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! B

@TommyTexas666

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars ive been hooked on the channel ever since! :)

Very beautiful! Just a theoretical question. If you do an oil finish and for some reason you change your mind later and you want a Lacquer finish instead. Can you just lacquer over the oil finish?

Could you use lacquer or something similar over the top of that to make a more protective finish whilst keeping the same quality of finish?

i use tru oil for my knife making and read that you can thinner it out with mineral oil

Do you normally finish in a clean room?

btw Renaissance wax is good,i recommend dodjuice crush lines of caruba wax for cars its not cheap but tough and shines awesome..

Wow! Awesome guitar. Would your oil work on a Warwick bass with their 'proprietary' wax finish?

great vid, thancks a lot. Is an Oil finish nice for a poplar burl top ? thanck you

Is the oil ok to use on a headstock veneer without binding ? Awesome videos by the way 👍🏻

Ben - can you advise how I remove any residual sanding dust after extensively rubbing down with 400 grit, before applying the oil (which arrived yesterday, thanks).

Once cured can the oil be polished? Just ordered some Dark stain and oil after watching 2 videos and finally going to strip and stain my Jackson KV3 as fitting new Pickups and new hardware

Ben, would you recommend using 1200 grit sandpaper with the oil on a wood that doesn't need to have its grain filled?

I'd like to do a mandolin in this & do some pyrography on it & then do the oil finish over that...

Questions: Why didn't you plug or close the pickup holes so the oil didn't go in there as it looked messy when it is unevenly dripped into the cavities ? Why didn't you just leave the cover on at the back when oiling the back so you have the same amount of oil on the cover? When you oiled the body, why didn't you tape off the neck connection part as the oil on the neck will also leaving some sort of uneven "stains" or difficulty to polish out at the end?

when you apply this to the maple fretboard, do you have to clean the frets immediately, or is it like lacquer when you can scrape off after it dries?

I just bought the LP kit from Crimson, and also the set of stains, I did buy a bottle of the oil as well. Can you and should you use the oil on a stained body for a high gloss finish? or is it only for natural wood?

would this application method work with your stunning stains on mahogany or would you recommend the use of grain filler first?

LUSH BEN!

Might be useful to have a dropper/cap thing on that oil bottle. ;)

@Professor-Scientist

4 жыл бұрын

Ben doesn't do dropper caps! Lol 😂

Is it possible to add glow in the dark pigment to the oil before applying it to the guitar?

I have water lox and in watching your videos do you think that if I. Add on bridge would sound better

Can it be applied to an unfinished gtr with binding?

Love the videos! I have some oil on the way, but I was wondering what grain you recommend sanding to before applying the finishing oil?

@CrimsonCustomGuitars

Жыл бұрын

320 grit. There are full directions on the FAQ page of the shop website. www.crimsonguitars.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions DC

that's a badd,assuming guitar. stunning thx want to buy that wood

One question, I did oil finish on my guitar just like you did on this one, so my question is, is there any way to do a paint job on it since the oil penetrates deep into the wood, so I'm not sure if paint will stick.. Is there any way??

I'm sure its already been said....but are you a bald Bill Bailey? I've only discovered you in the last week but absolutely brilliant videos. Thank you

Thinking about buying some of this oil for a guitar I am making just wondering if its ok to use on fret boards as well?

What is the recommended curing time once all applications are complete? Is it wise to leave it a week or so to fully cure?

G'day Ben, is there a reason why the pickup cavities are not oiled or stained? Cheers.

Awesome finish. How long do you wait between coats?

if after a long dry time its a tad sticky....very light tacky.....is it best to re oil and wipe completly dry again and dry...?....will that re activate the pre oiled body and sort the tackyness? thnx