I'm Building Myself an Acoustic Baritone Guitar - And I Made a Stupid Mistake!
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- This one is for me. See if you spotted my screw up before I did. LMK if you want one (I won't make the same mistake twice :)
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showing and talking about mistakes is awesome. always a good lesson
Well, I'm so perfect and it happens soooo rarely... :-p
Something similar happened to me. I made a fretboard, my friend's CNC cut the routs for the mother-of-pearl fret marker inlays. I found it took a very long time to radius the fretboard, and cut the MOP by hand. When it came time to cut the slots, I found that the CNC wasn't scaled properly for the string scale length! I took it hard, but slept on it before doing something rash like putting it in the woodstove. Next morning I had the idea of shimming the nut end just enough that all the inlays fit between the frets. They were a little off center, but it worked and recused all of that labor.
I'd say keep it and call it Lucky 13, but I imagine it would throw you off too much trying to play later. Otherwise, it's looking pretty sweet. Swiper no swiping! Thanks for sharing!
Nothing but smiles over here!! I paused the video and counted the frets. I would have missed it too!!!
I made the same exact mistake on a ukulele I built a couple years ago. I didn't notice until I was putting finish on. Fortunately, that one was for me as well, so I just left it. Gives the instrument a story and makes me chuckle a little each time I play it.
I didn't notice the error in the video, and I did the exact same mistake in my firewood bass while punching markings for the side dots. 😂 I noticed it before drilling the holes though. Left the punch markings to remind me that I make mistakes all the time.
The more common mistake is to mark the 11th fret, not the 13th. lol. It doesn't amaze me that it happened, it amazes me how many opportunities I had to notice it and didn't - including the hour that I stared at it in the computer drawings!
I know you dont like the concept of mass producing, but this acoustic shape is so beautiful that i think it would sell a lot
Thanks!
I made that same mistake! My culprit was working on my guitar project in the evening after a few glasses of wine!!
Been there tim! I removed the wood at those frets
12 frets, plus tax...by the way, that soundhole shape, and the closet-door-on-skate pickguard: outstanding!
baker's dozen guitars. lol. thanks!
If I had my own channel featuring the projects I had done it would be called "how the hell do I save this project" because I Never manage to Not screw something up. It honestly didn't dawn on me what mistake you made till bout halfway thru after the hints you gave.
That's actually a good concept for a channel. Not enough content creators focus on the mistakes we all make, and how to fix it. I always appreciate creators who don't hide their gaffes, regardless of what type of channel it is (like how Tim shows when be makes a mistake). So many wanna project that perfect life, when that's pretty much never the case. We're all just human.
That is the old saying, woodworking is learning how to hide your mistakes. The better the wood worker, the better they are at hiding mistakes.
No idea, just trusted the builder.
The straight fret markers threw me off. I couldn't spot the mistake until you showed it. I'm so easily distracted.
I like the sound hole.
I'd consider making it a feature and start using capos a lot more. Two or three(or more) sets of fret markers in different colors?
Green = No capo
Blue = Capo on 1st fret
Red = Capo on 2nd fret. And so on
I had that thought! lol
I lately made a similar error. I’m making a solid body mandolin closely patterned after a particular guitar design. I had cut all my cavities before I remembered: unlike guitars, mandolins have a tenth fret marker, not a ninth. Because I’d already done a couple things I hated on that board (first build…), I took that as the sign that I needed some “test on scrap” rosewood.
- Paul
Wow. Just leaving a comment because you should know I just subscribed.
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I was thinking of putting your arrow/logo with the laser on the 12th fret and maybe smaller ones down on 15 17 and 19
For a “hudy-gurdy” ? A stabilized cotton belt rather than a wheel ?
I noticed the frets were off too.
that is what paint markers are for. i do this all the time because i play microtonal and macrotonal guitars made with 12 tone necks, and i have to cover up the 12 tone markers and replace them with whatever 16 or 17 or 10 or whatever non-equal temperament pitch monstrosity i have made the guitar into.
yea, I've seen that systemic color coding stuff. I made a microtonal fretboard for a guy once, never saw the finished product.
Great video. Always interesting to see the fails...or whatever you want to call it. Can't wait to see the solution! Looking awesome! Mahalo for sharing!
Great work Tim except for that little mistake. No big deal as fixing screw ups can often lead to other ways of making things better in the long run! 👍👍🎸🎸
Check out a channel called "The Next Project," specifically a video called "Guitar Fret Slot Blade - Don't Do It..." He modified an $11 Irwin laminate blade into a .023" fret slotting blade. And I'm shocked you didn't beat him to it. :😀
I use a cnc! :) have a couple saws, off the shelf, that do the job fine. I'm guessing he added a stop? sometimes I'll do that with a piece of scrap wood and superglue, so I can remove it.
I‘m just waiting for the day I accidentally do the same. I know it‘s bound to happen one day, lol.
Great stuff 😂
Is a fret missing or in wrong spacing?
I thought the frets were crooked based on the inlays. Looking forward to see how you fix this.
What is the name of those clamps you used to clamp the finger board to the neck? I'm trying my hand at building a ukulele and looking for something simple for my finger board glue up.
the frets ARE crooked as it's a 27/27.5" scale multiscale design I made the markers straight to give it some visual complexity. well, now it has a lot more visual complexity!
oh, and those clamps are a Stew Mac product that you probably don't need to spend the money on. a lot of people use bike inner tubes and stuff like that which I think is a hassle. Just use clamps - especially if you can clamp it on before you shape the neck.
@@timsway Thanks for the replies Tim and the advice regarding the clamps!
So for the 12 fret marker u gonna put a new perspective music arrow there or maybe a the #12 ?
That would be funny to just fill each fret with giant numbers
the other day i'm doing the same measurement and was like, "ah shit, i put the 12th fret marker on the 11th fret!" turns out my brain thought fret markers come after their frets? i measured to the 11th fret. it was in the right spot.
p.s. that hex shaped neck is still my favorite shape!
I like your mistake better than mine. I just did it in the software and literally never saw it, until I did.
@@timsway where is ctrl-z out here in meatspace?
I would just blame the CNC.....
stupid robots...
I totally missed it, not gonna lie 😅
you're not alone! lol
lucky? 13th um-LIKE-ish. 76th oops-view.
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Like deployed 👍
Check your $2 dollar bills. They could be worth a lot.
They are all worth exactly $2! lol (I got paid for a gig with bank-crisp $2 bills a couple years ago)
One recently sold for $4,000
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I remember learning measure twice, cut once many years ago...I didn't take it as well are you do...
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I've "learned" that many times. Well, apparently not...
@@timswayThat's the difference between "lessons observed" and "lessons learned" 😅 I've observed a lot...