got it in one.. the day I had custom hard cases made with Crimson Branding moulded in and the day I bought a whole damn flame sycamore tree are equal in my mind as watershed moments in my career! I am very much having the time of my life right now. B
My wife doesn't understand why I am so happy at our local wood supplier - I don't build guitars but everything about what Ben said here still applies to what I do. I love the smells and the textures and imagining the possibilities. Would love to see you process a slab into usable pieces.
Big bandsaws and delegation :) I am, at heart, a lazy man. But yes, that could make a cool video. I am thinking about buying a flamed Ash tree they had at Tyler and that will need processing.. mmm. B
There is that.. it used to be a given, nowadays some companies are not quite living up to the hype. The Wagner meter is incredible technology and pretty much bullet proof. We've been using, and abusing, them for years and they have stood up to all we could throw at them. B
You should make a nautical themed guitar: brass hardware, teak and holly body, inlayed compass rose or filigree, mahogany neck, inlayed manila rope banding
I wonder if an employee at Crimson ever saw a plank and immediately claimed it. "No, that one is mine. You lot can bugger off and build with something else!" I mean, besides Ben.
I've always thought a video (or video series) titled something like "Wood Review with Ben" where you go through [eventually] every species of wood and rate them for guitar construction with categories like "appearance," "durability," "price," "easiness to work with" etc. would be cool. Also, one more category for some woods would be "color fastness," i.e. for woods like purple heart; how quickly its color goes fades over time. Possibly conclude the talk about each species with statements like "great/bad for guitars," "[not] recommended for beginners/advanced," etc. Edit: Not just rating, but discussing thoroughly their pros and cons mostly as they apply to guitar building but also woodworking in general.
Hi mate Thanks to you i have purchased my Triton router .Just a Quick question ,To do rough cut on Body and Neck Blank's what Power Does it require When it's come to band saw.Thanks.
Yes please! More of this kind of content, seeing as you’re offering.... Love watching things like the Out Of The Woods channel ( he’s also a pretty fine guitarist - that’d be an interesting collaboration) but always keen to see things in a more guitar/ musical instrument-specific context. Thankyouverymuch!
Why don't you buy a Wood Mizer and saw up whole logs for drying yourself. Sort of an investment in the future. Cheaper wood for the company and the option to sell wood to other guitar builders. Crimson Guitar Wood
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars This is how I see it. It doesn't have to be that close to your company buildings since you don't have to look at the wood every day. You could buy a piece of land with a barn on it and then stor the mill and season the wood their. Land like that should be relatively cheap as you only need the square mileage and no utilities
Ben, I'm so jealous! I want a wood dealer!!!! And thanks for the little sound tip to find cracks. Neat! I've got some wild cherry that I had cut 15 years ago that has been dying in a shop attic, that I'm going to try making my first guitar out of.
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars how much as the lockdown affected the build times? As I've a guitar being made by Crimson, and I'm impatient to get my hands on it?
I think you got the radial and tangential rates reversed (just a verbal typo I am sure). Just mentioning it for viewers that wondered! One of the joys of quartersawn wood is that it shrinks half as much (very approximately) in the width of the plank, as a flat sawn piece would. The direction where it shrinks most is the thickness, but because it's a smaller dimension, it's no big deal. And just for completeness here, most woods hardly shrink at all in the length.
Just watched a video where an old 1878 patent chisel/hand plane was being made and the first thought was I bet Ben would like this. ua-cam.com/video/Opxo5vEIS6Q/v-deo.html
in the GGBO Brad Angove was giving advice to the competitors who wanted to have a UA-cam channel in the end.. he said 'make sure you are useful' and I realised that at heart, while I was still teaching through the builds I was not being as useful and I could be and had strayed quite far from where I actually wanted to be.. timed builds, crazy challenges etc may be entertaining, but I want to educate as well, this is me trying too be useful and it will be staple from now on. B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars nice one man! it's what i subscribed for back in 2014 and the knowledge was invaluable, don't get me wrong though, the challenge builds are great too! the perfect balance is there somewhere, but i'm glad you're leaning back towards the tutorial side of things.
I found that to be a very interesting video. Even though I'm not really a woodworker, I've often wished I was- wood is amazing stuff. That first piece of Wellingtonia is just gorgeous, and the price was a fair bit less than I would have guessed. There'll be some beautiful guitars made with those pieces of timber.
there really will, and I was amazed at the price too.. I grabbed as much of it as I could as it is not likely to come up again like this any time soon.. you should get into woodworking, even in a small way, I find it makes my life so so much better. Thanks for watching. B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars I did once make a custom body for one of my basses- three layers of mahogany, all cut out with a coping saw! The final result worked, so I used the spare body to make an electric 12 string with far too many switching possibilities.
Hey Ben, Great video as always. However: you are talking about how important it is to dry your wood, but I missed the most important piece of information: How dry it actually should be? When is it dry enough?
Trustworthy suppliers are so important. It's great that you give shout-outs to the worthy. Interesting recent video on Texas Toast's channel about a customer who recently got their fingers burned 😞
It's almost unbelievable the way wood will move. You have to cut it the right way, even when it's cured. I'm working on my first guitars right now. I've cut the blanks for the bodies and am letting it sit under heat in my shop. The slabs I'm using have been in my shop for two years now and the moisture reading is perfect. You still never know what will happen when you release that tension after a cut. That lumber yard looked like a very happy place. I wish I wasn't on the other side of the pond, but I'd spend too much money there.. You build beautiful guitars and your videos are full of great information..
As a guitar tech with some carpentry experience buying wood scares me. This was helpful but would love top see more like tips and tricks or dos and dons when choosing wood
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars did you repost that older clip on your main channel on the back of this comment. I feel honoured 🎖....erm even if it was coincidental.😁
I'm well aware I'm almost 2 months behind, but I'd personally like to know how you get on with the drying process at your home workshop- as I'm back at my parents, and have absolutely no space, and no workshop to speak of... Best of Luck Ben Also named Tyler.
thanks Ben, I wish you could elaborate on what sizes you choose and why. Does size matter ?? I mean, is it mandatory to get a 2-2.5 inches thick board to make a body ? Is it even preferable ? or any size will do ? this can be true for bodies or any part, tops, necks, ... Are there any best practices to cut boards (which directions ?) and how to glue them to get something attractive and/or "structurally effective" ?
Thinking about getting back into classical guitar building after 35 years break -my first attempt was not good, a learning experience- the back cracked! Cant see any classical guitar tonewoods here (have postponed watching full video till I have more time), but I’d appreciate any info on those lines, and also on humidity control in a single-brick garage/workshop!
Hey Ben, and the Crimson Guitar team, can you please open up a page on Rumble. Just share all new content on both. Many people are moving away from UA-cam and moving to Rumble. Thanks.
Absolutely fantastic to see a video about the lesser known side of guitar building...or anything else building really with some of that beautiful Timber. Would love to see more like it as no other videos show this part. Meanwhile back at Crimson...I see you mentally cursing & restacking some of it properly after the numpties had piled it up willy nilly...gotta keep it flat after all ;-)
I've got an urge to make a replica of a guitar. It's a one piece guitar and I'm thinking this will be more of a wall hanger but of course I'm not planning on it warping. Have you any opinion of Willow wood? I know it's a hardwood and commonly used for cricket bats. But I can't seem to find any Lutheran's talking about it. I have a strong mental image in my head, I want it to have a natural wood appearance of grain. With strong spalting maybe a few cracks and holes with little to no paint. The best way I could describe it is. This would be the electric guitar a witch or wizard would have. Made from the same magical wood it will bare a striking resemblance to a grand staff or cane.
You guys have a great wood possibilities to buy over there. Here in Brazil we are not allowed to buy nice native wood. In my city I can buy just crappy eucalyptus and a type of pine that is more like sponge. That's bureaucracy.
Great video Ben I'm looking to start building my own guitars more as a hobby than anything but you never know what will come of it i live in the North East of England any hints on where I could find a supplier? Thanks Ben
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Cheers Ben. I'm checking them out now. I have two local timberyards here in Belfast that I swear by, but I reckon anything that gets the Crimson seal of approval has to be good and worth a look.
Lol I'm going for oak now that u said it looks like "furniture". Laminated of course. Make only the neck from it. Another luthier said it was no good. So now I have to.
Is it stupid to buy wood online and have it shipped, like internationally if I can’t get wood for guitar building locally? Will it get ruined by humidity/temperature changes in transit or can it be done safely?
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars that would be fantastic to see! I hope to be able to build a small workshop on my farm at some point and that would be a perfect guideline on what to do!
Oven isn't really an option, unless you want to buy take out for a few months.. doing it too fast will damage the wood.. however a small kiln/drying room/cupboard is certainly an option and I will do a video on that one day soon! B
My dad used to use Clorox and bleach wood to be lighter when he wanted to match an ajoining piece. As I recall it took the red out of cherry to match mahogany on my antique piano stool. It worked perfectly.
Don't worry about the mask part, outside in that wind and nobody closer than 3m to you it makes no difference whatsoever. Masks are for dense city areas and indoors (and that warehouse is big enough that you probably don't have to worry about infecting anyone there either)!
I used to buy from John Boddy Timber in Boroughbridge. I can't believe they not only went out of business, but have been broken up in a fire sale. I honestly thought they'd be too viable and attractive an investment to not be bought out and continue under a new owner.
hello sir, respectable gentleman. i want to ask 1 question : i want to make my own acoustic guitar. if i cut back and side wood using quarter sawn method is it correct? thank you
I have a pile of wood that used to be my grandmothers piano. I am hoping it is good enough to extend it's musical life in the form of one or two T-style guitars.
As they were delivering your wood, I thought, ...... I wonder if Ben can remember, all the wood that he's bought, and where it's located. It seemed to be delivered into your woodstore in some haphazard way ! ! You need a bigger wood-store Ben, and a computerized means of location and identification ! YES, I want more on your timber searches, and possible uses for same ! Love the Vlog.
That was just.coming into the factory before the rain.. it was all processed down within a few days and is now in the timber store.. which is far too small, far far too small. We're not big enough for a proper inventory system quite yet but fingers crossed we will be in a few years. B
Well, a friend of mine says to me years ago, that an electric guitar is a good bridge, good frets work, a straight neck, a good nut, good tuning pegs, of course good pickups and a good adjustment everywhere.. The rest is only a peace of wood.
Have you guys done a video yet of how you process the bought timber to get the most out of a beautiful piece of timber like how to square it, level it, what's best for bodies, necks etc would be awesome to see
I got a friend who felled a few walnut trees a few years ago and he's also got a sawmilling set and I'm going to buy some of those logs at a discount and im a bit excited
Wow I love the timber. So gorgeous! Thinking about making my own guitar. I don't have timber testing gear but what's the worst could happen if I got some timber that was indoors fir a while and looks to be fine? Would you consider making a guitar body out of oak? Thanks. Great channel.
The worst is you need to rebuild it.. that has happened to me before. And it sucked! Store it in a dry place for as long as you can before you use it and take measurements with an accurate rulers or better yet with weighing scales.. as you lose moisture you lose weight.. when it stops losing weight it has reached equilibrium and should be fine for a new build. B
Hi there....I'm a woodworking machinist and my favourite wood was "paduuk" an awesome purplish hardwood slowly fading into sap wood. Would make an awesome guitar
Interesting and informative video which I enjoyed watching. As someone who has worked with fine woods all my life and having worked on many overseas aid projects in the past teaching institutions and workshops how to process wood there is one text that all who work with wood should try and read and understand. It was written by Bruce Hoadley called "Understanding Wood : A Craftsman Guide to Wood Technology" (1980). Please try and remember, it is not correct to always blame insufficient drying of wood for subsequent wood movement. There are many other factors involved such as the use of compression and tension wood which is not always relieved during the drying process. Using wood dried to below 10% moisture content and where the finished item is used where the EMC would be 10-12% brings sorbtion hysteresis in to play. Musical instrument makers have used this characteristic of slightly "overdrying" wood to minimise subsequent movement for centuries. I hope my comments are of some use here. Sorbtion hysteresis = moisture content is higher if equilibrium is reached by desorption than if it is reached by absorption under the same ambient climate conditions.
I've seen people build guitar bodies out of everything now -- LEGO, concrete, colored pencils, epoxy -- and that left me curious. Is wood actually important in an *electric* guitar or bass body? Obviously it would matter for acoustic guitars, and this video helped me understand the importance of properly dry timber if you are building instruments out of wood, but . . . wouldn't the electronics have more to do with the sound in a finished electric build? For that matter, why drill sound holes in an electric guitar, either? Was hoping Ben would know.
This is an age old question and online debate, however a guitar has a lot going on that affects the sound and wood is only a small part of it.. sustain is the main component that material really affects things. The rest is mainly down to the hardware and electrics, amp etc.. Tone chambers do make a difference, both to sustain and tone and, more importantly, ergonomics of a guitar but again, the tone can be shaped more with the pickups than with anything else. B
I’ve been watching some of the old podcast videos and I had a question (one hopefully you haven’t answered before). I’m just getting started with woodworking and working on guitars, but how do you make a compound radius fretboard?
If you are using a hand plane or a levelling beam you want to sand in straight lines following where each string would be.. that way you create a cone. Sanding or planing straight down the centerline makes a standard radius. You will need a way to measure the radius to see where you are and to adjust mid course but that is the basic method.. check out Crimson for your tools, if you haven't already. I would appreciate the support ;) B www.crimsonguitars.com/collections/types?q=Measuring
I've just looked up the price of Wagner moisture meters, no wonder good guitars are so expensive. Incidentally Ben, it looks as if you were wearing a covid-19 mask with exhale valves at one point. These masks only protect the wearer (perhaps) but not those who come close as the exhaled air is not filtered. They do however, stop your specs steaming up!
"Guys, I've found a tree that I want"
Guitar making goals :)
got it in one.. the day I had custom hard cases made with Crimson Branding moulded in and the day I bought a whole damn flame sycamore tree are equal in my mind as watershed moments in my career! I am very much having the time of my life right now. B
My wife doesn't understand why I am so happy at our local wood supplier - I don't build guitars but everything about what Ben said here still applies to what I do. I love the smells and the textures and imagining the possibilities.
Would love to see you process a slab into usable pieces.
Big bandsaws and delegation :) I am, at heart, a lazy man. But yes, that could make a cool video. I am thinking about buying a flamed Ash tree they had at Tyler and that will need processing.. mmm. B
"I'm actually standing in a giant kiln."
Even more reason to trust your supplier.
Flashback to the first Kickass film?
Fascinating stuff. Wood is just such an awesome medium.
It really is, I've build my life around it. Thanks for watching. B
A friend of mine told me, "You get what you pay for..... if you're lucky!"
There is that.. it used to be a given, nowadays some companies are not quite living up to the hype. The Wagner meter is incredible technology and pretty much bullet proof. We've been using, and abusing, them for years and they have stood up to all we could throw at them. B
You should make a nautical themed guitar: brass hardware, teak and holly body, inlayed compass rose or filigree, mahogany neck, inlayed manila rope banding
Now that is a great idea
Now I'm tempted to do just this! B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars And then learn some shanties with the Longest Johns.
If we're going Nautical, Teak would be a great choice.
I can imagine all of the pirate puns that would happen...
I wonder if an employee at Crimson ever saw a plank and immediately claimed it. "No, that one is mine. You lot can bugger off and build with something else!"
I mean, besides Ben.
Happens everywhere
it does happen.. often! We let employees build on their own time and many a private build has some exceptional timber.. B
The most interesting part of a guitar. Yes please more.
will do. B
15:42 Close; it's "electrodes". The anode is the positive electrode, specifically (cathode is negative).
Yes yes yes I'm just beginning to build my own Guitars and would love to have a little more knowledge on the kiln drying process
Cool. Coming up. B
I've always thought a video (or video series) titled something like "Wood Review with Ben" where you go through [eventually] every species of wood and rate them for guitar construction with categories like "appearance," "durability," "price," "easiness to work with" etc. would be cool. Also, one more category for some woods would be "color fastness," i.e. for woods like purple heart; how quickly its color goes fades over time. Possibly conclude the talk about each species with statements like "great/bad for guitars," "[not] recommended for beginners/advanced," etc.
Edit: Not just rating, but discussing thoroughly their pros and cons mostly as they apply to guitar building but also woodworking in general.
"Your wood wants to lose moisture". I'm on it!
The teenager in me just laughed! 😂
Experiments shall be conducted.. report back later? B
Hi mate Thanks to you i have purchased my Triton router .Just a Quick question ,To do rough cut on Body and Neck Blank's what Power Does it require When it's come to band saw.Thanks.
Yes please! More of this kind of content, seeing as you’re offering.... Love watching things like the Out Of The Woods channel ( he’s also a pretty fine guitarist - that’d be an interesting collaboration) but always keen to see things in a more guitar/ musical instrument-specific context. Thankyouverymuch!
I just lost a load of time checking out, and subscribing to, his channel.. good shout! B
Twenty minutes of Ben explaining how he rubs his wood..........that's enough internet for today....
Why don't you buy a Wood Mizer and saw up whole logs for drying yourself. Sort of an investment in the future. Cheaper wood for the company and the option to sell wood to other guitar builders. Crimson Guitar Wood
I have seriously considered this but we simply don't have the space right now.. maybe in a few years when we move the school to its own site? B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars This is how I see it. It doesn't have to be that close to your company buildings since you don't have to look at the wood every day. You could buy a piece of land with a barn on it and then stor the mill and season the wood their. Land like that should be relatively cheap as you only need the square mileage and no utilities
Ben, I'm so jealous! I want a wood dealer!!!! And thanks for the little sound tip to find cracks. Neat!
I've got some wild cherry that I had cut 15 years ago that has been dying in a shop attic, that I'm going to try making my first guitar out of.
Cherry makes a stunning guitar.. quite heavy sometimes but nonetheless stunning.. send us pics when you are done? B
I love your videos, I'd like to see more on wood stores, and timber yards!
Will do. Will do for sure.. in the meantime check out @mattcremona he does amazing things with huge lumber! B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars how much as the lockdown affected the build times? As I've a guitar being made by Crimson, and I'm impatient to get my hands on it?
I think you got the radial and tangential rates reversed (just a verbal typo I am sure). Just mentioning it for viewers that wondered! One of the joys of quartersawn wood is that it shrinks half as much (very approximately) in the width of the plank, as a flat sawn piece would. The direction where it shrinks most is the thickness, but because it's a smaller dimension, it's no big deal. And just for completeness here, most woods hardly shrink at all in the length.
I spent years working in a timber merchants. Miss those days.
So much wood, so little energy to use it after a day working the yard! B
Just watched a video where an old 1878 patent chisel/hand plane was being made and the first thought was I bet Ben would like this.
ua-cam.com/video/Opxo5vEIS6Q/v-deo.html
Thanks for sharing this, stunning video, you were spot on! B
Love to see the wood come from the supplier and become a guitar.
I mean a video 😊
Will do.. B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars excellent, thank you 👍
Thank Ben, tech tip are always welcome. The beginning is always a good place to start. Keep your nose out of the wind and stay safe.
It is always a learning process with you...liked before watching it❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much 😀 B
My wood wil want to take on or lose moisture ......right .....😂 Sounds kinky
This video is rife for double entendre.. did you see the chapter title 'unfortunate stains'? B
Yeah yeah! More please. Show us the kiln. More technical info and "science" cheers Ben
Will do. Soon as I build my home timber store and a small kiln I will share all of the above. B
i'm loving this revived variety in videos, as much as building guitars is your bread and butter, this is the meat, in my opinion.
in the GGBO Brad Angove was giving advice to the competitors who wanted to have a UA-cam channel in the end.. he said 'make sure you are useful' and I realised that at heart, while I was still teaching through the builds I was not being as useful and I could be and had strayed quite far from where I actually wanted to be.. timed builds, crazy challenges etc may be entertaining, but I want to educate as well, this is me trying too be useful and it will be staple from now on. B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars nice one man! it's what i subscribed for back in 2014 and the knowledge was invaluable, don't get me wrong though, the challenge builds are great too! the perfect balance is there somewhere, but i'm glad you're leaning back towards the tutorial side of things.
Does anyone live in Augusta Georgia (U.S.A.) and know of any hardwood places? I’ve had no luck finding any.
I found that to be a very interesting video. Even though I'm not really a woodworker, I've often wished I was- wood is amazing stuff. That first piece of Wellingtonia is just gorgeous, and the price was a fair bit less than I would have guessed.
There'll be some beautiful guitars made with those pieces of timber.
there really will, and I was amazed at the price too.. I grabbed as much of it as I could as it is not likely to come up again like this any time soon.. you should get into woodworking, even in a small way, I find it makes my life so so much better. Thanks for watching. B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars I did once make a custom body for one of my basses- three layers of mahogany, all cut out with a coping saw! The final result worked, so I used the spare body to make an electric 12 string with far too many switching possibilities.
Hey Ben, Great video as always. However: you are talking about how important it is to dry your wood, but I missed the most important piece of information: How dry it actually should be? When is it dry enough?
Trustworthy suppliers are so important. It's great that you give shout-outs to the worthy.
Interesting recent video on Texas Toast's channel about a customer who recently got their fingers burned 😞
it really is so important.. and sometimes it is a fluid situation, sadly.. B
It's almost unbelievable the way wood will move. You have to cut it the right way, even when it's cured. I'm working on my first guitars right now. I've cut the blanks for the bodies and am letting it sit under heat in my shop. The slabs I'm using have been in my shop for two years now and the moisture reading is perfect. You still never know what will happen when you release that tension after a cut. That lumber yard looked like a very happy place. I wish I wasn't on the other side of the pond, but I'd spend too much money there.. You build beautiful guitars and your videos are full of great information..
As a guitar tech with some carpentry experience buying wood scares me. This was helpful but would love top see more like tips and tricks or dos and dons when choosing wood
Will do!
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars did you repost that older clip on your main channel on the back of this comment. I feel honoured 🎖....erm even if it was coincidental.😁
I'm well aware I'm almost 2 months behind, but I'd personally like to know how you get on with the drying process at your home workshop- as I'm back at my parents, and have absolutely no space, and no workshop to speak of...
Best of Luck Ben
Also named Tyler.
Any tips for buying wood from companies claiming the wood’s purpose is for instruments (body and neck blanks, for example)?
thanks Ben, I wish you could elaborate on what sizes you choose and why. Does size matter ?? I mean, is it mandatory to get a 2-2.5 inches thick board to make a body ? Is it even preferable ? or any size will do ? this can be true for bodies or any part, tops, necks, ... Are there any best practices to cut boards (which directions ?) and how to glue them to get something attractive and/or "structurally effective" ?
Thinking about getting back into classical guitar building after 35 years break -my first attempt was not good, a learning experience- the back cracked! Cant see any classical guitar tonewoods here (have postponed watching full video till I have more time), but I’d appreciate any info on those lines, and also on humidity control in a single-brick garage/workshop!
Hey Ben, and the Crimson Guitar team, can you please open up a page on Rumble. Just share all new content on both. Many people are moving away from UA-cam and moving to Rumble. Thanks.
Absolutely fantastic to see a video about the lesser known side of guitar building...or anything else building really with some of that beautiful Timber. Would love to see more like it as no other videos show this part.
Meanwhile back at Crimson...I see you mentally cursing & restacking some of it properly after the numpties had piled it up willy nilly...gotta keep it flat after all ;-)
Glad I saw this one before I tried building my first guitar. Thanks Ben.
My pleasure, thanks for watching.. and enjoy the first build and the next 20.. this is an addiction a lovely lovely addiction. B
I've got an urge to make a replica of a guitar. It's a one piece guitar and I'm thinking this will be more of a wall hanger but of course I'm not planning on it warping.
Have you any opinion of Willow wood? I know it's a hardwood and commonly used for cricket bats. But I can't seem to find any Lutheran's talking about it.
I have a strong mental image in my head, I want it to have a natural wood appearance of grain. With strong spalting maybe a few cracks and holes with little to no paint.
The best way I could describe it is. This would be the electric guitar a witch or wizard would have. Made from the same magical wood it will bare a striking resemblance to a grand staff or cane.
I think that moisture meter is $540 - are there any cheaper machines you'd trust - how cheap would you go before you would doubt results - thanks
Why is it only now I've discovered Bill Baileys younger luthier brother?!?!?
You guys have a great wood possibilities to buy over there. Here in Brazil we are not allowed to buy nice native wood. In my city I can buy just crappy eucalyptus and a type of pine that is more like sponge. That's bureaucracy.
great information thank you 😊
can I use makore wood on classical guitar body back and neck do you recommend this wood and its glue well .... thank you
3:04 get outta the kiln!!
Are you serious ??? I always thought wood comes in squares... Like fish!!! 🤪
Good to learn theses type of woods 😃👌 drying of wood
Great video Ben I'm looking to start building my own guitars more as a hobby than anything but you never know what will come of it i live in the North East of England any hints on where I could find a supplier? Thanks Ben
At 1:14... That whole slab for £24? Are you kidding me? They're practically giving it away
They regularly put pieces up on their website.. you should check it out. B
www.tylerhardwoods.com/
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Cheers Ben. I'm checking them out now.
I have two local timberyards here in Belfast that I swear by, but I reckon anything that gets the Crimson seal of approval has to be good and worth a look.
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars OMG their prices are actually awesome
Lol I'm going for oak now that u said it looks like "furniture". Laminated of course. Make only the neck from it. Another luthier said it was no good. So now I have to.
Is it stupid to buy wood online and have it shipped, like internationally if I can’t get wood for guitar building locally? Will it get ruined by humidity/temperature changes in transit or can it be done safely?
To be "POOR" actually means that you have no friends! Let me correct you, Ben! You are a very wealthy man!
Let's hear more about wood curing storing and how to do it in a small setup for a home hobbyist!
Will do.. I need to build a small timber store at my home studio so will film a bit if that soon. B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars that would be fantastic to see! I hope to be able to build a small workshop on my farm at some point and that would be a perfect guideline on what to do!
would love to find out about kiln drying. as well as if there are option for home builders to dry the wood with their oven
Oven isn't really an option, unless you want to buy take out for a few months.. doing it too fast will damage the wood.. however a small kiln/drying room/cupboard is certainly an option and I will do a video on that one day soon! B
My dad used to use Clorox and bleach wood to be lighter when he wanted to match an ajoining piece. As I recall it took the red out of cherry to match mahogany on my antique piano stool. It worked perfectly.
I play guitar, but have no interest in making them. However I find your content so interesting and informative I can't stop watching
you didn't explain what's the importance of the wood being rippled 🥺
24 GBP? What? 2.4 K? It said 24.00 I don't understand. How much is it?
Don't worry about the mask part, outside in that wind and nobody closer than 3m to you it makes no difference whatsoever. Masks are for dense city areas and indoors (and that warehouse is big enough that you probably don't have to worry about infecting anyone there either)!
This beautiful wood must not be stained, painted or burned, but oiled. Just to show all the beauty it has to offer. Anything else would be a sin....
Drooling at the site of all that wood and knowledge.Stay well,Crimson family and a cheery good holiday, Doc BC
I used to buy from John Boddy Timber in Boroughbridge. I can't believe they not only went out of business, but have been broken up in a fire sale. I honestly thought they'd be too viable and attractive an investment to not be bought out and continue under a new owner.
I've been trying to build a bass with morning wood, but mine is too hardy-har-har-soft.
hello sir, respectable gentleman. i want to ask 1 question : i want to make my own acoustic guitar. if i cut back and side wood using quarter sawn method is it correct? thank you
Its amazing you have all that variety, in some places like here you only get pine and eucalipthus...
And head tattoos.
I have a pile of wood that used to be my grandmothers piano. I am hoping it is good enough to extend it's musical life in the form of one or two T-style guitars.
Цена 24 доллара для России очень дёшево, у нас ближе к 100... Всем привет кто перевел мой текс в google переводчик!))
I’d smile choosing either maple or northern white ash…figuring it into a bat…and beating a sack of ricotta cheese in effigy of you
Watching this makes me miss the whats on the bench. Can't wait for the world to get back to abit more normality. Hope you're all staying safe.
As they were delivering your wood, I thought, ...... I wonder if Ben can remember, all the wood that he's bought, and where it's located.
It seemed to be delivered into your woodstore in some haphazard way ! !
You need a bigger wood-store Ben, and a computerized means of location and identification !
YES, I want more on your timber searches, and possible uses for same !
Love the Vlog.
That was just.coming into the factory before the rain.. it was all processed down within a few days and is now in the timber store.. which is far too small, far far too small. We're not big enough for a proper inventory system quite yet but fingers crossed we will be in a few years. B
Well, a friend of mine says to me years ago, that an electric guitar is a good bridge, good frets work, a straight neck, a good nut, good tuning pegs, of course good pickups and a good adjustment everywhere.. The rest is only a peace of wood.
Have you guys done a video yet of how you process the bought timber to get the most out of a beautiful piece of timber like how to square it, level it, what's best for bodies, necks etc would be awesome to see
Would love to see the process inside Crimson
We will do some filming for sure. B
I need to let my wife see this video, maybe she will see that my problems with wood buying are very insignificant after all 😂
Most youtubers that talk about wood and its properties talk a bunch of bullshit. That here was actually acurate!
I got a friend who felled a few walnut trees a few years ago and he's also got a sawmilling set and I'm going to buy some of those logs at a discount and im a bit excited
Were the prices on the sample cost per foot? I don't know relative prices not being in the UK.
and then there's me, pondering if the planks from the pallet I have in the garage would make a guitar XD
Please make a more in depth video about propper drying/storing of guitar wood
Quick easy access to many projects with Stodoys plans.
This is just awesome! It’s wood porn! Need to find something like this in the States.
please more
i have a 300 year old sugar maple/// the whole tree/ i want to sell/ iany interest
Coooooooool!
Wow I love the timber. So gorgeous! Thinking about making my own guitar. I don't have timber testing gear but what's the worst could happen if I got some timber that was indoors fir a while and looks to be fine? Would you consider making a guitar body out of oak? Thanks. Great channel.
The worst is you need to rebuild it.. that has happened to me before. And it sucked!
Store it in a dry place for as long as you can before you use it and take measurements with an accurate rulers or better yet with weighing scales.. as you lose moisture you lose weight.. when it stops losing weight it has reached equilibrium and should be fine for a new build. B
I want a guitar with a driftwood, that was once part of a beech house, type look.
Show!!
Cool woods. I'd love to see a guitar topped with the crazy ash.
Very nice video, sharing your passion. Thank you !
Very nicely presented and detailed video! Thank you!
Hi there....I'm a woodworking machinist and my favourite wood was "paduuk" an awesome purplish hardwood slowly fading into sap wood. Would make an awesome guitar
I use it often.. though we spell it Padauk for some reason.. I wish it stayed that awesome red though, curse you UV light! B
Interesting and informative video which I enjoyed watching. As someone who has worked with fine woods all my life and having worked on many overseas aid projects in the past teaching institutions and workshops how to process wood there is one text that all who work with wood should try and read and understand. It was written by Bruce Hoadley called "Understanding Wood : A Craftsman Guide to Wood Technology" (1980). Please try and remember, it is not correct to always blame insufficient drying of wood for subsequent wood movement. There are many other factors involved such as the use of compression and tension wood which is not always relieved during the drying process. Using wood dried to below 10% moisture content and where the finished item is used where the EMC would be 10-12% brings sorbtion hysteresis in to play. Musical instrument makers have used this characteristic of slightly "overdrying" wood to minimise subsequent movement for centuries. I hope my comments are of some use here. Sorbtion hysteresis = moisture content is higher if equilibrium is reached by desorption than if it is reached by absorption under the same ambient climate conditions.
I love that book! And there is nothing I can add here.. anyone reading who wants to know more should get the book! B
I've seen people build guitar bodies out of everything now -- LEGO, concrete, colored pencils, epoxy -- and that left me curious. Is wood actually important in an *electric* guitar or bass body? Obviously it would matter for acoustic guitars, and this video helped me understand the importance of properly dry timber if you are building instruments out of wood, but . . . wouldn't the electronics have more to do with the sound in a finished electric build? For that matter, why drill sound holes in an electric guitar, either? Was hoping Ben would know.
This is an age old question and online debate, however a guitar has a lot going on that affects the sound and wood is only a small part of it.. sustain is the main component that material really affects things. The rest is mainly down to the hardware and electrics, amp etc..
Tone chambers do make a difference, both to sustain and tone and, more importantly, ergonomics of a guitar but again, the tone can be shaped more with the pickups than with anything else. B
merrickville old growth/// not bull
I’ve been watching some of the old podcast videos and I had a question (one hopefully you haven’t answered before). I’m just getting started with woodworking and working on guitars, but how do you make a compound radius fretboard?
If you are using a hand plane or a levelling beam you want to sand in straight lines following where each string would be.. that way you create a cone. Sanding or planing straight down the centerline makes a standard radius. You will need a way to measure the radius to see where you are and to adjust mid course but that is the basic method.. check out Crimson for your tools, if you haven't already. I would appreciate the support ;) B www.crimsonguitars.com/collections/types?q=Measuring
Always nice to rush home to the wife to show her your wood.... awesome 😃
I would love to see a video on how to harvest wood from the woods and the steps to dry it so that it can become a guitar
I've just looked up the price of Wagner moisture meters, no wonder good guitars are so expensive. Incidentally Ben, it looks as if you were wearing a covid-19 mask with exhale valves at one point. These masks only protect the wearer (perhaps) but not those who come close as the exhaled air is not filtered. They do however, stop your specs steaming up!
yeah, I don't use that mask anymore.. and the Wagner is well worth it for the trouble it can save you, I am very very lucky to be able to have one. B