Builds, tutorials, and insights (tangents...) are what make this channel special. There's a million other UA-cam guitar channels that do unboxings and gear demos already.
Chojin (madskyy) you could make it out of naturally pressure treated drowned hardwood. It's typical to find in areas like the great lakes and fresh water logging rivers. They're typically used for high end furniture and are pretty expensive but hell, why not build a solid body out of one:p
I personally enjoy the unboxing videos and showing off tools and such. But in general I will watch anything with Ben in it, he has a brilliant and fun personality that just makes any video he's in joyful to watch. I enjoy listening to people who are just so invested and in love with their craft, it brings a happiness to your soul that really nothing else can.
Since 2008 UA-cam has been my #1 source of entertainment and online content. And I can unequivocally say without a doubt that I have found more enjoyment out of your channel and your builds than anything else I have ever found! It's the culmination of 2 of my most favorite things, quality woodworking, and guitars!
By far my favourite videos are the build ones. If I've had a long day there's nothing I look forward to more than seeing there's a build video. Doesn't matter to me whether it's a kit guitar or a custom build it relaxes me to no end to sit down and watch one of your videos 😉
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers. It's a testament to the quality of your channel and the strength of the guitar community, to which you richly contribute.
I think you've stumbled on an option to film. "I need an apprentice." Make a series of apprentice builds, lessons, contests and so on. Ben would be able to carry on a dialog as well as a monologue. Unless Ben doesn't play well with students, the discourse could be just as informative.
I would love to see a Gibson 335 type hollow body build, as you most likely know its not a carved shape, the top, back and sides are three thin plys glued into shape while clamped in a positive and negative form. Would love to see you make those, perhaps one with and one without the use of a CNC.
I enjoy builds but really like the technique videos. Unboxings or reviews 0ccasionaly would be good but the essence of this channel is how to build so whether that's a "x hours" build or a "how to joint a body" video I'm happy
You could make some videos about pitching new ideas, creating new body shapes, etc. I think many of us would like to see the creation of something fresh and new. That's why we love the build-videos; Creating something special out of nothing, that's basically magic, Ben!
I really enjoy the What's on the bench weekly videos, and Ben's experimental videos, I'd really like to see Christopher take us through finishing a guitar from start to finish. He always seems a little nervous on camera but when he's talking about finishes you can really see his knowledge and passion come through. The finish on the Mutineer for example is stunning.
Ben I enjoy watching your videos I have cancer and this makes my day to watch you build guitars. All my gutiars were stolen when I was in the hospital getting chemotherapy. But thank you for the little bit of joy by your viedos
I personally enjoy the long-form, relatively unedited style videos. It's fun (to me, anyway) to see everything along the way, even the "boring" stuff like sanding and fretwork.
Big congratulations on hitting 100k! It's well deserved. I've learnt so much over the past few years from watching you since you started in your garden shed. Thank you!
totally agree.. thats one of the things that makes this a unique channel is bens tangents and digressions!! aside the educational content.. its a big part of the videos!
1. I’d love to see a pickup build, including some description of what effect overwound/underwound has. 2. A hollow body, curved top 335 like build. Love this channel, glad to be 1 in 100,000 to help you make it this far. Thanks CF.
Ben, I love all your current videos, but please don't stop doing the technique/tool ones! Some of my favorites are tool videos along with the weekend workshops. Basically I just want more Crimson/Ben!
In addition to the builds, which are great, I've loved the mini-torials and the videos on hand tools (using them, tuning them, etc.). Basically, anything that teaches me something about luthiery will get my attention. Merry Christmas!
As to what I want to see in see in the future, I honestly enjoy all of the variety of videos you do, from tool to technique to unboxing, news and, of course, builds. Continue to putout what you want, we will, most probably, watch
Congrats on the 100 thousand subscribers. Your videos have inspired me to start building, and I wish I had the time and money to come across the pond to visit and learn more. Keep doing the build videos! I really enjoy all the content including the podcast. Cheers from Arizona, and Happy Holidays!
I'm honestly happy viewing most things your channel puts out, increased frequency of build videos would be nice, but I do also enjoy your current programming
Consider releasing older content and builds onto youtube after a year or something, so us youtube folk that helped you GET to 100k get to enjoy some builds and "premium" content from time to time, please? Also, you can do what you did with the 6 hour build, and do unboxings for pickups and stuff during the build videos. Make videos featuring new hardware that are going to go on the build, and allow time for unboxings and features, and then either include them as they happen, or include a proper unboxing during the inevitable demo video that happens at the end. Finally, with regards to new videos, do NOT forget voice-overs please, ben. Maybe do some directors commentary with james, christopher or tom as a sort of mini-podcast over the top. Hell, even grab a student or two and get their perspective on what you're doing.
I watch this channel for the expertise in guitar building. There are plentiful pedal and pickup talkshows, some of which are very good, but that's not what I'm here for. I build and repair guitars. I've got some kits on the go and some restorations. I think I came here for the fret level/dress/crown videos and progressed to refretting. I then decided to try a super cheap kit (like £50), reshaped the body, reshaped the neck, wound some single coils, used them in something else, bought some devilishly complicated laser-cut inlays and actually got them in ok, you get the idea. Finished it this week actually. 18 months. 8 days into a bass kit, i think i'll be done in 18. What do I want to see more of? The things I don't know I didn't know about guitar building. These are the things that usually come up watching you do something less rehersed, or listening to christopher on finish for more than a few seconds. Examples of previous gems of knowledge include how to cut a nut properly (like it's right on any mass-produced guitar...), superglue and masking tape, howto make an angled shim rather than use a slice of business card (that's what I keep seeing so it must be right...) and highlighting grain in a complementary colour rather than black, using a triangular file rather than those radiused crowning files, using a leveling beam to do most of the neck and fret work, how to do a conical neck profile without even thinking about it, the fall-away at the high frets.... so many little details I've found through watching videos on something tangentially related....
The Clarity series was a blast to watch. More of that type of videos :) For example a guitar like the Mutineer, Christopher’s Master Build would have made an epic series and so informative and amazing :)
Congrats to you and your company. I love the builds and the minitorials. A complete build with the how and why you put things where you do ie; the the bridge, the pickups, the size of the neck pocket. All the things that make a guitar work. I think that would be great.
Demonstrating how possible these impossible builds are is REALLY exciting to watch, and infectious! I get really pumped up watching these! Practically Anything involving the Crimson staff dropping their wisdom and expertise on us eager viewers is pure gold! I really enjoy all the fun stuff, like voice overs or the odd cigar box build, plus any techniques like using blowtorches etc., really "spark" my creativity! get it...spark? Try the veal, and tip your waitress! ;P
Really enjoyed this one. I would love to see you do more tool restoration and maybe up-cycling some vintage guitar parts in your builds. Experimental guitar finishing is also appreciated! Thank you a lot for the great content! Cheers
Build videos are great. Keep up what's on the bench. Unboxing I'm less interested in. Showing tools, how to use, sharpen and maintain are good too. Crimson is my first go to in my subscriptions. Your stuff is most entertaining and interesting and honest imho
I noticed the cost of your kits is higher than the average kits on the market, but the quality of the wood is far superior! I recently finished 2 similar kits. While they are ok for a painted guitar, they would not match the look of your kits if they were stained. I think your kits are well worth the little extra cost, especially if going for a stained type finish.
Congrats on hitting 100k guys. Been a loyal subscriber since Ben worked out of his backyard shed. Keep bringing out great content and great products :D
Fewer vids is a scary thing.....I NEED lots of crimson fixes....err..... videos, but I have a slight problem. Wotb must stay!!! And they can be long. Talk about different woods and your experience with it, all luthiers can donate. Short tutorial vids with everybody need to stay and of course the special builds like this. I just finished watching ( listening) to a playlist of all88 WOTB and saw a tremendous evolution. Congratulations and I will enjoy all you are willing to share, thank you.
Congratulations on the 100k subs ! As for suggestions, i would like to see more in-depth builds and techniques, maybe on multiple vids. I would love seeing a «full» build (like you do on «X hour build») on a classic model of yours. Sorry for the bad english. Keep up the nice content !
FYI: Homedepot sells a shopvac called a "Buckethead" that clamps to the top of a regular 5gal bucket. I bought one. Then 3 more. *sheepish grin* One I hooked up to my bench ducts for woodworking.
I’d love to see a build (time limit or not) from scratch with ONLY hand tools. Cutting the body out with a Japanese saw and/or coping saw. Seeing thing those lovely hand planes in action. I’m sure it’d be annoying and time consuming and anything but convenient, but I’ve always romanticized the idea of building guitars with no power tools.
Congratulations on 100k! I love the build videoes, but i'm also a "toolaholic" so i've really enjoyed the vids concerning tools. The sharpening series was probally my favorite. More of those!!!
Since you asked: Yes, I'd like to see more builds. I like your "What's on the bench" series, that's always fun... and everything you guys do ends up being fun, really, but the bread and butter, in my opinion, were the build videos. It would be nice to see you return to those a bit more. Oh, and congrats on the 100,000 subscribers. Well deserved.
I was going to say "don't be so nervous Ben because all that stress just makes you lose your hair" but then I thought hey I would probably even faint :D So... I don't know if this helps but we love what your doing and you.are.good. Carry on Ben!
Keep up the mix. We love your tool videos or we would not have subscribed! Ben, I’d bet most of your 100k subscribers are like me and don’t tell you we want because you are already doing it!!! We like getting an experienced craftsman’s point of view on tools and gear.
I want more tool videos. Particularly comparison videos. And pickups need contrast, so please do unbox pickups, but compare them to other pickups so we can hear what we're missing.
I love the tutorials and the custom builds. I'd love a video series on each masterbuild that you do as well. Unboxing videos aren't as exciting. And I don't even watch the gear demos
It's nice to see electric guitars built so as to learn new techniques or other techniques for building and repairing. I would be curious to see what techniques are used in building an acoustic guitar. With all the hand tools you have behind you. Even though acoustic guitar are a different animal. To show which techniques crossover from Electric to acoustic and which techniques are limited to just one.
I was recently turned on to this channel via Matt Cremona.... I love the tool videos and unboxings! I'm a bit of a hand tool addict as well so please keep hand tool videos coming!
I'm wondering about the 300 minute build. Make it a T-type Crimson kit, and see what Ben can madly throw into it to shave the time down to nothing. Alternatively, I'm waiting on Bob 2. An open-ended timed build would be The Christopher build. Just some guitar under the premise of the 90 hour build, strut-your-stuff, that Christopher has filmed. The same could be done for all the master luthiers at Crimson.
I came here for the build videos. In boxing videos are less interesting to me but it wouldn't bother me if they still showed up sometimes. I am however interested in tool videos as someone who is interested in building guitars but has not done it as of yet. Thanks for the great content and congrats on 100,000 subs.
What I would kill to see from you Ben, although it's likely never going to happen unless I get a go-pro or something and record myself doing it during one of your courses (with your permission) Is you doing what you do best: Building high-end, bespoke and beautiful instruments. I know it would be a nightmare to film and edit a full build, no time restraints, no pressure, just you doing your job, but I think it would be awesome to see what you can do when you're not under a time-crunch.
HEY BEN, I LOVE THE GREATEST LUTHIER TRICK, USING CA AND MASKING TAPE BUT IT CONCERNS ME WITH HOW MUCH I SEE YOU USING THE ACCELERANT WITHOUT LUNG PROTECTION. THE LAST TIME I COMMENTED ON SAFTY PRACTICES A BUNCH OF PEOPLE GOT BUTT HURT BUT I'M NOT INSULTING AT ALL ITS JUST THAT THAT STUFF IS EXTREMELY TOXIC AND I WANT TO WATCH YOU BUILD FOR A LONG TIME. LOVE CRIMSON GUITARS AND YOU ARE AN AMAZING CRAFTSMAN. WEAR A MASK BUD. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
You keep threatening to make a guitar from JUST hand tools. I'd love to see that build. Maybe some in-depth tutorials on wiring up guitars and things too would be ace.
Builds, tutorials, and insights (tangents...) are what make this channel special. There's a million other UA-cam guitar channels that do unboxings and gear demos already.
I’d love to see you build an acoustic guitar. I understand that a lot more goes into making one but I have faith in you ben.
I mean the man carved violins before this, can't be that hard for him
I am still waiting for the 100 year build where Ben only uses tools from his cabinet older than 100 years to build a modern guitar.
Or he takes 100 years to finish it. Probably he starts it and his kids finish it up.
Would that be hard to find? Wood that was cut 100 years ago? or that is growing for 100 years?
Chojin (madskyy) you could make it out of naturally pressure treated drowned hardwood. It's typical to find in areas like the great lakes and fresh water logging rivers. They're typically used for high end furniture and are pretty expensive but hell, why not build a solid body out of one:p
You all have jumped the shark!
Chojin (madskyy) Nah. Just drag it up from the bottom of the river. Then make Ben do it with stone tools, lol!
I personally enjoy the unboxing videos and showing off tools and such. But in general I will watch anything with Ben in it, he has a brilliant and fun personality that just makes any video he's in joyful to watch. I enjoy listening to people who are just so invested and in love with their craft, it brings a happiness to your soul that really nothing else can.
Hear, Hear!
Love that you even have the router running in tune with the music 😁
Since 2008 UA-cam has been my #1 source of entertainment and online content. And I can unequivocally say without a doubt that I have found more enjoyment out of your channel and your builds than anything else I have ever found! It's the culmination of 2 of my most favorite things, quality woodworking, and guitars!
By far my favourite videos are the build ones. If I've had a long day there's nothing I look forward to more than seeing there's a build video. Doesn't matter to me whether it's a kit guitar or a custom build it relaxes me to no end to sit down and watch one of your videos 😉
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers. It's a testament to the quality of your channel and the strength of the guitar community, to which you richly contribute.
What I really enjoy is watching a master at work. I'd like to see more on your custom pickups.
I think you've stumbled on an option to film. "I need an apprentice." Make a series of apprentice builds, lessons, contests and so on. Ben would be able to carry on a dialog as well as a monologue. Unless Ben doesn't play well with students, the discourse could be just as informative.
I would love to see a Gibson 335 type hollow body build, as you most likely know its not a carved shape, the top, back and sides are three thin plys glued into shape while clamped in a positive and negative form. Would love to see you make those, perhaps one with and one without the use of a CNC.
I enjoy builds but really like the technique videos. Unboxings or reviews 0ccasionaly would be good but the essence of this channel is how to build so whether that's a "x hours" build or a "how to joint a body" video I'm happy
When will we see the all-hand-tool build?
You could make some videos about pitching new ideas, creating new body shapes, etc.
I think many of us would like to see the creation of something fresh and new.
That's why we love the build-videos; Creating something special out of nothing, that's basically magic, Ben!
I really enjoy the What's on the bench weekly videos, and Ben's experimental videos, I'd really like to see Christopher take us through finishing a guitar from start to finish. He always seems a little nervous on camera but when he's talking about finishes you can really see his knowledge and passion come through. The finish on the Mutineer for example is stunning.
Ben I enjoy watching your videos I have cancer and this makes my day to watch you build guitars. All my gutiars were stolen when I was in the hospital getting chemotherapy. But thank you for the little bit of joy by your viedos
I personally enjoy the long-form, relatively unedited style videos. It's fun (to me, anyway) to see everything along the way, even the "boring" stuff like sanding and fretwork.
Big congratulations on hitting 100k! It's well deserved. I've learnt so much over the past few years from watching you since you started in your garden shed. Thank you!
Do more complete and in depth builds with as many digressions and tangents as possible :)
totally agree.. thats one of the things that makes this a unique channel is bens tangents and digressions!! aside the educational content.. its a big part of the videos!
He has done very detailed build videos-take a look at the content, go back a few months. Variety of format is always useful.
yeah keep sighing and looking at the camera continually as well we love that bit :)
Reminds me of Stewie Griffin all grown up. But less evil.
I want to see you build a double-neck guitar. Not sure if that's something you've already done on here, but I want to see it!
First clicking the "like", then lean back with a coffe. Allways entertaining and interesting! Thanks Ben😃
Builds for sure. Your expertise is invaluable to us who are still learning the trade. Congratulations on 100k!
I love watching these video's because every process is done properly with the correct tools and it's nice to see in today's robotical world
1. I’d love to see a pickup build, including some description of what effect overwound/underwound has.
2. A hollow body, curved top 335 like build.
Love this channel, glad to be 1 in 100,000 to help you make it this far. Thanks CF.
Maybe add some build videos or just short segments with the other luthiers too.
Ben, I love all your current videos, but please don't stop doing the technique/tool ones! Some of my favorites are tool videos along with the weekend workshops. Basically I just want more Crimson/Ben!
More builds! Build contests between master builders.
How about an 8 hour master builder kit competition?
In addition to the builds, which are great, I've loved the mini-torials and the videos on hand tools (using them, tuning them, etc.). Basically, anything that teaches me something about luthiery will get my attention. Merry Christmas!
As to what I want to see in see in the future, I honestly enjoy all of the variety of videos you do, from tool to technique to unboxing, news and, of course, builds. Continue to putout what you want, we will, most probably, watch
Congrats on the 100 thousand subscribers. Your videos have inspired me to start building, and I wish I had the time and money to come across the pond to visit and learn more. Keep doing the build videos! I really enjoy all the content including the podcast. Cheers from Arizona, and Happy Holidays!
I'm honestly happy viewing most things your channel puts out, increased frequency of build videos would be nice, but I do also enjoy your current programming
Consider releasing older content and builds onto youtube after a year or something, so us youtube folk that helped you GET to 100k get to enjoy some builds and "premium" content from time to time, please?
Also, you can do what you did with the 6 hour build, and do unboxings for pickups and stuff during the build videos.
Make videos featuring new hardware that are going to go on the build, and allow time for unboxings and features, and then either include them as they happen, or include a proper unboxing during the inevitable demo video that happens at the end.
Finally, with regards to new videos, do NOT forget voice-overs please, ben. Maybe do some directors commentary with james, christopher or tom as a sort of mini-podcast over the top.
Hell, even grab a student or two and get their perspective on what you're doing.
I watch this channel for the expertise in guitar building. There are plentiful pedal and pickup talkshows, some of which are very good, but that's not what I'm here for. I build and repair guitars. I've got some kits on the go and some restorations. I think I came here for the fret level/dress/crown videos and progressed to refretting. I then decided to try a super cheap kit (like £50), reshaped the body, reshaped the neck, wound some single coils, used them in something else, bought some devilishly complicated laser-cut inlays and actually got them in ok, you get the idea. Finished it this week actually. 18 months. 8 days into a bass kit, i think i'll be done in 18.
What do I want to see more of? The things I don't know I didn't know about guitar building. These are the things that usually come up watching you do something less rehersed, or listening to christopher on finish for more than a few seconds.
Examples of previous gems of knowledge include how to cut a nut properly (like it's right on any mass-produced guitar...), superglue and masking tape, howto make an angled shim rather than use a slice of business card (that's what I keep seeing so it must be right...) and highlighting grain in a complementary colour rather than black, using a triangular file rather than those radiused crowning files, using a leveling beam to do most of the neck and fret work, how to do a conical neck profile without even thinking about it, the fall-away at the high frets.... so many little details I've found through watching videos on something tangentially related....
I like setup/repair videos, and also seeing the end result(build OR repair) in the hands of the player, famous or not!! Congrats and cheers!
The Clarity series was a blast to watch. More of that type of videos :) For example a guitar like the Mutineer, Christopher’s Master Build would have made an epic series and so informative and amazing :)
Congrats to you and your company. I love the builds and the minitorials. A complete build with the how and why you put things where you do ie; the the bridge, the pickups, the size of the neck pocket. All the things that make a guitar work. I think that would be great.
Hand tool only build. That’s what we want to see.
Tumbling Bill
We all know, he can do it. No need to put that unnecessary effort into it. He better has energy left for creativity😉
Congratulations Ben, well done for hitting 100K.............well deserved!
I would like to see more Ben builds, Christopher builds, Tom builds, tutorials, finishing videos... eye candy :D
What I would love to see, are acoustic guitars!!
Tech tip/pro tip videos are one of my favorites!
Demonstrating how possible these impossible builds are is REALLY exciting to watch, and infectious! I get really pumped up watching these! Practically Anything involving the Crimson staff dropping their wisdom and expertise on us eager viewers is pure gold! I really enjoy all the fun stuff, like voice overs or the odd cigar box build, plus any techniques like using blowtorches etc., really "spark" my creativity! get it...spark? Try the veal, and tip your waitress! ;P
Really enjoyed this one. I would love to see you do more tool restoration and maybe up-cycling some vintage guitar parts in your builds. Experimental guitar finishing is also appreciated! Thank you a lot for the great content! Cheers
Congratulations Ben, you definitely deserve it !
Build videos are great. Keep up what's on the bench. Unboxing I'm less interested in. Showing tools, how to use, sharpen and maintain are good too. Crimson is my first go to in my subscriptions. Your stuff is most entertaining and interesting and honest imho
It was the 25 hour build that got me to subscribe in the first place. More builds would be great!
I really enjoy watching these builds. Keep up the good work!
To be honest this channel deserves more than 100k I really enjoy your content and keep up the good work
I noticed the cost of your kits is higher than the average kits on the market, but the quality of the wood is far superior! I recently finished 2 similar kits. While they are ok for a painted guitar, they would not match the look of your kits if they were stained. I think your kits are well worth the little extra cost, especially if going for a stained type finish.
Congrats! I think that guitar build videos are definitely the ones I enjoy the most. I'm liking your idea at 17:15
Congrats Ben.you have one of the top channel's on youtube thanks again my friend.
Congrats on hitting 100k guys. Been a loyal subscriber since Ben worked out of his backyard shed.
Keep bringing out great content and great products :D
Fewer vids is a scary thing.....I NEED lots of crimson fixes....err..... videos, but I have a slight problem. Wotb must stay!!! And they can be long. Talk about different woods and your experience with it, all luthiers can donate. Short tutorial vids with everybody need to stay and of course the special builds like this. I just finished watching ( listening) to a playlist of all88 WOTB and saw a tremendous evolution. Congratulations and I will enjoy all you are willing to share, thank you.
Gotta have Wotb!
Congratulations on the 100k subs !
As for suggestions, i would like to see more in-depth builds and techniques, maybe on multiple vids. I would love seeing a «full» build (like you do on «X hour build») on a classic model of yours.
Sorry for the bad english.
Keep up the nice content !
FYI: Homedepot sells a shopvac called a "Buckethead" that clamps to the top of a regular 5gal bucket. I bought one. Then 3 more. *sheepish grin* One I hooked up to my bench ducts for woodworking.
I’d love to see a build (time limit or not) from scratch with ONLY hand tools. Cutting the body out with a Japanese saw and/or coping saw. Seeing thing those lovely hand planes in action.
I’m sure it’d be annoying and time consuming and anything but convenient, but I’ve always romanticized the idea of building guitars with no power tools.
Love your work Ben.
Looking forward what sort of an inlay you put there 😄
Congratulations!! Well earned!!!
Cheers,Flo
Congratulations Ben and team!
Congratulations on 100k! I love the build videoes, but i'm also a "toolaholic" so i've really enjoyed the vids concerning tools. The sharpening series was probally my favorite. More of those!!!
I love tool related stuff. especially hand tools
Since you asked: Yes, I'd like to see more builds. I like your "What's on the bench" series, that's always fun... and everything you guys do ends up being fun, really, but the bread and butter, in my opinion, were the build videos. It would be nice to see you return to those a bit more.
Oh, and congrats on the 100,000 subscribers. Well deserved.
Every time the music started, I thought it was Eye Of The Tiger! Congratulations :)
Congrats on 100 thousand subs... onwards and upwards
Great work team
100,004 subscribers, awesome job Ben and all at Crimson guitars of awesomeness!! What ya gonna do when you hit 200k???
Congratulations! One of my next goals in life is running a half marathon sub 100' minutes... it seems to be a fascinating number.
I was going to say "don't be so nervous Ben because all that stress just makes you lose your hair" but then I thought hey I would probably even faint :D
So... I don't know if this helps but we love what your doing and you.are.good.
Carry on Ben!
ur videos are so calming and ur voice is so soothing
Congrats!!!!!! Awesome to see the channel grow
I'd like to see more builds where you experiment and go a bit crazy on them
It's been fun to watch your channel grow congratulations
congrats ben, been a fan since it as you in your shed . pretending you were bigger than you ere. no you are larger than life. congrats and god bless
Keep up the mix. We love your tool videos or we would not have subscribed! Ben, I’d bet most of your 100k subscribers are like me and don’t tell you we want because you are already doing it!!! We like getting an experienced craftsman’s point of view on tools and gear.
I want more tool videos. Particularly comparison videos.
And pickups need contrast, so please do unbox pickups, but compare them to other pickups so we can hear what we're missing.
I love the tutorials and the custom builds. I'd love a video series on each masterbuild that you do as well. Unboxing videos aren't as exciting. And I don't even watch the gear demos
thanks ! want to see you plane and chisel collection (and other hand tools too)
Brilliant. I might give it a try. I love woodworking and I enjoy a challenge B.K.
I want to see more about tools, I was on the Crimson site earlier and would love to order some tools to make/build/finish properly a few kit guitars
It's nice to see electric guitars built so as to learn new techniques or other techniques for building and repairing. I would be curious to see what techniques are used in building an acoustic guitar. With all the hand tools you have behind you. Even though acoustic guitar are a different animal. To show which techniques crossover from Electric to acoustic and which techniques are limited to just one.
Nooooooo! Not a fade. Oh well, I still enjoy watching. Great stuff!
I was recently turned on to this channel via Matt Cremona.... I love the tool videos and unboxings! I'm a bit of a hand tool addict as well so please keep hand tool videos coming!
I'm wondering about the 300 minute build. Make it a T-type Crimson kit, and see what Ben can madly throw into it to shave the time down to nothing.
Alternatively, I'm waiting on Bob 2.
An open-ended timed build would be The Christopher build. Just some guitar under the premise of the 90 hour build, strut-your-stuff, that Christopher has filmed. The same could be done for all the master luthiers at Crimson.
I love watching you build guitars, start to finish. Can we also see Christopher, Tom, Sam and maybe the odd student doing a build?
I don't mean the students are odd - well, maybe Spencer and Jules!
CONGRATS ON 100,OOO SUBS CRIMSON, HOPEFULLY THERE ARE THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS MORE!
Sparkle finish
Love this channel I thought bill bailey had gone into making guitars lol. Ben even sounds like him. Quality work
I came here for the build videos. In boxing videos are less interesting to me but it wouldn't bother me if they still showed up sometimes. I am however interested in tool videos as someone who is interested in building guitars but has not done it as of yet. Thanks for the great content and congrats on 100,000 subs.
Ben, you are a beast man!! Get er done!
Traces of "Sparks" in that intro!
You are a hero, mate!
What I would kill to see from you Ben, although it's likely never going to happen unless I get a go-pro or something and record myself doing it during one of your courses (with your permission) Is you doing what you do best: Building high-end, bespoke and beautiful instruments.
I know it would be a nightmare to film and edit a full build, no time restraints, no pressure, just you doing your job, but I think it would be awesome to see what you can do when you're not under a time-crunch.
honestly i could just watch ben ramble on about anything
Love to see a plywood guitar build.
grts
Kennet
HEY BEN, I LOVE THE GREATEST LUTHIER TRICK, USING CA AND MASKING TAPE BUT IT CONCERNS ME WITH HOW MUCH I SEE YOU USING THE ACCELERANT WITHOUT LUNG PROTECTION. THE LAST TIME I COMMENTED ON SAFTY PRACTICES A BUNCH OF PEOPLE GOT BUTT HURT BUT I'M NOT INSULTING AT ALL ITS JUST THAT THAT STUFF IS EXTREMELY TOXIC AND I WANT TO WATCH YOU BUILD FOR A LONG TIME. LOVE CRIMSON GUITARS AND YOU ARE AN AMAZING CRAFTSMAN. WEAR A MASK BUD. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
"Gods Dammit" hahaha Ben must be a Poly Theist
Congratulations! 100K!!!
pure gold, SO sharing
Consider making the S-type kit with a universal pickup route.
Definitely most interested in builds.
Congrats! Love this channel.
You keep threatening to make a guitar from JUST hand tools. I'd love to see that build. Maybe some in-depth tutorials on wiring up guitars and things too would be ace.