While it's always good watching Ben using hand tools and his experience to build a guitar it was interesting to watch someone make full use of the templates and electric tools.
Matt !! Do you wake up every morning and say to yourself that you are in heaven?? 😂 All these tools and all kind of woods at the tip of your fingers !! Wow !! A dream for small builders!
I'm relieved to see that your Triton thichnesser has the same extraction issues as mine. I get more chips out of the infeed side than at the extraction port.
Wow. That must be a brand new router bit. I was fearing for my life when he routed that much end grain maple at the top and bottom of the neck. But it turned out fine. If you do that with anything but a perfectly sharp bit it will grab and toss that neck across the room! I would never rout that much end grain maple at one time. I always just nibble it down.
Cool video. Unless I missed it, you didn’t show how you shaped the face of the headstock. (I mean, we know how you did it, but it’s so satisfying to see!)
You should send this video to Fender as a guide on how to build a proper guitar for the money. That fretboard is 3 times thicker than on my American Fender for example. My Eart Strats also have way thicker fretboards and bridge blocks than my Fender and they are $200 guitars.
it's probably the same thickness as yours only in this video the fretboard isn't yet radiused. Fender usually has a smaller radius which makes the sides of the fretboard very thin
Depending on preferred neck thickness you’re probably better off with a thinner fingerboard. If the board is really thick it limits how much neck material you can carve away. Most of the strength of a neck comes from the shaft and not the fingerboard. If you want a thin neck and have a thick fingerboard you’d have to remove a lot of neck material which will weaken the neck and, in my experience, weaken the tone.
What was the disc on the angle grinder? I only have a flap disc on mine and approach things extremely slowly, but maybe I'd be brave after Matt made it look so easy...
Really curious to know how long this part of the process took. I'm trying to work out a ballpark for my own builds, but it'd be nice to have an idea if how long it takes in a well set up shop by someone who does it every day!
I'd absolutely love to be able to do that - but I'd never want just yet another Strat copy. It just doesn't make sense to me to have all these amazing tools, and that lovely choice of woods, and then *not* have the originality to do an original design - either one of Ben's, or something totally new. Strats and Teles are so 10 a penny... (PS, not hating them btw, I certainly do enjoy mine)
I'm afraid I don't have a lot of power tools so I'd have to use spoke shaves and wood chisels and hand saws so it may take me a few hours more to finish a guitar build😂
@Jkopala1954 It's not really a 'How To' video. It's more of an infomercial mainly for triton tools & a bit for crimson eg.templates etc. Unfortunately this is how youtubers survive and it's how they're incentivised. F**kin' Neo Liberal Capitalism! There are a plethora of how to vids on building guitars and a lot from Crimson, I should know, I think I've watched them all. If you are trying to learn, get a book & just start. Use pine or cheap crap for your first one and get going. You will learn infinitely more by doing and making mistakes as opposed to watching every vid in existence.
Yay for actual guitar building.
I particularly liked the way that you ended up with the same number of fingers at the end!
And thumbs! 👍🏽
what kind of saw /blade is that cutting the fret slots at 11:35?
Great to see this type of content
Thank you
I prefer to route out the neck pocket before cutting out the body there’s much more ‘flat space’ for the router to run on.
While it's always good watching Ben using hand tools and his experience to build a guitar it was interesting to watch someone make full use of the templates and electric tools.
That was very enjoyable.
Thank you
25:11 OK what is this drill bit you're using for this ground wire channel?! I am looking for one! PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
Absolutely love this type of video. More please
More to come!
Nice work!! You made it look easy!! That is the sign of a true professional craftsman!!
Thank you very much!
What do you do with all of the wood chips from the planer? How about trying a wood chip and resin guitar body? That might be interesting.
I think (dredging memory from q&a) they're fuel for the furnace to heat the building, and flooring for the landlords horsey ring out the back.
@@PaulCooksStuff yeah heating rings a bell. Didn't know about the horseys, though!
That's a beautiful piece of wood I can't wait to see how it's finished off
Thanks for the video, it made routing the body for my second practice Strat a lot easier. Mk1 was thrown across the work shop by the table router.
Matt !! Do you wake up every morning and say to yourself that you are in heaven?? 😂 All these tools and all kind of woods at the tip of your fingers !! Wow !! A dream for small builders!
I thought that when I saw the router that was *just* for truss rod channels!
@@davedavem a router for each job !! A dream 🤣!
He's lucky to still actually have the tip of his fingers.......
I'm relieved to see that your Triton thichnesser has the same extraction issues as mine. I get more chips out of the infeed side than at the extraction port.
A build video! Yes Mate!
Wow. That must be a brand new router bit. I was fearing for my life when he routed that much end grain maple at the top and bottom of the neck. But it turned out fine. If you do that with anything but a perfectly sharp bit it will grab and toss that neck across the room! I would never rout that much end grain maple at one time. I always just nibble it down.
Nice to see this type of content, and I know you'll never please everyone but for the love of god stop with the Muzak.....
Cool video. Unless I missed it, you didn’t show how you shaped the face of the headstock. (I mean, we know how you did it, but it’s so satisfying to see!)
Good job
Thanks
You should send this video to Fender as a guide on how to build a proper guitar for the money. That fretboard is 3 times thicker than on my American Fender for example. My Eart Strats also have way thicker fretboards and bridge blocks than my Fender and they are $200 guitars.
it's probably the same thickness as yours only in this video the fretboard isn't yet radiused. Fender usually has a smaller radius which makes the sides of the fretboard very thin
Depending on preferred neck thickness you’re probably better off with a thinner fingerboard. If the board is really thick it limits how much neck material you can carve away. Most of the strength of a neck comes from the shaft and not the fingerboard. If you want a thin neck and have a thick fingerboard you’d have to remove a lot of neck material which will weaken the neck and, in my experience, weaken the tone.
That is a fair point but my Eart Strat and I have two, have way thicker fretboards, same thing with my Schecter Nick Johnston.@@gibek2600
If you're fender isn't a custom shop then they wouldn't be in a similar price bracket...
What was the disc on the angle grinder? I only have a flap disc on mine and approach things extremely slowly, but maybe I'd be brave after Matt made it look so easy...
What pickups are in the final build? Love that tone.
Seymour Duncan antiquity hot Texas.
(I vaguely remembered half of it. The other half is in the description on the draw site)
The Mattocaster
Really curious to know how long this part of the process took. I'm trying to work out a ballpark for my own builds, but it'd be nice to have an idea if how long it takes in a well set up shop by someone who does it every day!
It takes as long as you want it to sometimes it better to go slowly and to triple check everything as a mistake on wood maybe impossible to repair
Glue on the trussrod!??? 🤔
surprised you didn't use a cnc machine
Mind you I don’t have a template like that 🤔
Just what we need another Strat LOL
Sir,
Nomoskar from KOLKATA-INDIA.
Please tell me about the thickness of the guitar body.How much inches that is?
I'd absolutely love to be able to do that - but I'd never want just yet another Strat copy.
It just doesn't make sense to me to have all these amazing tools, and that lovely choice of woods, and then *not* have the originality to do an original design - either one of Ben's, or something totally new.
Strats and Teles are so 10 a penny...
(PS, not hating them btw, I certainly do enjoy mine)
I'm afraid I don't have a lot of power tools so I'd have to use spoke shaves and wood chisels and hand saws so it may take me a few hours more to finish a guitar build😂
The sound track is wrong for the clip
I dislike "how to" videos without narration
Then don't watch them.
What is your opinion on aardvarks?
@Jkopala1954
It's not really a 'How To' video. It's more of an infomercial mainly for triton tools & a bit for crimson eg.templates etc. Unfortunately this is how youtubers survive and it's how they're incentivised. F**kin' Neo Liberal Capitalism!
There are a plethora of how to vids on building guitars and a lot from Crimson, I should know, I think I've watched them all. If you are trying to learn, get a book & just start. Use pine or cheap crap for your first one and get going. You will learn infinitely more by doing and making mistakes as opposed to watching every vid in existence.
It's funny, I follow Crimson because of how much explanation Ben gives, but the lack of voice over really lends itself to observational learning, too.
Having both is nice 😀
What's happened to Sean??
He's still headmaster in the Luthier school. He often gets a flyby or prank in the "what's on the bench" livestreams
Naughty step 🙀
In my opinion a strat is so ergonomically perfect, that it is boring.
Music is annoying. Just make an asmr video?