Nice work as always mate. BTW what id you rub onto the bottom of the hand plane before cleaning and squaring the bottom. I have entered the community build this year, more as an attempt to introduce myself to so many youtubers like yourself who have helped me on my guitar making journey. The community keeps me inspired and educated, and has become one of my favourite aspects of guitar building. Its a very amateur warts n all video, I hope you have the time to watch it and comment
fantastic work thus far.. curious why so many bits of veneer? is it a visual thing or is it a structural issue or perhaps a bit of both? i hope shaping the neck will not create any tear-out in the weaker laminate pieces (although they are certainly more saturated with glue than the larger bits).. love this build.. thanks again.. !!
Thanks mate. The multiple layers of veneer are purely out of necessity, I have no way of cutting the 1/16 strips of walnut needed so went for the veneer. Time will tell how well it holds up to the rigors of neck carving but I think it will OK. I’m thinking the glue is stronger than the wood and there is definitely glue in there.
I read somewhere that when using real wood veneers, the glue will penetrate through the grain and be incredibly strong laminate, but if you use the fiber veneers (essentially thick paper in different colors that you can get from lmi) glue cannot penetrate, you just end up gluing one layer to the next with less strength.
Besides the mess, would you recommend the thicknesser for occasional use for an amateur guitar builder working in a garage? Is it acceptably accurate? It seems to be the cheapest new one in the UK
To say how little it cost it is a really good bit of kit, I generally check thickness as I go along with a set of calipers but the thicknesser is accurate to well within 1mm. I've had mine a few years now and all I've had to do was change the cutters (£12 from Amazon) so couldn't really be happier.
Hi, Titebond 3 has a longer open time at 10-20 minutes but I've heard that it isn't ideal for guitar building. I've heard it said that it moves over time, not sure how right that is though. I find regular titebond works almost all of the time.
I love the Firebird as a design, but my word, that is going to result in an awful lot of offcut waste. Kind of a shame, unless you can use it for other purposes.
"Was that the right call?" What a great pun.
Haha, didn't even know I'd done it but I'm going to steal it from myself and use it again.
Nothing is as fun as a big ol’ sloppy glue up, lol! It’s going to make one heck of a neck 😀
Cheers Bryan, I've got some cutting to do. It's just a little bit on the heavy side at the moment!!
The bandsaw struggle was hard to watch. I thought the saw wouldn' make it to the end of the video. Fortunately it survived.
Haha, I'm pretty sure they didn't have that cut in mind when they designed that saw lol.
You sir, are nuts! First a 335 and now this gazillion laminates! Lol
Cheers, I love a nice challenge :)
After many seconds of research, I can assure you there is no Guiness book of records mention of messiest glue ups! Lol
I'm emailing a photo right now!!!
Wow! What a huge glue-up, you are definitely my hero!
Those pegs are a very smart idea, totally stealing.
Cheers and feel free to steal :)
That neck looks gorgeous, I’ve seen a couple of tubers use a firm paint roller for glue ups, helps the speed, and it gets even coverage
Cheers, I did think of that but all I could find were the little sort foam ones. I didn't think they would be any good.
@@Adventuresfromtheshedofdreams Yeah, I’m not sure if he was using an inking roller tbf, the less absorbent the better I would think.
I like they way you step up to a challenge!
I love a good challenge :) Really enjoying this one so far.
What a nice work. Great Video. I learned a lot again. Thx.
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it :)
Looking really nice
Cheers Jim, really pleased to have this bit out of the way.
Looking good!
Thanks Damien :)
Looks like it’s going to be v good
Thanks Buddy :)
Looks great sir!
Cheers Dane, I'm really pleased with it.
Blimey, didn't think you were going to make it so a while there. I thi k that is going to look nice.
Thanks mate, it was a bit touch and go for a minute there!!
A very promising start Patrick, and I love the new format with the background music. Compelling viewing in my opinion!
Thanks Martin, trying to up my editing game a bit.
Glue up stress!
Indeed :)
Looks great! I was anxious just watching the glue up. Ha. I like the look of how you have the grain direction going opposite ways.
Thanks Ryan, I was just a little anxious as well but it got there in the end. I think it's going to look great under some finish.
Nice work as always mate. BTW what id you rub onto the bottom of the hand plane before cleaning and squaring the bottom. I have entered the community build this year, more as an attempt to introduce myself to so many youtubers like yourself who have helped me on my guitar making journey. The community keeps me inspired and educated, and has become one of my favourite aspects of guitar building. Its a very amateur warts n all video, I hope you have the time to watch it and comment
Cheers Jurgen, it's just a little block of wax to lub the plane sole. Great that you have entered GGBO, heading over to your channel right now :)
That worked out great! Awesome start to this guitar build.
Thanks buddy :)
fantastic work thus far.. curious why so many bits of veneer? is it a visual thing or is it a structural issue or perhaps a bit of both? i hope shaping the neck will not create any tear-out in the weaker laminate pieces (although they are certainly more saturated with glue than the larger bits).. love this build.. thanks again.. !!
Thanks mate. The multiple layers of veneer are purely out of necessity, I have no way of cutting the 1/16 strips of walnut needed so went for the veneer. Time will tell how well it holds up to the rigors of neck carving but I think it will OK. I’m thinking the glue is stronger than the wood and there is definitely glue in there.
I read somewhere that when using real wood veneers, the glue will penetrate through the grain and be incredibly strong laminate, but if you use the fiber veneers (essentially thick paper in different colors that you can get from lmi) glue cannot penetrate, you just end up gluing one layer to the next with less strength.
@@bradc2905 I can believe that, the veneer is only .5mm thick, easily soaked through. I'm going to try and split an offcut to see how strong it is.
Besides the mess, would you recommend the thicknesser for occasional use for an amateur guitar builder working in a garage?
Is it acceptably accurate?
It seems to be the cheapest new one in the UK
To say how little it cost it is a really good bit of kit, I generally check thickness as I go along with a set of calipers but the thicknesser is accurate to well within 1mm. I've had mine a few years now and all I've had to do was change the cutters (£12 from Amazon) so couldn't really be happier.
@Adventures from the shed of dreams thanks, will aim get one
hide glue sounds better
Hi, there is a Titebond glue with an extended open-time. I think about thirty minutes or so. Is that any good for guitar building?
Hi, Titebond 3 has a longer open time at 10-20 minutes but I've heard that it isn't ideal for guitar building. I've heard it said that it moves over time, not sure how right that is though. I find regular titebond works almost all of the time.
Great glue up, ugly but functional (coincidentally that's how just my wife describes me!)
Haha, it wasn't pretty and got through a lot of glue but it did the job.
I love the Firebird as a design, but my word, that is going to result in an awful lot of offcut waste. Kind of a shame, unless you can use it for other purposes.
I can assure you, as little of that wood will be wasted as possible. What ever gets cut away will make it's way into other projects.