A Tutorial - How To Mark Out Break Angles on Through Neck Guitars
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- Welcome to Crimson Guitars ua-cam.com/users/CrimsonC... and welcome to Crimson Guitars www.crimsonguitars.com and another Mini-Torial from Luthier Ben Crowe.
In this episode, Ben demonstrates how to mark out a break angle for a through-neck guitar without having to do a lot of difficult mathematics!
As always, if you would like to suggest a topic for Ben to talk about or have a question for this series, please leave a comment below.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:58 Draw a full-scale plan
3:39 Looking at a physical neck and working out the break angle
4:30 Bridge line plus room for adjustment, measure the height of the bridge
7:44 Taking into account the width of the top
9:11 Marking out the break angle on the guitar
9:38 Showing what will be cut away from the neck and top
10:15 Placement of the bodies of the guitar
10:52 Conclusion
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Even though I already know how to do this, I found this video to be incomprehensibly scattered.
Cool seeing my guitar being featured in a tutorial (mini-torial in this case)!
Keep up the good work! :)
I'd like a minitorial on "how to work out scale length."
Ben ,get yourself a nice whiteboard in your workshop I think your viewers would appreciate clearer drawings etc..great vid btw.
That's an awesome idea actually.
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I think Ben may have a new whiteboard... 😉
Is it Christmas already Helénē ?
Spoiled by engineering explained i see
That's two videos you've drawn it to explain it and it's two times I can't see what you've drawn.
I'm not sure what has changed in your production (Ben and Co) but the videos are looking beautiful lately... The new set, the soft lighting, the multi-cam shoots... WOW. Let the cat out of the bag... What are you doing to get that look? :D
Actually it is simple to calculate the angle for all who own a pocket calculator. If "H" is the additional height you need for the bridge and "L" is the distance from bridge to neck-body-joint, then the angle is:
Angle = INV tan (H/L)
Remark "INV tan" is sometimes labelled "tan-1" on calculators.
"I want that from behind" - Ben Crow, 2016.
Nice work man
Hi Ben...loving the 'mini-torial' format! How about showing us how you do the control cavity covers that go right up to the edge?
Hang on. How do you bandsaw away the excess from the top where the fretboard is?
You've got the bit where the fretboard overhangs the 'body' part of the through-neck - aren't you going to undercut that by using the bandsaw the way you suggest?
Exacty why I’ve come straight to the comments…. The same question popped straight into my head 🧐
love your videos and have learned a lot from watching them. I have a guitar I'm currently customizing, and it is a name brand but a lower level guitar. it has dot inlays, which I'm thinking of changing anyway, but currently, most of the dots are unevenly inlayed and are at least half below the hole drilled for them. is there a way to level them, or should I drill them out and use rose wood plugs?
You should definitely show off that neck through ebony build that we saw a while ago, i think that's it in the background if im not mistaken.
Hi. I love learning about guitars and I've been binge watching all your videos. I have to say you should be a professor at university. You sir have the gift of the gab. The question i would like to ask is:
when placing the straight edge on top of the fretboard, is it supposed to hover right about a tuneomatic bridge or touch where the strings are going to sit in the saddles?
Hi love your videos and especially your guitars but I would love to know when you are going to start making the acoustic crimson guitar 🎸???
could you do a mini trial of cutting a neck pocket for set neck guitars? or show to make a correct join for a les paul type neck
hey! :) Do you think you can make an exemple of a Patina copper top model? :)
please make a video that shows how to find the centerline. that would be great
You start with the center line and base everything off of that.
Centreline is first!
Why do you need a break angle on a through-neck, especially with fender-type bridges? You could have the fingerboard stand up 2-3 millimetres parallel to the body top. It makes fabrication a lot easier.
I've actually avoided this all together on my first build by just lifting the neck off of the body just under the height of the bridge and keeping it level. the action turned out beautifully
I'm about to do my first guitar, and I was wondering to do the same, didn't the neck-body joint look odd on your guitar ?
Thanks ser so much for this. Just what I nead.
My pleasure, this is one of our most commonly asked questions! Glad to be of help. B
Can you put the neck on a angle and keep the body flat to accomplish same
show us how to replace a truss rod!
In this video is a Parker head and its a rebuild i think. So ist that legal?
Ben: "This is supposed to be a MINI-torial. This is a TUtorial."
Me: "More like a THREE-torial."
My issue is do you just shave the bottom of the guitar? Shave it out of the neck pocket? Cut it from the fret board? Neck? I wish I could she it in the build
mini tutorial on how to do a DIY emg style solderless wiring system
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Hi can anyone tell me what file a luthier would use to file the v groove for the strings in the saddles on a Tune-o-matic bridge?
A regular fine cut triangular needle file
www.amazon.com/Nicholson-Needle-Handle-Pattern-Triangular/dp/B006P2XQM6
Like this for example
Thanks :)
hi ben a quick question why don't you do bass guitars
he does :>
ua-cam.com/video/ObnnqNhaxRs/v-deo.html
Don't do break angles. Just recess the bridge. Also if you use a hipshot or small profile bridge, you don't even need to recess or make a break angle at all.
It's my guitar and this is how I want it. I'm sure Ben knows many other alternatives to break angles, but like I said, this is how I want it.
I don't understand why people can't grasp this simple procedure, this is the second video where Ben clearly shows how to find the break angle. Stop complaining and just rewind and re watch until it sinks in your head. Thanks for the video Ben. Still waiting for the DVD les paul style build.
Cameraman in the shot, unsubscribed. :)
Serious notes tho, I'm surprised you didn't pass out with how fast you were talking. Also, might do something else for drawings, I couldn't see anything you wrote down.
Should we let this guy know someone drew on his head last night after he passed out drunk?
Is it somehow worse that I wasn't drunk? Haven't in fact been drunk in decades.. B
Lol. You made me paranoid about the break angle for years. Saying how your guitar will be ruined if you don't get the angle/degree measured correctly. This vid makes me a bit less hesitant.
At the start he called it a torial wtf
But do you know where your towel is?
Completely lost.
Nobody ever needs to know the break angle. It's a useless piece of information. Which ever way you shape the body for correct bridge height, at no point of the process do you handle an angle. You don't measure the angle, because it's too inaccurate. You measure horizontal and vertical distance.