Will this Disintegrate? Finishing touches! Watch Inspired Guitar Build | GGBO2022 Invitational Ep 5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- Welcome to Crimson Guitars HQ th-cam.com/users/CrimsonC... and Ben's entry into the Great Guitar Build Off 2022 Invitationals. Ben is bringing together all the finishing touches - electronics, hardware, strings.... Will it disintegrate?!? Will the two bolts holding the top and back together work? And will it sound ok?
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:54 Beginning to put it all together. No hidden wires in this one!
6:55 Neck shim x 2
7:41 Small issue with the wiring, can he fix it?
11:24 Putting it all together - to bolt or not to bolt, that is the question?
14:01 The neck - level, crown and polish using Crimson specialist tools for the job.
20:18 The nut and Schaller Gotoh 510 Tuners
25:21 Attaching the neck - strap buttons and then the strings (stopping for a clean up)
30:13 Demo and Conclusion (So much for tonewood)!
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Here’s an idea for the next go-round. Instead of using wires, use metal rods (shiny ones) as much as possible. You can keep them straight, or maybe induce some beautiful curves. Either way, they will look more mechanical and watch-like-and certainly more tidy!
R.f. semi- rigid coaxial wire would be the way to go. Shiny too!
My first thought was a black wiring loom but shinny works too.
That headstock makes me sad 😔
Great adventure, as always!! I really enjoyed WATCHing the whole build.
Ohh the neck you made is deluxe. The wood. The finish. And of course, the frets perfectly levelled and radiused and then crown-and-polished. Your "neck-game" is strong Mr Crimson.
Love watching your channel, and always enjoy your videos. A lot of guitar building knowledge has helped me be a better guitar tech and serviceman. Maybe start bringing out general guitar tech videos. I know in all your past videos you show your techniques etc and I have watched them all, but new players to your channel might find it hard. Anyway, love the work you do and keep on going.
One of your coolest guitars to date, if not the coolest. A lot of new experiments, and they all worked out
Bro this guitar is sick, great job ben. Happy to see you still doing stuff to make it harder for yourself tomorrow haha.
I really like this guitar. The shots through the guitar show how little it refracts, which looks very cool. The tuners being perpendicular to the neck is a really nice look, too. And that carborundum finish is as attractive as it is infuriating. Definitely, some successful experiments come together in a unique instrument. Super stuff!
Amazing piece of art .. be worth a fortune in years to come .. Not sure I’d want to be playing it on stage .
Fantastic
Awesome guitar Ben, look forward to seeing it at the next show 👍
i really, really like the look of the tuners with a lean-on. the forward momentum idea you mentioned. yes!
I did this when I changed the tuners on my Mustang bass. I think it looks a lot better.
Looking really sweet now! Those bolts stopping over compression in the center of the body could do with rubber or silicon pads on the top though; over time I can see scratch patterns building up as the back impacts and rubs against them.
Looking through the clear body at the character in your work bench makes me want to see a guitar built out of it!
Nice project.
You can actually polish those bevels and the insides of the pickup routes and get them dead clear. It's time consuming and requires a lot of patience though. Take a look at what some high end granite or glass guys do. I've seen them slowly creep up, and sand and polish. Was this huge bathroom job with a lot of glass. A lot of hard bevels, as well as rounding. And all those edges of the shelving created was slowly sanded and polished shiny smooth. edges of shelving. It was crazy. They also did the mirrored walls, and bevels around the edges of the faces. Lots of patience which I don't have.
Ben the finish idea just needed a good clear lacquer coating on the inside edge only,it looks & sounds unique & that's a win in my opinion 👍
I'd love to see the frame made from brushed aluminium - maybe marked at intervals like a watch strap? Don't know what the weight would be like though.
Right or go completely nuts and use titanium
You should use copper used for inductor to link everything together, with a bigger gauge you could use them straight, as a bar between circuit and make the wiring look more clean
This has been one of my favorite build series. Up there with boba fret and cyberpunk. Although the 90hr reigns supreme for me
Thank you kindly!
Since you like using your torch, and want clear acrylic you can flame polish the beveled edge of the acrylic with a standard propane torch head with a fine pointed flame. It takes a steady hand and the right speed to get it to melt but not bubble, but the results are imprssive.
I have worked with quite a few plastics and have found that a used dryer sheet works well to clean and remove the static inherent with the material. Used, not fresh or else it get some weird waxy streaks.
Love your work, but certainly making hard work of the fret work
I think black canvas G10 would make a nice side material. It would have that interesting weave texture.
I think that a nice Ash surround would have looked nicer than the Fuzz! 😂
The Wiring looks really messy, you could have used tubing to tidy it up a bit! Maybe it would be an idea to put a thin veneer inside around the controls to hide the messy stuff! Like a control plate but under the perspex if you know what I mean!
This guitar looks like the Crimson logo...very cool.
I really like this guitar- I wasn't convinced it would resist imploding at some stage, but it's not the first time I've been wrong about one of your innovative builds! I like the look of the dust finish although it's not for everyone, but it's just a finish and can easily be changed on future guitars. I think you can call this proof of concept a resounding success.
Did the thought of polishing the inner faces of the acrylic and then putting a single thumbprint on it to prove authenticity ever cross your mind?
Ben, when ever we made acrylic computer systems and put them together we almost always wore a thin glove, then you don't have to deal with fingerprints as you are making it..................................just a heads up for next time.
I think a future build idea would be having having a large gear that you could see, rotate thru a manual winding mechanism, that would move a single pickup from bridge to neck position.
Now that's fucking badass!
Turned out better than I thought. Powder type finish on the interior was probably a mistake as any bits that come lose will float around inside (looks cool though). As a proof of concept though its a winner. Well done Ben.
Hi ben. love the look of this guitar and it sounded really good. for the internal wiring did you ever consider doing cable lacing and creating a proper cable loom? would have looked really good and tidy with the clear body. i also assume that users will have to be careful of belt buckle scratches on the back of the body.
The fingerprint thing can probably be greatly reduced if you add an oleophobic coating to the plastic. There's also clear plastics which are less prone to it to begin with, but those tend to be more fragile.
Now that I think about it, having the pots turned 90° and basically be controlled like watch crowns could potentially work really rather well for a future build. It'd only require a recess if you're making a curvy shape like that Jazzmaster, but on an Explorer or a Firebird? That would work like a charm
Anytime I see you work with bone I can smell it through TH-cam hahaha. Such a distinction smell, one you would NOT want to bottle either lol
I'm sorry I don't remember if you shot any kind of sealer/ finish over the carbon dust. Seems that would help with the powdering off. Really turned out very nicely. Very good proof of concept. Sounds very much like what one would expect from the Gold Foil style pups.
Looks awesome.
Now i want something like this really bad 😅
Seal it up with gaskets, and put some colorful viscous fluid inside. Maybe some neon lights??
Maybe dip the graphite portion in some epoxy to keep everything together. Just seems like you've got a sandpaper perimeter there. I do like it though. Tinted acrylic next time? Interior lights? So many options...
It has a very clear tone...
*ducks and runs*
Looks great! Would heavy glass work for top and back? A lot more hassle to put holes into, I'm sure. I'm thinking an all-mirror guitar, top, back, neck, head. Or maybe broken glass, shards in resin or something. (This must have been done already.)
As a watch inspired guitar I think u should have put a clock of some kind in the guitar. Even if it was a small dash clock like in a luxury car ect. Would've really made it a watch guitar
why not a pendulum? to keep time
@@mbontekoe3358 nifty idea but it would have to b a variable speed for different time signatures
We need to hear it ticking and on the hour a cookoo sound
Thanks for another excellent series. The demo is an interesting one. The tone where Ben is playing is nice and seems to suit the guitar, but the distortion (?) on the second part just doesn't seem to have the 'oomph' I might expect. There's just 'something' missing? It's probably the first time where I've heard a guitar quite clearly favour a particular tone. I'm guessing the more experienced guitarists hear this kind of tone preference on a daily basis, for me it's quite clear with this one.
Like thia one.
How about a gear operated B-bender? That would look super cool!
Really interesting build. What about using non reflective acrylic. Almost totally invisible, just a thought.
Reminds me of Todd’s ‘Singring and the Glass Guitar’…
Ben, Love "The Ghost". But there is one thing... The neck.Did you consider using one of the Glass necks which are available?
I'd have put a piezo saddle with preamp and endpin output on this one. also Gibson style braided wire would have been appropriate.
Ben, it's not pretty nice ,it's awesome!!!
Hi! Gread guitar! I can't help but notice the wires, that don't fit the crystal clear body. Mey be it would be a nice idea to use some shielded silver-colored wires or transparent heat-shrink tubes r so.
Seems need a warning sign somewhere might be a good idea to prohibit metal pieces between chest and knees?
Would be interesting if there's a fogger in there...
May have been a pain in the butt to build but it looks and sounds awesome!
Was that Blue Sparkle playing at the end?
A Bigsby would have been so cool to add on this tbh
So isnt the outside like sandpaper? Like, if you sat down with it wouldnt it rip your jeans apart?
It looks awesome but im very unsure about the practicality haha, definitely a piece of art
Very cool concept guitar, but will it endure the test of time and not bow with that pressure pulling on the body from the strings?
Defo should have stuck some neon tubes into the body. 😆
What song is that he's playing in the demo?
The guitar/amp sound matches whatever song it is, exactly.
It's right on the tip of my brain...
Assuming it meets the electrical requirements, I think custom ribbon cables would look very nice inside that acrylic cavity.
Also, a forged carbon "body" to sandwich the acrylic flats with would be very cool.
but it needs leds that is a great looking guitar Ben
Static electricity will attract dust etc. Would an anti-static spray be useful?
Could you spray the black stuff with a glue to stop it falling off in the cavity?
It pronounces well Acoustically!
L.E.D.s (some watches have that back light in them
Tinned braid around the wires tied to your single point ground at the bridge would spiff up the look and decrease potential for hum.
Super! I wonder if a steel/aluminium frame with the acrylic top and back would work and give a very watch like look. Might sound different too? 🤔
Scammers using Crimson logo offering prizes. Beware!
Thank you for the warning - we try to take care of these scammers as quickly as we find them, but some lips through.
An acrylic guitar needs a flame-maple pickguard.
Do you think that yellowing will be a problem over time?
You need to put leds in it and a watch !
missed opportunity: LED Back light inside that guitar, with an edged / diffused Crimosn / Ben / GGBO Logo
Great work as usual, however, how can you have a watch inspired guitar without control knobs that go to 12?
Edit. The “clock dial” could be fitted under the acrylic?
who makes that coat you are wearing?
Don't you secure the buffing machine to the table, at least with two clamps? Bet this is no fun, having this thing going wild...
Hey Ben, what happened to the Kit guitars? they are no longer on the website :(
They realised they were making a loss on them, particularly with custom specs and accomodations. They took them off the website.
resione casting?
I’m just thinking over time the plexiglass is going to get all scuffed up
Ben, did you use up all the kit guitars, turning then into awesome custom builds? Hmmmm??
Why don't you build a guitar that looks like the Crimson logo, with CRIMSON inlays starting on the body and up the neck?
Bit like the Yamaha offering.
I am a fan of your guitar building skills, any other guitar i like from you! but this here.. hmmm this seems cold to me. Yeah i know new times new looks new materials, but acryl is a kind
of plastic. I am more the traditional type. The body of the guitar doesn't seem very stable either. and in the long run, the body of the guitar will be scratched at the back and front, which can happen quite quickly with acrylic..
It has no bezel? The watch guitar has no bezel? That doesn't seem quite right
This guitar is very uninspired… joking! It’s insane! Well done!!
Is it just me, or haven't I already seen this build?
The full build super-edit was released for the ggbo deadline requirement (Dec 10, ish). He said in that 20m summary vid they'd release the full build episodes later. Here they are.
Sounds like a Gibson, but looks a lot cooler.
Goldfish 🤔
The wires look line the are trown in by a baby.
Ok, my idea for a custom build - before he kicks the bucket, hire Clint Eastwood to shoot a hole or two through a Tele or Strat with a .44 magnum. Obvs not through an important part, just the flat area below the bridge. Before you sh*t this idea out the other end, consider for a moment the cultural influence his films have had (good or bad).
if you play this sitting down.... will it wear a hole in your jeans? That stuff is meant to be abrasive...isn't it. Great build tho.
Would you custom make this for me? I would like to pay for you to make me one please…
Hi, thank you for your interest in our custom shop. Please email customshop@crimsonguitars.com and we will get back to you with a quote.
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars ok thanx for responding.
finger prints you need cotton gloves no finger prints.
Anyone playing will need gloves as well. Not a great idea…
@@samwilson2926 I agree
I'm genuinely curious to see if I'm the only one that feels like this but does anyone else find it really frustrating the way builds will start and then stop because another one starts? I was really invested in and enjoying the hand tool build but this is the 2nd time it's just stopped with no explanation. I really like the channel and the builds but I just wish Ben could finish a project before starting another. Makes it really hard for me to want to keep watching.
He's been diagnosed with ADHD. Maybe that scatterbrain start/stop/switch is just the way his mind works most of the time. Maybe even the core of his creativity. Different people just have different work styles. What works for you can be the straightjacket that frustrates others and sucks the joy out of their work. Sometimes you just have to let them work their own preferred way, even if it seems alien to you.
GGBO had a deadline. The Kauri build had a customer deadline (that he missed iirc). GGBO deadline needed the guitar giveaway business up and running. Spinning plates and diversions. It's inevitable the projects that don't have deadlines sometimes get deferred for the projects that do. Look for the silver lining - delayed gratification allows you to enjoy the build for longer.
Seriously Ben buy a heat gun for the heatshrink using a lighter looks too garden shed unprofesional and doesn't exactly scream workshop!
Damit Ben You can play a Guitar 🎸 stop it. This Guitar should be in THE MUSEUM. PLEASE no One Bid on it. Ben make a CD 💿
Or bid on it and donate it to the museum.
Imagine young RHCP trying to hide their nudity under such instruments 🎸
I can't stop myself from thinking that you should probably dye the body (or what's left of it) black before applying the "finish". Any chips or dents, which will inevitably occur, will expose bare wood. Rather visible and rather ugly AF.
I think in a previous episode he said he'd send the guitar out with a small bottle of powder for inevitable touchups.
This is the least "Ben like" guitar, I've seen Ben build.... the last 10% always take 90% of the time.... I'd have liked to have seen some more watch inspired features past the "crystal" front and back, of an age we were all keen on perspex bodies in the 90s then after all the different colours and finally "river table" projects and lego, and coffee beans, and m&ms and bog oak... drowning in resin... bursts of all flavours whiskey barrels, metal skeletons 💀 what is new? 😵💫
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