Ep 6 Fretboard Stabilising - Hand Tool Only Acoustic Travel Guitar Build - From 4x4 FENCE POST
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- In this episode, Ben does a lot of sawing by hand to get to enough woods to book match the top, back, and sides. He also stabilises the lightweight, relatively soft Mahogany fretboard using thin superglue, and then has to re-cut the fret slots and install the frets. Oh, he also has a minor slip-up...comment when you see it.
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You asked and Ben will deliver...our eccentric (read insane) Luthier will be building an entire guitar out of a single piece of Mahogany! With hand tools only...maybe!
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction and recap
7:12 Plane saw and repeat. Where to begin though? Perhaps sharpen the plane?
11:40 The Plan!
12:17 First cut......and many saws later he is still going. Bet he is regretting this build!
16:42 First plank a success, 5 more needed. Rinse and repeat.
21:52 Onwards and upwards - gym workout not needed.
26:51 A break from sawing so back to the neck and headstock - and spooges of superglue?
30:47 Sanding with the beam and then High Build Finishing Oil. Perfect shine, but .............
36:30 Re-cutting the fret slots
39:44 OH NO! He has just realised......
40:45 Back to the fret slots.
41:42 Frets are going in next, however, there is a slight hitch that needs addressing!
49:52 Conclusion
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Ben: I'm sorry about last time I didn't mean to use a power tool... Please forgive me!
Also Ben: BuFfInG wHeEl GoEs BrRr
🤣 Ben don't ever change!
Let's just imagine and pretend he had leg powered wheel lol
A common literary device is dramatic irony, where the audience has access to information the characters don't. As the story continues, the audience feels increasing tension as the characters continue to progress without a key piece of information, as in the tragedy of Oedipus, or the Hand Tool Guitar Build. Both Oedipus and Ben make mistakes early in the story that are eventually revealed to the horror of the protagonist and, depending the audience's temperament, any emotion between resignation, catharsis, or even delight of the viewer. In modern literary criticism, we refer to this moment of elucidation as a BIG OOF.
Ha! You are a card sir!
Soooo we agree then that Ben is a literary giant?
I would say in your defence, a bit of buffing is not part of the actual construction. But oh the fun when you realized. I can but imagine that King Cnut moment of realisation that the tide was not for stopping. Cest la vie.
That’s funny, I always thought that irony was the way people described the flavor of blood.
I think what I love the most is how long it took Ben to realise what he'd done. I think you may have needed a cookie my dude!
Jimi Hendrix Blues album was the first cd I bought for myself when I was 11 years old in 1994!! I still have a copy of that album to this day. My favorite by in large❤️ So glad someone else appreciates it as well. Masterpiece
That moment of realization was priceless 😂
This is why we love you. Use a power tool and not realize it for an hour. This was only the second time so it’s still and hand tool build
The best part of the accidental power tool usages is that they weren't even used at times where they made the job easier, just faster.
39.54,Ben realises he’s used a power tool😂😂😂😂😂😂Superb Ben👍👍
ELECTRIC LADYLAND -- the double album of Jimi is the summit of electric guitar music!!!!
All that hand sawing, and he screws it up by using a buffing wheel :) classic.
I’m pretty sure that buffing wheel is peddle powered 😂
@@SawdustPassion yes! We’ll go with this 👍
@@SawdustPassion we were promised hand tools, not feet tools 🤣
A wise man once said: there is no difficult or hard work when you have the right tools.
Well… this series illustrate it perfectly
Ben, I thought you might enjoy the fact that I’ve been watching and taking notes from you for years and I love the fact that you support Leatherman Tools, for I am a Leatherman, myself. Tim is actually a distant cousin of mine and even came to our family reunion, once. He’s a cool guy and so are you!
Thank you for all the wisdom and boost of confidence for my building. I’m getting ready to start my second guitar. Hopefully you’ll see me in a build off soon.
Cheers!
So happy that this build is back! It's going to be gorgeous! Treat yourself like a toddler and put outlet covers on all of your power outlets. Essentially, at least for the electrical aspects, child-proof your shop. Ben-proof your shop? 😉
You failed by using a power tool but you did a very good job by cutting the three boards by hand, so that’s not a problem for me.
Thank you Ben and I enjoy your project.
This is a real departure from the normal electric builds and I'm stoked it's back. Thanks for the humility... Power through the mistakes 😸
Ben should go to the woods with just an axe and come back with the closest thing to a guitar his skills can achieve.
don't fall for the telegram nonsense, I've noticed a lot of big youtubers are experiencing this problem
A greenwood guitar. Well, at least the neck fit-up will be immaculate...
Hello and welcome to Crimson Unplugged. After doing such a good job cutting the body pieces we can let you off with a transgressional buff. :)
my jaw just dropped open when I saw Ben polishing that fret board.....naughty naughty !
This may be a little late Ben, but stumpynubs has a great video about how Japanese carpenters are taught to use their saws to do precisely what you were trying to accomplish. I've learned a ton from him over the years. Hope it helps.
Quite stunning Ben, what I like the most is your ability to boune back after any unexpected issue ! What I also love is your humility and your sense of humor which craks me up !
Once this build is done I'd love to see a bladed-tool-only build; saws, chisels, planes, spokeshaves, and scrapers only (with an exception of files/abrasives for fretwork, and drills for wiring/hardware). Would be great to see how a flamed top looks with sliced rather than abraded fibres... Plus it would give you an excuse to get out your violin makers' planes!
Ben just want to point out that at the start of the video you did say (The powerless build except for that "one time" we will not talk about) So that one time drilling now that one time buffing. Your all good. If you don't go to two times using power tools for a singular task your covered. I am sure that if there is electronics you will want to use a Soldering Iron.
Oh yah I am sure that Telegram the scammers choice of communication is what Crimson would use to send a prize through. People don't fall for this crap. Telegram as far as I have ever experienced is nothing but scammers.
For all of that heroic sawing. For giving me a great idea for the next build for you. For the huge amount of fun and entertainment that this is. For working on the hottest day of the year so far. For planing wood like a don you are completely forgiven for the two minor power tool incidents. Especially as you explained what and why you were doing it before you realised your blunder, it was a genuine and in my view valid mistake.
BUT
In order to put the record straight and to achieve full forgiveness I reckon the next build should be power tools allowed but no modern chemicals. We would love to watch you boiling up a few fish heads for glue and chasing shellac beetles and distilling your own alcohol to dissolve them in from potato ferment made from the warmth of your tube amp.... oh yes and picking the nettles for the green fretboard dye that we all so want to see.
Make up for your transgression by making a treadle powered bench grinder in a later video.
The Jimi Hendrix blues album is fantastic. One my favourites of all time.
Don't worry Ben, we'll let you off! Actually, one thing I should start doing is using a triangular file to go over the top of the fret slots, like you say. Not because it guides the tang in (although it does), because I've never had a problem with that before. But because if/when you have to refret ot take the frets out, if you don't go over the top of the frets and put a bevel on the edges (with the triangle file), the barbs on the fret tangs will tend to pull chunks of wood out of the fretboard. If you put those micro-bevels on the top of the fret-slots, it will tend to stop that from happening.
Delightful from start to finish.
Yaay. We are back to this build again. Can't wait to see it finished
Power tools Ben? Thank God for His grace we all would be screwed if we had to do it right all the time without error or sin. But true repentance is a response to the revelation we can't do it on our own. Grace to the humble judgement to the self-righteous. Be blessed and be graced.
Thanks for the recap at the beginning, my memory isn't what it used to be.
The fretboard is TRULY stunning!!
"Chaos and Carnage" sounds like and excellent name for a build.
I love the superglue finish idea on the fretboard! Now I totally will do it :)
waited so long for this to come back; yipeeeeeeeeeee!
Fascinating, as ever! 🥰🥰🎸🎸
About Jimi Hendrix : Hear my train'a comin' acoustic version with a 12 strings guitar is just amazing !! Good choice, Ben !
On long rips, start as you did with a guide cut either side then make a start on the actual rip cut from one side, complete say, 15 or 20 passes of the saw and then turn the wood in the vice and do the same from the other side. Rinse and repeat. By doing that, you'll cancel out the drift and stay on line a lot easier. :)
SO looking forward to this! 😊😊🎸🎸🍷🍷
Those inlays do bring a smile to my face
Yay! Amazing! Thank you!
FINALLY! I waited soooo long to see this build continue! It was great to see the tops and backs cut. One thing I have found out about using hand tools only for a project, is not to be near any power tools at all! 🤣 I know it sounds silly, but if a power tool is handy, you will pick it up. We have been spoiled.
The use of super glue for a finish blew me away! There is a satiny look to the fretboard that as you pointed out looks vintage. I love it!
Thanks so much for bringing this back! I can’t wait to see the body of the guitar being built!
Beautiful fretboard.
Very glad to see this build moving forward. I have a similar large fence post (cedar in my case) and I was considering making sides out of it for an arch top. Maybe the back as well, I don't know, haven't built anything acoustic before. The hand tools part is important, as I don't currently own a bandsaw. Thanks for this!
I made a tool a few weeks ago from an old pair of fret-pulling pliers with a notch in for the specific purpose of spreading the fret tang when it's too narrow for the slot. Works well, though it does tend to straighten the fret a little, so I need to slightly over-radius the fret to compensate.
I've got a socket that used to have a lamp plugged directly into it and I would use the switch on the socket to turn the lamp on and off. Later I needed to power a modem/wireless router, so I put the lamp and router into a 4-way and always good... except that I'd forget and switch the lamp and router off at the socket! My solution was to put a post-it note over the socket with "NO!!!!" scrawled on it. I suggest Ben does the same to all electric sockets and electrical devices for the duration of the build.
I feel your pain Ben. I've started my GGBO scratch build yesterday and it's been a hand tool only build so far. Probably will stay that way since most of the heavy duty cutting, sanding, planning, flattening etc. is already done ;) But seriously saying, there is some kind of wild, old school pleasure to this. It's a good challenge. Thanks for the inspiration Ben! 🖖
Watching you do this makes me really glad I was able to get a planer, and a jointer! Nevermind the saws! Maybe one day? Not today. I love the build concept and I'm sure it will be like everything else you make, awesome! P&L oh yeah, power tool! Whatever brother, I personally don't really mind that you use power tools by nature. It's all good.
Ben's personal trainer liked this video twice.
At last its back! Wonderful way to wake up on a Sunday morning.🤩 Thanks Bun! Me being a couple of years older, you brought back flashbacks for me when you went pink and panting after your third cut.😴 My arm felt tired watching you.
Oh and you took a wild risk experimenting with superglue but it really paid off. I love it🥰
The the reason it went better when you had it at a 45 degree angle is that the cutting part of the saw is nearer your hand, while the trailing edge is cutting less and being guided. A 90 degree cut means that the edge furthest from your hand can wander
Ben, Ben ,Ben.
u need an oiler ,ie some rolled thick felt impregnated with light grade oil to rub the side of ur saw with which will make it glide much easier.
the oiler looks like a cinnamon roll, bound around outer circumference so it can't uncoil and let oil soak into it so u can just rub sides of saw when needed.
old school tradie trick.
also helps to keep saw from ever rusting.
happy sawing..
Oh Ben ...As I sit here watching you re-think all of your life choices (lol) I am soo happy this build is back. I've been really wanting to see your processes for this. I was worried that the Japanese saw would overheat and distort thus drifting off line. I know the Western rip saw is not as sexy, but it does a job. p.s. you need to talk to Andy Kline (who built Adam Savages work bench) and Matt Cremona (who supplied the lumber - and who built a guitar at your school a couple years ago) and get a really good bench!!! It's time.
Power tool strike two! Lol. Love It
Ben, that rip saw is like a Megladon's teeth to the reef shark of the Japanese rip saw teeth. Chomp chomp! 🐋🦈
If you were doing this live, two hundred of us would have screamed at our screens in vain to stop you from giving in to the lure of the plug.
Scammer
Live guitar build on stream next 😂
I choose to belive the bench grinder was powered by sheer will and determination rather then electricity.
I love the superglue finish! it's amazing!
ps Ben you dope
Aye! Lovely
I did a fretboard once with the super glue... And had cut the slots first.
And one thing I'll tell you is that teflon fret dam material is GREAT for keeping it out of the slots. As long as it fits the slots real tight. Leave it sticking out of the ends of the fretboard, and you can pull it right through when everything is dry.
I was assuming the CA glue bottle was going to stick to the workbench. Ha.
So was I -TC
Me too
I love an honest man.
Good Morning Ben!
So glad this is back its been like waiting for stranger things to drop.👏🤘
When he used the buffing machine i screamed: noooooo!!!!
Now we must ask: when there will be a powerless project? Ben need to go to the mountains and get away from the society to avoid using electricity 🔌🔌🔌
Nice handtool that buffingwheel..
Ben you are so charming. Love your works!
All good. I will just try to imagine a guitar without the buffed fretboard. 😎
Super glue did really make the neck beautiful!
Yes, you're a Muppet for the bench grinder...
But...
Your joy and glee at the superglue experiment was very sweet and that and your creative design is why I started watching your videos.
The Japanese saw is a Ryoba and the rip side is good for thinner pieces of wood. You might want to try a Kataba for extremely thick wood say 4"+. The rip variants come in roughly 5 tpi and the crosscut about 16 tpi.
OMG Ben, this IS your funniest video ever! Thank you for making me laugh so hard to the point of it hurt me to tears! I really needed that! Thank you so much!
A buffing wheel is part of hand tools as long as you don't plug it in and turn it using your own power.
I want the opposite. A no hand tool build. Fretwork would be a treat.
BEN!!!!!!! Fuse box. Trip the fuses - just keep the lights on.
...or unplug 🙂
I so want to see you use those shaving and cast them in resin to make a body for a guitar.
Looking forward to see the hand plane thicknesser.
If it don't come out laughing, it's gonna come out screaming. But it was fun to sit here and go, "No. Oh, no. You realize what you're doing with the ... power ... wheel... ah, well."
Ouch Ben you’re using a power buffer 😂 great stuff.
Ben - don't worry about it - back in the day of hand tools for everything that is anything you , as the Master Luthier, would have a shop FULLof... MINIONS !!!
So consider that spinny thing with the buffy thing on it one of the crew from the main office madly rubbing away with pads and compound etc until presenting back to you for approval a finely polished neck with fret board - in this case he just happened to be bench top sized and his name is Stanley or Triton or whatever it is.
besides, after all that sawing and planing and a head full of CA fumes, you can be allowed the deviation from script....we want you to build after all, not collapse (unless that is a necessary step in some new technique your inventing...then....and only then....maybe)
He visto literalmente todos los episodios de esta grandiosa construcción y no encuentro el episodio final, como quedo la hermosa guitarra y que tal suena ansío poder verla, saludes desde costa rica y que Dios te bendiga....
Am i dreaming? Or is Ben really finally working on the hand tool only build?!?
The buffing wheel did nothing to move the construction forward. So it doesn't take away from the concept.
Sorry, Ben, I keep watching the realisation bit back and forth. It's just hilarious. :D
I can forgive a quick buff, going to have to do it again anyway, and especially after the cutting effort
Ben, when using a handsaw use the whole length of the blade and this will massively increase your cutting accuracy, and if your elbow is moving at the speed of a bee's wing you are doing it wrong.
Thank you for this advice 👍
This reminds me of last year when I had to rip a 3 inch thick, 1.6m long 400 ish mm wide elm slab into 4 parts, experiment with the saws while trying to stay straight, ended up buying a 3tpi giant rip from a local vintage seller. I also felt very very old and incredibly unfit hahaha.
Good advice about having the work area well ventilated and using masks when working with cyano adhesives. A good friend in the US died from the fumes in his workshop. I think the dangers of using cyanoacrylates need to be understood a lot more than they are currently.
I will count the buffing wheel as “finishing” not so much building….lol…doing a 95% no power tool build is still more than I’d be willing to do Ben…lol
I wouldnt worry about the bench grinder haha as funny as it was. Its only polishing 🤷♂️🤣🤣
I can't believe you broke the power tool rule to just buff up the fretboard. You could have used a bandsaw for one of those rip cuts and made it worth it 🤪
I think it would be cool to do a build with any tools that are $200 or less. So they are more accessable, but also more efficient
First. You're not out of shape. Anyone would be out of breath doing that much hand sawing. Second. I get it with the buffer. Falling back to the tried and true is a hard thing to shake. The thing I like about your show is that you show your mistakes and fix them in process.
Ben don’t worry about use the Bench Grind as a power tool because a Power Tool is Made by a Company to be use a A Grinder can’t help someone put Polish Wheels on a Grinder. So you are Safe. 🤣😅😂. Should Ben change the Lettering from inside to the Back So We Can See ALL THE LETTERS 👍🏻 Vote. Power of the People 🙏🍀
Oh, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben... What are we going to do with you? (Watch more of your videos, I think)
For your next build, you need to start by removing all power tools from your shop. ;)
Today's lesson, however... There are times when every rule can be broken. Nice work with the superglue. I'm rebuilding a Gremlin bass for a friend, and I've been debating what to do about the frets. (A previous owner had wanted a fretless bass, and just yoinked them right out. :( ) Flooding with CA as a stabilizer just jumped to the top of the list of options.
Power tool !!!!!
If you want to avoid further risks of using power tools, move them in the new part of your shed and work in the old one for the rest of this build!
Btw. If you have to work with soft wood and want to stabilise it, you might want to look for _Cactus Juice._ It is a very thin resin (with the consistency of water) that cures in heat. You'll need also a vacuum-chamber to draw the air out of the wood, which is afterwards replaced by the resin. There are a couple of TH-camrs giving tutorials in how to use it.
If you use a power tool in the next episode, it becomes a tradition instead of a mistake.
Wears dust mask. Snorts line of dust directly off of wood plank. Awesome.
Yes, your A fool! Wen you pilled out the Elec. paling wheel I just about cryed.
I felt knackered just watching you rip cutting by hand. I would have even let you off if you would have used band saw "by mistake "😂