Let's Have Some Fun - Video 1 of Some - The Great Guitar Build-Off 2021
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- Check out MERCH through my Etsy shop! www.etsy.com/s... Welcome to Awen Lutherie and welcome to the first instalment to my entry to The Great Guitar Build-Off 2021!
Building on last years fantastic competition, I’m looking forward to doing a serious cool build to try and one-up myself.
Hopefully you find the build interesting, and maybe you'll stick around for the videos to follow!
A lot of you may know and notice that I am building from Crimson Guitars HQ in Dorset this year, but I am not endorsed, sponsored or helped by Crimson in any way except by use of their fabulous workshop.
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I am a guitar builder (and now teacher) from Ireland, but currently based in the South of England working with Crimson Guitars. I am a teacher and a luthier and I am currently loving my job and the direction my life is going. My guitars are built by hand, from the heart and with love in every shaving.
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Thank You for being a part of this.
This year's competition has come to a close, and voting is now live! If you liked my build, head to greatguitarbuildoff.com/products/sea-n-a-matha%C2%BAna and vote for me there by clicking on the little heart next to my name, I'd really appreciate it!
Love your woods choice and your crafting skills, good luck mate
Thanks 👍
I've been there!!!
Last year's build was amazing! Can't wait to see this one unfold.
Thanks a million, I hope you're enjoying the build so far
That l have seen is immensely talented, male, female, young, old, color me impressed!!!
Calm, confident, respectful of the wood and tools and craft… there is mastery in you.
Thanks a million, I'm glad you like what I'm doing
Wonderful choice in wood. This will be a beauty! So glad to see you back!
Except for the knowledge, experience, patience, tools and workspace I could do that.
Well, it's good you got the talent!
@@luiscuixara4622 No, sadly I haven't got that either. I do have a piece of wood though.
Well, at least you have the wood!
What a shop ~ great lighting and lots of electrical outlets! Looking forward to seeing more.
It’s Crimson Guitar’s student workshop, he works there.
More to come! This shop is awesome, I can't deny it! It's Crimson Guitars' school workshop and the guys have put loads of time and effort into making it such a great space
Hey man, great to see you've settled in a Crimson. Looking forward to great things from you brother. Congrats on the new gig. I know you'll kill it!
Good to see you are doing well for yourself and cant wait to see how this one plays out but I would be lying if I didnt say I miss the old shop /workspace.
Looking in on all that l'm able, l'm impressed by the talent of the "luthier's"! Everyone th as t
There really is a great buffet of talent in this years competition, glad you're enjoying all it has to offer!
You are the first luthier that I have seen on TH-cam that is actualy cutting his fret slots himself .
I missed how you have located the exact position of each one. The position of the frets is so important that most luthiers buy them already slotted via a CNC machine for high précision.
Looking forward for the next video. Great beginning!
For a multiscale, a cnc is absolutely the best way to do it, but that requires you to have the skills and access to a CNC machine. I used a scale ruler to mark the fret locations with a scalpel blade. One scale on each side of the neck for the 2 scale lengths. Then I used a ruler and scalpel to join the marks for each fret, giving me the mark for the actual slot I need, and a score line for the saw to folow. I hope that makes sense to you!
I do like your laminations with the added veneers but it is a shame to cut some of those veneers away when you cut the taper on the neck, Far better to taper your laminations before gluing up so that you maintain those veneers right to the end of the headstock. Also we should should all be aware of the need to be economical with the way we use these wonderful woods. Making up huge rectangular blanks for a thru' neck is very wasteful as a huge percentage of the woods are cut away and become of little use. Far better to cut the shape of the laminations from a board, whilst nesting the components to minimise waste. Yes, they are a little more difficult to glue up but with a well thought out jig it's easy and the savings in exotic woods are huge. You can also set them out in such a way as to reverse the grain on opposite laminates which stabilises the neck. Great video and I look forward to the next one.
I love a compound radius! My favourite guitar has a compound radius fretboard and I love it!
It's almost all I do nowadays.. it just makes so much more sense!
Awesome video Sean. And great to see you at Crimson.
Thanks 👍
Nice! Good to have you back!
Thanks for sticking around! I hope you enjoy the build
Awesome starto a build. Been waiting on your entry, and congrats on the new job.
Thanks a million, I hope you're enjoying the build so far
Yandles had flamed maple? I've seen Birdseye there but never flamed. I'll give them a ring on Monday, maybe a visit will be due on Tuesday with any luck. It's good to know thy sometimes have it though. Good luck with the build.
Yes they had just gotten a load of maple in. When I mentioned I was building a guitar, the employee mentioned that there was some flamey stuff there and that they don't treat it any different to the normal stuff. I just dug around in the pile and found a few nice pieces!
I need a no. 62.
I like you're new workshop. Looks like it belongs to a certain luthier! All your old tools though. Hope the new job is fun.
Er, this is filmed at Crimson?
@@timbeaton5045 wow really! You need to look up sarcasm in the dictionary?
Yes I brought my tools, of course! I couldn't start from scratch with nothing from home!
I'm loving it with Crmson so far, it's a great place!
Nice to see you back at building. But to see you using the planer without the safetyguard scares me! BTW I'd rather have a nice cold Beamish while watching. Sadly I'll have to wait for that after Corona and be able to go to Ziggy's Rock and Blues Bar in Cork again. Greetings from Northern Germany.
Yes I normally use the guard, don't worry! I didn't enjoy going without for this video, I probably won't be doing it again!
Hopefully you'll be able to get back to the bar in Cork before too long
@@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars guess I'll have to wait til next year. Always visit Rorys grave after the Rory Gallagher Tribute Festival in Ballyshannon. Always a great opportunity to catch up with friends from all over the world.
Nice to see the Crimson workshop again - I miss What's on the Bench? :-)
I do too, it was like visiting old friends every week :)
I did also enjoy WOTB.. I'm not sure it'll ever be the same for me any more though!
What happened to last year's GGBO guitar?
Last year's guitar is still at home in Ireland. Being the reason that it got me where I am now, I wanted to keep it for at least a little while..
Welcome back!
Please wear safety glasses when using the tools!🎸
wow, looks amazing this one, what angle is the headstock break angle out of interest?
I drew the headstock angle at 10*, but with the additional planing, and the addition of a veneer later one, it will probably range from something like 9.5 - 12 degree angle. At the end of the day, headstock angle doesn't much matter so long as there is sufficient pressure across the nut.
Nice video Sean... Question: Why did you re-enforce with carbon rods for a 5 piece (9 including veneers) neck? Would the multi-piece neck not be strong enough without needing the rods?
Yeah a 5 piece neck is plenty strong really. The carbon rods are complete and total overkill here, but I generally like to have them for the sake of a little extra time and cost.
It was good to see you hit the tool chest :) Those veneers, are they pre-stained maple or something? Or is it a very dark ebony veneer?
Yes I was conflicted as to whether or not to taper the neck laminations, but in the end I wanted to try not doing it. I think if I was doing it again, I would.
I 100% agree with your point about being economical as well. It's one of the big problems with neck thru builds is the large amount of waste. I save the offcuts though, and they will be used in another project of some description.
Thanks for watching and for the comment, I appreciate it!
They are pre stained, yes. By the supplier (the veneer hub). I believe they're holly, not ebony!
That’s gonna be pretty
It'll hopefully be pretty, but it won't look as tasty as yours last year
@@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars what ever could? 😆
Hey! What size bandsaw do you use? I've got 14" and it makes some pretty tortured sounds with a deep resaw. I believe it has a 1kW induction motor on it.
Hi, in my own workshop I had a 16" with (I believe) a 3kW motor.. in Crimson we have the Record Power Sabre 350 which is an awesome bandsaw. I'm not sure what the motor size is, but I think it needs to be beefy for deep hardwood resawing.
So are you keeping Awen separate or will it be absorbed into the Crimson Brand? Just curious how that will work.
No they will be kept completely seperate as my own side 'side hustle' although I won't be building guitars to sell. I'll stay building the likes of my guitar stands under the Awen brand, but that kind of thing will be a lot less regular. Crimson have nothing to do with Awen, though.
@@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars I'm actually really glad to hear that. You are such a great addition to the team there, I would hate to know you were giving up what you worked so hard to build, plus everybody needs a "side hustle". Best of luck to you my friend. Slainte, Cheers, Peace.
What wood glue are you using in this video?
I'm using Alcolin professional for most of it, it's what we use a lot of in Crimson.
@@AwenLutherieCustomGuitars The bottle looked different in the video. Just curious.
never pull the wood
Too much talking ..