10:21 You can see that the fretboard has come away as you wiggle it.

One thing I learned in the ski repair shops... Most people are not racing on the world cup, you don't have to make it perfect; make it work, or work better.

Yeah Ben, take back the channel!!! Can't wait to see what you do next! You've inspired me to start building my own guitars!

Not all heroes wear capes. But I think you could pull one off Ben.

"WELCOME to Crimson Guitars WELCOME to my luthiery yurt..."

Guitar builds, experimental lutherie and repairs sounds good, Ben. Glad to see you online, looking fit and trim!

GREAT to have you back Ben !!!!!!!

I first came across your videos when you built the bog oak resin guitar. I kinda miss the builds like that, done in crimson workshop. Start to finish, 1 build at at a time.

That’s the ethos I had to take when fixing my late fathers guitar (a relatively worthless but sentimentally significant old Rose Morris/Shaftesbury acoustic) I’d never have started it, let alone finished it if I’d chased perfection- but it’s stuck where it’s supposed to be and not going anywhere, it still plays/sounds amazing and it’s scars are all part of its story.

Innovative uses of Glastonbury white powder

beware Glastonbury "sugar" lost a whole day talking to a massive pink dragon

IMHO every instrument is worth saving if it's possible. Last year I got a heavily abused strat body from a friend. He figured I might have some use for it. Last week I was sorting some leftover components, and I decided to just build a complete new guitar from spare parts. Even found a squire neck I could pick up for free! So now I own my very first fender partscaster XD Perfection in repairs, to me means the best possible repair within the time-frame you have, and with the means you have. In this case, making sure the instrument can be used again as intended! It clearly worked ;)

Looking forward to you going back to guitar building and repairs. Thanks for sharing.

Nice work Ben. Desire for perfection stops a lot of people from attempting or completing a project. Thats why my first guitar (after watching Ben's videos) was a test guitar. It was not meant to be playable, so, I took chances and tested ideas. Ended up playable, even though it was only made of pine. As for the repair, easy to say as a watcher but I think drilling 2 dowel holes through the head stock to prevent slipping makes life easy (same as the way you show for fret boards).

I never want a headstock to break on my guitars, but if it happens, I’d love for it to have happened at Glastonbury. Even more so if someone from Crimson had been on hand to repair it. Guitars get their wounds and their wounds tell stories.

Field repairs vs restoration tier repairs. We all want flawless restoration, most of the time... On a campfire basher though, yea just get er strummin' again.

"I'm looking for a 'sweeter' sound." "Have you tried sugar in your guitar?" 😁 Well done as usual

I love and appreciate these on-the-fly, troubleshooting, educational vids. Thanks for sharing!

Bravo this is what we want

Missed your videos! Good to see it coming back

Does the addition of sugar make a sweeter sounding guitar?

Good looking perfect straight in the eye.

I can totally relate to your struggle. Ret'd motorcycle mech. All my life....want to do it perfect.....always under time constraints.....just how much 'quest for perfection' can I get away with? How much IS too much. The very fact it concerns you is a good thing, IMO. Enjoy your work......I do.

Glad to see Ben coming back to his u tube roots.

Thank you Ben. Loved this video

dude you've lost so much weight and you look fantastic! Also you kinda look like the 'space pirate' from the Martian...so cool! Great video Ben!

If you are still looking for a product name for the neck rest, which I like really well. Every time I see it in use, it reminds me of Atlas holding up the earth. It could be called the Atlas neck rest. Have a great day Ben, and thank you for all you do. You are my favorite guitar building channel. Right on later gator.

I've done more than my fair share of rough and ready headstock repairs, it's surprising how little wood contact it takes to hold it all together and make it a functioning instrument again.

Yup - was handed a cheap LP clone to practice a repair on by a friend of mine. Total headstock break - actually quite similar to the one you just did - with the headstock veneer being cracked through Effectively zero monetary value and no sentimental value - so I could experiment a bit. Ended up glueing and then adding a couple of splines. As ugly a repair as you could imagine - although I did try and clean it up with some drop filling, sanding and adding a stinger to try and hide the repair. Still ugly as sin, but it has held up for a year or more (tuned down to D-standard on 10's) I am considering adding a belly cut and smoothing out the neck heel-to-body transition (like an LP Modern) as I can mess it up and there is no problem.

Hello Great video If you have time please highlight a binding repair To confirm the glue required etc I have a Martin 00028 2015 purchase Where the binding on the rear Waist area is failing Many thanks

I rather like that salt/sugar trick!

Great Repair Ben

A headstock repair...on a non-Gibson guitar??? I'm very surprised to see the need for a repair like this on an Ibanez; I thought Gibson had patented the "Trick Headstock". I hope Gibson doesn't decide to sue Ibanez for violating their patent if the see this video.

I want to see a full size accoustic with a spruce or cedar top. I bet Ben would carve an epic archtop.

Build one with bone frets! Nylon strings, piezo bridge, 17th century accoutrements!!!

Don’t let the perfect get in the way of the good.

I watched most of the video. That's pretty much how it is done. I've done a few neck breaks. The cleaner the break the better and the more surface area the better. I remove all the tuners so I do not have that weight to deal with.

2:38 I've started wondering if the truss rod adjustment at the headstock is part of why old gibsons (and clones) tend to break more than old fenders (and clones).

Perfection is not necessary as long as the guitar is repaired to a playable condition in the conditions that you had to work in

Toolmakers clamps (Engineering) ❤

I call it “auditioning” the clamp job. It usually takes three or four auditions before everything is ready to go. Once I’m satisfied, the actual glue-up happens very quickly.

That engineers clamp, is called a toolmakers clamp.

nice

As fun as the first half of this video was, I feel like this is the equivalent of KZfaq blue balls to not have the ending of the guy throwing a few cowboy chords on the guitar, thanking you profusely and throwing it in his backpack and riding off into Glastonbury!

Another side channel? I'm still waiting for you to start put something on the Weekend Workshop channel 😂

Whilst I share your love of wearing lots of massive rings, does it not interfere with your work on guitars? Accidental damage etc?

When a Buddy says ,"you put 400 Dollars worth of work into it and you'll have a 200 dollar guitar" you got to think about it.

Would super glue work for that?

Wouldn't epoxy be better than wood glue for this kind of thing?

Does being "off piste" make you "piste off" 😊

Yes, don't have to, but we Want this level of perfection ;) (or working on it, at least... :) )

"Glastonbury Festival sugar" sounds like the name of something that is absolutely not actual sugar.

Not the first joint to be fixed at Glastonbury...

There is well worn quality assessment - ‘good enough for government work’. Get there and then make it 20% better, you’re there.

I think he said fek. 😊

No. You do not have a bunch of wood. 🙄 It is NOT a fucking bunch of wood (".)