Dimensioning timber by hand for guitar building

Dimensioning timber by hand for guitar building | Bass guitar build part 6

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2 жыл бұрын

In this video I show you how to dimension timber. From rough oversized pieces to a smooth finished correct thickness blank, ready to make a guitar body of any shape. All of this can be done with a hand plane. You don’t have to have an expensive planer/thincknesser, that is loud and dusty!
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@dfu1685 Жыл бұрын

Again, THANK YOU for taking the time to teach some very important basics that other instructors seem to take for granted. I needed it!

@KingBespokeCreations Жыл бұрын

My pleasure 👏

@i3gallery 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the times where I am thankful for having a plunge router, a bit of old kitchen cupboard and some angle iron for a down-and-dirty planer sled. Great to see how once again, you remove the anxiety element to another core skill of woodworking. You can tell I've been at the mercy of the big American channels (sorry to keep poking my American cousins out there) pushing the idea that you have to get slabs square down to the atomic level hehe.

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

I work on the knowledge that this is how it used to be done. No reason it can’t again!

@ChrisFranklyn 2 жыл бұрын

The haircut was the most important part! I'm too lazy, I tend to spend the extra to get wood dimensioned before I see it! I would love the appropriate loud tools to do it with though.

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Go quiet, get fit! 2 for 1!!

@fatpotanga 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent Chris. Thank you, as a virgin wood fettler with some wood to fettle, I found that really useful!

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Very glad to hear it! 👍

@martinlouden9005 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Chris, those large rip cuts are where the Japanese pull saws come into their own. I'm looking forward to see if you can get both wings from the same billet.

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Those cuts were the reason I bought a Japanese saw! 🤣

@malcolmgray1227 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video with many useful tips in there. That was a fare old saw there at the end.

@tobiasschmidtke215 2 жыл бұрын

Great video that comes just at the right time, as I currently face the same challenge for the first time in preparation for my GGBO build! Thanks for the instructive explanations :)

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! 👍

@FrugalFixerSpike 2 жыл бұрын

Doing mine today! But I'm a power tool guy! Love your skills! Put up my videos of chunks this morning!

@rauschguitars 2 жыл бұрын

Scrub planes are great at getting rid of material quickly. When set to take a this shaving, they also deal with figured woods quite well.

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Top tip!

@eviltobz 2 жыл бұрын

Great timing with some nice planing tips as I’m currently trying to make my first multi-laminate neck blank with a couple of nearly but not quite square pieces of maple. Thanks :)

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help 👍

@doctoribanez 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome man. That was a lot of work

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

The sawing was the tedious bit! All of the planing actually didn’t take that long 👍

@BoneheadGuitars 2 жыл бұрын

Best I recall, the last time I had to do that kind of sawing I also needed a rest and a haircut. 😅

@realitystudioscustomshop 2 жыл бұрын

informative as usual :D

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bud!

@jurgenzoller4407 2 жыл бұрын

I love your passion for hand tools. A patience I just don't have. You must be very fit too.... Or do you edit out all the huffing and puffing!

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

I do catch my breath before speaking! 🤣 But honestly, with a scrub plane it takes the same time as to multiple passes needed on a thicknesser!

@jurgenzoller4407 2 жыл бұрын

@@KingBespokeCreations and a lot quieter I'd imagine. I do hate the thicknesser, as do my neighbpurs. I have an old junky plane....I'll convert.

@emannaquilina6331 2 жыл бұрын

really glad build and apart of learning on guitar building one also learns and appreciates a lot how much can be done with hand tools only..really really great build...what type of wood is that large billet?

@KingBespokeCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The wood is called Basswood, sometimes in Europe it’s known as Limewood 👍