10:21 You can see that the fretboard has come away as you wiggle it.
@dp9550Ай бұрын
I noticed that as well .
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Sharp eyes people, very sharp! The amount of movement as I 'wiggled it' worried me and I spotted that too, I'm not surprised it didn't make the edit.. I was mid conversation with a solicitor who specialises in intellectual property, patents etc. The joy of filming with an ever changing and incredibly interesting audience stopping by.
@tahoemike5828Ай бұрын
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.
@jbacon4514Ай бұрын
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!
@adamdutton9922Ай бұрын
Not all heroes wear capes. But I think you could pull one off Ben.
@davedavemАй бұрын
"WELCOME to Crimson Guitars WELCOME to my luthiery yurt..."
@fepattonАй бұрын
Guitar builds, experimental lutherie and repairs sounds good, Ben. Glad to see you online, looking fit and trim!
@jeffwilliams1255Ай бұрын
GREAT to have you back Ben !!!!!!!
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Thank you
@themaskedsinger.8861Ай бұрын
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.
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Working on it. More builds being planned.
@themaskedsinger.8861Ай бұрын
@CrimsonCustomGuitars Thanks for your reply. It wasn't criticism, merely an opinion. However, I will definitely look forward to those. Good to see you looking relaxed and well.🙏
@TimLane-un9gvАй бұрын
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.
@PaulCooksStuffАй бұрын
Innovative uses of Glastonbury white powder
@lukeharrigan904Ай бұрын
beware Glastonbury "sugar" lost a whole day talking to a massive pink dragon
@angeldelvax7219Ай бұрын
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 ;)
@kennethnielsen3864Ай бұрын
Looking forward to you going back to guitar building and repairs. Thanks for sharing.
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
You and me both!
@cheapskate8656Ай бұрын
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).
@jaynbob42Ай бұрын
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.
@psguardianАй бұрын
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.
@davidbenson4489Ай бұрын
"I'm looking for a 'sweeter' sound." "Have you tried sugar in your guitar?" 😁 Well done as usual
@TheStrykerProjectАй бұрын
I love and appreciate these on-the-fly, troubleshooting, educational vids. Thanks for sharing!
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
My pleasure.
@knockknock3686Ай бұрын
Bravo this is what we want
@rafaelcoli4797Ай бұрын
Missed your videos! Good to see it coming back
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Hey, thanks!
@hs3fanАй бұрын
Does the addition of sugar make a sweeter sounding guitar?
@CMINCOGNITOАй бұрын
makes your chords fall out
@PerpetuallyTiredMusicianАй бұрын
No but it gives you automatic sweetened tunings.
@popdufc4139Ай бұрын
Good looking perfect straight in the eye.
@davidbenson4489Ай бұрын
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.
@davidfinn5029Ай бұрын
Glad to see Ben coming back to his u tube roots.
@stephencarey6114Ай бұрын
Thank you Ben. Loved this video
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
My pleasure!
@TheFatstrat79Ай бұрын
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!
@larrywhitley3359Ай бұрын
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.
@KipperbobАй бұрын
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.
@frankiechan9651Ай бұрын
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.
@keithskelton5596Ай бұрын
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
@KainzMusicАй бұрын
I rather like that salt/sugar trick!
@mattomon1045Ай бұрын
Great Repair Ben
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Thank you
@mattomon1045Ай бұрын
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars you are welcome
@jimmypenrose1401Ай бұрын
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.
@fp3359Ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 Actually I have an Ibanez Vintage # 950 ; bought in 1976. Its my dream guitar; low action, superb specs. Never ever give your earned cash to a firm/brand who despises everyone & bully them even in court. . Boycott Gibson. My 2 cnts.
@jacobthellamerАй бұрын
I want to see a full size accoustic with a spruce or cedar top. I bet Ben would carve an epic archtop.
@dsmith9572Ай бұрын
Build one with bone frets! Nylon strings, piezo bridge, 17th century accoutrements!!!
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Piezo.. 17th century? 🤔😈. Bloody tempting, and genuinely on the cards on day.
@steveDC51Ай бұрын
Don’t let the perfect get in the way of the good.
@taylor-vl1reАй бұрын
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.
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Absolutely, this is a relatively simple repair most of the time, that many people feel an irrational fear of! It can get complicated with old breaks and when you require extra strengthening etc
@mysteryshrimpАй бұрын
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).
@stephenhursey1506Ай бұрын
Perfection is not necessary as long as the guitar is repaired to a playable condition in the conditions that you had to work in
@andytraverseАй бұрын
Toolmakers clamps (Engineering) ❤
@bevo65Ай бұрын
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.
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Brilliant 😂
@davidmcgregor9144Ай бұрын
That engineers clamp, is called a toolmakers clamp.
@NiqScottАй бұрын
Telling Ben what a tool is called 🤣
@stephenhunter3625Ай бұрын
nice
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Thanks
@MyGreatAfflictionАй бұрын
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!
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
My bad, I really screwed up on this one 😑
@rogerwilde35Ай бұрын
Another side channel? I'm still waiting for you to start put something on the Weekend Workshop channel 😂
@jacquesoeuf755Ай бұрын
Whilst I share your love of wearing lots of massive rings, does it not interfere with your work on guitars? Accidental damage etc?
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Yes, it can do. I generally don't wear them in the workshop, by this point of the festival.. Well, I was a bit more relaxed about things.. Like, well.. Hot showers, regular meals.. Chunky rings... I have regrets 😅
@timscarrow9151Ай бұрын
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.
@dsmith9572Ай бұрын
Would super glue work for that?
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
No.. It's too brittle, it may hold for a while, hell, maybe forever, but one good knock and it would probably sheer off at the joint again. Wood glue is best in this case imo
@johnsmith-zs9jqАй бұрын
Wouldn't epoxy be better than wood glue for this kind of thing?
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Not really, epoxy forms a film in between the two surfaces and can be quite brittle and we'll share again if it is shocked, which happens to headstocks quite a lot. Wood glue penetrates the wood a little bit and if it breaks again will likely hold, the break will be near the old break, not a re break like with epoxy...
@markgordon4368Ай бұрын
Does being "off piste" make you "piste off" 😊
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
😂😂
@archloyАй бұрын
Yes, don't have to, but we Want this level of perfection ;) (or working on it, at least... :) )
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Working on it!
@archloyАй бұрын
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars indeed :) (wait... work... it's not magic ?!!!!?)
@shoutykatАй бұрын
"Glastonbury Festival sugar" sounds like the name of something that is absolutely not actual sugar.
@CrimsonCustomGuitarsАй бұрын
Lol. I'm sure I dont know what you mean!
@BarryRowlingsonBazАй бұрын
Not the first joint to be fixed at Glastonbury...
@dirksw1220Ай бұрын
There is well worn quality assessment - ‘good enough for government work’. Get there and then make it 20% better, you’re there.
@franklinslamo29 күн бұрын
I think he said fek. 😊
@gp85hkgАй бұрын
No. You do not have a bunch of wood. 🙄 It is NOT a fucking bunch of wood (".)