Some readers might know the guitar case story involving Gerry Marsden. His Rickenbacker 360/12 guitar was supplied by the manufacturer at the request of Brian Epstein and despatched to England in 1964 together with John Lennon's 320/12. Marsden used it on in the studio, on stage and on TV including during the recording of Ferry Cross the Mersey. Many of these films are on youtube. It appears that the 360/12 was his only guitar and by 1974 the case was reported so damaged that Gerry's manager suggested it be replaced before departure for a Far East tour. Marsden, a former carpenter, elected to make a new case and after three days labour, the night before departure came to place the instrument inside it for the first time. To his horror he found the guitar wouldn't fit. From what I have read I would say that the case was too short by twice the thickness of the material used to make the sides. In his film Mr. Hovington is shown planning the build with reference to the actual instrument whereas I suspect Marsden merely measured the Rickenbacker and cut the material to length without allowing extra wood at the corners. In desparation, due to depart the next day, Marsden elected to shorten the guitar, cutting about 40mm off the end of the headstock so dislodging the locations for two of the machine heads. As he says in his his book, he knew it would never play properly again. When Marsden reached New Zealand he sold the guitar and it later surfaced strung with only six strings in the hands of Alistair Parker of Bailterspace. Together with his effects the Rickenbacker has an amazing sound which may be judged watching the films where it is used, most notably their Splat single. It is clear that the end of the headstock has been horribly butchered. Subsequently Parker says he lost the guitar when he left it in a New York taxi. It's not been seen again and in the 1990's it was said to be worth around £90000. The lesson surely is to measure twice and cut once.
What a story. It’s oddly relatable cause I also tend to mod and fix gear last minute. Once in desperation I epoxied a neck back in place while trying out a black suit for concert the following night. Still have some tell-take epoxy left on the lapel. The neck is securely in place but it wasn’t pretty :)
No guitar worth $90,000....or £... Been looking to make a case for my guitar though. Had it since 1999 (roughly) & never had a case for it. Way passed due.
Wow! Your craftsmanship and attention to detail to even the case is amazing, as much as that to the instrument itself. You, Sir, are a master of your craft. Respect!
Nice! I build a lot of cases for instruments, but not stringed ones. (trumpets, sax, etc,,) The inside is quite a bit different and super custom fit in yours - LOVE IT! Lately, I have made some hardwood ones without the leather but with fancy jointery, like box joints or dovetails. So many people neglect making a nice case, and it is awesome to see someone doing a great job!!! Thanks!
What a wonderful looking case and Instrument! Thank you very much for taking the pains to film, edit and upload this, really appreciated! I'm going to build something using this as a bit of a guide. Again, big gratitude to you, I hope you're doing well.
Great looking case! I've been thinking about building custom cases for wind instruments for a while and this gave me some great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
I watched this vid several times when it was time to build a case for my electric octave mandolin. It turned out better than I had hoped. Tomy is a true craftsman. I'd like to meet him and shake his hand.
Stunning video. Your attention to detail in the production of the video alone is worth praise. My step-dad was a furniture builder and upholsterer and your methods took me back 40 years to when I watched him work. Thank you so much for posting.
Woooooow. This was so satisfying to watch. Beautiful craftsmanship. I love how the green interior subtly matched the inlays on the fretboard. Awesome job.
Beautiful craftsmanship, on the mandola and the case. I have to make some cases for odd-shaped guitars, and this video is the most helpful I have found! Merci beaucoups!
I've been trying to think of a way to make a couple of better cases for my guitars/refurbish one of my hard cases. This definitely gave me some much better ideas than I was working with as to how I might go about doing that. Thanks, Tomy!
Great video thanks you've given me a lot of ideas. I need to make some cases for my viola d'amore and i think your pine sides and plywood top and bottm is the way to go. Really nice how you wrapped the outside with cloth. I think Richard christie might be right about some kind of lip on the inside to keep the rain out. I'm thinking maybe a thin ply (3mm) wrapped in some kind of plastified paper or something like that, tacked on the inside of the bottom and sticking up 5/6mm...
Lovely to watch your craft in putting together the mandola case. Also loved the BC scenery during your interlude. Luckily my mandola came with a case, but if it didn't I would have liked to have one of yours. Cheers from the UK.
Hello Tomy! Very neat cases and an extremely useful video. I've just bought an old zither with a nice, but rather battered wooden case. I'll need to refurbish it, or even better, make a new one, because the old wood may be mouldy. It looks very time consuming, but the result is awesome. It's well worth the effort. Greetings from Hungary!
Well done. I feel the design could be improved by an inner rim or band 4 to5 mm thick running around the inner perimeter of the top edge of the bottom half of the case. It should protrude about 10mm above the edge. This has two important functions, it keys the lid to the body when shutting and it acts to hinder or prevent ingress of water from splashes, rain etc.
Nice work. I have made cases for rifles in the past and for cutting the foam rubber I used a electric meat carving knife. It did a excellent job of cutting intricate details in the foam rubber which I then covered with fabric.
Good trick to know. What kind of glue do you use? I noticed that contact cement melted some of the foam before hardening. Spray glue seems to have the same effect..
They both look really vintage! The best part is seeing that little one of yours having fun in "the break" When you have the opportunity you should show him Skookumchuck, that made an impression on me to never forget!
Do some research first on the time you need to be at the spot, but seeing a small real rimples lake turn into a waterfall in just a few minutes is really spectacular! (a bit more than an hour drive from Vancouver including ferry (Horseshoe bay - Gibsons landing) or 20 minutes by waterplane to Egmont. Hope I'll ever get the change to visit again!
Yes, Sunshine coast, north of Sechelt (little place called Egmont, after the Dutch town Egmond by the sea), can drive almost all the way up, last 1.5 km thrue the "ancient" forest by foot.
I do like how contact cement work between wood and fabric but it seemed to melt the foam when applied to thick. Maybe spray would work better for the foam.
Very nice build . I built one very similar to this and shipped an octave mandolin to the states . I shipped it United Parcel . Somewhere between here in Creston BC and Kansas , the case got one end and the lid ripped off . Fortunately the mandolin was not damaged . Be careful who you ship with .
Thanks... Ive always used FedEx and so far no problems. The furthest I shipped was from Vancouver BC, to Florida and it made it there safely. Thanks for pointing it out though..
Great build , What kind of wood did you use? I’m planning on building a case for my custom oversized Ggress SG it will fit in a Gibson 335 case but it’s still a snug fit . I’d imagine the wood i need something durable but also light and thin wood any suggestions?
I used pine for this case and a ply for top and bottom. The pine was planned down to 1/2” thick. I guess any soft wood that is on the lighter scale would work.. thanks for watching
Thanks, yes I made the Mandola also.. there’s a few videos on my channel about the Mandola. If you’re curious about other builds, I’m currently building a Mandocello and shared the whole process... here’s a link to the playlist.. ruclips.net/p/PLAoIsxfenTwbBbtXOSyYC8NYCNPNDb-xJ
The pink one is more dense, it is also more expensive. I find the regular yellow foam to be enough for most of the body but like the extra support of the pink foam at the neck.
Great video. Geez, when I take a break I go out back to my modest deck with a cup of coffee and the neighbors dog barks at me incessantly until I go back inside.
Jeremy Sphincter Sorry about that... I try to keep the dogs quiet, but they weren’t trained... I tried to do my part, but the other idiots in the house (yes, my family) refused to lift a finger to help....
Whoa! Dude! Hey, bro, the same thing has been happening a lot to different people all over the place, like, not to say what is or what aint, but that shit was real, bro.
Hello very good job !!! One question on the glue, do I have to pay attention to something not to damage the guitar finish (Celluloid for les pauls for instance). As an info if you have brands to advice j'habite en France ;-)
En toute honnêteté, je suis pas certain. Je sais que la celluloïd et les nouveaux plastiques on tendance réagir lorsque laisser trop longtemps dans une étui. Pour la colle je ne suis pas sûr si cela réagit avec la celluloïd.
Hallo. I see you use glue contact cement only on the one of the two objects and you dont wait but join them immediately. I would like to ask if by this way they are glued strongly, especially on edges, corners etc. Are you doing this so as to have enough time to stretch the fabric? Thanks!!!
The foam did loose a bit of it’s height in areas where I applied lots of glue. Spray adhesive will definitely do a better job for this part. But it worked really well for the fabric.
woah this is incredible work, do you by any chance have links or sources that I or indeed anyone else interested in doing their own case could get those materials? I so wanna do this for my guitar I've got.
Thanks, The wood was from Home Depot (pine and 1/4” ply) The upholstery fabric, faux fur and soft foam from a local fabric store. For adhesive I used contact cement and spray glue. The hardware for mine is from Lee Valley really good selection. Hope this helps...Hope you have fun with your build!
If that's contact cement your using to glue the material and foam padding, you are supposed to apply the glue to each piece being glue, and then wait till three glue dries before actually putting the 2 surfaces together. Other than that you did an outstanding job. Contact cement works differently then regular glue and the 2 surfaces bring glued has to allow the glue to dry before putting them together. Please don't think I am criticizing your work either, as I said earlier, you did a very professional job and the case looks as nice (if not better) than anything you could purchase.
If the contact cement is applied to the upholstery fabric it bleeds right through which is not ideal and if I let it dry on the wood side it didn’t bond very well. I made a few test to check bond with wet surface only on one side. Still holding very well.. I do agree with you though on usual applications for 2 hard surfaces. Thanks for watching and your comment.
@@HovingtonInstruments That makes senses and I didn't think about it being a fabric and absorbing the glue like that. Sorry for any doubt and again, great video.
so normally I would be like, WTF when you took your break. But this is COVID lockdown week 412 :-) and I really enjoyed the quick break for some nature. I think I will search youtube for some hiking vlogs... lol nice job by the way!!!!!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Check out my brand new RUclips channel Tomy Hovington Hiking. You might enjoy some of the content . ruclips.net/channel/UCPKj0_wa-kgR6uqMCXgbcVQ
Some readers might know the guitar case story involving Gerry Marsden.
His Rickenbacker 360/12 guitar was supplied by the manufacturer at the request of Brian Epstein and despatched to England in 1964 together with John Lennon's 320/12.
Marsden used it on in the studio, on stage and on TV including during the recording of Ferry Cross the Mersey. Many of these films are on youtube.
It appears that the 360/12 was his only guitar and by 1974 the case was reported so damaged that Gerry's manager suggested it be replaced before departure for a Far East tour.
Marsden, a former carpenter, elected to make a new case and after three days labour, the night before departure came to place the instrument inside it for the first time.
To his horror he found the guitar wouldn't fit. From what I have read I would say that the case was too short by twice the thickness of the material used to make the sides. In his film Mr. Hovington is shown planning the build with reference to the actual instrument whereas I suspect Marsden merely measured the Rickenbacker and cut the material to length without allowing extra wood at the corners.
In desparation, due to depart the next day, Marsden elected to shorten the guitar, cutting about 40mm off the end of the headstock so dislodging the locations for two of the machine heads. As he says in his his book, he knew it would never play properly again.
When Marsden reached New Zealand he sold the guitar and it later surfaced strung with only six strings in the hands of Alistair Parker of Bailterspace. Together with his effects the Rickenbacker has an amazing sound which may be judged watching the films where it is used, most notably their Splat single. It is clear that the end of the headstock has been horribly butchered. Subsequently Parker says he lost the guitar when he left it in a New York taxi. It's not been seen again and in the 1990's it was said to be worth around £90000.
The lesson surely is to measure twice and cut once.
Love the Story, thanks for taking the time to add this comment 👌
Edit ( I just pinned it for everyone’s enjoyment).
What a story. It’s oddly relatable cause I also tend to mod and fix gear last minute. Once in desperation I epoxied a neck back in place while trying out a black suit for concert the following night. Still have some tell-take epoxy left on the lapel. The neck is securely in place but it wasn’t pretty :)
@@niklashedstrom762 Pete Townshend tells stories of glueing guitars back together. From what I've read I'd say he was talking about Cascamite.
No guitar worth $90,000....or £...
Been looking to make a case for my guitar though. Had it since 1999 (roughly) & never had a case for it. Way passed due.
Beautiful. Love that rubber band trick to hold those boxes together during assembly.
The case is a work of art in itself! Beautiful mandolin also!
Wow! Your craftsmanship and attention to detail to even the case is amazing, as much as that to the instrument itself. You, Sir, are a master of your craft. Respect!
Love the way u used the shape of the Mandolin to make a better fit case!
Nice! I build a lot of cases for instruments, but not stringed ones. (trumpets, sax, etc,,) The inside is quite a bit different and super custom fit in yours - LOVE IT! Lately, I have made some hardwood ones without the leather but with fancy jointery, like box joints or dovetails. So many people neglect making a nice case, and it is awesome to see someone doing a great job!!! Thanks!
Amazing how much work went into this.
Beautiful work!
Lovely looking case, very classy :)
I should try this same idea for my microkorg case! Thanks for the great advice.
What a wonderful looking case and Instrument! Thank you very much for taking the pains to film, edit and upload this, really appreciated! I'm going to build something using this as a bit of a guide. Again, big gratitude to you, I hope you're doing well.
Great looking case! I've been thinking about building custom cases for wind instruments for a while and this gave me some great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Glad this is useful.. Would love to see them once you made them.. Happy building!
Insane skills on the mandola and the case. Both are amazing.
Thanks :)
Stunning! Love it
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it:)
I watched this vid several times when it was time to build a case for my electric octave mandolin. It turned out better than I had hoped. Tomy is a true craftsman. I'd like to meet him and shake his hand.
Glad to see the video was helpful. Thanks for your feedback, I would be happy to skate your hand 👍
Super accurate job. Really brilliant !!
Stunning video. Your attention to detail in the production of the video alone is worth praise. My step-dad was a furniture builder and upholsterer and your methods took me back 40 years to when I watched him work. Thank you so much for posting.
Thanks Robert for your comment. Glad it brought back memories:)
Excellent build!! No-one ever died from Overkill build!
Cheers, BF
Totally agree Bill! Thanks for watching
Awesome job, that looks Amazing!
Thank you Kesey
Woooooow. This was so satisfying to watch. Beautiful craftsmanship. I love how the green interior subtly matched the inlays on the fretboard. Awesome job.
Thanks Thomas, I love your enthusiasm!! Glad it hit the spot !
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Lovey Tomy. I have a Telecaster without a hard case. Now I know what to do. Best video I've seen yet on how it's done properly.
Thanks, let me know how your build went..
Nice demonstration. Thank you. Now I feel confident to have a go
Beautiful craftsmanship, on the mandola and the case. I have to make some cases for odd-shaped guitars, and this video is the most helpful I have found! Merci beaucoups!
Bienvenue, glad the video is helpful 👍
Wow that is beautiful
Wow! Such great craftsmanship and attention to details. Had fun watching this. Thanks! Great job!
Thanks for watching 😊
One of the best I've seen and very detailed.
Thanks Ron
I've been trying to think of a way to make a couple of better cases for my guitars/refurbish one of my hard cases. This definitely gave me some much better ideas than I was working with as to how I might go about doing that. Thanks, Tomy!
Really happy the video can be useful .. thanks for watching!
Its very cool👍 very neatly done
Really really good
Lovely work there Tomy! Great job. Nice bit of holiday scenery to break the vid up a bit. :)
Thanks Matt, I wasn’t sure if I should put the little holiday interlude. Thanks for the feedback
Wow. That was amazing. Very clever techniques
Thanks, this was a fun build!..
incredible video...thank you so much
Beautiful case!
Thanks Jim
Great video thanks you've given me a lot of ideas. I need to make some cases for my viola d'amore and i think your pine sides and plywood top and bottm is the way to go. Really nice how you wrapped the outside with cloth. I think Richard christie might be right about some kind of lip on the inside to keep the rain out. I'm thinking maybe a thin ply (3mm) wrapped in some kind of plastified paper or something like that, tacked on the inside of the bottom and sticking up 5/6mm...
Glorious!
thanks Tomy ! Perfect job! The old atmosphear is coming in 2021 with your case!
That is a great case.
Excellent video!! Very helpful.
Lovely to watch your craft in putting together the mandola case. Also loved the BC scenery during your interlude. Luckily my mandola came with a case, but if it didn't I would have liked to have one of yours. Cheers from the UK.
This is indeed very nice Tomy. A wonderful video & build.
Thanks Rag Tie
Great Job!!! Super video.... Looking into making a case my self... thanks for the inspiration.
Yxfu3uz
I'm building a case for a guitar just now, and this will be mighty helpful.
Glad to hear this will be helpful 👍
Killer work.
Wow! 😍
Hello Tomy! Very neat cases and an extremely useful video. I've just bought an old zither with a nice, but rather battered wooden case. I'll need to refurbish it, or even better, make a new one, because the old wood may be mouldy. It looks very time consuming, but the result is awesome. It's well worth the effort.
Greetings from Hungary!
Proper job. Breaks ain't young forever, glad you got to enjoy your break.
was much needed.
Glad you enjoyed the video
That rubber band move was cool!
outstanding!
Thank you very much Richard!
Excellent
Well done.
I feel the design could be improved by an inner rim or band 4 to5 mm thick running around the inner perimeter of the top edge of the bottom half of the case. It should protrude about 10mm above the edge. This has two important functions, it keys the lid to the body when shutting and it acts to hinder or prevent ingress of water from splashes, rain etc.
That’s a very good idea, and I already have this rim going the whole way but kept it short of the top.. makes a lot of sense to have it higher..
Nice job !!!.
Absolutely Awesome Build!!!! Nice Work!! ~cheers
Thanks John 😊
Very nice
Awesome job my friend..
Awesome.
Thanks Matthew
que agradable sujeto
Very nice. I'll be using some of your techniques building a case for an antique rifle.
Glad to hear the video will be helpful! 👍
Classy!
boss thank you ....awesome case
Thank you!
Nice work. I bet the nicest wrapped Christmas gifts come from you!
Hahahaha, actually my wife’s wrapping is way better than mine ;)
superb
supercool!
If you don't mind, what was the adhesive you used to cover the case with that fabric?
Contact cement
Nice work. I have made cases for rifles in the past and for cutting the foam rubber I used a electric meat carving knife. It did a excellent job of cutting intricate details in the foam rubber which I then covered with fabric.
Good trick to know. What kind of glue do you use? I noticed that contact cement melted some of the foam before hardening. Spray glue seems to have the same effect..
I use 3M-77 glue in a rattle can. It is not as "hot" ( chemically)
as regular contact cement and is excellent on foam and fabric applications.
Thanks, I’ll make sure to give it a try next time..
An upholstery guy said vinyl acetate, if you can believe it.
Nice!
They both look really vintage! The best part is seeing that little one of yours having fun in "the break"
When you have the opportunity you should show him Skookumchuck, that made an impression on me to never forget!
I’ll make sure to check it out. Thanks Gerrit
Do some research first on the time you need to be at the spot, but seeing a small real rimples lake turn into a waterfall in just a few minutes is really spectacular! (a bit more than an hour drive from Vancouver including ferry (Horseshoe bay - Gibsons landing) or 20 minutes by waterplane to Egmont. Hope I'll ever get the change to visit again!
Is it on the Sunshine Coast? If so I’m right beside the Powell River ferry and then I just need to go down from there..
Yes, Sunshine coast, north of Sechelt (little place called Egmont, after the Dutch town Egmond by the sea), can drive almost all the way up, last 1.5 km thrue the "ancient" forest by foot.
Bur you would have to cross from Saktery By to Earsl Cove to get to Egmont if coming from the north.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skookumchuck_Narrows
Thank you for sharing this video! I'm planning a similar build for a lap steel guitar. Do you recommend using contact cement over spray adhesive?
I do like how contact cement work between wood and fabric but it seemed to melt the foam when applied to thick. Maybe spray would work better for the foam.
thoroughly enjoyed this video!
Thanks for your feedback, glad you enjoyed it 👍
@@HovingtonInstruments sorry I'm 2 years late
@@SuperChargedRacing it’s never too late!!
Welcome aboard 👍
Well Done
Thanks
Very nice build . I built one very similar to this and shipped an octave mandolin to the states . I shipped it United Parcel . Somewhere between here in Creston BC and Kansas , the case got one end and the lid ripped off . Fortunately the mandolin was not damaged . Be careful who you ship with .
Thanks... Ive always used FedEx and so far no problems. The furthest I shipped was from Vancouver BC, to Florida and it made it there safely. Thanks for pointing it out though..
Looks fantastic. I would think solid wood would be too heavy for a case, even though its obviously strong? How much does this case weigh?
Great job. What are those tiny clamps? I like them so much.
nice
What type of glue did you use to glue the fabric on top of it...?
Very beautiful case. I am planning on making one for my wifes banjolele. what were the dimensions of the box?
Hey buddy which fabric did you used to cover the box from out side, It looks awesome!
Thanks, it’s upholstery fabric. Lots of different colours and patterns..
Veeeeeery nice
Thanks Darren!
Great build ,
What kind of wood did you use?
I’m planning on building a case for my custom oversized Ggress SG it will fit in a Gibson 335 case but it’s still a snug fit .
I’d imagine the wood i need something durable but also light and thin wood any suggestions?
I used pine for this case and a ply for top and bottom. The pine was planned down to 1/2” thick. I guess any soft wood that is on the lighter scale would work.. thanks for watching
That is REALLY nice. Did you make the instrument, too? Very nice work!
Thanks, yes I made the Mandola also.. there’s a few videos on my channel about the Mandola. If you’re curious about other builds, I’m currently building a Mandocello and shared the whole process... here’s a link to the playlist.. ruclips.net/p/PLAoIsxfenTwbBbtXOSyYC8NYCNPNDb-xJ
This is very impressive Tomy. Is there a difference between the pink foam under the neck and the yellow under the body, or I can use the same?
The pink one is more dense, it is also more expensive. I find the regular yellow foam to be enough for most of the body but like the extra support of the pink foam at the neck.
Great video. Geez, when I take a break I go out back to my modest deck with a cup of coffee and the neighbors dog barks at me incessantly until I go back inside.
Jeremy Sphincter
Sorry about that... I try to keep the dogs quiet, but they weren’t trained... I tried to do my part, but the other idiots in the house (yes, my family) refused to lift a finger to help....
Whoa! Dude! Hey, bro, the same thing has been happening a lot to different people all over the place, like, not to say what is or what aint, but that shit was real, bro.
Amazing work, where did you purchase the hardware you used on the exterior for the corners of the box, latches, and handle?
Same question for the foam ... what type of Glue, & where did you get it from?
vinyl acetate, we are guitar case factory, so I know it well.you can ask me
Beautiful! However, anybody can make a case. How in the world do you make those floppy kites?
So good, well done... which material are you cutting at min 2:58? Is that a kind of hard foam? Thanks
Yes it’s 3” rigid white foam.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it
Hello very good job !!! One question on the glue, do I have to pay attention to something not to damage the guitar finish (Celluloid
for les pauls for instance). As an info if you have brands to advice j'habite en France ;-)
En toute honnêteté, je suis pas certain. Je sais que la celluloïd et les nouveaux plastiques on tendance réagir lorsque laisser trop longtemps dans une étui. Pour la colle je ne suis pas sûr si cela réagit avec la celluloïd.
Ok super merci pour l info !!!
Awsume Job, & video! i'm for sure gonna make a case for my Fender squire Jaguar guitar. save $150, thanks!
Can you tell me what kind of foam that is and where I might get it? Bless you
I use 3” foam from the hardware store for the overall shape and fabric store foam at the bottom and top.
What time of wood you used?
Hallo. I see you use glue contact cement only on the one of the two objects and you dont wait but join them immediately. I would like to ask if by this way they are glued strongly, especially on edges, corners etc.
Are you doing this so as to have enough time to stretch the fabric?
Thanks!!!
With the fabric I used and the test I made, if applied on the fabric side it seeps through and shows on the outside final look.
How does that foam do with the contact cement?
The foam did loose a bit of it’s height in areas where I applied lots of glue. Spray adhesive will definitely do a better job for this part. But it worked really well for the fabric.
I fucking love boxes! ❤
coool
woah this is incredible work, do you by any chance have links or sources that I or indeed anyone else interested in doing their own case could get those materials? I so wanna do this for my guitar I've got.
Thanks,
The wood was from Home Depot (pine and 1/4” ply)
The upholstery fabric, faux fur and soft foam from a local fabric store.
For adhesive I used contact cement and spray glue.
The hardware for mine is from Lee Valley really good selection.
Hope this helps...Hope you have fun with your build!
Tomy Hovington sounds wicked, can’t wait to get started, thanks dude!! :-)
If that's contact cement your using to glue the material and foam padding, you are supposed to apply the glue to each piece being glue, and then wait till three glue dries before actually putting the 2 surfaces together.
Other than that you did an outstanding job. Contact cement works differently then regular glue and the 2 surfaces bring glued has to allow the glue to dry before putting them together.
Please don't think I am criticizing your work either, as I said earlier, you did a very professional job and the case looks as nice (if not better) than anything you could purchase.
If the contact cement is applied to the upholstery fabric it bleeds right through which is not ideal and if I let it dry on the wood side it didn’t bond very well.
I made a few test to check bond with wet surface only on one side.
Still holding very well..
I do agree with you though on usual applications for 2 hard surfaces.
Thanks for watching and your comment.
@@HovingtonInstruments
That makes senses and I didn't think about it being a fabric and absorbing the glue like that. Sorry for any doubt and again, great video.
what is the name of the green fabric used to line the inside of the case?
It’s called faux fur, should be available at a local fabric store
Phenomenal job!!!
Take this from someone who wasn't careful and is paying the price now; wear a dust mask!
I was also wonder how you determined how deep/tall to make the case based of the instruments depth. Thanks
I measured the bridge height and left I believe 1/2” to 3/4” clearance to make sure there would be no down pressure on it.
So do you want the string to be making contact with the foam cushion on the lid when the case is closed?
Mine ended touching the fabric but did not touch the foam.. Hope it makes sense.
Ya that makes sense! Thanks again
what kinda glue is that?
so normally I would be like, WTF when you took your break. But this is COVID lockdown week 412 :-) and I really enjoyed the quick break for some nature. I think I will search youtube for some hiking vlogs... lol
nice job by the way!!!!!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Check out my brand new RUclips channel Tomy Hovington Hiking. You might enjoy some of the content .
ruclips.net/channel/UCPKj0_wa-kgR6uqMCXgbcVQ
@@HovingtonInstruments just subscribed for some hiking fun... let's GOOOO!!!