Hi Ben and regulars, sorry I've missed some live streams, bothersome health issues aggravated by the recent excessive heat here in the UK has had me becoming more of a recluse (hermit) than usual. I am however glad to see the new, expanded, workshop project taking shape and starting to pay off.
I am greatly distressed to hear that you've been suffering, Terry. I was hoping it was something much more positive which was keeping you away from us. I hope you will be back soon so I can banter and blather on about nonsense in your direction once more, but in the mean-time, please continue to improve so you will be up to the challenge. Much love from just one of your many friends, but arguably the sauciest one from the beautiful but ridiculously hot and humid south eastern corner of Tennessee.
It feel so nice to seee the space liberated and looking forward to see you working in such better conditions not stumbling onto leftovers wood pieces or even tools. So happy for you Ben
Ben, I vote for a body on the Elm. I wish we had some here; the Dutch Elm Disease took all of ours. What tiny bit we still have is not protected. Any shape you like, but I wouldn't cut it up like Bob or something. It isn't wide enough, really, but you could book match it, giving you two seams or cracks in the center of the instrument. A two sided thing like your copper-rodded ones might look cool. Maybe not, that might be too busy. Use your judgement, but that's too nice and the crack too wide to make tops out of it. Besides, that piece is one of a kind. The guitar it makes ought to be the same.
The new shop looks to be coming along nicely; Congratulations. I must say though, every time you do a video on your shop it encourages me to take a look at my space as well. Something positive always comes out in the process. Thank you again for the videos and the nudge. Blessings
I am on exactly the same page, love wood, love drooling over fancy pieces, I REALLY love getting good deals, but hate storage. I do have an exterior rack I built under the large overhang of the roof on the side of our house. Partially covered with sheets of plastic, but some has gotten UV bleached. I do have some storage in the shop, but the shop is waay too small to add more. I need a standalone building for extra shop space and storage. I'm also at the point where I'm tripping over wood just trying to walk around.
I’ve been working with, primarily, diamond willow. It is so unique and satisfying to finish. The grain is beautiful, multi-colored, blond to dark browns. And the diamonds, the diamonds 💎 are the best part of the wood and what makes it what it is, unique! I’ve made small bowls for salt and pepper, the spoons that scoop the salt and pepper, canes and walking sticks all so far. The imagination always runs wild. Such a joy watching another person that loves working with wood, all be it, in a different fashion, however, the love is the same! I love the channel and have for several years. Keep going Ben!!!
Ben, we all go through this process. Making space is so important! Organizing is work! Pays off in the end! Like everyone else, I will be glad to see what you have done! Love from your guitar building buddy from NW Colorado, USA. Thanxz
Hi Ben, the wood storage looks really amazing!!! But... i'm no expert in storing wooden plates, but I've noticed, that you don't have all the supports between each plate in the same spot (so that they would be vertically aligned). And I have a feeling, that it may cause some issues and actually bend the plate instead of keeping it straight! Because when you offset the upper support (or could it be called interspace?) against the lower support, the wieght of everything above creates a tension on the plate and causes a bend. On the other hand, when those interspaces are vertically aligned, the weight just transfers through the wood down. I don't know, if you could understand what I mean with this explanation, but it can be seen already in the video. In time 19:44, there is a clear view of this effect on those thin plates - the bottom one is already curved because the weight of all above creates a leverage against the rack support. Please correct me, if I'm wrong :-)))
Giving me some inspiration to get my shed sorted got a tonne of Australian silky oak and a bunch of Australian hardwood that used to be stairs, shelves and cabinets that need to be stored properly. Sick of tripping over stuff, moving stuff to get to stuff really need to get my stuff sorted so I can do stuff. Feel like getting out to the shed now but it's 3am here in Australia and don't think the neighbours will appreciate me banking about in there!
Smart and versatile rack it seems. You should collect (bet you do already) all off cuts and create a mosaic body guitar from the scraps. A myriad of shapes and wood species could look cool...
Love the storage rack. I'm in the process of clearing out my garage to try to turn it into a functional workshop and these would be perfect to help me.
Getting organized. A mind numbing pain to deal with. But having room, and knowing what you have, is so worth it. Can't wait to see the end product. That slab is nice. I would make a solid book-matched body, with the cavities running towards the outside, and filled with a blue resin. (live-edge riverbed body?)
For the elm: do something like your take on a Les Paul Supreme. Figured carved top and back, two piece body (not with the elm since it'll be covered). Solid body or semi-hollow, your choice. And maybe add a stinger on the headstock. 👀
Woohoo! Got a piece of wood ariving from West Africa tomorrow, Obeche, 2.5cm x12x70. Gonna turn it into a 3-string guitar, 20 inch scale length, with jack and all internals hidden under the saddle (well thats the plan). Given 3 strings and 20 inch, im not sure what that makes it? Short scale balalaika, domra, 3 string uke, cigar box guitar, single course irish style ocatave mandoline? Hybrid of all .
Always love the evolution of your workshop. is there any future opportunity of you coming to the United States to do anything? possible promotion of Crimson tools or guitar build? A live guitar build at a guitar event or colab with a US guitar builder?
Hoarder? Brother, I have moved my bed to the top of my wardrobe so I could "collect" a little bit more of tools, guitars and wood (plus every single piece of potentially usable guitar building material I find) ;)
That looks a lot better. Now you can ses all your timber you can make more great guitars. I a m going to build a bass guitar. As i work in the furniture factory.
Absolutely understand I have most of my timber stored in my bedroom under the bed one every wall it’s got way out of hand love it 😁 I get lots of nice offcuts from my regular job at a joinery it would get cut up otherwise so I make sure it comes home with me for guitars 😂😂
Ben why don't you take one of the jam jar speaker kits and put it in the shotgun case whilst also putting in an electric guitar. It then becomes a full travelling guitar kit
I wonder if anyone is counting Stats on Bens Dithering on his live streams and other videos? Has to be hours & hours worth of I’m dithering about to add sponsors 😳😂👌🤣
Been loving all the videos lately. I don't know much about woodworking but I love guitars and find this super fascinating! Do you ever build acoustic guitars? This may be a stupid question but would it be possible to make a live edge sound hole by book matching an edge with the right curve in it? I recon that could look pretty cool.
@@danielcaetano7979 Yeah nebula is absolutely stunning but I thought it was more of a hollow body electric than an acoustic. Semantics I know but it wasn't quite what I was thinking of.
Strange moment when my samsung phone made the same alert sound as Bens, at the same time as Bens does in the video, as I'm watching the video .. took a me a second to figure out what I'd just heard.
I have them in my shop its not straight forward. Its easy to get the order of operations wrong. Also they changed the way they made them and you get 2 different set that don't line up the same.
Sorry Ben, I have one plank of Zebrano and a one of Santos Rose wood, I just can’t bear to watch you place all that lovely wood on the racks 😂. Cheers Dave
Hey, Ben. If I use your _"Water Based Wipe On Guitar Finishing Lacquer"_ over your stains, can I then spray _"Clear Gloss Nitrocellulose spray paint"_ over the top of that? This may be an incredibly stupid question.
I think that piece of elm would make one punk-ass, super metal, seriously bitchin, custom B.C. Rich Warlock (with widow headstock of course). But that's just me. hallow out the body, get some epoxy resin and LEDs in those natural cracks, and make it glow like it was forged in the fires of mount doom, if not hell itself.
I hoard stuff then the clutter bothers me so I organise,then I feel motivated to make something and make more clutter 🙄as a strap maker I also noticed a nice looking old stitching pony on the top shelf 🤔
Is it just me or is the wood on the bottom shelf of the short wall stickered wrong? Looks like it's forcing a warp. Maybe a thicker board on the bottom and the stickers over the metal supports?
Hey Ben love the content. I used your Penetrating Oil on a build recently and the somewhat overpowering smell won't go away even after a week of hanging it out on the clothes line. Any advice?
You know it's not going to last. Fast forward 6 months and you'll be converting all of that to a wood store and building another (No. 3) home workshop in your garden. When that gets full you'll be moving to a new Crimson HQ somewhere and when THAT gets full you'll be expanding to Europe....and then America...and then the WORLD!!!! Nobody's workshop is ever big enough.
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars as long as there is a space...air will flow...but the popsicle stick, is only about 16% the thickness of what you are using... or you can build another room Ben... LOL
I have a deck that has decided it’s had enough being constrained and this summer after the heat has in parts gone back to its original shape in the tree , 🤬
OMG.. Ben, my dearest friend! You simply HAVE to- MUST do- a "Reverse Gangster" with that shotgun case! Remember in the old gangster movies from the 40s and 50s about gangsters in the 20s and 30s? They often depicted the the bad guys concealing and carrying guns in instrument cases then whipping them out to assassinate their rivals in broad daylight. Well, you simply HAVE to reverse it and make a musical instrument case from a gun case! I don't think you could possibly do anything else with it- it just wouldn't bring any kind of harmony to the universe at all. Please, Please, Pretty-Pretty Please, do this for me! I beg you!
Did you ever consider that maybe you have too much wood with which to make 'projects', for the amount of time you have left on this Earth??!! (Especially the speed at which you work, and the creative tangents you veer along.) A dazzling array, some of the flames and quilts almost demand your attention, on their own. P.S. Calling yourself "..a high-functioning hoarder.." is a rationalisation beyond belief! (Because I am the same.)
Dealt with? No. Dealt with for the moment? Yes. This comment brought to you by another “high functioning wood hoarder”. Although mines not nearly as pretty. 🤣
Hi Ben and regulars, sorry I've missed some live streams, bothersome health issues aggravated by the recent excessive heat here in the UK has had me becoming more of a recluse (hermit) than usual. I am however glad to see the new, expanded, workshop project taking shape and starting to pay off.
Glad to hear you are alright, you've been missed during the streams. Some were getting ready to send out search parties.
Good to see you are ok Terry, as Mike said a lot of people were concerned about you. Some thought you were in a time out lol
@@barrychristian4050 Long, (self imposed) timeout - actuallyit's quite a comfortable timeout if you are in bed, just a bit boring
I’m so happy to see your post Terry - loads of us have been really worried about you!
I am greatly distressed to hear that you've been suffering, Terry. I was hoping it was something much more positive which was keeping you away from us. I hope you will be back soon so I can banter and blather on about nonsense in your direction once more, but in the mean-time, please continue to improve so you will be up to the challenge. Much love from just one of your many friends, but arguably the sauciest one from the beautiful but ridiculously hot and humid south eastern corner of Tennessee.
I just watched a man build shelves and I loved it. I would literally watch you tidy that workshop. I am broken.
It feel so nice to seee the space liberated and looking forward to see you working in such better conditions not stumbling onto leftovers wood pieces or even tools. So happy for you Ben
I have no words how envious of your shop I am .
The minor disaster area that is your shop is comforting. My garage is in good company 😁
Listen, Ben. The time has come, we need to see a double neck build!
Ben, I vote for a body on the Elm. I wish we had some here; the Dutch Elm Disease took all of ours. What tiny bit we still have is not protected.
Any shape you like, but I wouldn't cut it up like Bob or something. It isn't wide enough, really, but you could book match it, giving you two seams or cracks in the center of the instrument. A two sided thing like your copper-rodded ones might look cool. Maybe not, that might be too busy. Use your judgement, but that's too nice and the crack too wide to make tops out of it. Besides, that piece is one of a kind. The guitar it makes ought to be the same.
The new shop looks to be coming along nicely; Congratulations. I must say though, every time you do a video on your shop it encourages me to take a look at my space as well. Something positive always comes out in the process. Thank you again for the videos and the nudge. Blessings
It is supremely soothing watching the wood stacking at the end. Love it.
I am on exactly the same page, love wood, love drooling over fancy pieces, I REALLY love getting good deals, but hate storage. I do have an exterior rack I built under the large overhang of the roof on the side of our house. Partially covered with sheets of plastic, but some has gotten UV bleached. I do have some storage in the shop, but the shop is waay too small to add more. I need a standalone building for extra shop space and storage. I'm also at the point where I'm tripping over wood just trying to walk around.
Also, that lumber rack looks just like the stuff I got from Portamate. Just different colors.
I’ve been working with, primarily, diamond willow. It is so unique and satisfying to finish. The grain is beautiful, multi-colored, blond to dark browns. And the diamonds, the diamonds 💎 are the best part of the wood and what makes it what it is, unique! I’ve made small bowls for salt and pepper, the spoons that scoop the salt and pepper, canes and walking sticks all so far. The imagination always runs wild.
Such a joy watching another person that loves working with wood, all be it, in a different fashion, however, the love is the same! I love the channel and have for several years. Keep going Ben!!!
Bravo! I have areas in my home like that messy one, and live next to a sawmill. The scrap I keep is amazing. Especially the purple Cedar.
Ben, we all go through this process. Making space is so important! Organizing is work! Pays off in the end! Like everyone else, I will be glad to see what you have done! Love from your guitar building buddy from NW Colorado, USA. Thanxz
Ha, just spotted that I'm in the intro! My back anyway. My day is made.
Hi Ben, the wood storage looks really amazing!!! But... i'm no expert in storing wooden plates, but I've noticed, that you don't have all the supports between each plate in the same spot (so that they would be vertically aligned). And I have a feeling, that it may cause some issues and actually bend the plate instead of keeping it straight! Because when you offset the upper support (or could it be called interspace?) against the lower support, the wieght of everything above creates a tension on the plate and causes a bend. On the other hand, when those interspaces are vertically aligned, the weight just transfers through the wood down. I don't know, if you could understand what I mean with this explanation, but it can be seen already in the video.
In time 19:44, there is a clear view of this effect on those thin plates - the bottom one is already curved because the weight of all above creates a leverage against the rack support.
Please correct me, if I'm wrong :-)))
Nice! Funny to see you expanding while I am once again downsizing. Whatever warms the soul I suppose. 🍻
You have the best addiction ever. 👍👍👍
Giving me some inspiration to get my shed sorted got a tonne of Australian silky oak and a bunch of Australian hardwood that used to be stairs, shelves and cabinets that need to be stored properly.
Sick of tripping over stuff, moving stuff to get to stuff really need to get my stuff sorted so I can do stuff.
Feel like getting out to the shed now but it's 3am here in Australia and don't think the neighbours will appreciate me banking about in there!
Smart and versatile rack it seems.
You should collect (bet you do already) all off cuts and create a mosaic body guitar from the scraps. A myriad of shapes and wood species could look cool...
That was such a satisfying watch!
I do hope that Crimson are going to sell some of those acrylic tool holders - need some for my plane collection!
The tools on the back look so beautiful
Love the storage rack. I'm in the process of clearing out my garage to try to turn it into a functional workshop and these would be perfect to help me.
Getting organized. A mind numbing pain to deal with. But having room, and knowing what you have, is so worth it.
Can't wait to see the end product.
That slab is nice. I would make a solid book-matched body, with the cavities running towards the outside, and filled with a blue resin. (live-edge riverbed body?)
It's great to see the workshop expansion, I was looking forward to see it. I wonder when you are going to make a new workbench...
For the elm: do something like your take on a Les Paul Supreme. Figured carved top and back, two piece body (not with the elm since it'll be covered). Solid body or semi-hollow, your choice.
And maybe add a stinger on the headstock. 👀
Nice storage system…..would like to see you make a new stronger sturdier work bench next
Woohoo! Got a piece of wood ariving from West Africa tomorrow, Obeche, 2.5cm x12x70. Gonna turn it into a 3-string guitar, 20 inch scale length, with jack and all internals hidden under the saddle (well thats the plan). Given 3 strings and 20 inch, im not sure what that makes it? Short scale balalaika, domra, 3 string uke, cigar box guitar, single course irish style ocatave mandoline? Hybrid of all .
Always love the evolution of your workshop. is there any future opportunity of you coming to the United States to do anything? possible promotion of Crimson tools or guitar build? A live guitar build at a guitar event or colab with a US guitar builder?
Hoarder? Brother, I have moved my bed to the top of my wardrobe so I could "collect" a little bit more of tools, guitars and wood (plus every single piece of potentially usable guitar building material I find) ;)
That looks a lot better. Now you can ses all your timber you can make more great guitars. I a m going to build a bass guitar. As i work in the furniture factory.
Nothing like a good rack 😜 super video, wood storage area looks great, inspires me to tidy up!
Absolutely understand I have most of my timber stored in my bedroom under the bed one every wall it’s got way out of hand love it 😁 I get lots of nice offcuts from my regular job at a joinery it would get cut up otherwise so I make sure it comes home with me for guitars 😂😂
And I thought, I'm strange when storing my timber in the living room.
I would love too see you make a flying v out of the elm or out of anything... just make a flying v man!
"Let's get this sorted".. 2 seconds later.. "oohh wood loook at this wood ohh look at this plane" 😂
He started his business in his backyard shed...grew the business so big he needed a huge work shop...now he is back in the backyard shed...😄😄😄
Ben why don't you take one of the jam jar speaker kits and put it in the shotgun case whilst also putting in an electric guitar. It then becomes a full travelling guitar kit
I wonder if anyone is counting Stats on Bens Dithering on his live streams and other videos?
Has to be hours & hours worth of I’m dithering about to add sponsors 😳😂👌🤣
With horizontal wood storage like that, does gravity warp the center down over the years?
Hi Ben, I can't find the "final" work shop tour next or following this video... is it (the video) made and public already? Tanks for your time
Is Crotch Mahogany a real thing, or does it just look so good it has an effect in that area?
Been loving all the videos lately. I don't know much about woodworking but I love guitars and find this super fascinating! Do you ever build acoustic guitars? This may be a stupid question but would it be possible to make a live edge sound hole by book matching an edge with the right curve in it? I recon that could look pretty cool.
there is some videos in this channel of him building some acoustics. search for nebula 2.0 beautiful guitar
@@danielcaetano7979 Yeah nebula is absolutely stunning but I thought it was more of a hollow body electric than an acoustic. Semantics I know but it wasn't quite what I was thinking of.
Mr.Ben A project A hurdy gurdy ? and a better bench ?
Strange moment when my samsung phone made the same alert sound as Bens, at the same time as Bens does in the video, as I'm watching the video .. took a me a second to figure out what I'd just heard.
I have them in my shop its not straight forward. Its easy to get the order of operations wrong. Also they changed the way they made them and you get 2 different set that don't line up the same.
Looks like your wearing the new isopods. How do you like them? Volume and quality. Thinking about getting some. Thanks. Btw. Shop looks great
Sorry Ben, I have one plank of Zebrano and a one of Santos Rose wood, I just can’t bear to watch you place all that lovely wood on the racks 😂. Cheers Dave
I see some Bass in that wood!😁
If anyones interested in these timber racks The Clarke ones from machine mart are exactly the same and £20 cheaper than the Triton ones rrp £32.
Hey, Ben. If I use your _"Water Based Wipe On Guitar Finishing Lacquer"_ over your stains, can I then spray _"Clear Gloss Nitrocellulose spray paint"_ over the top of that? This may be an incredibly stupid question.
I think that piece of elm would make one punk-ass, super metal, seriously bitchin, custom B.C. Rich Warlock (with widow headstock of course). But that's just me. hallow out the body, get some epoxy resin and LEDs in those natural cracks, and make it glow like it was forged in the fires of mount doom, if not hell itself.
So ... about that metal stock.
I think you might need some more shelving. 😆
Are you ever going to finish the hand tools (mostly) only build, or am I just wasting my time looking for the next episode?
I'm starting back up again this week, I just couldn't do it with the workshop extension in progress.
I hoard stuff then the clutter bothers me so I organise,then I feel motivated to make something and make more clutter 🙄as a strap maker I also noticed a nice looking old stitching pony on the top shelf 🤔
Looks a bit dark Ben.. Maybe the dark blue wall/s??
Is it just me or is the wood on the bottom shelf of the short wall stickered wrong? Looks like it's forcing a warp. Maybe a thicker board on the bottom and the stickers over the metal supports?
I think Ben needs more chisels.
Hey Ben love the content. I used your Penetrating Oil on a build recently and the somewhat overpowering smell won't go away even after a week of hanging it out on the clothes line. Any advice?
"Look Mom, No Pins !" - 🤣 - Impressive moisture meter, but for its cost I could build 3 guitars ! 😉 😄I have priorities ?!! Oh boy !
What about the sun hitting one side of the wood stack? Isn't the colour going to change on the affected area?
You know it's not going to last. Fast forward 6 months and you'll be converting all of that to a wood store and building another (No. 3) home workshop in your garden. When that gets full you'll be moving to a new Crimson HQ somewhere and when THAT gets full you'll be expanding to Europe....and then America...and then the WORLD!!!!
Nobody's workshop is ever big enough.
Old-timey Mafiosos: _use guitar cases to tote Tommy guns_
Ben: 20:38
Did it all fit?
Did you make a bench big enough for a bass?
Looks amazing. I still think you’re too scared to make a 7 string 😜
A bit echo-y in the new setup?
Seriously how do you get anything done at all 😂😂 all that going on plus your turning out amazing guitars every week !!
It looks just like the “Bora” wood rack on Amazon, is there any difference except the price? I love mine, really easy to install and solid so far
you didn't screw them into the studs?
Why would they supply countersunk screws, without countersinking the holes on the upright supports on the woodracks? Unless those were your choice?
I don't think they supplied those screws. Just the tiny ones. Looks like that when he packs it up.
you could have used tongue depressors... would take up less room , more wood blanks per shelf.
But we need the distance for air flow etc, more space for more wood though.. tempting!
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars as long as there is a space...air will flow...but the popsicle stick, is only about 16% the thickness of what you are using... or you can build another room Ben... LOL
DUDE, You need another bigger addition. Go huge Bro
Not sure my floor would take that loading 🤣
Those plastic tool hangers, they have to go! Nice racks though!
I have a deck that has decided it’s had enough being constrained and this summer after the heat has in parts gone back to its original shape in the tree , 🤬
Are you for hire? I know a guy in need of some organization....
OMG.. Ben, my dearest friend! You simply HAVE to- MUST do- a "Reverse Gangster" with that shotgun case! Remember in the old gangster movies from the 40s and 50s about gangsters in the 20s and 30s? They often depicted the the bad guys concealing and carrying guns in instrument cases then whipping them out to assassinate their rivals in broad daylight. Well, you simply HAVE to reverse it and make a musical instrument case from a gun case! I don't think you could possibly do anything else with it- it just wouldn't bring any kind of harmony to the universe at all. Please, Please, Pretty-Pretty Please, do this for me! I beg you!
how about a avatar themed guitar?
Y' know what? We have all of these people watching and commenting.. Do they watch the live streams? Can't see any of the "usual" names from there.
Wow, each Triton rack can hold 2 and a half Les Paul's.
Audio sync seems out to me?
Rack’n’Roll
Great video. In other news, I am going to kill someone if see that xero accounting software advert once more.
Ad blockers are your friend.
Saturday's video is delayed?
Sorry. We had a snaffu and there won't be one this week. 😞
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Alright guys. Hope things settle down soon.
Did you ever consider that maybe you have too much wood with which to make 'projects', for the amount of time you have left on this Earth??!! (Especially the speed at which you work, and the creative tangents you veer along.) A dazzling array, some of the flames and quilts almost demand your attention, on their own.
P.S. Calling yourself "..a high-functioning hoarder.." is a rationalisation beyond belief! (Because I am the same.)
Dealt with? No.
Dealt with for the moment? Yes.
This comment brought to you by another “high functioning wood hoarder”. Although mines not nearly as pretty. 🤣
Make a bass!
Looks like you need to invest in a level of some description instead of measuring off of the conduit 😂
Was thinking the same - an inexpensive spirit level would have been much better for setting the height. 😀
turn that chunk of wood into a cello. stretch yo'self!
NES ZELDA GOLD ???
It is incredibly expensive.
So tidy…… today……
Meow 😸
Some of that wood is just too pretty...