A lovely instrument that has just a hint of Rickenbacker to it. As my wife is Ukrainian I've been really looking forward to seeing how this one turned out and I am not disappointed. A great guitar for a great cause.
I have had a lot of people show me different techniques to wind the strings when restringing. In 20 years nobody has been able to change my engrained habits of stringing a guitar... Until this stream! I have now completely changed the way I wind a fresh string and I love it.
As much as I love this build, there is something magical where one plays a 7 string multi scale guitar as it is baritone as well as has two full octave range. Please build on and you will be amazed.
Those volume knobs are really cool. Hell, the whole guitar is beautiful. Of course your guitars are all ways that. It’s one of those constants in the universe.
It has being real pleasure watching you building this unique guitar (as for so many other guitars in the past) Great cause, great idea, great design and great Ben :-) 👏 I've learned a lot - Thank you
Side question: new evidence suggests that large consumption of coffee can cause a rise in bg. As I am T1DM for many years, I recently took a coffee break due to other issues related to retinopathy-ironically after a month sans coffee my basil & bolus rates decreased and my HA1c also dropped from 8+ to 7.0! I wear a Dexcom G6 cgm to track this over time. Just thought I’d share this with you in the earnest hope it is helpful. I’ve address caffeine (not coffee) back and still in far better bg control. 🤞
Excellent job, Bun!- As usual, your craftmanship is top quality. Those pickups are great looking additions to that beautiful guitar. Thank you for sharing your knowlege.
Ben, try cutting a strip of a heavy pick that fits snugly in the pot shaft slot. A tiny drop of glue and the next guy doesn't booger up or break the shaft.
a ground loop can cause noise. power can set up an 'endless loop' current, and they are very hard to identify. the technical details are complex, but if you get a resonance in the audio range, you are up for loads of fun.
Yup, he screwed that up. the shield paint is already joining the 3 pots together then he closed the loop with the wire screwed into the wood and made it even worse when he soldered the 3 pot cases together.... closed loop - ground loop hum.
@@knightyyz true, but the frequency of this loop would be supersonic due to its small size. frequency is inversely related to length. this particular one would operate - if it did - in the UHF or microwave frequency range. for comparison, consider the length of a UHF CB radio antenna - which is about 17cm long for a simple 1/4-wave whip antenna.
Slick idea with the waterfall sanding strokes on the pickup rings. I'm debating making every pickup ring on every guitar I have, out of wood. Variously dyed-or maybe not. Some could be probably left natural. If wood doesn't suit a particular guitar, then it'll get metal. I hate, with a burning passion, cheap plastic pickup rings. Especially that cream colored, nicotine for 40 years, pee yellowy stuff. The worst is when you ride your fingers on those rings, sometimes like I do... And the fronts and backs cave in and bow. And THAT little detail you mentioned, rather than sanding all around on every plane, that makes a big difference. Thanks.
I’ve been away for awhile…. Did Ben add more to his head?!? Also, if you see this Ben. Beautiful work as always brother! Love watching your mind work and putting these together.
Cant help listening to this into and think I'm listening to Manny from Black Books.......first time I heard "burn it" in the intro I though he was shouting Bernard. Obviously i need to pay more attention in class. Great build and and inspirational channel
Love the pickup surrounds - never would've thought about doing that. I wish you would've dulled the chrome on the pickups though... they just don't look right with that bridge and tailpiece. Otherwise gorgeous!
I just love how RUclips tells me you're finishing this build but failed to tell me you were even building it...(yeah, I'm subbed and have notifications set to "all").
Livestreams were moved to the Extras channel a while back. Too many complaints with them on the main channel. If you're subbed to both the notifications should work, but RUclips is sometimes a mystery and decides not to.
That's a really beautiful guitar. I've had a few of the girly guitars made by Daisy Rock and they were made of sycamore. Super lightweight and I think it made a difference in the tone. I would like to see you make one similar to that but with a super carved out archtop and maybe 2 f holes but use the crimson logo for the holes. Either way whatever you make next is guaranteed to be damn fine. I wish you had a guitar shop in Detroit Michigan so I could come by and check out the guitars in person.
Hi Ben, the earth connection you added is redundant if the jack connector is making contact with the shielding paint. Lovely work though, looks brilliant.
Ground loops can't occur inside a guitar. The voltage is way too weak for one, and they can only occur with amps and other audio equipment that get power and ground/earth from separate sources/circuits.
There are a few misconceptions here about EARTH LOOPS. Firstly, if your Pot is connected to the Shielding and you add another connection from the Pot to the Shielding you have CREATED a Loop. (Draw it on paper and you will see it clearly). Connecting the other Pot and Switch in the same manner will bring the total to THREE LOOPS. (another drawing).. .....but the guitar is so quiet ?? ?? The purpose of a "Faraday Cage" is to stop electromagnetic radiation from affecting anything inside the cage. This applies to any Antenna (loop) you have build within the Cage. So you can have 3, 6 or 65 Loops inside the Cage and they won't be affected by external noise. Likewise, your phone won't work inside your microwave (unless your microwave is leaking - in which case throw it away). I know pedantic people will point out that a proper Faraday Cage is not connected to the circuit inside, but we're just Luthiers, not rocket scientists. Amps, Mixers, Computers etc... have to worry about Earth Loops because one item can impose noise on another through the mains power supply, but we're not hooking our guitars up to mains power. I like the guitar though.
Oiling plastic isn't that crazy. I built a 3D printed (plastic) electric violin last year. After sanding the fret board smooth, the plastic was practically white. Finished with mineral oil to restore the black color.
I cannot find a video where you actually carved out the inside... It goes from preparing the top to glued on and already hollow... I'm really wanting to try making a hollow body and was so excited for this, but it seems that it is top secret information....
Hi Ben, thanks for another great watch! While watching, I had a brainwave (might be an aneurysm on the way). If, instead of attaching a magnet to the underside of the pup, a plate instead of a magnet trailed a wire to a switch which could select different magnets, would that be sensible or too much like hard work? It'd essentially just be adding a 'middleman' if my theory holds water, but could potentially open up a tonal palette that's otherwise restrictive. Would the magnetic 'pull' be diminished?
Ben. This just May be the Best Design Raffle Ticket 🎟 🎸 wow. Love that Wood you use in this Build. Sir Ben could you make a Guitar 🎸 out of Purple Heart 💜? Yes could it be hollow Body ? Also Where is the Number Wood Guitar 🎸? Is it Missing in Action? Please use the Numbers on the Back? Please with Sugar. Gory
That is a lovely guitar and well done for raising some money for the Red Cross. Please play more for us , you are very good but don't hear much from you. Cheers
A ground loop happens when you have more than one ground reference in your circuit and the grounds are effectively different voltages. As long as there's only one connection to your final ground (the output jack) you should be fine.
How us electrical engineers wish this were true. Ideally all electrical paths would have no loops and have a single reference or current flow path (ground or otherwise). There is a more subtle issue with a loop inside a system, however. Any loop is an antenna... the question is whether the antenna will pick up signals that could cause an issue (will it pick up anything from ~ 20 Hz to 10 kHz that can get amplified). Let's discuss this in the context of the control cavity. If the two pots are mechanically sound normal guitar pots, and there is no nonconductive washer between the pot and shield, they are grounded to the shielding paint. This is no better or worse than using a wire and screw assuming the nut holding it in place is appropriately tightened and the surfaces mate well. The toggle switch is probably also providing a ground path, although some require an auxiliary tab to be connected to ground. The output jack is like the toggle switch and may be grounded by default to the shield. Let's assume both are grounded without additional work and we also add a ground wire and screw to the shielding paint. Do we have a ground loop? We have several small ground loops, but being small they are unlikely to be of concern. in this application Because the loops are inside the shielding cage a good chunk of interference will be attenuated before it reaches the loops. If there is concern about DC current flow (which there isn't) the shielding paint is moderately resistive and will direct the current down a less resistive path. If curious take a look at the Fender Princeton 65 Reissue schematic... there is a significant ground loop broken by a 10 ohm resistor. If these other ground points exist why add a wire that is screwed down? Because it shouldn't hurt anything, and every other component will see mechanical stresses over their lifetime that could eventually break the connection to the shield and the wire may become the lone path. There are no guarantees, though... always test the final result.
I've never had an issue with ground loops in a passive guitar - only onboard preamps. Still best practice I guess. And glad to know I'm not the only one that gets connections backwards from time to time - recently used a new jack design that was a bit different, put the wires backwards. 🤦♀️
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars I've had it happen on basses, on my tele with a graphtech ghost system when the magnetic signal is going through the preamp, and so on. But no battery, no worries IMO. And yes, classic place to get tripped up! I can mostly work out the switches, but jacks are real 50/50.
Just a comment.I soldered a lot in my younger years and this led to a cancerous polyp in my nasal area. Try to get some airflow or air extraction so you dont breathe in the vaporised tin/lead solder and resin.
@ exactly 21:27 you say you don't want a ground loop. But you ignored that and made one anyway!! I have been making and selling guitar harnesses for almost 10 years now. We know shield paint is conductive. If you put a pot into a hole and the brass shaft is touching the nut which is touching the shielding paint, the pot is ground via that brass shaft and the nut holding it in place. If you solder an extra wire to make all the pots touch each other you have made a ground loop. Ground loops are bad. It's why you wont see a box made when grounding 4 pots on an LP they only use 3 wires for 4 pots!! The advice given to you is wrong. If you do not believe me take a piece of wood and drill a 3/8 hole in it and paint the wood with shield paint. Attach the pot with the nuts and washers. Take your ohm meter and check continuity between pot casing and the paint. IT WILL BEEP!!! and show 0 ohms. You do not need to wire the pots cases together!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The pots are already ground to each other thanks to the shielding paint!!
25:06 - I have DEFINITELY been there, done that. Even worse, when I went back to wire the switch properly, I managed to re-wire it backwards a second time! No idea how I survived to adulthood with the brain God gave me, what with it being defective and all. But somehow, I made it!
Sorry Ben but I always wince when I see someone soldering up the control cavaties without protection to the body. I always make a quick cardboard template to tape down just exposing the cavity hole to prevent any hot solder splashes marking the body finish. Might be a petty thing but prevention is so simple.
How do the pots stay in place? Did I miss something? I've got a '95 Epiphone Les Paul, and the pots are secured in place by a load of resin (which obviously makes them REALLY hard to change).
The pot shaft has a washer and bolt on the body side. It wasn't quite caught on camera, Ben twisted them on the front while the camera was showing the back.
I’m trying to get to your level. I can’t build necks for ish and struggle getting the neck angel in. Should I sand the angel in the neck pocket or the neck itself ?
The set neck style of electric guitar construction developed based on established techniques of building flat and arched top acoustic instruments. Traditionally, the heel of the neck on those types of guitars have been carved into a wedge shaped tenon that locks into a corresponding v shaped mortise in a block inside the guitar body. The exterior portion of the neck heel extends down the entire thickness of the instrument so that there is a very robust mechanical attachment to counteract the string tension over many years. This design has been changed slightly many times in the last century, but the idea has stayed the same. In terms of electric guitars, that extra material may be superfluous in some cases, and in others not. For example, if the guitar has no neck pickup, and as a consequence, the neck tenon itself will not be cut down to accommodate one, then there's really no reason to leave any heel material exposed. In cases where there will be a neck pickup, the extra exterior heel material helps lend strength to the joint because the tenon has been cut down under the pickup. Gibson had a very real problem on their hands when they shortened the tenon on some their set neck guitars in the 1960s. The exterior portion of the Gibson electric guitar neck heel has never been very prominent owing to the fact that the company tradionally used a rather long tenon which extended almost 4" into the body, on say an Les Paul or an SG. As such, even with a neck pickup route cutting away some of the tenon, the joint was very stable. But when Gibson shortened the tenon on some of its instruments, particularly on the SG, the necks suffered from notable instability, and could break very easily under certain circumstances. Gibson could have gotten away with the design change had they added more exterior heel material to keep things stable. tldr: On bridge pickup only guitars, that extra material is only there because it is a hold over of traditional guitar design going way back. In that context, it's nearly entirely aesthetic. Where there is a neck pickup, it's needed for strengthening the neck joint.
If you want to actually understand what you're doing and why you're doing it, then you absolutely do need at least a basic understanding of circuits and electromagnetism. Having that knowledge also eliminates your need for circuit diagrams and it gives you the ability to troubleshoot in an educated and scientific way. You also can't really understand how an electric guitar works without this knowledge, so why not take the time to learn it?
I truly don't feel that I need to know more than I do, I can trouble shoot basic circuits easily enough but can find any diagram I would ever want online in seconds.. the fact of the matter is that I simply don't have the kind of mind to truly master electronics.. or mathematics for that matter and have found I have the required tools to do without.. if I knew it all I would certainly be less dependant on others and on technology, but I'm good with that.
A lovely instrument that has just a hint of Rickenbacker to it. As my wife is Ukrainian I've been really looking forward to seeing how this one turned out and I am not disappointed. A great guitar for a great cause.
"look at that! I managed to create a whole job that none of us saw coming" speaks straight to my soul.
So glad I wasn't the only one who felt it that hard.
I have had a lot of people show me different techniques to wind the strings when restringing. In 20 years nobody has been able to change my engrained habits of stringing a guitar... Until this stream! I have now completely changed the way I wind a fresh string and I love it.
As much as I love this build, there is something magical where one plays a 7 string multi scale guitar as it is baritone as well as has two full octave range. Please build on and you will be amazed.
This guitar is extraordinary!!! And your player also has advanced exponentially.
thank you :)
Those volume knobs are really cool. Hell, the whole guitar is beautiful. Of course your guitars are all ways that. It’s one of those constants in the universe.
you are too kind, I've made my fair share of mistakes, but you have made my day!
Looks and sounds lovely. the winner of this guitar should be very pleased with it. Hope they play it often. It deserves to be played.
It has being real pleasure watching you building this unique guitar (as for so many other guitars in the past)
Great cause, great idea, great design and great Ben :-) 👏
I've learned a lot - Thank you
thank you!!
Thanks for the shout out!
Any time man, you rock!
thank you Ben
That’s an awesome guitar. Love me some baritones!
Side question: new evidence suggests that large consumption of coffee can cause a rise in bg. As I am T1DM for many years, I recently took a coffee break due to other issues related to retinopathy-ironically after a month sans coffee my basil & bolus rates decreased and my HA1c also dropped from 8+ to 7.0! I wear a Dexcom G6 cgm to track this over time. Just thought I’d share this with you in the earnest hope it is helpful. I’ve address caffeine (not coffee) back and still in far better bg control. 🤞
really? this makes me very very sad.. but I will give this some serious thought.. :(
Utterly gorgeous. Masterful work!
Excellent job, Bun!- As usual, your craftmanship is top quality. Those pickups are great looking additions to that beautiful guitar. Thank you for sharing your knowlege.
Ben, try cutting a strip of a heavy pick that fits snugly in the pot shaft slot. A tiny drop of glue and the next guy doesn't booger up or break the shaft.
That sounds so nice. Missed the end of the stream and been waiting to hear that.
cheers Lisa!
I don't know why I've never thought of just putting a screw inside the control cavity to solder the ground wire to. This is why I subscribe to you.
Well done once again Ben...
It's a beautie. IMO, it didn't need any pickup surroundings, but this is just a personal preference. It's lovely.
Ben if i ever get stuck on a desert island youll be the one coming with me i know eventually we will have a guitar to play 😂 i can just picture this
Absolutely, a thing of beauty! You inspire me, endlessly 🤘🏼😸🤘🏼
Thank you!
This guitar really turned out great. That body wood is so nice I would just apply a light coat of oil and that would be it.
I absolutely love this guitar. The redwood is gorgeous and the roasted maple is an excellent compliment to it. Really great Ben, she's a beauty!
a ground loop can cause noise. power can set up an 'endless loop' current, and they are very hard to identify. the technical details are complex, but if you get a resonance in the audio range, you are up for loads of fun.
Yup, he screwed that up. the shield paint is already joining the 3 pots together then he closed the loop with the wire screwed into the wood and made it even worse when he soldered the 3 pot cases together.... closed loop - ground loop hum.
@@knightyyz true, but the frequency of this loop would be supersonic due to its small size. frequency is inversely related to length. this particular one would operate - if it did - in the UHF or microwave frequency range. for comparison, consider the length of a UHF CB radio antenna - which is about 17cm long for a simple 1/4-wave whip antenna.
Great to see it finished, she came out great. 😀
Slick idea with the waterfall sanding strokes on the pickup rings. I'm debating making every pickup ring on every guitar I have, out of wood. Variously dyed-or maybe not. Some could be probably left natural. If wood doesn't suit a particular guitar, then it'll get metal.
I hate, with a burning passion, cheap plastic pickup rings. Especially that cream colored, nicotine for 40 years, pee yellowy stuff. The worst is when you ride your fingers on those rings, sometimes like I do... And the fronts and backs cave in and bow.
And THAT little detail you mentioned, rather than sanding all around on every plane, that makes a big difference. Thanks.
Nice looking instrument. I'd love to see how it ages...
me too!
25:50
"I'm not a musician, but I can certainly show you a symphony of errors!" ☘️❤️
I’ve been away for awhile…. Did Ben add more to his head?!?
Also, if you see this Ben. Beautiful work as always brother! Love watching your mind work and putting these together.
nothing since just before lockdown.. can't wait to finish the crow.. and sleeves.. and.. well.. I need more tattoos lol
and I do love the baritone. I want one :) Thanks Ben
I love how the dog finishes your sentences during your mid-sentence coffee breaks....
...woof
Gorgeous final guitar, Ben.
Cant help listening to this into and think I'm listening to Manny from Black Books.......first time I heard "burn it" in the intro I though he was shouting Bernard. Obviously i need to pay more attention in class. Great build and and inspirational channel
Love the pickup surrounds - never would've thought about doing that. I wish you would've dulled the chrome on the pickups though... they just don't look right with that bridge and tailpiece. Otherwise gorgeous!
If I had the pickup covers loose then I would have, I really didn't want to mess with them while the internals were in there
Wow sound so cool what a great guitar !
Thanks a lot!
I think its beautiful! Great job.
Wow!!!!! Those are really nice pick-ups
I agree, Matt at House of Tone is a monster pickup maker!
Ground loop = antenna. You were correct.
I just love how RUclips tells me you're finishing this build but failed to tell me you were even building it...(yeah, I'm subbed and have notifications set to "all").
Livestreams were moved to the Extras channel a while back. Too many complaints with them on the main channel. If you're subbed to both the notifications should work, but RUclips is sometimes a mystery and decides not to.
A sweet build. A great cause.
I am NOT mortally offended by you spelling my name wrong at 3:07. Just send me a big box of tools and we will be cool.
Yeah, Ben. And send me a guitar and I won't be mortally offended about you spelling Marc's name wrong, either!!! Marc's a good man, damnit!!
lol
Great stuff, Ben!
That's a really beautiful guitar. I've had a few of the girly guitars made by Daisy Rock and they were made of sycamore. Super lightweight and I think it made a difference in the tone. I would like to see you make one similar to that but with a super carved out archtop and maybe 2 f holes but use the crimson logo for the holes. Either way whatever you make next is guaranteed to be damn fine. I wish you had a guitar shop in Detroit Michigan so I could come by and check out the guitars in person.
Love this guitar.
thank you!
Baritone? You Sir, need to learn some Rabea Massaad riffs ! :)
oh I wish I had his chops!
Dont we all? :)
Ben. How about ebay auction for the pick ups. Then what they sell for. Chuck it in for Ukraine.
Is that the most ironic T-Shirt ever? 😆
I think you may well be spot on! 😆
Hi Ben, the earth connection you added is redundant if the jack connector is making contact with the shielding paint. Lovely work though, looks brilliant.
Jack connector. And the pot cases too.
Liked the semi hollow, but im still hoping for a 335 or casino style build
One day I will certainly do one of those, or both!
Ground loops can't occur inside a guitar. The voltage is way too weak for one, and they can only occur with amps and other audio equipment that get power and ground/earth from separate sources/circuits.
There are a few misconceptions here about EARTH LOOPS. Firstly, if your Pot is connected to the Shielding and you add another connection from the Pot to the Shielding you have CREATED a Loop. (Draw it on paper and you will see it clearly).
Connecting the other Pot and Switch in the same manner will bring the total to THREE LOOPS. (another drawing)..
.....but the guitar is so quiet ?? ??
The purpose of a "Faraday Cage" is to stop electromagnetic radiation from affecting anything inside the cage. This applies to any Antenna (loop) you have build within the Cage. So you can have 3, 6 or 65 Loops inside the Cage and they won't be affected by external noise. Likewise, your phone won't work inside your microwave (unless your microwave is leaking - in which case throw it away).
I know pedantic people will point out that a proper Faraday Cage is not connected to the circuit inside, but we're just Luthiers, not rocket scientists.
Amps, Mixers, Computers etc... have to worry about Earth Loops because one item can impose noise on another through the mains power supply, but we're not hooking our guitars up to mains power.
I like the guitar though.
Have you tried the pickups made by Alan Entwhistle of Burns Guitars fame? Been putting them in a lot of builds, they're very good IMO
Hey Paul, I'll check them out, thanks for the headsup
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars I have lots, can send you some sets
Oiling plastic isn't that crazy. I built a 3D printed (plastic) electric violin last year. After sanding the fret board smooth, the plastic was practically white. Finished with mineral oil to restore the black color.
I guess that the pickup surrounds would have been aesthetically nicer if made from ebony, or at least some wood that would take a black stain.
Totally agree 👍 still looks cool but not a huge fan of pickup surrounds in the first place myself!
I cannot find a video where you actually carved out the inside...
It goes from preparing the top to glued on and already hollow...
I'm really wanting to try making a hollow body and was so excited for this, but it seems that it is top secret information....
Sorry about that. Anything that was missed out in the episodes can be found on the Livestream on the Extras Channel DC
Hi Ben, thanks for another great watch!
While watching, I had a brainwave (might be an aneurysm on the way).
If, instead of attaching a magnet to the underside of the pup, a plate instead of a magnet trailed a wire to a switch which could select different magnets, would that be sensible or too much like hard work?
It'd essentially just be adding a 'middleman' if my theory holds water, but could potentially open up a tonal palette that's otherwise restrictive.
Would the magnetic 'pull' be diminished?
Ben. This just May be the Best Design Raffle Ticket 🎟 🎸 wow. Love that Wood you use in this Build. Sir Ben could you make a Guitar 🎸 out of Purple Heart 💜? Yes could it be hollow Body ? Also Where is the Number Wood Guitar 🎸? Is it Missing in Action? Please use the Numbers on the Back? Please with Sugar. Gory
That is a lovely guitar and well done for raising some money for the Red Cross. Please play more for us , you are very good but don't hear much from you. Cheers
Hey Graham, I am very insecure about my playing so thank you for this!
Ben,why you don't put some floyd Rose's ???
Another sucess, welldone ! Love barytones.
Many thanks, me too!
A ground loop happens when you have more than one ground reference in your circuit and the grounds are effectively different voltages. As long as there's only one connection to your final ground (the output jack) you should be fine.
How us electrical engineers wish this were true. Ideally all electrical paths would have no loops and have a single reference or current flow path (ground or otherwise). There is a more subtle issue with a loop inside a system, however. Any loop is an antenna... the question is whether the antenna will pick up signals that could cause an issue (will it pick up anything from ~ 20 Hz to 10 kHz that can get amplified).
Let's discuss this in the context of the control cavity. If the two pots are mechanically sound normal guitar pots, and there is no nonconductive washer between the pot and shield, they are grounded to the shielding paint. This is no better or worse than using a wire and screw assuming the nut holding it in place is appropriately tightened and the surfaces mate well. The toggle switch is probably also providing a ground path, although some require an auxiliary tab to be connected to ground. The output jack is like the toggle switch and may be grounded by default to the shield. Let's assume both are grounded without additional work and we also add a ground wire and screw to the shielding paint.
Do we have a ground loop? We have several small ground loops, but being small they are unlikely to be of concern. in this application Because the loops are inside the shielding cage a good chunk of interference will be attenuated before it reaches the loops. If there is concern about DC current flow (which there isn't) the shielding paint is moderately resistive and will direct the current down a less resistive path. If curious take a look at the Fender Princeton 65 Reissue schematic... there is a significant ground loop broken by a 10 ohm resistor.
If these other ground points exist why add a wire that is screwed down? Because it shouldn't hurt anything, and every other component will see mechanical stresses over their lifetime that could eventually break the connection to the shield and the wire may become the lone path. There are no guarantees, though... always test the final result.
@@lettuceb2336 Marking to read in greater detail later, thanks
you beauty!!! Thank you. I now understand the issue so much better. You have made my evening!
I've never had an issue with ground loops in a passive guitar - only onboard preamps. Still best practice I guess.
And glad to know I'm not the only one that gets connections backwards from time to time - recently used a new jack design that was a bit different, put the wires backwards. 🤦♀️
best practice indeed.. it must happen though for us to all know about? And yes.. that damned jack wiring.. was the very last thing I checked :(
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars I've had it happen on basses, on my tele with a graphtech ghost system when the magnetic signal is going through the preamp, and so on. But no battery, no worries IMO. And yes, classic place to get tripped up! I can mostly work out the switches, but jacks are real 50/50.
Lovely sounds. Good looks. NUFF SAID
Thank you for your support!💙🇺🇦💛
my pleasure!
Oh!! I would....
Beautiful build as ever. Will the bass build he uploaded to this channel?
The Bass Build Livestreams will be edited into episodes once Ben has completed the Hand Tool Only Build DC
Nice!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Just a comment.I soldered a lot in my younger years and this led to a cancerous polyp in my nasal area. Try to get some airflow or air extraction so you dont breathe in the vaporised tin/lead solder and resin.
thank you.. I will do so forthwith! I know it is something to worry about but always stop short of fixing the issue.. I am a fool!
Put the original set in your GGBO build… design the guitar around them
damn fine idea, thank you!
Lovely, but I definitely preferred the look of the less shiny pickups! Just me?...
I prefer matte, indeed, but they were just the wrong colour in comparison to everything else.. it was too glaring a difference for me.
@ exactly 21:27 you say you don't want a ground loop. But you ignored that and made one anyway!! I have been making and selling guitar harnesses for almost 10 years now. We know shield paint is conductive. If you put a pot into a hole and the brass shaft is touching the nut which is touching the shielding paint, the pot is ground via that brass shaft and the nut holding it in place. If you solder an extra wire to make all the pots touch each other you have made a ground loop. Ground loops are bad. It's why you wont see a box made when grounding 4 pots on an LP they only use 3 wires for 4 pots!! The advice given to you is wrong. If you do not believe me take a piece of wood and drill a 3/8 hole in it and paint the wood with shield paint. Attach the pot with the nuts and washers. Take your ohm meter and check continuity between pot casing and the paint. IT WILL BEEP!!! and show 0 ohms. You do not need to wire the pots cases together!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The pots are already ground to each other thanks to the shielding paint!!
Sir please make a bamboo acoustic guitar,🙏💪💪💪
A clockwork system to tension the strings for the watch-inspired guitar would be incredible
That would be fun!
25:06 - I have DEFINITELY been there, done that. Even worse, when I went back to wire the switch properly, I managed to re-wire it backwards a second time! No idea how I survived to adulthood with the brain God gave me, what with it being defective and all. But somehow, I made it!
That baritone is a thing of beauty! Is there going to be an edit of the Bass build?
Thank you.. yes, I want to finish the hand tool first though..
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars awesome. Thank you so much. 🎸
Sorry Ben but I always wince when I see someone soldering up the control cavaties without protection to the body. I always make a quick cardboard template to tape down just exposing the cavity hole to prevent any hot solder splashes marking the body finish. Might be a petty thing but prevention is so simple.
I really do need to do this.. I have more than a few bad habits that I really need to break!
How do the pots stay in place? Did I miss something? I've got a '95 Epiphone Les Paul, and the pots are secured in place by a load of resin (which obviously makes them REALLY hard to change).
The pot shaft has a washer and bolt on the body side. It wasn't quite caught on camera, Ben twisted them on the front while the camera was showing the back.
@@PaulCooksStuff Ahh, I thought that might be it. Cheers.
But does it chug?
Ben why did you mount the bridge on an angle?
this is standard when mounting a tunematic, it gives more adjustment for the compensated intonation..
I’m trying to get to your level. I can’t build necks for ish and struggle getting the neck angel in. Should I sand the angel in the neck pocket or the neck itself ?
1 day build takes 10 weeks surprising nobody lol
I like the guitar top bestest. I would have simply said top bestest but someone might get the wrong idea.🤨👍
Can you make 10 string guitar?
Absolutely. I have already done so many years ago
Ben? Is there a reason that the heal of the neck isn’t smoothed in with the body? Not a criticism, genuinely curious.
The set neck style of electric guitar construction developed based on established techniques of building flat and arched top acoustic instruments. Traditionally, the heel of the neck on those types of guitars have been carved into a wedge shaped tenon that locks into a corresponding v shaped mortise in a block inside the guitar body. The exterior portion of the neck heel extends down the entire thickness of the instrument so that there is a very robust mechanical attachment to counteract the string tension over many years. This design has been changed slightly many times in the last century, but the idea has stayed the same.
In terms of electric guitars, that extra material may be superfluous in some cases, and in others not. For example, if the guitar has no neck pickup, and as a consequence, the neck tenon itself will not be cut down to accommodate one, then there's really no reason to leave any heel material exposed.
In cases where there will be a neck pickup, the extra exterior heel material helps lend strength to the joint because the tenon has been cut down under the pickup.
Gibson had a very real problem on their hands when they shortened the tenon on some their set neck guitars in the 1960s. The exterior portion of the Gibson electric guitar neck heel has never been very prominent owing to the fact that the company tradionally used a rather long tenon which extended almost 4" into the body, on say an Les Paul or an SG. As such, even with a neck pickup route cutting away some of the tenon, the joint was very stable.
But when Gibson shortened the tenon on some of its instruments, particularly on the SG, the necks suffered from notable instability, and could break very easily under certain circumstances. Gibson could have gotten away with the design change had they added more exterior heel material to keep things stable.
tldr: On bridge pickup only guitars, that extra material is only there because it is a hold over of traditional guitar design going way back. In that context, it's nearly entirely aesthetic.
Where there is a neck pickup, it's needed for strengthening the neck joint.
@@peachmelba1000 splendid. Thank you.
As far as I know you arnt at risk of a ground loop in a passive pickup system, only in active
Did he just say:"Earth wire"??
Anybody else hear that right at 22:00 lol
woops! lol
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I think another charity build and raffle?
one day.. next up is my ggbo
🤘💙👍
Yes black screws matter
One of your prettier guitars, but honestly I don't care for how it sounds at all
fair enough, I'm honestly surprised that I don't hear this more.. sound is so subjective
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars true
If you want to actually understand what you're doing and why you're doing it, then you absolutely do need at least a basic understanding of circuits and electromagnetism. Having that knowledge also eliminates your need for circuit diagrams and it gives you the ability to troubleshoot in an educated and scientific way. You also can't really understand how an electric guitar works without this knowledge, so why not take the time to learn it?
I truly don't feel that I need to know more than I do, I can trouble shoot basic circuits easily enough but can find any diagram I would ever want online in seconds.. the fact of the matter is that I simply don't have the kind of mind to truly master electronics.. or mathematics for that matter and have found I have the required tools to do without.. if I knew it all I would certainly be less dependant on others and on technology, but I'm good with that.