I'm a music buff and have always been interested in how instruments were made and built particularly the bass guitar this is very intriguing.
@jfo13442 жыл бұрын
As a bass builder who's been watching this channel for years, I'm stoked to see a dedicated bass build! I built a neck out of a super wormy piece of oak once and I used an air compressor to blow the sanding dust out of all the holes prior to applying the finish. Love the build and I'd love to see a neck-thru bass in the future!!
@robkennard18672 жыл бұрын
Looks like I'm not the only one who uses the router only to realise afterwards that every drawer in the workshop is open and now full of debris!
@CrimsonCustomGuitars2 жыл бұрын
oops!
@robkennard18672 жыл бұрын
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars I have a comment below here which I assume is SPAM?
@duncanthompson9572 жыл бұрын
Why is this channel so so so appealing?
@chrisclark_music71012 жыл бұрын
That body is giving some serious Abasi vibes. Coming along great~
@JeffGillis-lv1rz Жыл бұрын
Ben, your creativity, innovation and master craftsmanship inspires beyond measure. All your KZbin and crimson content is excellent. You’ve become so familiar it almost seems like your a friend though obviously we’ve never met.
@CrimsonCustomGuitars Жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you so much!
@MrOccamRazor2 жыл бұрын
Yes, building a BASS!
@robinfawcett79732 жыл бұрын
Looking great! Love it.
@nixielee Жыл бұрын
I can hear the tools and the beautiful sound of wood, and even voices without background music. Great decision. Keep that up.
@Furtheronmusic2 жыл бұрын
Got to say it again - that should become the descendant bass production model
@hscurt2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this build. I’ve been hoping to see a fretless project and am really enjoying it.
@ironblast52 жыл бұрын
This bass looks amazing
@billsguitargarage2 жыл бұрын
Love the idea for the "frets". That body is just amazing.
@cecilhoward30052 жыл бұрын
Been watching your videos for awhile now. You have inspired me to build a 5 string bass . Keep up the awsome work.
@CrimsonCustomGuitars2 жыл бұрын
That's amazing, I'm so glad. - BC
@SweetTGuitars2 жыл бұрын
Love this Bass. I am glad you send the center piece with the rear cavity template. It works great if you use a thin cover and need reinforcement under that thin cover. I used it on one of my latest builds and I'm so glad I had that center piece! Peace and Love.
@claudevieaul14652 жыл бұрын
It's looking amazing already!!! Especially glad you went with the single-cut shape, since that will also give you options when this bass turns out to have some neckdive - you can position the strapbuttons accordingly 😎🙏
@emm_arr2 жыл бұрын
"Burn it ... perfect" Sounds like ideal samples for a techno track.
@craigsummerville88232 жыл бұрын
Hey, Ben! Top tip for cleaning out the burr grinding wheels and burr bits. Don’t use a brush to get the wood bits out. Burn it! That’s right, take your butane/propane torch and have some fun! It won’t hurt the bit/wheel and it’s easier than using a brush.
@lermz32 жыл бұрын
Such an awesome bass! Excited to see more bass builds on the channel!
@raymontella2251 Жыл бұрын
At first I saw that body shape and thought, darn, he ruined that beautiful wood, then you cut out the shape and I went pretty cool and once your carved it…man that shape rocks beautiful work. PS I use that grinder on my last neck and I’m never going back to the all hand work Beautiful builds thank you 🙏
@DanPeacock2 жыл бұрын
"Soup. Not Tea." Judgement free zone. You want to dip your buttered bread in your tea, you do you. :D Can't wait to own it. (It's my lie. Let me tell it how I want.) Fingers crossed.
@Yonder.2 жыл бұрын
This is such a cool bass
@craigsummerville88232 жыл бұрын
Ben, if you’re fishing about for a challenging build you might consider a resonator-style (aka Dobro) guitar. Don’t think I’ve ever heard you mention one. Of course, if you wanted to take that to an extreme try a Brahms guitar. Now that would be crazy.
@aquajew30002 жыл бұрын
The shape has got a definite Tosin Abasi vibe.
@hereas12 жыл бұрын
Yay bass, love the shape oh did I mention yay a bass..
@LisaHarsh2 жыл бұрын
So happy that Talitha got those photos included in this edit. Thought Ben might veto that! Enjoying watching my bass being built again.
@CrimsonCustomGuitars2 жыл бұрын
😆 Ben doesn't often get to see the edit before it's public...so, sssshhhhhh, he still doesn't know 😇 - TC
@LisaHarsh2 жыл бұрын
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars I wish we had the love button too. Great job Talitha. Miss having you on the streams
@davidgallagher85732 жыл бұрын
Yay a bass, wait what we can win it ????? Count me in. Got my tks
@JansenX122 жыл бұрын
Fretlevelingbeam. Or as Ben call it "The Everything"
@BLBlackDragon2 жыл бұрын
You're right. You *don't* build enough basses. (LOL) Looking forward to your fixing that. I always love it when you start carving with the angle grinder.
@miguelcamacho28692 жыл бұрын
More basses indeed, please! Can you also make a headless, fan-fretted one next? Ideally with sound chambers. I think that is my dream bass: with a J pickup configuration.
@HalbeEllgr2 жыл бұрын
Bonjour Benito. Love the channel and vids as always. More so loving the bass builds 🙌🙌 Should you ever read this, I've always wanted to see a carve similar to the Warwicks or Spectors where they have a belly curve on the back and a curve on the front, I'd love to see that done. Challenge laid down!
@tonywoodford82962 жыл бұрын
Love the look 👍
@nadiapaiva81702 жыл бұрын
MORE BASSES MORE BASSES MORE BASSES
@gyrosphinx2 жыл бұрын
I love the shape, would be really cool to see another offset bass thing with 24 frets or something.
@67shoot2 жыл бұрын
Looks very nice!
@Yuckayucka142 жыл бұрын
Love the channel
@oakvikinger2 жыл бұрын
Looking fabulous Ben! I have a glut of reclaimed greenheart sea defences... may make an interesting instrument
@hurtee18072 жыл бұрын
Hi Ben, I heard you method of carving the C shape in the neck by bisecting the faces of the neck multiples times now and I think it’s a good approximation towards a pleasing shape. If you want to make a neck that has more of a half circle / half elliptic shape geometrically you should rather go 7/10 (or exactly: 1 over root of 2) from the corners in / towards the fretboard and with the next face 6/10 and then continue with halfs. It would make the neck more „Fendery“ and less „Gibsony“ IMHO. I hope this comment reaches you and maybe you can experiment with this new approach. Try to draw a circle and a square around it and use the method - you will know what I mean. Greetings from Austria
@1515542 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Thank You so so much!
@gabrielbilhalva34312 жыл бұрын
This headstock looks like Peavey headstock for Predator Series.
@VoyeurGuitars2 жыл бұрын
I'm loving how this one is turning out. As a bass player, I'm kinda biased. 😉 I just wish I had some extra money to buy some raffle tickets.
@johnsidoti32152 жыл бұрын
true.. you don't do enough basses :) how about a semi-hollow archtop next
@davegibson41572 жыл бұрын
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!! BRILLIANT!!!
@CrimsonCustomGuitars2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@edkovac89782 жыл бұрын
Very nice, I wonder if Charles Berthoud could play it once finished
@atakdragonfly16752 жыл бұрын
Aww just fill in a few voids on the front and back... Not every one of them. To have it only on the neck would be a travesty! An even dispersal. I love this wood!
@Furtheronmusic2 жыл бұрын
If I tried that brass truss access trick 9d simply epoxy the truss rod and screw everything up.
@frodedyb48662 жыл бұрын
Maybe you should get you’re self a leather apron?would look nice on you too.
@paullawson3002 жыл бұрын
Love the channel and the fact you are now doing a bass. Because of you I now have 4 custom bas guitars and am now working on 5th. :) Swift question ... my 5th build is one that someone else started and didn't want to finish, so I've taken it over. it is a through body neck bass, which has the neck already carved to shape... but the fret board is still a slab of rose wood. Is it best to shape the fret board first (cut to size and radius) or is it better to glue to the neck and carve in situ? ... keep up the good work Ben
@thomasrogers45342 жыл бұрын
Try epoxy in syringe and squeeze in (I grout tiles this way with empty caulking tube)
@gerrykavanagh2 жыл бұрын
As an amateur that has done what feels like 100m^2 of tiling in my house… this blows my mind. Such a good idea. Much less wasteful, and that wiping off of dried grout no longer a problem.
@ChrisHopkinsBass2 жыл бұрын
The only thing cooler than that truss rod insert would be a 70s style bullet truss rod adjuster
@Claymansd2 жыл бұрын
That headstock is very Peavey T-series.
@rmee51652 жыл бұрын
Ben, here is a life hack... tape down the shop-vac hose in the area you are grinding the wood...(19:00 min. mark) it will cut down on dust everywhere,...including your eyes.
@CrimsonCustomGuitars2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, great life hack!
@briw46472 жыл бұрын
Instead of putting glow in the dark pigment, if the body was darker, gold pigment epoxy would look good . Next time maybe
@Frankt11002 жыл бұрын
One question if you don't mind - do you ever do raffles for a left handed build? I'd love the chance to get one of your guitars but there's no point in me bidding on a right hander as I can't play it
@IainThacker2 жыл бұрын
You definitely don't build enough basses :) I think this design would look epic headless.
@angusmackay72812 жыл бұрын
Where can you buy those super long flexible drill bits? I've never been able to find them.
@alanmurdock43192 жыл бұрын
What I have been wondering since the first episode is: will the body, with all the spalling and voids in it be strong enough for the string tension?
@codyjay56342 жыл бұрын
little ben
@r7bishop421 Жыл бұрын
hello ! what's the "head" that you use on the angle grinder to carve the body ?
@zeffneeson75992 жыл бұрын
Can I ask what that cutter is in the angle grinder please . I’ve been using the flappy sanding type discs which are cool but that one looks like it could be much more accurate for contour carving
@UrbanSkyProject2 жыл бұрын
Nice work, I am planning on reshaping a guitar neck from a C to V profile. What tools/method would you recommend to acheive this?
@CrimsonCustomGuitars2 жыл бұрын
Try these - kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4SbpZ6KoNCXqsk Also you can check out the full playlist on Guitar Necks: kzbin.info/aero/PLp6z5fUMeeAZDHOM1_45XwI_L7EmHF9UG DC
@UrbanSkyProject2 жыл бұрын
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars thanks!
@JLeppert2 жыл бұрын
Man... Your accent is funny. What is this "centimeter" measurement you're using. It seems way more intuitive than what I'm using.
@flapjack4132 жыл бұрын
Ben, what type of abrasive disc are you using to do those body bevels? I recently used an angle grinder to do the forearm and belly carves on a build, with a flap wheel (probably about 120 grit), and holy crap, that thing moves wood scary fast... almost went too deep in a fraction of a second a few times! That looks a bit more controllable, would love to try!
@FaceToupee2 жыл бұрын
The brand is Saburrtooth I believe
@robertmansell36672 жыл бұрын
😍She will be Mine,oh yes she will be mine 👌
@BadenAW2 жыл бұрын
Would it really be a Ben Crowe build if he didn't carve the hell out an instrument when its an option?
@CrimsonCustomGuitars2 жыл бұрын
you got me!
@doublepick2 жыл бұрын
Where can we buy the raffle tickets?
@sickboy4812 жыл бұрын
Link in the description.
@picklofamily2 жыл бұрын
Shouldn't say spooge. It means something different here in the US. 😆
@Electromeo072 жыл бұрын
OH...I hate when people show photos of me when I was young...it's so strange...was I ever that young...Is that even me because I have changed so much through the years.
@ThumpandtheGroove2 жыл бұрын
So.... the acoustic guitar build? 🤣
@amoredexx2 жыл бұрын
i love u
@John-qw4jf2 жыл бұрын
Bench Hook? Oh no !!!!!!
@alexvath28382 жыл бұрын
Wait.. that pic. 67 was it? Is that the boss?? How old is Ben? Because I can't wrap my head around the idea of this guy being around 60. He's too young
@CrimsonCustomGuitars2 жыл бұрын
I believe is was '87
@alexvath28382 жыл бұрын
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars that makes more sense 🤣🤣
@moogoomoogoo59902 жыл бұрын
A raffle seems like a lot of work. Why don’t you just send it to me.
@Projacked12 жыл бұрын
Hmmm is Ben stealing words from other KZbinrs? 'Extravaganza' ...only Uncle Doug uses that.