Ep 15 Time to Finish | Hand Tool Only Acoustic Travel Guitar Build - Guitar from a 4x4 FENCE POST

take your dirty gloves off my instrument welcome to Crimson

guitar

s welcome to Welcome to

hand

tool

build

ing. I've moved this instrument from my homework shop to Crimson HQ because I'm here more often and I really want to

finish

this. I've been back for over two weeks and have spent a total of three or four hours behind a workbench so far this year. It's incredibly frustrating. I need to work a little. I need to

build

some

guitar

s. I need to use. some

tool

s and this will help me get back to life as we know it. I have a little more

finish

ing carving and cutting to do.

I've gone through the entire guitar, the back, the sides, the front. I have made all these beautiful designs. I still have to cut the headstock and think about doing a little bit over here and then I'll be fine applying the finish, so let's burn it in. I made some changes to the designs of the The bosses tidied things up, straightened them out, but everything is fine. I am very very happy now through multiple small designs and a lot. Yes I like it. Works. I'm undecided if my sigil will be in the center, but it's necessary. Somewhere the soft top does it, so the initial cut is done carefully and you just go over it a few

time

s to open things up and then I go look for a wider blade.

The plan is to fill each of these cuts with a mixture of guitar finishing powder and oil essentially in the past people Craftsmen over the centuries have used various mixtures to do this, including charcoal, but I want a relatively subtle effect that it's too close to the edge, just move it this way, it's better, yes. I've scaled it down a bit and it actually works better for me. I like to look at it and it's also more free

hand

because it's a signature, so I'm not going to use the ruler, so I'm going to go in with my thumb. and stabilizing things there we go overseas just some sandpaper we're going to have to do this process a couple of

time

s I think loosen the opening remove all the sand, drawing marks, etc., etc. foreigner here if you remember it's okay, it's official, I don't have any self-control.

I drew them, that's cool and I also did a little bit on the side. It felt a little strange that there was nothing in that area where he goes. around the rest of the guitar, apart from the headstock, I'm not doing engraving on the side of the histock or the back, but yes, everywhere else and another day has dawned. Since sanding this I spent a day sorting out the antique tool auction house we are in the process of setting up so that was fun, the first auction is in two or three weeks and yes we have so many tools we can't justify. putting up the Vintage Tool Shop.com website, but we also hate, I also hate, throwing away or recycling things that could still be used as tools, so you're not here to talk about it, you're here to look at me. applying the finish to this instrument I need a little more work on this neck.

Just a little carving to get it right before the finishing is complete. However, there is a problem and that is the fact that this is an

acoustic

guitar. and it's a tailless

acoustic

guitar on a moving bridge we're not talking about jazz yet we're not talking about jazz I shouldn't apply oil where the bridge is going to go but I haven't built the bridge yet planning thinking about all that I don't really do that until Let the cameras start working. I need to fix this bridge. The problem is that I can't actually get here because I don't have cutouts of this mahogany, the whole guitar is being made with this

fence

post

and I also don't have the plans for this guitar here because I'm a fool it's another day and I drink coffee I have the plans I have some wood is uh it's crack on Shelby okay so what What I need is both the exact shape of the bridge and the exact position on the uh of the instrument so that's going to give me a preset give me the corner, give me the center line, give me the hold of my sound and the two edges, I guess actually just the two. borders the corner of the Sun, but the reference points would be better if I had some nice flat paper, wouldn't that be strange?

Yeah, I actually want to draw this a little bit smaller. There is a bit of finishing under the bridge. Now I also remember that I haven't done it yet. I made this bridge, so I can always customize the bridge if I need to thank you, so buff the edges with the back of your nail. I don't want any guitar finishing oil going through here perfect, always double check and triple check everything on the plans in the Plans, the front edge is there. I've pulled it back, so it's actually too close and then I've offset it there, but this just pushes everything forward, we'll make it a little bit thicker, never assume that your plans.

You're right, foreigner, especially if you know me, so that's where we are gives me enough space, okay. I have double checked all the sanding etc. and I'm starting with some penetrating guitar finishing oil, the plan is that I'm going to use 1200 grit or even 1500 grit wet and dry sandpaper to push the oil into the wood. Now this is penetrating, that's what it does anyway, but what I'm going to do in that process is create a slurry out of the powder that mixes with the finish and so fills in the gaps left by my knives, it's going to be relatively subtle.

One last thing, even if you don't, if you can help, apply oil without gloves, uh, frankly, I think. which should be a class action lawsuit against the real oil, what's in that oil, uh, I know because I reverse engineered it, it's not good for your health and you don't want to absorb that really serious PSA. All That Jazz, there's no way I could avoid this at this point, we're going to have to keep promises and see what this guitar looks like in the end. Exciting times, first of all, I'm going to apply oil all over the instrument, rub it. and that's stopping, for example if I drip over the edge and then leave it semi dry you could end up with a drip Mark that you don't want to see in the long term, thanks, that's a little more efficient, thanks foreigner. foreign foreign it gets very slippery when you cover the closet with oil don't quote it out of context please okay so this is the initial coat and to be honest I can already see I can see the edges I can see the cuts, etc.

I wanted to do it, it doesn't even need the grain filling and creating grout and all that, but that doesn't mean we're not going to do it oh no, sorry Bob Foreign, yeah, dump them in a bucket of water or something, no you're going to want to accidentally set your workshop on fire while they're drying, okay, a new glove and this one is 1200 grit, bring my light close to it and very gently, hardly any pressure, just rub the finish and this. It's a really good way to fill in the grain gently and also create a somewhat shiny oil finish.

Okay and once you've done that, use a relatively new cloth to remove the excess and move on to the next stage. I don't want this to dry thickly, this type of finish soaks in, rub off the excess until it's basically dry to the touch, so no gloves on this hand and then build it up and lay it down that way. I found a few types of minor scratches and that's what happens when you apply the initial coats of finish to something if you haven't been absolutely perfect with the sanding or the storage care and attention to detail, but the entire guitar is.

I'm so excited, I'm so excited, we're so excited. I'm going to let this sit and heal in the afternoon because I have something else to go on. I'm incredibly happy with this look. Now you need to rub off the excess oil, you don't want to leave any buildup anywhere. In this case it wouldn't be particularly bad because we're going to go through wet and dry and rubbing off the excess for at least a few more passes and I started at 1200, I'll go to 1500 and then 2000. See what kind of finish we can get, but yeah , if you're not doing that, for example, if you're applying oil on a stain where you can't use this paper because you'll go through that rock, yeah, rub it all over and this is After just one coat of finish, this is going to be an amazing guitar in the end .

I hope to be very happy. It will probably take a half dozen eight coats to get to the kind of finish I hope we have. make a bridge in the next episode we have to hang it and play with it and find another one day project that will take more than a year to build that can be done, like, subscribe and most importantly make a some sawdust caught on the other side. I need to stop saying that, ah, how cheesy, see you soon, bye.