Craftling Electric Guitar Build

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Love these types of vids!

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Love this one. Especially the final polishing.


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Molly wrote:Love this one. Especially the final polishing.

Fantastic guitars, let me know if you want one!

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olegmcnoleg wrote: Fantastic guitars, let me know if you want one!
Why am I not the tiniest bit surprised that you also have a Goodall! :lol:

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olegmcnoleg wrote:
Molly wrote:Love this one. Especially the final polishing.

Fantastic guitars, let me know if you want one!
Thought about you during the video where he talked about the need to control humidity whilst being mindful of the buyers' climate. Think you were telling me you'd come up against that with one of your guitars.

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Molly wrote:
olegmcnoleg wrote:
Molly wrote:Love this one. Especially the final polishing.


Fantastic guitars, let me know if you want one!
Thought about you during the video where he talked about the need to control humidity whilst being mindful of the buyers' climate. Think you were telling me you'd come up against that with one of your guitars.
Yes, that's right. I bought a nice acoustic guitar from a maker in Colorado. Turns out he'd made it in 20% humidity. It basically strained itself out of shape when I got it here (and I keep my guitars at 50% humidity). Lesson learned.

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olegmcnoleg wrote:
Molly wrote:
olegmcnoleg wrote:
Thought about you during the video where he talked about the need to control humidity whilst being mindful of the buyers' climate. Think you were telling me you'd come up against that with one of your guitars.
Yes, that's right. I bought a nice acoustic guitar from a maker in Colorado. Turns out he'd made it in 20% humidity. It basically strained itself out of shape when I got it here (and I keep my guitars at 50% humidity). Lesson learned.
Is it not that common for acoustic guitar builders to not take that into account? I'm pretty sure I have seen a YouTube video where the luthier mentioned that they maintain a median-ish humidity to cater for customers all over the globe.

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codedog wrote:
olegmcnoleg wrote:
Molly wrote:
Yes, that's right. I bought a nice acoustic guitar from a maker in Colorado. Turns out he'd made it in 20% humidity. It basically strained itself out of shape when I got it here (and I keep my guitars at 50% humidity). Lesson learned.
Is it not that common for acoustic guitar builders to not take that into account? I'm pretty sure I have seen a YouTube video where the luthier mentioned that they maintain a median-ish humidity to cater for customers all over the globe.
Yes, most builders aim for 45-55% humidity. This guy was new, but good, so I didn’t think to ask. Turns out he’d only sold guitars locally prior to me. And it seldom gets above 20% humidity there. On the plus side, I got to drive through Utah and the Rockies to visit his workshop, which was great. But that’s about all I have to show for the whole episode.

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Found myself on this again. I've an inkling this guy's on the forum? Love watching this series of Strat build videos:


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^ I love it!
unfortunately, it's only an imitation, it's not a Fender :wink:

but I dig it!! :D

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Molly wrote:Found myself on this again. I've an inkling this guy's on the forum? Love watching this series of Strat build videos:
That's Geoff. He used to be on the forum... It was him who build that one piece mahogany guitar.
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jvpp wrote:
Molly wrote:Found myself on this again. I've an inkling this guy's on the forum? Love watching this series of Strat build videos:
That's Geoff. He used to be on the forum... It was him who build that one piece mahogany guitar.
Talanted bloke.

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Geoff Goodall by any chance ?
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damn thats a lot of special tools and jigs, you'd want to be doing it all the time, cutting those pearl dots by hand is insane dedication. I'd just be too terrified at any stage to make one mistake, one little slip of a file , an accidental drop of a tool on to the neck, could render the whole project as start over, there's no way to hide a mistake

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