Channel: Crimson Custom Guitars

Category: Howto & Style

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Description: Welcome to Crimson Guitars youtube.com/user/CrimsonCustomGuitars?sub_confirmation=1 and Ben's home workshop. What do Fire & Fretboards have in common? Simple - Ben Crowe! You asked and Ben will deliver...our eccentric (read insane) Luthier will be building an entire guitar out of a single piece of Mahogany! With hand tools only! In this episode Ben will reinforce the neck with carbon fiber rods. He will burn and cut the fretboard from the Mahogany blank and glue it to the neck. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:27 A look back at the mini rebate hand plane 4:23 What's going to happen in this episode 6:57 Hand routing channels for carbon fiber rods 8:52 Installing the carbon fiber rods 10:22 Problems with the Truss Rod 12:23 Fretboard options & Kit prototype in production 14:44 Prepping to cut the fretboard 17:16 Radiusing the Fretboard 18:50 Burning the Fretboard 21:47 Cutting the Fretboard 24:56 Success...after a fashion 26:07 How do you flatten the back of a radiused fretboard? 29:59 Decorative elements - Cupids Bow 32:43 Gluing the Fretboard 34:41 Conclusion Check out our new Discord server for guitar building goodness here discord.gg/N82ZFTzAJ6 Join this channel to get access to perks: youtube.com/channel/UCdD1Cqxr8aINzWs1agg3tEQ/join and don't forget the Luthiers Question Time Podcast, available on all good platforms or through this link luthiersquestiontime.buzzsprout.com Music used in this video from Epidemic Sound - epidemicsound.com/referral/31qosr 01:33 Feed My Ego 02:51 Bright Red Lights 05:59 Falling in Flames 11:50 Shame 18:37 Burn it All Down 21:51 and 29:59 Ringing in My Head 33:37 Beyond Elysium ___________________________________________________________________________________________ We'd like to thank our partners for helping to make this video series possible. Triton Tools - tritontools.com/en-GB ISOtunes Bluetooth Hearing Protection - bit.ly/36YmKro Wagner Meters - wagnermeters.com Leatherman - leatherman.co.uk Workshop Heaven - workshopheaven.com Support us by supporting our Partners, and at the same time get yourself a great deal with ISOtunes. Use code "CRIMSON10" for 10% OFF with this link: bit.ly/36YmKro ___________________________________________________________________________________________ WEBSITE: crimsonguitars.com Luthier’s Tools & Supplies: bit.ly/LuthTools Guitar Building Courses: bit.ly/LuthierySchool Kit Guitars: bit.ly/KitGuitars SOCIAL Instagram - instagram.com/crimsonguitars Facebook - facebook.com/CrimsonCustomGuitars Patreon - patreon.com/crimsonguitars OTHER Ben's Vintage Tool Shop - vintagetoolshop.com ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thank you again for all your support, we really, really appreciate it! – Ben Stay tuned and stay awesome! ________________________________________________________________________________________________