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. In this video, Ben is getting Bob1 ready for the Guitar Show in Birmingham, which happened on the weekend of May 7/8th. This is a unique guitar and favourite for visitors to Crimson HQ to take off the guitar wall for a closer look. So while not very dusty, it needed a fret level, crown, and polish to be show-ready. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:35 Ben's 'questionable choices' - really? How to craft a guitar out of a small piece of wood 1:52 The clean-up to make the instrument show-ready - off with the strings first 3:49 It seems it also needs a level, crown, and polish on the frets - here's how 21:00 New strings - D'Addario XL :crimsonguitars.com 24:30 A short demonstration 27:37 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 Ben's livestream camera set up includes: the Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro, Prime Cameras (Front facing and over bench) Canon EOS 250D, suspended from the ceiling (bench side) Canon EOS 90D and on the movable tripod a Canon M6 Mark II cameracentreuk.com/crimson Music used in this video from Epidemic Sound - epidemicsound.com/referral/31qosr ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 VINTAGE TOOL SHOP: bit.ly/3oA8uQK Luthier’s Tools & Supplies: bit.ly/LuthTools Guitar Building Courses: bit.ly/LuthierySchool Kit Guitars: bit.ly/KitGuitars EXTRAS channel: bit.ly/3gQmul1 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! ___________________________________________________________________________________