Welcome to Crimson Guitars https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonCustomGuitars?sub_confirmation=1 and welcome to this guitar building challenge with Ben Crowe.
Watch as Ben attempts to build an entire guitar in a 6 hour Marathon. The videos were filmed in real-time apart from short stops for battery and camera person changes. The series consists of 12 half-hour videos where you are able to watch everything as it happens. Enjoy the ride!
Despite the challenge and time constraints Ben is as ever treating this as a teaching exercise and you will hopefully learn many tips and tricks of the guitar building art form.
In this episode, Ben talks about his wood choices, including some timber recovered from an old staircase, and starts work on making the neck of the guitar using a range of tools from routers and bandsaws to hand planes and chisels.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
5:26 Countdown started. Ben begins with the neck
11:17 Routing the cavity for the truss rod using the Triton Router
20:04 Cutting out the neck and headstock - thank you Record
23:59 Preparation for cutting the headstock break angle - and back on the bandsaw.
25:43 Into the vice, out with the plane. Better to use the clamp, Ben.
27:50 Masking tape and superglue trick, neck, fretboard. template - and rout.
35:06 The neck is done. And on to the next episode
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