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Welcome to Crimson Guitars https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonCustomGuitars?sub_confirmation=1 and Ben's home workshop for episode 3 of 5 of the edited-down guitar building extravaganza that raised over £15000 for the British Red Cross DEC Ukraine Appeal. Check out the first edit here if you missed it earlier https://youtu.be/T8rNvWVx88I
Today Ben completes the inlay and installs frets and side dots. The gorgeous redwood top, with an f-hole, is glued onto the semi-hollow body. This guitar is coming together!
Chapters
0:00 Introduction & Recap
2:38 Using the Piller Drill and a Forstner bit
3:14 Triton Router to rout out the cavities
7:52 Masking tape and superglue you say? The cavities are looking good.
9:50 Now for the f-hole
11:54 The neck
13:36 The body - gluing and clamping the top
14:36 Ukraine Coat of Arms as the inlay and the Crimson logo out of Fimo
18:47 Carving and inserting the Fimo logo and inlay
26:25 Preparing the neck for the frets - and cutting with Crimson Fret Saw
28:30 Fretting using Crimson hammer, rubbers, levelling file, bevelling file, beam and cutters
39:12 Side dot inlays
42:35 Conclusion
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Thank you again for all your support, we really, really appreciate it! – Ben
Stay tuned and stay awesome!
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