Welcome to Crimson Guitars https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonCustomGuitars?sub_confirmation=1 and welcome to a unique new Guitar Building Video from Crimson Guitars and the 2020 Build Challenge; in honour of this new decade - and in thanks for exceeding 200,000 subscribers here on YouTube!
To make this a serious challenge Ben asked Instagram what type of instrument he should attempt to build in just 20 hours and 20 minutes; from the body shape to the pick-up configuration, neck construction, and even the number of strings. Our wonderful Instagram followers did not disappoint - because they set one heck of a challenge!
Ben will be building a totally unique multi-scale fanned fret guitar with a through-neck design a hollow body and custom inlay!
At the end of January 2020, this instrument was raffled off to one of our fabulous customers.
In this episode, Ben is still working on the neck.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:54 18:52:28 It's all about the neck
0:55 Masking tape and super glue trick
3:04 To the Triton router table
6:39 Planing the headstock
8:22 So much work goes into a neck, (he sounds a little stressed!)
13:08 Back to the router, plane and proceed
17:56 Time to look at the fretboard (the clock is ticking)
22:31 Glueing and clamping the fretboard
22:55 2hrs 20mins in he has the neck black nearly complete
25:49 17:55:24 - stopping for lunch, on to Episode 4
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