Channel: Crimson Custom Guitars

Category: Howto & Style

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Description: This Kit is now available for Pre-order - crimsonguitars.com/collections/kit-guitars/products/kit-guitar-travel-guitar-pre-order Welcome to Crimson Guitars youtube.com/user/CrimsonCustomGuitars?sub_confirmation=1 and Ben's home workshop. In this episode, Ben will hand carve the neck using a Leatherman knife or 3... He also drills the tuner holes (not an electric drill!) and begins to shape the headstock, volute, and heel. Done forget the SHRED RAFFLE to raise money for GGBO 2022 raffall.com/280659/enter-raffle-to-win-ben-crowes-shred-guitar-hosted-by-crimson-guitars £1 per ticket, you have until Wednesday, January 12th at 6pm (UK time) to buy your tickets. The winner will then be randomly chosen and announced in a video on Friday, January 14th. And the CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY - Instagram instagram.com/crimsonguitars We are giving away: the 250K Kit Guitar A black Kaiju t-shirt A set of the NEW Vibrant and Pastel Stunning Stains Winners choice of ISOtunes headphones Ben's favourite Leatherman - a WAVE+ Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:45 Headstock, frets, and inlay. However, hand drilling the tuner holes proves challenging 8:17 Ben will be proficient with hand saws by the end of this build! 10:13 Using a variety of hand tools to level the sides of the neck 13:00 Measure, measure, cut! Ah. Perfectly straight. 13:39 Headstock shaping 14:16 You can pre-order the Kit Version of this guitar! Click the Link. 15:38 Strange scale lengths - by hand..... 18:15 Next steps - purfling, fretting, or carving? 19:29 Shaping the neck - but it takes a while to figure out the bow saw. Hand tools are hard work! 25:35 Carving the neck using Leatherman knives and multi-tools 37:24 Conclusion Support us by supporting our Partners, and at the same time, get yourself a great Boxing Day deal with ISOtunes. bit.ly/3H04T53 Use code "Boxing21" and get o UK: Spend £100, get an XTRA 2.0 (Matte Black) free o Canada: Spend $150, get an XTRA 2.0 (Matte Black) free o EU: Spend 100€, get an XTRA 2.0 (Matte Black) free (must add the XTRA 2.0 Matte Black to cart to get it for free) From Sunday, December 26th - Friday, December 31st 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 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! ________________________________________________________________________________________________