Ep. 2 - Hand Tool Only Build - Acoustic Travel Guitar from a 4x4 FENCE POST - Hand cut Scarf Joint

Welcome to Crimson Guitars https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonCustomGuitars?sub_confirmation=1 and Ben's home workshop. You asked and Ben will deliver...our eccentric (read insane) Luthier will be building an entire guitar out of a single piece of Mahogany! With hand tools only!

In this episode Ben hand cuts the truss rod channel with a scalpel blade, chisel, Mallet, and a fret slotting saw! He also calculates the scarf joint, cuts and glues the neck. Bonus at the end - a surprise box of hand made, tiny, vintage planes from vintagetoolshop.com which will come in handy for this build.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:03 The cut list. Measure, measure....
4:00 And cut!
4:22 First glitch. We have a crack, now a re-think is required.
7:48 Bring on the axe
10:08 The plane - and routing for the truss rod
16:11 Cutting the neck blank from the solid block, trial, and error going on here
19:56 Neck blank cut - now use those planes Ben.
23:55 Break angle and scarf joint
29:28 Oh Ben....what ARE you doing?!?
31:18 The neck is coming together
34:10 The Message! Collective amnesia required! And moving on -
35:44 Mini vintage hand-made micro planes - things of beauty.
41:36 Conclusion

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00:27 Feed My Ego
07:52 Suffer City Blues
10:41 Heavens Choir
14:55 Fast Track
20:30 Bright Red Lights
26:49 I Won't Let Go
31:17 Until It's Done
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