Ep 5 - Neck Radius - Ben Builds a UNIQUE Crowd Designed Hollow Multi-Scale Guitar in 20 hours!

Welcome to Crimson Guitars https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonC... 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 works out the fretboard radius, marks, and cuts the fret slots, works on the inlay and the fretboard binding.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:24 16:17:18 Fretboard cured, off with the clamps, on to the router
2:25 Next, radius the fretboard, and measure and mark frets
11:30 Cutting the frets, placing the inlay
17:47 Binding the fretboard
22:26 14:11:42 Done for today and on to the next episode
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