Ep 5 - Bind the F (hole) up! | Building a Guitar from 42,000 Year Old Wood!

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In this episode, Ben is soaking the Kauri fretboard in Cactus juice to stabilise it and he decides to bind the F hole too.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Ben's current obsession...
0;55 Making the fretboard
1:55 Using the Cactus Juice and a vacuum chamber to stabilise the fretboard
4:40 Bath time...sucks...
7:27 The fretboard now needs to cook
9:06 Back to the body and cleaning up the binding & wood filler
9:53 Designing a custom scratchplate directly onto the body
14:30 Binding the F hole...
19:10 Is your left pinky finger as confident as your right???
22:25 French BENding the veneer for the tighter F-hole curves
26:00 Cleaning up the binding
28:02 And there we go...next time...

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