Phoenix Rising Guitar Building Series Episode 14 - Routing the Neck Pocket & Cavities

In this episode I am routing the neck pocket and fitting the neck for the first time in the Phoenix guitar build.
No guitar body should be without a fitting belly carve, so let's carve one.

Join me in the workshop where I give jou a honest look into what it takes to make one of my guitars.

This is the first guitar building series coming from the new workshop so I'm very excited to show you around as I'm building this guitar and explain what I'm doing and more importantly, why and how I'm doing things.

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   • Thanks to your support I'm still here...  
   • Phoenix Rising - Prologue, A Guitar B...  

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:15 Creating the raised Center
13:07 Making the Neck Pocket
13:43 Neck Pocket Template
16:50 Neck Angle
17:59 Neck Alignment
31:03 Neck Pocket Depth
32:23 Routing the Neck Pocket
36:20 Fitting the Neck
41:53 Change of Plans
42:45 3-Way switch Cavity
48:49 Controls
51:21 Belly Carve
58:38 Outro