Ep. 2 - How to Build a Unique Custom Guitar - Easy Inlay Design? Ben Crowe GGBO Invitational 2021

Welcome to Crimson Guitars https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonC... and Ben's home workshop where he is finally getting started on his Great Guitar Build Off 2021 Kit Build; and what a build this is going to be... #greatguitarbuildoff2021 #greatguitarbuildoff

Ben has always said that when designing a fretboard inlay, you should choose organic shapes and lines as these are more forgiving than perfectly straight lines, angles and circles. So, of course Ben decides to be contrary...with a huge deadline looming...and a complicated inlay covering the whole fretboard! Will he make it? And what do you think of his idea for the back of the guitar?

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Designing a traditional Vine inlay
5:30 Deconstructing a traditional inlay
6:45 Do what I do , not what I say...
8:28 Choosing inlay materials
11:51 Using the natural curves of a shell to guide the design
12:15 Working with shell - safety precautions
15:51 Editing the inlay design
16:18 Cutting out the leaves for the inlay
18:27 Changing the shape & material of the leaf inlays
20:24 Laying out all the inlay pieces
21:47 Cutting Mother of Pearl for perfling
24:20 Another inlay design change
25:10 The other masking tape trick to keep fiddly inlay pieces safe
25:57 Planning the back of the guitar
32:13 Tips on Headstock design
32:56 Shaping the back of the guitar
34:09 Binding the back of the guitar
35:44 Cleaning up the binding
36:20 Conclusion & a preview of the guitar

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