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Welcome to episode 7 of this ONE-day Build…yes…really!
Ben continues to make this Star Wars-inspired guitar…
Welcome to Crimson Guitars https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonCustomGuitars?sub_confirmation=1 and Ben’s home workshop for Day 4 of the Insane 1 day (???) LIVE Scratch Guitar Build to celebrate hitting 300K subscribers. Now you can watch a whole day of work in just under 1 hour. Watch the original live stream here https://youtu.be/XCAwiIaIprI
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction & Recap
1:51 Let’s play hunt the Nut
2:30 Finessing the Backplate
5:44 He remembered the Gloves this time
10:07 Skillshare
11:31 Accentuating the edge of the fretboard
13:57 Weather Update…
14:10 Scale Length
14:44 Time for Hardware - Fitting the Bridge/Trem
18:24 Drilling through the Aluminium Top - Step drill anyone?
25:04 Tip of the Day - delicate drilling? Start in reverse!
26:52 Watch Ben do something very silly…
29:28 Backplate cured - time to tidy the edges
30:45 Side Dots drilled with a pin vice and installed
33:25 PSA how to deal with Superglue in your eye!
34:21 Aluminium accents for the backplate
36:43 Tool Trick: how to hold a jeweller’s saw while cutting through Aluminium
37:50 Sibling rivalry and accidents involving sharp blades…
39:45 How to secure the backplate - screws or magnets?
40:18 What Ben learned today and a recap
41:47 Final shaping of the Headstock and side dots
45:02 Doggy Cam
45:13 Cleaning up edges, gaps, curves and Alternate Universes
47:15 Making the backplate magnetic
49:40 Recap & Conclusion
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