Ep. 3 - Hand Tool Only Build - Acoustic Travel Guitar from a 4x4 FENCE POST - FIRE & Fretboards

Welcome to Crimson Guitars and Ben’s home workshop. What do Fire & Fretboards have in common? Simple - Ben Crowe! You asked and Ben will eccentric (read insane) Luthier will be building an entire guitar out of a single piece of Mahogany! With hand tools only! In this episode Ben will reinforce the neck with carbon fiber rods. He will burn and cut the fretboard from the Mahogany blank and glue it to the neck. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:27 A look back at the mini rebate hand plane 4:23 What’s going to happen in this episode 6:57 Hand routing channels for carbon fiber rods 8:52 Installing the carbon fiber rods 10:22 Problems with the Truss Rod 12:23 Fretboard options & Kit prototype in production 14:44 Prepping to cut the fretboard 17:16 Radiusing the Fretboard 18:50 Burning the Fretboard 21:47 Cutting the Fretboard 24:56 a fashion 26:07 How do you flatten the back of a radiused fretboard? 29: