STUNNING Live Edge Guitar BUILD - Giant Burl Slabcaster
This live edge guitar turned out great, in my opinion. I’ll be gifting the guitar to my buddy Kyle, and he’s super excited with it.
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00:00 Introduction
00:11 Milling a questionably shaped massive burl
01:43 Flattening the guitar body
02:55 Prepping for epoxy fill
03:24 Pouring black epoxy onto the wood
03:48 Attempting to make a bad idea look good
05:23 Shaping the neck pocket
05:57 Grain filling with epoxy
06:46 Making the guitar neck
08:08 Questioning my design decisions
08:15 Fixing my bad design choices
08:30 Routing the electronics pocket
08:50 Routing the truss rod channel
09:09 Making the fretboard
09:45 Shaping the neck part 1
10:39 Fretboard inlays
10:46 Shaping the neck part 2
14:03 Adding threaded inserts to the guitar neck
15:23 Drilling the headstock holes
16:10 Installing frets
17:13 More guitar body work and cutaway shaping
18:08 Messing up the electronics pocket
18:38 Adding hard wax finish to the guitar body
19:17 Adding some reinforcements
19:45 Installing EMG pickups and hardware
20:29 Scarlett Guitars
20:33 Sound test and beauty shots
