Crimson Guitars, custom guitars start to finish

beauty on Flickr.

I strongly believe that physical beauty in a #guitar helps create great tone, this bracing is looking beautiful!

curves on Flickr.

The internals are as important as anything else in a #guitar, all the bracing etc is carved and prettified

plane on Flickr.

I’m loving the warm weather, the glue has cured now and I start planing the excess away..

under pressure on Flickr.

With each piece painstakingly cut and fitted the time has come for the brute force of a bunch of clamps!

veneer on Flickr.

The final stages of making the shell of this #guitar involve carefully cutting more veneer inserts..

clamped on Flickr.

Yesterday we left the new acoustic #guitar shell with about a hundred little clamps in place.. pretty no?

kerfed on Flickr.

The little iv clamps hord over the #guitar like ants on candy and another line of kerfing is glued in.

iv clamps on Flickr.

These stunning little clamps are some of my favourites, they are sold for shutting off iv tubes in hospitals!!

kerfed on Flickr.

It works, pretty much, the kerfing and strengthening of the sides is in place.. more to come though.

pressure on Flickr.

The fresh cut veneers are glued in place, the foam spreads the pressure nicely.