Tutorial - Ep 2 - How to Carve a Les Paul Style Guitar Top by hand - Gouges

Welcome to Crimson Guitars https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonC... and welcome to Part Two of a short series of tutorials from Ben at Crimson Guitars http://www.crimsonguitars.com teaching you how to hand carve a Les Paul style guitar top.

In this episode, Ben discusses a selection of gouges from the fantastic Ashley Iles toolmakers http://www.ashleyilestoolstore.co.uk/ (some of the best chisels, gouges, and turning tools he has ever used)

The different shapes of each gouge have their own tasks when carving a guitar by hand and as well as talking about this Ben shows you several of the methods he uses for sharpening his carving tools.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Work out your line and curve and take out the material within those parameters
8:26 Sharpening the gouges. Ben discusses various stones and methods
16:10 Continuing the carve
17:14 Continued in Ep 3
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