Instrument details: Duncan Cruttenden - Carved top, semi hollow electric guitar

Joining the spalted maple cap

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Fitting the truss rod

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Duncan has made his own templates for routing the bulk of the carve...

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The depths of each rout gives a contour line of the desired carve

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This is then refined with planes and scrapers

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A laser line can help to show these contour lines when fine tuning the curve

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The mahogany body with chambers routed

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Time to glue the maple cap

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Fitting the neck. The join must be not only structurally and aesthetically excellent, but also have exactly the correct angle and alignment

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Gluing the neck

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Binding the ziricote fingerboard

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Gluing the fingerboard. Alignment is ensured using small dowels which will be covered by the frets

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Setting the action before the finishing

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Duncan's finished guitar

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