Tutorials Ep 1 How to Carve a Les Paul Style Guitar Top tools rough carving

Welcome to Crimson Guitars and welcome to Part One of a short series of tutorials from Ben at Crimson Guitars teaching you how to hand carve a Les Paul style guitar top. In this episode, Ben walks you through his choice of gouges, made by UK firm Ashley Iles, for carving guitars and starts the rough carving process. You can find all the gouges and many more UK made fine hand tools at Chapters 0:00 Introduction 1:03 Most important How to secure your guitar on the bench while carving 2:30 Choosing your mallet and gouges 5:28 To begin carving draw on the instrument where you want to begin the carve, and where you want to end the carve. In this case, it is at the binding 9:16 Small cuts with a very shape gouge are what you are aiming for. 12:51 Instrument roughed out to the edges 12:58 Con