How to make a custom fretboard inlay | Quilted Maple LES PAUL build | Part 3 of 4

Part 3 of the quilted maple single cut build. In this video I demonstrate how I make a make a guitar neck; including making custom inlays, neck carving with carving knives and how I make grain matched control covers.

[@spencerb2631]

So cool that I get to see my baby being built!

[@ADFinlayson]

It was a lot of fun to make!

[@Exsomos]

That you’ll sell to me for super cheap!!!! I wish!!!!!
You’re a Lucky mf’r right here. Lol

[@ADFinlayson]

@@Exsomos Sorry dude, these are not cheap guitars.

[@Exsomos]

@@ADFinlayson no sir, they are not cheap at all. Love your work bud 🤘🏼

[@remembertheblacksabbath]

It is so calming and satisfying watching these kinds of videos! No sound other than the sounds of the craftsman practicing his craft! You build some ridiculously beautiful guitars mate!🔥🔥🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@ADFinlayson]

Thank you mate, glad you enjoyed the video

[@monday6524]

A Master Builder at work! We learn a lot from observation!

[@adamsilvis4845]

So great bro....so great. Learned alot of new ways to make the neck with the hand planes.

[@ADFinlayson]

Thank you, glad you liked it.

[@davidandpamfoster540]

where do you get your thick pearl?

[@ADFinlayson]

Can't remember, probably ebay

[@Leonard.J.Mills.]

Have to tried to make guitar 🎸 from Indian Rosewood?

[@ADFinlayson]

Yes I regularly use Indian Rosewood for fingerboards

[@Leonard.J.Mills.]

@@ADFinlayson Can we team up Ash? I am a timber merchant specializing in exclusive Rosewood Timbers and Furniture.

[@ADFinlayson]

email me [e-mail]

[@Leonard.J.Mills.]

@@ADFinlayson Sure. You'll see an email from me soon.

[@Leonard.J.Mills.]

@@ADFinlayson I have just email you. Please check.

[@reddsshaker3477]

Why do so many of you younger builders carve the shape on the back of the neck at the 1st fret area and heel area instead of simply carving the entire back of the neck? It’s just odd to me. Been building since the early ‘90s and I’ve always carved the back of the neck as a whole. The only ‘pre’ thing that I do is shape a ‘flat’ down the center of the back of the neck from the 1st fret to the heel transition….that gives me my overall neck thickness and taper. The rest of the carve is done as an entire length. Contour gauges, light and shadow, and feel is how we carve necks. This is the way we’ve all done it from day one. This pre-carving thing just seems ‘Guitar building 101’.

[@ADFinlayson]

I've carved at least 20 necks the way you're describing, I just like this method at the moment.