I'm making a bound ebony fretboard for the first time and decided it needs orange binding. Which I attempt to make myself of course.
Join me in the workshop as I try to make two fretboards at the same time and play around with some orange stain and a vacuum bag.

This is the first guitar building series coming from the new workshop so I'm very excited to show you around as I'm building this guitar and explain what I'm doing and more importantly, why and how I'm doing things.

Take a look at the Obsidian Ebony from ThermalWood Canada:
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For a brief history behind this guitar you can watch the following videos:
   • What's happening?? - Anxiety and Depr...  
   • Thanks to your support I'm still here...  
   • Phoenix Rising - Prologue, A Guitar B...  

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:54 In this episode
1:20 Fretboard Collection
2:15 Ebony Substitutes
4:56 Obsidian Ebony
7:20 Fretboard selection
8:41 Thickness planing
16:41 Thickness sanding
21:22 Marking the Outline
23:36 Cutting the outline
27:18 Binding design idea
30:19 Flamed Maple binding
35:02 Cutting binding strips
38:07 Orange Stain
49:42 Binding channel
59:31 Centre Lines
1:01:11 Fretboard no.2
1:02:20 Oops
1:03:09 Cleaning up the edges
1:08:14 Changing my mind
1:09:30 Coffee & Design
1:11:45 Outro