Building process of the MAG guitars

Live all the steps in the making of the guitars MAG will be using

With luthiers Crête & XB (Guillaume Crête et Xavier Bouchard), the production of the new guitars MAG will be using has now begun. These guitars, a 6-srting and a 7-string, will be used to record the next MAG Project record.

All the steps of the building process will be presented to you here.

Don't hesitate to communicate with Crete & XB guitars for more information and place the order for your next guitar.

Step 1 :

• Glueing the body halves and tracing the shape.
• Wood used : Canadian flamed maple

Step 2 :

• Cutting the body shape.

Step 3 :

• Glueing and cutting the neck parts

Step 4 :

• Cutting the body shape

Step 5 :

• Glueing the headstock and fingerboard

Step 6 :

• Cutting the headstock et fret positioning

Step 7 :

• Installing the inlays, sanding the fingerboard

Step 8 :

• Installing the frets

Step 9 :

• Shaping the neck
• Cutting the tremolo cavities
• Cutting the neck cavity
• Installing the neck

Step 10 :

• Cutting the pickup cavities
• Finishing touches

Step 11 :

• Painting the 6-string guitar

Step 12 :

• Guitar finish

Step 13 :

• Electronics

Step 14 :

• Final adjustements
• Fret dressing, adjusting the truss-rod, height of the strings, etc.

FINISHED

• Both guitars are now completed and their quality is beyond excellent.
• Thousand thanks to Guilaume Crête and Xavier Bouchard who actualised all my demands and ideas that I brought to them (not to say forced...)
• Don't hesitate to call Crête & XB to make your next guitar!
• To warch those guitars live in action, don't miss the next MAG Project shows.

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Call or write to Crête & XB guitars to start the production of your next guitar!

• e-mail : contact@cretexb.com
  
• phone : (418) 841-4963