A visit with Leo Elliot and Scarlet Fire Guitars
Mik Bondy and Dan Crea got a chance to visit with Leo Elliot at his Scarlet Fire Guitars workshop in Dallas Texas. Leo is the builder of Mik Bondy’s #007 Tiger Guitar that he plays exclusively with The Garcia Project. You can read about and see pictures of Mik’s Tiger guitar build here.
Here is a short interview with Leo, and some photos of our tour of the shop below:
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- Leo Elliott – Master Craftsman and Artist – Owner and builder of Scarlet Fire Guitars
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- A new Tiger being built.
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- Neck for a new Tiger guitar.
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- clips!
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- Some Inlay materials
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- Back of a new Rosebud guitar.
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- Back of a tiger
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- some amazing inlay material that leo will use for some lucky guitar!
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- brass plates cut and ready for a guitar
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- Got Brass? Dan Crea holds up some pickup blanks.
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- Got brass?
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- Mik with two half of a wolf!
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- A new wolf being built.
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- Leos rig in his shop for testing every guitar.
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- Inside of the pickup cavity in Mik’s Tiger. Note the modular pick up clips
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- Leo with his modular pickups that he built for Mik Bondy
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- close up of Mik’s guitar with modular pickup section.
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- Leo checking frets and relief on Mik’s Tiger guitar.
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- Leo working on Mik’s Tiger.
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- Leo tries out Mik’s Tiger after doing some neck work.
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- inlay work for the back of a new Tiger guitar.
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- some sections of wood that Leo has in the shop.
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- One of the new tigers being built now by Leo.
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- Tiger cut but not shaped yet. Leo built a custom router rig to do the lion share of routing.
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- More brass blanks
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- Leo in his workshop
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- some blanks and guides for leos guitars
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- Leo’s own routing rig he built to help carve the tops.
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- One of the new Tiger guitars along with a routing blank.
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- A Tiger Neck.
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- Some wood samples
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- A collection of parts for building
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- Some shapes and blanks for cutting and routing.
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- Dan with a tiger routing blank
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- A new tiger being built