A Visit with Leo Elliott, Owner of Scarlet Fire Guitars and Builder of Mik Bondy’s Tiger Guitar
Mik Bondy and Dan Crea got a chance to visit with Leo Elliott 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:
Get a hold of Leo and you can order a guitar for yourself! WEBSITE: Scarlet Fire Guitars
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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
Love the pictures and video. I am hoping that some of those pictures are of #008, mine! Thanks
Saw you 10-13-18 and 6-20-19 at the Granada theater in Dallas Tx. Anxiously awaiting your return. Keep checking tour dates but haven’t seen anything yet. Please let me know when you pass this way again!
Your friend,
Clem
Thanks! 🙂 we would love to come back to Dallas…lots of great folks there.