Building an Electric Guitar from Scratch (with no experience)
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- My new signature model guitar is about to take the world by storm!
Should be in every major music store in no time!... once they uh... call me back.
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No retailer has called me back yet to stock the guitar yet...
BUT I have gotten a company to stock Sca-Taylor Guitars T-shirts!
store.dftba.com/collections/rob-scallon/products/copy-of-bella-canvas-template-shirt
Should I buy this for my first electric guitar when its out??
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how do I preorder?
try sponsoring another brand but tell them beforehand
Ayyy Kmac
Just go to his house
Kmac
Play a cardi b song without learning it
K before we make the next album we have 10 hours to make a bass and 10 hours to make a drum set
YO WASSUP XD XD ROFL
My haters throw rocks at me and IT hurts. I hope they don't throw The Rock at me because I like him as an actor. GAGAGAGAGA!!! I am funny!!! I am the funniest TH-camr EVAH! Please agree, dear drew
Andrew Huang
LESGOOOOO
Are you still "Space Truckin'?"
This is honestly a piece of art. A seasoned guitarist with zero woodworking experience, and a seasoned woodworking with zero experience with a guitar. Collaborating. Beautiful to say the very least.
that knigga a seasoned dorito
We have the same name and there can only be one
Thats basically a basic guiatr maker 😂 ametuer hour
This is how guitar enthusiasts imagine squires to be
Bruhaps
how guitar purists imagine ibanez and music man guitars to be
Squier are actually pretty good
Don’t hate me
Ok but seriously for the price they aren’t bad, with a good amp they can sound awesome 🤘
@@deejasart7766 no they're really good especially made in japan ones
@@rams6702 I got a squire Indonesia strat pack put a crl 5 way switch and cts pots and some Seymour Duncan hot rails it actually sounds pretty good but it definitely needs a better neck.
Alternative title: Rob and his buddy build a very sophisticated knife
Lol
More like an axe
I didn’t get this comment when I first saw it, now it’s hilarious 😂
Haven’t watched the vid yet but I’m excited
Knife with extra steps
Tabs:
Λ-Λ-
Underrated comment
Thanks, this helped a lot with learning this song.
@@d3fault1ng Np
Even on normal guitar this what I sound like 😂😁😄😀😐😔
@@22gsg80 lol tf
I'd love to see a second attempt not bound by a time constraint. Honestly though it's impressive you guys got a functional guitar in one day with no prior knowledge of building guitars.
BTW, for anyone curious, you can calculate the distance from the bridge any fret should be with this: scale length/2^(x/12). X is the fret number. Also, you can subtract this result from the scale length to get the distance from the nut. For example, on a 25.5 inch scale guitar, to find the first fret, just type into the calculator 25.5/2^(1/12), and it's about 24.07 inches away from the bridge or 1.43 away from the nut. Anyway, great video!
Please, don't complicate things unnecessarily.
thats about as simple as it gets lol, unless you just google all of them
@@dan_kay its a pretty simple formula, there's way worse things taught in physics classes
@@dan_kay this formula is incredibly simple and easy to understand, not sure how you could consider this complicated, unless you failed math in high school lmao
@@KirePlasmaX
LOL - you fool. Numbers mean nothing and have only a decorative purpose, and I can explain to you in four languages fluently why that is.
But let me guess: You failed Spanish in high school, right? Or German. Or any other language, because you were so busy with your numbers, hm?
As a woodworker and guitarist, I both enjoyed this and died inside
*cuts wood on table saw free hand while simultaneously playing wonder wall*
LOL exactly me aswell
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ditto
Dem feels
Official petition for Rob to make a guitar with an actual experienced luthier to see how different the result would be
I mean that's basically his Chapman line
He needs take it to the guys at Texas Toast. I think they'd be into helping him make this monstrosity work. ;P
@@noahculp9900 what i meant is the experience luthier tell him what to do, not makes one for him !
But simon has to be there
@@JJ_-fp9sj and comment every decision of the luthier. I would love to see him give an expert the "ok, but i would not have done it like that" 😂
I love how they saved the "time for chaos" part for the insanely precise placing of the frets
and it worked beautifully!
You know, it’s really a testament to the skill of luthiers that it took someone with extremely high woodworking proficiency to build… this. (You can just tell that Rob’s friend is a very talented and capable woodworker.)
I love that the humbucker is permanently wired as a single coil. Watching the soldering was the most painful part, possibly more painful than the eye gouger fret.
Lmao
Colin the one and only 🙏🏼😔
Spoken like a luthier :)
@CSGuitars At least if your contribution to the GGBO goes horribly you can be satisfied that it wasn't THIS bad.
(Hi Colin)
"You know what a bridge is?"
"No"
"You know what a pickup is"
"No"
"You know how to solder"
"No"
"Are these cables?"
"These are strings"
"Are these adjustors?"
"They're called tuners"
SO FAR SO GOOD
Lmao
SO WHAT
adjustors 🤣
Simon was really great.
i'm dying send help pls
Finally, a guitar that forces the player to pay attention to finger pressure, not touching the fret ends and most importantly face position! When the audience complains that it sounds dreadful I can proudly say, “Thats because it’s a Sca-Taylor.” T-shirt ordered.
I’m being completely genuine when I say that this is the most badass guitar I’ve ever seen.
"The least comfortable and least enjoyable instrument I've ever played" - coming from a dude with a shovel guitar this really means something.
At least the shovel doesnt have sharp edges
I’m also assuming the shovel is *super* enjoyable to play, just due to how nonsensical it is.
Justin johnson actually made his signature shovel guitar sound awesome, but i mean... he's justin johnson
He's just in johnson
you can definitely tell their friends from high school due to how easy they laugh when they're together
How did you get it right once but not twice
@@loveordeath33 there there
You can definitely tell they’re friends from high school because they said they’re friends from high school.
Good thing u guys were here to correct the grammar cause I'm a genius so I understood what was being said with literally no problem but for other ppl like u guys I see how it was necessary to correct now were on the same level of understanding
really it's just a technique to make vlog style videos more enjoyable by applying the principle; laughter is contagious
“I don’t think the trust rod matters”
Guitar now has a fear of any and all climate change
Gonna snap it’s strings when that wood gets wet
"truss rod"
I don't wanna know what a "trust rod" would be.
Its “truss rod”
Hey, Leo Fender tried it...
And failed.
Imagine buying a Chapman when you can build it from home depot
U can build any brand with that logic
@@midnite_in_november absolutely
@@midnite_in_november and if you want a vintage '63 Stratocaster you just need to get some really old wood.
@@Fitz1993 At least you could call it a "vintage wood" stratocaster
I made a ML1-RSU, does that count? (The U is for Ukulele)
It’s not out of tune, it’s just extra microtonal!
Those threats at an angle, those are by far the most fun and I wish he leant in to those.
@@PhillipRaymondGoodman *frets
@@10000weepingchoirs doh! I was really not thinking, like I don't think I can even blame that on autocorrect. That being said being said they are danger frets so.....
Jazz!
That's taking fan frets to another level
Brand name: Tallon = Taylor Scallon.
Sounds more metal to me.
Rob: "Draws Caparison headstock"
Also Rob: "No one does that, this is gonna' be totally unique"
Having Simon's dad come out to check on you guys makes this seem like 2 10 year olds stuck in 30 year old bodies fooling around in the garage trying to make a guitar. I love it
Simon’s brother coming out there to judge them also adds to this
Omg yes lol
wym thats what it makes it seem like, thats exactly what was going down lol
Dad: Did you make a guitar son?
Rob and Simon: Well yes but actually.....no
We desperately need Simon to become a recurring character on the channel. He's just such a cool presence in the video, we need more!
Agreed!
Yes !!!
Make a series on teaching him an instrument Rob!
Simon was such a great addition to this channel
Yeah this was awesome, so wholesome lol
I'm a musician and a hobby carpenter and this is just pure joy straight into my pleasure center.
This is fun because I'm a guitarist and my dad is a woodworker so I understand everything both of these guys are saying
We should try and build a drum-set in 10 hours. :-)
Dew it :)
Do it id watch it
Please!
Yes!!
Well if you want some great content then do it up!
"Mom, can I get a Chapman?"
"We have Chapman at home"
Most metal guitar of all time, literally takes a blood sacrafice to play it
Instead of working on the prototype again (it’s basically flawless), go and build mk-ii instead!
This was a great watch dude
a guitar that is constantly trying to torture and hurt its own player is like SO METAL omg that's probably the most metal thing ever
Exato!!
Well someone build a guitar out of his uncle s skeleton so this is probably the SECOND most metal guitar
@Rory Goodchild you heard him
Nathan Explosion approves. Skwisgaar thinks it's dildos though.
Almost... Filip Skelecaster is still and will be most brutal metal guitar ever made
When Rob is actually outdoors and it looks cold = no hat
I guess those hairs had some internal heating properties
like a true midwesterner
the hat is there to press the hair down onto the head and squeeze out the air
it"s the air between the hair providing insulation, the hair just holds it in place
Now that you've made the prototype, I'd be interested to see you two take your time and make something truly magical. Your knowledge of how to play might result in an incredibly versatile instrument, in the end!
I'm on hour six of binging all of the Rob Scallon that I missed in the last few years and this video, while being the 30th or something that I was interested in, turned out to be one of the best. You guys are really fun, and any collab between you and Simon, I am instantly clicking on.
"I dont think the truss rod is very important" made me laugh so hard
Hi Logan
Hey the original broadcasters didn't have any
I mean, in all fairness, this guitar has a lot bigger issues than lack of a truss rod
"I played guitar for like 8 years before I knew what a truss rod was, I didn't know it was there so I don't think it really matters" Famous final words.
"I played guitar for like 8 years before I even knew what a truss rod WAS, so it's probably not that important." I lost it.
LMFAO!!! I couldn't stop laughing either
It must not be important if you can go so long not knowing about it
i love the attitude of this video. just doing it without any planning and having fun on the way, being spontaneous.
Simons random little dance of joy cracks me up, I love it.
7:23 "making it thicker will make it heavier, so it will feel expensive"
S T O N K S
It is fun that modern guitars are thinny and expensive af
If you need us to tab anything on this, no.
Hehe lol
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@@HalfStepTides Hired
0 3 5
@@HalfStepTides When you're not sure if you're reading tabs or a PS2 cheat code. 😂
one of the funniest videos ive seen in a while reminds me of me and my old buddy building the worst longboards as kids XD thank you for this!!!! 100% would buy!!!
26:44 Simon's happy dance is this whole video's energy
"I don't think a truss rod is important"
Much later: we can't go above drop G
This is what "boys will be boys" should exclusively mean
Absolutely loved it
Also, you could've AT LEAST MEASURE the string spacing on that poor nut 😩😭😂
“The time for chaos is now .”- Rob
Love this vids so much. Full of genuine expression, passion and very heart warming. thanks Rob.
I love how in the opening shot I thought "oh surely he's not serious!", then as the video went on it became more and more obvious that you aren't
and then it turned out he was serious about leaving Chapman guitars behind at the end
some day when sca-taylor guitars is a multi-million dollar company, the shark-1 will be a stupid rare collectible
Some bonehead will sell it on pawn stars for twenty grand less than it's worth
@@ElessarEstel don't give the bonehead ideas
Did you mean multi-billion
Multi trillion??
It plays better than the strat copy thing I have here
The chaos that follows them getting the pickup to work is by far the funniest part of the video. Both of their celebration dances had me rolling
This is definitely how Les made the Log
Alternatively, Les, Leo, and Bigsby all figuring out what they’re doing together
Watching them make this guitar is reminding me of that feeling you get when you're trying to finish a school project at 3 in the morning on the day it's due...
I love how you both don't really know what you are doing but still make something amazing.
This is legit one of the most captivating youtube videos I've watched in a long time.
I legit didn't realize it was 40 minutes long until the end and legit feels like a full production show on the Discovery network.
I love you
Ah yes, the first clients are already here
The weird thing for me is that this video came up while I was filing the nut for a 7 string that I've been building based on a Kiesel Aries style from watching YOUR videos!! Also while wearing my recently delivered 'Four Levels of Death Metal' Hoody. No joke, Video evidence to prove it. Looking forward to your Thekla gig. Big love for you and Claire.
Yes.
"Distortion helps a lot". Truer words have never been spoken
30:52 always cracks me up for some reason
Awesome, and genuinely funny. I was rooting for you guys the whole time. You can tell that you were having a good time, working hard, and had a good sense of humor while working on this project. I wish you well, and look forward to some content in the future. Liked, subbed, & shared.😀🎸
That's the guitar we all drew on our notebooks when we were bored at school, come to life.
Ikr lol
"I played guitar for, like, 8 years before I even knew what a truss rod WAS, so I don't think it really matters."
Until you've got a bent neck next week or so without the truss rod.
All ik is an acustic electic and amp and plug ins
I’m sure he said that on purpose to piss off luthiers and aficionados 😂 he clearly knows and understands the necessity of a truss rod.
The thing is, the woodworking dude probably has all the tools to quickly and easily make provision for a truss rod.
It seemed a silly thing to skimp on given all the other stuff they would have to do like rout neck pockets and shape and sand. And the frets. God, the frets.
Yeah I mean I was living for years until I knew what a spine was, so... I guess I could live without it? Either way's fine I guess
I thoroughly enjoyed this whole video. Please do more projects like this!
Just finished watching the entirety of Rob's video with Schecter Guitars and wow........
This video tells a lot.
Great work guys.
Sca-Taylor Guitars: “That’s downright tolerable.”
*makes a measurement* “that’s pretty normal, actually”
As a luthier I can confirm this is how you build a guitar
Ok 👌
@Zombie Frogg It's uh... It's a joke as well
Lex Luthier strikes again
@Zombie Frogg Really? What tipped you off Genius?
@Zombie Frogg media.makeameme.org/created/damn-he-figured.jpg
I know this video was posted on April 19th 2021 but this guitar definitely needs to go places as I can’t believe that you built something so unique and impressive especially you did everything like almost perfectly and to be honest I didn’t even expect anyone to diy a decent guitar so well done!
That really impressed me
This brings me back to changing out my first pickups. this is amazing.
Well dude as a luthier watching this, gotta say you guy did better than I could’ve at a first no-training-whatsoever attempt - I call “It” a success !
“It”. Lmao
As another 'luthier' (only built 3 guitars so far and planing number 4 and 5) watching this, THAT SHIT GAME ME SO MUCH ANXIETY AND PAIN!!!! Hell, watching a 10 Minute video from any (at least decent) luthier here on YT would have made this better! Damn, even having just a close look at a real guitar would have made it easier to watch.
@@GroovingDrums they tried, had fun, learned a lot and make a hilarious video. I was also cringing at pretty much every step but also thought they were creative coming at certain things such as gluing the two pieces of oak (LOL) together for the body or the angled frets LMAO I never thought of that one ☝️my best advice to any new Luthier would be (other than get some formal training) measure three times cut once. How about that nut LOL my god 😂 laughed so hard but totally an easy trick to getting that measurement perfect every time
@@GroovingDrums chill master maker
@@GroovingDrums it's not "bad" or "incorrect", it's 2 dudes making something silly and having a riot while doing it.
"Scallon" would actually be a great name for a guitar brand on a serious note, but Sca-Tailor reflects the build quality much better
Or Talon, which would be especially fitting given the "raptor claw" and all the other sharp edges.
Or Scaler.
Or “Taillon”, that way you can include a warning that states “Be careful not to set your Taillon fire” . . . I’ll see myself out.
@@jesunjay Or Tayllon
Or "Scallion"? Gets pungent and personal (adding "I" see what I did there?) at the same time.
I love this little pull down/bend thing he does at 30:53 to 30:57 !
I love how stoked they are when something goes smooth.
This is the kind of team you want in your life
“You got 10 hours, GO!”
*cuts to a snack break 4 minutes in*
"Is that where the cables anchor"
Technically spot on and well articulated but also beautifully conveys how honestly little he knows about guitar haha. Awesome.
Rob, I used to run the front end team for GC and I just wanna say, we utterly BLEW IT by never working with you directly. So lame, but you're so much cooler than we could ever have been. I'm so stoked you're venturing out on your own and making your own quality instruments.
Yea you guys had a ton of fun. And yes your crazy too. Enjoyed.
Rob really just went to the store and bought wood like it doesn't cost a billion dollars per board foot right now, what a flex
Yes, but Im sure he has a lot of experience handling long hard wood
@@Mark-gd5vr man
@@Mark-gd5vr 😐
@@asinine7545 mad
Well it seems I have upset a few people
When Rob tried combining their last names together for their brand name I couldn't help but think "dude........ TALLON!!!"
I was thinking Scaylor...
@@Hennu_TRM Same
Tallon would have been PERFECT. And I was hoping they would call their flagship model the Raptor, after the various Jurassic Park references, though that has already been used by another company.
@@KonraddeRuyter Tallon Raptor sounds amazing
@@Dawid_Kulig And fitting since the end product will readily slice you to bits if you're not careful
I love how the level of effort just drops throughout the video
Seeing you compare watches is such a wholesome dad moment. Two dad's and their guitar son.
18:25 "You can't lose the Raptor claw, they're extinct Rob!" The chemistry between Rob and Simon is fantastic throughout this video!
That’s my favourite part😂😂😂
@@willbrown7062 same
@DEEJMASTER 333 no you're cringe
You can really tell they are long time friends.
"That's so intimidating"
"Yep"
The healthiest attitude to have towards a table saw is a little bit of fear
As a wood worker.
If you're scared of the table saw. DO NOT USE THE TABLE SAW.
they sense fear, and are unmerciful.
@@hellomoney333 I think they're talking more about respecting the tool so you're not so careless that it becomes dangerous.
@@hellomoney333 kickback on circular saws is a sight to behold
@@hellomoney333 When I took woodshop, I respected but did not fear the table saw.
I feared the band saw.
I'm wanting to get into making guitars since I want to really have that special feeling of playing something I made, but I'm afraid of not doing a good job. Seeing you guys fuck around and not know what you are doing makes me feel like I'm not alone.
Honestly i love the volume knob and really that accent side wood too
You didn't write a song, you created a whole new genre
Yeah, called mess lmao
[Include joke about jazz]
@@tamagreen9032 messcore?
Pain metal
Flimsy Metal
When you have a friend you want to bond with but your hobbies are polar opposites
The beauty of this thing is the more you play, it changes colour; it becomes more red with all the blood shed. You should call it the Shark-1 Masochista
Simon has such a cool voice for some reason, I'm obsessed with it
Damn. I’ve played guitar for about 7 years now, but by trade, I’m a carpenter and holy shit I wish I had that set up at my house. A planer, rip saw, what looks like a router. Also I wish I had a house
You're a carpenter, build your own house. Should only take about a day
10 minutes tops!
I really want Simon to discover his love of making fine guitars and then become a master craftsman
This is the best piece of luthier sacrilege I have ever seen
I'm a luthier and I had a great time watching the video ! You made my day :)
Rob detailing all of the ways the Eye Gouger could stab him was way funnier than it should have been.
I was crying
Rob: Basically if I do *anything* this could stab me in the face.
It might not make you a better guitarist, but it’ll injure any other nearby guitarists, making you look better in context.
Honestly I'm with Simon, I think yall should keep working on it and see it through. You two really could start up your own business. That solo danger spike could be reworked into a new kind of whammy bar. More like whammy brass knuckles but that's even cooler. Especially since you learned so much from Marshall, you two could definitely fix all the issues. Simon seems cool af too, great video.
Bridge - is where all these cables are going. Wow! This is truly amazing luthier!
The line where you said "'making guitars is hard', no, its not" is basically what i'm going through right now XD
I'm designing saxophone mouthpieces from scratch and after being told by a big brand "it takes tons of hard work and studying, its not easy" i am proud to say that i have a fully functioning and great sounding model after 3 weeks
How much are they? 👀
make an etsy store or something if you can make functional custom music gear people eat that stuff up!
Good for you, you should make them 3D printable
If Chinese kids can do it, you can to...
Epic
"I played guitar for like 8 years before I learned what a truss rod is so I don't think it really matters" really resonated with me
That was honestly probably my favourite solo you’ve come up with
I really enjoyed watching the whole process
I laughed. I cried. I had an asthma attack from laughing. I was horrified. Full range of emotions from a guitar build video. Well done.