What quite leaves a sad vibe about all this is knowing for sure that deep down you clearly wanted to have this one restored under your ownership. It didn't do, and perhaps it was for the best to just get rid of that sour taste in your mouth for once. That perhaps it's once again rebuilt, and not just used as a donor instrument to salvage the neck of it!
Hopefully it gets done proper and the guy sends it back for the review episode it deserves!! A friend of mine plays in the band We Are Wolves which y'all should totally check out and the guitar player plays mostly with a vintage RD. I've always loved this model!!
I have to admit, when i first came across this channel i wasn't the biggest fan... Then i woke up & can't stop watching. My favorite guitar related channel. Can't get enough.
While I somewhat agree with you I think it is worth noting that the "luthier" apparently became in bad health and that is why he was unable to finish the work for Austin. Now as for myself, I refinish guitars and customize them, I don't go so far as to call myself a luthier though. In my own shop I would never have done what this guy did. He stripped almost every, if not every guitar Austin sent him, removed the finish, the electronics and all and well that to me shows someone not very organized and not very professional!! I have about 4 stripped and sanded off but they are MY guitars and I work on them as I feel like it. when I work on one for someone else, that guitar gets all my attention until it is completed.
@@alabamahebrew Health troubles or not there is no excuse for not keeping in contact with your client. He or someone acting on his behalf could have easily reached out and explained what the situation was, or sent the guitars back. Sounds to me like he was using he "health issue" as a get out of jail free card. Who's gonna be mad a sick person? That said, he stripped the finish and hardware off all of the guitars all at once. That is a big no no in my books, you start and finish one project at a time. That way each one gets your full attention. Parts won't go missing and it wont take years to not finish a single one.
@@alabamahebrew i do the same thing....and i was a finish painter by trade for 35 years.....so i know what im doing.....but a 'luthier' is a different breed....craftsmen, who make their own tools, are the ones ive known all my life...this 'cad' seemed like a pirate, after parts that are irreplaceable, who got in over his head, and then felt guilty years later.
Yay!That's the Guitar Center in my area that got all my money over the years! Fun fact:It used to be a Mars Music back in the 90's but then moved over to the corner of that plaza...
@@kentfranklin736 Look what's missing on this baby : reverb.com/fr/item/25872306-gibson-rd-artist-moog-circuit-board-and-controls-1978?locale=fr-FR The buyer has to get that, and the missing piece of wood from a luthier, or he can choose a classic wiring LP like.
I wish you'd fixed the body and kept all the cool effects that you cleverly installed. I got new respect for you Trogs, those effects sounded really cool!
This channel has been inspiring me to get myself and older Gibson and I’ve been trying to find the perfect candidate and I think I finally found the one. Fingers crossed I can snag it :)
I had an RD custom with 3 buckers...i dont remember it having all those other switches you mentioned ..it was about the same color and finish as that one Unfortunately it was destroyed in a fire in 1982 ive never seen another one since...
I've been a subscriber for a couple years from back in your early days and you have made it very clear that you don't know much about wiring stuff on guitar so I wasn't fooled by this a bit but you definitely played it off really well. Lol
My hat is off to you, sir. You are amazing!! Gadgetry or not, just that you had the parts, and especially the know-how, to put this all together is outtasite. Given an additional hour, you could have restored this probably as well as the person you're sending it to. You're very good with a soldering iron, and that's worth it's wait in gold. A sincere "bravo" to you. PS - isn't that the most "Fender" looking neck you've ever seen on a Gibson?
Love my RD Custom. Bought it new in '77. Gutted it. Wired it like a Les Paul. Added a Fishman Powerbridge (piezo). It is my main guitar (and I own 18). Found out way too late that Rupert Neve designed the electronics. Cool knowledge: The "wing" was designed for seated musicians to rest their arm in a studio. Also designed for fusion jazz players. Pickups are much "hotter" than conventional ones...none of which was told to me by the dealer. It is much longer than a Les. The Maple was chosen for its' stability. The "Ghost" re-issues resurrect the shape only...and nothing else.
Happy Easter bunnies. sounds pretty good for what it is. if they made one that sounds like that, they couldn't keep them stocked. when someone puts a Kemper chip in some thing, watch out world. Ü ♫
I would love to see the chopped section recreated but it will never look right if done in the same type of wood. Does ebony come in chunks that big? That would be cool. Maybe with a forearm contour.
I saw someone with a Navigator (made in Japan by ESP) Korina Explorer this week. A luthier here in England did a superb rescue job on the body which had been hacked . The whole guitar is naturally relic'd with playing anyway so although you can see where the new Korina is ,it's not an eyesore.
@@shaunw9270 i would like to see that. Maybe youre right. I guess i was imagining it standing out real bad on what looks like a one piece flamed, figured why bother trying to hide it and just make it stand out with a nice contrast instead
@@onlywhenprovoked The You Tube channel is called The Guitar Show , the chaps' name is Ramon Goose. He's a superb guitar player and a nice bloke too. Pretty sure the video of his Explorer was this week 👍
Oh man I wish you would have let me had a chance at it!! That guitar can easily be repaired Austin!! Now if you wanted to stay with the stained finish the repair would be a lot more tricky and there's no way to hide that it has been repaired, but if you wanted to go with a solid color paint job, now it could have been repaired and no one would even be able to tell!!
So the output jack must be a stereo one then. And one of those elastic 'No.1' straps! Haven't seen one in aaages! :-)) And happy Easter everyone! :-) *EDIT* Yeah you totally got me with that belated April Fool's joke! X-))
Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) has popularized the RD Bass. He used a lot of Gibson basses like the ripper, the grabber, EB-2, the thunderbird, and (if it counts because it's epiphone) the Jack Cassidy Signature.
I had a '77 or' 78 Walnut finished Gibson RD Standard.. It was my first guitar when I was 10 yrs old or so, given to me by my dad, who had a lot of guitars back then. I almost chose a blue Blade super strat or a BC Rich Mockingbird, but went with the Gibson instead. Anyways, I gave it back to him a few years later and it ended up getting sold on ebay, to some guy over in Germany if I'm not mistaken. 😎 I sure wish I still had it, that's for sure! 🤦♂️
8:20 as soon as I heard that delay I was thinking of Big Sur Moon, then 8:30 happened and I was like YES! All joking around with pedals aside, that's going to be sick once restored.
I love RD’s. I’ve never been able to find one at a decent price. Gibson had them as regular production a couple years ago for $1800 but at the time I didn’t have the money.
ネセソトナニツキノハコスモ not for me. Scale length doesn’t affect my playing at all. I can’t feel or here a difference whatsoever and I’ve been playing guitar over half my life every single day. I generally use 10’s on everything.
Ok I'm feeling like an idiot cause I was impressed by how good that built-in distortion sounded lmao
He got me on that too because that distortion sounded like Malcolm Young "Back in Black" era.
Trogly: fluff made the RD famous
Ghost BC: Am I a joke to you?
Yes they are
This should have been the April Fool's episode.
What quite leaves a sad vibe about all this is knowing for sure that deep down you clearly wanted to have this one restored under your ownership. It didn't do, and perhaps it was for the best to just get rid of that sour taste in your mouth for once. That perhaps it's once again rebuilt, and not just used as a donor instrument to salvage the neck of it!
Hopefully it gets done proper and the guy sends it back for the review episode it deserves!! A friend of mine plays in the band We Are Wolves which y'all should totally check out and the guitar player plays mostly with a vintage RD. I've always loved this model!!
I think it's a fake Gibson, that's way lower than the headstock where it's supposed to be broken.
Yup, might as well pour a bunch of time & money into it. 😂😂😂🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
🤣🤣🤣
QueeferSutherland I think it looks good!
Lol
You win the internet this week, good sir.
I'm gonna open the backs of all my guitars tonight, I didn't know they put altoids in there
Once all the parts went in I am absolutely in love with this guitar
Man, this was an Easter AND an April Fool's episode all wrapped up in one. Nicely done, Austin!
Thanks for the spoiler 😂🤣🙈
@@Dirksdungeon Haha, oops!
The reverb sounded sick
Wish I had known it was up for grabs, I would have gone for it.
I have to admit, when i first came across this channel i wasn't the biggest fan... Then i woke up & can't stop watching. My favorite guitar related channel. Can't get enough.
I sure wish you'd stop referring to the guy that scammed you as a luthier. He's quite clearly not. Tarnishes good luthiers everywhere.
While I somewhat agree with you I think it is worth noting that the "luthier" apparently became in bad health and that is why he was unable to finish the work for Austin. Now as for myself, I refinish guitars and customize them, I don't go so far as to call myself a luthier though. In my own shop I would never have done what this guy did. He stripped almost every, if not every guitar Austin sent him, removed the finish, the electronics and all and well that to me shows someone not very organized and not very professional!! I have about 4 stripped and sanded off but they are MY guitars and I work on them as I feel like it. when I work on one for someone else, that guitar gets all my attention until it is completed.
@@alabamahebrew Health troubles or not there is no excuse for not keeping in contact with your client. He or someone acting on his behalf could have easily reached out and explained what the situation was, or sent the guitars back. Sounds to me like he was using he "health issue" as a get out of jail free card. Who's gonna be mad a sick person?
That said, he stripped the finish and hardware off all of the guitars all at once. That is a big no no in my books, you start and finish one project at a time. That way each one gets your full attention. Parts won't go missing and it wont take years to not finish a single one.
@@alabamahebrew i do the same thing....and i was a finish painter by trade for 35 years.....so i know what im doing.....but a 'luthier' is a different breed....craftsmen, who make their own tools, are the ones ive known all my life...this 'cad' seemed like a pirate, after parts that are irreplaceable, who got in over his head, and then felt guilty years later.
@@mikefenton5634 he said the dude got cancer and he verified that it was true
As much as I enjoy your un/boxing videos, these story-time videos are by far my favorite. I love what you did with the electronics in this one.
Yay!That's the Guitar Center in my area that got all my money over the years! Fun fact:It used to be a Mars Music back in the 90's but then moved over to the corner of that plaza...
I totally bought the effects from the knobs. Good thing I watched the whole video or I would have lost a lot of bets.
Was also fooled. Thought he had little circuit boards. They probably exist.. maybe some cheap import versions out there
@@kentfranklin736 Look what's missing on this baby : reverb.com/fr/item/25872306-gibson-rd-artist-moog-circuit-board-and-controls-1978?locale=fr-FR The buyer has to get that, and the missing piece of wood from a luthier, or he can choose a classic wiring LP like.
I wish you'd fixed the body and kept all the cool effects that you cleverly installed. I got new respect for you Trogs, those effects sounded really cool!
This channel has been inspiring me to get myself and older Gibson and I’ve been trying to find the perfect candidate and I think I finally found the one. Fingers crossed I can snag it :)
As you were playing, i see how cool that cutout looks now. Like a flame tip or swooping wave. Speaks movement.
I had an RD custom with 3 buckers...i dont remember it having all those other switches you mentioned ..it was about the same color and finish as that one
Unfortunately it was destroyed in a fire in 1982 ive never seen another one since...
I think you sound best this guitar.
Gibson reissued the RD Standard, I think, a few years ago. If I were you I'd try to find a used one.
@@julosx yea j got a 2010 gibby lp i would love to have my old RD back but there is a couple of fenders ahead of it lol...
I just want to thank you for entertaining and informing us on a regular basis while so many of us are housebound during the Covid-19 outbreak.
@7:01 That reverb ST2 sounds sweet. Great playing too!
I've been a subscriber for a couple years from back in your early days and you have made it very clear that you don't know much about wiring stuff on guitar so I wasn't fooled by this a bit but you definitely played it off really well. Lol
I love your vids!!!!! Also Happy Easter!!!
Well, you had us going there, Trogly! A great concept anyway, thanks for sharing.
I think I would rock it with the cut.
My hat is off to you, sir. You are amazing!! Gadgetry or not, just that you had the parts, and especially the know-how, to put this all together is outtasite. Given an additional hour, you could have restored this probably as well as the person you're sending it to. You're very good with a soldering iron, and that's worth it's wait in gold. A sincere "bravo" to you. PS - isn't that the most "Fender" looking neck you've ever seen on a Gibson?
Did you watch til after the playing demo lol
@@kentfranklin736 - Yes, I knew the "gadgetry" was fake. I mean, he still took a chunk of wood and made a pretty playable Gibson.
The tone you’ve got there is pretty good! You’re also playing really well today.
The playing demo with headphones on is an acid trip haha! Good Work!
Love my RD Custom. Bought it new in '77. Gutted it. Wired it like a Les Paul. Added a Fishman Powerbridge (piezo). It is my main guitar (and I own 18). Found out way too late that Rupert Neve designed the electronics. Cool knowledge: The "wing" was designed for seated musicians to rest their arm in a studio. Also designed for fusion jazz players. Pickups are much "hotter" than conventional ones...none of which was told to me by the dealer. It is much longer than a Les. The Maple was chosen for its' stability. The "Ghost" re-issues resurrect the shape only...and nothing else.
Great resurrection Austin...effects complete it
OK!! LET ME STOP YOU RIGHT THERE!! You just fixed that guitar nicely. It sounds AWESOME! KEEP IT!! Don't send it away.
Very good. Top video. I love RDs, even the reissues. The history shows brave development over the years.
Super impressive with the effect you put in.loved the altoids tin
Nice job on adding the effects onboard!
The big sur moon part was the cherry on the cake in this episode
That variable delay setting was really cool!
I guess i should've finished the video before i commented. LOL
Trogly u had me , im thinkin this guys been hittin the books and the bench when no ones lookin . Good ideas tho . Love the channel .
Thanks for another great vid, Trog!!!
@2:45 - Sometimes Murphy's Oil Soap works wonders. I know it for floors but some guitars I've worked on looked like they had been walked on for years!
I love this, pure trogly energy all the way throught!!
Dude, You build a radical guitar as it is! Thank You From Danny
What distortion circuit are you using?
that distortion is actually legit
What distortion pedal did you use? It sounded so good
Happy Easter bunnies. sounds pretty good for what it is. if they made one that sounds like that, they couldn't keep them stocked. when someone puts a Kemper chip in some thing, watch out world. Ü ♫
I would love to see the chopped section recreated but it will never look right if done in the same type of wood. Does ebony come in chunks that big? That would be cool. Maybe with a forearm contour.
I saw someone with a Navigator (made in Japan by ESP) Korina Explorer this week. A luthier here in England did a superb rescue job on the body which had been hacked . The whole guitar is naturally relic'd with playing anyway so although you can see where the new Korina is ,it's not an eyesore.
@@shaunw9270 i would like to see that. Maybe youre right. I guess i was imagining it standing out real bad on what looks like a one piece flamed, figured why bother trying to hide it and just make it stand out with a nice contrast instead
@@onlywhenprovoked The You Tube channel is called The Guitar Show , the chaps' name is Ramon Goose. He's a superb guitar player and a nice bloke too. Pretty sure the video of his Explorer was this week 👍
Aw. It was a joke... you got me
You definitely got me on that! I was legit upset that you skipped over the special electronics without explaining. Mid April fools I guess.lol
one of the coolest vids i've seen lately :)
Super cool stuff you did with that hunk of wood! Very interesting, 2 bad it's not a keeper...
I do the same thing with the masking tape.
Do you use kratex polishing blocks? Those work great on frets. Nice quick job 👌
Oh man I wish you would have let me had a chance at it!! That guitar can easily be repaired Austin!! Now if you wanted to stay with the stained finish the repair would be a lot more tricky and there's no way to hide that it has been repaired, but if you wanted to go with a solid color paint job, now it could have been repaired and no one would even be able to tell!!
Very cool Austin man. I dig it.
I was quite surpised when you started playing big sur moon
The distortion doesn’t sound that bad! Lol you got me at the end
Great sound!!! So different!!!
This may be your best playing demo (technical ability wise)
So the output jack must be a stereo one then. And one of those elastic 'No.1' straps! Haven't seen one in aaages! :-)) And happy Easter everyone! :-) *EDIT* Yeah you totally got me with that belated April Fool's joke! X-))
You had me going there for a minute, Austin... shame, shame!!!! (I actually enjoyed the video! Thanks!)
That’s what you call a hot mess. Happy Easter thanks for the haha, stay safe
Nice video, I don't know what I hate more....amputees or home made relics!
Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) has popularized the RD Bass. He used a lot of Gibson basses like the ripper, the grabber, EB-2, the thunderbird, and (if it counts because it's epiphone) the Jack Cassidy Signature.
I love the look of Gibsons with maple fretboards. Especially with the golden Gibson logo.
Awesome and creative mods.
Good job Trogly !
great vid
The RD type guitar that Fluff plays is a Balaguer Hyperion. Balaguer is a great guitar company in Pennsylvania.
I like the pitch shifter
Happy Resurrection Sunday! Christ is risen!!!
I want that guitar!! It’s cause of the all maple-ness of the guitar, reminds me of a Grabber G3
In the limited time that you had you covered a lot of ground with that one guitar, top job as far as I am concerned.
nice job on the Big Sur Moon!
Hey man what was the resolution of the loose pickup in the iommi monkey SG ? Really discouraged with my beloved Gibson.
You had me with the built in effects lol. Didn’t second guess it because that is a thing on some guitars.
Man you had me going. I was like damn I didn’t even know this was possible and why have I not seen it before???
Austin, how can I find you on Reverb. Like your posts and video's and wish you would do more on acoustic guitars as well, Thanks...
What's the song at 7:10?
Nice
I had a '77 or' 78 Walnut finished Gibson RD Standard.. It was my first guitar when I was 10 yrs old or so, given to me by my dad, who had a lot of guitars back then. I almost chose a blue Blade super strat or a BC Rich Mockingbird, but went with the Gibson instead. Anyways, I gave it back to him a few years later and it ended up getting sold on ebay, to some guy over in Germany if I'm not mistaken. 😎 I sure wish I still had it, that's for sure! 🤦♂️
Groovy playing! Sweet built-in distortion!!! lol
Great man!!
what's the song @ 9:28
Knew you could not wire up that thing but somehow I did get excited.
My god what I wouldn't give for a project RD. Seriously considering getting a kit build but a real deal would be amazing.
Loved the video man! Could you please review the Epiphone SG Muse?! Thanks 😎
Early squad represent!
right here
Aye!
I’d leave the distortion , then put 2 humbuckers in it . Change it back to semi normal wiring. It’s a awesome guitar
I hope someone rebuilds this .👍
8:20 as soon as I heard that delay I was thinking of Big Sur Moon, then 8:30 happened and I was like YES! All joking around with pedals aside, that's going to be sick once restored.
Love the Big Sur Moon riff
Hey Trogly! When is the Tony Iommi SG review coming?
cool rig man
I hope this RD will keep his soul
As ola England would say. Will it chug?
I love RD’s. I’ve never been able to find one at a decent price. Gibson had them as regular production a couple years ago for $1800 but at the time I didn’t have the money.
I don't think the modern ones had the 25.5 scale though. The Gibson scale is a complete deal breaker imo.
ネセソトナニツキノハコスモ not for me. Scale length doesn’t affect my playing at all. I can’t feel or here a difference whatsoever and I’ve been playing guitar over half my life every single day. I generally use 10’s on everything.
🎶I once took a trip to Toledo Ohio
Its like being in no place at all. 🎵
10:30 Pheeeew, I really thought you had some kind of cheap Chinese board there, and I was wondering "why?". You got me.
this so cool dude
Krist Novaselik The bassist for Nirvana usually played an RD Bass
Yes , around about his knees usually lol 😂👍
@@shaunw9270 He's a pretty tall dude too and playing with a pick, must've been pretty difficult
@@frontnsenter8888 Yeah never understood why he made it difficult for himself but I guess they must've thought it looked cool 😎
Can you do a tutorial on how you wired that beast?