Thanks droid. I took a break for a few months but I just put one up yesterday I finally got to play this thing in the video and I'm back on it now. During my break I got authorization to monetize, bought better recording and editing gear and picked up quite a few more projects for the near future. So expect me to be back on much more regularly and thanks again for your time and kind words.
I’m loving how you try and see what actually is possible compared to what people on the internet actually says. Literally the only proof of tests I have ever found
Thank you so much lego master. I really appreciate the kind words. I thought I would get a lot of hate for this series but there has seemed to be an abundance of nice people like yourself. I'm glad you have found it enjoyable and I hope it can help you in some way.
I don't comment too often, but they're lengthy when I do, sorry. I've been watching non stop videos about guitars after becoming a pandemic guitarist. I've already built 3 partscasters and I'm only 5 months in. I decided on building my own design for my next project as I find it odd that a lot of builders make the same exact guitars from 70 years ago. Strat shape, duo sonic size and scale, one middle pickup, no pickguard cause theyre ugly, single coil sized P90. And that's how I stumbled here. Seriously, thank you for your channel. I think that experiments like the ones you're doing help others with the same ideas or questions in showing them how to experiment on their own. I also believe this type of experimenting is what helps drive guitar innovation. Why are there no pedals onboard guitars? 100% know I could fit 5 of those mini pedals onto my guitar, but 0% knowledge on how to wire that. Imagine having a guitar with 30 knobs on it, the glory. Impatiently awaiting the day you find out how to get a nice pickup design at the 12th fret. Can't wait for more content, thanks for the laughs too. KiLlS S suSstAiNnN
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to type these kind and inspiring words fooglez. It is a strange thing in the guitar world so many myths floating around and so much disdain for any new technology. If you put that same pattern of thinking into other subjects like computers or warfare it would be considered crazy. I'll admit I love retro cars and guitars/amps but it would really be like someone fighting with only rocks because a rocket is only for some guy who fights shadows in his bedroom not a REAL warrior (what they say about guys who play digital amps/effects) Or if someone only used old tube and tape driven Ibm computers the size of a building to check their email because the new computers just feel wimpy and they dont smell the same LOL Speaking of that If you look back to some of the cheap 60s-70s guitars it seemed that quite a few had onboard effects like fuzz and distortion. Oh and also some early guitars with SYNTH control built in like this: i.pinimg.com/originals/38/f9/01/38f90121dad207edb6c13e014c59166d.gif I guess if you really think about it an active guitar basically isnt much more than weak pickups and an onboard FET boost pedal? but if you said that in a forum you would be attacked like a hornet in a bee hive. I will put that 12th fret pickup idea in my notes and if/when I get around to doing a video on it I will give you a shout-out. It may never be a full build but I think I could make up a rig and do some experimenting on placing pickups much further up the string. Anyway thanks again and I am so glad you find the info I share to be useful as well as enjoying the unorthodox style and attitude. That is Awesome. Peace bro... TILL NEXTIME!!!!!
@@heavymetalATC No problem! I've been really enjoying all of your videos and topics. I'm all on board for old and vintage stuff, my cars are all older than me from the 70s and 80s, second hand tools from who knows when, tape deck fanatic, i understand the appeal for sure. I think Fenders designs are great, but I also feel like there hasn't been a single guitar that I've tried that felt "right" or looked "right" yet. And once you get past squier, you're talking a price range I'm really not interested in paying. So in general there's really no option for me and that's why I turned to partscasters. All of my partscasters have been around $200 and play just fine for me because I invested time instead of money. I carved deeper body contours into them and painted them to my own color choice. At the end of it all, it comes down to personal preference and what you want to get out of the guitar. If people want the vintage stuff from the 50's I'm all for it. I just realized after building a few and playing non stop through these months that there's a lot that I'd like to change. Almost all of them had small issues that I wanted to change. In the end, building my own from scratch is the only option I have. I think the 80's was pretty wild lmao, they really went nuts with their designs and ideas. Stoked to see any content bro, I was just throwing out ideas that were racking around in my head. Just felt like you could build some sort of micro bar pickup and hide it under the fretboard while building a neck. Either way, a rig to move it up and down the fretboard would be cool, because I also wondered about a pickup at the head of the neck. If you put a capo in the middle of the fretboard (anywhere really) then you can pluck the strings on the neck side of the guitar and get to higher octaves because the capo acts as a bridge, splitting the fretboard in half. Idk if that's a thing or not, just noticed it while fooling around. Have a good one my dude. Be well and keep up the good content. Thanks for the reply!
Thank you Fat Cat. I hope you have found a new need to go searching the neighbor hood for thrown out dressers and such as they are actually just guitars in the rough.
Thank you so much Javier. I thought it was pretty cool myself but a few people on face book seemed to think it was ugly in the rendering. I guess you just get used to looking at common shapes so the odd ball just looks strange and strange = ugly to people I guess. Sorry for the late response I have decided to really try to step up my game and try to do a better job of making videos and managing the channel. Thanks again for taking the time to watch and leaving such a kind comment.
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and leave such a kind and inspiring comment Melon. I apologize for the late response I had taken a break but hopefully my videos should be of a higher quality and upload frequency. Thanks again truly.
Speaking of free wood, I’ve found a lot of free “torrefied” oak (heat treated pallets) from a warehouse I used to work at. Additionally, I’ve gotten a lot of free mahogany, fir, and maple in “free scrap” boxes outside of a few local door manufacturers. Ain’t I lucky? And as luck would have it, I live next door to a woodworker with a large shop where he makes custom stairs and things for rich peoples houses… and lives in a single wide trailer. I’ve been helping him and his wife out with garden projects and whatever heavy lifting/brute labor they need done. What great friends to have! I have a project idea that I’d like to run by you. I have an old sewing machine pedal that would be great to turn into some sort of effects box. Maybe either a reverb pedal that changes the tension on the spring, or a way of changing the modulation speed on a tape delay (I’ll be watching those videos next!), or a controlled feedback/booster/distortion pedal of some sort. I don’t know, what do you think?
Thank you for watching and taking the time to write such an awesome in depth comment Jason. That is great, My friend Jacob has a ton of pallets he got from his workplace years ago and He's always trying to get me to take some or trade some for work. I have just never taken him up on it as of yet. I know of a sawmill and a pallet making company close to my dads house and he keeps telling me to just ask if I can have scrap and they will let me take some but Ive also yet to try that either.. He does and he burns it for heat LOL The guy that works on all the rich peoples houses and lives in a single wide... Man that's actually very typical unfortunately. I totally used to be in that boat I used to do flooring and construction and roofing as well (Roofing Sucks sooo bad ruined my body for good) but you are always pulling up to these multi-million dollar mansions in gated communities on the river and building all this beautiful stuff then I would go home to a leaky1967 pink flattop trailer in a ghetto dangerous trailer park... I had enough of that after my body was hurt from the roofing I just said no more, If im going to do all this work it will be on my own stuff. I ended up farming for a few years to make a deal to get an abandoned house with land and a garage and I was able to fix it up little by little... still a work in progress you know how that goes but it feels good that now when I do work its not for someone else's benefit. I swore Id never tote another bundle of shingles or do roofing ever again but I did an entire metal roof on the house and did a nail over shingle job on the garage and it felt totally different. I was actually happy to do it and I could take my time. Ahhh the sewing machine pedal I dont know exactly what kind of rotary switch or potentiometer those have inside but it would definitely be a cool chassis for an effect pedal or expression pedal, I'm sure you could rig whatever kind of pot in there somehow to make a volume pedal or adjustable gain pedal etc. You may could just run a cord from the pot and put a plug on one or more of your pedals hooked to a pot that controls say: tremolo speed or gain etc. and use it to control that pedal remotely just like the knob did but you can use your foot. I know it has been ages since you made this comment so let me know if you ever figured something out with it and if so how did it go and what did you end up doing id love to hear of the results. Thanks again Jason I appreciate the correspondence.
I had to laugh at your sustain comments. The first successful guitar build I did in 89 was a through neck of solid oak with a body of cherry and oak. The bridge is one of those giant Washburn surface mount vibrato roller bridges with a locking nut. The neck has two 1/4" steel rods for reinforcement...not adjustable. After 30 plus years, the neck hasn't moved even a hair. And, to quote Nigel Tufnel as far as sustain, "You could go have a bite and come back later and that one would still be going..." There is a downside...the guitar weighs about 16 lbs. I can get through one or two songs before I switch to my much more recent lightweight builds. ;)
I had a gretsch that was 13.5 pounds out of the factory the heaviest one that ive ever seen in my life, I sold it cause my back is bad and that thing was not doing any benefits before i quit playing due to health reasons
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment guys, Yeah Chainduck this one is gonna be a beast as well, the body with no neck and no hardware is about 6 lb, then it has a bigsby and 3 pickups made of wood with 20 Neo magnets overall and a steel control plate, back plate etc... Its gonna be a heavy one for sure, shes like a cadillac its built for cruisin not for speed. LOL. I bet itll probably be about 15lb. My amp is 1 inch press board with a steel chassis an old alnico caged magnet 10 and 2 big transformers its about 45lb so they are a good match. I need to make me a solid oak pedal board now with all lead pedals. Hahaha
Thank you for taking the time to watch RE and for considering this build to be to the standard of the others. I had considered it as I had enjoyed many of the other videos but alas I knew I was about to take a break from it and it wouldn't be done it time. Maybe I will plan and build another strange guitar for 2021 and tag the videos. Thanks again RE I appreciate the suggestion and I'll see what I can cook up when it comes back around.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and write an awesome comment Mcfly. when this baby gets up to 88mph your about to see some serious sh*t. LOLOLOL
Thank you for watching and leaving a suggestion TWS. I dont currently have the supplies to make a proper PAF but... I put this in my notes. If I keep the current upload schedule I have been. I'll look into gathering up the supplies and I'm sure it will eventually be the perfect thing for a video sometime in the future. If/when I do a PAF video I'll give you a shoutout.
Very good
Quality videos
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write such a kind comment MOKH. Im glad you dig it.
Loved the narration. Look forward to more.
Thanks droid. I took a break for a few months but I just put one up yesterday I finally got to play this thing in the video and I'm back on it now. During my break I got authorization to monetize, bought better recording and editing gear and picked up quite a few more projects for the near future. So expect me to be back on much more regularly and thanks again for your time and kind words.
I’m loving how you try and see what actually is possible compared to what people on the internet actually says.
Literally the only proof of tests I have ever found
Thank you so much lego master. I really appreciate the kind words. I thought I would get a lot of hate for this series but there has seemed to be an abundance of nice people like yourself. I'm glad you have found it enjoyable and I hope it can help you in some way.
Getting harbor freight ads on your videos is great justice! XD
That is awesome I am definitely a harbor freight customer. Code for not only am I poor I'm a cheap skate as well Hahahaha
I don't comment too often, but they're lengthy when I do, sorry.
I've been watching non stop videos about guitars after becoming a pandemic guitarist. I've already built 3 partscasters and I'm only 5 months in.
I decided on building my own design for my next project as I find it odd that a lot of builders make the same exact guitars from 70 years ago. Strat shape, duo sonic size and scale, one middle pickup, no pickguard cause theyre ugly, single coil sized P90. And that's how I stumbled here.
Seriously, thank you for your channel. I think that experiments like the ones you're doing help others with the same ideas or questions in showing them how to experiment on their own. I also believe this type of experimenting is what helps drive guitar innovation. Why are there no pedals onboard guitars? 100% know I could fit 5 of those mini pedals onto my guitar, but 0% knowledge on how to wire that. Imagine having a guitar with 30 knobs on it, the glory.
Impatiently awaiting the day you find out how to get a nice pickup design at the 12th fret.
Can't wait for more content, thanks for the laughs too. KiLlS S suSstAiNnN
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to type these kind and inspiring words fooglez.
It is a strange thing in the guitar world so many myths floating around and so much disdain for any new technology. If you put that same pattern of thinking into other subjects like computers or warfare it would be considered crazy. I'll admit I love retro cars and guitars/amps but it would really be like someone fighting with only rocks because a rocket is only for some guy who fights shadows in his bedroom not a REAL warrior (what they say about guys who play digital amps/effects) Or if someone only used old tube and tape driven Ibm computers the size of a building to check their email because the new computers just feel wimpy and they dont smell the same LOL
Speaking of that If you look back to some of the cheap 60s-70s guitars it seemed that quite a few had onboard effects like fuzz and distortion. Oh and also some early guitars with SYNTH control built in like this: i.pinimg.com/originals/38/f9/01/38f90121dad207edb6c13e014c59166d.gif
I guess if you really think about it an active guitar basically isnt much more than weak pickups and an onboard FET boost pedal? but if you said that in a forum you would be attacked like a hornet in a bee hive. I will put that 12th fret pickup idea in my notes and if/when I get around to doing a video on it I will give you a shout-out. It may never be a full build but I think I could make up a rig and do some experimenting on placing pickups much further up the string.
Anyway thanks again and I am so glad you find the info I share to be useful as well as enjoying the unorthodox style and attitude. That is Awesome. Peace bro... TILL NEXTIME!!!!!
@@heavymetalATC No problem! I've been really enjoying all of your videos and topics.
I'm all on board for old and vintage stuff, my cars are all older than me from the 70s and 80s, second hand tools from who knows when, tape deck fanatic, i understand the appeal for sure. I think Fenders designs are great, but I also feel like there hasn't been a single guitar that I've tried that felt "right" or looked "right" yet. And once you get past squier, you're talking a price range I'm really not interested in paying. So in general there's really no option for me and that's why I turned to partscasters. All of my partscasters have been around $200 and play just fine for me because I invested time instead of money. I carved deeper body contours into them and painted them to my own color choice.
At the end of it all, it comes down to personal preference and what you want to get out of the guitar. If people want the vintage stuff from the 50's I'm all for it. I just realized after building a few and playing non stop through these months that there's a lot that I'd like to change. Almost all of them had small issues that I wanted to change. In the end, building my own from scratch is the only option I have.
I think the 80's was pretty wild lmao, they really went nuts with their designs and ideas.
Stoked to see any content bro, I was just throwing out ideas that were racking around in my head. Just felt like you could build some sort of micro bar pickup and hide it under the fretboard while building a neck. Either way, a rig to move it up and down the fretboard would be cool, because I also wondered about a pickup at the head of the neck. If you put a capo in the middle of the fretboard (anywhere really) then you can pluck the strings on the neck side of the guitar and get to higher octaves because the capo acts as a bridge, splitting the fretboard in half. Idk if that's a thing or not, just noticed it while fooling around.
Have a good one my dude. Be well and keep up the good content. Thanks for the reply!
Great job dude 👍👍👍 very inspiring
Thank you Fat Cat. I hope you have found a new need to go searching the neighbor hood for thrown out dressers and such as they are actually just guitars in the rough.
Damn, that shape is pretty badass man haha.
Thank you so much Javier. I thought it was pretty cool myself but a few people on face book seemed to think it was ugly in the rendering. I guess you just get used to looking at common shapes so the odd ball just looks strange and strange = ugly to people I guess. Sorry for the late response I have decided to really try to step up my game and try to do a better job of making videos and managing the channel. Thanks again for taking the time to watch and leaving such a kind comment.
Make more videos champ! You rock!
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and leave such a kind and inspiring comment Melon. I apologize for the late response I had taken a break but hopefully my videos should be of a higher quality and upload frequency. Thanks again truly.
Speaking of free wood, I’ve found a lot of free “torrefied” oak (heat treated pallets) from a warehouse I used to work at. Additionally, I’ve gotten a lot of free mahogany, fir, and maple in “free scrap” boxes outside of a few local door manufacturers. Ain’t I lucky? And as luck would have it, I live next door to a woodworker with a large shop where he makes custom stairs and things for rich peoples houses… and lives in a single wide trailer. I’ve been helping him and his wife out with garden projects and whatever heavy lifting/brute labor they need done. What great friends to have!
I have a project idea that I’d like to run by you. I have an old sewing machine pedal that would be great to turn into some sort of effects box. Maybe either a reverb pedal that changes the tension on the spring, or a way of changing the modulation speed on a tape delay (I’ll be watching those videos next!), or a controlled feedback/booster/distortion pedal of some sort. I don’t know, what do you think?
Thank you for watching and taking the time to write such an awesome in depth comment Jason. That is great, My friend Jacob has a ton of pallets he got from his workplace years ago and He's always trying to get me to take some or trade some for work. I have just never taken him up on it as of yet. I know of a sawmill and a pallet making company close to my dads house and he keeps telling me to just ask if I can have scrap and they will let me take some but Ive also yet to try that either.. He does and he burns it for heat LOL The guy that works on all the rich peoples houses and lives in a single wide... Man that's actually very typical unfortunately. I totally used to be in that boat I used to do flooring and construction and roofing as well (Roofing Sucks sooo bad ruined my body for good) but you are always pulling up to these multi-million dollar mansions in gated communities on the river and building all this beautiful stuff then I would go home to a leaky1967 pink flattop trailer in a ghetto dangerous trailer park... I had enough of that after my body was hurt from the roofing I just said no more, If im going to do all this work it will be on my own stuff. I ended up farming for a few years to make a deal to get an abandoned house with land and a garage and I was able to fix it up little by little... still a work in progress you know how that goes but it feels good that now when I do work its not for someone else's benefit. I swore Id never tote another bundle of shingles or do roofing ever again but I did an entire metal roof on the house and did a nail over shingle job on the garage and it felt totally different. I was actually happy to do it and I could take my time.
Ahhh the sewing machine pedal I dont know exactly what kind of rotary switch or potentiometer those have inside but it would definitely be a cool chassis for an effect pedal or expression pedal, I'm sure you could rig whatever kind of pot in there somehow to make a volume pedal or adjustable gain pedal etc. You may could just run a cord from the pot and put a plug on one or more of your pedals hooked to a pot that controls say: tremolo speed or gain etc. and use it to control that pedal remotely just like the knob did but you can use your foot.
I know it has been ages since you made this comment so let me know if you ever figured something out with it and if so how did it go and what did you end up doing id love to hear of the results.
Thanks again Jason I appreciate the correspondence.
Love it!!!
Thank you Dave. I really appreciate the fact that you can accept my hackish ways and unorthodox style.
I had to laugh at your sustain comments. The first successful guitar build I did in 89 was a through neck of solid oak with a body of cherry and oak. The bridge is one of those giant Washburn surface mount vibrato roller bridges with a locking nut. The neck has two 1/4" steel rods for reinforcement...not adjustable. After 30 plus years, the neck hasn't moved even a hair. And, to quote Nigel Tufnel as far as sustain, "You could go have a bite and come back later and that one would still be going..." There is a downside...the guitar weighs about 16 lbs. I can get through one or two songs before I switch to my much more recent lightweight builds. ;)
I had a gretsch that was 13.5 pounds out of the factory the heaviest one that ive ever seen in my life, I sold it cause my back is bad and that thing was not doing any benefits before i quit playing due to health reasons
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment guys, Yeah Chainduck this one is gonna be a beast as well, the body with no neck and no hardware is about 6 lb, then it has a bigsby and 3 pickups made of wood with 20 Neo magnets overall and a steel control plate, back plate etc... Its gonna be a heavy one for sure, shes like a cadillac its built for cruisin not for speed. LOL. I bet itll probably be about 15lb. My amp is 1 inch press board with a steel chassis an old alnico caged magnet 10 and 2 big transformers its about 45lb so they are a good match. I need to make me a solid oak pedal board now with all lead pedals. Hahaha
I assume you have heard of the "Unofficial Great Guitar Buildoff" on TH-cam?
Thank you for taking the time to watch RE and for considering this build to be to the standard of the others. I had considered it as I had enjoyed many of the other videos but alas I knew I was about to take a break from it and it wouldn't be done it time. Maybe I will plan and build another strange guitar for 2021 and tag the videos. Thanks again RE I appreciate the suggestion and I'll see what I can cook up when it comes back around.
Love it - screw the internet forums!
Thank you for taking the time to watch and write an awesome comment Mcfly. when this baby gets up to 88mph your about to see some serious sh*t. LOLOLOL
Can you do PAF?
Thank you for watching and leaving a suggestion TWS. I dont currently have the supplies to make a proper PAF but... I put this in my notes. If I keep the current upload schedule I have been. I'll look into gathering up the supplies and I'm sure it will eventually be the perfect thing for a video sometime in the future. If/when I do a PAF video I'll give you a shoutout.