Making a Kit Guitar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video I make custom painted guitar for the Thomann Harley Benton DIY Kit Challenge. This is a long video, so check out the chapter links below if you want to skip to a certain part of the build.
0:00 Introduction
1:08 Design preparation
2:47 Unboxing the guitar
3:30 Dry fit build to check everything
4:09 Testing the pickups
4:14 Making it perfect before painting
4:32 Insetting the neck plate
6:04 Sanding and priming
6:47 Painting preparation
8:02 Masking out shapes
8:36 Starting the paint job
11:55 Perfectionist tendencies
12:48 Varnish DISASTER
13:45 Angry sanding
14:05 Cutting the headstock
15:08 Fine tuning the frets
16:43 Finishing the neck with oil and wax
17:40 Painting the headstock
18:40 Carving the headstock text
20:15 Filling the text with encaustic wax
21:25 Working on the nut
21:53 Installing the tuners
22:49 Engraving the neck plate
24:59 How to get super sharp edges on a painting
26:17 Varnishing
28:52 Assembling the guitar
29:33 Installing the pick guard and pickups
30:11 Installing the bridge and input jack
31:27 Installing the tremolo system
32:25 Attaching the neck
33:04 Stringing the guitar
33:18 Adjusting the bridge and tremolo tension
33:31 Adjusting the action height
33:37 Et voilà!
34:24 Clean tones from each pickup selection
34:42 Playing the guitar!
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Guitar Geek's "How to build a kit guitar" video:
• How to Build a Kit Gui...
Setting up a Strat style guitar:
• How to Setup Your GUIT...
Thomann's series on how to set up and service your own guitars:
• Guitar Tech Tips with ...
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MATERIALS USED:
Guitar:
Harley Benton ST Guitar Kit
D’Addario Nickel Wound Gauge 10 Strings
Fender Surf Green Guitar Cable
Brushes:
Raphael Kaerell 20mm and 50mm flat brushes for gesso and varnish
Flat and filbert brushes in various sizes (Isabel Mangou and Raphael Kevin +)
Raphael 8404 4/0 round detail brush
Painting accessories:
Palette knives
Sennelier disposable palette
Random glass jars for paint mixing and storing
Fleetwood low tack washi tape
General sandpaper for removing sealer
1000 & 1500 grit automotive sandpaper
Paint:
Golden Heavy Body Acrylics (Quinacridone Magenta, Interference Blue, Zinc White)
Winsor and Newton Galeria Acrylics (Titanium White)
Liquitex Iridescent Medium
Liquitex High Gloss Varnish
Other tools:
Files
Phillips Head Screwdriver
Combination spanners
Ruler
Fine steel wool
Arteina printmaking burnisher and scraper
EC Lyons Printmaking Engraving Tool Set
EC Lyons V Woodcarving tool
1mm Japanese woodcarving tool
EC Lyons Relief Knife
Cordless drill
Hand saw
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After watching this I think you're the kind of person who could successfully tackle any project. Job well done.
What a compliment! Thanks. :)
Fabulous video! Lovely project. It's great you used what you had and that would work best for you. There's always so many rules (particularly in this instance with guitar painting) and I love you went absolutely your own way. You clearly spent a lot of time on the video itself too and it is mega chilled. Awesome. Keep rockin! 🎸🤘
Nice build and very well documented! I cracked up on “wiggle stick” never heard it called that before 😃👍🤘 just built a Les Paul and will document it soon.
Thanks! Looking forward to watching yours. 🙂
@@SpinesAndSplines thanks! Here’s my last guitar guild, a double neck! th-cam.com/video/B_6lROcPcGA/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the great content.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful Guitar! Top notch work as always DFTBA!
Thanks so much!
Nice work, I thought it was a vinyl graphic from the thumbnail!
Thanks so much! A vinyl graphic would probably be more sensible, but less satisfying. :)
Love that pattern.
And yes, seems that the guitar industry is pretty stuck on "Shell Pink".
Thanks so much!
Nice!!! I saw your comment on the guitar geeks channel so i came to see what you did. Great job!!
Thanks so much! After over a year of playing this I’ve finally ordered new pickups and am about to rewire the whole thing myself. 🤞
Nice
Excelent work!
Thank you! Cheers!
What a great job you did! It's very inspiring to see your attempts of making a playable guitar not beeing a woodworking specialist. And what counts is the result - and it works!
Thanks very much! Several months later and I still love this guitar. It plays super well and just generally makes me really happy. :)
I'm actually about to get started on a Telecaster kit for my niece and sister, so stay tuned!
@@SpinesAndSplines
I wait with bated breath!🤭!
This is cool.
Thanks!
you are man or woman ???
Why does it matter?