I am a huge Fallout fan. This guitar is very well done and does have that 'wasteland' appeal. The rebuilt and patched repair looks very nice. The pinball circuitry, to me, does look a tad out of place in the FO setting but with the guitar as a whole it works well. It stands out only because a 1950's era guitar would not have that. The distressed paint to wood was well done. One of the key visual aspects of FO is the cinematic atompunk atmosphere left to decay, and this guitar seems like it would fit in in FO4's Diamond City.
ok, most of those words are over my head because I don't know the game, but regarding the circuit boards: That was a discussion that the boards are from the 70s - a little late for the point-to-point wiring era BUT printed circuit boards were invented by Paul Eisner (spelling?) in the 1930s and by the 1950s they were making appearances in similar form in cars and some other manufacturing. So while it may not be highly likely, it is not improbable that these boards could be scavenged in the 1950s. Plus it looks cool and it's just a game :)
@@timsway That is nice to learn that the boards started in the 30's. I didn't mean it in a discouraging way, and the board still works as a salvaged item to fix the guitar. Just that it looked a little out of place to me visually in the FO universe, but in Diamond City (basically Fenway Park turned into a city in a city) it would fit well since it has the guitar's aesthetics, patchwork with a bit of neon mixed in.
As an old head fan of the original I have to give so much props for what you two came up with aesthetically. It feels very close to the original games in the series in how much of it looks like a relic from future that was never was.
If I commissioned this from you I'd give you a tip (gratuity) because geez my man this is so cool. Fallout didn't stop in the 50's, but that's about where technology diverged in that universe, and basically where the style stuck. Somehow without playing the games you absolutely more than hit the nail on the head. I could 150% see a wandering musician in New Vegas playing this guitar for some spare caps. This alone made me nostalgiac for the games and at the same time made me wanna play music. Fantastic dudeee
cheers! I learned after making this about Nuka Cola. If I could do anything different it would be to get or make some of those bottle caps for the knobs :)
In the Fallout universe (I'm a huge fan), the transistor wasn't invented until right before the war - electronics use vacuum tubes. That said, I agree that this guitar is awesome. I'm not at all a fan of relic'ed guitars but as a Fallout-themed guitar, this looks awesome. Those garish lights are simply the perfect touch.
I know I keep on saying this after each one of your videos but damn this thing is sweet. I love how you can look at something and come up with a completely different design than anyone else has done.
As a Fallout fan I think this is fantastic, it looks like something you might actually see in the games. I do wish when you do playtests at the end of your videos you take the sound directly from the cabinet so we can actually hear the tone of the guitars rather than a mix of amplified guitar/acoustic guitar/ambient noise.
Sometimes I do but it's kind of a huge PIA. In this case I put one of those little Tascam pocket recorders in front of the amp but it was clipping too much. I do make all of the background music for my vids and use guitars I have made to do so, recorded properly with a decent amp and a 57 into Logic.
Tim when you said that wiring was not your strong suit it made me smile. When I was in my late teens (I'm retired now) and under training I had to complete a course called High Reliability Hand Soldering. This was in the days when we still repaired electronics down to individual components not just change the whole board. All solder joints where inspected with a watchmaker/jewellers glass so you get the type of standard expected to achieve a pass. Don't take this to heart, but anytime I watch a TH-camr (there are many) solder I weep, and it's not due to nostalgia. 👍 Still love the guitars though!
Great idea using old circuit boards. You’ve given me an idea for old PC motherboards. You’ve also triggered a memory from the 70’s. A local guitarist used to glue bottle tops on his knobs to make them easier to turn especially when he was using the volume knob for tremolo.
perforated materials dont usually play well with plasma torches. if it was working well before, odds are the issue was working with that material, not the tool. the machine has to maintain the arc in order to make the cut. with intermittent connectivity to ground (with all of the holes in the metal) the arc will cut out. its just a function of how it works. super cool video. thanks for sharing!
Looks and sounds awesome as always! Speaking of Pinball machines, I think a pinball themed guitar would look awesome! I also noticed a familiar bass neck at 1:53!
yes! that was one of the mdf mockups of your bass. I can't get myself to part with it. I made a guitar body once from a pinball machine sides (ms packman). I do still have an old pinball machine or two...
Damn Tim...you are creative! How do you sleep at night with all of those creative juices flowing! Keep up the great work...can't wait to see what you do next.
I know you were just saying nice things (and thank you) but sleep (or at least trying to!) is actually a super important part of my creative process and always has been. To put myself to sleep I problem solve and hash out things I'm working on every night. I like to work on multiple things at a time so if one problem isn't ready to be solved I move to another. Eventually they all get fixed - and usually in this time. Then I get a good night's sleep and wake up excited to execute my solution.
Very nice.. A little on Fallout lore. The bombs fell Oct 23, 2077. And "caps" bottle caps are the currency. Probably spent way to much of my life plying this series. This looks like something that would be crafted at a workbench in the wasteland.
I don't know what it is about this one, but I think it looks especially cool. I guess it's my kind of cyberpunk. Sounds awesome too. Thanks for sharing!
you have no idea that bottle caps are the currency in the fallout universe, do you? grab yourself an old Xbox 360 and fallout new Vegas. you can get em for dirt now a days. hell wed all probably love to watch you play it and i know you'd love it even without game experience. that games theme is 1000% your style
You gotta be careful, Tim. There are a lot of Fallout (and general steam-punk) fans out there and this could become a thing. ~We~ They could raid your pile of junk any time, you gotta set some sentrys or turrets up! XD Loved it, stay cool!
What I'm curious about is the feedback from the added electrical and metal components. That is one reason I have steered away from using stuff like that is it sounds like a grounding and magnetic field nightmare in regards to feedback or excess noise
this is really cool! its also funny cuz im almost done making a fallout themed guitar too, i named it Megaton after the town called megaton in fallout 3 its made out of reclaimed old barn wood (pine) it looks really narly and has a crack going down the body from from horn to rear strap button its a tele shape with a old gold foil neck pu and a jazz bass bridge pu in the bridge which gives it alot "buck'em in the face" punch lol. anyway keep up the cool builds bro!!!
I love the guitar Tim. You might want to swap the consumables in the plasma torch, the switch also sometimes fail, but there is a reason why they are called consumables 😜
Bottle caps are used as currency in the Fallout games.. so very cool for the knobs. You should really play one of them, or all of them (other than 76, that one's kinda sucky) I like Fallout 3 the best but of the first person style ones New Vegas is arguably slightly better. I just like the Washington DC setting better than Nevada. Fallout 4 is the newest one that's worth playing but I don't think it's quite as compelling as the other two I mentioned.
I’m sure the wiring job was a pain as it was, but how cool would it be to have the lights do different things based on the position of the pickup selector and cool split.
Tim great guitar, I love the style. I am hoping build my first guitar soon. On your plasma cutter, it may be the tip is clogged or the consumables need to be replaced. If I don't use mine for a while the tip gets dirty and it won't "light".
hey Tim. awsome builds as usual. I also love to do stuff with recycled,/reclaimed/blahblah stuff that i find (or maybe they find me, eheh). I have a question about the pickguard, as I am thinking of making a steel pickguard for a bass i have laying around, is yours just plain, magnetic steel? does it interfere with the pickups in anyway? can´t find any info about that, only about aluminium and brass pickguards. thanks, and keep reusing it ! much love from a fellow trashjunkie.
@@timsway thanks for hitting me back, the plan is to drop a hot rails pickup on a squier bronco bass, but i wanted do give it an old "ratty but classy" look, i guess I will try it and see if i can make a noize machine! aha
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I am a huge Fallout fan. This guitar is very well done and does have that 'wasteland' appeal. The rebuilt and patched repair looks very nice. The pinball circuitry, to me, does look a tad out of place in the FO setting but with the guitar as a whole it works well. It stands out only because a 1950's era guitar would not have that. The distressed paint to wood was well done. One of the key visual aspects of FO is the cinematic atompunk atmosphere left to decay, and this guitar seems like it would fit in in FO4's Diamond City.
ok, most of those words are over my head because I don't know the game, but regarding the circuit boards: That was a discussion that the boards are from the 70s - a little late for the point-to-point wiring era BUT printed circuit boards were invented by Paul Eisner (spelling?) in the 1930s and by the 1950s they were making appearances in similar form in cars and some other manufacturing. So while it may not be highly likely, it is not improbable that these boards could be scavenged in the 1950s. Plus it looks cool and it's just a game :)
+2 Charisma, for sure!
@@timsway That is nice to learn that the boards started in the 30's. I didn't mean it in a discouraging way, and the board still works as a salvaged item to fix the guitar. Just that it looked a little out of place to me visually in the FO universe, but in Diamond City (basically Fenway Park turned into a city in a city) it would fit well since it has the guitar's aesthetics, patchwork with a bit of neon mixed in.
There is a lot of circuitry items in FO4 you can even build robots...
@rosekindred idk, in the first fallout, you are looking for a water reclamation repair board, I think it fits nicely!
As an old head fan of the original I have to give so much props for what you two came up with aesthetically. It feels very close to the original games in the series in how much of it looks like a relic from future that was never was.
That guitar *does* want to set the world on fire.
If I commissioned this from you I'd give you a tip (gratuity) because geez my man this is so cool. Fallout didn't stop in the 50's, but that's about where technology diverged in that universe, and basically where the style stuck. Somehow without playing the games you absolutely more than hit the nail on the head. I could 150% see a wandering musician in New Vegas playing this guitar for some spare caps. This alone made me nostalgiac for the games and at the same time made me wanna play music. Fantastic dudeee
cheers! I learned after making this about Nuka Cola. If I could do anything different it would be to get or make some of those bottle caps for the knobs :)
In the Fallout universe (I'm a huge fan), the transistor wasn't invented until right before the war - electronics use vacuum tubes. That said, I agree that this guitar is awesome. I'm not at all a fan of relic'ed guitars but as a Fallout-themed guitar, this looks awesome. Those garish lights are simply the perfect touch.
Looks great, so many cool details. Definitely nailed the style of the game, and it's still a real guitar.
It plays real well, which makes me happy. thank you
It really came out good and fits the Fallout aesthetic very nicely.
Well done.
I know I keep on saying this after each one of your videos but damn this thing is sweet. I love how you can look at something and come up with a completely different design than anyone else has done.
You blended my two favourite things in life and came up with a masterpiece!
As a Fallout fan I think this is fantastic, it looks like something you might actually see in the games. I do wish when you do playtests at the end of your videos you take the sound directly from the cabinet so we can actually hear the tone of the guitars rather than a mix of amplified guitar/acoustic guitar/ambient noise.
Sometimes I do but it's kind of a huge PIA. In this case I put one of those little Tascam pocket recorders in front of the amp but it was clipping too much. I do make all of the background music for my vids and use guitars I have made to do so, recorded properly with a decent amp and a 57 into Logic.
Tim when you said that wiring was not your strong suit it made me smile. When I was in my late teens (I'm retired now) and under training I had to complete a course called High Reliability Hand Soldering. This was in the days when we still repaired electronics down to individual components not just change the whole board. All solder joints where inspected with a watchmaker/jewellers glass so you get the type of standard expected to achieve a pass. Don't take this to heart, but anytime I watch a TH-camr (there are many) solder I weep, and it's not due to nostalgia. 👍
Still love the guitars though!
The older I get the more I learn that there are many things anyone can "do" but few do correctly.
It's a bit like my welding. I tell people that I can hot glue metal but I would never call myself a welder.
This looks incredible! Love that mesh headstock & pickguard material and the lights and everything about it. Great work.
Looks good fits the games vibe thanks for sharing it
I played three of those games and this Instrument could not be more "Fallout" than it is. Very well done!
I use soda bottle tops for volume & tone pots on my cigar box guitars... love'em!!!
Wow Tim, there are so many things I love about that guitar! The distressed paint, the circuit-board, the lights... supper awesome!
Glad you liked it!
Great idea using old circuit boards. You’ve given me an idea for old PC motherboards. You’ve also triggered a memory from the 70’s. A local guitarist used to glue bottle tops on his knobs to make them easier to turn especially when he was using the volume knob for tremolo.
the ridged edges are certainly a better grip. interesting.
perforated materials dont usually play well with plasma torches. if it was working well before, odds are the issue was working with that material, not the tool. the machine has to maintain the arc in order to make the cut. with intermittent connectivity to ground (with all of the holes in the metal) the arc will cut out. its just a function of how it works. super cool video. thanks for sharing!
thanks for the info!
Amazing stuff Tim - Love your art.
This is by far my favorite one of your builds
Awesome job! I really look forward to each build you do
Wow!!! So creative, this is fantastic Tim :)
Aww man, i love the OG Fallout games! This is gonna be treat!!!
Love all the details & tweaks! The new perspectives bolt on plate- The 4/2 headstock tuners- obv the lights & caps! #Wow
thanks man! I cut those plates on Diresta's plasma cnc last time I was there. I'm almost out and need to cut some more :)
Looks and sounds awesome as always! Speaking of Pinball machines, I think a pinball themed guitar would look awesome!
I also noticed a familiar bass neck at 1:53!
yes! that was one of the mdf mockups of your bass. I can't get myself to part with it. I made a guitar body once from a pinball machine sides (ms packman). I do still have an old pinball machine or two...
Love it, Tim. I especially dug the use of the Mosrite-style tremelo. :)
it seemed appropriate and was a last minute addition. kind of messed up the plan a bit but it all came together.
@@timsway As Frank Sinatra would say; "That's life!" Lol!
For someone who's "not good at wiring" you sure made it do all kinds of cool lighting tricks! The guitar looks awesome.
thanks!
Always inspirational Tim. Take a bow my friend. Great stuff. Stay safe man & keep it up.
thank you!
dude that is an awesome guitar great work
Very cool build! It's always inspiring to see what materials you use and choices you make in building instruments
That's so cool, I love the lights!
You do stuff I've never seen before, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Damn Tim...you are creative! How do you sleep at night with all of those creative juices flowing! Keep up the great work...can't wait to see what you do next.
I know you were just saying nice things (and thank you) but sleep (or at least trying to!) is actually a super important part of my creative process and always has been. To put myself to sleep I problem solve and hash out things I'm working on every night. I like to work on multiple things at a time so if one problem isn't ready to be solved I move to another. Eventually they all get fixed - and usually in this time. Then I get a good night's sleep and wake up excited to execute my solution.
the execution sounds so great like something in radio on your pipboy, you should do a vault tec one that’s blue and yellow
you order it, I'll make it! :)
Man.. your channel is very good!! Congrats!
I always enjoy seeing your guitar projects. The Fallout theme is especially nice.
Thank you very much!
mannnn ,thats koooooooool , luv the bottle cap knobs...and the lites , neat one
RJ
That was really cool you did a real good job on that one can't wait to see what you do next
Very nice.. A little on Fallout lore. The bombs fell Oct 23, 2077. And "caps" bottle caps are the currency. Probably spent way to much of my life plying this series. This looks like something that would be crafted at a workbench in the wasteland.
thanks for the info. I knew none of that.
100% could see this existing in-game. badass
Great video, I really enjoyed this one!
Looks amazing!!
I got an ad for Scott's Bass lessons and I was like, "wait, did I click on the right video?"
Nailed it! This is awesome! I love it!
Cool, my son's favorite game
Vic down in Klamath would probably pay good caps and toss in an extra flask for something like this.
Awesome build! Great Video
Wow 👌👏👏👏..I like the simple and original things.Avesome 😌...An unic guitar with recicled materials 👏👏👏👏👏
Very nicely done Tim! Don't know that game either. However, I am certain that what you did to that guitar is spot on brother! 👍👍🎸🎸😉😉
thanks!
The circuit board idea looks so cool
thanks
This is so friggin' dope. Awesome job!
Awesome looking guitar! Love that sexy wammy bar. LEDs really supports the design. Great build. Mahalo for sharing! : )
thanks I like that I was able to find blinking lights, too :)
Love it Tim,you nailed it,,great look and sound!
Really liked the build but i wish it would’ve stayed the first color of seafoam green , I think it was so nice
I don't know what it is about this one, but I think it looks especially cool. I guess it's my kind of cyberpunk. Sounds awesome too. Thanks for sharing!
This guitar is RAD!
I’ve not got a clue about Fallout, but I know cool when I see it, and that’s one heck of a cool guitar.
Like your guitar style, like beer's volume knob.
Man, what a fantastic job, that looks like it's straight out of a retro SciFi flick! 👍🏽
That is super cool! It totally fits the bill of being a fallout inspired guitar! Great work Tim 👍
Really cool Tim, awesome work! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
thanks man
That's kinda cool looking guitar :) and I like how it sounds too
very nice work Tim.
Take care ✌
you have no idea that bottle caps are the currency in the fallout universe, do you?
grab yourself an old Xbox 360 and fallout new Vegas. you can get em for dirt now a days. hell wed all probably love to watch you play it and i know you'd love it even without game experience. that games theme is 1000% your style
the client suggested using bottle caps but I did not know why!
Looks great as always. If you're doing video game guitars you should try to recreate the Jerry can guitar from rust
you order it, I'll make it!
Oh yeah. Colors! New headstock design! I like it.
flashing lights, shiny objects! :)
Nice build Tim. If interested I have some ideas if you do more fallout themed builds.
I dig the circuit board cavity covers!
Great Video Tim!
thank man. did you like my cnc simulation film at the top? :)
You gotta be careful, Tim. There are a lot of Fallout (and general steam-punk) fans out there and this could become a thing. ~We~ They could raid your pile of junk any time, you gotta set some sentrys or turrets up! XD
Loved it, stay cool!
take my junk, please!
I love the headstock shape 😪😰
excelente...como siempre
Nice work!
Unfortunate you didn't make nuka Cola bottle caps.
Cool axe. Ben Crowe of Crimson Custom Guitars is doing something slightly similar.
A piece of art!
functional art - as is pretty much always the goal :)
So freaking cool dude!
Like the 4+2 headstock man! You’ll have to use it more often!
yea, he requested it and I think I like it, too.
That came out great. Very cool.
What I'm curious about is the feedback from the added electrical and metal components. That is one reason I have steered away from using stuff like that is it sounds like a grounding and magnetic field nightmare in regards to feedback or excess noise
it's a little noisy but goes away when you touch the strings or any other metal (which is easy to do because there's so much of it.)
@@timsway so you need a good earth ground. What is happening is you in turn are making yourself the ground. Is there a ground on the bridge?
Cool! That's it, just Cool!
Coool. Needs some Nuka-cola bottle caps for the knobs ;)
That's fucking awesome dude. Gives me an idea.
this is really cool! its also funny cuz im almost done making a fallout themed guitar too, i named it Megaton after the town called megaton in fallout 3 its made out of reclaimed old barn wood (pine) it looks really narly and has a crack going down the body from from horn to rear strap button its a tele shape with a old gold foil neck pu and a jazz bass bridge pu in the bridge which gives it alot "buck'em in the face" punch lol. anyway keep up the cool builds bro!!!
sounds cool. I'd love to see it. tag me in a pic when it's done (@timsway1 on instagram).
I love that thing.
It looks great. Love the waste land styling 👍
Thank you! 😊
That's awesome
I love the guitar Tim. You might want to swap the consumables in the plasma torch, the switch also sometimes fail, but there is a reason why they are called consumables 😜
someone else said that. very likely the problem
I just got a new system to play Fallout on, so ... love it.
It would be cool to make a tube amplifier to go with it. maybe make it look like an old radio with exposed vacuum tubes
There is really something to say about lights on guitars. It brings the game to a new level IMHO.
it can cheesy, too. you gotta be careful with lights on a guitar.
@@timsway lighting is an art, it must be used carefully.
I made my first guitar out of poplar. It looks pretty cool but the strings are not aligned at all.
Bottle caps are used as currency in the Fallout games.. so very cool for the knobs. You should really play one of them, or all of them (other than 76, that one's kinda sucky) I like Fallout 3 the best but of the first person style ones New Vegas is arguably slightly better. I just like the Washington DC setting better than Nevada. Fallout 4 is the newest one that's worth playing but I don't think it's quite as compelling as the other two I mentioned.
Fallout 4 has better gameplay, but the original is still the best story.
I’m sure the wiring job was a pain as it was, but how cool would it be to have the lights do different things based on the position of the pickup selector and cool split.
it's a completely separate circuit (lights and electronics). It was contemplated but skipped out of cost-per-coolness factor :)
Cool guitar.
About your "Moment of Silence" video: "Well said".
Tim great guitar, I love the style. I am hoping build my first guitar soon. On your plasma cutter, it may be the tip is clogged or the consumables need to be replaced. If I don't use mine for a while the tip gets dirty and it won't "light".
good info. thanks. that's probably the case.
Love watching your vids your such an artist 🎶💃🎶💃
Thanks so much 😊
I'm upset that I didn't see this when it came out, but fantastic work as always
just a couple weeks ago. you're not far behind. hit the bell on my channel and you'll know.
@@timsway thats whats odd, I actually do have the bell on haha. I must've just totally missed it
hey Tim. awsome builds as usual. I also love to do stuff with recycled,/reclaimed/blahblah stuff that i find (or maybe they find me, eheh). I have a question about the pickguard, as I am thinking of making a steel pickguard for a bass i have laying around, is yours just plain, magnetic steel? does it interfere with the pickups in anyway? can´t find any info about that, only about aluminium and brass pickguards. thanks, and keep reusing it ! much love from a fellow trashjunkie.
this guitar is a little noisy (many single coil pickups are kind of noisy, y'know?) but not out of the ballpark noisy.
@@timsway thanks for hitting me back, the plan is to drop a hot rails pickup on a squier bronco bass, but i wanted do give it an old "ratty but classy" look, i guess I will try it and see if i can make a noize machine! aha
I saw Tim Sway, I saw Fallout, I because giddy.