A Headless Travel Guitar You WANT To Play
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ธ.ค. 2024
- I'd recommend a little bag or case over shoving in a suitcase, lol. A commissioned build that has certainly inspired a new product line! Some exciting challenges and hurdles went in to this.
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Anyone else find these builds relaxing? =)
That packing up with that guitar in it really made a statement. VERY AWESOME!!!
I can still remember your first videos, making playable 'pieces of junk' from actual pieces of junk.
I think you're well underway in your mission, making quality guitars from locally reclaimed materials. I'm deeply impressed, freaking awesome!
thanks man. Yea, my tooling and skill set are getting better with experience, for sure. I still have a ways to go. Like I tell my kids, "PRACTICE! Because anything worth doing is hard." lol
Tim, this is by far one of your most f'ing beautiful guitars, and the video was absolute magic.
wow, thanks!
I like that you packed your saw!👍 I am just imagining the look on the face of the folk at the airport. 😂
That was so cool. The design was like a work of art.
I know next to nothing about guitars, I'm a sax player myself. But I have fallen in love with your instruments. Every one in is a distinctly unique and beautiful work of art. One of these days when I finally learn to play bass, I hope to be able to own one of yours. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome! I'd love to make you one!
Really nice design
I really liked the fact that most of the builds are reclaimed. Very ecofriendly stringed instruments.
Cheers. That's my whole thing! I very rarley use wood that is not reclaimed or locally sourced.
I swear each video on this channel just makes me love this channel more and more. Keep up the great work Tim! Also I think I speak for everyone when I say if you started your own set brand for selling your guitars we would all buy them promptly
It is in the works and will be available very soon!
Your work has gotten really really good.
thank you
Impressive. I'd be happy to travel with that.
Tim, your work is absolutely amazing.
This video has it all: Laser cutting, band saw work, CNC, super cool music! Check off another awesome guitar made!
Great job on a beautiful guitar Tim! I have been watching your videos for a while now...you continue to grow are a guitar builder with each and every project...keep up the wonderful creativity!
thank you!!
Wow, that looks like some fine work there Tim. Outstanding!
thank you!
Cool build! You put a lot of love in your work man.
absolutely stunning guitar! makes me wanna make one myself
Do it!
Very cute guitat, I love your design. Thank you for sharing your story. God bless you and your family
thank you for the kind words!
That was a pretty sweet build, Tim. Probably your best work I've seen so far. :)
Beautiful work man, keep it up!!!
thank you!!
You are getting better and better . . . great work!
thanks! I am slowly getting better
Nice job ! Inspiring work.
Made me re-think the possibilities of a travel guitar.
Made my hands itch to build a travel guitar.
Therapeutic to watch it evolve into a slimline contoured guitar giving the good impression of a tactile and musical feel.
I know it's an old video, but that was just so satisfying to watch - and very inspirational. Hoping that 2021 will be the year I build my own stringed instrument.
What a nice Guitar... Kudos
that came out absolutely beautiful! and you're making your own fretboards now too even! very awesome
Yes, sometimes I buy premade necks to keep the costs down and make a less expensive guitar, but usually I make all of it.
Coolest one yet. P90 headless and with sweetest construction
thanks! I'm in to this style and making more/developing it.
@@timsway if you made a baritone scale length and put a Piezo Saddle like the ghost system I think you'd have a winner
I think this is your coolest guitar to date!
Some of your best sounding clean guitar playing ...
Love the contours around the body.
Great work Tim and nice soundtrack.
You my friend are crazy AMAZING! It is a joy to watch you create such Awesome stuff.
That’s one sweet ‘little’ guitar. Sound is great.
You have out done yourself awesome , really great
thank you!
What a little beauty!
That is awesome Tim! What a beautiful Guitar.
you're next, amigo! It's on the bench
Are you going to video tape it?
@@felixfromnebraska8648 probably not :(
Really digging the background music in this one.
that's the chord changes to a song I wrote in high school. It was almost an OK song, but, well, it was written by a teenager... :)
Leavin on a jet plane! Really cool design and sounds fantastic!
thank you!
Now that was an awesome build Tim & the guitar sounded great! Got a good laugh at the packing job at the end of the video.
Great build. Sounds good. I really like the contour on the back. Travel size truck and guitar. Dog next?
Then I'll write song about it with the #countrydice.
That's a pretty guitar Tim 🤘 love it.
thank you!!
Two questions:
1) What "headless hardware" are you using? Is it a kit or did you put it together yourself?
2) I'm curious as to why you did all the contouring by hand when you could have done it on the CNC?
Inspiring as always.
excellent questions. Not a kit, but I bought a 60$ headless bridge on ebay that included all the hardware needed for that aspect of the guitar. The pickups are my custom design in conjunction with Gemini Guitars and the rest of the hardware, frets, are standard purchases. two-sided files get difficult to clamp to the cnc AND as this was the first one of this design I made, I wan't sure how much I wanted to contour. I contoured the back with the cnc because it is more involved and I did the front "to feel." Honestly, If I were to make a bunch more of these I'd probably do it the same way instead of adding the front contouring to the file as it is still quicker to do by hand and that would help give each piece a unique, hand made" feel. Obviously even entirely cut on the cnc there's still a TON of handwork involved, and I don't want to be a factory y'know?
Ahh, Sunday morning (it is 9:15 a.m. here) a cup of coffee and a new video from the guitarmaster Tim Sway - could life get any better than that?! 😃
- yeah I know, I'm easy to please these days, but I'm old and I do not crave extravaganza every f****** minute of my life anymore - less can do it! 😁😁
And as usual, great job Tim! 👍🤘
that's a great attitude, sir. I'm glad to contribute to you simple bliss.
I would absolutely love to buy one of these!
I can make you one! I already ordered the parts (including a headless bridge with a tremolo)
In a world gone crazy this video brought me peace.
Really enjoyed watching this build, great job!
Wow great fit and finish! : ) Awesome video, love the reveal and your background music. Cheers! : )
thank you very much!
Looks fab, Tim!
Very nice guitar!
Great build. I am amazed!
thank you!
Masterpiece. I love it. Sounds great! I want it now!!! 👍
Wow Tim that is beautiful!
thanks amigo!
i love the look of this!!!
I really like that car wash, doesn't wash your car but it makes great guitars!
Amazing. I really enjoy watching this!
Amazing build as always. 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Absolutely wonderful
That looks and sounds great!
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I know this might be weird, but the best travel guitar I ever owned was a $19 knock-off of the Martin Backpacker I picked up on Amazon in 2006. It rarely went out of tune and it was weirdly nice for being a Chinese clone. I ended up giving it to a student in my guitar class, and I have been debating on getting another ever since.
once I was getting ready for a tour and needed a fretless jazz bass. Money wasn't a real issue (for the first time ever). I went to the store and played every one there without looking at tags to pick the best and ended up leaving with the least expensive - which was the best. For all we know, there is still sometimes this little element of "magic" in music instruments - expensive and inexpensive
Quick question. If my Arbortech Turbo Plane, Mini Turbo Plane, and Contour Sander are all in focus, could I still use them for this project? Or do they absolutely have to be blurry?
Cool build. Sounds good, too.
haha! match your focus to your vision, grasshopper
What a cool travel guitar..
The whole walnut sapwood in something like a tabletop is not my style at all but this is an awesome use of it! 👍
Well done sir!!!
Quite a beautiful guitar, makes me wanne have one.
I have been watching your vids and its cool to see how you progress in your style.
Keep them coming!
Cheers
thanks man!
"Can ya guess what I'm making yet?"
Yep, a dirty big fly swatter!
Was I close? 😂😂😂
Love it, mate👍
Super smooth looking unit 😎
winner winner!
@@timsway 😂😂bwahahaha😂😂
im not a music person but i love the guitars you make.
thank you!
Cool. I've played nothing but headless 6-strings since 1982.
Steinberger?
@@onpsxmember - I started with a Kramer Duke, then 3 Steinbergers, then a Cort bass which I will never get around to converting to a baritone 6-string.
Personally I like the aesthetic balance of a guitar with a head, but as a player, middle aged man with a middle aged back and a backyard engineer, headless is TOTALLY the way to go.
@@timsway I'm just 30 and and that's why I play a Parker Fly. But it makes total sense for a travel build.
I like it, small, feature complete and portable :3.
Dude.. Love it! Great work...
thanks doc!
Good job sir!
That’s awesome
I actually do wanna play it right now!!!
It's hella fun. Unfortunately it was a custom build for a client so it's gone already :( I'm gonna have to make more.
@@timsway Challenge: make the next one foldable, or somehow collapsable.
If you need inspiration:
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Come onnnn, man. .. ... it's beautiful. And now I want one.
I sell them at newperspectivesmusic.com :)
You should try making a true temperament guitar next! Might be an interesting experiment!
real beauty.
This is a nice one.
I love you Tim.
Everything was awesome and all , but can we take a moment to praise the background guitar playing ? Sounds really beautiful, nice music indeed, kind of psychedelic/stoner kind of stuff , love it.
Beautiful guitar , 10/10 would buy
By the way why did he scrap the frets ? Is it to make them all equal in height ?
Thank you. Those are the chord changes to a song I wrote in high school. The song sucked, but the changes are nice.
@@timsway the chords are awesome indeed in that tone , i beg you to make it into a song , it sounds so good .
Needs a case like my peavey t-15 well a built in amplifier
Great guitar. Try cool, chill jam
I loove this guitars
Nice guitar!
Not an expert, but would a tongue and groove fit of sections bet better for tone?
I don't think it would make any difference, but I'm not an expert either!
Love the design and would like to hear Money for Nothing played on it. Next up, a headless travel Bass?
I do have headless bass plans, but a little different... :-)
That's so cool! How do you evaluate the bridge's performance/quality? Ty
It is a little weird to adjust and intonate but it tunes up well and stays in tune once you get it set right.
Awesome. One more question - is this a standard 25.5" scale?
yes. 25.5", 12" radius, 2 1/8" bridge, 1 9/16" nut
I would really like to know where you got all the part for this guitar but they are not listed in the description
I got the system o Ebay for $60. Sestch and you'll find it. The pickups are my joint venture with Gemini guitars. Other than that it's nothing real specific!
Amazing
Great!
When do the guitars go up for sale?
Newperspectivesmusic.com. most of my work is custom order but I have some already made and for sale up there, too.
Kinda funny that at the end your profile photo is pointing at the leaving truck... 😁. Still being my favourite guitar of yours... .
Awesome,.. I am really into travel guitar because I work in high seas, can I have it?🤣, Or the one that you have used for tone wood testing😁
This one is sold but I would be more than happy to make you one. contact me via newperspectivesmusic.com
@@timsway wow that's awesome!!!!😁
I don't know which was the bigger surprise: sticking it in he suitcase with the clothes, or the kei truck.
I'm waiting for the bass. Seriously, I was just trying to figure out how to carry an acoustic guitar and an electric bass on a bicycle. A headless Steinberger style bass would fit in the pannier, sticking straight up, and the guitar could be on my back. The amp is still a problem. A DI box through the PA would make it unnecessary.
I used to have a belt clip Fishman preamp for a stick upright bass I made. That was my amp, in to the pa, and it gave me some control. I also had a powered di I used, I think sansamp was the brand. It was great and offered me a lot of control of my signal but it was a little bigger. They probably make even better stuff now. I'd love to make a bass for you to fit these requirements. I love challenges. Email me from newperspectivesmusic.com
How's the quality of the headless hardware? I've wanted to get that stuff and mod a pawn shop junker to headless.
I bought it for $60 on Ebay shipped from China. It's better than expected!
Headless bass coming up?
I do have plans... :)
Duuuuuuuuuude.... Incredible
I want one... but how do you tune it...
there are little knobs on the bridge. You can do it with your fingers usually but there's also a tiny allen wrench that magnets to the bridge you can remove to get more torque. They tend to be a little more difficult to tune than regular but they also tend to stay in tune much longer.
@@timsway that's awesome...
@@timsway #1 what cnc router do you use? #2 do you think you will be selling travel guitars. I am in sales and have been looking for a good option.
is it easier to add frets before or after the fretboard installed into neck?
I find it easier to install them off the guitar because you have a flat surface to work with. There are reasons to do it the other way around too, tho... It's all what works for you.
Simply awesome!!! How many hours to make it?
thanks! I really don't know. I work on several projects at a time. Now that the digital files are done it's definitely less time to make the one I'm working on now.
@@timsway I see, good job!
I would like to to see you do a video on retrofitting a guitar with the headless bridge like the one you used on this guitar 😂
it would be very easy to do. you would just need to cut the headstock off and shape it to hold the string holder.
@@timsway thanks
Great video. It's interesting to watch someone deft in the use of power tools in creating a work of art, as opposed to the usual videos I watch of the Spanish Flamenco guitar luthiers. Can I buy one of your travel guitars or is it a one-off?
Thanks! I would love to make you one. Contact me via newperspectivesmusic.com
@@timsway Thanks for your message. I've contacted you through your website. Cheers.