James Cameron Ruined this 95 year old guitar!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2024
- I can't think of many things less appealing to be immersed in than a great big steaming pile of Steam Punk. I would describe said "movement" as derivative at best. As far as I can tell it's just bunch of people with terrible taste cos-playing as...people that own goggles. Steam punk apexed with the 1999 steamy pile of "film" known as Wild Wild West, starring Will Smith and a giant robotic spider, and this is not a compliment.
Speaking of derivative, Passport To Iron City was an "immersive experience" derived from the Hollywood film Alita: Battle Angel which was directed by Robert Rodriguez and produced by James Cameron. this film was based on a 1990s Japanese Cyber Punk manga comic called Gunnm ('Gun Dream').
is that convoluted enough for you? Though the original manga comic MAY have been cool, it's safe to say it got increasingly less so as its various derivations spawned, culminating in the monstrosity of a guitar that's on the bench today.
Built in 1928 or 1929, the J R Stewart Le Domino Line of instruments was a massive success, outshining Stewart's better, but possibly less “flashy” instruments. Stewart was so successful, he actually bought the Lyon & Healy factory with plans of dominating the industry, but unfortunately, his purchase came just in time for the stock market crash of 1929, and Stewart declared bankruptcy in 1930, leaving his patented Le Domino line to the hands of Regal, who reinvented the Le domino line in a decidedly depression-era style. The X brace was replaced with ladder bracing, the fingerboard was painted instead of veneered, and some other short cuts and material changes also occurred. Don’t get me wrong, the Regal ladder braced Le Domino is also an excellent parlour guitar. But it wasn’t quite up to the standards of J R Stewart, and is decidedly a depression era instrument.
The Le Domino parlour is best known as the model of guitar Elliot Smith used on his album Roman Candle. His was, as I understand, the later Regal rendition. I made a half hearted attempt to learn a song from Roman Candle, but failed...I did however fix the guitar, play all the backing tracks and make this video...soooo...like and subscribe and hit the bell. all that crap! I'd love to keep making videos, but as a self employed full time single dad, video editing isn't exactly in the cards unless I can get a decent following. I'm super thrilled with the quick growth and progress so far, and am very thankful that so many of you have subbed so far. It means a lot,
At any rate, the crack team of Alita prop makers screwed a bunch of random crap to this guitar. Adding no less than 36 holes. And a bunch of circuits boards and metal scraps. Relegating it to a corner of a room filled with inoperable synthesizers But just underneath all the screwed-on-garbage I could see the Le Domino decals and knew I had to save this poor thing. It was being sold on eBay, with the affiliation to James Cameron and Robert Rodriquez being the main selling point. Unfortunately, the real selling point of this guitar HAD BEEN the guitar itself. The steam-punking ruined the value of the guitar rather than adding to it. Now it’s playing better than ever, and has 36 speed holes to boot. Now I get to take what would be an otherwise collectible guitar camping and to the beach and park without concern. Silver lining!
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They could literally do this to a cheap chinese nameless guitar instead
But defacing a piece of real americana history is so much better for the overall experience /s
I'll bet you they didn't even know what it was. They very likely just had this old guitar lying around or at a second-hand store for cheap and though "that will make a good prop" and thought nothing of it.
@@Laz7481 Yes, that is most likely the deal, to use what they can find easily.
A little bit of conscientious consideration, given the amount of "Amerikana" this filmmaker has shared on film... would have been cool.
But however there you go, L O L another one bites the dust and then returns! 🧟🎸
Unlike those videos where a TH-camr trashes a guitar just to fix it up for a video, we have a major film maker trashing a guitar for a TH-cam video. Noice
Hahahah totally
Oh god those guys ragebait me so bad 😂
Thanks for saving us from others stupidity. Showing how devastating the depression really was.
pains my soul to see what happened to the poor beauty. Incredible job bringing her back to life. Elliott would be proud
If they were going to distress it, why didn’t they just buy I cheap Chinese guitar and paint it black?
This is a cheap guitar , old does not equal expensive , I have tons of cheap 60s guitars
I'm so glad you didn't do this to that guitar. I was scared when you posted the pic lol
Imagine being this guitar. You're 100 years old. Somebody bought you when you were brand new and played you day in and day out for decades. It put wear into you, but you watched them age too. Then, one day, they died. You missed your person, and you sat in a storage shed for decades. Then, one day, you're sold. Huzzah! Except...wait...what are they doing? Why are they drilling holes into me?! Then, there you are, covered in garbage. 100 years old in some horrible themed bar for a forgettable movie. Bored strangers barely even gawk at you as you sit there covered in garbage. Then, the nightmare ends. The "experience" closes, and some resourceful contractor throws you in the back of their pickup on the last day. Then, after some months, you're shoved in a cardboard box. What indignities await you now? How could it possibly get any worse? You'd have happily gone to the incinerator years ago. You wake up in Canada. This hairy dude is taking all the screws out of you, fixing your aching neck, polishing your worn frets. Finally, you're plopped in a room. And there are other 100 year old guitars all around you. And there's a family and a dog.
JFC this was corny. Why did I do this? Anyway, great job. Algo comment. Grow, channel, grow!
Hahaha! Love the corn!
That actually sounds like a pretty bad ass story for my future death guitars, I hope the best for them!
this is basically toy story but with guitar
The movie was far from forgettable, but I agree, the guitar deserved better.
The domino is brighter cos it has more tone holes
I'm so glad to have found this channel. I love how you restore these to good working condition without trying to hide all the abuse they've been exposed to, and salvaging every possible existing part.
Thanks very much!
Also, alcohol will loosen the bond of hot glue
Hot tip
it also loosens my tongue
it loosens lots of things ask my mom.
@@davidclarke6329 I already did, son
Did a lot more than ask from what I heard
That was super garbage steampunk decoration. I’m not a fan of steampunk but that was done by someone with 0 artistic talent
Props departments for film and theatre…their whole schtick is achieving “acceptable” results with as little effort as manageable. But they also insist on thousands and thousands of unnecessary expenditures. Low quality, high price. The perfect formula.
Thanks for the vids. As a fellow Canadian (not a) Luthier I have deep appreciation of others techniques. Like your friend Ted, I am a graduate of the Timeless Instruments School of Luthiery. Class of 2005
Cool, thanks!
I wasn't expecting it to be xbraced. Nice rescue
drawing the sandpaper between the neck and body to transfer the contour is a very clever method!
..I'd sweat those coins off the tuners with heat and add some nice off white plastic ones.
Nothing screams Cyberpunk quite like a bunch of ethernet cables, old PCBs and laptop heatsinks screwed and glued to an old classical guitar. At least its playable now.
Maybe consider using a recording software like OBS instead of camera-screen-recording.
Yeah! I’m just getting my feet wet as far as making videos. I’ve never used any of this software before. I know how to screen cap, but haven’t figured out the audio too. I will look into OBS, thanks.
Camera screen recording has a certain charm to it! Also might help with any copyright claim issues.
@@VincentSebastianMusic I agree, it kind of fit in this video! And yeah, perhaps less detectable
Excellent stuff! The one you fixed has a great mojo... Love your approach
noooo not the special daughter card 😭😭
Hahahaha! I know I’m sorry! I have a drawer with the other 400 I promise!
I've only just come across your channel - absolutely fascinating stuff!
“An impatient grit” Relatable! 😍 love your work 🙏🏻
I’m really stoked I came across your channel. Love seeing the restoration of these guitars but I also wanted to say that your backing tracks with these guitars are great. At times they remind me of Loren Connors or even Durutti Column. Love the funny sound effects too lol
For a guitar that was so mistreated it sounds really good.
i hate when people disrespect old stuff like this. thanks so much for saving it. grandpa guitar or not, shes awesome and needed saved
worked out very well. I also enjoy bringing old/unplayable Harmonys, and kays back to a singing state
Man, Ted Woodford did me a solid recommending his viewers to your channel! I LOVE your content! My day is made, knowing you brought a guitar like this back to life :) I love that you left the holes on the sound board, but I would have glued up the neck if I was doing the project myself... but it's your guitar and I'm happy it's exactly what you want out of it haha nice catch saving this one from the cyberpunk thing
I honestly believe, on a well-fit neck reset, the glue is only a formality. I bet I could play it for a year without even the bolt in there. Anyway, I usually do resets with hot hide glue, of course.
@@Notaluthier yeah that nice tight fit sound was glorious! and if it comes loose for some reason, it's in good hands haha
From the festering depths of the meth crisis to the glittering excesses of Hollywood, our hero rescues them all. Next you’ll have to find a bored and neglected middle class houseguitar that’s actually pretty good for its age but it’s just been overlooked 🙂
Bored and neglected house guitars are the bread and butter of this job. But I’m gluten free and vegan. 😅
Nice work, enjoyed the vid. Very relaxing. Thanks.
I loved this, on every level- redeeming that poor defiled thing, your sense of humor (and nice to see the cheering children's chorus has graduated and gone home), and even the one practical tip this non-repair person can take away (saving tape). Love the end result, musically and aesthetically.
Howdy dude, love your vids. Pretty sick!
Thanks very much!
Those are speed holes. Killer work man.
Great! Love your videos
I have always wanted to try restoring a guitar but cant ever find anything half as interesting as you do, any hint?
Thanks! The secret to finding projects is: scouring the internet every day for years on end
Yeah everything I find is like "3 year old squier tele, ran over by a truck, paid $250, asking $245"
I'm appalled that anyone would do this, and not even well, to 95 year old guitar. However, it was worth it to be able to see you bring it back to life. Another great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank. You. !
Doesn't surprise me it was "bubba'd" like this. It was probably sitting in a thrift store or pawn shop. The shop owners most likely weren't aware it had any collector's value, nor thought it was worth the effort saving it.
This guitar sounds like it came straight down from the Smoky Mountains.
I love open d tuning! I wish all the teachers would teach it instead of open e, it's better for the the guitar's health, strings longevity and if you really need open e you can just capo the 2nd fret
Enjoyed this video very much. Great save. Nice Little guitar that gets to sing some more in life
This video gave me way too much confidence to go take my lifting bridge off my Takamine and reglue it myself.
Especially considering I'm hopped up on painkillers for my back right now.
Hahahahah! That’s the perfect timing. 👀 a hobby sealing iron is great for bridge removal
Youre the greatest youtube channel that ive had the pleasure of finding recently
Thanks a lot!
Another great video and great music. Cheers Brother
Thank you!
Sir, you did a better job than I could have.
What were those mics you used at the end?
And I'm digging the content. I hope you make many more, and that it works out well for you.
Thanks! One of the mics is an AT-2020, the other is some random behringer condenser mic idk the model
Great video! I absolutely love the piece you played at the end and I would love to learn it. May I ask the name of the song?
It’s just something I wrote 🤙
I absolutely love this guitar
Beautiful job man !
No, new band name, Rolandian Presets.
Nice save, actually sounds really nice! 😊👍
This is the greatest channel of all time
😊❤
The first one is brighter but both are nice.
The mahogany one is always in an open tuning and is my daughters favourite axe to jam on
Steampunk modding a Le Domino?! ABOMINATION!
Adomination?
Your picking reminds me of Bob Hadley...😊
Neat! I’ll check him out.
@@Notaluthier look up : songs from the well, on kicking mule label
The thing is that the guitar was changed by the owner for a movie. Just like you changed it for yourself.
Initially I was intrigued by the Steampunk-aesthetic. Meanwhile, I tend to begrudge "artists" for tearing up real old things for their creations with little to no regard or interest in the function of real old technology.
I can't watch the James Cameron part at the beginning. Can't bear the forced social decline. So unfortunately I don't understand how you became the new owner of this awesome guitar. Anyway. Great video, dude. Great find. Thanks for restoring and saving a part of history.
Bare in mind these things are often done to iconic things to destroy moral and leave you defeated buuuuuut it is a beautiful thing when their destruction can be reversed
If a meteorite, due to how easy it was for you to take some off it would likely be a Carbonaceous chondrite… so not ferrous.
Oh!!! That would explain why a magnet doesn’t stick to it 👀 but the dust can be attracted to a magnet, but perhaps it’s just static
@@Notaluthier oh that is interesting. Perhaps use some sand paper rather than a file and see if it still sticks… you might be knocking ferrous material off the file. CC’s do have traces of iron in them, but mostly they are silicates and some carbon.
@@michaelvarney.yeah, I found it on the beach here in BC and though it ~presents~ convincingly as a meteorite, I know how unlikely it is. I’m also not terribly geologically literate on this coast. So it could be that it’s some weird result of subduction that I haven’t seen, being from Nova Scotia, a much older piece of rock
@@Notaluthier it would be cool to see it up close in a video some day. :) a cut cross section and some spit will pull out the characteristic nodules.
You gonna get outside tonight and see the aurora since you are up there?
@@michaelvarney. last night was nothing like the previous! I need to bring this rock to someone to verify, I tried all the online research RE meteorites. I will try and get some useful photos or footage of it.
✨It sounds very nice. It’s good when that’s the case. Thanks for the video! ✨
Alcohol and guitars don't mix
Good man.... well saved.
You did that guitar proud man. Spot on.
Thanks!
That is gorgeous. And the case is so spooky.
Alita - Passport to Pittsburgh beer ?
Man, as a (I wouldn't say) neat freak I wouldn't touch that fingerboard with a 10 ft. pole xD
I have similar grime on a guitar and I just leave it to die. No point in touching that thing. Just jking, it's on the to do list, but man I wanna wash my hands just looking at that thing. But that's my deal, you have fun with it! Great video, keep em coming.
It’s a dirt bag 4 lyfe.
as a newer builder of guitars (I don't consider myself a luthier) so I'm sure my opinion of this wouldn't matter much but i must say I think you did this guitar a great justice with the way you handled the restoration. I have never seen a Le Domino guitar before, and now your video has me wanting one to add to the collection. I tend to not comment on videos to much as I don't think the posters read them much, but I had to comment on this. I don't read comments very often either but I'm willing to bet you got some flak for what some people would call destroying a prop from a famous movie. well in my opinion the movie itself did a great injustice to this guitar, that move just happens to be one of the worst movies ever made. just ask Will Smith he regrets having anything to do with it till this day. Alas this was a movie prop made out of a guitar that still had something to say. you my friend gave it back it's beautiful voice. you did justice by it by putting it back in the condition it was in before some dummy not knowing what he was destroying (I'm guessing) got his grubby little hands on it. By not trying to upgrade and hide imperfections you have kept the 100 years old aesthetic. In my mind that's how it should look. just by looking at the use of fret board you can just imagine this thing being played in some juke joint down south in the 20s and 30s. man I'm in love with this guitar I got to get one lol my only hope is i can find one with as much wear on it baring the screw holes. great work man and if you ever give it away, I WANT IT. lol
Thanks very much! These have gotten kind of expensive, but if you buy them completely trashed…you can find a deal
@@Notaluthier what i do with a lot of my builds is go to my local guitar shop the owner gives me access to his back room of misfit parts and guitars. right now, I'm working a couple of strats and about to start a warlock bronze i got from him for $40.00 so you might want to try that a lot of these guitar shops have a back room of parts they would love to get rid of. it doesn't hurt to ask you might be surprised what you find
That is one HAPPY guitar again
Who plays the background music?!? It's the most comfy woody Guthrie esq playing :0
So far I’ve done all the music for my vids. This was all recorded on the Le Domino guitar from the video.
@@Notaluthier i know you might be busy but i would love some standalone recordings of this background music. It's perfectly minimalist and it feels like the type of thing I could de-stress to. You dont have to but personally I find your playing to be incredibly comforting :)
@@SubjectToChage I’ll keep this in mind.
Steampunk has been hi-jacked by normies NARPing as humans, they are just NPC's
Very nice man.
First🎉
Also great restoration job!
Привет. Отличное видео, спасибо.
its funny, when ted does the sand paper pulls he takes a brush and sweeps the dust off and is slow and steady, you just get it done and i think its awesome. there 100 ways to skin a cat i suppose
Totally many ways to do things, this was a quick and dirty turnaround. It depends on the guitar. And more specifically its finish. On a very precious guitar, I lay down tape on either side of the heel.
Excellent save!
Thanks!
Cdve bought a $300 Yamaha and covered it in 'steampunk' pcbs and junk!
Awesome guitar
What a gem!
Fun to watch.
Thanks!
The 'Steampunk' makeover was an utter abomination and whomsoever committed this act of vandalism should be forever ashamed. I'm so glad you got hold of this lovely old guitar and gave her a new lease of life. Sounds lovely, may karma smile on you.
Thanks very much!
lol “I doubt 500 people went”. Negative ROI
There’s no way they made money 500 people worked on it for 8 months, with movie money and union pay!
Saved by the bell... Why the hell were they attaching all that ugly crap to a nice old guitar anyway? Some people have no appreciation for history. Let them fake Steam Punk First Act or Esteban guitars if they gotta get that crap out of their system. ;)
Dominated 😎
Oh domiNO you didn’t!
@@Notaluthier this could domino if we are not careful
Great Job !
Thank you
Ok people, enough hating on the Steampunks - I'm one myself, and I can tell you that the hack-job done to this guitar is NOT what Steampunk is or is about, nor is that even considered to fit with the aesthetics of the Steampunk style. That was random old laptop parts and broken circuit boards glued onto a guitar and a few bit of wire spaghetti thrown on for good measure. This is the kind of crap I see all day long on various "craft" selling websites, all made to make money from something they know, nor care nothing about, but see a way to make cash from crap they have in the garden shed. This was not a Steampunk Maker made item, this was a result of some set designer / prop maker doing a Google image search followed by somebody saying "oh, so that's what steampunk is...easy, I can make that from the crap in my parts bin! An easy day at work, yay!"
I have see way too many lovely antique and retro items destroyed in a similar way - and the irony is that non of this "steampunked" work is bought by actual steampunks, because we tend to make our own stuff from scratch. It's usually "Artsy" types and interior decorators buying "quirky / niche pieces" for clients.
For reference, Steampunk actually despises the modern "use once and throw-away" disposable nature of modern production methods, and actually celebrates the way things were made for quality and built to last during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. A 90-odd year old guitar is already considered to "steamy" enough with out reaching for the glitter-cogs glue...
Well done for a sympathetic restoration on the old girl!
I know, I’ve seen some quality steam-punk work. But yeah props depts don’t do anything well…but cheaply faking things from a distance.
you should just have let it be what it was made into, a prop
This is very impressive
RESPECT!
I have been dealing with guitars since 1965 . None of them are worth any more than what a person will pay for it .All those expensive martins are only 3 00 dollar guitars . Gibson never did make a decent guitar .People are getting much wiser about guitars .Just because a guitar is 100 years old does not mean it is valuable . More often than not they are not worth handling .I aqured a 1956 Gibson arch top single pick up . Sounded like shit frets were all out of sinc . Could not intonate it . I threw it in the burning barrel lit it on fire felt so good . Now i am a Takamine player . They are superior to me to any other guitar Besides Gretsch I love Gretsch
for heavens sake ,.... it's ok to use a guitar polish on the body and a fingerboard oil for the dry as a bone dirty fingerboard.
Cool way of stringing BUT ARE THOSE STEEL STRINGS
This guitar is from 1928-29 and is x braced. It was 100% built for steel strings. There is a lot of misinformation about this guitar, including an article that says it was for Gut strings, but that is incorrect.
Hi Buggy
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God I hate patina 😂
This James Cameron thing...within the first few seconds I noticed the forced diversity crap that he's trying to sell to me.
Nice work man
A special thanks to James Cameron 🖕
I was like, the back track is the guitar he's working on, isn't it?☺
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4th
Hahahaha, 5th🎉
@@Notaluthier another excellent video, you really should be a luthier
I'm sure Cameron didn't ask for and find a " piece of Americana " just to intentionally f@*k it up. After all that junk was removed, it was still virtually unplayable.
Why the open tuning demo ? Because the guitar doesn't play in tune all over the neck. Try playing barre chords at the 7 th fret. I guarantee you it'll sound like crap .
Alita is crap
Dumb.
Bad video
Seriously....this bodged together video is so hard to watch.