Custom Guitar Build - The Minotaur - Ebony Top
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This is the complete build video on the making of this custom guitar. This is a design that I have named the Minotaur, and it was originally inspired by the Gibson Explorer, but modified for improved comfort and playability.
The top is Ebony (the seller didn't list an exact species, but I suspect it is Gaboon Ebony), the neck is Padauk, the body is White Limba (also known as White Korina), and the fretboard is Pale Moon Ebony.
The pickups are EMG 81 in the bridge position and EMG H in the neck position.
All hardware is from Schaller, in their Vintage Copper finish.
To see this build with narration and without time-lapse, there is a 9 video series on the making of this guitar that can be found here: • The Minotaur - Custom ...
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Just to give a little more info about the demo at the end, the guitar was tuned to D standard and may have been slightly out of tune because I had played around with it for a couple hours before recording that part and forgot to double check it. String gauge was 11-56. The signal chain: Guitar was plugged directly into a Line6 Spider IV for both the clean and high gain tones with a little bit of reverb added, no pedals, no after effects; amp was mic'ed with an Aston Origin directly in front of the speaker.
In my experience it takes about a month with strings on for everything to settle. Then I proceed to do the final set up.
I.e. cut the nut , adjust trussrod , set string height, and intonation
ohhhh i wondered why the high gain part sounded like absolute ass makes sense
@@EpIcHoBoGuY thanks man, I really strive to sound like absolute ass
@@OrbitalGuitars don't get me wrong tho absolutely love your work building it, looks beautiful but I'd love to hear it through something that's not holding it back
@@OrbitalGuitars Don't knock it! There's a lot to be said for sounding like absolute ass! Entire genres of music have been birthed from sounding like shit!
The way the neck alone was made - let alone the entire guitar - was a real work of art. Love watching these vids.
Absolutely stunning mate I hope you’re successful with it all you certainly got a good eye for building
I love the fact that this is one fluid video. You're not stopping every 10 seconds to talk for 5 mins straight about your vision for the build or any kinda crap. You just execute and its amazing. Gorgeous guitar and craftsmanship!
I love when builders talk about what their doing, how and why. Many know things you dont, and arent aware of. There're so many concepts you cant learn by just watching.
I guess some like to learn other just like to be entertained
@@disco4535 love learning stuff too as an espiring guitar tech, but im guilty to loving time lapse vids as well lol
Dude, you have very steady hands and of all guitar creating processes I've watched on youtube, this has got to be the best I've watched and enjoyed so far
Yes, he could have been a surgeon.
this guitar is absolutely gorgeous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Padauk is such a glorious wood to work with and so rich in colour its just a shame its not more figured.
Wow I dont know anything about builds but I can spot some beautiful fretwork when I see it.
One of the nicest looking guitars I have seen with these DIY make videos!
Stunning friggin guitar
genius craftmann create beautiful piece of wood
Stunning work sir, what a beauty you have created
The wood for this guitar must have been very expensive! Looks very nice.
that was the first time i have seen solderless electronics and i am astonished. Wish I knew about that when i rewired my guitar installing fluence pickups
I've installed a set of the Devin Townsend signature fluence pickups and that wiring is certainly an ordeal when you include a 3-way mini toggle. As far as I'm aware though, EMG might be the only company that utilizes the solderless system.
i was semi shocked when i took apart my ltd guitar for paint and saw the same type of pins and plugs.. made the whole process easier . crazy it was on a guitar from 2004!
Never knew strawberry jam could be used as an inlay. Beautiful guitar!
Awesome build. Great guitar! I have saved all your videos of this guitar to my channel's Archive so that those who stop by may also view your work. I am including this Full Build video as well. More people need to know about Orbital Luthiery!!! Keep up the great job!⛧🤘
Nice build man ... especially love the fretboard. Keep up the good work!
Gorgeous build. Gotta say though, that tear-out on the back 'bout broke my heart. Why not use a forstner bit? Anyway, stunning achievement. Thanks for posting.
Great job
Great video
Great guitar
Great project
It's amazing
absolutely beautiful! the wood , the hard ware. thank you for showing the world this instrument, nay , work of art.
Mister, you work very neatly. Pleasure to watch.
Nicely made video.
Good pace kept it interesting.
Beautiful Guitar.
A real stunner.
32:27 Guitar looks awesome, still I'd tune it up before demonstration.
Damn man!! that is one hell of a beautiful guitar and a hell of a badass job building it!
Beau travail , belle guitare , au passage ai reconnu Paradise Lost ...
Amazing guitar, so good job. But, very bad distortion! hahaha =D
Awesome guitar, beautiful work, that neck is stunning! 🤘🤘
Hey..one of my favorite guitar designs ever!!you did an amazing job on that..the color and wood selection is perfect..how can I get one of those?
Absolutely fantastic, awesome dude keep up the good work 👍rastaman
Dumb question - just started playing/collecting electric guitars a little over 2yrs ago. I've watched countless guitar builds, it's an art form of course. I never understood the purpose of the "center line". Why take two main pieces & glue them together before putting a topwood on? Why not one big slab of wood for the body rather than two glued together?
A few reasons:
1) it’s much easier to find wood that isn’t super wide...thus more cost effective, usually
2) it can keep the grain of the wood from all going the same direction, which combats against warping
3) if you find wood with interesting grain/figuring, and “book match” the pieces, many consider that to be visually appealing.
There’s probably more reasons, but those are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
Wow I really like this one a lot those tuners went perfect with the color of the woods you used. Amazing!
very cool!
Love the build. Would have used Tung oil on this one though. The wood screams tung oil! But seriously great craftsmanship!
Superbe, joli travail ! Bravo
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I really enjoyed watching you build your gorgeous guitar I love the look of the stripe contrast on the body and the shape. You made a beautiful guitar.
really inspiring ! I love ur guitar thanks =D
Beautiful. Elegant, Perfect.
Nice work! But gloves with the routing table?
Лучше бы не включал. Дрова. В топку.
Beautiful guitar. Would love to know how to get one.
AMAZING GUITAR BRO ¡¡¡
thats an amazing guitar good job...
This is a knockout video. Having in your head to use highly-figured wood to create a pointy guitar - hats off. I watched the whole thing, the conductive paint, the little to-ground wire, I didn't understand how you marked the frets but they are so well finished and the body and neck finish is just bob-on. Only one of those in the world and years from now you'll still have it - with a few miles on it.
Only one thing, it's very minor - your baby is proper showbizz and the demo is unworthy. Setting up a guitar definitely takes time and most of that time is in an armchair thinking of something else. That's the way it is - small moves. Give it a moment to get there and then dem the thing properly - put it through a proper amp in a proper space and give it to someone that can absolutely wring it's neck in a way that you can't. It's almost absurd to have something like that and sit there doing something tentative with it. If that hits the spot, give us the video of that please. F*&^%$%^&*g great job, Man!
I especially love the shape of this one.
A very nice project ! I like very much your construction technic. And finaly a great guitar.
And you use crimson parts. 😉 (i’m a big fan of Ben work)
A question please : which scale lengh do you use ?
I want to see your next build.
I used a 25.5 inch scale on this guitar.
Wow! That was an amazing journey to watch! If you don't mind me asking, what kind of finish did you spray on? I'm glad that you didn't fill the grain, that texture is super cool! I've been wanting to take a crack at building a guitar, I've bought a bunch of Stewmac stuff that I've been too afraid to use, including a really cool spalted maple top, just need to take the plunge!
Where did you get those tuners and the bridge? The brushed / antique copper is gorgeous! Stunning guitar man we'll done!
Thanks! All of the hardware came from a company called Schaller.
imagine using a spare piece of padauk as a clamp plate 💀
Very cool way to cover the truss rod, also a very cool guitar. Good work!!!
you make some of the most beautiful guitars I have ever seen
Damn nice build
This is insane, gives me a newly found respect for guitar construction
Paradise Lost rules!
Follow Ian Porter on Facebook and his passion for building custom guitars at Ian's Strung Out Guitars, also on Facebook. He's currently building me a custom Explorer inspired by the legendary James Hetfield of Metallica! He has videos of his progress!
that truss rod cover idea was brilliant and i cant believe no guitar manufacturer has done this before
@@cb33 it's basically a part of the matching headstock top wood
reminds me if a music man st vincent met an ibanez iceman
Good job man turned out beautiful, as far as the haters ignore them .Build what you want and play anyway you want .It seems now the tolerant left has turned into a bunch of Karen's spouting hate and bigotry. When they have no talent or skills but are experts on everything .
Yeah but if you play it like that it will sound like crap. I mean... give that guitar to someone experienced and shoot the video
Precioso trabajo!!!! Tendrán ese plano para recrearlo?? Saludos desde México ❤️
I wonder how many millions of tons of 'Pale Moon' Ebony was burnt in bonfires before they decided it was of use as a decorative wood.
Hola q tal. Excelente su trabajo.muy artístico. Es raro q no se vea sus hermosas guitarras en algunas bandas musicales... De q parte de este mundo es... Otra cosa en cuanto es el valor de su guitarra.gracias
Love to watch a craftsman at work. I'm a guitarist so I am also in my zone😊
I've got the same table saw
Guitarra simplismente magnifica..
I usually cut the fret slots before I cut the fingerboard taper. I use a miter box.
Awesome work. especially glued on neck.
This is something I'd even BUY .Nice job
Your hands do not do that guitar justice. FInd a real player to rip that thing to shreds. Catch it on fire. We ain't gonna get there with your hands. Go find a hillbilly or a hooligan to play it. Preferable someone from Texas. Then redo the demo part of the video. The fretboard looks so cool and the ebony top body, ...no one has that. And the guitar just has a super professionally made vibe to it. GO find a mad man to play it.
"find a mad man....." lol but you are so right. It really hurt watching that demo bit. F1 drivers drive a car that someone else put together and that's the way it is.
Is the EMG H an active pickup? I always thought they were passive, and I've never heard of anyone mixing active and passive pickups. That guitar is seriously beautiful.
The EMG H is an active single-coil pickup, and from what I understand it is possible to combine active and passive pickups, but each pickup would need to have it's own volume and tone knobs to work properly. Glad you like it!
How much and how fast can you make 1
amazing build! I wish I had half your talent!
vielleicht ein paar Töne ohneo Verzerrung, damit man die Qualität einschätzen/geniessen kann .
Very nice look! I was wondering if the D string is too close to the edge, by the look of it, I'm under the impression is too close and will often roll off the fret?
I've never had that issue
Great looking guitar but that Line 6 makes it sound absolutely terrible. You can get Reaper for $60, and free amp sims and impulse responses, then record the DI and use those to get more usable tone. I recommend this because those sounds make it look like a beautifully crafted wall hanger that would never be played.
Nice build! My only qualm/question is the measuring of the frets. You did this at an angle that follows the taper of the neck, which is ok I suppose providing your bridge and pickups are positioned accordingly... but doing so will shorten the scale length a bit and make things a little "non-standard" for anyone in the future trying to figure out what you've done.
If it wasn't intentional, next time measure the fret/pickup/bridge spacing down the center line
I saw that too. That's not the best way to do it. Along the centreline of the guitar, as you say.
How many thousandths of an inch are we talking ?, makes no difference at all
@@vincit1813 That depends on a few factors. If the bridge is repositioned accordingly then no problem. If the bridge is placed in the stock position and the neck is out of whack, then it can easily extend beyond the intonation range of a tune-o-matic style bridge and/or have every fret out of tune by a specific degree.
I don't have modelling software to hand to make a demonstration, nor can I be bothered with the maths, but a tape measure and guestimate angle, you could be 1/8" to 1/4" (~5mm) too long for the scale length. Only a few bridge designs can extend that far, then have all the room for accurate intonation. Should it be a fixed bridge like an acoustic, it'd be catastrophic.
@@naycnay Stock position? Modelling software ?.. never had a problem.
@@vincit1813 Stock means default. Modelling software allows me to quickly make an accurate diagram to show how bad it would be.
Great build. That ebony top rocks!
Good job 👍👍👍
So amazing
Salam ✊✊✊🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
I made a Padauk neck for my very first build, only it was neck through body. It warped in a few months. I tried everything to save it, but ended up cutting it off and making a glue-in mahogany replacement.
Great skills!
Que trabalho fantástico... Parabéns.
Absolute respect for making it mostly by hand. People who use CNC routers to make such things are really missing the point of creativity
Sos un maestro hermano,como me gustaria tener un luthier asi como vos loco,un abrazo desde Argentina y sigue asi..trato de no perderme de tus videos
Paradise Lost... Excellent.
wow, luthier, artist, craftsman!...not a fan of the flying V explorer thing, but its a work of art!!!and the no BS video was very cool and informative!
Holy shit balls that's awesome! Amazingly good work! How much would it be for a guitar made completely out of mahogany/ebony? really dark rare and beautiful wood
Very cool looking guitar. I like the hardware that you used. I thought that the neck pickup sounded very bright though. Is that just the nature of the pickup that was used, or was there something with the pots or the wiring that gave the pickup that sort of tone quality?
Your craftsmanship is impressive, awesome guitar. Can you tell me about the electronics you are using there? thanks!
Хоть бы балаболил, когда делаешь. Смотреть скучно. Или музон включил бы.
That was an awesome build! A great looking instrument, man!
You should add how you set your guitars up. Intonation, fret crowning and leveling, the whole process. Everything else seems to be good. Good woodworking skills
Nice work I like the bevel on the top going into the ebony
please tell me how much is this guitar rated? more please translate into portuguese(por favor me diga quanto está avaliada está guitarra?mais traduza por favor para português🤗🤗)
This guitar is amazing 🎸
That's a nice looking guitar!
Hello friend Congratulations you and a big luthier(Olá amigo parabéns você e um grande luthier)
James Hatfield just drooled
Hatfield hell! I drooled too lmfao!!
Fantastic build. This one deserves a good set of pickups. ...and take that shine back off the wood.
Not to be a jerk.. buuutt u guys couldnt get someone to play guitar that can...uk..actually play ..made the guitar sound like balls
Thanks man, I really strive to sound like balls
If you don't want to be a jerk, it's simple. Don't post jerky comments!
Excellent, great job in the guitar. Congrats!!!!
That looks very nice, and seems like it’s got good playability. Good job :)