Extra Extended Range Guitar - The Universal
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- This new design is the offspring of two of my most popular designs, the Aperion bass and the Pilot headless guitar.
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be good,
Tim
I was so focused on the inlay and the extra frets that I didn't even notice they were *fanned* frets...
definitely a worthy addition to a gallery show.
Your work is always amazing, but wow this video was especially incredible. I loved that opening shot so much I watched it back.
hey, thanks! I don't claim to be a videographer and don't really try to make each shot do any more than show the work, but sometimes I get creative :)
Nice one sir. Almost finished on my third bass. Pachyderm inspired 30" scale for my wife. Seriously could not have gotten there without you!
awesome to hear!
I can barely play 3 riffs on my bass but there is something about the love that goes into building that fascinates me. Building my own with someone like you and your skills would be like winning a lottery!
Stuart Semple really does come out with some great stuff which always seems to have an application for whatever hobby or craft you might indulge in.
This is the first time I've seen one of his products used in a guitar build though. I might have to get one of these now.
Another beautiful and unique piece of playable art. I love the inlay design! Happy holidays and thanks for sharing!
The two pick up guitar is a masterpiece!!! Beautiful sound and looks.
That double pickup version looks so good! A medium scale 4 (or 5 string) bass in that configuration would be something I'd be interested in owning.
I could absolutely build that for you. www.newperspectivesmusic.com
The detail level on those! Great job Tim!
Wow this is the best looking guitar I've seen. Awesome work.👍 Had to click and watch right away. Design reminds me of a golden eagle. Thanks for inspiring me more in my design work 😊
cheers. I find every time design something and I'm happy with it, if I go back and tweak it some more in a few days/weeks/months I can make little changes that make it even better. It's a muscle that gets stronger the more you work it out, but it also needs to rest between sessions :)
@@timsway I appreciate your work. You are one of the coolest guys on the RUclips block.
The fretboard on this is just AMAZING???that fretboard on. Laura would be over the top
The fretboard looks so good. Also, I just love Black Diamond pigment. From the very little experience I have they sure make a good product.
Excellent design for the fretboard inlays.
That fretboard is out of this world!
well, everywhere except the 7th fret is G and B string is... :)
Just awesome! - something special about this design & interesting to see you putting together a 7 string incarnation in the evolution of the model. The fretboard art is absolutely phenomenal & your style as a builder is really fascinating. Plus your playing does the guitar justice 👌
thank you very much
Just finished the whole video,man this is way too cool!!!
WOW.. really well done Tim .. Wow
Awesome project! Loved everything you make but these did feel special. And your final thoughts need to be shouted to the world. Great work Tim🥰
Say, great job building that electric guitar man!!😉👍
Been playing with multi colour epoxy inlay as well. Perhaps I shall try the brush method to pop the bubbles. Love your new creations Tim. Happy New Year!
the wire brush works well to clean out the routes, especially smaller ones where you can't get in therte with sandpaper or razor blades, etc.
They are truly amazing instruments - so beautiful.
Inspiring as always 🤩 the tonal difference between the two is amazing. I’m not much of a 7 string player but these have got me keen 😎 🎸
the extra string really throws me off, even on 5 string basses.
Tim. Another great build.
Great work! I'd love to hear a little intro explaining some of the things youre trying to achieve with the project. Im not very familiar with guitars or guitar making so it would help me follow along and learn some things!
What a beautiful pair of guitars.
Happy Holidays Tim! That was a very interesting guitar build. You have come a long way since I showed you the Acoustic that I built way back when. Keep up the great work and looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2022! Be well and stay safe! 👍👍🎸🎸
thanks man, practice makes... well not perfect, but better :)
Why no RUclips music channel??? I love it. Very Chili Pepper / Cake ish grooves. Really good, Tim. Much love from Oklahoma.
Both fantastic guitars. I dig it. Youve done it again!
Holy cow, that solar system fretboard alone is insanely cool!!! Man, I love your work!👌🏽🤩😊
Oh my solar system. Dig the fret markers!
Super creative!
Very cool as always.
Excellent video. I loved the song, also.
The one that's darker in color is also darker in tone, that's like a nonverbal dad joke, I like it.
ok, what am i missing? they look similar but the dark fret boardone is so much warmer.
I am positive i missed something in the build... love the soun dof them both but just a viewers perspective. beautiful work by the way.
Time you're such an inspiration to me!
Another work of art!🎨🏆
I love watching all your videos. They just keep getting better and better. What type of dye do you use with the epoxy?
mostly black diamond pigments and some other stuff I got from totalboat. thanks!
Wish I could play a few of the things you've built. You've got a cool style. I'm a fellow luthier, 25 years since I built my first instrument a lap steel. Happy holidays G
cheers! Where can I see your work?
damn those are some neat critters
Great film. Awesome guitars. You can never have enough strings or frets. The real question, is Pluto a planet? Mahalo for sharing! : )
not according to 16th century Kepler :)
great job, man!
i love the idea with planets
and imo it looks better on the darker one, which also sounds better:)
it seems that these guitars are built for hi-gain shredding, which is missing in this video..
what pickups did you use on these ones?
indeed they are built for shredding, and indeed I can't. LOL! The pickups are custom wound by Gemini Pickups.
Cool stuff!
As always great work!!! Love every bit of your istruents. I wish if you could invest more time on finishing instruments lie sanding and applying finish in general it would be 10/10, now its 9/10, cheers
I'd have to charge more. I like to keep them affordable and keep moving forward and making new things, developing the craft. That last 10% feels like diminishing returns. But that's me, yknow? There are builders on all levels andd in all price ranges, enough for everyone to find who works best for them (and still avoid the factory made stuff at the box store :)
Another fantastic build Tim! And great playing as well. What type of tuning keys are those?
I dont remember. I got them off ebay. Thanks!
I'd love to see a sky guitar build. Those whole tones in the upper register are so interesting.
I love your builds
Love your Songs.. The guitars sound amazing..
thanks!
Digging it Tim!!!
I love it. I want it.
Nice work again. Have you done that solar system inlay before? It’s super cool.
this is the first, but I was posting it on instagram as I made it. you might have seen it there.
So cool!
Very cool!
I've had this idea for years, maybe you'd be interested (figure out a better/simpler method). You know how the 24th fret is supposed to be this ultimate tone centre for the neck pickup? Well... a pickup at the 24th fret, under the frets. I've always imagined frets on rails for this idea; extended frets 'floating' over the neck pickup. Either cleverly crafted traditional frets on wood, or frets set on a metal rail, over the pickup. Commercial guitars would never feature such a thing, but I reckon a Tim Sway guitar could/would/should?
Fun idea
I\d love to run into Brother Tim at some musical event and shoot the bull with him about I guitar I'm planning to build, I'll bet he is a walking library of great advice on all things guitar.
Cool guitars
Love them both, and I don’t even play guitar 😃.
Twin 7 String Electric Guitars, aren't they sweet?
Question--on the single pickup model, what was that tonal switch you activated? It sounded like either a series/parallel toggle or a bass cut.
exactly. it's a coil tap.
good Tim.👍🏻👏🏻👌🏻💪🏻
you are very professional how much I would like to share one of my projects with you. I will follow you until my last breath..Bravissimo❤
Hi Tim. Been busy making some of the tools mentioned in your show and really dig using them. I don`t know ff anyone has addressed this, but I was told those aluminum rulers are not strait on the edges like a good strait edge beam. Of course, they look strait and seem true when using. What do you think? By the way. After cutting the two fret board strait edge pieces I had a leftover length 2/14 witch I am using as fret rocker. Do that album.
No, they are not as precise as an expensive, machined tool, but will probably be "good enough" for most applications
Impressive!
Loved the sunset n rise 😂👍
I was looking for another way to show time passing other than the YT standard Spongebob "A few hours later" cards :)
@@timsway it's super cute and I like it!
This is the next century
Where the universal's free
You can find it anywhere
Yes, the future's been sold
Sorry, I couldn't read that. the text is a little Blur-ry, but unfortunately I do have to charge money for these Universals :)
Yay new video! I hope more people will see it in their recommendations!
Greating from Ukraine 🤗
you never know :) thank you
Keeping the fingerboard on the CNC for the inlays is smart. Do you use a fast curing epoxy or do that over the process of several days?
each sunset/sunrise in the video represents a day of waiting for things to dry and cure :) My cnc was tied up for 3 days for this inlay process.
Cool inlays! Could I ask what size carbon inserts you use in the neck? I want to do one with none traditional material and it’ll need reinforcing.
I used .125" (5mm) carbon fiber rods. they are usually sold as parts for model airplanes, drones, etc.
@@timsway Nice one, thanks mate.
I'm sure you considered this when designing, but I would've loved to see the other planets be a different color, rather than blue as the Earth
LOL! many emails went back and forth about this! The client decided on just making the earth a slightly different blue than the other planets. We didn't want to get to gimmicky or distracting with a bunch of colors on the board.
The darker coloured one sounded proportionately darker, and was my preference. What is the tuning?
BEADGBE
What is that you're using for the inlays? Is it just two part epoxy with some kind of dye mixed in?
you got it!
@@timsway thank you. I have a 1983 Peavey T-20 I'm trying to mod and repair with cracks and lifted grain (semi-intentionally) that I plan to fill in to create a cool woodgrain design
Wooww..tosin abasi like desain guitar..
Hey, might be a stupid question to some of you but, what is the reason for using epoxy on the ebony(?) fretboard?
It's not ebony, it's Richlite micarta. I do not use ebony because of its nasty social and environmental baggage. I only work with local, reclaimed and sustainable materials.
@@timsway That is kind of why I was confused, I didn't think you would use ebony. Thanks! Inspiring work.
omg please! play in tune :( :( :(
The CNC stuff is good though :)
I assume you're talking about all the fretless bass/slide guitar stuff in the beginning of the vid? It's a much larger convo than should be had in a video comment section, (and I don't expect to 'change your mind') but a main component of music is tension/repose, tonic/dominant, etc. This can be achieved on a micro level, too, in playing with pitch, which is why people love hearing notes bend in guitar solos. It's not where they end up that creates the emotion, it's the space in between (While My Guitar Gently Weeps). I freely admit I am no virtuoso, but when I play instruments where I have the option, if there is a space just off from "in tune" but not quite a "wrong note" I'm gonna aim for it almost every time! lol. I call it "the 13th note" - sometimes it successfully triggers the feelings I want it to hit, sometimes not. And definitely not everyone is gonna like it - it would be weird (and boring) if everyone listened to, liked and created the same music! Search for inspiration in the things you dislike as much as the things you like. There is often even more of it in there!
@@timsway yes i see or hear. I guess you just challenge me on many fronts hehe.
I would love to show you some of my own instruments :)
@@Oasudude I'd love to see them! Share them with me on Instagram @timsway1 or facebook/timsway
Cosmos ))
Since you're always making guitars out of reclaimed materials, have you ever thought about making a cardboard guitar?
I have! I've seen some pretty cool ones but haven't fully developed my idea/contribution to the concept. I'm close on one idea that probably hasn't been done :)
@@timsway That's cool to hear. I'm excited to see what you come up with.
Dude you need a apprentice???
I get asked that a lot. Truth of the matter is I really enjoy working alone and curb my growth so I don't have to take on help. That may change someday, but then it would end up being more like "do all this stuff I don't want to do right now" rather then a true, teaching opportunity that anyone apprenticing would want and deserve.
Nice guitar! Terrible music theme!