Your issue with the neck has nothing to do with the neck, but because you didn't route the cavity for the Floyd Rose correctly. The cavity where the body plate sits on should be at least as deep as the thickness of the plate so it sits flush with the body. Making a shallow route for it was one of the reasons which caused the springs to rub against the wood. There's no problem with making the bridge pocket even deeper than that because you can always raise the bridge or add neck relief to fix an action that's too low.
Exactly. Depth at the post holes should 6.35mm and 11.18mm for the remaining route. I can’t be sure but the block looked like it was only a 32. Replacing that with a 37 or possibly a 42 would have done the trick. He would gain more flutter as well. Maybe because it’s not an original Floyd he couldn’t find a block with the correctly spaced mounting holes? I’m not knocking his efforts, I’ve been there so many times I know these numbers off the top of my head.
@@danrao3707 The Gotoh version has a thicker base plate and uses thicker posts as well. In some cases, you have to make the pocket deeper or replace the posts as well, but it's more or less a drop-in replacement.
Except if you're installing a floyd in top mount position, a greater neck angle/shallower routing is needed. But in his case, the neck pocket was routed too deep even for a recessed floyd considering the size of the shim, plus you can see that the fretboard/neck seam line is below the top of the body. For the springs issue, there is different trem block sizes for different body thickness, most common on recessed floyd is à 32mm but on a topmounted floyd you obviously need a taller block.
@@lethium4250 This is clearly not a top mount position. You only route the hole for the block in that case. This is a floating mount, which requires you to route a pocket for the bridge plate to sit flush with the body and some space under that as well so you can pull up without having the bridge angled forwards.
Thanks for sharing your project! This was a great presentation of the thought, work and re-thinking that goes into either building from scratch, or doing a heavy modification as with your guitar. I do similar projects, and always get a laugh when someone comments "... could have bought at new brand X", or "...could have bought 3 guitars". Those comments may be true, but what those individuals fail to realize is the eduction and experience that one gets from actually doing the work. Not much learned by handing cash to a salesperson and walking out the door with a new guitar. No challenge in that. I appreciate the errors, and your recovery from problems. Good for everyone to see and learn from. Every step of build/mod has potential problems to work around, and learn to avoid. Glad you showed those things! Good playing too, and I laughed when the string broke. These things happen, and we need to take them all in stride. Great, great project!
I tried making my own guitar and failed terribly as I made a lot of mistakes, but you my friend made me want to pick it up again as you also make mistakes but kept going. Thank you and keep up the good work! You deserve more subs
That's my kind of guy: taking a shit instrument and doing your best, with the wrong tools and with empirical knowledge, to make it a little less shit for a ton of money. I am the same and did something similar with a B-stock Harley Benton. Everything was wrong on it, from the neck alignment to the tremolo block to the bridge holes themselves, so it was completely unplayable: I then rolled up my sleeves and said, "Lol I'm a luthier" (which I'm not) and altered basically everything on there. Fun times.
I think its sad when there is some toxic comments or just How some people write. The guitar community is so split. Happy to see most comments beeing supportive and nice!🤘 liked the video and i get that the name of the video is to get some extra views. This guy is honest about every wrong step and point them out in informative ways. Says he is learning by doing. Also super cool to Done the work to your first guitar showing How you grown with the Craft giving love back to the guitar that maybe got him into music. Great work and love the soumi accent! Heja Finland!🇸🇪🇫🇮
Filling wood is like that. Remember Satrianis stolen Black Dog? They closed the hole of the middle pickup. And you can see that on some pics. That is the reason why he did the "painting"... great job, dude!
Come on folks, 80% of all the money would have been labor... Kudos for showing your mishaps Jukka! Many of us have all been there! I messed up a few of my own guitars in the 1980's before I learned more and had more equipment and tools. I'd buy a used guitars and strip others to make it better..
Hello Sir! This video was so inspiring to me that it literally put me to tears... I have been working on my guitar building hobbyist skills for a little while (not too long 1-2yrs). I aspire to be able to do the things that you have shown in this posting, and I really resonate with the techniques and corrections you've shown. It reveals that there is always a solution to whatever arises. Is it always worth it? Maybe not... Nevertheless, there is a way to work things through. Thank you so much for sharing all this! Stay blessed and I will be back to see what else you can teach me!
Not a lot of worries, but I like to watch this type of videos with bare bone ambience of the room. I don't know why but something about them calming and relaxing to me. the music was throwing me off in this , but all in all, great vid
I think you did it totally awesome job on that guitar but holy crap you can buy an Jackson for less than $300 that has a Floyd Rose locking nut tiger stripe body but I commend you for all the work you did on that guitar great job
Bought one of those jacksons, terrible. Had to resolder it in the first week of playing it pickups were cutting out. Also the locking nut was pure sh*t and the cavings for thr g and b string are way off. Makes more sense to save up and buy something normal.
Note: when you pull out frets with the intent of keeping the fretboard and re-fretting, you need a lot more TLC than what is seen here (understandably). For instance, you might cut across the wood with a razor on both sides of the fret to prevent splintering (frets have cleats that protrude out of their tangs which can pull up wood). Heating frets with a soldering iron is also common. That may be due to glue, but also to expand a little bit.
I love this Video so much! Subscribed to your Channel right away and looking forward to upcoming Videos! So authentic, leaving in the mistakes, taking the viewer on a journey and showing how you solve the problems. Keep on documenting your journey! I'm looking forward to upcoming Videos :) And by the way, great woodworking skills!
this is really cool sure you could have just made a new guitar from scratch for less time and money but i can see you made mistakes and taught yourself how to fix them what you learned here is worth the work especially if you had fun doing it
So let me say first I think it’s great your out messing around with guitars. I think it’s super cool you’re working with your hands. As a fellow builder, measure a 100x and cut once. Also your locking nut cutting rig was pretty cool. So the part that really got my attention was the action part and adding the massive neck shim. Why wouldn’t you re-rout the Floyd and sink the posts a little deeper? Also I’m not exactly sure you need neck angle for a Floyd rose mounted bridge. I do know Les Paul’s do. Also I dig what you did with the truss rod and the whole neck itself.
I was confused by the thumbnail, the idea of sinking 2600 in mods to a guitar sounded a little too crazy, but I was only thinking of parts and materials, no labor. Great video though, turned out great
First I thought „few hundred on a otherwise decent crafted body/neck? Ok but that’s too much“ Then I read it’s a first guitar and I was immediately „so worth it“ 🤣 First ones need to be treated specially. But mine is still waiting for me making money 😂 The grain of the neck is surprisingly beautiful. Maybe I would have gone with a better quality strat bridge instead of Fr but all in all. Nice job 🤘🤘
The best way to scallop a fretboard is to use a round or even a half-round rasp or file with fine grain. I dont' like scalloping a fretboard, because its so easy to mess up. But you did a fine job on everything else. I found it strange to half scallop a fretboard, but I understand the reason. Why keep messing it up? Makes sense. well done.
Allen keys are extremely hard ,when l have cut down one in the past l have found it best to use an angle grinder .Tried it once with bolt cutters ,like you it did cut it but put two dents in the blades of the bolt cutter ....
I always find shims to be unsightly, and they cause the neck to go out of alignment if the 'front toe' of the neck isn't removed. (the added angle from shimming means a few mm of the neck will trash the intonation) I like to remove what I call a 'negative shim' from the neck along with the front toe, which keeps me from having to raise the bridge as well.
I made quite some modifications to my guitar that were more expensive than the guitar, too. And it makes totally sense, cause even if you bought a guitar for 2,5k you would probably not exactly get what you want if you've got very special wishes. However considering you almost changed every part of the neck anyway. You could have gotten a whole new neck instead - far less work and far less time wasted where you could've played guitar instead.
I think it is nice you have the skills to do work like this but to be honest I have over the years been able to find a replacement neck for about every guitar I own or my guitar tech has collected some over the years where other people have thrown away good necks like for my Ibanez guitars but even the fanciest Fender Neck is $399. As a carpenter if I had the tools I probably would build something like you have done but reality says for the money you spent in the neck alone I could have bought 2-3 replacements anyway... Keep up the good work
How long did it take? Btw that polishing neck... was not 2k of sand paper too smooth? So when your hands are little sweaty, it would get sticky? Anyways, surely learned quite a bit about building. Lots of effort!
The proceedments are not perfect, and the objective is kinda irrational but lets be honest, everyone with a shitty first beloved guitar stored on his closet/parents house (as me, as most) would looove to do something like this exactly this way, it is not the kind of work you schedule and methodically ensure for a client, is the kind of jammed work the inner child ask for yourself and i love the result and how much it is as rock: pure attitude and the desire to be cool. Great work and many thanks for sharing it
Hyvä video kitaran rakentamisesta. Moni varmasti ihmettelee hintoja näille jitarantakentajien kitaroille, mutta ei tiedä miten monta työvaihettta ja monta tuntia näitä tehdään. Pitäähän työmiehen palkkaakin saada työstään. Ja näitähän ei tehdä 1/päivä. Laskitko monta tuntia meni tuon tekoon? Olisi hauska tietää. Itse en ole muuta tehnyt, kuin maalannut bodyn ja hionut nauhat ja semmosta pientä. Siihenkin meni aikaa tosi paljon, mutta mukavaa puuhaa kun itselle tekee. Kiitos vielä videosta.🤘
@@F15T1 tarkkaa tuntimäärää ei valitettavasti ole tiedossa, mutta lopultahan tässä oli duunia yhtäpaljon ellei enemmän kuin kokonaan uuden kitaran rakentamisessa😃👌
you had me all the way up till you made that shim - all that hard work you did and excellent job by the way then you slap a shim in there - why not just reroute the pocket like you did the first time but at the correct height? maybe i'm missing something - anyhow awesome work
@@infinidominion what i meant to say is reroute the pocket out glue a block back in and the reroute the pocket again at correct angle anyhow impressive job you have skills keep it up
I was "ok" with the given price for almost everything but charging 140 bucks for a "custom" pickguard is just savaga lmao. I was modding my guitar and I wanted to have humbuckers but there wasn't a fit pickguar for my old guitar, so I asked a guy who made really cool cumstom pickguards and I would be charged for 39 USD (approx). Also there're luthiers in m city making complex bridge installations for less than 50 bucks. I asked them if it was any hard and they always told me "It's hard if u don't know how to do it. But I'm used to this so it's easy now."
@@andresberrelleza9813 I completely understand that, I have to say that I don’t do repairs as job, but I did research what kind of prices luthiers in Finland would charge from such modifications, price range was quite wide, I tried be in the middle but also thinking what kind of prices would be profitable for builder because of the amount of time and work this took. (I would say it’s faster and easier to build new instrument😄) But back to picguard! even for me If I think myself as customer it feels unreasonable high, thats why it was really hard to put price on. I needed to make templates from scratch, templates that won’t fit in any other guitar and probably won’t ever use again.. (pickguard could be shaped like star, the amount of work would be the same) that kind of handmade full custom pickguard I wouldn’t do cheaper. It’s bit different with traditional & common picguard shapes that fits most guitars. Example: someone orders strat picguard with one humbucker slot. I wouldn’t have templates ready. But still I would do the template and wouldn’t charge the customer for extra work, Because there is high chance I could use that template again and next time it would be easy and fast (that way it would pay itself back at some point). Price would be something like 50€ Also owning a cnc machine would make big difference with custom picguards
Yeah, I got a Squier classic vibe telecaster 60 left-handed and the frets were cut off short so I tried to fix the fats man I booger that up. I just bought a new neck. I don’t have the tools though.
@@redkurn I actually did that. when I did this first time it took couple weeks or month even to be visible and became even more visible when time passed, now since the clearcoat was thinner it became visible earlier. but yes you could probably minimize it by doing that and adding clear coat wait couple weeks, sand, add another clearcoat and repeat this until it doesn’t happen.
@@putchmillernetwork1799 I did tape up the truss rod before applying the glue, but then I forgot to take the tape off. Somebody will have a little giggle if they ever remove the current fretboard.
@@meadish There are a lot of "import" necks that have a thin layer of tape over the truss rod. Some are similar to a double side cellophane tape. Not an issue, no worries.
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Love how you made so many mistakes but just kept going. I do the same thing 😂
Like we all do 😅
Yup. Measure once, cut twice.
@@Lionstarr86 There is no other way.
It’s all about how you fix them. Lutherie isn’t perfect
@@deadhands1981Im dead bro 😂
Got a bloke called Theseus here asking if you do boat repair
😄👌
I see you are a man of culture
That made me laugh so unreasonably hard.
Next video: "I made $50 modifications to a $2600 guitar"
2 string changes?
Thank you for putting the dollar signs where they belong.
@@mrfacephone100$
After this video he won't be allowed nowhere near $2600 guitar
@@64siskat96 LMAO
Saw the $$$ and thought 'four bareknuckle pickups and ratio tuners on a pawn shop strat copy'
I had no idea what I was getting into
The joys having access to a fully equipped wood shop
Man, you have got some patience, the way you repaired the neck. Me, I would have just bought a new one off Amazon and called it good 😂
Your issue with the neck has nothing to do with the neck, but because you didn't route the cavity for the Floyd Rose correctly. The cavity where the body plate sits on should be at least as deep as the thickness of the plate so it sits flush with the body. Making a shallow route for it was one of the reasons which caused the springs to rub against the wood. There's no problem with making the bridge pocket even deeper than that because you can always raise the bridge or add neck relief to fix an action that's too low.
Fantastic video… but This comment here gets my semi prof luthier skilld nerd support!
Exactly. Depth at the post holes should 6.35mm and 11.18mm for the remaining route. I can’t be sure but the block looked like it was only a 32. Replacing that with a 37 or possibly a 42 would have done the trick. He would gain more flutter as well. Maybe because it’s not an original Floyd he couldn’t find a block with the correctly spaced mounting holes? I’m not knocking his efforts, I’ve been there so many times I know these numbers off the top of my head.
@@danrao3707 The Gotoh version has a thicker base plate and uses thicker posts as well. In some cases, you have to make the pocket deeper or replace the posts as well, but it's more or less a drop-in replacement.
Except if you're installing a floyd in top mount position, a greater neck angle/shallower routing is needed. But in his case, the neck pocket was routed too deep even for a recessed floyd considering the size of the shim, plus you can see that the fretboard/neck seam line is below the top of the body.
For the springs issue, there is different trem block sizes for different body thickness, most common on recessed floyd is à 32mm but on a topmounted floyd you obviously need a taller block.
@@lethium4250 This is clearly not a top mount position. You only route the hole for the block in that case. This is a floating mount, which requires you to route a pocket for the bridge plate to sit flush with the body and some space under that as well so you can pull up without having the bridge angled forwards.
I thought I spent a lot of time working on guitars that will never be worth much. I think you have definitely raised the bar on that.
Thanks for sharing your project!
This was a great presentation of the thought, work and re-thinking that goes into either building from scratch, or doing a heavy modification as with your guitar.
I do similar projects, and always get a laugh when someone comments "... could have bought at new brand X", or "...could have bought 3 guitars". Those comments may be true, but what those individuals fail to realize is the eduction and experience that one gets from actually doing the work. Not much learned by handing cash to a salesperson and walking out the door with a new guitar. No challenge in that.
I appreciate the errors, and your recovery from problems. Good for everyone to see and learn from. Every step of build/mod has potential problems to work around, and learn to avoid. Glad you showed those things!
Good playing too, and I laughed when the string broke. These things happen, and we need to take them all in stride.
Great, great project!
I tried making my own guitar and failed terribly as I made a lot of mistakes, but you my friend made me want to pick it up again as you also make mistakes but kept going. Thank you and keep up the good work! You deserve more subs
That's my kind of guy: taking a shit instrument and doing your best, with the wrong tools and with empirical knowledge, to make it a little less shit for a ton of money. I am the same and did something similar with a B-stock Harley Benton. Everything was wrong on it, from the neck alignment to the tremolo block to the bridge holes themselves, so it was completely unplayable: I then rolled up my sleeves and said, "Lol I'm a luthier" (which I'm not) and altered basically everything on there. Fun times.
"It's shit, but it's MY shit"
I think its sad when there is some toxic comments or just How some people write. The guitar community is so split. Happy to see most comments beeing supportive and nice!🤘
liked the video and i get that the name of the video is to get some extra views. This guy is honest about every wrong step and point them out in informative ways. Says he is learning by doing. Also super cool to Done the work to your first guitar showing How you grown with the Craft giving love back to the guitar that maybe got him into music. Great work and love the soumi accent! Heja Finland!🇸🇪🇫🇮
Measure twice, cut once!
Mistakes are the best way to learn, well done for sticking with it.
Skip measuring, cut thrice!
@@demokraatti My motto's been 'measure twice, cut 3x, get a new piece of stock...'
That bender decal is something else xD
In UK the slang for a gay man is bender 😂. Still......it's a nice decal
@@MikoMozzer 😂
You cannot put a price on your first guitar. Well done, sir. Well done.
Filling wood is like that. Remember Satrianis stolen Black Dog? They closed the hole of the middle pickup. And you can see that on some pics. That is the reason why he did the "painting"... great job, dude!
dude! i'm about to embark on very same this journey myself... and I think it will be totally worth it 🙂
This is the guitar equivalent of the ship of Theseus. Pretty cool!
This is one of the best vids that ive watched while eating. Good stuff man
I appreciate you showing the missteps and the corrections
i wish i could have the facilities to do luthier work.. seems like a fun thing to do
cool video, dude! You are such an awesome guitar builder. Wow!!! Impressive work.
Come on folks, 80% of all the money would have been labor... Kudos for showing your mishaps Jukka! Many of us have all been there! I messed up a few of my own guitars in the 1980's before I learned more and had more equipment and tools. I'd buy a used guitars and strip others to make it better..
Way out of my class. I thought I was the original budget guitar Chanel. Your the over budget guitar Chanel. Looks awesome
Insane work, I sat through all of it. 10/10 video
The love and detail that you put into this project is amazing. The quality of work is obvious regardless of yourself criticism 👏👏👏
This is what you can do with proper tools and crazy good skills…I’m jealous 😎
Hello Sir! This video was so inspiring to me that it literally put me to tears... I have been working on my guitar building hobbyist skills for a little while (not too long 1-2yrs). I aspire to be able to do the things that you have shown in this posting, and I really resonate with the techniques and corrections you've shown. It reveals that there is always a solution to whatever arises. Is it always worth it? Maybe not... Nevertheless, there is a way to work things through. Thank you so much for sharing all this! Stay blessed and I will be back to see what else you can teach me!
Not a lot of worries, but I like to watch this type of videos with bare bone ambience of the room. I don't know why but something about them calming and relaxing to me. the music was throwing me off in this , but all in all, great vid
19:16 thats was expected from Bender 😅
I love that you just kept going despite everything that went wrong lol. Excellent work!
I think you did it totally awesome job on that guitar but holy crap you can buy an Jackson for less than $300 that has a Floyd Rose locking nut tiger stripe body but I commend you for all the work you did on that guitar great job
Bought one of those jacksons, terrible. Had to resolder it in the first week of playing it pickups were cutting out. Also the locking nut was pure sh*t and the cavings for thr g and b string are way off. Makes more sense to save up and buy something normal.
Amazing job!!! I wish to have the ability to make the same to my first guitar, thank you so much for this 😊
Note: when you pull out frets with the intent of keeping the fretboard and re-fretting, you need a lot more TLC than what is seen here (understandably). For instance, you might cut across the wood with a razor on both sides of the fret to prevent splintering (frets have cleats that protrude out of their tangs which can pull up wood). Heating frets with a soldering iron is also common. That may be due to glue, but also to expand a little bit.
I love this Video so much! Subscribed to your Channel right away and looking forward to upcoming Videos! So authentic, leaving in the mistakes, taking the viewer on a journey and showing how you solve the problems. Keep on documenting your journey! I'm looking forward to upcoming Videos :)
And by the way, great woodworking skills!
Wow so much respect. Skill and patience
thank you for making this video - to keep me from ever trying any of this.
sick, i've always wanted to this exact thing to my cheap guitars
Well done with the finish!
Enders cutting nippers one of the greatest tools on the planet, pull a ten penny nail out of a 6x6 in 10 seconds
this is really cool sure you could have just made a new guitar from scratch for less time and money but i can see you made mistakes and taught yourself how to fix them what you learned here is worth the work especially if you had fun doing it
Thank you for the video. I enjoyed you showing how to fix your mistakes and many other tips. Cheers
Oh dude.... well done working through all those setbacks.
10:05 reminds me of kimi raikkonen's voice 😀😀😀
So let me say first I think it’s great your out messing around with guitars. I think it’s super cool you’re working with your hands.
As a fellow builder, measure a 100x and cut once. Also your locking nut cutting rig was pretty cool.
So the part that really got my attention was the action part and adding the massive neck shim. Why wouldn’t you re-rout the Floyd and sink the posts a little deeper? Also I’m not exactly sure you need neck angle for a Floyd rose mounted bridge. I do know Les Paul’s do.
Also I dig what you did with the truss rod and the whole neck itself.
This was a really good video thanks for posting!
I was confused by the thumbnail, the idea of sinking 2600 in mods to a guitar sounded a little too crazy, but I was only thinking of parts and materials, no labor. Great video though, turned out great
First I thought „few hundred on a otherwise decent crafted body/neck? Ok but that’s too much“
Then I read it’s a first guitar and I was immediately „so worth it“ 🤣 First ones need to be treated specially. But mine is still waiting for me making money 😂
The grain of the neck is surprisingly beautiful. Maybe I would have gone with a better quality strat bridge instead of Fr but all in all. Nice
job 🤘🤘
My internal luthier just died but still love this!
if i was to sink ovewr 2k into a dried cat turd guitar i would throw an ever tune in that stinker
Mmm... dried cat turd... you gourmet, you.
The best way to scallop a fretboard is to use a round or even a half-round rasp or file with fine grain. I dont' like scalloping a fretboard, because its so easy to mess up. But you did a fine job on everything else. I found it strange to half scallop a fretboard, but I understand the reason. Why keep messing it up? Makes sense. well done.
Bros guitar is an example of the Theseus ship paradox
Allen keys are extremely hard ,when l have cut down one in the past l have found it best to use an angle grinder .Tried it once with bolt cutters ,like you it did cut it but put two dents in the blades of the bolt cutter ....
i cracked up at the “not good at all” across the screen lmfaooo
Nobody's gonna know 😂...
Awesome work 👍
I always find shims to be unsightly, and they cause the neck to go out of alignment if the 'front toe' of the neck isn't removed.
(the added angle from shimming means a few mm of the neck will trash the intonation)
I like to remove what I call a 'negative shim' from the neck along with the front toe, which keeps me from having to raise the bridge as well.
That neck had some beautiful figure in it
i would have painted the head stock too but i am a weenie . great job on your bender !!
multi-talented
I made quite some modifications to my guitar that were more expensive than the guitar, too. And it makes totally sense, cause even if you bought a guitar for 2,5k you would probably not exactly get what you want if you've got very special wishes. However considering you almost changed every part of the neck anyway. You could have gotten a whole new neck instead - far less work and far less time wasted where you could've played guitar instead.
How about, gluing a veneer top to cover all the glue repair pieces? Then you could also paint a transparent quilted maple top when done?
Impressive work!! I wonder if it would have been cheaper to just build a new neck from scratch.. Kiitos !
Great job
Now this much modification in a Les Paul Special I or 2 please
You had make a very good work 👍
Love the custom stickers, especially the one behind the headstock, where did you get it made if I may ask?
@@noobpro7924 hello, I drew them myself and then contacted arcticdecals.com (small one man company in finland) and he printed those and sended to me
I think it is nice you have the skills to do work like this but to be honest I have over the years been able to find a replacement neck for about every guitar I own or my guitar tech has collected some over the years where other people have thrown away good necks like for my Ibanez guitars but even the fanciest Fender Neck is $399. As a carpenter if I had the tools I probably would build something like you have done but reality says for the money you spent in the neck alone I could have bought 2-3 replacements anyway... Keep up the good work
How long did it take? Btw that polishing neck... was not 2k of sand paper too smooth? So when your hands are little sweaty, it would get sticky? Anyways, surely learned quite a bit about building. Lots of effort!
Very cool project, nicely done :)
Tässä on hieman odotettu sinun videoitasi, RIP kieli 🤣 Mutta törkeän hienoksi sait tuo kepin 😍
The proceedments are not perfect, and the objective is kinda irrational but lets be honest, everyone with a shitty first beloved guitar stored on his closet/parents house (as me, as most) would looove to do something like this exactly this way, it is not the kind of work you schedule and methodically ensure for a client, is the kind of jammed work the inner child ask for yourself and i love the result and how much it is as rock: pure attitude and the desire to be cool. Great work and many thanks for sharing it
Hyvä video kitaran rakentamisesta. Moni varmasti ihmettelee hintoja näille jitarantakentajien kitaroille, mutta ei tiedä miten monta työvaihettta ja monta tuntia näitä tehdään. Pitäähän työmiehen palkkaakin saada työstään. Ja näitähän ei tehdä 1/päivä. Laskitko monta tuntia meni tuon tekoon? Olisi hauska tietää. Itse en ole muuta tehnyt, kuin maalannut bodyn ja hionut nauhat ja semmosta pientä. Siihenkin meni aikaa tosi paljon, mutta mukavaa puuhaa kun itselle tekee. Kiitos vielä videosta.🤘
@@F15T1 tarkkaa tuntimäärää ei valitettavasti ole tiedossa, mutta lopultahan tässä oli duunia yhtäpaljon ellei enemmän kuin kokonaan uuden kitaran rakentamisessa😃👌
you had me all the way up till you made that shim - all that hard work you did and excellent job by the way then you slap a shim in there - why not just reroute the pocket like you did the first time but at the correct height? maybe i'm missing something - anyhow awesome work
Possibly could've just angled the pocket back a lil after noticing the string height
@@infinidominion what i meant to say is reroute the pocket out glue a block back in and the reroute the pocket again at correct angle anyhow impressive job you have skills keep it up
5:25 You should’ve covered the truss rod when gluing the fretboard to the neck.
God Bless You Brother In Jesus Name ❤ Enjoyed every second, nice work man! I can tell you had fun!
You're crazy. I like it.
experience: priceless
Very cool project.
You overcharged yourself !
A how many pieces body is this now? 😂
Still great skills. Very good.
Love the Bender sticker lol
That's like all of the 7 guitars i own.
I was "ok" with the given price for almost everything but charging 140 bucks for a "custom" pickguard is just savaga lmao.
I was modding my guitar and I wanted to have humbuckers but there wasn't a fit pickguar for my old guitar, so I asked a guy who made really cool cumstom pickguards and I would be charged for 39 USD (approx).
Also there're luthiers in m city making complex bridge installations for less than 50 bucks.
I asked them if it was any hard and they always told me "It's hard if u don't know how to do it. But I'm used to this so it's easy now."
@@andresberrelleza9813 I completely understand that, I have to say that I don’t do repairs as job, but I did research what kind of prices luthiers in Finland would charge from such modifications, price range was quite wide, I tried be in the middle but also thinking what kind of prices would be profitable for builder because of the amount of time and work this took. (I would say it’s faster and easier to build new instrument😄)
But back to picguard!
even for me If I think myself as customer it feels unreasonable high, thats why it was really hard to put price on.
I needed to make templates from scratch, templates that won’t fit in any other guitar and probably won’t ever use again.. (pickguard could be shaped like star, the amount of work would be the same) that kind of handmade full custom pickguard I wouldn’t do cheaper.
It’s bit different with traditional & common picguard shapes that fits most guitars.
Example: someone orders strat picguard with one humbucker slot. I wouldn’t have templates ready.
But still I would do the template and wouldn’t charge the customer for extra work, Because there is high chance I could use that template again and next time it would be easy and fast (that way it would pay itself back at some point). Price would be something like 50€
Also owning a cnc machine would make big difference with custom picguards
Amazing!! 🙌🏼
Yeah, I got a Squier classic vibe telecaster 60 left-handed and the frets were cut off short so I tried to fix the fats man I booger that up. I just bought a new neck. I don’t have the tools though.
You wont be my accountant...like ever
only way to keep the lines from happening is sanding it level, then wood filler and sand again.
@@redkurn I actually did that. when I did this first time it took couple weeks or month even to be visible and became even more visible when time passed, now since the clearcoat was thinner it became visible earlier. but yes you could probably minimize it by doing that and adding clear coat wait couple weeks, sand, add another clearcoat and repeat this until it doesn’t happen.
For bender guitar you should use dackson pickup and floyd jasmine tremolo😂
I didnt make any modifications. Instead, I bought a $2600 guitar from Guitar Center. Everyone is happy.🎉🎉🎉🎉
At that point literally just buy a fender american or an esp, gibson sg, even an ibanez RG
Concave neck that's cool
Pawnshop will still offer $50 for it. Thats the problem with so many custom builds. Gotoh floyd is great though.
dood im impressed..
i like how $2,600 mod has glue on the truss rod and no tape...
Ah guy seems to know what he is doing.
@@esmeraldo7887 I’d go as far to say he knows about half of what he’s doing. The video had alot of mess ups. Gotta learn somehow
@@putchmillernetwork1799 I did tape up the truss rod before applying the glue, but then I forgot to take the tape off. Somebody will have a little giggle if they ever remove the current fretboard.
@@meadish There are a lot of "import" necks that have a thin layer of tape over the truss rod. Some are similar to a double side cellophane tape. Not an issue, no worries.
Gotta start somewhere. I get the feeling that this was as much a learning experience as it was just a fun project.
A lot work into that
12:00 nice pose Bro!
Use a metal disc wheel and a 4-in grinder it'll work much better
I'm not suprised you broke the string
would this be considered a Sleeper Guitar?
Fret size: Godzilla