Modifying a Harley Benton Jazzmaster Kit |
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Kit guitars are a fun and inexpensive way to create your own uniquely designed guitar - as part of Thomann's DIY Kit Challenge this Harley Benton Jazzmaster kit will be transformed into a bizarre instrument, just as soon as I figure out what to do with that body...
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Why not a black and blue body?
Why not go for a dinosaur theme
Cover it in fur or do an EVH stripe scheme. I dare you, good sir lol.
Black to white fade burst so the pickguard stands out against the white
and learn!! well done
Hey Colin, you're building an offset kit? How awesome, mate! Guess which kit I'm working on and is currently drying in the barn... 😅 This is gonna be awesome, I can't wait to see your guitar when it's done. Cheers man! //Kris
Any left handed kits yet ???
Dear Thomann,
Please please please do a kit with the tremolo like Colin and perhaps surf green would be sweet.
Maybe a thinner neck 305mm is way to thick for me tbh😅😅😅
Half joking but also half serious, you should cover the body in fluffy white fur somehow XD Or any color I just think white would look great with that pickguard
As a furry musician, I like this idea.
Although maintenance of that guitar could be awfully difficult. Not to mention the smell that fur would pick up over time...
How about burnt and branded with the CS Guitars logo?
A fluffy white sheep hide look would be very, very epic.
He be better off adding some haggis fur on it.
To me, Jazzmasters and Jaguars always seem outlandish and overengineered in the best possible way. I would love to see this thing just take on an absolutely absurd color scheme. Like hot pink, metallic red, and lime green. Just really call attention the fact that this guitar is something different.
I've always wanted a hot pink or safety green Jazzmaster lol
Exactly what I was thinking! A neon pink like a Racer X era Paul Gilbert color. Tassels optional.
I am so glad to see more votes for Hot Pink
A wild color, but with a contrasting color pickguard! Say hot pink/pastel blue, lime green/yellow... I'm currently doing a metallic red jazzmaster with a pearloid blue guard. will look rad at the end
imagine for a second a purple burst one, would be so cool!
I would stain it translucent cherry red, it would take the stain very well being a light wood, and the grain would really pop. Coupled with the black pickguard, it would look stunning
Seeing how it’s a Jazzmaster, maybe find a way to put the lick on there; hydro dip, paint, poorly printed JPEG, your choice really!!
I am a fan of poorly printed jpeg
Interesting! The only part that doesn't really work for me at the moment is that pick guard material. It's kinda gathered in points where you had to bend it around the curves, and it just looks daft. As for finish/colour, I'd love to see it in some kind of outrageous shocking red. Tidy up the pick guard and the black would work nice.
I think the pickguard issue could be solved by doing enough relieve cuts on the backside and then burnishing the edges. That should help to make it conform to the pickguard underneath much nicer!
@@helojoe92 I'm not convinced that would solve the issue. It would need to be heat molded or the material would have to be stretched in some other way. It's all good, and I'm sure it'll end up looking great.
@@periurban I'd give it a try anyways^^
But taking a heatgun and/or some moisture to it should help aswell 👍🏻👍🏻
I think a proper paint job opposed to a stain would look great on it. Would cover up the wood plugs nicely.
Great project!!!
Which material did you use to cover the pickguard? On minute 7:54...
Thank you in advance
With those wood plugs in place, I would avoid staining. That would only accentuate the plugs.
Just got a pink one of these and changed the pots, bridge, and put on a tremolo. Now I want to buy a kit.
White Tolex/vinyl for the body like an old Höfner would look sick imo
I'm an absolute sucker for a good purple burst on a guitar and I think that would look fantastic on this one!
Personally I'd do a swirl paint job for it. It's always fun and you're never know 100% what you're going to get.
I absolutely love jazzmasters. Great vid. I laughed really hard when you said jm people get bent out of shape when people say jm pups are p90s. I have done that lol. I would do 3 tone sunburst with the headstock as is or seafoam green and matching headstock. Brown tort pickguard is a must to complete the look.
I think a competition Mustang style colour scheme would be cool, but with a black stripe to match the guard and headstock. Maybe black stripe over Yellow or an off white?
Yellow would be an interesting choice. There isn't many yellow guitars and the few that actually are gravitate towards Jackson/shredder stuff.
A vintage classic in something like a "banana yellow" resembling the shade of fiesta red, daphne blue, olympic white, etc; would be a killer instrument.
Greetings from Patagonia, Chile
Paint it something vaguely resembling Sherwood green - I think it is the most beautiful looking Jazzmaster, but they're not easy to find.
I didn't know you were forster bitologist...or you studied flatsawlogy??? nice to know a lot of us are competent woodworkers...really cool to see you using a router etc...winding your own pickups as well??
Hey since you are in Europe-a-land you have access to RAL colours probably pretty easily. RAL 4006 (traffic purple) is a personal favourite. 6021 is famous for its use on old MAHO equipment and looks super industrial.
Or if you're a mad man just Flock It!
Look up industrial gray Harley Davidson paint. Would look awesome with that pickguard.
Dude! Do fake fur!!!!! Lol I'd love that. Or maybe staining if you don't want to get sick of it some day, possibly. I'm not exactly sure what your tastes are.
If it was more of a Jaguar, I'd say do a light blue/green color, or maybe pink or something bright. But for a JM, I'd say the fur would be hilarious, or staining, like I said before, for something more "mature and classic" lol. Good luck!
I'd swap out the scratch plate for clear perspex, shield the cavity with copper tape and stain, orange in the middle to black round the edge. Great video as always.
Do the Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 color Midnight Purple 3
purple with matching headstock. ..but it needs a new pickguard as well. ..maybe purple mirror or chrome.
Build that Kit myself with that kind of tremolo system... and also forgot the groundwire of the bushing of the Bridge. But If you Drill a hole from the trem cavity to the Electronic cavity, there won't be a need for the String.
My Suggestion for the Finish is Fabric. IT would Look unique, If the guitar was covered in Tartan or Tweed.
try wood carvings or appliques, hit with nitrocarburizing (blowtourch) patterns or highlights
Probably too late on this, but just because, how about some neon green fuzzy leopard print faux fur? Would compliment the darkness of the fretboard and pick guard nicely. 😏
It'll be beautiful if it will be painted sparkle blue. ❤️🎸 ...love your vid sir.😊
I suggest that you go for like a racing livery, perhaps wrc Audi from the 80’s, or a Volvo perhaps? I’m not sure, but as a jazzmaster player myself and a shade tree mechanic, I would love to paint my guitar like a race car.
My only suggestion, make it green. Not like a lime green but something darker and rich, green is good and this all I have to offer thank you
DO NOT RELIC. I'd prefer a coral pink or a surf green. Of course, a nice bright orange would be killer as well.
Hey man! Awesome video! What was the black product you used to stick on the pickguard? Cheers man
Just a clear varnish/ lacquer with the black pickguard. It's doesn't need anything else.
Needs a covering of nice flower pattern Fablon on the body. Go totally cottage core. Sure my mum's got some left over from The Past, cos she used acres of it, on kitchen drawers, covering school books, me...
Finish suggestion - find someone with a laser etcher big enough to cover the surface of the guitar, burn in a dinosaur outline of a different species from what's on your flying V (maybe something from the herbivorous groupings?), working a design around the area that can mask the plugs, and then give the whole thing a coat of poly... or heck - do you think the Crimson melamine would work on the body?
I have plans to refinish a squier jazzmaster i bought and love to bits with Rimmel Siren nail polish. Its a metallic classy colour and Nitrocellulose to boot. Might need a few bottles though.
Please decoupagé this body! A few fancy napkins, blotting paper, transparent nail polish and here you go with some artsy look.
For whatever reason, that handsome black pick guard is reminding me of older Les Paul studio guitars, which were a wine red stain. Maybe that's a direction?
Jaguar spotted fake fur would be hilarious.
I personally feel a cheap kit like this allows you to do maniacal things that you would never attempt on a regular guitar.
Another thing that could be fun if you want to lean into the outlandish colour idea is to hydro dip the body with vibrant colors. A psychedelic paint job would be fitting for that body shape.
But I personally feel fake fur with googly eyes would be attention grabbing. But then again I’m obviously mad.
Quick edit, what about seeing if you can send electricity through the body in order burn lightning patterns into it. That would be an interesting thing to see as well give people a clear indication of just how crazy dangerous electricity is.
I don't think you should just stain the body. I really good clear-coted glitter burst would be cool but probably a pain in the arse in your house. So ,I think you should do something weird - what about something like a car-wrap material but made up entirely of postage stamp size porn pictures - that would be hilarious! And it would be funny to see you not mention it at all to get around the RUclips police while describing how you're applying it.
Hey, seen your video this today and remembered having received a T- style kit at my last birthday. You were adjusting the head plate to your personal taste by sawing and grinding. Now, I was wondering how did you finish the head plate after the last working step ? The neck and head plate is pre-painted with transparent lacquer and after rework its not that case anymore. What is your proposal to complete and to "preserve" it ?
Maybe you could make it look like something Kurt Cobain would've played
I think the finish should reflect your Spaceman, Robbie the Robot vibe from your intro!
I'm really itching to get myself a cheap 24 inch scale length guitar. I had hoped there might be a kit out there but they are very few and far between. Is there just not as much demand for a 24 inch scale length guitar? The first guitar I ever struggled to teach myself to play on was a fender mustang my uncle loaned me for a few years about 21 years ago. I didn't know anything about guitars at the time, I just did my best with it, but in retrospect I'm thinking I really dug that scale length without even knowing what scale length was back then.
Ice blue purple with pearloid pickguard or Olympic white with sparkles and black guard
So maybe Tata, what really is the difference between a p90 and jazzmaster pickups?
Diamond tread paint job?? would look REALLY funky but maybe in a good way?
I would paint it teal. I think it would look nice with the black pickguard and everything.
You should paint it brass color. I think that would make the pickguard and knobs pop. Usually a huge fan of natural wood, but something about that guitar screams "paint me".
I'm begging you make it sparkly. I don't care what color it could be vomit green, as long as it sparkles like a Twilight vampire
Maybe try a dip-swirl psychedelic color scheme...?
Racing stripes
A bit weird, bit what about a snake skin effect? Sometimes, my genius amazes even myself...
Does anyone know why there's tape/cloth in the strings over the vibrato plate? I'm considering the same kit with similar mods.
I know how much work it takes to make a video, but some of your videos look like they took double the work. Just thought I would give a salute, that's all.
I'd like to see that technique, hydro dipping I think it's called? When you float paint on water and then pass the object through the paint layer in to the water. Get some real trippy vibes.
How about a charred black exposed grain finish and diamond plate pickguard?
A jaguar print stain. I like the highs, but the lower end of the mids sounds muddy. It doesn't have enough pop.
Did the pickup cavity need routing to fit the JM pickups over the P90s?
It's gonna be better than most overpriced Squires/Epiphones and the likes 👍
Hi, what was the thing you used to stick over/change the pick guard? Thanks
Sandblasting it with a cool sparkly color would look cool. Or staining like the sonic youth jazzies.
Could you do white stain/see through white? It could end up looking really cool.
Phthalo blue possibly but in ultra glossy finish nitro finish? Seems like everybody like to stain bodies lately it would be interesting to se proces of finishing with more solid colors. Good job so far, cheers
Paint it a deep Forrest Green because Forrest’s ate very metal and nothing says metal quite like ✨jazz✨
Hi Colin, what was surrounding the pickups when you wax potted them?
Zebra stripes would fit the black and white theme on the fretboard and pickguard
Maybe cover it with a cool pattern and then burn and varnish the rest? That way you make it nice and dark and the unburnt pattern gets pronounced (and it doesn't become one big black hole with that leatherette pickguard).
What about a dark wood stain with a bright opaque paint stripe? Like the fender mustang competition stripe, something of the like
I would say go deep blue or maybe even like a metallic purple? Either that or burn it and get some grain enhancing filler from crimson and be like Ben!
I'd like to take one of these and fill in the cavities and make a jim root style, single humbucker 1 volume thing but dunno how to fill in the voids , any ideas?
thanks 👍
You should stain the wings red and color the center like a metallic red, or go full crazy and stain the wings different stuff and paint the center some crazy color
To not get those bad edges on the pickguard you need to heat up the decal/vinyl. Then stretch it over and cut with a blade.
make it very scottish. swap the knobs for something metallic mabye scotch bottle caps.. turn the pickguard into a tartan look. stain the body with a traditional scottish stain colour. add some bling that is extremely scottish. put your cs guitars logo on the headstock. possibly add some scottish looking inlays on the fretboard. pair it with a tartain strap.
My issue with the jazzmaster vibrato bridge has never been tuning stability - it's getting the damn thing to stay in!
The arm always seems to disconnect from the rest after a while and I have to take the whole thing off to fix it
All the best guitars are Daytona Yellow. That's just science.
Go full metal with the paint.
Irony works well with cheap instruments.
Might sound a little boring but the offsets Fender did for the Sonic Youth guitarists a few years ago were killer, kind of a low gloss jade green and blue colours.
Jazzmaster, 60's surf, hotrods, pinstriping.
I would suggest a slightly transparent yellow or butterscotch for the body. Match the neck and headstock to that.
Make a true Jazz Lounge Lizard by covering the body in fake lizard skin! 🦎
Fake fur? I have visions of ZZ Top and their white fur guitars...
Saw this on a car show once but the mechanics took pages from manga comics and glued them on the body panels of the car. Maybe something like that on the body or pick guard
I have wanted to build a kit guitar and paint it up like Boba Fetts helmet in ROTJ so....that.
Would look awesome (or horrific) in Lamborghini green, or Mclaren orange.
Nothing against Thomann, but you gotta be careful with these kits, mine was ab.so.lute TRASH. Check them thoroughly before building
Tweed? It'd look great against the black guard.
Weird idea, whatever finish you put on the body, put a really bright stain on the back of the neck too, like a neon pink, blue or orange?
That body screams "Hot Pink Fur"....
You know, I don't see a lot of transparent white finishes. Any idea why that is?
... if not, maybe this is a good guitar to find out on.
I hate the neck of all their kits so is it possible to switch the neck to a 9,5-10 inch neck😅😅😅
I like the idea of some really cool, outlandish stained colours, but i'm not a fan of that faux leather pickgaurd, it's definitely not my taste at all
White fur finish with fuzzy dice knobs and the square shiny bits off a disco ball for some kind of accent or inlay somewhere
use a drop of machine oil, just a drop, on the bridge, and on the tremolo. use light oil.
I bet those inlays don't fall out, unlike my crap Les Paul
One of the little screws for the tuners broke of while attaching one of the tuners. Stuck in the wood now. It looked good though in the box. 😂
I like your Scottish theme from last time. Perhaps you can paint this guitar like whiskey ? like amber? the humbucker-cover could be make from whiskey-labels. And the pickguard from old whiskey-boxes? I dont know?! just some ideas.
the tip of the termolo arm could be made like a spigot or tap. i dont know how it calls in english. And the pots could be made from whiskey bottle caps. as a gimmick you could put a cigar inside the guitar.
Nitro mocha would look good with the grain, maybe worn in places but not relic.
Built one of these.Just put some better machine heads on it and a thin cover of clear varnish on the body.
For the money a great guitar