Really love the sentiment in the reuse of a beloved family instrument. A way to build new memories from old ones. The guitar looks and sounds great and the splitting of the pickups is unique and offers some interesting possibilities. Thanks for sharing!
@@timsway I expected the magnet pickup to just make it sound like an electric, but it retains the tone of the acoustic surprisingly well. Piezos just sound plastic-ey to me if that makes sense lol. Do you make those magnet pickups?
@@Gamewar5OOO I do. I have several varieties at NewPerspectivesMusic.com including 2 surface mounts that you could rig up to most acoustics pretty easily.
What's that?... It's fully bespoke, with hand made components, with custom made tools, functions flawlessly, intonates, and will be cherished for a lifetime. Wow these Fake woodworkers. Love your work.
Dang Tim you really nailed it again! Wait a minute. There isn't any nails. Dang Tim you really glued it again... Just doesn't have the same charm. Dang Tim that guitar is Kick-Ass. Aghhh There we go! In all seriousness though- I would almost bet money on it that you used to watch a television show called the "Woodwright's Shop". Well Tim Sway I put your RUclips channel right up there with that television show. This is one of the most enjoyable lutherie and woodworking channels EVER. Your innovating and that's something 99% of these channels lack. Keep up the great work brother much love from Detroit's Eastside.
I actually use ebony piano keys for lots of things, like bridge inserts and nuts.The client did send me a couple of the black keys but they were not real ebony/dense enough, so instead I used ebony cutoffs from a local harpsichord factory for the bridge and nut as substitutes.
Love your work Tim. And this one in particular is excellent for all sorts of reasons, the history of the materials used and getting a great sound out of a thinline acoustic is no mean feat.
Thread a bit of guitar string through the hole for the bridge and pull it out the big hole in the back. Slot the insert on the string then slide into place. Use your Jimmy bar to push and hold it so you pull the string out and thread your bolt in. Hindsight is a bitch. 😂 love the thin body and the use of reclaimed is always a winner
About getting those threaded inserts through... How about putting a some kind of thread (pun intended) or fishing line or something like that through the hole and pull the insert on it's place with that? Old guitar string could work too and might be easier to guide through the hole to the openings. If you could somehow attatch a screw that fits that inserts threads you could just twist the screw in the insert and pull it through and twist the screw out of it. The piano guitar sounded nice especially for such a thin instrument.
Just curious how that would've sounded with Telecaster pickups & layout. Hmmm... :0/ Aesthetically, IMHO, they'd look great against the piano black. Like that you went with the clear pickguard, and didn't cover up the wood top.
Heya Tim, thems good looking guits. Both sound good thru my speakers. The old piano one had a warmer/basier sound, the other nice and bright. Both pickups on sounded really nice.
Super super build!!! Sounds terrific!!! 5:31 😆 It’s a good thing my wife doesn’t come into the garage when I’m building my cigar box guitars! I regularly turn the air multiple shades of blue!!! 😆
that hassle part with those threded inserts - you could try line/thread/rope and I know there are screws, which are hollow so you could pretty much "fish" those inserts into the place... sry m8 my english, but you are smart man and understand what I mean :)
I've been saving my dead pets in the hope that one day I can get Tim to make a guitar from them. I've got a pony corpse, a hamster cadaver and some goat remains (I ate some of her). I'm looking at my cat right now and I think he has enough bone in there to stitch together a neck. He's only six, but if he just happened to get hit by a car, or a golf club, then I think we'd have enough to get started.
Thanks Tim, and I'm chuffed* to see my words on such a versatile sounding guitar. I wish 'many good tunes' to your client and look forward to many more fun & intriguing things from your good self. I think that's my 1st youTube collab, lol. (*chuffed - Uk term for made-up & buzzing).
I understand "chuffed" lol. Yea, we were going back and forth on inscription ideas and potentially putting family names on it, but Greg remembered that line and thought it would be perfect. I agreed.
Hey Tim, I’m hoping you may be able to help me out. I was driving home the other day and in the middle of the road, I found a ginormous blank of wood, approx 24” x 18” x 3”. It’s heavy, but I think it might be pine, as it’s a little knotty. I really want to use it to make a guitar from. I’m unimaginative, and I think the Telecaster is the best guitar in the world, so I thought I might make a Snakehead Tele out of it. What I was thinking I would cut it to shape, run it through a thicknesser, and then I was thinking I might make up some epoxy with different swirly colours though it, and I was then planning to put the body into epoxy and then putting it under pressure, so that the epoxy might make its way into some of the knots to strengthen them, and then when I do final sanding, it should leave a nice effect, kind of like marbling (I hope), now I have an hydraulic press, and I have an air compressor, I was leaning toward the compressor, and putting it inside of a chamber, then adding air pressure. Am I an idiot (the answer is almost always yes) or could this work? I’m probably being super ambitious, but I’d rather shoot for the stars and explode than dig myself into a rut. I’m hoping you can help out as I know you do a lot of experimental and weird kind of stuff, and you’re infinitely more experienced than me! Any help would be massively appreciated and credited, as I’m planning on this being my first guitar built from scratch, and hopefully also my first RUclips video series.
I don't think you need the pressure chamber unless it's really bad. gravity will do most of the work and maybe require a second pour. If you do use a vacuum bag, you want to suck the air out, not force it in. There are videos on the process. When I do that stuff, I seal the bottom and sides with tape over the full blank, flood it with epoxy, let it cure, plane it, then do it again, if necessary.
@@timsway Awesome! Thanks so much! It’s not too bad, tbh, just dirty and worn but I suspect most will come up very nice. I just wanted to be sure, though. I had thought about using a vacuum bag, but was worried it might just all stick to the epoxy and become a huge pain in the ass, which was why I thought of using an old metal container and pressuring, but I guess it would still stick to that and be a massive pain in the ass as well. Thanks for the help man, I’ll document the process and see how I get on with it.
Great work. Love how you preserved the original finish in the heirloom wood. Question about the magnetic pickups. I don’t remember seeing you build the hot rails (I assume that’s what they are). If you have a video about that, I am very interested.
Thanks. I watched that video again. The rail pickup has a unique sound a little like an under wound single coil. Maybe a double rail humbucker. I love the look.
@@robinleebraun7739 I've made some double rail humbuckers like that for some builds of mine but I haven't quite developed the best recipe for making them a product I offer. Rails are good for people making custom and oddball stuff because they can better suit odd string spacing than poles.
Where did you get the pickup and pre-amp from? I'm looking for that style of jack/battery holder. And they both sounded very good acoustically and through the PA, your amp either has some buzz or the magnet pickup isn't hum reducing. But it still sounded good to my ears.
It's a single coil pickup that I hand wind and I have dirty electricity in my shop. The piezo system I got off eBay. Everything you ever need is on eBay - which is better than giving Amazon your money!
Hey @timsway I'm absolutely loving it but I got a question. Maybe I didn't pick it up correctly from the video but how is all the electronics connected, is there any schematics available? I'd like to try similar thing myself in one of my (amateur) future builds
So the piezo system is a closed, prewired thing and the magnetic pickup is passive and can't just tap directly into the preamp - it would be too loud. All I did was wire a separate passive system in the guitar to one side of a toggle switch, the piezo system to the other, than ran the center of the switch to the same output jack (as well as to a separate output jack for the magnetic side). This makes it so you can use both systems separately, or together with the toggle switch in middle position. you can blend the volumes so they match with each system's volume knobs. make sense?
@@timsway Yeah! I know there are preamps ready to connect both piezo and magnetic (and even mics) but it didn't look to me like you are using one so that got me puzzled (and the separate output for magnetic one). Now it's all clear. I was thinking of similar wiring as you did and wasn't sure but now it makes perfect sense! Thank you (and again, I just love this build!)
Have to say that I love these videos. I have stumbled to your videos before, but now I really started to explore these and subscribed. I loved that rusty nail pickup idea. Have you ever thought doing your own frets? That would be cool, if I could just do every part by my own, just like old violin makers did. That could work with nylon strings at least, because you could getaway with violin type tuners...if only I could manufacture those frets. But then again, I would still need those damn strings 😂 I'm not going to do them from sheep guts 🤢
@@timsway I just ordered a rev counter, and I think I try to make my own pickups for the guitar I have been planning to my brother. His birthday is 4th of November, but I think it might be a Christmas gift too. And if those pickups don't turn out to be as good and "nice" looking, I have backup pickups already. But I need to make my foldable "lunchbox" guitar first. It doesn't need to be perfect at this point, just a prototype.
Oh, and just when I placed my order I realized, that do I really need that rev counter in a first place, if I just want to make a pickup that is as powerful as possible? Should I just wind as much wire as it can take, and place most powerful magnet on it? And if you go even further, what if you make more room for that wire? And if you don't get as much wire that you would like, can you still make it more powerful with a strong magnet?
And, that's why my Gretsch Viking has a huge back cover plate and a snap-on pad that covers that! ... P.S. man, I hate the sound of piezos, the magnetic pup sounds good tho
11th subscriber LIKE; 89th view-from-a-desktop-studio thing... ah... been waiting to see how the Steinsway turns out... here we go. (I still like TIMAHA nearly as much). :0/
To my ear, the piano guitar has a warmer unplugged sound than the closet door prototype. I like it.
Really love the sentiment in the reuse of a beloved family instrument. A way to build new memories from old ones. The guitar looks and sounds great and the splitting of the pickups is unique and offers some interesting possibilities. Thanks for sharing!
I must say, love the way the magnet pickup sounds. Much more than the piezo
Me too. I'm not a piezo fan, which is why I add magnets.
@@timsway I expected the magnet pickup to just make it sound like an electric, but it retains the tone of the acoustic surprisingly well. Piezos just sound plastic-ey to me if that makes sense lol. Do you make those magnet pickups?
@@Gamewar5OOO I do. I have several varieties at NewPerspectivesMusic.com including 2 surface mounts that you could rig up to most acoustics pretty easily.
As a fellow veg, eco, guitar nut, I LOVED this project! This was a great idea for the old nostalgic wood.
Damn Tim…
Those are just too cool Dude…
The one made of piano wood has a cool early spinet-y sound to it. Interesting how that works.
What's that?... It's fully bespoke, with hand made components, with custom made tools, functions flawlessly, intonates, and will be cherished for a lifetime.
Wow these Fake woodworkers.
Love your work.
LOL. and still less than a lot of Martins :)
Well it looks cool.
Great project Tim! I love this headstock style!!!
Dang Tim you really nailed it again! Wait a minute. There isn't any nails. Dang Tim you really glued it again... Just doesn't have the same charm. Dang Tim that guitar is Kick-Ass. Aghhh There we go! In all seriousness though- I would almost bet money on it that you used to watch a television show called the "Woodwright's Shop". Well Tim Sway I put your RUclips channel right up there with that television show. This is one of the most enjoyable lutherie and woodworking channels EVER. Your innovating and that's something 99% of these channels lack. Keep up the great work brother much love from Detroit's Eastside.
Too kind. Thank you
Gosh I love your honesty,I love your attitude to design and originality,thanks for sharing.
Great build - hope you do more of these thinlines ❤😊
Sounded good. I wish you had been able to incorporate some of the keys into the build. Using them for the knobs would have looked cool to me
I actually use ebony piano keys for lots of things, like bridge inserts and nuts.The client did send me a couple of the black keys but they were not real ebony/dense enough, so instead I used ebony cutoffs from a local harpsichord factory for the bridge and nut as substitutes.
Dude that piano one sounds so warm!
Definitely your best sounding acoustic/electric guitars by far. Love the headstock. Love the wide neck. Working musicians guitar. Swiss army knife.
exactly. Like I often say, I'm not trying to make Ferraris, I make pickup trucks :)
Heck ya! Looks cool, sounds great I’m sure they are quite pleased.
I always enjoy your content. I share with my Brother who is making a few instruments.
Well done.
Love what you do Brother
Love your work Tim.
And this one in particular is excellent for all sorts of reasons, the history of the materials used and getting a great sound out of a thinline acoustic is no mean feat.
It sounds acoustically fuller and better than I expected. I'm very glad it does.
The guitar turned out great. I think it looks great and sounds awesome. Will done!
Thread a bit of guitar string through the hole for the bridge and pull it out the big hole in the back. Slot the insert on the string then slide into place. Use your Jimmy bar to push and hold it so you pull the string out and thread your bolt in. Hindsight is a bitch. 😂 love the thin body and the use of reclaimed is always a winner
I often use guitar strings as "fishing lines" becasue they have the ball end on them. Don't know why I didn't think of that on this.
Awesome guitars. Love the concept, using piano material. They sound great. Mahalo for sharing! : )
Great to see your progression acoustic builds. really cool design, and it seems like they sound better with each iteration
Terrific builds Tim & great problem solving on those guitars, which sound great! 👏👏🎸🎸
Very awesome thinline! And it has that cool Tim Sway vibe. Love it!
Very cool guitars Tim!
About getting those threaded inserts through... How about putting a some kind of thread (pun intended) or fishing line or something like that through the hole and pull the insert on it's place with that? Old guitar string could work too and might be easier to guide through the hole to the openings. If you could somehow attatch a screw that fits that inserts threads you could just twist the screw in the insert and pull it through and twist the screw out of it.
The piano guitar sounded nice especially for such a thin instrument.
Thats so cool Tim. Love your reclaimed projects mate.
Just curious how that would've sounded with Telecaster pickups & layout. Hmmm... :0/ Aesthetically, IMHO, they'd look great against the piano black.
Like that you went with the clear pickguard, and didn't cover up the wood top.
Fantastic! I love how you preserved the look of the wood and the logo. Also interesting how different the two sound acoustically.
Heya Tim, thems good looking guits. Both sound good thru my speakers. The old piano one had a warmer/basier sound, the other nice and bright. Both pickups on sounded really nice.
Yea, they sound a LOT different than each other, but both a little better than I expected, acoustically.
Nice work Tim, really love it!
I hope you do more thin body acoustics in the future.
My regular version of this guitar is 3.5" thick which I thought was already pretty thin! lol. I'd like to try making archtops based on this thickness.
I love the shape of it!
Super super build!!! Sounds terrific!!!
5:31 😆 It’s a good thing my wife doesn’t come into the garage when I’m building my cigar box guitars! I regularly turn the air multiple shades of blue!!! 😆
Great story to keep those materials making music. Both instruments have their own personalities but they sound good.
that hassle part with those threded inserts - you could try line/thread/rope and I know there are screws, which are hollow so you could pretty much "fish" those inserts into the place... sry m8 my english, but you are smart man and understand what I mean :)
I understand! good idea
I've been saving my dead pets in the hope that one day I can get Tim to make a guitar from them. I've got a pony corpse, a hamster cadaver and some goat remains (I ate some of her). I'm looking at my cat right now and I think he has enough bone in there to stitch together a neck. He's only six, but if he just happened to get hit by a car, or a golf club, then I think we'd have enough to get started.
I usually don’t work with animal products, leather, etc., but if they died of natural causes and you have the money let’s go! :)
This sounds great! The sentiment behind it is amazing.
I really like that amp. Its as good as anything else made overseas.
Thanks Tim, and I'm chuffed* to see my words on such a versatile sounding guitar. I wish 'many good tunes' to your client and look forward to many more fun & intriguing things from your good self. I think that's my 1st youTube collab, lol.
(*chuffed - Uk term for made-up & buzzing).
I understand "chuffed" lol. Yea, we were going back and forth on inscription ideas and potentially putting family names on it, but Greg remembered that line and thought it would be perfect. I agreed.
Thanks for being part of the story!
I couldn't see it in the video, but if you used a penny that was minted in the same year that you built the guitar, that'd be a cool touch.
looks and sounds awesome Tim!
Very cool.
Thanks!😎
These sound and look awesome 👍
Love the way you approach building, and the guitar sounds Boss.
thanks!
Hey Tim, I’m hoping you may be able to help me out. I was driving home the other day and in the middle of the road, I found a ginormous blank of wood, approx 24” x 18” x 3”. It’s heavy, but I think it might be pine, as it’s a little knotty. I really want to use it to make a guitar from. I’m unimaginative, and I think the Telecaster is the best guitar in the world, so I thought I might make a Snakehead Tele out of it. What I was thinking I would cut it to shape, run it through a thicknesser, and then I was thinking I might make up some epoxy with different swirly colours though it, and I was then planning to put the body into epoxy and then putting it under pressure, so that the epoxy might make its way into some of the knots to strengthen them, and then when I do final sanding, it should leave a nice effect, kind of like marbling (I hope), now I have an hydraulic press, and I have an air compressor, I was leaning toward the compressor, and putting it inside of a chamber, then adding air pressure. Am I an idiot (the answer is almost always yes) or could this work? I’m probably being super ambitious, but I’d rather shoot for the stars and explode than dig myself into a rut. I’m hoping you can help out as I know you do a lot of experimental and weird kind of stuff, and you’re infinitely more experienced than me! Any help would be massively appreciated and credited, as I’m planning on this being my first guitar built from scratch, and hopefully also my first RUclips video series.
I don't think you need the pressure chamber unless it's really bad. gravity will do most of the work and maybe require a second pour. If you do use a vacuum bag, you want to suck the air out, not force it in. There are videos on the process. When I do that stuff, I seal the bottom and sides with tape over the full blank, flood it with epoxy, let it cure, plane it, then do it again, if necessary.
@@timsway Awesome! Thanks so much! It’s not too bad, tbh, just dirty and worn but I suspect most will come up very nice. I just wanted to be sure, though. I had thought about using a vacuum bag, but was worried it might just all stick to the epoxy and become a huge pain in the ass, which was why I thought of using an old metal container and pressuring, but I guess it would still stick to that and be a massive pain in the ass as well. Thanks for the help man, I’ll document the process and see how I get on with it.
@@thesausage351if you use a vac bag you have to wrap it in wax paper or something to protect the bag
Wow a Piano Converted into a Guitar.
The second one I liked more. Less bright. Very cool work, man. Just need to tune ha... 👏🏻
Great work. Love how you preserved the original finish in the heirloom wood. Question about the magnetic pickups. I don’t remember seeing you build the hot rails (I assume that’s what they are). If you have a video about that, I am very interested.
I talk about them a little at the end of this video: ruclips.net/video/T_1hULnfnW8/видео.html
Thanks. I watched that video again. The rail pickup has a unique sound a little like an under wound single coil. Maybe a double rail humbucker. I love the look.
@@robinleebraun7739 I've made some double rail humbuckers like that for some builds of mine but I haven't quite developed the best recipe for making them a product I offer. Rails are good for people making custom and oddball stuff because they can better suit odd string spacing than poles.
I really like that sarcasm :D
Neat stuff as always my friend. Pick up the tools and make up the rules........ it leads to some unique outcomes.
Where did you get the pickup and pre-amp from? I'm looking for that style of jack/battery holder.
And they both sounded very good acoustically and through the PA, your amp either has some buzz or the magnet pickup isn't hum reducing. But it still sounded good to my ears.
It's a single coil pickup that I hand wind and I have dirty electricity in my shop. The piezo system I got off eBay. Everything you ever need is on eBay - which is better than giving Amazon your money!
@@timsway Thankee Sir.
I gotta get me one of your guitars some day. Specifically one of your strange ones. I love strange. ♥
Stranger the better. I have a waterski bass for sale at NewPerspectivesMusic.com :)
CAN YOU DIG IT!!!
Hey @timsway I'm absolutely loving it but I got a question. Maybe I didn't pick it up correctly from the video but how is all the electronics connected, is there any schematics available? I'd like to try similar thing myself in one of my (amateur) future builds
So the piezo system is a closed, prewired thing and the magnetic pickup is passive and can't just tap directly into the preamp - it would be too loud. All I did was wire a separate passive system in the guitar to one side of a toggle switch, the piezo system to the other, than ran the center of the switch to the same output jack (as well as to a separate output jack for the magnetic side). This makes it so you can use both systems separately, or together with the toggle switch in middle position. you can blend the volumes so they match with each system's volume knobs. make sense?
@@timsway Yeah! I know there are preamps ready to connect both piezo and magnetic (and even mics) but it didn't look to me like you are using one so that got me puzzled (and the separate output for magnetic one). Now it's all clear. I was thinking of similar wiring as you did and wasn't sure but now it makes perfect sense! Thank you (and again, I just love this build!)
Great set-up I'm glad you chose to go that route! Definitely getting the best of all possibilities. ❤️💯
Hey, were you in a band?
Lies and rumors spread by fake internet podcasters
Lol
@@timsway Thought so.
Tim - another great guitar build video. Does this style of bolt on neck have a truss rod? Thanks.
of course!
Have to say that I love these videos. I have stumbled to your videos before, but now I really started to explore these and subscribed. I loved that rusty nail pickup idea. Have you ever thought doing your own frets? That would be cool, if I could just do every part by my own, just like old violin makers did. That could work with nylon strings at least, because you could getaway with violin type tuners...if only I could manufacture those frets. But then again, I would still need those damn strings 😂 I'm not going to do them from sheep guts 🤢
That is the goal, to eventually make everything in house - or at least in the USA. I might still buy the fretwire and strings, tho :)
@@timsway I just ordered a rev counter, and I think I try to make my own pickups for the guitar I have been planning to my brother. His birthday is 4th of November, but I think it might be a Christmas gift too. And if those pickups don't turn out to be as good and "nice" looking, I have backup pickups already. But I need to make my foldable "lunchbox" guitar first. It doesn't need to be perfect at this point, just a prototype.
Oh, and just when I placed my order I realized, that do I really need that rev counter in a first place, if I just want to make a pickup that is as powerful as possible? Should I just wind as much wire as it can take, and place most powerful magnet on it? And if you go even further, what if you make more room for that wire? And if you don't get as much wire that you would like, can you still make it more powerful with a strong magnet?
Piano tonewood is real
Great work as always man 😊
And, that's why my Gretsch Viking has a huge back cover plate and a snap-on pad that covers that! ... P.S. man, I hate the sound of piezos, the magnetic pup sounds good tho
I'm not a piezo fan either, which is a big part of the design and development of this guitar, I have some videos on that.
Lol not a flaw it's an unexpected design feature
11th subscriber LIKE; 89th view-from-a-desktop-studio thing... ah... been waiting to see how the Steinsway turns out... here we go.
(I still like TIMAHA nearly as much). :0/
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