@@Bernthguitar if you attemp this challenge....you may use plexiglas (acrylic glas), which can be cutted via a laser cutter...so you can create a nice shape.
You know, there is a guy online called Alex Morningstar who makes glass guitars (but totally functional and extremely resilient, better than wood in fact). If you got the money, you should buy one of these (they're expensive, starting from $5000)
Morningstar's guitars are all electric, from what I've seen. Electric guitars don't get any of the fun resonance from a glass body, making the material of the body mostly irrelevant. Glass guitars are absurdly heavy, and definitely not better than wood in terms of durability. The same property that allows for his guitars to have no truss rod (the rigidity of glass) also makes it fragile. They likely have less tolerance for heavy strings and high tunings than wood guitars, are more expensive to repair if they get damaged, and would suffer from more serious damage than wood guitars. If you really want that glass look on your electric guitar, get acrylic. It weighs less, is cheaper, and is less likely to shatter.
@yeasstt Didn't think about that, thank you! Although I mentioned it, because Morningstar was planning to make an acoustic too if the demand was big enough. Also there are some advantages of glass over the wood, even for electrics. For example, you have better sustain than any wooden guitar. You also don't need to worry about humidity too much
I recall someone welding together some steel plate loudspeakers once, and they were actually the best that the testers had ever tested. Weight was a bit of a problem, though.
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You two are very resourceful! You changed plans quickly, and got it done! And I have to say, it sounds much as I expected it to. Perhaps if you were to build it more like a stained glass window? With lead seams holding the pieces of glass together? It might be a touch more practical? And a heel block to hold the neck straight might be a compromise? A stained glass guitar might be a beautiful thing?
This is what the world needs more. Just playing around and trying new things, just for the sake of curiosity and joy it brings to pursue things like this. And yeah, you got a really good sound out of it! Thanks for sharing the journey and the song with us.
I was thinking the same thing. I dont doubt Burl would be able to make a sweet glass accoustic but shipping it across the Atlantic might be problematic to say the least.
Interesting project. I have a wood shop, but am not a guitar builder. I do know they really beef it up/give extra support where the neck joins the body. You do need diamond tools to work the glass.
Bernth is crazy, and I love it! Really cool result! Now you need to fill it with water and put some fish in it. May as well use it for its intended purpose AND be able to play music for the fishies inside! 😂😂😂
That fish tank guitar sounds AMAZING! Every time I look up, the music just sounds incredible. I am loving the reverb the tank provided while the glass distortion gave it such an eerie feel.Wonderful work as always!
if its a polycarbonate / plexiglass type of glass you bought... use a saw/ dremel , and you can shape it (heat and bend ) somewhat with a torch lighter :)
looks like you used plexi-glass, or possibly even polycarbonate. They are completely different from glass and you can simply cut them using a jigsaw. There is also a specific glue for that material that would dry clear and seamless, it's not superglue. You would also likely get a different sound between actual glass and plexi or poly.
If you can find a glass blower, you really should try making another one out of borosilicate, it's a much stronger glass than most soda based hobby glass
A crazy new DIY guitar building tutorial! @Natauska and Bernth, congratulations on the final result :) (I hope there will be a voice to follow the guitar on stage, I hope it survives long enough ^^')
Hi Bernth. Here's a little tio for next time you work with glass. If you cut it while it is submerged in water it will cut like butter. You won't end up with the cracking. You can even cut it with scissors, it's crazy.
you can make one that can survive. add some struts inside the body of this experiment, so that them struts or whatever ya call them support the guitarneck in a way that acril surface doesnt crack.
Had a electric bass with no amp and was sitting in a leather recliner chair and accidentally touched the base of the strings on the arm reast and it gave a crazy distorted sound and also amplified. Wondering if you could manage that with acoustic guitar somehow. Love all the videos, especially the one where you made a song for the haters. That was sick😎
I use this trick by putting headphones on, and part of the cable goes underneath the body, sandwiched between the body and my leg, and the vibrations followed up the headphones
Brother that guitar deserves more time so u can use the spare pieces to make a block inside the the body to attach the neck and give it its guitar strength
1:20 I am still watching the video so I don't know if they realize it later, but with that cutter you cut until you leave a nice cut and then use it's back part which is solid to hit the glass and with 1 or 2 hits without much force it should break nicely.
the type and thickness of the glass makes a difference - i used to frame art professionally after i got out of the military - the cutter also makes a difference - the cutter has to be harder than the glass to properly score it (if not then it just scratches it - and trying to snap scratched glass is unpredictable and dangerous - wear cut resistant gloves cause it can cut you to the bone in the blink of an eye) - put a towel down on the table to prevent the glass from shattering when you're scoring it - score around the body shape but also at various points you should make relief scores from the body score line out to the edge - you need to firmly score it 2-3 times (depending on the glass) - then tap the ball end of the cutter along the score lines all the way around a fair bit - then try to snap the pieces away little by little - to get repeatable score lines on irregular shapes like this i used to take generic photo mat and scale it down just a smidge to allow for the cutter thickness (measure from the side to the center of the cutter wheel to get the relief measurement so that the final dimensions are correct) and spray glue it (mildly) to the glass and use it as a pattern - remove it before snapping the glass - most modern glass is pretensioned (it's under internal stress) and for some reason leaving the mat glue to it and snapping the glass can sometimes lead to the glass cracking - do not touch the cut edge with you're bare skin and it will be covered by microscopic slivers of glass - i used to take a piece of pine (ie and piece of 2x4) and rub the edges and then i would flip the pine over and use the other side with 1000 grit wet/dry sandpaper to wet sand it a little to take rest of the flakes off and slightly bevel the edges - you can also use proper stones or diamond coated stones (a 1000 grit diamond knife sharpener works too) - one last note - if you cut a hole in glass and have hard returns (ie like a 90 or 45 degree angle) then it will crack - the trick is to make a curved transition from one cut line to the next - i would take a glass cutting stone (your glass cutting drill bit works too) and i would drill all the inside corners and then score and snap so that all of the inside corners had a radiused transition - do this when working with acrylic and ceramic sheets as well - hard inside corners on these materials will cause cracks over time due to thermal expansion
i don't know if there is an answer for it but, my hands are thick and short, they touch the strings below even when i fret on the tips of my finger and try to play fast... is there any solution for it??
Your First Problem, This Sounds Like Plexiglass, Which Doesnt Break Like Glass. If you Want To Try And Make A Guitar Shape One Like You Tried to At First If You Can Find Actual Glass, You May HAve Better Results With The Initial Method You Tried. Regardless This Thing Does Sound Really Cool!
Hi I'm learning to solo on the guitar. I want to learn to solo on the guitar like everyone else and play awesome songs, but I don't know where to start and how to learn. Do you have any advice and tips?
There are already companies that make glass guitars. To me it ain't worth the risk of getting a glass shard permanently lodged in a finger. So Bernth--please don't mess with glass! Those hands and fingers are too precious to be risking injuries making glass guitars.
I've seen acrylic guitars before, but to build a guitar from a fish tank and then use a rocks glass as a slide?? Brother, you win when it comes to adaptation!!
My guy, you just gave me one Hell of an idea, with this one. Assuming I can find what I would need in the stuff I already have. By the way, that sound is bloody f*cking *beautiful* to boot. 🤘🤘
For the Acrylic Sheets, a Jigsaw would have been your best friend. Glass-Tools don't work on it. Argh - it would have been so cool to see it work out, despite this result beeing cool in it's own way. Maybe Viennaguitars could be a good place/collab for making this thing happen?
Yeah the problem is that isn’t glass, it's plastic. Thats why it didn't work with the glass cutter, and why it didn't want to break. Works great with glass, but you have to actually cut the plastic, not just score it and try to snap it.
You should have used fiberglass, not glass panes. If you want perfect transparency then plexiglass, i.e. acrylic or polycarbonate sheet could be used and is easier to cut shape and work with.
1:12 that banging does not sound like it's glass. Perhaps some acrylic/plexi glass. Also the way it flexes when you bang it That's why the glass cutter did not work for that... I think you could have easily asked a shop with some CNC tool to cut that
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Can you try some different instruments like balalaika or bağlama or çiftetelli like buying used ones and trying to repair and play them
The instrument i mean are string insturments
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You have to do it with heat!!!
A little flamer and a diamond glass cutter and it's easy to get that shape!!
You have to warm up the edge you want break
i think the "glass" you bought for this was actually acrylic and not glass, which would explain why the glass cutter didnt work and the box cutter did
Definitely
When I saw that square shape white sticker, I knew it was acrylic, and the sound it made a second after I can confirm it was
Glass is green, you should be able to see it on the edges. This stuff is blue, so yeah, probably acrylic.
@@Ferserious2only safety glass is green. Plain glass is clear / black on the sides.
Same thought here.
Vote that up, he has to do it again :D
Make a transparent amplifier
Sounds like a great next challenge 🫠
@@Bernthguitar make a transparent rem (where's rem 😭)
@@Bernthguitarand have clear cords lol
are u guys sure
@@Bernthguitar if you attemp this challenge....you may use plexiglas (acrylic glas), which can be cutted via a laser cutter...so you can create a nice shape.
You know, there is a guy online called Alex Morningstar who makes glass guitars (but totally functional and extremely resilient, better than wood in fact). If you got the money, you should buy one of these (they're expensive, starting from $5000)
He makes electric guitars, not acoustic.
Morningstar's guitars are all electric, from what I've seen. Electric guitars don't get any of the fun resonance from a glass body, making the material of the body mostly irrelevant. Glass guitars are absurdly heavy, and definitely not better than wood in terms of durability.
The same property that allows for his guitars to have no truss rod (the rigidity of glass) also makes it fragile. They likely have less tolerance for heavy strings and high tunings than wood guitars, are more expensive to repair if they get damaged, and would suffer from more serious damage than wood guitars.
If you really want that glass look on your electric guitar, get acrylic. It weighs less, is cheaper, and is less likely to shatter.
@yeasstt Didn't think about that, thank you! Although I mentioned it, because Morningstar was planning to make an acoustic too if the demand was big enough. Also there are some advantages of glass over the wood, even for electrics. For example, you have better sustain than any wooden guitar. You also don't need to worry about humidity too much
I wanna see a solid lead acoustic guitar
So a "Heavy Metal" guitar basically
I recall someone welding together some steel plate loudspeakers once, and they were actually the best that the testers had ever tested. Weight was a bit of a problem, though.
@@silvergreylion cool
wouldn't that be just a resonator steel guitar?
Didn't someone melte down a whole bunch of aluminium drinks cans and casted a literal "heavy metal" guitar?
Du machst echt gute Videos. Dank dir bin ich in einem jahr echt weit gekommen und habe einiges gelernt. Deine Tipps hier sind wirklich super und motivieren mich zum weiter machen :). Danke!
I was worried “we were hoping for a big break” wasn’t foreshadowing to the whole thing breaking!
😂🤘
You two are very resourceful! You changed plans quickly, and got it done! And I have to say, it sounds much as I expected it to.
Perhaps if you were to build it more like a stained glass window? With lead seams holding the pieces of glass together? It might be a touch more practical? And a heel block to hold the neck straight might be a compromise? A stained glass guitar might be a beautiful thing?
This is what the world needs more. Just playing around and trying new things, just for the sake of curiosity and joy it brings to pursue things like this. And yeah, you got a really good sound out of it!
Thanks for sharing the journey and the song with us.
That sounds like a job for Burls Arts. He already did an aquarium guitar ;) That would be awesome to see you collab!
I was thinking the same thing. I dont doubt Burl would be able to make a sweet glass accoustic but shipping it across the Atlantic might be problematic to say the least.
There's a glass houses joke here somewhere but i'm too stoned
Ummm..... people who live in bong houses shouldn't pack metal bowls and play glass guitboxes.....
Herr Bernth, you are an absolute MADMAN, and it works! A monster player and an innovator in the instrument world. I love it.
7:38 R.I.P glass guitar! Beautiful Bernth ❤
Man that was just awesome! Do it again with thicker glass and reinforcing! 🙌🙌🙌 Please...😂👌😃
The glass cutter does not work because this is not glass but some kind of plastic/acrylic
Literally cutting edge technology
Haha
Been so curious about how a glass guitar would sound like for a year now lol so glad you did it!! Yay!!
Using real glass would have definitely been easier to cut through with your glass cutting tool tho
You should look up Morningstar guitars. Absolute functional art pieces.
@ they are an absolute dream! Thank you for the recommendation! I hope that one day I’ll be able to afford one of those custom made beauties 🥹
I have tickets already 🎉 seeing you in cologne. ❤
See you soon 🙌
Interesting project. I have a wood shop, but am not a guitar builder. I do know they really beef it up/give extra support where the neck joins the body. You do need diamond tools to work the glass.
I love it and it sounds really good. I wonder what a proper acoustic or a hollow body with an inset front would sound like?
Bernth is crazy, and I love it! Really cool result! Now you need to fill it with water and put some fish in it. May as well use it for its intended purpose AND be able to play music for the fishies inside! 😂😂😂
That fish tank guitar sounds AMAZING! Every time I look up, the music just sounds incredible. I am loving the reverb the tank provided while the glass distortion gave it such an eerie feel.Wonderful work as always!
The clean tone is very clear.
Trust me, it is not a good idea to try to break glass while it is in contact with your wrist. 1:10
good job bernth! keep up with the awesome vids, i love watching them even since my guitar just broke :(
Sounds awesome, love the jam track. If nothing else & cool piece of music was born
if its a polycarbonate / plexiglass type of glass you bought... use a saw/ dremel , and you can shape it (heat and bend ) somewhat with a torch lighter :)
I would wear eye-protecting goggles just in case the guitar snap breaks with the tension of the strings.
🤘 😎
bro, it seems to me that this guitar will break more epically at the end of the performance at the concert than the rest of the guitars🗣️🔥🔥🔥
That was a surreal sound Man! I loved it!!
I love this and seeing the 2 of you working together on the project was so precious.
Absolutely amazing sound... Great job
looks like you used plexi-glass, or possibly even polycarbonate. They are completely different from glass and you can simply cut them using a jigsaw. There is also a specific glue for that material that would dry clear and seamless, it's not superglue. You would also likely get a different sound between actual glass and plexi or poly.
I was half expecting you to smash the guitar on the ground at the end LOL
Oh right it's acrylic not actual glass.
Well I have to admit I had my doubts about this guitar but I have to say that this is boarder line genius. It sounds amazing!
What an interesting idea! That really sounds different, kinda futuristic. Cool video!
If you can find a glass blower, you really should try making another one out of borosilicate, it's a much stronger glass than most soda based hobby glass
A crazy new DIY guitar building tutorial!
@Natauska and Bernth, congratulations on the final result :) (I hope there will be a voice to follow the guitar on stage, I hope it survives long enough ^^')
A. Einstein of the guitar science! Amazing!😮
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Hi Bernth. Here's a little tio for next time you work with glass. If you cut it while it is submerged in water it will cut like butter. You won't end up with the cracking. You can even cut it with scissors, it's crazy.
you can make one that can survive. add some struts inside the body of this experiment, so that them struts or whatever ya call them support the guitarneck in a way that acril surface doesnt crack.
Had a electric bass with no amp and was sitting in a leather recliner chair and accidentally touched the base of the strings on the arm reast and it gave a crazy distorted sound and also amplified. Wondering if you could manage that with acoustic guitar somehow. Love all the videos, especially the one where you made a song for the haters. That was sick😎
I use this trick by putting headphones on, and part of the cable goes underneath the body, sandwiched between the body and my leg, and the vibrations followed up the headphones
@LikeTheBirb hell yeah. That's pretty sweet. It's crazy how vibrations travel depending on what material
Love the darkness whine
So you decided to fill one of your acoustic guitars with water, but not the guitar that's made from a fish bowl?
p cool! Way to gut out the building process!
Brother that guitar deserves more time so u can use the spare pieces to make a block inside the the body to attach the neck and give it its guitar strength
1:20 I am still watching the video so I don't know if they realize it later, but with that cutter you cut until you leave a nice cut and then use it's back part which is solid to hit the glass and with 1 or 2 hits without much force it should break nicely.
I mean, step one would be using actual glass which they aren't, so everything else doesn't matter.
Very cool! Love the sound! 🥰💯✨💚👏
Got an idea - a guitar made of pottery clay 👍🏻
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I would love to see a new channel on RUclips: Pro Guitarplayer build things! Think about it. Love the content
the type and thickness of the glass makes a difference - i used to frame art professionally after i got out of the military - the cutter also makes a difference - the cutter has to be harder than the glass to properly score it (if not then it just scratches it - and trying to snap scratched glass is unpredictable and dangerous - wear cut resistant gloves cause it can cut you to the bone in the blink of an eye) - put a towel down on the table to prevent the glass from shattering when you're scoring it - score around the body shape but also at various points you should make relief scores from the body score line out to the edge - you need to firmly score it 2-3 times (depending on the glass) - then tap the ball end of the cutter along the score lines all the way around a fair bit - then try to snap the pieces away little by little - to get repeatable score lines on irregular shapes like this i used to take generic photo mat and scale it down just a smidge to allow for the cutter thickness (measure from the side to the center of the cutter wheel to get the relief measurement so that the final dimensions are correct) and spray glue it (mildly) to the glass and use it as a pattern - remove it before snapping the glass - most modern glass is pretensioned (it's under internal stress) and for some reason leaving the mat glue to it and snapping the glass can sometimes lead to the glass cracking - do not touch the cut edge with you're bare skin and it will be covered by microscopic slivers of glass - i used to take a piece of pine (ie and piece of 2x4) and rub the edges and then i would flip the pine over and use the other side with 1000 grit wet/dry sandpaper to wet sand it a little to take rest of the flakes off and slightly bevel the edges - you can also use proper stones or diamond coated stones (a 1000 grit diamond knife sharpener works too) - one last note - if you cut a hole in glass and have hard returns (ie like a 90 or 45 degree angle) then it will crack - the trick is to make a curved transition from one cut line to the next - i would take a glass cutting stone (your glass cutting drill bit works too) and i would drill all the inside corners and then score and snap so that all of the inside corners had a radiused transition - do this when working with acrylic and ceramic sheets as well - hard inside corners on these materials will cause cracks over time due to thermal expansion
i don't know if there is an answer for it but, my hands are thick and short, they touch the strings below even when i fret on the tips of my finger and try to play fast... is there any solution for it??
Your First Problem, This Sounds Like Plexiglass, Which Doesnt Break Like Glass. If you Want To Try And Make A Guitar Shape One Like You Tried to At First If You Can Find Actual Glass, You May HAve Better Results With The Initial Method You Tried.
Regardless This Thing Does Sound Really Cool!
Plexiglass isn't exactly considered glass. lol I'm glad at the end you mentioned glass/plastic for the materials. 🙂
Hi I'm learning to solo on the guitar. I want to learn to solo on the guitar like everyone else and play awesome songs, but I don't know where to start and how to learn. Do you have any advice and tips?
next challenge: make something that sounds real
The glue didn't work as expected because it's made for glass and you used it on acrylic.
Great video! :)
Thanks for the inspiration and keep it up!
Now put colored lighting in it like they do to desktop computers
Lifetime challenge, keep going! Find a way to make a traditionally shaped glass guitar that won't break.
When cutting glass, it works best to do small, straight lines if you do not use a cnc.
It's not even a glass. It's plastic
There are already companies that make glass guitars. To me it ain't worth the risk of getting a glass shard permanently lodged in a finger. So Bernth--please don't mess with glass! Those hands and fingers are too precious to be risking injuries making glass guitars.
@@eddiemurphy15 not to mention severing tendons...
Your next glass one will be amazing! Keep dreaming, dreams do come true🎸
Sound was so unique
I've seen acrylic guitars before, but to build a guitar from a fish tank and then use a rocks glass as a slide?? Brother, you win when it comes to adaptation!!
My guy, you just gave me one Hell of an idea, with this one. Assuming I can find what I would need in the stuff I already have.
By the way, that sound is bloody f*cking *beautiful* to boot. 🤘🤘
for aquarium build, use locking tunas
I challenge you to play the INVISIBLE guitar!!!! Let's see your Air Guitar skills!
and i will force you to do this like charles
can you do it like you did in ivory black waterworks song you have added vocals
I'd like to know what this sounded like without effects.
Transparent guitar strings next??😁
For the Acrylic Sheets, a Jigsaw would have been your best friend. Glass-Tools don't work on it. Argh - it would have been so cool to see it work out, despite this result beeing cool in it's own way.
Maybe Viennaguitars could be a good place/collab for making this thing happen?
Merry Christmas. Better luck next year.
BERNTH YOU ARE INSANE!!!!!!!
Quite a project.❤
😁😁😁😁pretty crazy🇧🇷
Now build one out of pasta. And git to noodlin'.
Nice! Boss Katana Mini. I've been wanting it. Hehe. Shalom. Great video! :3
Next video comfirmed.
Glass guitar under water (sounds unreal)
Yeah the problem is that isn’t glass, it's plastic. Thats why it didn't work with the glass cutter, and why it didn't want to break. Works great with glass, but you have to actually cut the plastic, not just score it and try to snap it.
The glue would be trippy with blue ink dry that over the glass
You come up with the craziest ideas
Can you please play 'Gratitude' by Amin Toofani using a plectrum?
True art. And astonishing.
I would love to sing to this song.
next : I make a guitar out of toilet paper (and it sounds UNREAL)
You should have used fiberglass, not glass panes. If you want perfect transparency then plexiglass, i.e. acrylic or polycarbonate sheet could be used and is easier to cut shape and work with.
My anxiety in expectance of a break 😬
That Hobby "glass" is acrylic... You can cut it with a saw, it's basically plastic...
Did I just discover 'Nerdforge Guitar?
Wicked work. 👍
This song should be on the John Wick 5 movie.
1:12 that banging does not sound like it's glass. Perhaps some acrylic/plexi glass. Also the way it flexes when you bang it
That's why the glass cutter did not work for that...
I think you could have easily asked a shop with some CNC tool to cut that
Next time, remember you have a luthier among your students. 😉
You should try this using lexan polycarbonate. That shit is virtuslly unbreakable( and bulletproof at least w a 9mm) but u can easily cut it to shape
Make a guitar out of toothpicks
Yeah... like other people have pointed out, your issue was that the "hobby glass" you bought isn't glass. At all. It's acrylic.
That is a sheet of acrylic. Not real glass. just plastic. Can be confusing because it is often called by a brand name off acrylic "Plexiglas".
They're expensive but glass guitars are sold by morningstar glass guitars.
my dear bernth, glass cutter is for glass, not plastic.
Uhm… ‘plexi glass’ is actually acrylic, not glass. You can’t use a glass cutter on acrylic.
You can use drill bits and saws on acrylic though.