That's a LOT of hard work you put into an inexpensive instrument, and your result is amazing! No, it looks like original equipment one would know the nut used to be a bolt if you didn't tell them. It looks like original equipment. Stay safe there my friend.
There's something very gratifying about watching Craftsmen make something out of nothing. I bought a 1971 hand-wired Marshall 50w JMP for $500. Everyone laughed and said it looked like it came from the bottom of the Titanic or was a boat anchor. I lovingly treated it with toothpicks, Q-tips solvents, sprays, cleaners, blah blah blah and by the time I was done it turned into a $2,500 amplifier. All it took was time and attention to detail and a little loving care.
hardware replacement was great as usual, but i'm most impressed with the results you got on the dowel fill for the electronics, you barely blew the finish and the re-shoot on the color looks pretty spot on, when you skipped straight from unpainted to fully painted i was surprised, i'd be curious to see your method for color matching and painting. Great work!
BEAUTIFUL workmanship! I've seen and heard comments about expensive guitars but hand craftsmanship on a budget guitar is what makes true quality, not a headstock decal or a price tag.
Awesome work! You've put a lot of effort for the restoration of the neck. For the steel nut, at first I must admit I was surprised, but the final result is a masterpiece! And this bass sounds really cool, lot of power.
heard a lot over the years about people having to refret instruments multiple times, which makes me wonder why they wouldn't switch to stainless steel frets the first time and not have the problem? Excellent work sir.
It's hard to answer, maybe some specific religious beliefs Or it's all about the high cost of steel frets, but in my opinion, it's cheaper to install steel frets once Thank you!
Fantastic work restoring the neck, and the fretwork and nut are absolute works of art! I had brass nuts on 2 of my basses, and ended up removing them - but that's only because I prefer much, much darker sounding basses myself. That said, under other players fingers, metal nuts sound great, especially this beautifully crafted stainless steel nut!!! 👏👏👏
Very well done and so happy to have found your channel, you sir have a new subscriber... I look forward to going through your previous videos and will keep an eye out for your new videos as well. Thank You!
My first bass that I bought back in 1989 was one of these (but without the active electronics). The headstock, the tuners, the pickups, and the bridge all look very familiar to me.
Well done & great job! Turned out Awsome! I bought a HSS Vester Catalina / strat, for $80 Australian, a couple of years ago. Absolutely 1 of the best guitars I own! Well, close anyway. Lost count of how many I own. All types & sizes.
Good job man. I've changed the Frets of my old LTD guitar with steel ones, but I have concerns about an Ibanez Jem I own. I want to change them too, but I can't find any information on how to work with inlayed maple fretboard. Like What finishes or varnish to use....
Oh boy, I owned two Vesters in my life time and apart from the QC being very inconsistent they are known for having certain issues. These were 1989 super strats we're talking. The tuners were janky, the truss rod nut is almost always worn out so you would have to use a dremmel to carve a flat head screwdriver insert in there. And that's not talking about the "floating bridge" that was up to bloody Jupiter before I blocked it off on both units. What's also weird is that one had a very thin Jackson like C neck while the other had a very classic Fender like U neck. Same guitar, same year, just a different colour. I embraced the jank, tried to make it work so far but I'm going to mod the hell out of the guitar I still own. Video on that coming soon.
Excellent work....one question for you though..can you slot the stainless steel nut with regular files easily?I have cut several nuts out of aluminium and its not a problem at all but stainless steel is fairly hard so i was wondering about the files you used to slot them....thanks in advance.
I would be interested to know how the steel nut affects the string life. Steel on steel is going to cause a higher sheer factor so I'm curious if it causes more string breakage. Nice work, BTW.
Fascinating work! The result was really good. If I were in your position, I'd do exactly as you did with regard to the decisions you made about that Vester. The only thing I was able to aspire to would be to make it a fretless bass but I'm not sure if that would be suitable for this bass. Keep up the good work! Stay safe! Macedo Pinto Portugal
Great work. As to the claim that the steel frets will never wear out: Check out Trigger (Willie Nelson's guitar). Gut-string classical guitar that has frets so worn that they almost aren't frets anymore.
With Stainless steel frets, do you over radius the frets before installing them? I'm not sure but I have a feeling that they will pop if over radius will take place.
awesome work, the only thing that i didnt like that much is to use a hammer for the frets. Please! try to clamp them, you will find it is a lot better! You owe yourself to give it a try because you are really good with this stuff
Hey hey brother great video, I pray you all are doing OK with all that is going on there 🙏 also how did you learn how to do all your working on everything?it's so cool 😎 and also how did you learn how to play bass guitar?thank you so very much 😀 stay safe OK 👍
It must be so satisfying to return these lovely old guitars to such a beautiful condition - probably better than the day they were made.
Oh yeah
That's a LOT of hard work you put into an inexpensive instrument, and your result is amazing! No, it looks like original equipment one would know the nut used to be a bolt if you didn't tell them. It looks like original equipment. Stay safe there my friend.
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Nah! Gold is not hard enough -
There's something very gratifying about watching Craftsmen make something out of nothing. I bought a 1971 hand-wired Marshall 50w JMP for $500. Everyone laughed and said it looked like it came from the bottom of the Titanic or was a boat anchor. I lovingly treated it with toothpicks, Q-tips solvents, sprays, cleaners, blah blah blah and by the time I was done it turned into a $2,500 amplifier. All it took was time and attention to detail and a little loving care.
I agree, the process of reincarnating old things is a pleasure.
hardware replacement was great as usual, but i'm most impressed with the results you got on the dowel fill for the electronics, you barely blew the finish and the re-shoot on the color looks pretty spot on, when you skipped straight from unpainted to fully painted i was surprised, i'd be curious to see your method for color matching and painting. Great work!
Thank you!
I was lucky, I have several shades of black in stock and one of them fit better than the others.
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BEAUTIFUL workmanship! I've seen and heard comments about expensive guitars but hand craftsmanship on a budget guitar is what makes true quality, not a headstock decal or a price tag.
Unf***ing believable restoration, video production, and overall feeling! As always, kudos, MRKT!
Thank you!
Steel frets, and nut......very nice. The whole repair was 👌
not only was the nut made of steel it was made from a steel bolt lol very impressive you have unbelievable skills
I love that shot of the tuners moving by themselves.
I’ll be honest, I’m usually a fan of steel nut. But, this one looked and sounded amazing. Nice job.
Thanks!
This is my first time making it out of steel.
So beautiful! I love the nut, such an interesting approach 👍🏻
3:44 Bass is definitely enjoying it! Awesome work!
Thanks!
Awesome work!
You've put a lot of effort for the restoration of the neck.
For the steel nut, at first I must admit I was surprised, but the final result is a masterpiece!
And this bass sounds really cool, lot of power.
Thank you!
I like the final result too, It's a rare thing)
Not afraid of some hard work I see. Loved this video. When someone can take a piece of trash and make it beautiful !! Cheers to you.
Great work! I missed Vesters. They had amazing products...
They made different quality guitars, but they were all for a nice price.
Excellent work. Riff at the end sounds great too
Thank you!
Excellent job
Nut looks amazing and the sound is kick ass
heard a lot over the years about people having to refret instruments multiple times, which makes me wonder why they wouldn't switch to stainless steel frets the first time and not have the problem? Excellent work sir.
It's hard to answer, maybe some specific religious beliefs
Or it's all about the high cost of steel frets, but in my opinion, it's cheaper to install steel frets once
Thank you!
Absolutely stunning. The work on the neck is fantastic. And how you restored the body without a full refinish is so cool. I’m a fan !!! 👍👍👍
Thank you!
Fantastic work restoring the neck, and the fretwork and nut are absolute works of art!
I had brass nuts on 2 of my basses, and ended up removing them - but that's only because I prefer much, much darker sounding basses myself. That said, under other players fingers, metal nuts sound great, especially this beautifully crafted stainless steel nut!!! 👏👏👏
Thank you, it took a lot of time)
Very well done and so happy to have found your channel, you sir have a new subscriber... I look forward to going through your previous videos and will keep an eye out for your new videos as well. Thank You!
Happy to welcome you to the channel!
All I can say is you got great craftmanship!
My first bass that I bought back in 1989 was one of these (but without the active electronics). The headstock, the tuners, the pickups, and the bridge all look very familiar to me.
Absolutely awesome video. The nut is killer but the work you put in to restore that board is freaking boss! Nice job.
Wow, very nice work! And it's sound great!
Many years ago I used a hexagonal piece of tool steel, to make a nut, for a slide guitar project i built. Worked extraordinary well.
Awesome Dude! I’ve never seen your channel before, will be watching!
Thanks and welcome!
Nice work. I really like the music tracks playing from the start.. please check the track listing description as the ones listed are all different
Wow, what a great job in this bass!! Congrats!!!
Thanks!
Amazing work. You transformed than beat up bass into an amazing instrument that’ll last a very long time!
Thanks!
Very nice first class work Really great job!!! super upgrade !!!
Absolutely nuts! ... great work
Thank you!
Damn, that tone at the end, my kind of nasty bass tone!
The nut work was awesome.
Beautiful job my friend. The steel nut is crazy 🎉
Thanks!
Your work is beautiful. Respect
Thanks!
Well done & great job! Turned out Awsome! I bought a HSS Vester Catalina / strat, for $80 Australian, a couple of years ago. Absolutely 1 of the best guitars I own! Well, close anyway. Lost count of how many I own. All types & sizes.
Last comment, my history teacher in 1983 has family name Vester. Come to the Netherlands more often, it helps against rusted ideas inside your head.
I love your work dude. Awesome!
I like the idea.of stainless steel frets.Nice work.
Fantastic job, absolutely beautiful. Did you retain the original electronics ?
Thank you.
No, I had to use the preamp from an old Ibanez
Nice video great results. What did you use to darken the fretboard. Thanks.
Thanks
Wax and mineral oil
You said something about seeing the last bottom fret in half what do you mean are you making the fret thinner at the very bottom for action purposes ?
Yes, you understood me correctly.
That is awesome you have created something to enjoy
Very Nice, great job. Congratulations.
Thanks!
Complimenti! La tastiera è uno spettacolo!
That's amazing, great work!
Good job man. I've changed the Frets of my old LTD guitar with steel ones, but I have concerns about an Ibanez Jem I own. I want to change them too, but I can't find any information on how to work with inlayed maple fretboard. Like What finishes or varnish to use....
Just don't remove the neck cover and that's it.
Oh boy, I owned two Vesters in my life time and apart from the QC being very inconsistent they are known for having certain issues. These were 1989 super strats we're talking. The tuners were janky, the truss rod nut is almost always worn out so you would have to use a dremmel to carve a flat head screwdriver insert in there. And that's not talking about the "floating bridge" that was up to bloody Jupiter before I blocked it off on both units. What's also weird is that one had a very thin Jackson like C neck while the other had a very classic Fender like U neck. Same guitar, same year, just a different colour.
I embraced the jank, tried to make it work so far but I'm going to mod the hell out of the guitar I still own. Video on that coming soon.
I've had a few superstrats in repair. They were all of questionable quality. But there was also a Stratocaster that looked and was made very well.
That was a bass that needed some work, and you did give it that, and then some.
Excellent work....one question for you though..can you slot the stainless steel nut with regular files easily?I have cut several nuts out of aluminium and its not a problem at all but stainless steel is fairly hard so i was wondering about the files you used to slot them....thanks in advance.
Of course you can, but don't expect it to be easy)
Excellent work
Thank you!
You do excellent work.
Thank you!
I would be interested to know how the steel nut affects the string life. Steel on steel is going to cause a higher sheer factor so I'm curious if it causes more string breakage. Nice work, BTW.
That's what she said 16:58
It's high quality work! Respect.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
That's a cool bass man. Good job
Thank you!
Fascinating work! The result was really good. If I were in your position, I'd do exactly as you did with regard to the decisions you made about that Vester.
The only thing I was able to aspire to would be to make it a fretless bass but I'm not sure if that would be suitable for this bass.
Keep up the good work!
Stay safe!
Macedo Pinto
Portugal
After this video, I have several orders, one of them is just a fretless bass)
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Amazing work! 🙌
Thank you!
Nice work. Where do you get your stainless steel frets from?
Thanks! We order from Jescar
Awesome job
Thanks!
I'm really respect for that.
Nice job!
Nice work! Regards from Brazil!
Thank you!
Greetings from Ukraine!
Very nice job, compliments
Thank you!
WOW! And it sounds great.
Excellent work and it sounds great.🎼🎸🎼
Thanks!
Excelent! It's so shine!
Thank you!
Да уж, какие-то пионЭры хорошо над ней поиздевались))
Та да, не пожалели ни труда ни силикона
Great work. As to the claim that the steel frets will never wear out: Check out Trigger (Willie Nelson's guitar). Gut-string classical guitar that has frets so worn that they almost aren't frets anymore.
Very nice job. Thanks for sharing
sounds so heavy metal!!!
Just amazing man!!!!
Thanks!
sick looking and great tone, lucky buyer
You made a nut out of a bolt. Amazing lol Great vid and workmanship
Thanks)
Un verdadero maestro artesano!! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Felicitaciones maestro 👌🏼💪🏼🇺🇾
Did the nut files survive carving that nut?
Of course, they are much harder than stainless steel.
отличная работа! желаю удачи в развитии мастерства и канала, очень приятно смотреть подобные видосы! однозначно подписка) ps звук у баса шикарный
Fantastic job you did but would it not have been cheaper just to buy a new bass...
Thank you!
Maybe, but that would be boring as hell)
good job. nice to watch)
aboulute,,brilliant job,,sounds great!
Thank you!
Did you replace the pots and rewire it?
Yeah, I threw out the old preamp, soldered it to passive electronics. As soon as I get some good, active preamp, I'll put it on
Не понял по видео чем и как вы покрасили гитару, было бы интересно посмотреть процесс покраски, и полировки.
Это был акрил
real nice bass now.. wow
With Stainless steel frets, do you over radius the frets before installing them? I'm not sure but I have a feeling that they will pop if over radius will take place.
This is beautifull!
Thank you
Vester were very high quality basses
Great job!!!
What do you use for fret dressing end file please?
Is that neck the standard ROSEWOOD or Mahogany ? Your restoration made the neck perfect and Gorgeous !!
Thank you. It’s rosewood
awesome work, the only thing that i didnt like that much is to use a hammer for the frets. Please! try to clamp them, you will find it is a lot better! You owe yourself to give it a try because you are really good with this stuff
Thank you!
I have those clamps. Using them on occasion. But I prefer hammer)
sounds amazing!
Good job
Thanks
Hey hey brother great video, I pray you all are doing OK with all that is going on there 🙏 also how did you learn how to do all your working on everything?it's so cool 😎 and also how did you learn how to play bass guitar?thank you so very much 😀 stay safe OK 👍
Thank you!
I had a good teacher and also many hours of practice.
And I don't play bass in this video)
im really impressed with your work. can i use powder+super glue to fill crack in the neck ?
Of course, the most important thing is to get the color of the wood.
that nut is beautiful 🥰
Thanks!
Sounds great.
Muy hermoso buen trabajo
Que trabalho grandioso, parabéns
Obrigado!
Great job
Thanks!