Telecaster Build - Part 13 - Fabric Top Guitar Insanity
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- This Telecaster build video series is intended for my lutherie students at a Denver area college where I teach electric guitar construction. I decided to make these videos public…hoping that other people all around the world can benefit from them. My students are first time builders and are being required to build a variation of a Telecaster or a Stratocaster. I believe that learning Fender construction techniques is foundational to a well-rounded guitar building education. I am building a Tele in this video series…and I will be building a Strat live at the school. With this foundation, I hope most of the students will continue their education by taking the advanced electric guitar construction course next semester.
This video covers the fabric top guitar process that I learned from Matt and Chris of Texas Toast Guitars.
Check out the video Matt posted teaching me his methods for this unique technique.
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This video starts at the Texas Toast shop…but ends up at the Maximum Guitar Works shop. We shop flush cutting the hardened fabric top, cutting a binding channel, installing binding…and we went ahead and do a second fabric top guitar just to prove how easy it is. Ta-Dah!
Feel free to post a comment should there be any questions…and try to reply to questions as soon as time will allow. Let me know if this serious helps anyone…and any topics that you hope that I will cover in future episodes of this build series.
If you enjoy the intro music on this video, go to ericjasonbrock... to check out more of his songs. Eric is a very talented musician out of Cincinnati Ohio, and I know he would greatly appreciate your support by purchasing some of his music.
The very nice motion design incorporated into the Intro, Outro, and the subtitles as created by Summer Simpson, a professional video editor in the Denver area. Go check out her lengthy resume at www.summerbsimpson.com, and shoot her an email if you need some help with video production.
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Love the Morderne on the wall at Matt’s shop!
Hey...I remember that guitar. Long time ago.
Those tops look very nice! The series continues to be stellar and full of great info. Love the "Maximum Toast" collaboration too. It's good to see a Brotherhood of this art, rather than a mud slinging. You and Matt really have something special in your teaching that is inspiring. Keep it up! More people need to witness this. Cheers from the Midwest 🍻👍
Sorry...slow to reply. Once again I appreciate your nice words. I agree...collaboration is important. I think working with others has more power than hoarding knowledge. Next video is posting today...another soon after that (if I can find time to do the post production).
I forgot to add a link to my workshop blog in case anyone has any questions that didn't get answered, I hope that is okay...www.texastoastguitars.com/single-post/2018/10/16/How-We-Do-Fabric-Top-Guitars
I’m not in the guitar building class but with all the good information that you have given us I think I will have no problem building a guitar from scratch just wanted to say thank you for all the lessons.
Your welcome. Thanks for the comment. I will say however...group learning has many benefits. If you have the ability to take classes with other people...the learning is exponential!
I've been watching these videos offline on my way to and from work in the train. Just wanna say I love them and glad I found this channel!
Glad you din't say that you were watching them as you drive to work! That would be bad. Glad I can help occupy some time for you. Thanks for the comment. More coming soon.
Cool technique, like seeyou whit Matt, my 2 favorite luthiers.... beard is growing!!!!
Thanks Julian. Matt is awesome...fun guy to hang with. The beard is now done...just can't do it. Mustache is here to stay though.
When you spread epoxy use a bondo spreader, credit card or prepared wood scrap. Cheaper and less epoxy wasted in the roller. Boat builders load e-glass that way. Also, if you're worried about micro air bubbles coming out of the wood, preheat the wood with a lamp and as the wood cools, the cooling workpiece will draw the epoxy into the air pockets as the air contracts.
Hey was not epoxy...it was polyester gel. The goal here was not a thin coat but for it to build up.
Looking great Steve, glad to be of help with this phase of the project. Chris is the one who assures me that "Weenie Roller" is an industry standard term hahaha
I am working on the Weenie Roller Operators Union shirts right now
Those shirts would be a hot seller! ;-)
Welp, my first guitar build started with excellence... it was the finishing process that was sub-par. Great video BTW.
Thanks Dave. Finishing is the hardest part for me...still in search of the perfect finish and perfect finishing techniques.
Perfect job
Wish I had this when I graduated high school.
I want the Billy Bo body in the background!!! Template available??? Excellent video!!
Thats lookin really cool Steve, kinda reminds me of the Northern lights,, not the weed, the actual northern lights! And the dragons eye top is killer too,, Lizard burst😎.
Dont fight it Steve that IS a "Weenie Roller"🍺👍
The Lizard is my favorite...so far...but both are very cool. Can't wait to finish them up. Thanks for the comment.
@@maximumguitarworks Im looking forward to it aswell👍
When is the next update video Steve??
There’s a weed called Northern Lights? 😂
@@paulneeds hell yeah 🤌
@@happyads9439 every day’s a learning day! 😁
What would happen to celluliod or plastic binding after being in a steam box for a few minutes? 🤔 Might be able to wrap that binding like a strip of leather and not overheat.
Not sure. Let me no if you try it.
Winnie Roller! LOL
What simtec sealer did you use? They have lots of options looks like on their website
28x50...easy sanding sealer.
Is that binding blue perloid? Or just plain perloid
It is cellulose perloid...which is white...but translucent. So it might pickup colors from the top (and now sides/back).
Source for the tablecloth please?
Doug, sorry for the late reply...life is extremely busy right now for me. I did a search on Amazon for exotic fabrics...and this one came up as a tablecloth. There were many designs in multiple sizes...I selected all in the 24" size...which fits pretty good. 18" might have been better...but they didn't offer that.
Weenie-Roller :)
Make haste slowly.
I fold the ends of the tape over so my fingernails do not dig into the wood while removing it.
It was all going so well until you put that grotesquely ugly fabric on. There should be a law about abusing instruments.
Hummm...trying to figure out that comment. Calling a builders guitar "grotesquely ugly" is not much better that telling a woman that her baby is ugly. You might want to add a smiley face, wink, or LOL...to take the edge off. Or not.