1 Year in the Garden - RELIC Telecaster
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2023
- Crazy Experiment! One year project. I left this swamp ash tele body outside in the garden for one year. It survived rain, humidity, brutal Texas heat, and ice storms. Let's put a neck on it and see how it sounds.
Watch Part 1 filmed a year ago:
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Woohoo! The one-year-in-the-garden project is done. Pretty neat experiment, I think. Fun and different. Take it easy!
turned out to a beautiful and unique instrument, really really cool, thank you for share this.
I didn't catch what you said about the neck but I assume it was trash. I see in the description you put a new neck on it?
I absolutely love this! I totally agree with your statement about "...not really a relic." To me, this isn't about making a new guitar look like it's been played hard since the 50's, this is just a different finishing technique that shows off the natural beauty of the wood, and nature itself. I have some similar plans for using planks that have seen a lot of use, abuse, and nature. Keep it up, your videos are always inspiring!
Fender spending millions to dry the wood and control the levels of moisture in their factories, and this guy dumps the guitar in his garden and allow bugs to live on it for a year, and still sounds great. love it!! lol
This might be the coolest guitar build I've seen. I've been waiting on the follow on this project with a lot of excitement. I love the way it came out and I really love the music you used for the video with the footage of all the decay. I really vibe with this guitar and the experiment and the way you think about instrument building. Thanks for sharing with all of us!
I love your projects, but this one is on another level, totally amazing!
Super cool. I have a lot of time and respect for projects like this! I think the end result is beautiful.
Loved the video , have a happy Solstice and a Merry Xmas
This is truly inspiring!
I started my first guitar build last year and after personalising a kit body I left it on the lowest shelf of my garage storage. Shortly afterwards the garage flooded pretty badly. All my tools and other projects were high up, but that body got soaked. I have up on it. It got mouldy. But I still have it. I'm gonna make it worse, then finish the project!!
Been waiting ages to see how this turns out. Can't wait to watch tonight
Talk about a vibe. Thats rad.
Love how it looks and sounds!
Awesome work!
Love what you're doing with these ageing/relicing videos! It's still something of a dark art/mystery so good to see different approaches and I like your artistic approach of getting different patinas and surfaces. It would have been cool to see what it would like with some of the clear colours and finshes that are available.
I've been waiting for this,, turned out great!
This is great!!! Thank you. Guitar sounds amazing.
I really liked your explanation of the "why" behind the video. It's stuff like this that makes the guitar community so much fun. Thanks for the content!
Sweet concept.
Impressing and very cool project!
Wow, cool Project, Bravo.
Nice cinematic & work, good video.
Very nice !
Man a year go so fast !
Great project and you look really happy of it !
I have some 2x4 hanging in the workshop, an explorer nature reliced could be fun 🤘
My dear friend, your works are great!!!!! New follower from Argentina
I love it, it looks amazing
I never thought tha drop c would be that good clean! A beautyful guitar!
This is pretty Badass :) Kip up the Good Work !
you clearly had a lot of fun with this, glad to see a follow up from the original video
I love how that body looks with all the weathering!!! Did you try to work with the neck or was it beyond repair?
I'm gonna let it dry out for a bit then re-glue the fretboard. It will be a project for down the road.
@@MarkGutierrez By all means, *please* record a video of the process. In fact, do yourself a favor and make a short video with "fret sprout" somewhere in the title showing this great example of how wood swells and shrinks, yet the frets remain the same. I'm sure it would be popular. Get them CLICKS, baby! :)
Cool video
Very interesting idea Mark. I look forward to your 1'000 years in a peat bog relic! You've got an interesting channel. Take care.
Looks cool. You just invented the Fender Tetanuscaster
it looks amazing
Interesting idea! I think it will continue to change over time and handling. It would be interesting to see in ten years. I noticed the fretboard changed, was the original too wonky to glue back down? The rosewood does fit the look well but the stained up natural board woulda been cool too. 👍
Far out ! I have a piece of Drift Wood thats waiting to be a body. Salt treated naturally and dried for a winter or two next to my electric baseboard. Thanks for the inspiration
sweet snailecaster. the hardware relic goes perfectly with the gray on the wood.
Nice asmr narration I enjoyed
I like it…. Great idea.
That's one way to eliminate fret sprout! Love this idea!
Amazing
Jeez, its already been a year?!
It's absolutely stunning, but I wonder if it could be carrying live mold into your house
NICE! Thanks For Sharing 🎸🎶
TEJAS aka Texas 💪
Now thats a relic job 😅
I remember you leaving this outside. I pleased you didn't forget it. So now you've turned a bug-hotel into a guitar :) I love that aging.
lol bug-hotel
Awesome! Not gonna lie though, seeing you take the guitar inside after all of the bugs and termites on it scared the shit out of me.
Super cool and brilliantly unique! Any plans to reuse the neck?
For sure. I'm letting it dry out a bit before I work on it.
I'm always worried about termites. did you throw some kind of insecticide? Did you use a finish over the wood? Or is it raw wood?
very interesting project. congratulations!
I brushed off all the insects on to the dirt. Then used termite spray to kill the termites and ants as they crawled in the dirt. I relocated the snails. The word does not have a finish. It is raw. There is still dirt all over it.
Hi! Impressive craftswork! What did you use to directly mount the pickups? Foam? Surgical tube? Both? Thanks!
screws and springs. but I think I'm going to swap out the springs for foam.
Thanks a lot for the info. By the way, could you tell me how much does the guitar weight? Nice job again!
This was awesome. I may have missed it, but did you seal the wood with anything after? I know you wanted to preserve the texture. but did you apply any oil or anything?
It's just the raw wood straight from the dirt. Brushed it off, epoxied it back together and threw a neck on it.
sounds cool af but what does it smell like ?
The best guitar making video in a year 🎉🎉🎉
I actually found a guitar in the woods that was left there, cheap Behringer begginer guitar. The neck was completely toast, the fretboard split off and shrunk smaller than the frets and the neck is like a rollercoaster but I managed to save the body but I need to plane the neck pocket and bridge mounting area flat to each other because the body split and also twisted, somehow the stock pickups still worked haha
I think when it comes to guitar video content we’ve jumped the shark.
Bad freaking ass
...hey Mark, and everyone gets upset when the humidity in the music room is 60%! great experiment, thanks for the effort. it sounds great, greetings from Dusseldorf😎💥🎸🎼
Awesome! How did you get that relic look on the hardware???
muriatic acid fumes
@@MarkGutierrez thank you so much
Yeah, big gauge strings tuned down, sound great. I use 11s tuned to C too. Stevie Ray Vaughn tone w out destroying your fingers. 12 is the cut off point for me .They seem like a light gauge bass, 11s still seem like guitar
The body ,def; the neck? NSM. The thing with the neck is, in order to even get it to a playable state, you'll lose much of the impact of the ageing .IF you can get it playable.It's a fragile part.
I have thought about doing this with finished bodies, to see what is left of the paint and lacquer.
That thing is ugly beautiful. Sounds really good too!
So fucking cool!🎉
I would be worried about mold. But the swamp ash vibe is super cool
I want to see a one-piece body tele buried in the dirt for a year next!
Great video very entertaining. I had no choice but to hit the like and subscribe button.
im sure its all warped?
You should do a 2 year in the garden build it would be interesting to see
Tone you can smell
Awesome it looks great without the pickguard
So you just stuck a new neck on it?
Rollie-pollie, pill bugs == ISOPODS
Great payoff for a year of waiting! Also cool that the ice storm is now "baked into" the guitar.
I'm of two minds on the finish. I like the purity of the rough surface, and I imagine it's wonderfully tactile, but it would probably also look phenomenal in a clear-coat gloss.
Wow man that's pretty sick. I wouldn't really call it relic'd, except for the hardware. That's fucking weathered. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it. You just may be starting a new trend here. Just found your channel, and it was because of this. Diggin your other vids as well. You got a new subscriber here. Keep up the great work🤘
Thanks for watching! Appreciate it.
@@MarkGutierrez 👍
Now that’s how you relic a guitar!
Gardencaster 😁👍🎸
looks like you ended up tossing the garden neck?
Just giving it a while to dry out, then I'll restore it for fun.
Each to their own but it's not my cup of tea. Interesting project and I'm sure many will like it. Can't deny it sounds quite well.
Cool idea... you should nickname that axe "old rollie"... for the rollie pollies :)
Rock 'N Rollie
Why?
Why is it when Mark describes the patina of his relic hardware, it feels like I’m hearing someone describe the fishnets and lingerie they are wearing in an ASMR video. 365 days in the garden!!! talk dirty to me Mark.
lol
You've given me an idea.. Nitro's painted body and left in the garden on a surface like a table and turn after a while can be interesting...
Cool guitar! I wouldn't leave the dirt in the pickup cavities. That dirt and the water attracted to the dirt, will eventually kill those pickups. Sounds great though!
not all woods react the same, and there might be different characteristics to the Texas weather, but the grey coloring is generally done by a bacteria. The aspect of the body is superb, well done. Plus, think of all the little bugs who can now casually tell their friends "oh, I was living inside an electric guitar" ;-)
Fascinating. Wonder if there is an easier way to introduce the bacteria.
@@MarkGutierrezSubmerge it in Yoghurt or Kefir, maybe it would look different with so-called good bacteria. Haha.
I would love to see the same thing done, but thrown into a pond or lake. It is believed that the "good sound" in sought after Violins in older times, was due to beeing submerged in water and then dried.
Funghi Sound? ^^
Well, the pickups and setup matter too.....
Guitars dont sound great with noisy pickups or when you're fretting out every bend.
Would of been great it you painted it first n then let it sit for a year! But still cool
I think the greyness is caused by UV damage/bleaching.
DIWHY? Moldcaster
Body Farm Tele!
The "grey" is mold.
That makes sense. Someone else commented that the "grey" is bacteria.
Take a big pencil and color all over the back of neck then sand it to taste and it looks worn very nice
My only stipulation is that the wood must come from Earth 👍
Вот это я понимаю 😂 настоящее застаревание) 🤘
The bugs add extra tone. Don't remove them!
the back yardigans tele
It's not a Telecaster, it's a Tetanuscaster!.
Haha, peace.
Next time bolt the neck to the body and have it sit fir a year. That way its already fitted together
Gonna send this video to everyone I see complain about getting a scratch on their guitar.
lol
Many animals lost their home during building this guitar.
🙃👍
Cool and all but you should have used the original fretboard and neck....whats the point breaking them down if you dont try to reassemble and reglue them together...we kinda knew the body can take any punishment....hell people even set them on fire for a certain look but in the end..its all about the neck..if you put a different one in the end that defeats the purpose of the whole thing since you put them both out to the elements not just the body.....at least thats my thought process.
I 'm guessing he will revisit the neck later down the road, after it's dried/stabilized more, and time permits of course.
Correct. I'm 100 percent committed to salvaging the neck. That will be a separate video once the neck has dried a bit.
@@MarkGutierrez Thats very cool.Cant wait for that video too then.
Biohazardcaster lol