These thin tops are underrated in guitar building. Even a thin veneer of heavily figured wood goes a long way to transforming the looks of an instrument. Well done!
Gorgeous build, my friend. Love the natural finish-glad you didn’t paint it. And the fact that it’s only 1,947 grams is insane! That’s a little more than half the weight of my Strat, at almost 3,500 grams. Bravo friend, bravo.
Looks good! But after adding a top like that, I would either go for a back route, or a transparent pickguard 😀 Saving weight can be great, I'm sure - but I'm more concerned about neck dive. I like the total of body and neck (and hardware etc obviously) to be in balance, rather than desperately saving 100gr left and right...
you can get flat blocks of various dimensions, 2 ft by 2 ft 4ft by 4ft whatever that are perfectly flat and they are actually dialed in by a sanctioning body, calibrated, yup, its for automotive use, decking heads, blocks, cases and covers so forth . . sticky sand paper, and use as a machining table .. . I believe you can get some with a grit embedded, diamond so forth for special applications.. nice to have for this type of use, large enough you can do a fingerboard whatever, nut.. they use em to true up motorcycle brake rotors as well..
Good job! This is something I've considered doing, but never got around to. In my design, I leave a bit more wood for the strap button screws, but otherwise, I expect mine would end up much the same. I do have a Squier CV 50s Strat, but its body is very light, so there's no need to alter it.
Very nice. But i was wondering if it is experiencing neck dive? Since it has lost some amount of weight. Or did you also change the hardware on the neck? Ultra lite tuner maybe?
I'd say the body is still much heavier than the neck so it should be fine considering where the strap bolts are placed. I've personally never experienced neck dive and I've played a few guitars over the years, but to be fair I've never played one of those plexi see through guitars. Some of those are pretty light. Good question and I hope he gives you a definitive answer. I'm interested myself. Got a bad back so light guitars interest me (and I know there is lots of talk online about the tone of the wood and sound quality but ive found its about 99% the sound of the pickups and your amp/ speaker quality. ).
hi @@titmusspaultpaul5, thank you for your response. yes i agree with you on the guitar body still heavier than the neck. But, the point of balance is playing major role here. in my case, i play bass, the neck is longer (especially 5 stringer). that why i think, something needs to be done to counteract lost weight on body side
I have a partscaster that weighs about 10-11 pounds and it's not a problem I can't really see any benefits of weight relief in a strat style guitar besides the difference in tone
I'll bet it has alot more acoustic resonance when not plugged into an amplifier "stealth" chambered the way it is now. I've always wondered why they don't make a factory chambered model Stratocaster, ..and why dont they make a thinline telecaster without the f hole. 🎶🔥🌌✈️
Хаха.Я подумал что лентой перемотали в начале и так и оставитье сохнуть. Как думаю в такой мастерской не оказалось струбцын ?? А потом они появились -)))
@@bakalika1Thank you, nice job on yours, sounds nice also, I have used some almond oil on an oak body and the result is a dark golden colour that looks good. I am about to build another and the body is a plain colour I will most likely use a translucent lacquer on it
@@rogersmith5167 Shellac is amazing, is has a nice yellow to amber colour depending on thickness and makes an incredibly nice feeling hard lacquer. Google "french polishing" No other lacquer feels as good to the touch
I have a one off Les Paul that I built I would like to do that to but really should not see the body is made out of zebra wood and the damn thing is just so heavy
If you want to fiddle with wires in a strat just remove the pickguard, everything's mounted to it, so the pickguard, is in essence, it's own access panel. 🤷🎶🌌
@@burzk9981 ..build a cell phone into it with the camera on, route a usp panel next to the output jack so you can recharge it, ..then you can have 24 access to the inside of your stealth hollow body stratocaster replica.💥🤣🤛
huh? all the wirings here can easily be accessed if you removed the pick guard, the wirings doesn't run across the whole body of that guitar you can see it in the middle of the body bruh🤦♂️
This is a bad design, with a wrong description, and a clickbait title. Hollow body guitars are not designed and made like this. This guitar's body won't resonate because the body wood needs to be only a few millimeters thick, and with a smooth surface inside as well, which you didn't bother. Yet, contrary to what you say in the video description, hollow body guitars actually sustain less than a solid body, and hollow body guitars sound warmer than a solid body, not brighter.
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Nice grained thin piece of spalted maple ---certainly give a lovely finish ---steam bending too ---great job !
These thin tops are underrated in guitar building. Even a thin veneer of heavily figured wood goes a long way to transforming the looks of an instrument. Well done!
Steamin with the iron is a stroke of genius.
Very cool. Love that you just oil finished the wood. Not thick sealers.
Phantastic background music.
This looks like a fun project.
I’ve always been curious how they chambered those f hole strats and now I know how it’s done.
Very nice. Have a Mexican Strat that weighs a ton and I've been wanting to do the same with it. And a tummy cut. Great video
Looks awesomely better, sounds deadly beautiful 🎉
Gorgeous build, my friend. Love the natural finish-glad you didn’t paint it. And the fact that it’s only 1,947 grams is insane! That’s a little more than half the weight of my Strat, at almost 3,500 grams. Bravo friend, bravo.
Definitely gave it a better cosmetic look from the original one, and it sounds great!
Muy buen trabajo! Cuánto amor y cuánta paciencia... Felicitaciones!
Looks good!
But after adding a top like that, I would either go for a back route, or a transparent pickguard 😀
Saving weight can be great, I'm sure - but I'm more concerned about neck dive.
I like the total of body and neck (and hardware etc obviously) to be in balance, rather than desperately saving 100gr left and right...
Looks great... and I bet it's way more comfortable.
What a fantastic upgrade. Looks great.
Nicely done sir, good looking guitar!
Looks very nice. After all that work I would've splurged on a new, aged pick guard that didn't have that white circle on it.
Totally gorgeous!
turned out good - when it started, I thought we were headed for disaster
you can get flat blocks of various dimensions, 2 ft by 2 ft 4ft by 4ft whatever that are perfectly flat and they are actually dialed in by a sanctioning body, calibrated, yup, its for automotive use, decking heads, blocks, cases and covers so forth . . sticky sand paper, and use as a machining table .. . I believe you can get some with a grit embedded, diamond so forth for special applications.. nice to have for this type of use, large enough you can do a fingerboard whatever, nut.. they use em to true up motorcycle brake rotors as well..
What a great sound you got..
The notes all bloom .❤️🙌
Nice natural wood look. Glad to see that you didn't paint it. Reminds me of an old 60s Peavey.
It went from looking like an old Fender to an old Peavey. Cool.
Would love to hear a comparison of before and after
I’d imagine that if there was truly a big difference then there’d be a comparison video.
This is just “too much time on ones hands” work.
@@JAMESGANG-f5uScience doesn’t imagine. It finds out for sure or shuts its damn mouth.
there would be no difference
@@mel_163 Prove it
Good job! This is something I've considered doing, but never got around to. In my design, I leave a bit more wood for the strap button screws, but otherwise, I expect mine would end up much the same. I do have a Squier CV 50s Strat, but its body is very light, so there's no need to alter it.
Great job - I love it! 👏
Arte y magia, exelente trabajo, amigo...❤
good work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Cuánto tiempo libre tiene la gente!
Fantastic 😃🇧🇷🙋🏻♂️🎸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
welcome to neck dive city man
Very nice. But i was wondering if it is experiencing neck dive? Since it has lost some amount of weight. Or did you also change the hardware on the neck? Ultra lite tuner maybe?
I'd say the body is still much heavier than the neck so it should be fine considering where the strap bolts are placed. I've personally never experienced neck dive and I've played a few guitars over the years, but to be fair I've never played one of those plexi see through guitars. Some of those are pretty light. Good question and I hope he gives you a definitive answer. I'm interested myself. Got a bad back so light guitars interest me (and I know there is lots of talk online about the tone of the wood and sound quality but ive found its about 99% the sound of the pickups and your amp/ speaker quality. ).
hi @@titmusspaultpaul5, thank you for your response. yes i agree with you on the guitar body still heavier than the neck. But, the point of balance is playing major role here. in my case, i play bass, the neck is longer (especially 5 stringer). that why i think, something needs to be done to counteract lost weight on body side
@@paulraffles87 fair point. Positioning where the strap goes can make a huge difference in balance and comfort.
A wider strap will fix neck dive on any guitar!
@@officialWWM Not if it's slippery. For that reason, I will only use wide, leather straps, with a rough finish on the underside.
A special milling tool can be used --if you are wealthy !
Wow! Cool!
I have a partscaster that weighs about 10-11 pounds and it's not a problem I can't really see any benefits of weight relief in a strat style guitar besides the difference in tone
Good work! ❤
Wow!
Magnifique
Whammycaster was still lighter iirc
I'll bet it has alot more acoustic resonance when not plugged into an amplifier "stealth" chambered the way it is now. I've always wondered why they don't make a factory chambered model Stratocaster, ..and why dont they make a thinline telecaster without the f hole. 🎶🔥🌌✈️
Splendid work, congratulations also on the choice of background music. Who is the guitarist?
Why not made hole like Eric Johnson signature
Красотищща!!!
Nice !! Very well done sir 🤘🤘🤘
Any difference to the tone? You should have put foam inside the hollow part
CUT WITH GREAT CARE !
Do you know Freedom Custome Guitar Research Red Pepper? It's full hollow body.
Great. Exactly what I want to do. lol
Pretty good job with limited tools. I liked the sound demo at the end.
But who on Earth would willingly smoke Rothmans? LOL
Хаха.Я подумал что лентой перемотали в начале и так и оставитье сохнуть. Как думаю в такой мастерской не оказалось струбцын ?? А потом они появились -)))
Or --if you have a drill press --use a boring tool bit with great care -& accuracy ==mark off accurately !
Hello, can a Bolton neck to converted to a set neck?
nice drop top . . .
did the sound change? Increase/decrease in sustain? The so called airy-quality of a semi-hollow? The "tone"?
nice concept but why didn't bottom-flat route the internals inside? although not visible from outside, they look like swiss cheese inside.
I’ll just buy one at Sweetwater 😂. That’s a lot of work!!!
Надо было сделать гитару целиком из пробки - была бы ещё легче !
How do you work with wood this much and not own a planer and a drill press?
How do you compensate for the body and bridge now being aprox. 1/4" higher ? Didnt it make your action much higher?
I cut off 3mm from the body top and add 3mm cap.....
@@bakalika1
Ahh, I see. I didn't see that part of the process. Do you have a planer?
2.55 in the video @@timothyoo7
👏👏👍👍
Il brutto di chi costruisce le chitarre,non è come le costruisce, ma come le suona.
Cool
What was the weight of the total build in pounds?
Watch until almost the end‼️😩😖
@@TomasAWalker53I saw he weighed the guitar without the neck on it, so if you know the full weight of the guitar lmk
What did you treat the wood with to get the finish
Tung oil, and few coat of schelac...
@@bakalika1Thank you, nice job on yours, sounds nice also, I have used some almond oil on an oak body and the result is a dark golden colour that looks good. I am about to build another and the body is a plain colour I will most likely use a translucent lacquer on it
@@rogersmith5167 Shellac is amazing, is has a nice yellow to amber colour depending on thickness and makes an incredibly nice feeling hard lacquer.
Google "french polishing"
No other lacquer feels as good to the touch
I have a one off Les Paul that I built I would like to do that to but really should not see the body is made out of zebra wood and the damn thing is just so heavy
Good job! What is this liquid? 11:06
Tung oil.
@@bakalika1 can I use dunlop 65 lemon oil for this?
Any mineral oiil is better solution, lemon oil is mainly for cleaning.
@@bakalika1 Thanks for the answer!
いい音かな？
What was the final weight?
hollow body with no resonator?
4:23 Trypophobia trigger!
Name of song at 7:01 pleeease 😢
Ho fame e sete, sento caldo ma ho freddo.buongiorno ,tutto bene?
Use a router to remove excess wood --CUT CAREFULLY!----
Apparently, he likes to sand⁉️🥴 I don't know. They all look and sound the same to me⁉️😩🤔signed - An acoustic player.🤪😊✌️🖖
can see that you are working very carefully.
However, the last test play is no good.
Please let me hear unplugged sound.
リバーブかけてちゃ意味ないですよ
Every electric guitar is hollow. Good night
Liked it better before.
Inside, it looks terrible. My design would be just screw the back on the body. Any time easy to open up and fiddle around with the wiring if needed.
I'm sure you're welcome to do that, and will be interested to see your video. I like the idea of making the top more interesting, personally.
If you want to fiddle with wires in a strat just remove the pickguard, everything's mounted to it, so the pickguard, is in essence, it's own access panel. 🤷🎶🌌
Well, I don't even have access to see the inside of the guitar
@@burzk9981 ..build a cell phone into it with the camera on, route a usp panel next to the output jack so you can recharge it, ..then you can have 24 access to the inside of your stealth hollow body stratocaster replica.💥🤣🤛
huh? all the wirings here can easily be accessed if you removed the pick guard, the wirings doesn't run across the whole body of that guitar you can see it in the middle of the body bruh🤦♂️
Nice, but you lost nearly all the spalting.
Cut down a kilogram of sound!
This music is unbearably bad
Not a hollow body. It ’s a semi -hollow😅
This is a bad design, with a wrong description, and a clickbait title. Hollow body guitars are not designed and made like this. This guitar's body won't resonate because the body wood needs to be only a few millimeters thick, and with a smooth surface inside as well, which you didn't bother. Yet, contrary to what you say in the video description, hollow body guitars actually sustain less than a solid body, and hollow body guitars sound warmer than a solid body, not brighter.
sok tau lw. kaya bisa bikin aje lw
было 3.2 стало 1.9? стоил ли 1 килограмм таких затрат?