You took lots of paths to accomplish it that I wouldn't have done, however...end result is a fabulous looking guitar. P90s are completely underrated pickups. Redwood and cream pickups are great combo. I built a Tele and strat in all redwood (two sets of figured redwood for back and top, and Home Depot level redwood for the center). It dings like crazy even under heavy boat-epoxied covered in automotive finish. I cringed with the routing of the top to body as I have ripped chunks of redwood off with less lumber overhang. Glad you did not experience that. Great video. Cheers
Well done! This is absolutely gorgeous. My uncle has a 1983 Roadstar RS1000 that I've always loved. Beautiful top and I love that body shape. I didn't really know too much about the Blazer, but it's got that same cool body shape as the RS1000, and a fixed bridge (which I prefer). I may have to keep an eye out for one of these and attempt something similar. Thanks for sharing!
You made this look like a roadstar 2, minus the trem. I bought one recently. 1982 model with a sunburst flame top. Went in my local shop for strings, spotted it, played it, loved it and secured it
I've been with you almost from the start on this build LOL 😀 I have really enjoyed it too. Man it looks INCREDIBLE. Wow that's really really nice man. Bravo! 😎
It really did turn out fantastic! It's awesome you share your hiccups in the process, much respect. The second you started cutting the scrap redwood for the back cavity cover i was sold lol!! Look forward to seeing future projects. Im here for it all! Thanks for all the hard work cheers!!
I always thought the cavities for pickups and toggle switch should be cut out first before gluing the top in place ... but you did a great job. Nicely done. 😀" If you look at it the wrong way the top scratches" (lol.)
Awesome job man.. !! love these vids of saving guitars from being firewood.. I played a Blazer of old.. beat up ash body.. nice little guitar but certainly not collectors dream.. the bridge on the one i played was corroded badly from sitting in a barn for 20 years.. grub screws would have needed to be drilled and replaced.. they did not move.. action was OK however.. the top looks amazing.. Mrs Giant was correct.. HB all the way.. lol..
Thanks for the kind words bud 🙏 I appreciate it! Your Blazer sounds amazing nonetheless, this is my second one and I'll definitely have more if the opportunity presents itself to me 😁
Yeah, I'm a big Ibanez fan so I got a bit twitchy when you started to describe the project, but hey, it's your guitar and it's hardly in mint-in-case collector's condition is it? What the hey, go for it! And as it turns out, it's pretty darned cool when all is said and done. :D If you did decide to put a humbucker in it, Guitar Fetish makes a series of soapbar-sized mini-humbuckers in a couple of different output levels that would be a drop-in fit.
@@Giant_Guitars yeah man! That’s what it’s all about! I’m looking to do a tele build and watching your vids gets me inspired! You clearly know what you’re doing! my build will look a lot more janky, and there will be blood and injuries and a whole lot more swearing 😂
Good to know! Is there any secret method?? I have a wooden pickguard I'm making and soaking with resin right now so would be handy to know, cheers bud 🙏
@@Giant_Guitars the higher the relative humidity (%RH) the longer resins will take to dry! if the weather is wet it can take significantly longer, so give it as long as it needs or invest in a dehumidifier for your drying room!
Totally would! I've actually ordered something for this, not that the Tones Forge one isn't good (it's great) but I think the new one suits the style much more
No not today, the competition ends at midnight today and then I need to take time and collate the entry list so I'm thinking Monday! I'll announce the time and date with notice for everyone.
I'm down the Ards peninsula, what about yourself? Although I'm not sure I'm quite qualified to call myself a luthier, I'll take it as a compliment thanks 🙏
No.. Let's be Honest.. You've made an excellent job of that.. But ya.. I'm one of those Original Relic road worn 1980s Guitar guys.. I've chopped a Matching Engine and frame Triumph Daytona before so.. Who am I to open my pie hole. But ya.. I'd have left it and picked another guitar for this project..
Thank you 🙏 I appreciate it! And yeah I totally get the want to keep things original and I think for me it takes a moment of madness to do something like this, generally those moments of madness come over me quite a lot 🤣
30:20 as a guitar builder, I really cant ask my wife cause she always picks out one of my favorite things as why she thinks it looks like santa claus or some random childish thing, lol😊
@@Giant_Guitars It's just a personal thing for me when I mod a cheaper guitar. I just think it looks super clean. It depends on the decal too, I just don't like the Ibanez logo. The Fender logo, however, looks awesome to me.
Hey bro, at 7.44 when you started applying "the glue" , some very strange "music" came on. It was very GAY music. I just checked the oxford dictionary and the old fashioned meaning of the word "gay" used to mean "happy and full of fun" or "brightly coloured". Your choice of "music" sounded like the other meaning of the word "gay". You would think in this day and age that putting a new top on a guitar would be an asexual accomplishment, accompanied by someone-possibly you -playing some awesome guitar(this being a video about guitar and all). But no.I just hope you allowed your instagram girlfriend to choose the music.If it was you or your "male friend editor" that chose the music then I certainly won't be subscribing. I love strat style blazers, cimars, and roadstars, but "music" like that gives them all a bad name.....
Ι never liked all that plastic on Strat tops, natural wood with transparent finish looks so much better. The Ibanez headstock looks really beautiful to me too, much better than that of Fender. I would be tempted to put a neck pickup and a tone control, but i admit that it looks better as a single pickup guitar with just one volume control. Nothing in the way of Rock I guess.
A couple of points, you said your bandsaw sucks but you have the guide bearing way too high for the thickness of the material you’re cutting. This allows the blade to wander a lot. You used wood glue to glue in the magnets for the control cavity cover. Wood glue does not bond to metal so these magnets will fall off. You should have used CA glue here. Nice guitar though man.
You took lots of paths to accomplish it that I wouldn't have done, however...end result is a fabulous looking guitar. P90s are completely underrated pickups. Redwood and cream pickups are great combo. I built a Tele and strat in all redwood (two sets of figured redwood for back and top, and Home Depot level redwood for the center). It dings like crazy even under heavy boat-epoxied covered in automotive finish. I cringed with the routing of the top to body as I have ripped chunks of redwood off with less lumber overhang. Glad you did not experience that. Great video. Cheers
Love everything about it. The finish, the wood, the simplicity ( 1 P90, 1 vol pot).
Thanks bud 😊
Absolutely! Functional, and beautiful! Impressive!
this build is epic, you own a lot of clamps. i was looking trough your channel and you've done a bunch of cool stuff. keep up the good work
Thanks Kade! I appreciate that, really 😊🙏 also never enough clamps! I probably need more lol
You can never own too many clamps.
I loved playing my Ibanez Blazer. The only down side was that it was HEAVY. When I spun around with it, I sprained my back!
Ooff, thankfully this one isn't too bad
Well done! This is absolutely gorgeous. My uncle has a 1983 Roadstar RS1000 that I've always loved. Beautiful top and I love that body shape. I didn't really know too much about the Blazer, but it's got that same cool body shape as the RS1000, and a fixed bridge (which I prefer). I may have to keep an eye out for one of these and attempt something similar. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks bud, yeah it was nice to put through the planer because there's no front carve to worry about 👌
Wow. Looks unbelievably good
Thanks Chris I appreciate it that
You made this look like a roadstar 2, minus the trem.
I bought one recently. 1982 model with a sunburst flame top. Went in my local shop for strings, spotted it, played it, loved it and secured it
Yeah you're right! Oh that sounds like a keeper you found there 😍
Very cool. Ultimate simple. I remade my 1984 roadstar strat into a surf guitar but painted it. Never seen that done before... great work!
That sounds awesome bud and thanks 🙏
Holy! I’ve played a couple Roadstar’s. That’s guitar is awesome with the scratches…..but….that top? OMG!
Thanks bud 😊🙏
Hear me out... maybe not on this build, but how funky does a perspex or transparent acrylic cavity cover sound? 😃
Totally love it - did you see Ben Crowe's / Crimson Guitar's recent build, it had smoked black transparent acrylic covers and it looked amazing!!
I've been with you almost from the start on this build LOL 😀 I have really enjoyed it too. Man it looks INCREDIBLE. Wow that's really really nice man. Bravo! 😎
Thank you so much 🙂 I appreciate that Alky and glad you liked it!
Dude just found your channel! So relaxed and great to see you succeed at modifying guitars 🎸 enjoying your chill vibed videos
Thank you mate I really appreciate comments like this 🙏 makes it feel worthwhile!
Looks amazing. Great work.
Thank you bud 🙏
You've got far more patience than I do! I would've been planing like a mad man anytime something went wrong with the top or back 😂
I'm just used to fucking up constantly 🤣🤣
Love the guitar - epic build mate! 👏🙌
Thanks Dan glad you liked it!
I had one exactly the same color with 3 single coils. Wish i kept it.
Yeah they're stunning, my brother still has his one
It really did turn out fantastic! It's awesome you share your hiccups in the process, much respect. The second you started cutting the scrap redwood for the back cavity cover i was sold lol!! Look forward to seeing future projects. Im here for it all! Thanks for all the hard work cheers!!
Thanks Spencer, I appreciate it 🙏 learnt a lot in this one and will be doing something similar soon
I always thought the cavities for pickups and toggle switch should be cut out first before gluing the top in place ... but you did a great job. Nicely done. 😀" If you look at it the wrong way the top scratches" (lol.)
Haha cheers bud appreciate it!
Love these Ibanez body shapes. This came out fantastic!!
Me too! I love my Jarock Blazer copy too, it's currently getting the single pickup treatment too 😄 and thanks bud
@@Giant_Guitars oh I can't wait to see it!! I am a single pickup guitar fan..
It looks fantastic!
Thanks Diego!
Definitely subscribed. Excellent work!
Thank you bud 🙏
Ive been thinking of doing the exact same thing for years. Nice work mate
Thanks, you should totally give it a try mate!
Wow! I love how you build it. Awesome work man
Thank you mate 🙏
Beautiful job.
Thank you bud
Awesome job man.. !! love these vids of saving guitars from being firewood.. I played a Blazer of old.. beat up ash body.. nice little guitar but certainly not collectors dream.. the bridge on the one i played was corroded badly from sitting in a barn for 20 years.. grub screws would have needed to be drilled and replaced.. they did not move.. action was OK however.. the top looks amazing.. Mrs Giant was correct.. HB all the way.. lol..
Thanks for the kind words bud 🙏 I appreciate it! Your Blazer sounds amazing nonetheless, this is my second one and I'll definitely have more if the opportunity presents itself to me 😁
Great job with the P90 in it, maybe change the cream cover to a black one. That top is gorgeous.
Thanks bud, that's not a bad idea at all I think I might do that!
Yeah, I'm a big Ibanez fan so I got a bit twitchy when you started to describe the project, but hey, it's your guitar and it's hardly in mint-in-case collector's condition is it? What the hey, go for it! And as it turns out, it's pretty darned cool when all is said and done. :D
If you did decide to put a humbucker in it, Guitar Fetish makes a series of soapbar-sized mini-humbuckers in a couple of different output levels that would be a drop-in fit.
Thanks bud and cheers for the pickup info I'll check that out!
Fascinating stuff! Just discovered your channel and watched 3 vids. Subscribed! 🎸🎸🙂
Thanks bud I appreciate it
Love the build 🤘🤘
Thank you Strike
Subbed. Pretty clever way to go about it.
Thank you mate, I'm pretty pleased with it and I'll definitely do this again
once again, It looks great! Prefer the new look for sure!
Thanks Brad! I think this one was a no brainer, I mean I could have just restored the Blazer but it's my guitar so why not make it for me 😂
@@Giant_Guitars yeah man! That’s what it’s all about!
I’m looking to do a tele build and watching your vids gets me inspired! You clearly know what you’re doing! my build will look a lot more janky, and there will be blood and injuries and a whole lot more swearing 😂
Im not a huge ibanez fan, pur i love the headstock
Vintage Ibanez are a different story altogether haha and yeah their headstocks are beautiful
The body is ASH. American swamp ash is very rare wood but hay do what you want
I think you did a great job!!
Thanks bud!!
Now you can play along The Saints" "Prehistoric Sounds" album.
I live in an older part of LA and The house's all have Redwood Skeletons under the walls.
Oh that's cool 😮
@@Giant_Guitars the large roof beams can be salvaged, cut into sections & made into guitars.
@@robert2628 that would be amazing
Yess ❤
need to take the natural humidity into account when drying resin... trust me im an expert! very nice build
Good to know! Is there any secret method?? I have a wooden pickguard I'm making and soaking with resin right now so would be handy to know, cheers bud 🙏
@@Giant_Guitars the higher the relative humidity (%RH) the longer resins will take to dry! if the weather is wet it can take significantly longer, so give it as long as it needs or invest in a dehumidifier for your drying room!
Was waiting for it!! lets go :)
Thank you bud 🙏 enjoy
Awesome!
Thank you ☺️
Subscribed and keep them coming.
Thanks bud and I will 🙏 got plenty in the works that are nearly ready
Use some pieces of leather on both sides of the clamps, it will stop them from digging in.
Looks good though!
Thanks Bob, that's definitely better than using the pieces of polystyrene packing haha! I'll try that one next time 👌
@@Giant_Guitars definitely haha. I glued some leather squares onto my clamps 😂
I think you could make a video about anything and it would be watchable. Love the sense of humour and the can do attitude
Thank you mate, that gives me a lot of confidence. I appreciate it 🙏
Very nice.
Cheers bud
A filtertron would be cool too
Totally would! I've actually ordered something for this, not that the Tones Forge one isn't good (it's great) but I think the new one suits the style much more
@Giant_Guitars when does the stream start today?
No not today, the competition ends at midnight today and then I need to take time and collate the entry list so I'm thinking Monday! I'll announce the time and date with notice for everyone.
Awesome seeing another luthier in NI! Where abouts are you based?
I'm down the Ards peninsula, what about yourself? Although I'm not sure I'm quite qualified to call myself a luthier, I'll take it as a compliment thanks 🙏
How much do you want for this? Great job
I wasn't planning to sell it to be honest! And thanks 🙏
Man that's too bad.
@@539sharpI want to swap the pickup out for something different and then I'll maybe sell it so keep an eye just in case
Will do. Check out TysonTone picks. They make a great product. Obviously depending on what you're looking for, but low output, great tone.
@@539sharp I've already ordered something for this but I'll certainly check them out!
“Emotional Damage!!!” 😂😂😂
Haha she meant it too
Have you seen the Holy Grail 1 piece guitars?
No I haven't, I'll have to check them out!
Would be hilarious to see if you could make something out of the wood shavings from the top. 😂
Lol with a bit of resin I reckon I could 🤣
That ending killed me 😅 Hope you won't need it.
Haha thank you bud, wait until you see tomorrow's parody video 🤣
Im subscribed!
Thank you Jordan 🙏
No.. Let's be Honest.. You've made an excellent job of that.. But ya.. I'm one of those Original Relic road worn 1980s Guitar guys.. I've chopped a Matching Engine and frame Triumph Daytona before so.. Who am I to open my pie hole. But ya.. I'd have left it and picked another guitar for this project..
Thank you 🙏 I appreciate it! And yeah I totally get the want to keep things original and I think for me it takes a moment of madness to do something like this, generally those moments of madness come over me quite a lot 🤣
Subscribed!
Thank you 🙏🙏
No way that a humbucker would be better than a P90.
Haha fair
30:20 as a guitar builder, I really cant ask my wife cause she always picks out one of my favorite things as why she thinks it looks like santa claus or some random childish thing, lol😊
Haha I get you!!
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Thanks and good luck Ewan
Beautyfull❤
Thank you 🙏 it's one of my favourites now
I’m subscribed 😊
Thanks Jesse ☺️
The emotional damage.... all that work, nah it's old fashioned looking
I know lol 😅 got me
So we need to chat man! I have a jtk1 I just did the same thing too
Oh sounds awesome, if you're on Instagram DM me
@@Giant_Guitars I come and go got some things in the works right now. Waiting till this batch is finished than going full steam!
god. damn.
@@-cobainism- thank you bud
Needs the headstock decal removed. Otherwise it's beautiful
Why would you take the headstock decal off?
@@Giant_Guitars It's just a personal thing for me when I mod a cheaper guitar. I just think it looks super clean. It depends on the decal too, I just don't like the Ibanez logo. The Fender logo, however, looks awesome to me.
@@Dizzle7771 ah ok fair enough then!
@@Giant_Guitars I love the singal pickup designs of yours, it's inspiring
31:36 😂😂😂😂
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Hey bro, at 7.44 when you started applying "the glue" , some very strange "music" came on. It was very GAY music. I just checked the oxford dictionary and the old fashioned meaning of the word "gay" used to mean "happy and full of fun" or "brightly coloured". Your choice of "music" sounded like the other meaning of the word "gay". You would think in this day and age that putting a new top on a guitar would be an asexual accomplishment, accompanied by someone-possibly you -playing some awesome guitar(this being a video about guitar and all). But no.I just hope you allowed your instagram girlfriend to choose the music.If it was you or your "male friend editor" that chose the music then I certainly won't be subscribing. I love strat style blazers, cimars, and roadstars, but "music" like that gives them all a bad name.....
Poor guitar! You deserve 10 year of prison... what a crime!
Lol 🤣
your edits are hilarious!!!!!! at least you have a good sense of humor about it.
Thanks mate, it's the Irish in me lol 😅 can't take anything seriously
Ι never liked all that plastic on Strat tops, natural wood with transparent finish looks so much better. The Ibanez headstock looks really beautiful to me too, much better than that of Fender. I would be tempted to put a neck pickup and a tone control, but i admit that it looks better as a single pickup guitar with just one volume control. Nothing in the way of Rock I guess.
Yeah I agree, beautiful wood can't be beat! Thanks bud, yeah the single pickup is simple and beautiful, it also shows off the wood even better!
A couple of points, you said your bandsaw sucks but you have the guide bearing way too high for the thickness of the material you’re cutting. This allows the blade to wander a lot.
You used wood glue to glue in the magnets for the control cavity cover. Wood glue does not bond to metal so these magnets will fall off. You should have used CA glue here. Nice guitar though man.
Nice tips, thank you 👌
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I subscribed!
Thanks and best of luck 🤞