Thank you for featuring my 12 string Bronco! You can imagine how exciting it was to see the thumbnail on my youtube. My highschool gf bought it for me in 1994 from a pawn shop in Peoria , Illinois. Around 1997 I had Chicago luthier the late great Robert Gorby do the initial 12 string conversion. Over the next few years I hacked up the electronics adding an xlr jack. The reason for this was I used a mackie 800 watt power amp driven by a 2 channel tube preamp as a guitar rig and a xlr cable as a guitar chord. The guitar only had a single hot rail pickup wired with the two hots going to the plus and minus of the xlr. The nut was steel and was made by Bob Gorny when he did the conversion. I should say that he was not happy doing this work for me because I had so little money to spend to get it functioning properly. I gigged for several years with this as my primary guitar and was most likely never actually in tune.
That carbon fiber Marauder might be the coolest I’ve seen of that model. I saw a ghastly “Paul Stanley” rhinestone project made out of one on Reverb a while back.
The marauder is a made in japan Maya, the bridge pickup is a single coil hot blade, not a dual stack hb, I got it in1979, looks like there are not many Maya from this time period around, everything is still original under the heat shrink, pickguard and all. I decided to replace the original tuners who were not very good. The Maya marauder has it's own unique sound, that hot blade pickup is well named.
I have an 84 electra workingman I believe it's called, with the aligator case. No wonder the thing plays and feels so good. Wasn't aware they are known in the guitar community. Cheers
That Marauder reminds me of a guitar I had made by Mike Lennon/The Apprentice Shop in Springhill, TN back in the late-70s/early-80s. An L6S body with a Flying V neck, one Seymour Duncan Invader pickup with coil splitting, in/out phase, battery-powered boost, no volume or tone on the guitar itself. Mega-deep gloss black. Gawd, I loved that guitar. Wish I still had it.
LOL - The bassist of my previous band bought a bass from the RATT bassist and he removed the signature as well. Man, nobody loves Ratt enough to keep their autographs.
Marauders are so rad. Will Putney from END, Better Lovers, and Fit for an Autopsy was using a couple before he got some custom Dunable guitars. They sound so good.
I got to play a Marauder at Guitar Center a few years ago, and it's one of my favorite feeling and sounding guitars ever. (it was like 600 bucks. Never gonna see one that low again) I wish there were more options for getting a guitar like it, but obviously, those pickups are a big part of the appeal.
Those flush mount tuners are awesome if you like to keep your guitar free is dust. Not sure how the added string angle would affect different guitars but not having the string ends sitting there waiting to plunge into your fingers.
Well, there is something that you should know about those "Steinberger" style tuners you pointed out for your first two guitars. They are actually a brand of tuners that are known as Riot tuners, where they are also locking tuners as well as a lower profile. If you want to know more details, a guy by the name of Darrel Braun (I could be misspelling that) made a video of them. They're something I would like to get if I ever get a new Strat style guitar that I would make as a mod project.
Don't do it. The quality control from that company is terrible. It took me a little over 4 months to get a "complete" set of all the same tuners from them and they were all duds in the end. $100 plus shipping... I just threw them out and bought Steinberg tuners. They work flawlessly and are super quick to change strings.
@@patrickrouse7357 i thought they were junk as well but the company was super cool about returning them. I don’t think they spent much time on the design because there are so many ways they could easily improve them.
I tried those Riot brand tuners and they were a nightmare for me. The company sold me a set with a dud and took 3 months to get me one then it turned out to be the wrong style! Then a month later they sent me a new set that was an ENTIRE set of duds... I threw them away lol. Buy Steinberg!
That's wild. At the end of the day it's literally just a bit of threaded rod with a thing to hold the string in place and some bits to secure it so that the whole assembly doesn't spin in place. I don't understand how something that basic could be difficult to get working.
I'd forgotten all about the Marauder! At the 2:49 mark, does that neck come to rest in the body a little bit further than a standard Les Paul? And,, I never thought about this until just now. ..Red Les Pauls! How come that's a combination we almost never see? It's beautiful. Thanks for posting.
This video was cool, but made me sick. When I was in high school, word got around that this older, narcissistic/only child kid played. He was super cocky about it. He was decent, but not the legend he thought he was. I was an absolute beginner, and he wanted to bring his gear to my house. He showed up with a Marauder. I was interested in his gear. Probably the first time I’d seen stomp boxes. What happened was he was trying to bully me about his ability and my inability. He had thick glasses with severely out of date frames. He sat there with what looked like chicken stuck in his braces, trying to impress me with some obvious lie that he had witnessed someone un-alive themselves by jumping headfirst off of a Marshall stack. The next day I was telling another kid about the miserable experience, and he said, “oh, I hate that guy! He brought all of his gear to my house and was like ‘WORSHIP ME!!’” I ran into him like 30 years later in a chicken restaurant and beat the crap out of him without explanation. I had a drumstick in my fist. Just kidding, I haven’t seen him since. Except online. And he is still full of himself. lol. Sorry if this was too weird.
@@rockinrob2004 Yeah Fender discontinued theirs in 2013 .Unique pick up combo of a triple bucker and a Jazzmaster single coil .Got my eye out for one atm.
Hey Did you say you want a 72 I've got one 72 deluxe with many embossed humbuckers original case and sales card from uhlik out of Wichita KS. Took it back into the store last year and the original owner of the store actually recalls selling it new he gave me a cash offer on it but I didn't really want to sell it at the I'd like to discuss with you if you have any interest personally don't want to sell it but looking to buy a bigger home for my family and it wouldn't hurt to have an extra bit in the let me know if you're interested. Love your show by the way also the guitar is in really decent condition no finish checks
I know you like to see things in the woods grain. On the headstock what I saw on the Marauder knockoff when you were talking about the tuners was a ghost like snowman or maybe it's an alien human like in the movie Alien. Whoever it was that cleaned up that Bronco XII did a great job working with what they had. If they dod more I'd love to see it. Before hand it looked like a hack job. Looked almost like it could've been a real thing if it could've had a little more work done to reshape the headstock.
I like these videos better than the ridiculously priced apologetics and opium filled videos, justifying stupid prices for Gibson’s. Don’t get me wrong I think they’re gorgeous and well-made instruments regardless of brand are gonna cost a little more than regular players grade guitars. But the Gibson aren’t that well-made now, and constantly for poor quality both in initial quality and long-term quality is cringe as my boys would say. Every Les Paul has some level of tuning issues with the D and G strings. You can’t deny the laws of physics. so why try and justify this feature as something that historically accurate or some silly thing thing like that. At least the stupid Tonewood voodoo is not a thing promoted on here and it’s just given lip service to “those that feel that way” so you don’t alienate the dumbest part of your audience. Gibson is just a lifestyle brand like Harley Davidson now. They’re expensive because people are buying 1:19 based on nostalgia, and there’s nothing wrong with that as long as this acknowledged that that’s what it is. Because not a single Gibson produced in a factory is worth more than 400 bucks when looked at objectively as a guitar and what went in the building it.
Fun episode!! Loved what that guy did to that faix Marauder guitar very cool!.As was the Fender Bronco 12 string. Talk about a basket case from what he had to work with! But now it looks so much better! The ferrari red Les Paul custom was beautiful!
Thank you for featuring my 12 string Bronco! You can imagine how exciting it was to see the thumbnail on my youtube. My highschool gf bought it for me in 1994 from a pawn shop in Peoria , Illinois. Around 1997 I had Chicago luthier the late great Robert Gorby do the initial 12 string conversion. Over the next few years I hacked up the electronics adding an xlr jack. The reason for this was I used a mackie 800 watt power amp driven by a 2 channel tube preamp as a guitar rig and a xlr cable as a guitar chord. The guitar only had a single hot rail pickup wired with the two hots going to the plus and minus of the xlr. The nut was steel and was made by Bob Gorny when he did the conversion. I should say that he was not happy doing this work for me because I had so little money to spend to get it functioning properly. I gigged for several years with this as my primary guitar and was most likely never actually in tune.
What kind of tuners are those?
@@olivierbarre3737look up Riot-works tuners.
@@olivierbarre3737Steinberger gearless tuners
@@airguitar1321 these were wannabe Steinberger tuners. The real thing might have worked better.
Make a vid of you playing it and you'd get major traction. From me at least
That carbon fiber Marauder might be the coolest I’ve seen of that model. I saw a ghastly “Paul Stanley” rhinestone project made out of one on Reverb a while back.
The marauder is a made in japan Maya, the bridge pickup is a single coil hot blade, not a dual stack hb, I got it in1979, looks like there are not many Maya from this time period around, everything is still original under the heat shrink, pickguard and all. I decided to replace the original tuners who were not very good. The Maya marauder has it's own unique sound, that hot blade pickup is well named.
I have an 84 electra workingman I believe it's called, with the aligator case. No wonder the thing plays and feels so good. Wasn't aware they are known in the guitar community. Cheers
those lawsuit era guitars are so cool i have 80' fernandez V with fender scale and tremolo bridge something gibson never did
That Marauder reminds me of a guitar I had made by Mike Lennon/The Apprentice Shop in Springhill, TN back in the late-70s/early-80s. An L6S body with a Flying V neck, one Seymour Duncan Invader pickup with coil splitting, in/out phase, battery-powered boost, no volume or tone on the guitar itself. Mega-deep gloss black. Gawd, I loved that guitar. Wish I still had it.
Marauder, S1, L6-S, Ripper, Grabber, and G3 were designed by Bill Lawrence.
That deluxe photo make the neck look a bit twisted, hopefully it is just the photo.
My Dad’s name was Elijah but he went by Bud. I bought him a Bud Light light box so I immediately recognized the Bud Light Guitat.
Wow, what a wonderful parade of exotics, definitely no limits or boundaries! ❤❤❤
Oh my lord the bud light guitar is even better when you realize that the pick gaurd is also matching that pattern perfectly
That Marauder looks super cool and I bet it makes a statement when on stage!
The Marauder was my first guitar. I should have never sod it. I have an SG Standard now, it rocks.
Thanks to your channel I found what my first Gibson was it was a Gibson L6 midnight Special in burgundy sparkle,
LOL - The bassist of my previous band bought a bass from the RATT bassist and he removed the signature as well. Man, nobody loves Ratt enough to keep their autographs.
Man I hate the word "vibe" so much.
Paul Stanley used to sell the Gibsons for rent money if he had any left after the tour, when they first started.
Then he started selling them all smashed up to fans for 20K, +4K if you wanted the strap too 😆🤣🤦🏻♂️
Marauders are so rad. Will Putney from END, Better Lovers, and Fit for an Autopsy was using a couple before he got some custom Dunable guitars. They sound so good.
I got to play a Marauder at Guitar Center a few years ago, and it's one of my favorite feeling and sounding guitars ever. (it was like 600 bucks. Never gonna see one that low again)
I wish there were more options for getting a guitar like it, but obviously, those pickups are a big part of the appeal.
Funky Marauder first time I heard one was through a Peavey Reknown solid state amp. Wicked.
Those flush mount tuners are awesome if you like to keep your guitar free is dust. Not sure how the added string angle would affect different guitars but not having the string ends sitting there waiting to plunge into your fingers.
Yep, signatures have a way of sticking around on guitars.....unless they are by Lenny Kravitz..😂
how much is that fender bronco?
I'd like to see a review of the 1997 Ace Frehley Les Paul Custom Shop Signature "The 300".
one day
Well, there is something that you should know about those "Steinberger" style tuners you pointed out for your first two guitars. They are actually a brand of tuners that are known as Riot tuners, where they are also locking tuners as well as a lower profile. If you want to know more details, a guy by the name of Darrel Braun (I could be misspelling that) made a video of them. They're something I would like to get if I ever get a new Strat style guitar that I would make as a mod project.
Don't do it. The quality control from that company is terrible. It took me a little over 4 months to get a "complete" set of all the same tuners from them and they were all duds in the end. $100 plus shipping... I just threw them out and bought Steinberg tuners. They work flawlessly and are super quick to change strings.
@@patrickrouse7357 i thought they were junk as well but the company was super cool about returning them. I don’t think they spent much time on the design because there are so many ways they could easily improve them.
Me and a friend are building a "tom delingen signature" squier affinity strat for me, it's fun but I keep waiting on the airbrush for the body
I tried those Riot brand tuners and they were a nightmare for me. The company sold me a set with a dud and took 3 months to get me one then it turned out to be the wrong style! Then a month later they sent me a new set that was an ENTIRE set of duds... I threw them away lol. Buy Steinberg!
That's wild.
At the end of the day it's literally just a bit of threaded rod with a thing to hold the string in place and some bits to secure it so that the whole assembly doesn't spin in place.
I don't understand how something that basic could be difficult to get working.
I had a black S1 , with the flying V type headstock.
I like the 59, reissue. Nice top.
That Marauder looks like the orange plastic parts are semi transparent showing the pattern on the body. Looks pretty cool
Ed King said a Gibson '72 Deluxe was the worst guitar he ever owned, and traded his for the Strat he used on "Sweet Home Alabama."
What are those tuners
Those riot tuners look really cool, I'm definitely getting some for my next build
"mix flat wound and round wound for different attack."
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Curious if you have seen the Jim Root collection video on here? He has some interesting Gibsons.
I just watched it and you're not just whistling Dixie or boy howdy!
I'd forgotten all about the Marauder! At the 2:49 mark, does that neck come to rest in the body a little bit further than a standard Les Paul? And,, I never thought about this until just now. ..Red Les Pauls! How come that's a combination we almost never see? It's beautiful. Thanks for posting.
Some of the Japanese Marauder copies were made of better wood than the originals ( solid, one piece mahogany bodies. )
This video was cool, but made me sick. When I was in high school, word got around that this older, narcissistic/only child kid played. He was super cocky about it. He was decent, but not the legend he thought he was. I was an absolute beginner, and he wanted to bring his gear to my house. He showed up with a Marauder. I was interested in his gear. Probably the first time I’d seen stomp boxes. What happened was he was trying to bully me about his ability and my inability. He had thick glasses with severely out of date frames. He sat there with what looked like chicken stuck in his braces, trying to impress me with some obvious lie that he had witnessed someone un-alive themselves by jumping headfirst off of a Marshall stack. The next day I was telling another kid about the miserable experience, and he said, “oh, I hate that guy! He brought all of his gear to my house and was like ‘WORSHIP ME!!’” I ran into him like 30 years later in a chicken restaurant and beat the crap out of him without explanation. I had a drumstick in my fist.
Just kidding, I haven’t seen him since. Except online. And he is still full of himself. lol. Sorry if this was too weird.
Kiss used right way those bolt on neck gibson, right way is just mash them all :D
Those lights on the pick ups give it a Logans Run vibe.
That's a throwback!
I wonder if you'd get away with smashing up a guitar live on stage these days? I bet that's a Health & Safety nightmare
Anything that says Bud light on it I'm not playing it because of you know who
6:27 Mixing Roundwound and Flatwound strings is a cool idea and the Flatwounds will exert a little less tension on the neck.
How can Fender and Gibson both have a guitar called a Maruader btw ?
Damn good question with all the lawsuits, however I don't think either make them anymore
@@rockinrob2004 Yeah Fender discontinued theirs in 2013 .Unique pick up combo of a triple bucker and a Jazzmaster single coil .Got my eye out for one atm.
Who makes those flush mount tuners?
Steinberger Gearless knockoffs
R.I.P. Robbin Crosby
subscribed. your content is great bro :)
what would have made that marauder better? Is if those lights were USB rechargeable
The Fender Performer series were wrong cut bodies and necks
Saved by reshaping
Does the 12 with all respect neck dive faster than my sg that's a lot of mass
I love my marauder
Do you have a Fender or Gibson?
@@rockinrob2004 Marauder is a gibson. And I have a J-35
@@metawakening6233 There is a Fender too! I didn't know until I looked it up. I have a 75 S-1 + familiar with Paul Stanley using the Gibson model.
That's great
That marauder looked like it had a skull in the back of the headstock in the wood grain 😂😂😂
....at 1:37 indeed it does.
You are , well ,,,,, if you saw that B.L. Logo first take
Z is for 2 hours late.
Do you have a luthier you use in Ohio?
you have a voice for silent film
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Did you say you want a 72 I've got one 72 deluxe with many embossed humbuckers original case and sales card from uhlik out of Wichita KS.
Took it back into the store last year and the original owner of the store actually recalls selling it new he gave me a cash offer on it but I didn't really want to sell it at the I'd like to discuss with you if you have any interest personally don't want to sell it but looking to buy a bigger home for my family and it wouldn't hurt to have an extra bit in the let me know if you're interested. Love your show by the way also the guitar is in really decent condition no finish checks
Have you ever tried a John Birch?
I know you like to see things in the woods grain. On the headstock what I saw on the Marauder knockoff when you were talking about the tuners was a ghost like snowman or maybe it's an alien human like in the movie Alien. Whoever it was that cleaned up that Bronco XII did a great job working with what they had. If they dod more I'd love to see it. Before hand it looked like a hack job. Looked almost like it could've been a real thing if it could've had a little more work done to reshape the headstock.
interesting guitars thanks for sharing. nothing id be interesting in
I don't remember troglys's voice being so raspy and deep. New mic?
I’d buy that bud light guitar just to destroy it!!!lol!!!!
no way the guy removed ratts signature :(
What Charles is dude referring to with the carbon fiber axe? Oh that's a viewers' guitar?
I like these videos better than the ridiculously priced apologetics and opium filled videos, justifying stupid prices for Gibson’s. Don’t get me wrong I think they’re gorgeous and well-made instruments regardless of brand are gonna cost a little more than regular players grade guitars. But the Gibson aren’t that well-made now, and constantly for poor quality both in initial quality and long-term quality is cringe as my boys would say. Every Les Paul has some level of tuning issues with the D and G strings. You can’t deny the laws of physics. so why try and justify this feature as something that historically accurate or some silly thing thing like that. At least the stupid Tonewood voodoo is not a thing promoted on here and it’s just given lip service to “those that feel that way” so you don’t alienate the dumbest part of your audience. Gibson is just a lifestyle brand like Harley Davidson now. They’re expensive because people are buying 1:19 based on nostalgia, and there’s nothing wrong with that as long as this acknowledged that that’s what it is. Because not a single Gibson produced in a factory is worth more than 400 bucks when looked at objectively as a guitar and what went in the building it.
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Fun episode!! Loved what that guy did to that faix Marauder guitar very cool!.As was the Fender Bronco 12 string. Talk about a basket case from what he had to work with! But now it looks so much better! The ferrari red Les Paul custom was beautiful!
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Anything bud light is tacky
I remember that band "Ratt" good guitar players except can't trust rats..he hehe rat snitch haha
Looks more like Fender Amp Tweed covering than carbon fiber to me 🤷
What's the email for sending this some photos?
These are really fun. I bet the Bud Light guitar's resale value fell in the last year or so.
I’d like to see a review of the Bronco! See if the owner might be interested please. 🙏
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An interesting topic but unlistenable because of that muppet show voice.
The Bud Light Les Paul really wants to be a Stratocaster
It now identifies as a Strat? 😆
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Such an ugly guitar. I hate 70th