Elektro-Acoustic guitar Telecaster style built by luthier
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- A friend of mine, Michael Vochezer played some sound samples with the Telecaster Style Elektro-Acoustic Guitar. I built this guitar as I heared about Fenders Acoustasonic guitars and after I listened to their (im my ears) syntethical sound.
The sound of the video has gone through no editing at all, the guitar was plugged into a amp.
In the beginning, you hear the acoustic pick ups that sound a bit to crunchy, but with a slight twist of the Tone knob, they sound smooth.
More about this guitar at www.ruhe-gitar...
More about Michael Vochezer at michaelvochezer... and supergain.de/
Have fun and let me know what you think in the comments!
This is the best acoustic tele I have seen so far. Very nice.
Amazing ! Much better look and sounds than the Fender models I heard here in youtube. Congratulations !
Sounds better than the Fender one
I agree.
Not difficult tbh
i love the fact that you put 2 coil, so that more likely an electric guitar, thats amaaazing 😳
I will be starting my own electro acoustic project this weekend. Out of all the builds I've seen on RUclips I believe yours to have the superior sound. It sounds very nice indeed. Well done and greetings from England
Yep this is the way to go. He's hit on a good way to build. Cheers!
Sounds much better than the 3 Fender acoustasonics. So much less compressed and open. And the electric options are killer.
Michael, I am blown away by the sounds coming from this. I can’t wait to get started on my effort. My SH-LP may have to go on the back burner for a while 🤦🏻♂️
Brilliant! Really great tonal choices. I’ve been wanting to do a guitar like this since I saw the acoustasonic. Instead of doing a kit guitar I decided to look for a low cost (cheap) complete guitar with a slab body, preferably mahogany that I could hollow out. It would have a bolt on neck and control cavity access in the back. The two guitars that immediately came to mind were the Epiphone Les Paul Special 1 P90 and the Dean Evo XM, both selling for around $150 US. I decided on the Epi because of the P90s. What I could not figure out was the top material, the sound hole placement, and the bridge style. Thank you for the great solutions.
The richness of that instrument make a possible way to play in some specific popular genre. Really appreciated your works & idea!
sounds and looks great.
Sounds like a stratocaster, & a telecaster too! Good clean tones, & bright!
Fantastic build and great sounding guitar, very impressive and you should be proud of the best sounding Acoustic Telecaster on RUclips. I will attempt to build one in the future but I'm sure it will not be to your standards, but one thing that puzzles me is the wiring, could it be possible to include a wiring diagram at some time so that people like me who do not fully understand electronics can at least attempt to get close to the sound of your excellent guitar.
Wow! Lovely tones. You’ve created a masterpiece!!! Congrats!
Hey Michael, I’m inspired and extremely impressed! Way more sound versatility than the Fender and Taylor versions. Ive so many questions! Fantastic. Keep up the good work.
Wow! Its beautiful both looks and sounds! Very nice build.
Sounds great.It's a guitar I'd like to play at least once.
Great sound
Those switches are genius!!! Way nicer looking than the standard 3 way switch. Great sound also! Dare I say nicer than the “original”. Bravo
Very interesting build, and I especially love the way you wired it! I would very much like to hear how it sounds acoustically, without the piezo and transducer - just with a microphone.
Hey TheDoctor, I just forgott to record the pure sound and now its sold and the new owner has no equipment to record. BUT I will start to build the next one in a few days and make a video of the construction and a soon as its ready record the pure sound - I promise! This will take a few weeks, so if you want to get noticed, signe in to my account and you will get a ping!
Michael Ruhe thank you, I subscribed for the notification.
thankyou subscribing too. i particularly wanna see how you pulled off that piezo sound.
Tone more than fender🎸👍
Gorgeous tones coming out of that! 😊
I really like the way you made this beautiful guitar putting the sound hole on the top corner never seen that before they should of made you build that guitar because compared to the real one you’re is a beauty and the sound is so much better then the real one I wish I could have one just like you’re because I think she beats all the other one greats job can’t get better than this one you’re the master. I just love it thanks you for showing that masterpiece
Loved the sound!!!
Very nice sounding guitar.. and lovely playing!! 💙
Wow, it sounds very great!
A truly fantastic guitar and very versatile great work you have inspired me thanks very much .Keep on keeping on Kevbo and stay safe
👏 Sounds fantastic to me and better acoistic sound than Fender’s original. Probably your spruce top pays dividen here. Nice play as well.
Great work, and amazing woodworking skills.!
Sounds very good, I like the idea with the asymetric soundhole more then fenders acoustasonic. I hope you don't mind, I was really inspired by your work, and am planning something inspired feom your design for personal use, the body is being prepared, the top is already bookmatched and glued together.Keep up the good work.
Hi Rob, feel free to get in touch with me in case you have questions! Use the contact form on my website www.ruhe-gitarren.de if you like!
Wow! Sounds great!
That's fabulous!!!
Sounds great! Real natural kind of something sound.
WUNDERBAR !!! AWESOME !!! Gotta do this project myself one day !!! Love the sounds of it - Clean over the Amp I guess ?
Thank you for this Michael. I found the first tone (i assume piezo alone) a little high on the treble side (as they are) but every combination after that was great - a lot of variety, but all of them usable. This is a very nice sounding instrument. I am working the other way around - using a cheap bowlback guitar to add a neck humbucker to blend with the piezo for more mid and bass (I hope) for a jazzier sound. Hmm, I have a telecaster kit around the place... It doesn't sound as synthetic as the Fender for sure.
Hi PDP, thats true, the first sounds of the piezo are a little to "rough".... But if you just turn the tone poti a little bit, the harshness is gone and all is smooth - Michael, who played - just forgott to do that.
I wonder about having a dedicated volume and tone for the piezo, or maybe just a low-pass filter to roll off the high treble a bit.
Very nice...I've been contemplating a build something like this...I'm convinced. :)
Nice one Michael, inspirational mate.
Great variety of sound!
Thats true! This suprised me, how many sounds this small thing can produce! And what you can not see is how smooth it plays, this is even more astonishing. Thank you for your comment!
This guitar rings beautifully.... And you said you put cheap strings on it ? Congratulations on a very fine prototype....
lindo som sua guitarra, parabéns!! belo trabalho!!!
Wonderful
I enjoyed your friends demo. I have seen a few of these type of guitar here. I would love to make one except I would need to make it in a left handed version.
Wanna do it yourself? Just give it a try, or I can make one for you. Right or left handed is no problem, just requires some more attention ;-)
Been looking on the bay for templates. I. Might have to talk to you about that.
Great playing ! Awsome sound ! Bravo!
very nice Michael! I want one!
Sure, I sell them! Drop me a note at my homepage www.ruhe-gitarren.de/en/contact and then we can talk!
You deserve more subs!
Amazing
That might be the greatest telecaster ever built wow do you make these for smucks like me to buy?
Ja sure, I make them for smucks like you and even for normal guitar players as well ;-) Drop me a line over my contact form at www.ruhe-giterren.de and I will get back to you with an offer!
Nice sounding plugged in. I'm curious about how it sounds unplugged and surprised you did not sample that.
What do you think the first 3 minutes was?
Sounds amazing, hope there will be more builds. Maybe a Lp or SG style :) Schöne Grüße aus Köln :)
Thank you! Yes, I will do more! LP is a bit of a problem because of the arched top and the geometrics that this arch requires. SO its not that ease to replace this by a flat top. And an arched top exists - ES 335 ;-) Schöne Grüße zurück nach Kölle und bleibt alle gesund im schönen Rheinland! Michael
Other then the rough sounding finger/fret board at the very end... this bad boy sounds pretty damn good. With the fender version costing $2g's, yea the fender is dialed in more aesthetically ... but 2000$ dollars ? Come on!
Great job sir.
Hi! Thank you for your comment! Regarding aesthetics, this is a protoype, that is not built with an eye on finish - the next ones will look different. And regarding the price, as I use finest woods for the top and not the badest hardware, I have around 400 to 500 USD just material costs per guitar and then it takes around 50 hours to build one - so one per week is possible. Not enought to make a living for an entire family....
Better than a Fender . In looks and versatility :)
Coolest ever
Hey, I seen both building and this video. Your build is the 1st one when there is no humm on electric pixkupsy, just want to ask how did you ground strings?;)
Hi Draco, I used a copper foil and glued it inside the guitar under the bridge, where the ball ends of the stings get through the pin holes. This fil is grounded and it avoids humm.
@@MichaelRuhe1706 Contact patch around the string holes. Gotta remember that; that's a really good idea.
I'm thinking of going "backwards" from this to make a new guitar for the fellow who leads the music at our church: a 00 or 000 sized semi-hollow with an electric pickup. Probably do one of those for my daughter as well. What'd you use for a piezo?
thats a really cool guitar and it sounds fantastic, and im thinking of trying the same kind of thing. Can you tell me what it sounds like when you tap the body, does the sound come through the amp
This is amazing! Which pickups did you use here specifically? And did you put the piezo under the bridge? Man it is really awesome what you made.
The piezo section of the controls actually receives both the undersaddle piezo and the adhesive transducer if I understand correctly
@@bacicinvatteneaca I want to build a similar guitar but I've no idea how I could connect all the pickups together to the same controls and jack out.
Hi! I have a circle sized piezo transduced glued under the top about 3cm behind the upper end (bass side) of the bridge and a piezo under the bridge bone. Both wired in parallel so that the signals add to each other. And thank you for the ice coment!
Its very simple, if you have the right swtitches. You need three 3-way switches with On On On positions and 6 pins for the wiring. If go to www.guitar-letter.de/Knowledge/Schaltungen/DieSchaltungderRedSpecial.htm and scoll down to No 4. "Red-Special-Light" you find the wiring diagram. The rest of the page is german, but the diagram speaks for itself ;-)
@@MichaelRuhe1706 thank you so much for your reply, I will use that!
That sounds really good. Lots of people try to build these and they sound terrible. Yours was a bit harsh, but overall good job.
Could you please tell me how to wire up the acoustic and the magnetic pickups to work on one jack?
hell I want one
that's why I sell them! ;-) I you want, get in touch by www.ruhe-gitarren.de/en/contact/
Beautiful! What pickups? Also, is the piezo run through some sort of preamp or just a straight shot?
Hi! The piezos are just straight wired to the rest, no active preamp, no batteries - I like the pure sound and rather do some corrections with my pedals or the tone poti.
It seems to produce nearly every tone except that of a traditional tele!
Very nice though..............
Nice work. It sounds really good for me.
Is it maybe a bit neck heavy? If so, you can fix that in your next project, by making the upper horn a bit longer.
Yes thats true! By emptying the body, it gets a bit out of balance, but I will compensate that on the next one by a small weight that I will put inside the body on the far end, where the end pin sits.
@@MichaelRuhe1706
Make it a big weight. I recently replaced the tuners on a standard Telecaster with locking tuners. Thats just some gramms more weight, but the negative effect drives me mad.
Great job.
I'm in the process of building a couple now what pickup system.
Are you using or is that some custom wiring.
I agree with Isaac Lausell, from what I'm hearing it sounds much better than the Fender Acoustasonic. What would you charge for that Guitar?
Hi! Depending on details somewhat around 1500 to 1800 EUR. Case goes extra for approx 100 EUR. If you want to know more, go to www.ruhe-gitarren.de/en/contact/ and drop me a message!
Very nice build it was really fun to watch! What type of strings and gauge did you use?
Its Earnie Ball Regular Slinky 0.10 strings on it.
@@MichaelRuhe1706 Thank you.
What would it take to get a copy of your electrical diagram and the components ? thanks!
I did link one in the comments below... can't find it right now, but I used the wiring of Brian May in his Red Special but with a combined switch for on/off/phase. The two acoustic PU's are switched in parallel and make the third of three PU's inn this diagram. So now at least you have something to goole for ;-)
So good, what pickups did you use for the acoustic sound?
There is one piezo under the bridge bone and a circle-sized piezo glued under the top approx. 3cm behind the upper (bass-side) end of the bridge.
@@MichaelRuhe1706 Sounds very real and acoustic sounding. Great job on the build.
@@MichaelRuhe1706 Are the two piezos just wired in parallel to one of the switches?
How did you wire up the piezo pick up
sounds very nice. were any of those examples without the amplifier?
no, all of them were plugged in. The pure sound was not recorded yet - I just forgott this! I am currently building the next one and as soon as it is ready, I will record the unplugged sound. What I can tell is that it sounds very nice, warm, but for sure does not have the volume of a full body acoustic. I would say its a perfect travel or practising guitar if unplugged.
and does sound like the red special
Will this be coming up for sale anytime shortly
Its for sale already, but as it's no factory made guitar, I build them on order for each single buyer individually. Cost is 2000,- EUR till 2500,- depending on specs.
What was your total cost with electronics etc? Obviously we can't count your labour costs as it was a project, so just the finished guitar, if you don't mind.
Hi Fulton, I did not write it down, but approx. I can give you some figures: body and neck 50 EUR, spruce top masterclass 140, magnetic PUs (I think) 79, acoustic PUs 25, potis, switches, other small stuff 30, bridge 25, tuning machines 49, paint, bones, .... so I would estimate somewhat around 400 EUR. The work was around 50 hours.
How much will this be? (And are you willing to build these on orders?)
Hi! Yes, I do build on orders - thats my way of beeing a luthier. And depending on details and specifics they cost between 1500,- and 1800,-, case goes extra for about 100,- all prices in EUR without VAT ;-) Let me know if you are interested, I will start a new one in a few days and could do two at a time.
did you use electric or acoustic strings?
I used Ernie Ball's super slinky, I think it was .10 or .11
フェンダーより良い音を出している。フェンダーは彼を会社にスカウトすべきだ。