I've been making these and cigar box guitars for a few years. The fun is in making your own, for as cheap as possible, and playing it at the end is totally satisfying. I have quite a few on my channel.
Jon Trownson Yeah I thought the video was a wee bit disrespectful and a bit snobby. Making oil can guitars and cigar box guitars is an art. There are some great builders out there and a whole community of builders and players. Plenty people out on the road gigging these instruments too, not just a bit of fun!
this comment maybe a bit late but I to have worked with building cigar box guitars and it is an art. I also met guys who build their own pickups and that is frustrating work
I'm curious if the electronics are water tight to allow you to actually use the can for beer or something. That would be a really neat party trick for gigs.
Let’s be honest this video just made everyone’s week, maybe even their month. Couldn’t have asked for better!!!! Also aside from that epic Purple Haze cover and his very appropriate slide playing did anyone else notice Rob's cow guitar strap!?
I bought a Miku a few years ago. The first thing I used it for was to play the vocal line from Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”. For me, that was worth the price of admission right there. LOL
Hi Lee and Rob, THANK YOU!! I’ve been off work with severe depression due to a death in the family, I’d virtually given up on life and it’s been such a dark time for Me this last couple of months. THIS VIDEO MADE ME GENUINELY BELLY LAUGH FOR THE 1st time since my gran finally passed. Thanks guys!
Ukulele pro-tip: Capo your regular guitar on 5th fret, play only the 4 highest strings -> now it's an ukulele fretboard. So basicly all the movable chords still work
I feel so proud to see Bohemian Guitars on this channel, I followed them on Instagram when they had their first couple thousand followers... So awesome to see them become popular enough to appear on Chappers' channel
Got a 2017 LP Custom Studio from Amazon for a decent price and it's gorgeous. Will admit to knowing very little about guitars but my guitar teacher (who knows a bit more!) seemed to like it!
I dont know if lee or rob will see this, but when im upset or having a bad day, you guys (and the rest of the team at andertons of course) make my life a bit more bearable. I often randomly think to myself 'im gonna put on an andertons video,' which one doesn't matter really as long as its got rob and lee in it. Just watching these videos brings me so much joy. I even have showed a mate of mine this channel and even tho he doesn't play music at all still loves you guys heaps! Thankyou guys and rock on you legends
Standard uke tuning is GCEA which is same as top 4 guitar strings capo'd at the 5th fret. So you can use your standard guitar chord fingering albeit somewhat simplified.
Being a guitar player is a great help for ukulele and mandolin. The chord shape are strongly related to guitar chords. Standard Uke tunings are g,C,e,a and a,D,f#,b. This is the same as the top four strings of the guitar capoed at fret 5 or 7 respectiely, except that the string nearest your chin is tuned to the same note as the third fret on the second string (not an octave below). Chord shapes are the same as if you are playing a guitar with the two bottom strings missing. A mandolin is tuned like a violin G,D,A,e, which is just like a guitar upside down. So a G chord is fretted string 1 third fret (g) and string 2 second fret (b), the mirror image of the fifth and sixth string fretting of a guitar open G. Once you twig this you can throw away Mel Bay's chord book and work out the chords for yourself
You can actually use the same scales, chords based of the D-String and triads on a soprano uke as you would on the DGBe strings of the guitar. Just five half-steps higher. Or tune the G and C a half-step down, and you'll have the top EADG strings, but an octave and two half-steps higher. Usually the G String is the highest one, but you can replace that or work around it. I would certainly recommend a guitar player to just mess around with a ukulele for fun.
The Korg Miku Stomp is one of the few pedals I would never consider getting rid of. Despite its bad tracking, lack of non-Japanese software for programming it, and um, "unfortunate" juxtaposition of the graphic on the pedal and the stomp switch making Hakune Miku futunari, it's just awesome, in a pastel painted 2CV kind of way.
Bohemian's are sick guitars. I personally own one myself, and I definitely really dig the resonant sound that it makes. Pretty interesting take on a hollowbody.
With heavier gauge strings I would be concerned that the string tension might be too much for the strength of the metal body which would be likely to bend, unless it has been reinforced in some way that a "normal" can would not be.
I'd actually buy one of these, but only with a maple neck, which somehow don't exist on any site I've looked at. Even Andertons don't stock the maple fretboard ones.
Chapluck, you just set slide guitar back 50 years ........ easily, and what was the Capt'n huffing in that can?! I'll never know how much of this gear you sell but it is certainly entertaining watching you both try it all out!
Thanks for cheering up a sick dude with a cold. Burst out laughing towards the end with a bunch of snot flying everywhere. Miku also drove my three pugs nuts and woke up the wife. Funny stuff and those can instruments sounded interesting and not terrible like I expected.
Sometimes I wish you would release some of the tunes you two come up with while jamming, group them up by style/genre and create little albums out of them. I would download them
Rob says he's not a Ukulele Player, but he has a video on his Rob Chapman channel where he's playing a Ukulele (quite proficiently) and it's clearly before this video as Rob still has his dreads in the video.
Wow, nobody on set noticed that standard Uku tuning is just like a guitar with a capo on the 5th fret and the low string (D string on a guitar) tuned up an octave ?! once I figured that out I was djenting like a mad man on my uku
Georgie boy Exactly! The P90 in that oil can doesn't sound like it would on a Gibson at all! If anything, this reinforces the fact that the materials used to build the instrument do affect its tone.
The different tone is not only due to the maple neck, mate. It's the overall build of the instrument that affects its tone, I'll give you an example: the oil can guitar that Rob plays in the video's got a distinctive 'metallic' sound to it that may well be caused by the sound box (or sounding box as some call it) of the oil can itself. The smaller body, the shorter neck, the single P90, the set-up of the guitar: all these things contribute to its peculiar sound.
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I want a 7 string one fitted with an emg and an ebony fretboard
K
Make one?
Do they use a nitro finish to allow the tin to breathe?
They are probably cans that hold the nitro.
JH Scofield the nitro's inside silly @):-
Which tone metal gives the best tone?
cyrfung I like the warm tone of copper.
Steel 10 foot beam. Johan Segeborn proved they have great sustain
If it is dented it will end up on the Gibson website.
neck angle looks too spot on for Gibson
Dented? 200000$ for this vintage can.
I've been making these and cigar box guitars for a few years. The fun is in making your own, for as cheap as possible, and playing it at the end is totally satisfying. I have quite a few on my channel.
clarkyboy100 me too man,,,kind of annoying seeing real guitar companys pushing their way into the c.b.g. scene innit..
Jon Trownson Yeah I thought the video was a wee bit disrespectful and a bit snobby. Making oil can guitars and cigar box guitars is an art. There are some great builders out there and a whole community of builders and players. Plenty people out on the road gigging these instruments too, not just a bit of fun!
this comment maybe a bit late but I to have worked with building cigar box guitars and it is an art. I also met guys who build their own pickups and that is frustrating work
I'm curious if the electronics are water tight to allow you to actually use the can for beer or something. That would be a really neat party trick for gigs.
EpictheEpicest. seriously considering a diy build for this!
Of course, the guy with Mike Stoklasa as his profile pic would be interested in making his guitar for alcohol. You hack fraud.
You'd want the electronics *sealed* (as in watertight), not merely shielded...
Yea, that's what I meant.
EpictheEpicest Or drill a hole on the other side. Install a gauze and you have a bong guitar.😂
Let’s be honest this video just made everyone’s week, maybe even their month. Couldn’t have asked for better!!!! Also aside from that epic Purple Haze cover and his very appropriate slide playing did anyone else notice Rob's cow guitar strap!?
the cowstrap has been around for a while, now.
I know that but it just suits the tin cans so much!
I bought a Miku a few years ago. The first thing I used it for was to play the vocal line from Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”. For me, that was worth the price of admission right there. LOL
Hi Lee and Rob,
THANK YOU!! I’ve been off work with severe depression due to a death in the family, I’d virtually given up on life and it’s been such a dark time for Me this last couple of months.
THIS VIDEO MADE ME GENUINELY BELLY LAUGH FOR THE 1st time since my gran finally passed.
Thanks guys!
14:45 Miku is elevated to a transcendental level of artistic scrumtrulescence. KUDOS!
Ukulele pro-tip: Capo your regular guitar on 5th fret, play only the 4 highest strings -> now it's an ukulele fretboard. So basicly all the movable chords still work
I didn't think of the capo usage, but I always knew to play up there about the 5th fret when playing along with my brother on his ukulele.
I’m a simple man, when I hear the miku pedal I click the like button. MORE MIKU PEDAL PLEASE!!!! 🤘🎸
Enter Can Man
Excellent!
I feel so proud to see Bohemian Guitars on this channel, I followed them on Instagram when they had their first couple thousand followers... So awesome to see them become popular enough to appear on Chappers' channel
I've been in excruciating pain from some knee surgery I got yesterday, and I want to tell you that your videos really help me at least feel happier.
What you get when you buy a les Paul
i was about to comment on how miku pedal is an old joke now, but this shot at gibson made me burst out laughing. i'm officially a hypocrite!
😂
Just bought a new Les Paul studio from andertons and its serious quality. Way better than any Chinese knock off hands down
Josh Surridge
It's hit or miss, some of them are still spectacular instruments. It's just that sometimes you may get unlucky, unfortunately.
Got a 2017 LP Custom Studio from Amazon for a decent price and it's gorgeous. Will admit to knowing very little about guitars but my guitar teacher (who knows a bit more!) seemed to like it!
Question is does the noise change if you fill up the can?
now you really can add lot of diesel to your sound :D
But of you filled it up with something lie fluorinert, which is non-conductive...
stanislavmigra lmao! Thanks man, you just made my day
ITS JOHN O’CLOCK MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!!!!
you need a comma in that sentence
Those last few minutes were absolutely hysterical
You should plug a Miku in front of a talkbox!
Doesnt work it switches the amp sound to the talk box and than nothing can be combined with it
Yeah you can if you plug it in front of the Talk box
nope still nothing i tried it , it doesn't work right.
i'd put coke in the can and go full jimmy page
I see what you did there.
Haha! I knew the Miku was coming but did not expect the pure brilliance of Lee singing into it. I almost spit out my coffee. Thanks for the laugh!!!!
I dont know if lee or rob will see this, but when im upset or having a bad day, you guys (and the rest of the team at andertons of course) make my life a bit more bearable. I often randomly think to myself 'im gonna put on an andertons video,' which one doesn't matter really as long as its got rob and lee in it. Just watching these videos brings me so much joy. I even have showed a mate of mine this channel and even tho he doesn't play music at all still loves you guys heaps! Thankyou guys and rock on you legends
Exactly what I come to RUclips for. Entertainment and this delivered. Still laughing at the Miku jam.
Standard uke tuning is GCEA which is same as top 4 guitar strings capo'd at the 5th fret. So you can use your standard guitar chord fingering albeit somewhat simplified.
I could watch these guys play for hours. Such good chemistry. Makes me smile 😁
Lee was really feeling it during that purple haze cover.
Being a guitar player is a great help for ukulele and mandolin. The chord shape are strongly related to guitar chords. Standard Uke tunings are g,C,e,a and a,D,f#,b. This is the same as the top four strings of the guitar capoed at fret 5 or 7 respectiely, except that the string nearest your chin is tuned to the same note as the third fret on the second string (not an octave below). Chord shapes are the same as if you are playing a guitar with the two bottom strings missing.
A mandolin is tuned like a violin G,D,A,e, which is just like a guitar upside down. So a G chord is fretted string 1 third fret (g) and string 2 second fret (b), the mirror image of the fifth and sixth string fretting of a guitar open G.
Once you twig this you can throw away Mel Bay's chord book and work out the chords for yourself
That opening was completely awesome!
I can only hope you guys keep on making videos... Great chemistry! Good fun!
Omg! I lost it when you guys played purple haze. Awesome, love it!
False. The answer is otamatone.
never would have pictured Rob playing slide. Great job, by the way. I love your product demos and guitar playing. Cheers, Mate from Laredo, Texas!!
What if you filled them with liquid? Would it differ wether you put water or oil in it? Alcohol or other inflammables? Tone-liquid discussion.
I think the effect could be quite shocking......
Half fill for a wavy reverb!
I need best whiskey available... for my guitar, of course.
Tone-liquid is a scam !! All you people paying top dollar for your Peruvian spring water guitars could get the same tone from the tap !
One of the most enjoyable videos on RUclips right now.
I nearly died when the miku turned on as Lee made the sound effects in the can lol hysterical that pedal never ceases to amaze me
You really made my day gentlemen
Never laughed that much watching a guitar demo
Thanks a million !
Laurent from France
would love a pt 2 to this... definitely made my week
How long can you play until having to refuel?
Depends on the string gauge, if you have 13's it will use more than 7's
These have been here in South Africa for ages, very unique indeed
Chappers when he turns down the gain and plays in a major scale really has a nice touch
That opening little riff from Chappers is the opening to In The Sunshine by Clockwork Wolf!
I can't believe gue resonant the tonewood on these are!!! They are fabulous
extra points for the planes trains and automobiles reference!
I honestly think that both the guitar and the ukulele sound wicked!!
You can actually use the same scales, chords based of the D-String and triads on a soprano uke as you would on the DGBe strings of the guitar. Just five half-steps higher. Or tune the G and C a half-step down, and you'll have the top EADG strings, but an octave and two half-steps higher. Usually the G String is the highest one, but you can replace that or work around it. I would certainly recommend a guitar player to just mess around with a ukulele for fun.
The Korg Miku Stomp is one of the few pedals I would never consider getting rid of. Despite its bad tracking, lack of non-Japanese software for programming it, and um, "unfortunate" juxtaposition of the graphic on the pedal and the stomp switch making Hakune Miku futunari, it's just awesome, in a pastel painted 2CV kind of way.
Always loved the old motor oil and coffee cans.
One of the best videos they have ever made.
Bohemian's are sick guitars. I personally own one myself, and I definitely really dig the resonant sound that it makes. Pretty interesting take on a hollowbody.
The Miku moment was the best one
They have such an eclectic American sound. Love it!
Tears were shed at the end.
Great show love you guys my favorite show on you tube can't wait for next show
The must have xmas present this year no doubt ! Lovin the slide playing chappers
Look up Morgan Garage Guitars,they specialize in their cigar box guitars but they have a few oil cans
Can I get one with a Floyd Rose please?
That tonewood is amazing.
I love listening to these guys!
Oh hey, didn't know Chappers could drag out the slide. Some lovely licks there at the start, sir.
With heavier gauge strings I would be concerned that the string tension might be too much for the strength of the metal body which would be likely to bend, unless it has been reinforced in some way that a "normal" can would not be.
Miku section cracked me up. Great job guys.
It is the tone wood that make them sound great!!!
Play ukulele: 1. Try to emphasise the beat by hitting the strings to get a pecussive element going 2. Hit any old four chord progression 3. No 3.
Oh my gosh! Rob on the Uke! 😂
I would love to see that at one of his shows!
Great video , Boys .Keep up the interesting stuff !
They sound good too
Saw these guitars in stock when I came in last week. Was wondering if you guys were going to put out a video
They sound great to be fair!
Wow, they actually have great tone.
I'd actually buy one of these, but only with a maple neck, which somehow don't exist on any site I've looked at. Even Andertons don't stock the maple fretboard ones.
Captain Li-ku
Chapluck, you just set slide guitar back 50 years ........ easily, and what was the Capt'n huffing in that can?! I'll never know how much of this gear you sell but it is certainly entertaining watching you both try it all out!
It's all about the tone oil that was stored in the tin before it was made into an tinstrument that defines it's sound
Packing quite the punch there Lee. Kudos.
Thanks for cheering up a sick dude with a cold. Burst out laughing towards the end with a bunch of snot flying everywhere. Miku also drove my three pugs nuts and woke up the wife. Funny stuff and those can instruments sounded interesting and not terrible like I expected.
Let's make trying out the Miku a mandatory segment for all future participants in the "The Captain Meets" series.
Misha Mansoor djenting on a oil-can guitar through a miku. Must. Be. Done. [el'sda2].
Great video as always. There's definitely wiser locked up.
Yes, I was thinking of Miku! My life is complete now, I can die in piece!
Sounded rather good together at 9:15.
that is the point. have fun. ..
it looks cool though...
a blackstar fly , one of these , cigerattes and whiskey
I literally love the tones of these lol
Rob: *is shredding Jimi on an oil can*
Lee: *BoBBiNg hIs HeAD bAck aNd FoRTh whIlE onLY plAyIng TWo StRiNgS*
Yes, this is the music I signed up for
HA, I love the movie Trains, Plains and Automobiles!!
Can someone tell me what Mr. Rob was playing at around the 14:50 mark
That was a filthy jam wow these guys are amazing…you guys should tour as a dirty blues duo!!
Who the hell needs a ‘59 Les Paul if you can have one of these monsters of blues ? Great stuff 👍👍👍
I'm sorry, but If I had one of these, I'd rock it on stage. With some locking tuners and some standard gauge strings, these will be great
Can you guys please do a video on guitar upgrade hardware brands for tone volume tuners etc... Besides pickup....
Waiting for the tone tin debate.
"I personally find Italian olive oil cans give the best tone"
i needed this laugh. The Miku at the end was spot on. *SIGH* now I can go to work...
Sometimes I wish you would release some of the tunes you two come up with while jamming, group them up by style/genre and create little albums out of them. I would download them
Look at Samantha Fish, she`s playing them a lot. Great guitar player, great looking and great singer.
Do a video on non-standard signature guitars. Maybe you, Pete, and Rabea go around and grab some weird signatures (Bo Diddly, Zakk Wylde, etc)
That was brilliant! You bundle that guitar with that pedal and you'll have lines out the door.
I find 10w-30w gives the best midrange tone.
Easy relic job! Come on Chappers, it has no fretboard radius just like a Vigier. Should be tapping like Bumblefoot!!
Rob says he's not a Ukulele Player, but he has a video on his Rob Chapman channel where he's playing a Ukulele (quite proficiently) and it's clearly before this video as Rob still has his dreads in the video.
Wow, nobody on set noticed that standard Uku tuning is just like a guitar with a capo on the 5th fret and the low string (D string on a guitar) tuned up an octave ?! once I figured that out I was djenting like a mad man on my uku
3:15 "hard to find beaten up oil cans that you can actually use."
American: "I've got fifteen in my backyard."
Wheres all the tonewood haters now...
Georgie boy Exactly!
The P90 in that oil can doesn't sound like it would on a Gibson at all!
If anything, this reinforces the fact that the materials used to build the instrument do affect its tone.
Youreallygotmenow ! Well duh, it's got a maple neck, of course it won't sound like a Gibson /s
The different tone is not only due to the maple neck, mate.
It's the overall build of the instrument that affects its tone, I'll give you an example: the oil can guitar that Rob plays in the video's got a distinctive 'metallic' sound to it that may well be caused by the sound box (or sounding box as some call it) of the oil can itself.
The smaller body, the shorter neck, the single P90, the set-up of the guitar: all these things contribute to its peculiar sound.
Georgie boy I think we found the tonewood hater
Youreallygotmenow ! I was trying to make fun of the tonewood-thing but apparently sarcasm doesn't get through to some people even when marked as such