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I actually just found out that my Made in Japan knockoff Gibson has 5 single line Kluson deluxe tuners and one double line Kluson Deluxe Tuner... Thanks for this info haha. Time to take them off and sell.
VROOM I love that you show your mistakes. I get so caught up in the chase for perfection, that I give up on most projects. I think we all need a reminder that mistakes are going to happen.
Loving your vids dude. That thing is bringin sexy back for Banjers. Watched it coz I'd been wanting to build one but Ermergourd it's hard to find a decent gourd in Australia. I'll be using this vid for reference if I find one.
Why are there not thousands and thousands of those harp like things? Have you never sold the patent to Gibson? See how druling the comments are? They all WANT ONE! If you sell them worldwide, say a million each year, and you'd get just 100 dollars each, you'd have a year income of a hundred million. Each year again! Do you get more?
I actually did a neck fix like this when I was in college on a cheapie guitar I bought from a flea market. I want to say it was a Martin Backpacker X or maybe it was another brand. But I remember gluing it together and tying it off just like you did. Once it dried it played perfectly. I ended up making a 100 bucks off of it after I fixed it.
It's called a salt water rheostat or liquid rheostat. Pure water, like distilled, would not work, there must be ions to carry the current. Most tap water will have enough impurities to be slightly conductive, that's why you need to use distilled water in old school lead-acid batteries. Adding for example salt to the water will increase it's conductivity which would probably make the effect stronger. I have seen a large 3-phase salt water rheostat being used to start a big (about 200 kW) slip ring type electric motor, there was a pump that would pump the salt water into a container that had 3 conical electrodes connected to the armature windings through the slip rings sticking down from the roof, the higher the water level got the smaller the resistance and finally a time relay closed a contactor to short the armature windings. After the start cycle the pump would stop and the container would drain for the next start.
@@Notaluthier Man, I have a 1991 Custom Les Paul that the previous owner tried to destroy in any possible way. Fretboard, crooked neck, paint, pickups, chrome on the tuners, a real mess. I wish you could bring it back to life and make a video out of it. I would trust you blindly after what I saw on the channel. It's not a rare guitar but black beauties are iconic instruments, I really wish someone would give it some love and make it play again, like it deserves. I wish I had the skills to do it but my hands are made of mud
I have almost the exact guitar in almost the same condition. Mine has more of a V neck and the logo is painted on instead of being a plate. I have no information on it. I would love to find out more about it.
Man that one is psycho~chic! Also. . . an ode to one of my fave quests - creating instruments from furniture. And old pieces are old wood, and old wood is T.O.N.E. 🎸🌹
They are both always on, and harmonics and sympathetics definitely come through, but the lower pickup seems to be shorting right now or something because the output is drastically different. Extra bizarre because they are wired in series
