Hidy damn do! I have a few passions and this RU-vid channel is here to share all of that with you. LEATHER WORK, GUITARS. AND AMPS I wanted my first guitar at the age of 5. I still buy, build and play guitars for fun. I love amps, pedals, and anything guitar related. Leather Crafting I was raised on an exotic animal ranch in Texas. There were indian attacks on the very land I grew up on so I embraced everything cowboy (I got my first real hat and boots at 5). I have always loved anything leather and have taken it upon my self to learn to tool and create leather goods. Stories I was raised by story tellers and remember as a kid trying to figure out how a good story was told. RU-vid is the perfect medium to share a good story with all of y'all!
There channel is really about sharing the things I love and having a good time doing it. I hope you enjoy!
Great question. These also work on on Bobkats. Why? I have found the neck and pickups on these guitars are narrow, so the bridge needs to be narrow. This is an aftermarket Rickenbacher bridge. Model number 08-0515-010.
Already sold on the gold foils but the Art & Lutherie guitars, thanks so much for pointing those out! Been wanting a palour guitar for a while to drag around and after watching this I went and tried one locally and loved it. Probably hate it in a year then never want to put it down in 4. A universal truth of being a player.
I have followed that exact pattern of buy sell. I wish I would have kept most of the ones I sold. I'm seeing that Art/Lutherie parlor on Facebook market place now for around $250, what a steal!
I think I found the Airline for like $300 (cheap) and the bender was like $250. Yes I would build another if I didn't have this one. This instrument led to me being in band. The video for our single (heavily featuring my lap steel) in on my YT channel. You might here us on KROQ in LA soon!
Hmm . . . I visited you about this time and wanted to go see "Magic's Night with the All Stars" at the LA Forum. I saw it advertised as a fund raiser for Unicef. You said no - bad part of town that you weren't going, but I could use your car keys and a paper map. So I drove the Capri there and bought a ticket on the street - thinking it was an NBA All Star game - I went in, got a program and found my seat. I was a fish out water - one of things was not like the others. As I read the program, I realized it was not Unicef, it was UNCF. It got pretty crazy, in fact a fan punched Mike Tyson in the back of the head and ran. He did not get very far. Several other fights - I left early to beat the crowd and drove back. I can't believe you let me go and take that car - knowing these experiences all about the same time !!!
The first guitar i ever had was a japenese Teisco, with gold foil pickups. It was terrible, the body was actuallu plywood, and the puckups were weak. I always saw them as cheap alternatives to the heavier wound pickups.
My 1st was a finger-bleeder, li’l 22”-scale “Stella” acoustic (1975). After Eagles’ “Hotel California” LP dropped, an older ‘stoner’ high school dude lent/gave me his 1975-lawsuit-era Penco ‘black beauty’ LP copy; by 1978, I was in a band playing in local bars, and graduation parties. During my 1979-1980 senior year, I’d completed my first homemade electric #guitar. I’ve been a luthier hobbiest ever since.
THAT'S THE VERY FIRST GUITAR I HAD!!! A SILVERTONE!!!! With the "Mother of Toilet Seat" Pickguard. Same Clear Knobs too. I think somebody stuck a "Gibson" Truss Rod cover on that, because I had that exact guitar, and it was a Silvertone, from SEARS.
Love gold foils - have a couple guitars with them and some extra pickups Glad you are keeping the faith, brother! BTW - I never know what I'm gonna play every time I start - it just happens!
Great idea with much thinner profile. It wouldn't work in the Great Northwest. 90 inches of rain during winter. The slides would rust and cease up in first 6 months. 2 sheets of 3/4" plywood overlap sitting on the rails would stop the leak. I'll be copying the Diamond back bed cover. You can easily make it waterproof and very cheap. Diamond back covers go for 1900 to 2400 plus tax. I can make it for less than 300. Be sure to stain it really good.
The Algorithm God's sent me to you. Im a fine furniture maker, currently building myself a faithful "reproduction" of a (left handed) Duesenburg Fairytale. Duesenburg sells most of the critical parts. 70° speed pots, pickups, bridges and benders. It'll still cost me about a thousand bucks all in. Liked and subscribed. Great video, lots of resources and rabbit holes to climb down... 🙌
Hi. Love it. Been needing sometjing like this so bad! I am incspable of building in my head so this is so helpful! Did you say, are tue wioden pieces pallets? Did you ever make an indepth video? Love it either way! Thank you!
The top slats are tongue and groove from Home Depot that I cut to size. Pretty cheap and have held up well (and look old). No in depth vid yet but since the bed has been on there a while I could do an update. The whole concept has worked!
Sometimes you just have to be fearless when it comes to modifying these guitars.. and you, Billy, are certainly that! I currently have my US Acoustasonic Strat on my bench doing a few mods....Seymour Duncan SVR-1n (vintage rail) pup, locking tuners and power pins. Having same issue as you with the pup mounting....will likely end up drilling out the mounting holes, as you did, or go with another pup. Hoping the pup swap will at least knock off a bit of that spanky twang. I really wish Fender/Fishman would have modeled a neck pup tone in addition to the bridge tone. Looking forward to your video on the SD pup. Thanks for the video!
I'm certain the spanky sound is part of the IR in the onboard sound card. I also think that the acoustic sound has a MICed sound that I keep fighting with. We should be able to plug into that USB and change out at least the acoustic and electric onboard sounds.
I have too mine has the white face. But now I also have both of the new Highway Series the Dreadnought and Parlor. I took the Parlor and made it a rubber bridge and it's really fun. Not much acoustically but hook up the Fender Acoustic 100 on it with AC33 acoustic creator pedal and Wow! That's the ticket. Good Video bud. Don't ever be embarrassed.
It depends on the guitar. I know that's not exactly what you need to hear. I have seen these on resos. Victory might have an answer if you give him info on the guitar.
Billy, thanks for the comparison, very helpful. That's been my impression too, but it's good to get a second opinion. I'm about to order the Alvarez AJ80E-12. I've always found 12 strings the most difficult to be happy with...neck profile, nut width, comfort level, the jangle factor, etc. Six strings less so.
Since this video I have been playing my six string Breedlove A LOT. While acoustically the Breedlove 12 string isn't a boomer if you plan on only playing through an amp (like I do now) it would be a twelver with a great action and neck.
My history is showing this - VEVOR Drawer Slides, 1 Pair 48 Inch Heavy Duty Drawer Slides, Ball Bearing Side Mount Drawer Hardware Slides, 500 LBS Load Capacity 3-Section Full Ext. I have clicked the link and double checked. I'm not seeing the exact ones that I ordered. When fully extended you would not want to stand on the extended portion. This should give you a good size to go off of. The width of the rail is really important. The space between the wheel tub and the top of the bed is the limiting factor. Then you have to make sure your tops will fit/slide. It was tricky!!
