Building a V-Style Guitar 

Thanks Henry. I've recently subscribed to twoodfrd. He makes very good videos. I wish I could make more. But the filming process does slow everything down, and I am continually torn between the need to need to get on with a job and my desire to make more videos. However, a couple more should be coming out soon (ish!) Thanks for you encouragement.

Thanks for your kind comments. Yes, I want to build beautiful guitars, but the sound and how it plays are just as important to me, if not more so. A guitar that sounds great and plays well gets played. A guitar that only looks great, after a while just stays in its case.

Thank you very much!

Thanks Alan. Hope you are well.

Thanks Robert. Appreciate that.

I was going to post the same comment. And I have learned a lot from Dan but really?

With respect, I disagree. My opinion here, take it or leave it. Yes, it was a Gibson design in general, but what Dan built was a one-of-a-kind bespoke instrument that was purpose built and individualized for Albert King complete with his name on the fretboard and the name Lucy on the headstock. What the Flame customer wanted was an identical clone counterfeit Albert King Lucy, not just a Gibson Flying V. A buddy of mine paid like 6 grand for a Fender Custom Shop Gilmore Black Strat, with identical nicks and buckle rash as David's, same stubby custom switch, short whammy bar. He probably could have found a better fitting guitar for his playing style for half the price. It's just 'living in mom's basement' weird shit. Joe Perry's 'boneyard', Stevie Ray's Number One, etc. I, personally, hate seeing these masterpieces cloned, counterfeited, tributed. It's disrespectful. I fully support Dan's decision. I don't expect too many young folks to get that, but whatever. My opinion. And, I honestly don't understand why people WANT a clone of someone's guitar. To me, it's fanaticism gone off the deep end.

@@100amps, Hey Todd, I need to build a V for my grandson sometime after all this other work and GGBO goes away. So I can copy Gibson but not Dan? Smile, just me being a jerk. Love you brother.

@@100amps I absolutely agree with you on the fanaticism bs. Although, you cannot possibly compare a counterfeit copy (which Dan did of a Gibson Flying V) with an original Custom Shop Artist Fender or Gibson tribute. That's just basic brand design copyright issues. Dan obviously only changed the headstock design solely that reason. Also, Dan said that HE wanted to make the copy and take the money for the job. Dude, that's just pure greed. I just simply don't buy it. You cannot copy another guitar brand design and change the inlays and then get pissed off if someone wants to make a clone of it if it's not you own damn design. He copied it on the first place, but now that the guitar is famous, he pretends like it's his own design. It's just not. It's a copy of a copy.

@@isaacs.4135, I don't know the whole story behind this guitar, so perhaps I've jumped to some conclusions. I guess I draw the hard line at cloning, identical copying, counterfeiting in the sense that the intention is to deceive. If a guitar says Gibson on it, it had better be made by Gibson. The rest is just the fanaticism bs.

Glad you enjoy my vids. More to come.

Glad you enjoy it!

Thanks Ian. A lefty played by a right-handed player was Ian's choice. As a consequence the neck has fret markers on both edges of the fretboard.

Thanks Sal

I was thinking the same thing, David ,being a gentleman about it, got rebuffed, which I find uncomfotable.When you think of it, Earlewine would never have got to see or hear about it anyway. He would have looked a lot better to have given his blessing,and garnered some respect from us guitar freaks.

Yup, lost a lot of respect for that guy. His ego got in the way of something that he could be proud of. I don’t care who you are but to have someone admire something youve done to the point they want to replicate it? That’s pretty amazing.

Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the finish is sprayed. I invested in a professional quality spray system quite a few years ago. I have a basic spray booth, which is fine for the number of guitars I spray each year. Greetings from London

Thanks. Its a water-based lacquer. I stopped using nitro many years ago

We did invent everything. Your Welcome...haha

The English stole from the American bluesman...and convinced people it was their own riffs.

I use a water based top coat

"electric" guitar

By "well" do you mean "good"? If so, are you suggesting that instead of saying that I like the sound of a particular guitar, I should be saying I like the sound of the pickups, pedals, amp and person playing. Seems unnecessarily long winded to do so and achieves nothing.

@@asw7696 it's a piece of art, just say it's beautiful...