@@alecblair11 meh idk, think of all the time you slide or do shit like that, it already take microscopic pieces of your skin off, that thing gives me anxiety
Having done many refrets in my guitar repairperson days (did that for 6 years in a shop in Amsterdam) I have to remind myself that this is just for fun to stop the cringing inside ;P I love these experiments. You convinced me to get more into circuit bending. Thanks and have a good day Simon! ;) *And Andreas too! **And cool neighbor too!
To fix this properly you would have to sand them even and flat with a level beam with sandpaper on it, then round each one with a fret file, dress the fret ends (file sticking out ends then 45 angle then round off). then polish it going up in grits and finally polishing compound and then clean and oil it. It would take several days of work and cost like 4 fret level jobs, so it would be several hundreds of euros. Although if you want it done (low effort stylee*) I would be up for it for free. I like the idea just send it over ;) *beer implied
That switch is the old style Tele switch. the originals were Bakelite. some guitarists prefer this older style. I like it because you can really slap it in to another position.
@@emilmaze Yeah exactly, someone gifted me a real Bakelite switch cap which I have on my Tele, but my Tele is a complete mismatch of parts as I worked in a guitar shop and could put together what I liked ;P (brass saddles are a one of my favorite upgrades btw, really changes the sound, add those and a bone nut to a cheap tele and you would be suprised how good even a cheap mex can sound)
That ended up having a nice sound actually, would be kind of cool to do like a fluted(?) texture "fretless". Pretty sure this one could classify as a sword now with how sharp those frets are though lmao
Lol when a micro tonal guitar just isn't cutting it... *improvise, adapt, overcome* ^^which is the reason I love this channel so much. If you come to this man with a musical problem, I garentee he will give you the most unorthodox solution to it...but, it WILL solve your problem. 😆 and thats the best way I can describe Mr. Magpie
Should have stuck with the 24EDO; the largest EDO I've seen on a guitar was 60 notes per octave; there are a lot of 31EDOs and the like Neil Haversticks got a 34 note guitar
you gotta go back and file down the frets, you're "supposed" to do that to the so you don't get your fingers cut up, but if the frets actually on the neck are not level you're going those "repeated notes" (around 16:57). This happens with "normal" guitars due to wear and tear (I frets get "eroded" or worn down over time by strings and you get wolf tones). Also I believe sometimes guitar frets are filed on an "incline" in the higher frets so that they last longer.
isnt it funny that the best candidate to demonstrate the guitar, is the one with the bandaids on his fingers? I think it really goes well with the whole show!
I think the easier way to turn it into a fretless would be to glue a long sheet of thin metal on top of the entire fretboard so it becomes one smooth fretboard.
9:56 - 10:16 -- he's playing a simple chromatic "warm-up" exercise, but it sounds like he's just trying to tune the strings but the posts wont wind any tighter...
With the version that only has one fret between each pair of original frets, you can play a blues scale on any note and hit the blue note without having to bend, which is actually kinda cool. If I were a lead player (which I most likely never will be) I might actually buy a guitar like that because I like jazz and also just weird music things in general
Got an idea for yas. I've been using a bunch of the great stuff expanding foam and was wondering what my acoustic guitar would sound like with the foam in it.. you could get a couple guitars and have you and someone else strategically put it in different spots and see who's sounds better for content lol but I'd really like to see what it sounds like full of the stuff but I don't want to ruin my guitar and have no easy way to get a new one right now. 1st time watcher current subscriber keep rockin boys
Woohoo... the sonic psychopaths arrive to brighten my very early morning... like 00.25 morning. 6:27 - This is like some Arabic surf music due to quarter tone scale, without a sea to surf in, but it's got a wicked sound! 12:39 - Ooooh... Sounds ominous!!!
The frets added between frets could work but since you've changed which fret is the twelfth the bridge would have to be moved drastically to intonate. Basically you'd have to mount the bridge right over the neck joint!😂😂😂🤘
