4:05 "it would be kinda cheating if I'm showing you how to put this kit together and I'm using specific guitar tech tools" Just posting to say thanks for that basic-household-tools approach. It answers my biggest hesitation - what if it needs any fret levelling or sprout filing or nut slotting or remedial routing etc to get it playing well. 🤔 The tools would cost me more than the kit. So this is the perfect series format to find out the reality! 👍🎸
Get you literally any flat solid something-or-other and some sandpaper in various grits, so you can level, dress and polish frets to your heart's content. Routing really shouldn't be required at all. Nut slotting... you can get by with cheap "needle files" from any hardware store.
Have to hand it to Thomann’s marketing folk for coming up with this “competition”. All the better guitar channels on YT. ( Menotic Stringworks, Twoodford and Dave’s World of etc etc are all excused because they are professional luthiers) are doing the build and the publicity is priceless. Thomann’s accounts department are also on top form, you dont get cash, you get a €500 store credit, but I could spend €500 in the Thomann store in a heartbeat.
Really informative basic guitar mod kickoff Andy. Anyone looking to start doing mods would do well to look at this. Not everyone knows the basics like not over torquing the screws and evenly cross tightening. And you kept it interesting too 😃👍👏👏
Thanks so much for this video. I finished my guitar last week (ST style) and just uploaded an in depth build video yesterday. Your video was probably the most helpful tutorial that I watched, and I came back to it several times to check through different steps. I also loved what you ended up doing with the kit. Thanks again!
Thank you thank you thank you for posting this! I have always wanted to buy a kit and try it myself. I think people should be aware though, the body, being made of Rengas might cause allergic reactions similar to poison ivy in some people. Shouldn't matter though if you're going to paint the body and apply poly. I ordered a T-style kit and ST-kit after watching this video. Great video Andy!
Some great tips. I have been pondering entering the challenge. This video helped me think it was within my capabilities.Only problem would be convincing my partner that another guitar is essential...😉 I will watch out for the mods. 🤞🏼
I had a great time building a J-Bass, with my Dad, at last year`s DIY challange. There were some crazy builds last year I think it`s worth checking out the 2021 DIY vids by Thomann.
I just bought one arrived today,super stoked after watching your video,I was thinking of painting mine,,never don anything like this before,any video posters? Look forward from hearing from you,cheers!
Just a tip.. if you use the bridge pickup more than the neck wire it backwards... that way the switch knob won't be in your way when you work the volume pot if you do that kind of thing :)
My tip: i use an plastic ice-cube maker (Eiswürfel Form) to separate the screws, nuts and all that tiny things, which always get lost an were found in the vacuum cleaner.
That wood would look good with an SG semi-transparent crimson colour with a dark filler in the grain. A set of awful strings are always handy when playing around with guitars so you can save the good'ns for the final set up. I was too cheap to buy something like this kit to play along this year, so I got a uke... well, two ukes :) Looking forward to the rest of this series, I really enjoyed when you stripped down that Les Paul before.
It's been my understanding that the strings included with kits are really only there to get your setup dialed in. After that you're supposed to replace them with whatever you prefer. Idk how true this is considering strings have different tensions so after switching strings your setup would have changed. But they would get you in the ballpark so you don't have to do too much adjusting so maybe that's it. I'm new to the channel btw and this was a pretty great video. There's plenty of helpful info for people new to kit building and it's easy to digest and follow. Well done sir, looking forward to watching more of your videos now!
Dude, out of the box it sounded great, it did not howl or squeel or fall appart. The whole point of this, is to let a beginner put it together, understand how a basic guitar works and from then on....the sky is the limit. Upgrade the tuners, pickups, knobs, the finish....it will be YOUR guitar, to do what you want with it and never worry about modifying a €400+ instrument and ruining the value....it will "grow with you" basically.
Very informative video, thanks! P.s. You could have used a cheap plastic string winder. Even the most clueless newbie either has bought one or will after the first time trying to wind by hand. 😁😁🤘
Great video idea! I think it would be very nice to go from necessary to extreme mods. Like: start with intonation and the nut. Then making a proper headstock, then changing any other shapes of the guitar and end it with a paint job and finishes.
@@TheGuitarGeek please do. It's important to show regular folks that none of this is really rocket surgery. It can be very intimidating for people who don't have luthiery training or other shop experience.
Are you sure that's not a 4 piece body? I'm almost sure I saw more join(joint?) lines. Pretty sure I saw 3 altogether. One in the middle and one more on each side, somewhat parallel to the center line.
arrrgghhh why to people string their guitars the hard way? I have never once done it like this since 1980 and haven't ever had a tuning stability issue. Pull the string all the way through, finger tight.. tune it up, making sure to get one wind over top the part of the string you pulled through. It locks into place. You can whammy to your hearts content, bend, alt tune you name it. Of course this past year I've discovered locking tuners, but that does pretty much what I do without having to worry about where that first wind goees
