If you decide to make another guitar please show yourself building it on your channel, im really interested in guitar builds and a lot of people are too and it would be really cool to see how you do your builds
i recently gave my first ever guitar to my cousin who's learning. happiest little fucker i've ever seen after that. Made sense, i loved and still love that guitar but i thought it would do better to teach another.
Interesting video dude. On the subject of the homemade pickups, would you do a video on designing/developing. We've seen the actual construction process in "Will it Shred?", but it was very light on theory/philosophy. It'd be interesting to learn what your process behind it all is.
Congrat! You have a lot of inexpensive guitars or home made guitars and you deserve my congratulations for that. You're an example for the younger guitarists. I did things like yours : changing everything on an inexpensive strat (pickups, electronics, screws on neck for mechanical screws, etc). Then : intonation... Learning everything of one guitar. Tension of the trust rod, saddle heights, spring tensions, saddle intonation... Then, eventually, the guitar become great and sounds like a pro model and you know exactly what to do when the weather change... Have fun and keep doing what you love !
love the paint on the xiphos and i have an older sigma classical guitar and i absolutely love it ,sturdy puts up with alot of abuse ,great tone, stays in tune and dont look bad. what more could you ask for in a guitar dont let the price fool you these are great guitars
I got a fender American California fat telecaster. Fell in love with the maple fret board. People keep telling me the DiMarzio super distortion in the neck is a mistake, only place I see it as a mistake is in headphones everywhere else it's a blessing for my sound.
I'm hoping to go to Edinburgh for uni in a year and a half so I'd imagine that I'd be a lot nearer to you so if I were to ask you to build a guitar, how much would it cost me roughly for a HH bloodbound with a mahogany body and maple neck
Make Shite Paul great again! I'm sure she's the reason RU-vid thought I'd like your new content. And I did. Pimp her back up, please! She deserves it. She has a name, a history, achievements and a whole lot of (maybe crappy, whatever, but still) personality. Better than most guitars out there! BTW - Did I stumble upon a nice catchy title for the new series? Let's make Shite Paul great again? ;-)
Drunken Hamster locking tuners are so you require less wraps around the tuning peg by adding a hole to the center of the peg with a grip that helps hold the string more stable during tuning. locking nut is for a locking trem system. yes, you can run both, but the locking nut defeats the purpose of the locking tuners added tuning stability.
great video! Yeah my new hobby as well modifying guitars as well. once you do them the way you want, kinds of grows on you like it's your own custom guitar.
I’m so glad you pointed out that Squiers are by and large well *constructed* instruments on a wood and bolts level it’s just some of the finish and Hardware is a bit naff My Telecaster has seen about 7 years of solid practice, gigging, recording and touring, and even though it’s practically unrecognisable from its goody-two-shoes origins of a 52’ Butterscotch. at least in terms of hardware and finishing, it wouldn’t stick around as long as it has or will be, without it being a brilliant chunk of wood to begin with
I've been very jealous of that explorer guitar for a while and always wondered what brand it was. It's a very nice guitar, it looks like something more expensive than I could afford
2:26 So, I'd love to see the Strat mid-boost mod done to your custom thru-neck strat. There's an empty hole in the guitar where the knob would go already, and I think you'd be surprised at it's versatility.
hey Collin, you probably won't read this but it's worth a shot anyway. I'm interested in learning how to make guitar pickups, humbuckers in particular, but I haven't been able to find any videos that go in depth enough to fully understand, some humbuckers have magnets? some don't seem too? some have slugs, it's very confusing for someone like myself who is just getting started with the idea. I can't think of anyone better to explain in depth how to build a pickup than you. if you do happen to read this, thank you. keep up the good work.
CSGuitars Wow I'll be honest I wasn't expecting a reply, so thank you, I really appreciate it and I'm now looking forward to seeing those videos. Cheers mate. Have a good one
Colin thanks for the video it sure was interesting to see them all. I loved that Les Paul Jr. Built you made.... and I think I want one. 26" scale though and a 2" neck width at the nut and no radius on the neck...
I prefer toploaded bridges over through body for hipshot style bridges. It increases sustain (very slightly and its debatable) and it also lessons the friction and harsh angles the strings go through which stops breakage
I was like wtf when you mentioned Adam Jerome and 48hours coz I'm actually related to their drummer lol - they're a really great band ngl And loving the guitar collection too!
That is a collection worthy of anyone who admires good guitars. I love to build my own as well, but I just buy all the individual parts and assemble them. Bodies and necks from Warmoth and the internet for all the other parts, depending on what I am doing. I figure that others have nailed down their craft, so how would I improve on Seymour Duncan or DiMarzio? I cannot.
Haha, good old Victor Morris, certainly a very interesting shop. Actually got some good guitar bargains out of there over the years that've made for good projects.
That mahogany thru neck Strat is my dream.guitar! But for some minor changes (HSS or even HSH - at least one humbucker in the bridge, anyway... a Floyd rose instead of a Kahler..or even just stick with w hard tail, to be honest...the two knobs further away , out of the strumming zone, and some square top tele knobs..minor changes....other than that.... Iis just a party of all.my favorite specs!
Would you consider buying or building a semihollow guitar of some sort? My main guitar is a Gibson 355 that I bought for exceptionally less money than it should've cost, and I put in a set of Wolfetone PAF type pickups and some good pots and it absolutely sings under any amount of distortion. It's quickly become my new main guitar and I absolutely love how big and full it sounds
CSGuitars A wonderful choice of guitar. I have to agree with you on that mindset, because I could've gotten two fairly decent guitars for what I payed for mine, but my god was it worth it once I got the thing home and dialed it up through my rig
Great work man!! I love natural looking guitars. And fuck everyone else who can't appreciate hard work. If it's durable and stays in tune it's all that matters. I'm done.
at fuggin long last !! I have a 1986 MIJ strat, picked it up in 89/90 second hand and it has since been my go to gigger, it has that exact Khaler trem, and this is the first time I have seen the exact same trem .. are the fine tuners stiff as fug ?? all the same it works superbly .. other difference was a 22 fret flatter radius maple neck which made it a killer guitar, only thing I changed was to put in a Seymour Duncan hot rails in the bridge with a three way mini switch for series/split/parallel selection .. Viv Campbell offered me good money for it a few years back, I'm over here in Belfast, and done the same gig circuit as Viv before he got the Dio gig, but this is the first time I have seen the exact same trem, seen similar Khaler s but never the exact same, and as I said, my fine tuners are very stiff, but not a prob as it stays perfectly in tune, fuggin killer guitar, and I have a few, but it's number one ..
Have you ever considered doing a video on how you make your guitars, like kind of an instructional type of thing? I've yet to see a video about making guitars from a major channel.
As a bass player who also player guitar (as opposed to the other way round) I would sincerely recommend you save you money and not buy a different bass! You said so yourself, it plays well, it sounds good and you only feel the need to have it to put notes into the pc. Just get those p-bass pick ups sorted and leave it at that. Plus you'll have the best of both worlds with both the jazz and p-bass pickups for a nice variety of sounds. If you really want a new bass, I'd say just go and build one! if you haven't delved into bass building yet, it might be a good opportunity to prototype one up and see what differences there are when building a bass as opposed to a guitar. I'd certainly love to see your efforts in that direction! :-P
