My HOME-BUILT GUITAR is DONE! (and it came out awesome!) 

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Because of Maxx I just got into guitar and DAWs - rock music. I have bad knees and spinal stenosis and have constant pain. This is one of the highlights of my day - I look forward to his videos. Max I cannot thank you enough for what you do for all of us.

HS is an underrated pickup configuration, I wish it was available on more production models.

I love that you made this a hardtail with strings through the body. The axe is beautiful, and it sounds incredible.

Well now that you've got your guitar project done and it looks awesome Max it's time for you to start a line of guitars so we all can have one just like yours.

Great Build, Max. First, and foremost, the Guitar Max logo on the headstock!?!?!?!?!? Out-Friggin'-Standing!!!! Love It!!!! It jumps out to me that you mentioned the frets were not your fret of preference, but, please allow me to paraphrase when I say, were a pleasant surprise when the build was complete. Actually, I would be disappointed if there were just a "bolt together kit" where you couldn't add your own personal touches (like adding the conductive paint, for starters) and actually "Improve" the guitar. To me, that's what building your own guitar is all about. Building it the way you want it. Not just some "here ya go, just assemble it, and you're done." One school of thought...Unless I'm bored? And looking for something to do? I'd rather just buy what I want and spend my time playing. Great Build Max!! Please keep the great videos coming.

That is totally my kind of guitar. I had a custom guitar like this built for $1,500 in 1990 by one of the great builders in L.A. Superb guitar. But price does not make the guitar. It's rather the quality. I've really grown to like basswood. Most of my guitars have been alder or ash strats, but since getting a Schecter recently with a basswood body I've come to love this tonewood. And it's light.

The bridge/neck combo has some real qualities, 1 the sound is more evenly spaced and works great for rhythm, 2 you can still get the high harmonics/pinch harmonics and you can work from bridge to neck playing position and loose nothing, 3 no middle pickup to hinder you picking and strumming. In a live setting if I am to sing, I generally only go between bridge and neck anyhow. Again 1 volume 1 tone works so well in a live situation. Hardtail = very little room for tuning issues!! 22 frets, bend that high D up to E with no sweat!!

I just built a Esquire type guitar that I got the body and neck only at GF. The string inserts are a PITA. I had to shim the neck 1 percent.. I used a single Seymore Duncan 57 bridge Pup. And hip shot locking tuners. It is a orange sort of stripped maple with a roasted maple neck. So I have all gold hardware and I installed a leather pick guard I got on Esty.. It is beautiful. It would be nice to post picks on youtube... I am in a Johnny Cash Tribute and I will be playing it at a show this week. Sounds really good through my Fender Deluxe. I dumped some money into it.. Prob. never get it back.. But maybe my grand kids will get in to the guitar something there papa made..

That is very nice, my Grandson likes the color.

I love this configuration. The Richie Blackmore set-up but with the extra bite of the neck humbucker. I built a similar partscaster, but added a toggle switch to coil split the humbucker. In that way, I have a total of 5 sounds. Little mod, but adds a lot of versatility.

Awesome indeed! Gave me inspiration to make my own DIY guitar too! Thanks for sharing!

Freakin awesome! I have been wanting to do a GFS build for the heck of it and this has inspired me 👌

Good job Max, I like the green body colour! Thanks for posting.

For some reason you don’t often see green guitars, NICE change of pace face‼️

I’ve read that slightly loosening all four of the neck screws while the strings are on and re tightening, better sets the neck in place. I’ve done this with my bolt on guitars.

The guitar looks and sounds really great. Love the color too, but that’s obvious 😀

That build sounds great!

Looks and sounds cool. Before you shimmed the neck did you try adjusting the truss rod? I assume you would have but didn't hear you mention it.

Your logo looks badass on the headstock 👍😈

It looks great. Like a slime green. Sounds great!

That is the way I like them, Max. Simple... I wanted a single Humbucker by the bridge hardtail. So I shopped around for bodies and actually found a very cheap guitar online. It came with a really nice soft case. But the complaints were that it had problems with the neck. All the negative reviews were about the neck. Of course it also had cheap pots and bridge. But, the body was solid alder, a three piece and routed for a H by the bridge. I found a nice neck on eBay and put a Musiclilly bridge on, drilled it out just like yours with Tele ferrules and a set of Tone Ninja locking tuners on. Two pots, some wire and done. I like your idea. In fact, I think one like that is my next build.

I modded a Peavey Raptor to have a HS config, 1 push/pull volume with a treble bleed to engage coil tap and a 3 way selector, then I installed a Floyd Rose bridge. It's honestly the most versatile workhorse I own!

HS pup configuration has been my absolute favorite ever for as long as I remember!

Excellent video, playability and guitar tone! I built a Frankstrat guitar with parts from several Strat and put the configuration with P90 humbucker size on the bridge and single on the neck, It's my favorite guitar!

Ooooh, sounds killer! It’s got it’s own sound little bit of strat clarity, but rock. Very niiiice.❤

Excellent job and resulting build Max. The only thing I’d change is to install a five way switch and configure a couple of extra tonal variations like the inside coil of the Humbucker alone and the same inside coil in combo with the neck pickup. It’s totally subjective and what I’d do.

Dudes got sum mad talent-shreddin ⚔️🦾

IT ' Absolutley AMAZING !! BEAUTIFULL !!!! 🔥🤟👍🤟🦁🦅

sweet guitar bro! ever thought about coilsplitting that humbucker to unlock more tones? i have a "mini" strat in the h/s style that i did a coilsplit on(bridge humbucker) and that thing now has 7 tone options! we all "win something" by hearing you ripp it up on your guitars brother!

GFS have great quality stuff. Thank you Max for showing off your project. I have used their pickups in a Yamaha Pacifica 212, they sound great.

HS is the BEST pickup configuration for sure! Mean green shred machine it is, great job man 😁

Well done, looks great and sounds great too.

I got a body and parts from Guitar Fetish. I ended up getting Fender ferrels from Amazon. I had a Mighty Mite neck. It does not fit the Lido body. I bought a prewired dual humbucker pickguard from GF. The rear pickup is weak. I have not taken it back apart to troubleshoot it. This was my first guitar build.

the color is killer!!!!

Needs a Floyd!

An Original one of a kind GuitarMax Strat love it

I, too, wanted an ultimate partscaster, so I just ordered a Yamaha Pacifica. LOL. But Guitar Fetish produced my Slick SL51 Tele, I'm happy with it!

Green not so Meanie, i absolutely love it

Looks good. It also sounds great. I'm not a shredder, but it was still nice. I need to try something like this and the Strat is one of the guitars I don't have.

Kickin ass n Takin names! Great vid! Gotta see more builds. How about a crackle finish? Good job bro. Always a pleasure. Thanks again

Very handsome guitar. Thinking about building a Tele with a humbucker neck pickup. Finding out swamp ash has gotten more expensive than mahogany... Leave it to the asian ash borer insect to wipe out all the ash in the US.

Mean Green Metal Machine + Metal Head Max = Kick A$$ sound and music \m/!

Very nice build. I noticed the absence of noise on the neck pickup. And as I'm typing this I realized I can look at the parts list to find out if it's a stacked humbucker. 😊

Nicw!!sounds great! nice singfle coil !! I'm so high everything sounds even better! I love your channel, I still can't believe you buried that poor les paul in the desert. I want to ride a plane with you and shred!! Stay awesome!

Very cool, Max, the guitar looks and sounds really nice. Working on a guitar or putting one together is a very fulfilling experience. The guitar you assembled has become a part of you, and you have a complete understanding of it. It means something to you when you play it. The GuitarMAX logo you placed on the headstock is a perfect visual personalization of the guitar. 👍👍👍👍👍

I started to hear different music on the radio Luxemburg, guitar music going back 50 years ago. The signal kept dropping out but I learnt the songs and started playing them on the piano,.. But, it wasn't the same,.. The I got an accoustic, but that wasn't the same. Then I got acoustic electric which was better but the action was so high I could push a box of matches under the strings on the 5th fret!! Then it was a Futurama solid and of I went, that way it, and that was it,.... The Electric Guitar was for me,. And still is!!!

I would love to see a GFS Telecaster Deluxe also.

A comfortable neck and great sounds - what more do you need! I've done a kit guitar before which was fun, so after your first video on this project, I thought I'd start a partscaster build that sort of mimics a Charvel model from the 80s, though I've got to do some routing work to compensate for the scale length (I want a 24 fret neck). TBH I'm not great with wood, but so far been able to fit and align the neck and drilling, add the tuners and nut. So once the routing is done, it's just stuff I've done before so I hope to get it done before the holidays. Anyway, great to see it worked out and looks and sounds cool!

Nicely done!

Love the tone , sounds like my 83 Ibanez Roadstar 2 , great sustain is essential .

Looks good Max. I do remember when you started the project, so it's nice to see and hear the finished product.

I appreciate that you made it green. There's not enough green guitars. Or purple, for that matter.

Max,I'm loving it! You Rock! I watched some of the Michael Angelo you suggested in a video. Thanks so much max! Jim k.

Few days ago I was thinking about your axe build. Glad to see it completed. Very nice! The white pick ups and knobs are a nice pop, black would of been "the usual". Thanks for the vid. 🎸

I've been subscribed for a little while now and let me say, this is probably the best guitar channel on RU-vid. Open and honest reviews and even though I'm a bass player, the tones and music you play on these guitars is exactly what I put through my (albeit limited) electric guitar playing! I'm so happy you got to do a custom build and I hope you enjoy it for years to come.

They say genius chooses green. You should put that Logo on a bunch of guitars.

It came out very good. How much did it cost you for everything?

I have a 91 Charvel Predator and a 93 MIM Strat both with H/S configuration. It's my favorite pickup combo

Awesome job. I'll be buying myself one of these for Christmas. 😁

Looks & sounds great! What a beautiful green.

The pre Harley Benton signature

Max, I did the same exact thing with mine. Other than my fret board is rosewood "like"! But I got everything from GFS. The guitar turned out great! Very happy with it. Oh yeah, mine also has a tremolo. I'm gonna build a bass using GFS parts next? Thanks for this video... 😎

I've got some stuff coming from guitar fetish later this week. Ordered a purple sparkle body and raw maple neck, going to tung oil it. Gonna slap in an old set of emgs I've had laying around forever and use a black pearl pickguard. Going to try out one of those cool Wilkinson bridges that kind of looks like a hipshot and use some staggered locking tuners. Should come out pretty cool.

👍 👏 🎶 👌 🎸.. Fantastic finishing.

I just did a candy apple red one. Turned out better than I thought the next one I won't be making the same mistakes. Love it dude it looks awesome sounds it too! 🤘

guitar looks great. i think that your next project should be to go to the thrift shops and second hand stores. ie: goodwill etc. get what they have for sale on the dirt cheap, and turn it into a maxacaster.

I've been waiting so long for this video finally

Wohoo dude h-s and hardtail, its like my custom shop! :-)

Less is way more Dont need 600 knobs , locking nut, locking trem , active pups with 400 presets .. 10,000 volts worth of batteries , death ray (well may be ) And I even like the color.. Great build.. 🚬🐕

I appreciate the effort you put in and I understand it's all personal preferences but I don't care much for that colour. (Also as a longtime Strat fan I can't believe you left out a middle pickup.) But, whoever does the work earns the right to make the decisions and I hope you get many happy hours of playing out of it.

Hey, very cool Max! Well done.

Yeah Man!, that guitar is excellent! Just sold my Ibanez RG431hpdx or whatever the heck it's called. Needed the cash, holidays, family etc... anyhow, I was thinking about that guitar while selling it. Love the hard mounted Diamarzio's, love the bridge, tuners were stable, pretty much love and enjoy every Ibanez I've ever had, close to a perfect 10. But...the neck. It's a deal maker/ breaker. No way around it. I could NOT get into the Wizard 3 or any of the Wizards for that matter. I bought a Jackson dinky 3 years ago and it spoiled me of ever being able to accept another neck again. Which is too bad, because I think Ibby's are a more solid buy on the whole. So the 12_16 radius, is that on Charvel's, EVH, some Music Man's? If you can think of other flat/ wide neck profiles please let me know. Does Warmouth sell Particularly flat and wide maple neck?

Congratulations. I was thinking of getting a guitar kit and building one, but I was never sure of the quality of the components, as all the kits I have seen are super cheap. Maybe I'll get more serious about it now. Take care.

Very NICE!!!!!!

Guitar fetish has added bodies routed for a floyd and necks with the shelf and holes for the locking nut...and they are supposed to have medium jumbo frets...just saying, could be a real cool build

Your Great dude I just watch your colaboración with Angelo it’s sick ! I’ve been watching throw out the years since 2012 back when you had short hair and white Bareta You had arpegios lesson back than !

I like the look and sound of this guitar. It reminds me of a Charvel model I liked and also a guitar I saw Alan Holdsworth playing year's ago. What brand of pickups are these. GFS? They sound good. I definitely would need help building a guitar. You did a great job.

Now go to Stewart McDonald's and get a precut bone nut for it. It will stay in tune forever.

Sounds good! Great sustain. It needs a US. Air force decal on it. Weapon of choice.

That is a lovely looking guitar.

Lol. I just finished my strat type rebuild with a green body and black pearloid HH scratch plate HH. Black and green is a great color combo

Well done! It's got the MOJO!

I was just there lookin at bodys the other day. HSS and no floyd route. Ive got 2 necks just not bolt drilled yet.

You COULD have done 5 WAY SWITCHING with that set up!

Nice work Max! I'm in the middle of building a jazzmasterish shaped guitar, that's the same color green. I'm using an old first act body, a squire neck, and I'm using hardware and electronics that I have laying around from other guitars I've worked on over the years. I hope mine sounds as good as yours. 🤘

Assembling your own guitar is cool! You should do a demo of the Exaviere tone wood acoustic electric line of guitars.👍

Now if you want to make it just a bit more pro. File more of that heel of the neck away right up to the body bro. I've been doing that to my guitars and man it makes all the difference. I can see your hand and where the neck stops you and your and has to spread further apart to reach the upper frets. Doing this and filing the profile of the neck right up to the heel will give you about another 2" of comfort. Things you need: Just tape off your guitar body with some painters blue tape. Get a few files you will need. Micro wood metal files work awesome for close to the body so you don't even take the neck off the guitar. A medium flat wood file, not too rough. A medium does well. 3 Grades of sandpaper. 80. 120. 320 does fine. Just take your time in shaping the neck to match the contours already of the neck, and you will love it! But other than that it looks and sounds great!

I've been thinking of the same thing,only with a humbucker in front!!!

Looks great and sounds amazing. Great job Max.

Sounds home made for sure

@GuitarMax, when you use the GTX100 for demos, are you using it with pedals or only with the modeling features? I keep hearing the high gain tones are thin for the modeling tones (and that the clean and Fender tones are legit --obviously!), but yours always sound nice. Just wondering how you're achieving that -- and do you think the GTX50 would sound similar or are you cranked to a level on the GTX100 that would lend to a better high gain modeling result? Tyvm!

Sounds great and I love the color

I hope you bring the guitar to get a professional setup and also the frets did you check to see if they were level? Better yet send the neck out to get it scalloped that would be sick especially with the H/S pickup configuration like the hard tail setup I hope you put a coil split for the bridge pickup?

Hey MAX, I am building a "BOX of parts" from GFS. I bought it unfinished and it is a kind of self test to see what I can do. How do we chat?

Very similar to a Squier 51. The HS combo is getting more popular.

I like Guitar Fetish, and think they are good for "guitar" in general. They have a few products nobody else has. I'm fond of their "Factory Buyout" section. Building off that pile really forces you to reconcile a lot of measurement and manufacturing nuances. I like having a pile of parts around to pick from when doing an assembly. So, sometimes I just buy parts I like - without regard to a planned guitar. I feel like "sticking to a plan" can be a program for failure. For your build - I like that you went with something you liked, vs - just making something classic, or obvious. At first, I wondered why you didn't show more of the process. But it might have been best to not portray yourself with a certain skill set. Like - "this is how you do it" or "here's how to hang-glide." Knowing how painstaking these first builds can be, the "ta-da" approach might be best! Admittedly, I've reached for my sword a few times when putting guitars together! That said - I do really enjoy your reviews and find your casual, legs crossed, finger tapping review sessions to be oddly compelling - vs the more raging Metal imagery. And don't get me wrong - that stuff seems pretty cool too! Love the instrumentals!

I like Guitarfetish. My Strat has theTexas wound pickups and electronics.

Looks awesome Max🤘🏻 Sounds great too🎸🎸

That guitar can bring Dragon Zord. And it's green as well.