Wonderful job and a unique build to be sure. If by chance you could build a gold guitar that would weigh 35 lbs. it would cost roughly $1,034,600.00. Split between your 674K subscribers each subscriber would only need to donate $1.54. Round up to $2.00 each and you could have gold pick ups, control knobs, and tuners. I'm in!
Watching you over the years has been cool, especially seeing the different ideas and material you create guitars with, but most of all your playing level has increased so much that I feel like someone should give you flowers for that, I know as a 30+ years player that it's hard to hear yourself progressing, but as an outside object listener, you have gained much more skills than previous videos.
Can confirm. My dad has a Gibson Les Paul. When you warm up to play it, it isn’t for the playing, but for your body to support the damn thing! I used to have to lug the thing around for him when he played at a gig. I was just a little guy and with the hard case, it weighed more than a third of my body weight.
I love your channel man. I was genuinely interested and engaged throughout the whole video, and thats pretty rare these days on RU-vid.. And all that without any stupid cliffhangers and "stick to the end" tricks, props to you!
I came from Primitive Technology's latest video straight to this one and was briefly startled to hear Burl's narration instead of only forest sounds 👁️👄👁️
I love seeing the creativity that goes into these builds. The most impressive thing to me about all these projects is how you don’t get frustrated, freak out, or give up when things go wrong.
Love your work man - to answer the implied question around 5:10 about how adding two soft metals makes a harder one: it’s the atomic structure that matters. Copper and tin are both ordered lattice structures, which is naturally quite soft. When you add tin to copper, the larger tin atoms replace copper within that lattice and that makes it harder for the copper to flex. If you’re more into visuals, imagine the copper is a bead necklace and the tin is a baseball right in the middle. Coiling it up would be made much more difficult by the baseball. It’s just that same mechanism at the atomic scale.
That was a super fun process to watch. The final product looks very cool, but I must say you are a true madman for following through with this kooky idea.
The density of pure copper is 8.9 g/cc. For comparison, iron is 7.9 g/cc, and pure aluminum is 2.7 g/cc. As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I knew this guitar was going to be a heavy SOB.
My recommendation is to cast hollow next time. I know it's cheap to sand cast, but being able to make your pieces out of wax, dip them in refractory slurry and cast each piece will make the guitar lighter. Then you can tig weld them together, clean them up and you a more desired result. Maybe you can do a promotional piece with a local foundry, where you promote them and get to use their facilities to make a guitar? Also, fifty-pounds of bronze if pretty expensive and not practical in terms of playing long term. However, beautiful piece none the less.
Na dude that would ruin it things, too fancy; the reason we watch this guy, is cause hes one us. If that guitar didnt weigh 40 pounfs, i wpuld have only been ok with it weighin 90.
@@zatoichimasseur6767 While I get what you're saying and I fully enjoy watching content like this that I can very easily do (as in I don't need a welder, know how to weld, be buddies with a foundry for little to no cost) it would be very interesting to see what someone could do with this concept but in a bit more "sophisticated" way. I love legit DIY shit like this, but seeing a uber professional take on it from time to time is cool too.
Copper is a metal with opposite properties to steel. It work hardens, meaning the more you mess with it, the more difficult it gets. To anneal it, you quench it.
Was that "Slither" from Velvet Revolver at the start of the demo? I swear I could hear Slash and The Conspirators playing that and getting the crowd shouting to it!
@@anonnona8099 Set fire up it, good do you know anything kid Go ask your primary school science teacher if it’s possible and see what he says You might learn a thing or too
@@CricketEngland > Set fire up it, good do you know anything kid > > Go ask your primary school science teacher if it’s possible and see what he says > > You might learn a thing or too Dear god, WT~ is wrong with you? I tell you what - get hold of a bit of bronze, and with the aid of a can of lighter fluid and a box of matches see if you can make it catch fire. Jeez.
That looked like it took some serious determination to build. Subscribed because you will improve, you're humble enough to eat up the imperfections and progress. Keep it up! ❤
Have you thought about doing a Kintsugi styled guitar? one that was broken, chipped, and such, but repaired with urushi lacquer with powdered gold/silver/platinum?
I'm sure you probably didn't do the first body pour at night for its awesome look..... but it looked awesome. Another great build made possible through your rugged determination, patience and dilligence. Thanks for all your effort. A truly beautiful finished piece.
Damn, watching you make guitars from increasingly more challenging materials has been awesome. Your creativity and ingenuity for these tough projects is so captivating to watch. Can't wait to see what you make next.
I had an old Veleno guitar. An aluminum guitar made in the 70s. That guy did the body in two hollow halves (machined out) that are screwed together. It was all aluminum. Sold it for way too much money a few years ago.
You know what would be really meta? Building a guitar out of old guitars. Like, get a couple of junk guitars people are throwing away, sawing them up then using different pieces from each guitar to make a jig-saw puzzle like guitar. 😅
As a guitarist who’s been in 3 rock cover bands and 3 church bands, as well as somebody who went to college for 4 years doing welding and automotive tech, your luthier skills as well as playing skills are absolutely lethal dude… I know I sound like every other person when I say I am thoroughly impressed by your work but holy hell dude this was no easy task, this was honestly an insane task to take on.. but major major props to you for persevering and making it happen for us viewers because I know none of us could’ve made it happen like you did, or any of your other builds honestly. Your dedication and work ethic is unmatched and I can’t stop applauding you for it! I saw Burls Art posted a new video and I knew I was in for a treat and you legitimately never disappoint. Never stop doing your thing man, I hope all is well with you :)
For the rest of the world: The 20 pounds of copper + 2 pounds of tin translates to 9 kg of copper + 0.9 kg of tin, so about 10 kg for the neck. 30 pounds of copper + 3 pounds of tin used for the body is equivalent to roughly 13.6 kg of copper + 1.36 kg of tin, so about 15 kg for the body. The 60 pounds crucible full of metal for the body weighed about 27 kg. The finished guitar weighs about 40 pounds = about 18 kg.
@tommy_svk > For the rest of the world: The 20 pounds of copper + 2 pounds of tin translates to > 9 kg of copper + 0.9 kg of tin, so about 10 kg for the neck. 30 pounds of copper + > 3 pounds of tin used for the body is equivalent to roughly 13.6 kg of copper + > 1.36 kg of tin, so about 15 kg for the body. The 60 pounds crucible full of metal > for the body weighed about 27 kg. The finished guitar weighs about 40 pounds > = about 18 kg Gold is approx 2.4 x as dense as bronze, so solid gold one would come in at about 96lb/43kg If one could be made from iridium (osmium is a bit toxic), you'd be looking at 110lb/50kg. And about $8M.
