Vester Korean Bass Guitar| Stainless Steel Frets and Nut Guide 

There's something very gratifying about watching Craftsmen make something out of nothing. I bought a 1971 hand-wired Marshall 50w JMP for $500. Everyone laughed and said it looked like it came from the bottom of the Titanic or was a boat anchor. I lovingly treated it with toothpicks, Q-tips solvents, sprays, cleaners, blah blah blah and by the time I was done it turned into a $2,500 amplifier. All it took was time and attention to detail and a little loving care.

Those hands are golden

It must be so satisfying to return these lovely old guitars to such a beautiful condition - probably better than the day they were made.

hardware replacement was great as usual, but i'm most impressed with the results you got on the dowel fill for the electronics, you barely blew the finish and the re-shoot on the color looks pretty spot on, when you skipped straight from unpainted to fully painted i was surprised, i'd be curious to see your method for color matching and painting. Great work!

Steel frets, and nut......very nice. The whole repair was 👌

So beautiful! I love the nut, such an interesting approach 👍🏻

BEAUTIFUL workmanship! I've seen and heard comments about expensive guitars but hand craftsmanship on a budget guitar is what makes true quality, not a headstock decal or a price tag.

Unf***ing believable restoration, video production, and overall feeling! As always, kudos, MRKT!

Absolutely awesome video. The nut is killer but the work you put in to restore that board is freaking boss! Nice job.

not only was the nut made of steel it was made from a steel bolt lol very impressive you have unbelievable skills

Absolutely nuts! ... great work

That's amazing, great work!

Awesome work! You've put a lot of effort for the restoration of the neck. For the steel nut, at first I must admit I was surprised, but the final result is a masterpiece! And this bass sounds really cool, lot of power.

Excellent job Nut looks amazing and the sound is kick ass

I love your work dude. Awesome!

Fantastic work restoring the neck, and the fretwork and nut are absolute works of art! I had brass nuts on 2 of my basses, and ended up removing them - but that's only because I prefer much, much darker sounding basses myself. That said, under other players fingers, metal nuts sound great, especially this beautifully crafted stainless steel nut!!! 👏👏👏

All I can say is you got great craftmanship!

I’ll be honest, I’m usually a fan of steel nut. But, this one looked and sounded amazing. Nice job.

Absolutely stunning. The work on the neck is fantastic. And how you restored the body without a full refinish is so cool. I’m a fan !!! 👍👍👍

Excellent work. Riff at the end sounds great too

Very nice first class work Really great job!!! super upgrade !!!

I love that shot of the tuners moving by themselves.

That is awesome you have created something to enjoy

Wow, very nice work! And it's sound great!

I like the idea.of stainless steel frets.Nice work.

Not afraid of some hard work I see. Loved this video. When someone can take a piece of trash and make it beautiful !! Cheers to you.

Great work! I missed Vesters. They had amazing products...

Awesome Dude! I’ve never seen your channel before, will be watching!

sounds amazing!

Amazing work. You transformed than beat up bass into an amazing instrument that’ll last a very long time!

Wow, what a great job in this bass!! Congrats!!!

Your work is beautiful. Respect

It's high quality work! Respect.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Very well done and so happy to have found your channel, you sir have a new subscriber... I look forward to going through your previous videos and will keep an eye out for your new videos as well. Thank You!

Nice job!

Excellent work and it sounds great.🎼🎸🎼

Awesome job

My first bass that I bought back in 1989 was one of these (but without the active electronics). The headstock, the tuners, the pickups, and the bridge all look very familiar to me.

Sounds great.

Very nice job, compliments

Very Nice, great job. Congratulations.

Beautiful job my friend. The steel nut is crazy 🎉

Excelent! It's so shine!

WOW! And it sounds great.

Damn, that tone at the end, my kind of nasty bass tone! The nut work was awesome.

Complimenti! La tastiera è uno spettacolo!

Amazing work! 🙌

sick looking and great tone, lucky buyer

Very nice job. Thanks for sharing

I'm really respect for that.

Excellent work

You do excellent work.

Un verdadero maestro artesano!! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Felicitaciones maestro 👌🏼💪🏼🇺🇾

3:44 Bass is definitely enjoying it! Awesome work!

Well done & great job! Turned out Awsome! I bought a HSS Vester Catalina / strat, for $80 Australian, a couple of years ago. Absolutely 1 of the best guitars I own! Well, close anyway. Lost count of how many I own. All types & sizes.

Last comment, my history teacher in 1983 has family name Vester. Come to the Netherlands more often, it helps against rusted ideas inside your head.

good job. nice to watch)

Just amazing man!!!!

Great job

Awesome bud

real nice bass now.. wow

Nice work! Regards from Brazil!

That's a LOT of hard work you put into an inexpensive instrument, and your result is amazing! No, it looks like original equipment one would know the nut used to be a bolt if you didn't tell them. It looks like original equipment. Stay safe there my friend.

Nice work. I really like the music tracks playing from the start.. please check the track listing description as the ones listed are all different

This is beautifull!

aboulute,,brilliant job,,sounds great!

That's a cool bass man. Good job

Many years ago I used a hexagonal piece of tool steel, to make a nut, for a slide guitar project i built. Worked extraordinary well.

Good job

Looks nice to me 👍

That was a bass that needed some work, and you did give it that, and then some.

A M A Z I N G work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

отличная работа! желаю удачи в развитии мастерства и канала, очень приятно смотреть подобные видосы! однозначно подписка) ps звук у баса шикарный

Nice

Bravo...

Great!!

Muy hermoso buen trabajo

Да уж, какие-то пионЭры хорошо над ней поиздевались))

Cool very Cool

Que trabalho grandioso, parabéns

Fascinating work! The result was really good. If I were in your position, I'd do exactly as you did with regard to the decisions you made about that Vester. The only thing I was able to aspire to would be to make it a fretless bass but I'm not sure if that would be suitable for this bass. Keep up the good work! Stay safe! Macedo Pinto Portugal

sounds good, looks really sick. Like ir AF

nice

that nut is beautiful 🥰

Охренительная работа! Красавчик!

,дуже гарно, прикольно побачити свою ямаху у відео . )))

Great work. As to the claim that the steel frets will never wear out: Check out Trigger (Willie Nelson's guitar). Gut-string classical guitar that has frets so worn that they almost aren't frets anymore.

Чудова робота! Вийшла просто цукеронька👌😍👍

sounds so heavy metal!!!

Норм такий інструмент, п'ятка грифа величенька, масивний брідж, PJ конфігурація. Ще й такі лади й поріжок - у самих Warwick такого нема =) Кайфонув від роботи, все ще збираю для свого проекту деталі потрошку, скоро Бас-2 отримає своє друге життя.

Man i wish i had those skill set. I have about 15 guitar necks and still cant get it down, lol Im positive tho, that to do the job you must have proper tools. The tools are ungodly expensive! Good job.

You made a nut out of a bolt. Amazing lol Great vid and workmanship

Oh boy, I owned two Vesters in my life time and apart from the QC being very inconsistent they are known for having certain issues. These were 1989 super strats we're talking. The tuners were janky, the truss rod nut is almost always worn out so you would have to use a dremmel to carve a flat head screwdriver insert in there. And that's not talking about the "floating bridge" that was up to bloody Jupiter before I blocked it off on both units. What's also weird is that one had a very thin Jackson like C neck while the other had a very classic Fender like U neck. Same guitar, same year, just a different colour. I embraced the jank, tried to make it work so far but I'm going to mod the hell out of the guitar I still own. Video on that coming soon.

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Fantastic job, absolutely beautiful. Did you retain the original electronics ?

Hey hey brother great video, I pray you all are doing OK with all that is going on there 🙏 also how did you learn how to do all your working on everything?it's so cool 😎 and also how did you learn how to play bass guitar?thank you so very much 😀 stay safe OK 👍

awesome work, the only thing that i didnt like that much is to use a hammer for the frets. Please! try to clamp them, you will find it is a lot better! You owe yourself to give it a try because you are really good with this stuff

I fixed a Vester few years ago, a guitar. Not a bad instrument.

I would be interested to know how the steel nut affects the string life. Steel on steel is going to cause a higher sheer factor so I'm curious if it causes more string breakage. Nice work, BTW.

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