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"The Star Spangled Banner"! 🙂

Hellow can you tell as more about audio rezistor on preamp ?Worh? Sorry for my Engliash!

I really had a problem with Pauls condensending tone in his speech

I'd say $10000 is quite a red flag, in and of itself.

I would like to think so, but having bought a through neck Ibanez that was PERFECT on paper, but basically A-resonant in real life, I am a lot more hesitant to just take the plunge now. If anything I'd love to see e.g. maple body with ash or mahogany neck, or other silliness like that just to "experiment". But then someone is still going to have to pay for them! 😂

I was a hobby builder about 10 years ago but about 4 years ago i became a custom builder but i don’t enjoying this method, sometimes it's hard to build two or three guitars at the same time, it takes a lot of time and energy, especially when it’s not your main job . Sometimes i reject a particular guitar which ask me to build, because i simply don’t like its type, design or they demand cheap hardware, or woods. sometimes the customers don’t know what they really want! They don’t have enough comprehension of their design and the final result may be not the same as they expected it in their minds. I recently decided to be an artisanal builder.

Interesting question Chris.

I started making guitars coming from a woodworking background. Wow, what a learning curve! There are no shortcuts. “Do the work” is the only way to learn.

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maybe ill take some abalone powder and put it in a pill and see how i feel I think the abjection would be the color and what makes that as we can take shell powder as a supplement

I agree with it knowing that calcium carbonate dust is a threat and should be protected from I have wondered about just what makes the colors what they are these minerals for each color and how's that affect us also the abalone shell is highly confined to using the water minerals available in a particular place lately theirs been a transparent thick layer of amber color like caramel they are laying on a layer of that and thats not calcium carbamate

My brother and I used boiled linseed oil in his Tallahassee music store back in the early '70s, and it worked fine for us. We coated a LOT of fingerboards with it!!

You're absolutely right. In terms of making music it doesn't matter. I'm terms of science and facts however it matters alot because you have businesses and companies selling a "belief". How an electric guitar produces sound through an amplifier is very well known and the concept of tone wood has been tested thousands of times at this point. We don't believe that tone wood does not impact the tone of the guitar, we know. Now if the look and feel makes the playing more enjoyable then sure. Make that argument. Also vibrating pickups do not impact frequency because it's mechanical not electrical. It's 100% the fluctuations of the magnetic field caused by a conductive material moving through it. The one exception is in semihollow bodies that are able to produce enough vibration in the air to affect the magnetic field essentially becoming microphones

I have access to a significant amount of lignum vitae and quebracho wood, and I'm wondering if they might be suitable materials for an electric guitar nut. While it seems uncommon to use extremely hard woods for nuts (in electric guitars), their inherent durability suggests they could be excellent choices. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.

Hi @HighlineGuitars, loving your videos, they've been very helpful on my first proper build where I'm looking to stain the body a rich black with lacquer on top. I just wanted to clarify, forgive me if I've misunderstood anything in the video, but you've recommended to use sanding sealer both before and after applying a stain, is that correct? I ask because there seems to be a lot of conflicting opinions online that sanding sealer should not be applied before staining as the stain won't penetrate into the wood that well?? You've explained it better than most and I feel like your reasoning of the fact that the stain will be more uniform makes a lot of sense but I wanted to double check. Thanks 🙏

Definitely, thanks so much for all the help!

Thanks, I'll try the BLO.

I like the video. I like the idea about letting some extra string for helping with the bendings. I don't like the idea of leaving the headstook though. Would it work the samen leaving the extra string on the bridge side and moving the "tunning pegs" further back. Something like using atunematic bridge and having the tunning peges at the back of the bridge. Or the friction the stricng with the bridge with not make it possible? maybe using some rolling thing on the bridge to help with that? Just throing some ideas in there. Thank for the great work you are showing here.

If I know that a neck will not warp because I have the 'right' wood... How do I know? Using laminated necks is stronger and more stable, but I also find them aesthetically nice, especially with contrasting woods. However, it is a fact that constructing them takes more time, and avoiding seams is a matter of craftsmanship. But I'm just a hobbyist and don't need to make a production to make a living. But I see that when you depend on it, time is money, so using non-laminated necks saves (a lot of) time.

My neck is mahogany, I need to fill the pores first. Can I use shellac/sawdust coats, sand. Then use the boiled linseed oil?

When I close my eyes I hear a cleaner toned Steve-o! Great vid btw very informative 👍

Still failing to get string ferrules evenly spaced. 6th guitar in the works. 😅

Dude, that looks amazing!

I just use a sharp knife to trim down the erasers.

I always like your segments. Awesome information.

Well, I just applied the Solarez and before the body could level, the Sun went down.

Hi, What brand do you recommend for a 3 way toggle switch ?

So wise, thanks. to make an omelette, we need to break eggs. tools and time and experience are essential. thanks again

JS Bach wrote some of the greatest works in the history of music without even specifying which instruments should play them. This is how much tone matters in music. People who discuss tone do not understand music.

How is the finish doing after these last four years? Thanks, man!

Okay, now finish my guitar!

Actually no, God made chickens and the chickens laid eggs. Great guitar building vids though! 😁

I've been making guitars for 12 years and would definitely fall into the hobby builder category. I have made specific guitars that people requested, but I discovered that I kind of hate doing that lol. I never aspired to make money with it and always considered it my secret art project more than anything.

The best method I've seen thank you! The screws are genius. My book has me blocking the end of the headstock so it won't move. It moved! All over. Use the screws folks!

If guitar-building could be done easily and well in just "3 easy steps" with "no special tools required", people like me would have gotten bored of it a long time ago. Best thing you can do for yourself is watch videos to learn how to easily acquire the SKILLS you need, and with those skills you can do just about anything -- even if your tools aren't the best ones suited for the task. Having better/more specialized tools does shrink the learning curve and margin for error, though. Either way, watch the videos and be inspired to gain experience, not take shortcuts. Shortcuts and guitar building seldom work out well. 🙂 PS: Thanks to your incredible videos, I was able to successfully build my first guitar (from a kit) -- it turned out great, and one of the many things that helped was your advise on testing on scrap wood before committing anything to the actual body/neck. I appreciate all that you do, and I know I'm not the only one. Stay well, Chris!

Just a hobby builder here. I don't call myself a luthier.

This is all correct, but still there are some techniques suitable for beginners with little to no access to specialized tools and materials. For example, I painted my electric guitar for the first time, and I don't have access to all the special brands of paints, varnishes, etc. What worked for me was the superglue, fine grained water sanding, ordinary acrylic spray paint cans and shoe polish. You can find these materials in any small hardware store in any country and they work.

So why did you not name the manufactures that got close to creating the right tone in these pickups instead of remaining silent?

Yeah I've had luck w/ cheap Walmart poly. But I gotta use several cans to be able to buff it. But it does level out even. Z poxy can be tricky

Hold on, let me get this straight, you have to have some idea of what you are doing to get decent results? I mean, you spent all that time working on this stuff and getting experience so we don't have to, right?

3 weeks time will be fine too.

I want to build a quadruple neck guitar with 8 pickups and 4 scale lengths but I don’t want to buy any tools or learn anything. Also the don’t want to solder anything and I don’t want to spend more than a couple hours since I have some TikTok watching to catch up on. Although I’ve paid you nothing I demand you provide me with a satisfactory answer. :)

Really classy guitar🤌 that fretboard

Your channel is such a wealth of information. For a layman such as myself trying to learn some basics of guitar making, this channel is a godsend. I seem to get different answers online for what finish to use, and it's nice to hear from someone that's actually tried the ones I've seen recommended.

I think everyone is just so afraid of their work being judged that they’re afraid to mess up and make the mistakes they need to make in order to learn the best ways to do things. Here’s a good example from my experience in working on my custom jazzmaster. I bought a Dremel router attachment from StewMac to cut the seat for the binding and at first, it was working great until I started cutting along the grain of the wood. The router bit took a small chunk of wood out of the top of the body. I tried filling it with a sawdust/wood glue filler paste, but I got impatient and ended up sanding half-dried filler paste before it had completely hardened. I thought about it afterward and realized, since I’m gonna paint it later, I could have just put the binding on and filled in the gaps then, which would be covered by the paint anyway.

Thanks for the tips! They don’t replace experience but can replace making poor money decisions on cheap equipment instead of buying the right stuff in the first place! I just bought tolecut from eagle abrasives and it seems to be a decent solution for small drips. A file is a great idea I may pick one up when I do my next build. I might even try to make runs on a test piece and compare the results. It would be a decent video idea comparing different ways to fix runs drips and other flaws in the finish. At least for me, the finish has been the hardest part of learning guitar building.

Here's the REAL problem. People are chasing the tone from a record. I don't need to tell you how many variables there are in that chain.

Once again, you're right. It's existential or some zeitgeist type of thing. I'm totally in the newbie zone, but I've been through a serious de-mystification process already just with basic CNC work. I've been at it as a hobbyist for almost a couple of years now and have not even built a single instrument. Have I build prototypes? Yes! Several. I'm close to actually carving -- using a blank of actual "finished product" wood (swamp ash) -- a B.C. Rich Mockingbird replica. Oh, and not the whole instrument. Just the freaking body! It has taken me painfully long just to get to that point! I've borrowed/stolen a lot of 3D CAD and CAM techniques from you, but in the end it has always come down to how much time I spend practicing and attempting those techniques.

Have you tried the music nomad s file?