Coolest Guitar EVER? | Fano Psonicsphear Luthier Teardown and Review
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Welcome to Crimson Guitars HQ czcams.com/users/CrimsonC... where Ben is giving what he thinks is the 'Coolest Guitar EVER' Fano Psonicsphear a thorough going over.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introducing the Fano Psonicsphear
2:22 Taking a closer look
3:05 Interesting switch controls
3:40 Do not forget that you can own this guitar by following this link - www.greatguitargiveaway.com/
4:00 Strings off and taking a look at the frets & neck
5:50 Undoing the screws & removing the scratch plate, bridge and neck
7:00 The first look inside
8:06 The electronics & pickups - Lollar 2011 KM
10:14 Replacing the Aluminium top & filing it down to make the neck fit better
13:00 Ben starting the Level, 'Crown' & Polish
15:20 Polishing with Fret Rubbers & a buffing wheel
17:05 Fretboard & Finish Cleaner and Restorative
18:30 Reattaching the quite chunky neck & looking at the specs
20:40 Bridge on, restringing and setting the intonation
22:20 Short Fano Psonicsphear Demo
25:00 Conclusion & demo with Josh
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For all of us who grew up watching The Jetson’s, this guitar fits right in.
Very cool, love things like this with unique construction methods.
What an amazingly cool guitar.
The machining of the acrylic is beautifully done.
I knew it reminded me of something and I found the Relish guitars that have a metal core and (plastic) front and back plates that snap on with magnets.
I wonder if any inspiration was taken from the Fano?
Delighted to see an old Petersen Strobe tuner, I was beginning to think I had the only one left. They are unbeatable.
Definitely going to be buying tickets for this one. I really like it.
I agree that this is a really cool guitar. The neck, based on the measurements, is a little thick for my taste but all in all a really great example of a modern classic. ✌️ & 💕
I have a Brian May guitar and I think the out of phase switching is really cool and gives you more options with 3 pickups. Also it just makes the guitar a little bit different from the norm.
Shades of vintage Vox.
I like barrel jacks, but when they wear out, they're done. The beauty of a Switchcraft style jack is that it never needs more than a clean of the contacts and tease it back into good contact. Easy service is a killer attribute in anything subject to wear.
At 60 , a life long Carpenter with tooling experience .
I have been doing bits of work on quite a few guitars
You have inspired me to go Custom
I will be weight relieving a Squire 70s Jazz Bass from the back
Remove most with a Foster Bit , and rout clean
Cheers from Florida
Always loved Fano from the moment I first saw a demo from Andy at Pro Guitar Shop (who else remembers those early CZcams demos?). Even though I owned a used guitar shop for years, not a single one ever came through. Some day...
Omg I've never even heard of one of these but I'm so in love right now
Love the color. I bought a winter jacket recently with exactly the same dark orange color. Looks cool with the light grey too! Youo should put LED's in there with the same orange hue to them :D
Wow! I absolutely love that guitar. Agree with you on the switching, but at the same time seems like a breeze to change it up for anything else.
Simple, clean, precise. Very nice. I think barrell jacks are fine if your playing standing up.
I like the look and the construction quality.
One of my favorite parts is the knobs. they seem to have a different hue that other amber ones I've seen don't. To get the frosted effect inside they probably just bead-blasted it lightly with some walnut shell or other light media. 😉
Arroyo Grande is a beautiful little town on the central coast of California, just south of Pismo Beach. Very nice area!
My old soviet guitar "Ural" had a 5-pin DIN connector. I replaced it with barrel jack. When something goes terribly wrong and the jack is broken inside - you need proper tools (which are not always at hand) to extract the pieces. On, let's say, Stratocaster (never happened with mine, actually) you just need to unscrew the jack plate.
The switching system employed on this guitar is actually quite a bit more useful when used on a triple pickup axe (you can get some really cool sounds by setting two pickups in phase and one out of phase) but is much easier to use with three position mini toggle switches as opposed to the rather clunky slider switches used on this model.
BEautiful design and matching anodised top it's quite spectacular
I'm really rather impressed at the anodising, it seems to be more robust than I expected
I really love that guitar! If Iwin it, please include instructions to use the switches. ;)
This caught my eye when on the website and bought a ticket. I wouldn’t mind winning this.
I'd love to see a series where you get a guitar like this, pull it apart to see what makes it tick and then make your own version, with improvements that you'd make.
That is exactly what I am planning on doing.. and based on this guitar at that!
Beautiful guitar !
This is the kind of thing I want to add to my collection. I have all the usual suspects. Les Pauls, 335, Strat, Teles, etc… Oddballs like this are so cool.
I couldn't agree more
Very nice sounding guitar!
Lovely looking thing.
Though those two screws half showing at the bottom of the scratchplate would seriously meddle with my OCD 😩
You may find that at stage volumes, the phase of just one pickup will change the level at which feedback will happen or the frequencies at which feedback will be enhanced.
Personally like the barrel jacks in my personal builds because they are way simpler to mount and smaller on the side of the guitar IMO
Strange, but cool! Reminds me "relish guitars", from switzerland (of course without the humbucker-trick-awesomness). Thank you Ben
Good shout! They make very cool things!
Simply amazing instrument! As a metal shaper I would love to have seen a shaped top on the body…don’t get me wrong I’d be more than happy owning it as is! Lol
I missed this givaway.... Been looking for a psonicsphere for decade.
Hope you can also do a teardown on Japanese guitars, particularly the Yamaha Revstar 2022
How cool is that, I was unaware! There's a nice guy on Reverb selling one in 'ull. It is a Retrosphear and it is at an attractive price. Someone get it bought before I succumb.
That's basically the Fender Mustang switch configuration. I had something like that in the first guitar I ever played and I hate them. Some people really like them though. Those are also not P90's. They're more like Jazzmaster pickups with magnetic slug poles through a shallow wide coil. They just have P90 covers and mounting screws on them. Very interesting. Very interesting guitar over all.
The pickguard reminds me of brandy snaps.
What a cool guitar. Almost star trek.
My guess would be the body was molded that way and they machined the areas where tolerances were important.
Barrel (panel) jacks suck. I used to use them in the instruments I built. The problem is the contacts are small and wear out after a while. I’ve had to replace them on every guitar and bass I own.
Recently I bought a Pure Tone Barrel Jack. I don’t care for their standard jacks, but this has a nice solid feel. Time will tell if it last longer.
That guitar is wired like a Fender Mustang with the phase switches. The pickups are made like Rickenbacker toasters.
what about adding some led lights somewhere inside so the acrylic border glows...would be nice..!
Those switches remind me of the shifter in a modern BMW. Not complicated, but weird the first time you use it, and not necessarily intuitive if you’ve never seen them before.
I kinda like the pragmatism in the wiring although there sure are more "convenient" solutions to get the same sounds
Nice GMT “Batman” Mr Crowe!
Just the video to watch on a plane ride
I could hear those switch freqs were different, top/bottom, either, or. They would supply different 'tones' when pushing the headroom on a tube amp. Thus they are not the same.
Cool guitar..
So, swapped or replaced neck? The scrapes in the side of the neck from the sharp aluminium top would bother me too, hidden as they are. Controls wise, a four way blade switch would offer the same sounds in a simpler package.
oh to the competition on les Paul and others got 19 days on , to the one that messages check, oh but the mate will be later!
Those Lollars are much more like jazzmaster coils with the narrow bobbin and slug poles, what an interesting guitar!
Looks like their alnico pole P90s to me
@@MooCow2X2 yeah that’s exactly what they are, they’ve made the bobbin more narrow than a p90 though
Yup, they're like the Gibson slug pole P90S PuPs in 2015 DCs.
Not really P90s as they are missing the two bar magnets.
Well spotted everyone.
They are actually humbuckers called Lollartrons and made specially for this guitar and never sold or released for any other instrument.
You should check out Flaxwood guitars. They seem interesting
I hate barrel jacks, had one on my Warwick. Only seemed to come lose during shows and the only way to tighten it was to take off the back plate. Best part I ever replaced.
Very cool but I really prefer wood, it's just my favorite medium because no 2 trees are exactly alike.
Ben, is the word tone acceptable when it's placed in front of the word control, or knob?🤔
Imagine this with the fretboard and controls from the Electraglide!
Oh! I love your mind!! That would be beyond incredible!
So cool. I want one
Me too! 😞 😓 😩
That's a really nice instrument.
As Fender found out a while back, aluminum bodies have a tendency to mute high frequencies. Otherwise great.
With its unorthodox construction it reminds me of my Tokai Talbo.
Omg that's a delicious guitar 🎸 pity I'd break my teeth 😬 nibbling on it. I sooooo love interesting and different guitars especially offsets
Pretty cool really. I guess after months of use you would get used to the switch's and how you personally put them to use.
I hope who ever wins that beast uses the hell out of it!
I am sure of it, such a stunningly cool guitar
The out of phase sound sounded the same, but the single switch changes didn't. I think they do something else. Maybe I'm just imagining things.
So is that Fano as in Dennis Fano who now does Novo guitars? It's very cool as are the Novo ones.
Yep, that's the one
Very nice guitar! Well finished. I might suggest you try one of those lovely solid aluminum necks, as it would be in keeping w aluminum body. Not impressed with the pickups.
Definitely Jetsons. "Eep Opp Orc Ah-Ah". The kludge Iness of the redundant phase setting on the switches is a rather moot point as one would never go from "in-phase/out-of-phase" to "out-of-phase/in-phase" IRL. It's AC, wiring it forwards or backwards often gets you the same result.
What a beauty ❤
How about this one for the barrel jack. I bought 5 usa Jacksons in the mid to late 80's never had a single issue with the big switchcraft style input. During the same time period 3 Kramer's too. All had the switchcraft brand barrel Jack's. One needed replaced twice. The othe two were temperamental many many times with multiple cables and wireless transmitters.
Now that I've been building guitars a few years with around 30 builds and have used these switchcraft barrel jacks 2 times I can attest I will not be building more with these unless it becomes absolutely necessary.
Lastly, there's not enough pressure on the tip of the patch cord or transmitter jack, therefore the culprit for the issues lies at this tiny weak point.
That's the best got dude, convinced yet? They just dont stand the test of time.....
Convinced..
Mr Ben What was the nut made out of ?
Hey Bun, I've noticed that you've gotten away from the "fold over the tape" trick when masking off fretboards recently. Any reason for that?
Speed.. it is a really cool method if you only have 1" tape but I recently found smaller width options and it is much quicker!
Cooler than penguin piss, that thing! Odd switching though, like you say. I'd have gone with neck/both/bridge on one switch, then series/parallel/out-of-phase with the other.
BEN!!! what happened to the kit guitars? i can't find them on the shop anymore
Sorry. We are not making kit guitars any more. We are moving those staff towards building white label guitars for other manufacturers and our own brand instruments. So sorry. DC
I like it. Definitely entering
I know the feeling, only I'm not allowed to 😞
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars I looked it up. That sucker is pricey!
Did you finish the Kauri wood guitar yet? That wood is sick!!
Not yet. Keep watching. DC
Fab and groovy guitar. More than a hint of 60s Vox, (which are the coolest guitars in the world).
I think you are onto something here!
Really cool guitsr. I need it!
I think the pickups are supposed to be like dinasonics
Dennis Fano is a great designer , check out Novo guitars,x his latest endeavour
I have mixed feeling about this one. I like the engineering and build/materials but don't like the shape. I agree with you about the switching- surely you only need one phase switch? But there again, I don't like the sound of two pickups out of phase, unless it's Brian May doing it.
With a chonky neck, and a super-lightweight body, how does it balance? Is there a lot of dive? Or does that prominent offset upper bout balance it out?
No neck dive at all, truly amazing balance
Besides the layout, the pickup switching system is fundamentally the same as a bog standard Fender Mustang (guitar)
The wiring is the same as a Fender Mustang, like it.
It is at this point that I realise I have NEVER played a mustang through an amp!? The horror
The wiring is very similar to how a Fender Mustang works
When I was growing up, back in the 60s, there was an import guitar (from Scandinavia?) that had a composite, clamshell, screwed together body. I cannot remember the manufacturer and I don't know if the company still exists. Does anyone know what I am talking about or am I just having a flashback?
Only Scandinavian maker I know of is Hagstrom
Pickup selector switching is a copy of Fender Mustang/Duosonic system
Cool guitar. I think I might have liked it better if they used wood instead of acrylic.
Interesting guitar
Cool guitar
I think this is a pretty cool Guitar :)
Thats a neck that was made to party. Honestly wouldnt hurt to add a couple mm thickness to the nut end, yeah I like em thick...
Always feels a little bit of a waste when they have 3 way sliders and two single coils and the switching doesn't allow for Series for "This is now a Humbucker" sounds. Still really cool, It's one of the neater constructions and the use of interesting materials really makes this one stand out.
I agree, I was a tad disappointed by the wiring design..
Trivial information; this switching is just like the Fender Mustang guitar. Two 3-position sliders, one for each pickup, with the centre position being OFF and the other two being ON with the phase reversed. Kinda a redundant design.
Afternoon Mr C.... can u tell me what the pads are u are resting the guitar on plz.... the orange and black tings.... :) Davey P..
Hi Dave, these are bench cookies. Very cool things. We're considering making our own version soon too tbh
Cheers.... will add them to my list :) ps do u know that your You Tube channel keeps asking me to Telegram you, sometime with "Iv won something" have seen this on other channels as a scamm... just an FYI... Dp.
Thank you Dave, we are trying to deal with these scam comments as quickly as possible.
Sweet Batman, Ben 👌🏼
sorry for the rookie question, is the acrylic body not done in a mould rather than cut?
No. Now days people would cast the resin and run the risk of shrinkage. Bubbles etc, but this was about 10 years ago and was a solid sheet of acrylic warer jet and cnc routed out. Much easier to make for the luthier if a bit more wastful
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars thank you for your reply. I've just finished a resin/cloth top guitar, made from my wedding shirt. And I thought that was wasteful-covering whole blank with epoxy!
It is for sure a nicely designed and made guitar. The orange is incredible and goes so well with the aluminum and acrylic. Detractors for me would be the pick ups and the fact it is yet again another body that looks like freakin Squidward. Still a very unique and desirable instrument.
Squidward!? 😆 🤣
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars yes grab it by the neck and hold the body up. Its Squidwards (From SpongeBob Square Pants) head shape.
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Also see the spam bots are very busy in this thread. Went thru and reported as many fake telegram me accounts as I could find. If you can block keywords add telegram to it as NO ONE who is not a scammer uses that for the most part.
I do like the shape of the guitar and it sounds pretty good with the switches for the normal phase. Not really a fan of the sound with the pickups out of phase. I like the color combination of the copper and silver together. I do like the head stock design as well. Over all a pretty nice guitar.
This not guitar but art👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nice piece...
I couldn't agree more, kinda want to keep her!
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Is the Telegram account posted real?
No, these are a scam, we have never and will never use a Telegram account.
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars thanks. No way to ban him/her?
Copper color ?
The "Jetsons" Model
57 Chevy !!
personally I prefer the fender jazzmaster but it's a cool looking guitar
The jazzmaster is cool.. now, imagine a jazzmaster hardware, pickups etc hut with this body construction! 😳 I want!
Put controlled Color LEDs in side each cavity.
😆 I'm sure someone has already done this at some point to one of these
Cool look. Not a cheap brand. How much ?
There's a few other second hand models on reverb circa £1300. So not cheap, even used.
Everything about the traditionalist stick in the mud that I am shouldn't like this guitar. But I can't help but really like it haha!
Me too!! I used to think I was a rebel, now I realise that I simply adore vintage straps etc and then come full circle to loving the new stuff! Who am I? What do I even LIKE anymore 😆