Building A Guitar: Offset Telecaster, DIY | Modern Builds | EP. 64
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- This week I'm building a guitar by taking the parts from another guitar. I combined the electronics and hardware of a Fender Telecaster with the shape of a Jazzmaster. I know these already exist, but I still think it's really cool. Template is available in the written article which will be live tomorrow. Thanks!
The Tele kit I used (mine was from grizzly, but it's the same kit.: (Amazon) geni.us/me4Z
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Mike, I love that you point out your mistakes. I watch a lot of maker videos and the majority are edited to make it look like whatever they are making went together without a hitch. I think we all know that isn't always the case. Keep up the strong work.
Thanks Dave! That's good to hear haha!
I agree with this 100%. Every build I do has at least one small hitch that comes up during the making, and I get super frustrated sometimes because it seems like all of the instructional videos I watch just never have any problems.
I used to sketch guitars in middle school, and thought I would build guitars when I grew up if being a rock star didn't work out... we'll I haven't done either, but since I started expanding my "maker" skills i have thought about giving it a go more and more. Thanks for the inspiration! Great video.
Right on! Go for it....It's a lot of fun, and there's a lot more room for error that I was expecting
As long as youve got most of your limbs and at least 1 eye, its never too late man. Go for it!
How u going now mate?
Dude, so glad you took the suggestion to incorporate your music more, love it!
Yeah! it was fun to do it, i'm gonna do it more often for sure
Didn't realize it was Moby, thought it had a title fight vibe kind of... Nice job!
Yay, that is awesome, looking forward to it :D
which moby song is this?
That mobo record is the highlight of the video
Hey!! I was waiting for someone to shout it out haha
mobo?
modern baseball
very nice! I miss seeing handmade guitars. My husband made beautiful guitars when he was alive. His were 2 solid pieces of wood hallowed out in the center. they had a beautiful tone. It is a wonderful talent to make musical instruments. it is good to see that it isn't a lost art.
I'm definitely not talented to that level, but it's definitely an impressive art making really beautifully crafted instruments. Maybe someday I can get there.
Boy, i love that song in the beginning! Reminds me of Real Estate. Love it.
Would love to hear more of your tunes!
Dude! That's exactly what I was going for haha! That's awesome drew the connection
Thank you..wanna get my son a guitar. he pawned his fender, his amp and peddles to feed us last February. this video helped.. hopefully I can afford to build him one for Christmas
Dude, awesome job! I can't believe you freehand routed everything, I stressed so much when I routed out everything and I was using a template! I need to build another guitar now that I'm better at woodworking. And great tunes! I'd love to collaborate on some kind of music build if you're interested.
Yeah! it's funny, even with all the mistakes, the hardware has so much room to adjust and fix any errors. That would be cool!
a telemaster?
Not bad!!
Warmoth makes these, and they refer to them as Jazzcaster.
JazzTele
Man, this is something I've wanted to do for a long time. As an avid player I love collecting guitars, I just love all of the unique aspects to all of the different shapes and designs. Making one of my own would be just awesome, I would probably buy a neck like you've done here. Carving the necks and setting the frets just seems like an absolute science as much as an art, I'm not quite sure I'm up for that task.
No doubt! I don't know if I'd ever make the neck. That's gotta be the toughest part. With making the body, there's room for error, but not for the neck i'd imagine.
I was very pleased to see how the guitar is made of wood!
You did it great!
I watched this video without skipping and I'm going to watch it again.
JazzCaster. Nice.
Thanks Dave!
+100
telestang
*Excited for version 2*
Me too!
For the distressed look I like to put on two different colors one on top of the other so when you sand and distress the guitar they both come through and look real nice
Ah yeah, that't be really cool!
i like the shape, reminds me of the fender pawn shop series. Not a fan of the distressed look but to each their own. I hope to one day have the tool and skill set to build a guitar.
Use a strip of veneer to shim the neck pocket. Get the shim cut to size, wrap neck in cling film (the super thin plastic you wrap sandwiches and cover plated meals with, I can't remember what americans call this) and glue the veneer into place using wrapped neck as a clamp.
We just call it plastic wrap. We keep some names pretty simple
I love this concept. Props on the modern baseball album.
I really dig the music and the music style. Reminds me that I need to find my War on Drugs record and let it play.
Also great project. Love the cheap materials and the great result. Love that you made it dissstressed. My experience is that when i make stuff like that I end up liking it more than the polished, as they are more honest and you're never afraid of using them.
BEST PROJECT SO FAR!
Very true! I'm not going to be worried about bumping this one against my desk haha!
Mike (Mark), you made this look stupid easy. Well done, brother.
Haha! It really wasn't as tough as I was expecting. obviously it wasn't perfect, but it definitely made me more confident to make a nicer one
Cool build. Adding the music really helps tell the story.
sweet!! Thanks a lot man
I'm sure someone commented about the neck pocket, so I'm sure you know why it didn't work out. I'll just leave that alone. Lol I enjoy your furniture videos, ran across this. I started building guitars a few years back. Very therapeutic for me. Nice work.
Yeah! It was a good learning experience for the next one. It was a lot of fun
I'm super inspired right now. I've been wanting to get myself a telecaster but it would be amazing to make one myself as well.
Do it!! The kits make it super easy, and they're pretty cheap
Leo would be proud. Those early Tele's were glued-up planks. And Pine to boot. I love pretty wood but other than looks, it's wasted on a solid-body guitar. Plentiful, cheap pine is the way.
Always awesome to watch a guitar build! Thanks for sharing!
I don't play anything but wow this is making me thing about it. Looks great!
I love wood working and guitars. AWESOME video.
Nice! Thanks a lot man'
Digging the Modern Baseball record!
Hell Yeah!
I can't wait for the next guitar if you really make the new one now that you know to make it, please let me know, I would love to create mine one too. GREAT WORK!!!
Man, this makes me want to revisit my guitar building phase of life! Nice work!
Haha! Do it!
Looks a bit like a Fender Jazzmaster. Awesome!
cool build mate! Can't wait to see the "refined" version
Thanks!!
you had me with the MOBO record !! awesome
Although I loathe the whole "fake relic" concept, I LOVED the basic design -- well done!
Really cool guitar! I'm at the same point. I feel I'm ready to build one from scratch. May buy the neck. I did a relic and saw a good tip. Before clear coating, put some steel wool in apple cider vinger and let it sit a day or two. You then take the "juice" and rub on the bare wood. After about a day, the wood darkens and looks old, like it was exposed for a long time! Looks cool!👍😎🎸🎶
Very cool, I can't wait to see your next attempt
Nice, really out of the box for a 2by4 project !!
Thanks a lot man!
You're getting better at this.
Thanks a lot Kody!
Nice build Mike! You probably know this already, but put mineral spirits on your pattern and it will pull right off. Sanding a pattern off is really difficult. I enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing.
I didn't know that!! Thanks for letting me know dude
Hi! If you have seen 2018 Fender line you will find offset Telecaster there. Now they are trying almost every combination to increase the sales. We can call you nostradamus now :)
Hi guy, that was a great video because it showed me how we can make something with inexpensive parts, that if worked at could end up being pretty good. As you said in this video that this was your first attempt at doing this type of build. It would seem that if you did this again you would be more aware of where to be careful, like the neck pocket and other areas that you mentioned. I think if I did something like this about three times I would develop some skills and learn from mistakes to where I would be able to go on to other better projects. We have to start somewhere and this allows us a way of doing it fairly cheap. Thanks a lot buddy for all of your efforts and for sharing this with us.
Pretty cool for a first build. It sucks that you don't have a drill press. Neck screws are terribly off, which why you had the alignment issue. Along with the rough neck pocket. You could've just redrilled the neck mounting holes but I'm sure you figured a lot of this out afterwards. You're lucky to have a space to do all this work!
Yeah, There were definitely some issues haha! Thanks man!
love to see holy ghost by modern baseball chillin on your bookcase
Great Job Mike., can't wait for the next one!
Sweet! thanks man
Inspirational! Looked like you had a lot of fun with this. I recently bought a cheap guitar, that someone had fully disassembled, from Reverb. Just missing a pickup, but it has all the rest of the parts. It was well under the cost of even a cheap kit, so I figured this would be great to use for a first time build. I've thought about reshaping the body some, to make it more my own and unique, but I wasn't really sure. Your confidence in just going for it with this project has shown me that I should probably just do it. Even if I mess it up, it was cheap, and I'll still learn from the experience.
That is incredible. Wow
Very very cool project dude and something I'm sure you'll now actually have a really hard time every getting rid of, even though, as you say, it was experimental and you want to make one even nicer.
Thanks for putting on the little challenge - it was fun participating in something like this. Cheers
For sure! I saw your squatty potty, it came out really cool! that end grain technique is really cool
Ah thanks man - yea as silly as the concept of one of those things is it made for a great little project build for the maker challenge. And thanks a lot for the sub as well - you're projects are an (obviously) big inspiration to the stuff I try to tackle and how I try to tell my story so I appreciate it. Cheers
Modern Baseball 🙌🏽
Congrats, looks pretty nice. Next step: Makin' the neck by yourself
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I find this so impressive...well done.
Thanks a lot man!
Very cool Mike. Although not perfect, I think it is "perfect".
haha! Thanks a lot!
Great video. I like how you work through or work around obstacles when you don't have all the tools or equipment. Very cool, makes people feel they can do it with the tools they have.
Thanks a lot man! I appreciate it
Its a incredible and beautiful guitar!!!
Dang your music is actually amazing.
Nice! thanks a lot!
I would love for you to revisit this build and do another guitar!
I think I’ve watched this video 100 times.
It's a jazzcaster - very cool.
great job. I have a couple of suggestion builds. How about a suana, wooden bowls and cooking utensils. Hope that helps!
This is pretty cool mang! Like you said...few mistakes here and there but I'm pretty sure you'll do great next time! 👍👍👍
Amazing job dude. Congratulations! God bless you.
Thanks Carlos!
Awesome! Keep it up!
Great project, also diggin a lot the music, ill love to hear more
Awesome!! Thanks dude
Guitar is cool.... But I have to say, I'm even more impressed with with the song you made. Great stuff as always, Mike!
Haha! thanks a lot
im grafting telecaster parts onto a jagstang.. looking pretty good.
Nice!! Thanks a lot
this is way cool. you're so talented.
Haha, thanks a lot
Cool, man. Great work.
Loved the project. Will do in 3-4 months can you tell the measurments of the wood?
Hey! only just noticed you're a lefty! all the best people eh?! great build, its amazing what you can make with 2x4's!
All the best haha!!
YES. I've waited too long for this
Sweet!
Great build, Mark!
Haha! Thanks Matt
Awesome jam !!
Damn dude that intro music is fantastic.
Yeah!!! My favorite project! Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱
That's awesome!! Greetings from Oklahoma!
Great job man! Modern Baseball vinyl ;-) i love it!
Damn, all those beautifull tools, great job aswell, that thing looks stunning.
Love it!
that's an awesome guitar!
Wow that is AWESOME!!!!
Thanks!!
Guitar looks amazing! It’s offset, it doesn’t have to be perfect! 😂😂😂
I'm actually getting a Jaguar vibe from the guitar, but really well done dude
Reminds me (in concept at least) of the Jagstang
dude this is rad and it's cool you listen to modern baseball too
Thanks a lot!! They're dope
im a newb here but dude sick build. i really wanna get into wood working for my recording studio so im defs subscribing.
Love this, totally stumbled on your channel looking for headboard DIYs, I find your videos really soothing and satisfying seeing things come together, and I have no clue about carpentry (even though I really wish I did), your creations are really inspiring. Thanks!!
That's awesome!! Thanks a lot! You can always start with something simple!
Modern Builds for sure I will, thank you. If you were to suggest one tool I purchase that will do a lot of jobs to get me going what would that be? Was thinking maybe a jig saw?? So much stuff you seem to need 😀😀 luckily we recently bought a place that used to be owned by a little old dude that was a frequent DIYer there's a workshop setup downstairs I need to make good use of I'm his memory! I have drills n the usual toolbox stuff but am thinking bigger 😅😅 is it sad to get excited about one day owning a belt sander?
Nice job! Looks cool!😎
Peep that MoBo record! Nice job
Looks sick, I'd have put the clear coat on before distressing to get a more authentic look
Even though I don't play an instrument this was a great video to watch. Thanks for the great content as usual Mike!
That's awesome man! Thanks a lot
Fantastic job buddy, 👍🎸☠️👍
Thanks!!
Loving your channel Mike!!!
That's awesome!
Pretty dope dude! I love the fact that you did it with scrap, that's just badass.
Haha! Thanks a lot man!!
super sweet build bro! awesome 🤘🤘🤘
Thanks Sam!
That Modern Baseball record at 5:45 though!
High level, "Show de bola"!!!
cool Mike!! looks good bro..and was really digging the music. good stuff..i need to get on it and decide what i wanna build. lol
I know! You're running out of time haha!
Modern Builds it's not funny😣 LOL
I decided on a design and a project got like 90% of the video shot today should be uploaded within the next 3 to 4 days that's my game plan anyways if not it'll definitely be in before the first but didn't you say I could give you twenty bucks to get a late entry LOL just kidding bro no for real I should have just enough time
. I had to jam out 16 cornhole games for this huge wedding in the order is due on June 1st.😥 got those done earlier this afternoon and started shooting at the rates and dinner have a good one bro good stuff on this last podcast I like the hypothetical question segment itsfunny
Great work! I miss your old song.
Very nice project
You should try to make an acoustic guitar, it has a more complex build, do it may be smart to build it in two halves (a front and a back) and they don’t require any electronics.
woww thats really cool!
I can just repeat myself and tell you how amazing it is that you have new ideas every week!
really like watching your videos!
:) greetings from germany
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate it
Definitely my favorite video from you. Even if this build wasn't my favorite, the editing and music seemed to fit your personality much better, and I love the new 'clamp' logo.
right on!! Thanks a lot