Im looking at doing something similar but using Mark Thomson FF pups in my Prs Se Core 24, and a set of Matt Heafy FF pups in an Eastman SB/59. I also have a Schecter Sunvally Shredder been thinking of replacing the stock EMGs with a HetSet of KFK set… Ill have to buy shares in a 9v battery company 😂

Great guide, thank you very much!

Cant believe I watched till here and dude didnt put some b roll of the finished guitar 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂

Watching this after you told me about your wrists... I get it.😧 Don't break yourself foo'! 😉

All I can say is just "Wow!" Incredible work, as always.

Awesome

Hey Tomster. I'm liking the Workshop Vibes format - very Zen. The underside of the burl cap looked gorgeous from inside the control cavity. Have you run out of the Crimson oil or are you trying the Tru-oil out for an experiment? Do you do anything over the top of the oil? I've got one guitar with the Renaissance wax as the top finish and I love the feel of it. Also wondering if you roll your fingerboard edges - it looked like you don't, from the shot of you installing the side markers. I have restarted one of my stalled projects, but the going has been slow as it's 37C outside and just too hot to be running power tools. But, I have made a start on a JEM-style lion claw on an existing Floyd cavity using small files and was fixing some trem cavity blow out. Eventually I'll get to the point where I need to bite the bullet and experiment with swirl effects again.

I play a seven-string fan guitar 25.5/27 ", the 7 fret is perpendicular. And it’s true - pressing a wide chord on the first frets is a pain! It’s impossible to press the bar on all strings! Simple power chords, riffs, melodies - no problem, but some "F" is breaks your wrist ! 😁

Why is oak so rarely used for guitar tops? looks very nice

What a great informative tutorial for fretwork! one of the best I've seen on yt.

Fantastic video. Can you recommend a good tool for working on the feet slots? Going to do my first refret here soon!

Vaihoin tossa nauhat mun vanhaa takamine gx 200t skebaa. Muuten meni helvetin hyvin mut parista kohtaa lähti noi nauhapääkolojen täytteet pois, unohin tietenki ottaa otelautahionta pölyy taltee ja nyt nuo muutamat päät ammottaa tyhjyyttää. Millä noi kannattais näin jälkikätee täyttää ku ei nyt oo ruusupuupölyä saatavilla?

Great stuff! Happy New Year! So happy to see that you're still making videos! 🙂 If I may be so bold, I've got a few content suggestions! 😄 There's a lot of newer guitar players who might not be quite that interested in the entire process of a guitar's construction (yet!), but they might be interested in customizing their existing, cheap guitars. Maybe it would be worthwhile to look into something like "Add bling to your guitar" miniseries? With things like a) cutting out and staining backplates / pickguards; b) DIY adding flame maple veneers to your guitar (!); c) DIY adding fret inlays to your guitar (!!). I myself am dreaming of sanding down a white neck-thru Jackson SLX, gluing on an epic flame maple veneer (with a matching headstock), and refinishing it in purple burst 🤩 But everyone only makes videos of gluing veneers onto bolt-on guitar bodies! So I'm always too squeamish to try it out! Especially since I don't have any special luthier tools or even a workshop, just my living room / balcony. It would be epic to see a pro do it with a neck-thru 😄 We've got a guy here in Estonia (Kaur Kukkur) who has done some pretty jaw-dropping things for the guitarists from Wintersun (and Temu Mäntysaari now plays in Megadeth!), including reversing the headstocks on their Ibanez guitars. The first time I saw it, I just couldn't believe my eyes. I just think didn't think that the headstock was symmetrical enough to allow such a mod, or that the glue would be strong enough to keep it together. That could also be an awesome guitar mod to watch get done! Slightly off-topic, but I can imagine guitar modding becoming a really huge thing. There's just such an enormous amount of cheap guitars out there, especially ever since the pandemic, and at the same time, with KZbin (and channels like this), it's never been as easy to learn how to do things yourself. Anyhow, thanks for the content and keep up the great work! 🙂 From Tallinn with love 🇪🇪

Damn, that blue looks absolutely gorgeous!!!

Thanks. Was very helpful

Awesome!

Happy New Year Tomster. I really need to get myself one of the Savage Industries work aprons - better than the ratty overall I used to wear when doing guitar work, and way more useful. I'm surprised you have not fabricated a jig/ handle that screws into a pickup cavity to assist with painting. I think Texas Toast use that and Brad Angove has demoed a standalone that pivots and rotates. I like the new body shape and the paint really suits the unique contours. Also - 8 string Daedelus? Neck pocket looks super wide.

Thanks so much for enlightening. I subscribed.

You should've used some brite pads at least before staining the fretboard, in my opinion. Just to help the stain penetrate a little more. Looked good tho 👌

Sorry, but this is very bad advice. Only using 120 paper when you shape the basic radius will take forever. I’m in the process of shaping an ash fretboard, I start with 40 paper and it still takes a long time.

I approve of the mug

Put a little lacquer thinner after every coat on the spray can tip so that it doesn’t stick on you.

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This thing is going to be unreal!

That's awesome of you to do that!

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temu....10 bone nuts for ten bucks no different than stew mac

Best wishes for the new year!

Ah, the pains of content creation. Things you really love to do never get enough views and then something low effort that you don't really care for that much blows up like crazy. The only way forward is to somehow get into the groove of creating content that's easier to make but still satisfies KZbin by being consistent.

The guitar building community is absolutely unlike most communities out there and is probably the best group of people ever. I'm so glad our efforts helped after the last video, and I only see a positie trajectory for you going forward. Happy New Year, and I can't wait to see what 2025 has in store for your brand! Cheers!

Happy New Year Tomster. The burnout is real - but I'm glad that the community came through with watching the playlists you made. I don't recall you mentioning your band and the 4 songs/ videos before, and the added workload and pressure of that. Looking forward to the content - For 2025 I have a resolution to complete a number of guitar projects that got derailed due to the pandemic and where I've not been in the right frame of mind to continue with. Rewatching your older stuff has been motivating. I've been making checklists and shopping lists through Christmas - I've somehow managed to have a pile of shame of 5 guitars that I need to work on. (re)Starting the first one when I get up on Jan 1 (so about 7 hours from when I am posting this)

Hi, new viewer here! Found your channel a week or two ago via the Pine Guitar 4 Years Later video, and then went back and watched the rest of the series. Very excited to find those, as I'm currently trying to build a guitar out of pine myself, and you've given me an idea of what's possible. (Though in my case, not very probable, as this is my first attempt at building any kind of guitar, so honestly the 'stat debuff' of using unorthodox materials is something I can ill afford! 😝It's super low grade pine as well, it's literally from a cargo pallet. If it breaks in half when I tune it to pitch, oh well, I've got some "real" wood standing by for the second attempt.) I've since watched more of your build videos, it's awesome to see the process and how it's all done by someone with the knowledge and experience and proper workshop setup etc. - and let's not forget, the guitars you make are stunning. I'm particularly taken with the walnut top/light-coloured fretboard combo on the Celeste 2.0. Though sadly I think I could never handle owning a guitar that looked that good 'cause I'd want to take a bite out of it every time I saw it! 😋

Just found you yesterday man. Keep on with your great work. I just did a great fret work on my first ever strat with the help of a six year old video of yours. So at least to me it was recommended. I have a feeling, that it's going back up. Best wishes to you!

Thank you for your videos specially about finishing with Maston rattle cans and inlays. I hope you can still find new interesting things to get excited and filmed. A recessed drop top? Maybe copper side/inlay markers? A 7 string with two high e-strings? I think there is a lot content to be explored and made.

Great video, thank you.

For whatever it's worth... Seems like you want to put quality stuff out there that you like to do, while the most popular stuff to push the algorithm is garbage based on whatever is the new trendy thing to feed the mindless drones. Maybe just focus on whatever it is that genuinely makes you happy and let the chips fall where they may... Find peace in the surrendering. God bless, my friend.

I literally just bought a PRS CE 24 with these exact same pickups. It was an impulse buy. I am glad I did as your guitar sounds good.

Looks like an awesome start! What kind of wood was that top you cut?

My older brother says people use tons of gian to hide bad playing---idk if i believe that

Very informative! Great video. Thank you

I've seen a 13 years old channel very similar to yours called Bernth. he's having 10x views per video approximately. What's he doing to achieve this? A little bit like what we discussed jokingly earlier, but it's not a joke. Remember I wrote if you suddenly started to break guitars etc. this guy literally drilled holes in a guitar and claimed it sounded amazing. An idea to surge curiosity and interest and it's not so bad either without being stupid or obnoxious. Like imagine you did something like this. Something inspired by this. Such as a cloth covered guitar or a guitar sunken into caramel or some materials that effect the sound. Like hacks but not necessary just for the fun of it, interesting, can easily try it at home hacks for modifying the acoustics and sounds of guitars. Maybe things such as "I just poured concrete into my guitar and it sounds insane" 😂😂 shit like that. A guitar made out of chocolate, or plastic or all recycled materials, or just paper and carton, or smaller guitars, tiny ones, or giant guitars, like 6 feet ones, or Bamboo instead of wood, trying new materials that nobody ever tried building a guitar out of... Going experimental while still giving out real tips and tricks at building a guitar. I know these aren't like eureka moments but they're worth trying. Cheers.

Question, diagram shows there’s a jumper on the bottom right volume pot, did you put that in at some point? Or is there a reason you skipped it?

Hey mate, read all your comments now. Thanks for your replies. I always believe in a last few pushes. And maybe you've already done all the necessary things, looks like it. You have the drive and the consistency and the work necessary to keep a KZbin niche channel going for so long. And you are going to do the few last pushes I believe. If you fail, maybe like some other comment said, it's ok to give up sometimes, ı dunno. But maybe you can transform this channel into something else, going from woodworking or DIY or something. I understand that 12 years of dedication into a channel might be hard to let go, but I'm sure you'll know when, and how when the time comes. Don't let this shit get you down. Maybe switch content completely into something very different. Or just leave it be, and let it go and focus on something else. Must've become a habit by now. I wish you nothing but the best mate.

I think the issue is maybe more related to 1000s and 1000s of channels on youtube. People can only watch so much content.

I wish all the best for you! You have my contribution!

Used all my KZbin accounts to like this video. See if it makes any difference at all.

Commenting also increases engagement and will push video into algorithm. 🎉

Maybe try building meme guitars for big guitar channels, try collaboration with, ı dunno, the bass guy, or leo, build and send them guitars, might be costly but might work. Get in touch with bigger guitar channels, try being featured and get them linking your channel. People need reasons to come visit. Give them reasons, like promotions, custom build offers, there are many things to try before you go down if this is the line. You have nothing to lose at this point so push things like you've never done before. Do the opposite of what you'd normally do. 😂 Sorry if I'm blabbering, just heart felt your frustration deeply.

I subbed if it makes you feel better.

Pity subs aren't going to change things in the long run unfortunately. İt's obvious this channel can't pick up anymore. Why does it need to survive? Make a new one? Make guitar lessons or something? Try new stuff.