Likewise!

Ain't that the truth. You'd think that after something like 14 years of making content (of different sorts) it'd get easier, buuuuut...😅 And absolutely right, and precisely what I am aiming for in the year ahead.

@@IPGuitars It just gets harder once you have a few successes I feel. I used to be super happy with a few hundred views on a video but these days anything under 1000 makes me feel bad 😂

Okay, yeah.. that is a very fair point😂

This I have noticed and it has been proved time and time again. One of the main reasons I don't wanna give up on this channel. You guys really really pulled through and I am beyond grateful. Happy New Year!🤘🏼

Thank you🤘🏼 and I've probably only mentioned the band very shortly in passing before. Also with my brain being so fried most of the year... I forgot that that was a thing even though it took up a huge portion of my time and effort😅 Sounds like a great resolution to make and I look forward to you sharing progress as things go onward, feels flattering that my content has in any way been motivating!

Thanks so much! It makes me glad to hear you've enjoyed the content and the best of luck on your pine build! Making a pine guitar is a great way to learn the ins and outs of guitar building at a relatively low cost and at low risk. If you run into any questions along the way, don't hesitate to reach out! I look forward to hearing how you get on!🤘🏼

Thanks and glad you found the video helpful! Been meaning to make a new version of it that's a bit clearer

Thank you for watching the content! And you are right, there is tons of stuff to be explored and made. I just need to find what is appropriate for what I do/what I have resources for

You kinda hit the nail on its head with this. I have very little desire to go along with what everyone else is doing, but changes need to be made as well. I think I have a fairly solid plan going into 2025. Remains to be seen what will happen

You won't be disappointed🤘🏼

@@IPGuitars The way it is wired on this PRS, is such that the push pull on the tone knob works as it should. I just realized that the volume know is now push / pull as well. Seems I have more options than what I originally thought. I'm rewatching your vid to see if yours was like that also.

The top is Karelian birch. I got lucky and found a piece with absolutely killer figuring for dirt cheap!

I can vouch on my behalf atleast that it's true😂 then again, I'm a builder not a player

Yeah I know Bernth, been following his career on/off since the early days and it's cool to see how far he has come. He is also an incredible guitarist and is doing "all the right things". The most popular video I have is in this vein: the 100% Pine Guitar that I built in 2019. That was a gimmick build of "this shouldn't work" and is the sort of thing I should do more of. If I come up with a similar "crazy" idea, I'll of course make a video of it. But I need to first work on the showcase guitars for next year. There's the rub: wanting to be taken seriously as a builder vs. being a "KZbinr". Thing is that nowadays you need one to gain the audience in order to show off your skills and therefore gain some form of credibility😅 if that makes sense. Another example is Crimson, my old workplace, the channel and brand gained an immense following because Ben did crazy experimental stuff. It's kinda what my early videos were all about, just in not great quality and I've had to make a lot of them private a good few years back now. I just need inspiration to strike or an idea to go off on to create something... weird😂

@IPGuitars 🤘

Are you talking about the capacitor at 10:02 ?

@ nope, the same spot on the other pot though. Except it just shows a jumper wire, no capacitor.

@@zacharysawicki4111 I've been looking at the final diagram at 31:44 and I am not sure which wire you mean. On the tone the third lug from the left has the cap on it (connected to the pot casing). You said there is a jumper on the lug of the same spot, but that lug is empty. I was sure to add each wire on the diagram as the video went on, so I wanna figure out if indeed I did miss something😅 which color wire is it and what are the connection points? (Sorry if I'm just being blind and thick for not seeing it)

@ if there was a way I could send a picture I would. On the diagram, the pin on the right of the middle pin where the tip connects it shows a little black wire connecting to the pot

Oh I know right? Would make this so much easier. I don't see a wire attached there. Only thing I can think of is that the drop shadow on the graphic might make it look like there is a wire there, but even that is dark grey instead of the black of the black wires. I tried to make the actual wires of the diagram super obvious.

Thank you so much for all the discussion and support. Time will tell what comes of all this. Changes have to happen, that is for sure, but to what end, we will see.

Definitely the case. The amount of content uploaded every minute is insane. And doesn't help that I purposefully don't follow trends or go against what the algorithm would like for me to do. But also, after a break, it hasn't been the same. Amount content made on YT has relatively stayed about the same, but the luck element has gotten harder to achieve

Thank you🤘🏼

Dude. Thank you so much. Analytics are trailing a bit behind, but so far all graphs are pointing upwards in the last 48 hours

Only noticed this now😅 it sure does! As is evident with how this video spiked views/engement like crazy (comparin the others this year)

You're not blabbering 😁 I enjoy the "sparring". Now I did do a fair few collaborations and spent a lot out of my own pocket to do those "let's see if it'll go viral" builds, which is a big part of the original concept of the channel I wanna say 2013-2015. Some of those caught on, but the craftmanship and videos were... really not great😅 gotta start somewhere though. Then came the two guitars for a production company, Rooster Teeth. Made one for one of their animation departments and that never really got shown anywhere to anyone, and one for their gaming department Achievement Hunter and that guitar was featured in sooooo many videos, those two garnered a lot of attention too. There was the guitar that I made for Matt Heafy (Trivium), but that demo video never came out on KZbin and the stream VOD was deleted in a short while (dunno why). The collaborations with Cyan Kicks/Sunrise Avenue brought forth a lot of new peeps finding the channel, but with it being one-sided promotion on KZbin (bigger attention on Instagram). A good few charity guitars that garnered no attention. And then of course the somewhat "scandal" (people suck sometimes) of one project, which hit me hard personally and showed my viewership crash in my home country. Since then I've recovered this year from that. And while I have ideas for all kinds of promotional stuff for the audience, I haven't been able to finance any of them, so they've been pretty dead from the start. Maybe if I manage to sell a couple of guitars soon enough :) And now I'm looking forward to collabs with a few brands/companies in 2025, which look promising. The ongoings builds are specifically also planned to help approach future marketing options and promotional ventures.

Oh and there was the GGBO22 that I entered which was great and fun, but ultimately caused a near burnout😅 but that worked pretty well to bring people to the channel too

@IPGuitars that Trivium thing could've done the trick imho. Love them a lot. Build to fall or not... Make your choice 🤘

@IPGuitars one of my favourite metal bands lost society's KZbin channel has a mere 30k subs. Maybe aggressively pursue 10k for now. Do some sponsorship on social media, spread some cash to advertising on Instagram, x, and etc. Whatever. Take care 🤘

The Trivium was a shame that it kinda fell flat, HOWEVER it was a personal victory in so many ways that I don't mind it. Funny you mention Lost Society, I need to have a little chat with Sammy ;) When it comes to throwing money at Meta advertising, I used to do that before some regulation changes and how paid advertising works on their platform (read: without enough money it can = money I don't have)

I don't know. I guess the reason I want it to survive is because it is literally where all of this started for me. Thanks to this KZbin channel I managed to start a business and grow. It is the place with hundreds of videos that some still find useful. I want to be able to offer what I do to people trying to build on their own or look for specific solutions to problems. I had another IP channel back in 2015-2017 for gaming, I have a personal channel, my band's channel, old non-active ones. IP is the only one that has survived until now, and only because I took a break for the sake of my own health. Hardly seems fair for it to die because of it. I know it was just an example, but I gotta say guitar lessons ain't the way😂 I don't know how to play Tl:dr, I don't want to be a "KZbinr" as much as I want an extension to the IP Guitars business

@@IPGuitars oh shit, sorry about that.

@@bamteelhighgrounds379 Don't worry about it, I didn't take offense in your comment :) it was a fair question

Can you maybe consider reaching out to other creators for collabs? Podcasts, that kind of thing; maybe horizontal marketing will help

Absolutely on the table right right. There's a collaboration in the works currently and a few other I am trying to get going too🤞🏼 unfortunately I also did one podcast with another creator, it reached almost nobody and ultimately that didn't matter because I was asked to take it down anyway😅

Oh most definitely. I could very easily skew to start doing stupid viral internet gimmicky things... but I have zero desire to do that.

@IPGuitars sometimes we have to do shit to continue doing what we like. Im not saying do stupid shit but maybe consider trends and likes and needs of content consumers a little bit more and try adapting a more of a viewer pleaser stand. Don't know, just thinking loudly.

Once again a very good point, and of course I will attempt to jump out of my comfort zone into trending things as I have done a fair few times in the past, but now I try to find a way of doing so while staying true to myself. I've been there with the whole "KZbinr-persona" as well, but after a while my heart just wasn't in it and that does affect people watching. I'd rather find the compromise (and a new strategy, which yes, is in the works) while being... well, me and showing my work the way I do it :)

I will try my best, and have been. Hopefully we can make this turn around

Dude, don't give people false hope. Some things aren't meant for some people. If it ain't working, it ain't working.

@@JohnnyWhytetrash true. I don't want to do that.

💪🏼💪🏼 Pidetään tilauskirjat valmiina🤘🏼

Thank you so much🤘🏼 and cool that you're willing to help out, it's awesome to hear that this reached you. I've got a fair few refurb/restoration videos on channel, so maybe there is something that might interest you as well!

Thank you! And I will do my best to stick around🤘🏼

Wow.. thank you so much for willing to jump in and help out a stranger!

Thanks💪🏼

The issue is that the Search function doesn't work as it used to either. Trying to search for specific videos will only get you a few similar videos in until it turns into recommendations. Tested this a while back with even searching word-for-word with the title of a video and didn't even get that video in the results🤷🏼‍♂️

This is a very good distinction to make☝🏼should've been a bit clearer on that part

Yeah, it sucks that this is starting to become a real problem amongst creators now. I hate making a video like this, but I want to reach people otherwise it's just "throwing videos into the void"

Thank you!🤘🏼

Yeah, I remember you telling me that... Makes zero sense. But thank you so so much frankie, it means a lot!

@@IPGuitars I got you fam. Easy enough to have a playlist of videos on monitor 2 as I work. Besides - it's fun revisiting some of the more questionable haircuts and facial hair you've had over the years. 🤣

😂😂😂 gotta admit, creating the playlists made me shudder at some of those choices as well.

Thank you so much, really do appreciate your support! Honestly this made me smile and is why I do what I do. That being said, if there is something that actually does interest you that you'd want to see more of lemme know! That's great info to have to be able to make videos you and others want to watch👍🏼

@IPGuitars It may or may not be the direction you want the channel to go, but I've seen a LOT of channels growing from doing refinishing or upgrading of guitars, guitar painting videos, repairs and things that the DIYer can do without job-specific tools, and scratch builds. That is just my $0.00012 worth of an opinion, but it might help.

@bigkahuna100 and it is a topic that has kept the channel even somewhat afloat during the last few years😅 I do have a very special video on that topic coming up, once I get to that point with an ongoing project

This was learned from trial-and-error myself😅

Thanks so much my dude 👊🏼 the meme is definitely appropriate 😂 butyeah, sucks ass to say the least. KZbin really does like to punish creators for taking a little bit of time to rest. The really annoying part is that half of last year and a lot of stuff this year is full of videos I am personally super proud of, but gained like 40 views in the first day😅😅 I tried different formats (old and new and newer), but nah... They really didn't wanna play with me no mo' Aaaaanywho, love ya man, been a bit too long since last hangs yet again. Let's fix that💪🏼❤️

Oh yeah! Totally forgot about that book, I remember flipping through it at some point in England, I can definitely understand how it'll bring about a lot of inspiration. Hehe, yeah I thought those turned out pretty well😁 glad it translates well to others as well

Thank you🙏🏼❤️

Yritys kova💪🏼

Thank you! A little lost in translation here I guess, masking tape in Finland is literally known as painter's tape🤦🏼‍♂️ what I used was rather painter's tape than masking tape, but masking tape was the term I knew to use

The pine fretboard still looks as good as it did when I made it👌🏼

Oh damn😬😬

Thank you so much for that, really. It was lookin' a bit rough for a minute, but I doubt anything will make me stop building guitars.

Thanks! In this video I used Crimson Guitars Guitar Finishing Oil.