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@TwangTown 3 күн бұрын
I use Urethane base coat / clear coat. Usually Deltron DC3000 and sometimes DC2000 if it's gotta be done really quick... it's just so expensive. $600 a gallon... crazy. Speed coat is ok and much cheaper. I was using Upol Euro clear for a short time. The 2 behind me are PPG. I didn't make this body or neck though. Otherwise the price would be double.
@braderrick 2 күн бұрын
@@TwangTown great info thanks so much. I like the way you think. I want a durable finish on a sparkle tele, I have relics but don’t want relic in this case lol. Thanks again!
@braderrick 3 күн бұрын
Love it! Hey do you use poly on your sparkle finishes mostly? I’d actually prefer poly is why I ask. I know it builds faster and thicker and doesn’t shrink like lacquer so I think it would be better for non-relic guitars. I’ve been wanting one of your benders but also wanting a double bound sparkle body. Could kill two birds with one stone I just realized and leave it all up to you!
@TwangTown 2 күн бұрын
I'll only do nitro if requested. If you play outside, especially around here. You need to use bug spray... and that melts nitrocellulose paint.
@joefriedmanguitarnut 7 күн бұрын
Forrest!!! You sound so killer!! When you play, do you keep your volume knob all the way up or do adjust your dynamics and level of grit with it??? How do you get it so twangy??
@user-et2fj8xm5l 8 күн бұрын
Graham would have loved that guitar
@scrappy291 8 күн бұрын
The GP Tele!!!
@melverntaylor402 6 күн бұрын
It's fantastic!!!
@PedalSteel-by2hx 8 күн бұрын
Plug that into some tubes man
@thevagabond8978 9 күн бұрын
Nokie!
@Kerob86 9 күн бұрын
I have “cooler” amps but my 83 Bandit 65 might be my favorite amp. I just dont understand how people don’t think they sound great.
@evanbush1426 10 күн бұрын
Just out of curiosity. Do you still have the Princeton?
@TwangTown 10 күн бұрын
@evanbush1426 absolutely. It's my session secret weapon.
@evanbush1426 10 күн бұрын
@@TwangTown That amplifier will DEFINITELY carry you a long way.
@DeplorablePepe 10 күн бұрын
That's a sweet tele!!!!
@Fotosaurus56 10 күн бұрын
It's definitely worth it to disassemble an old amplifier and use DeOxit on anything that moves or makes and breaks contact, even rca jacks on reverb units. I was given a Peavey Bandit 65 Solo Series and all it needed was the above. Plays like new.
@evanbush1426 10 күн бұрын
I think by cleaning the pots on it, you may have solved your kicking problem.
@TwangTown 10 күн бұрын
@@evanbush1426 😆
@Liam_Doherty_UK 11 күн бұрын
I remember buying a Peavey 2 x 12 combo many years ago, and leaving it outside the shop while I brought my car round. My pal asked “wasn’t I worried someone would run off with it?” There’s one thing you can say about those old Peavey combos, no one was ever gonna ‘run off’ with one.. My back couldn’t deal with moving them these days 🙃 Jeeze, those things weighed a ton.
@TwangTown 10 күн бұрын
@Liam_Doherty_UK still do!!! I brought it to the gig im playing tomorrow, and it's so dang heavy. But incredible headroom, and loud!
@michaelwest7183 15 күн бұрын
Man the drummer was in another time zone 😂 but great jam 👍❤️🎼🎸
@dennisweis9959 16 күн бұрын
All the boxes checked with this guitar
@lngbrder2 17 күн бұрын
great work !
@bobsmith1098 22 күн бұрын
JLD 29 bucks and 54 cents right now online. Love to see you having fun, it's obviously a calling more than a career (although hopefully you get paid enough at w/e you do). Thanks for the vid!
@TwangTown 15 күн бұрын
Worth every penny!
@TerryThera-g5s 22 күн бұрын
Robinson William Harris Mark Lee Frank
@leejones-le7xx 24 күн бұрын
sounding good brother!!!
@leejones-le7xx 25 күн бұрын
Sounding great brother!!!
@connorhart7597 25 күн бұрын
Mopar or no guitar, that's the saying, right?
@chasekelly8619 28 күн бұрын
It just has original style wiring with the tone knob not connected to the bridge pickup. You can get a little jumper wire and solder it to the switch and have the tone work for the bridge.
@JohnnyPickerVintageGarage Ай бұрын
Cool guitar, did that guitar have a Mexican Body? Or was it American?
@DansSoulfulMusic Ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHOaloBvhMt9grM
@brockpeterson1497 Ай бұрын
Just switched from a G bender (Joe Glaser) to a B bender and having a total mind F. Dig the vid. I'm 61 been playing all my life. Always learning new stuff. This is great! Thanks, two years later! Haha!
@DaveDurango Ай бұрын
I know of someone in Boston who has 4. 3 tele, 1 strat
@Liam_Doherty_UK Ай бұрын
Excellent!🎸😎
@Liam_Doherty_UK Ай бұрын
Indeed, I certainly saw that video of yours from way back when, with a Bigsby & a B bender. Prompted me to get in touch with you from the UK and get my own Bigsby & B bender Tele. You did a truly excellent piece of work, and it’s my favourite guitar in the world. 👍😎
@lngbrder2 Ай бұрын
good to see you ! great video thanks for sharing . BTW the paisley B AND G bender is great ! Darrell
@Oldguitarplayer Ай бұрын
Sounds great! I knew it would with you two involved!!
@jesusislukeskywalker4294 Ай бұрын
🚬🤠 dudes 👍🙏🤎💪☝️
@Vern859 Ай бұрын
How are you doing? Kentucky, i think, is where Scotty Anderson is from. Have you ever seen Scotty over there? Incredible guitarist. How is your trigger finger?? You know Phil Keaggy just had surgery for that.. I was going to say that those therapy rubber bands might help with your finger there.. Thanks for the info on the Bigsby. 👍
@petedazer3381 Ай бұрын
Nice picking son!
@dennisweis9959 Ай бұрын
So what is a baratone telecaster?
@TwangTown Ай бұрын
@dennisweis9959 27" scale 13-66 or 14-68 gyage strings. In the 60s Fender called it a Bass VI.
@RaisingWolvesBBQ Ай бұрын
Good stuff!
@Kan-o-tex Ай бұрын
Great music and great advice. I had trigger finger surgery last week and my first attempt at playing again was on the '86 Bender MIJ I got from you. Still pretty swollen but it's nice to play without the popping again. It's always a good idea to appreciate what health you've got and as you age to learn to work with what you have and not cry about what you wish you still had. Bill Monroe was a great example of a man who refashioned his playing as his abilities changed.
@TwangTown Ай бұрын
@Kan-o-tex yeah I'm guilty of crying about it. It's just so frustrating. But I'm producing a session this week, and I'll adapt my playing to cover everything. And if I can't do it. I can always call a young kid like Austin Crum who is incredible, to nail anything I would have played. I do have my own style and I've discovered ditching the pick allows me to still flow well. I'll just start using a thumb pick I guess.
@Kan-o-tex Ай бұрын
@@TwangTown Thumbpick and bare fingers is a blast for Jerry Reed tunes; I dragged out the nylon string guitar and have been working on Jerry’s Breakdown this summer. Whatever it is you’re doing to adapt sounds great from this side of the guitar!
@stratcat9432 Ай бұрын
Forrest ,Just wanted to let you know..I read every word of your story attached to this. And yes, I know you reached a very high level of speed and skill on the guitar because I've followed you for about 20 years now own recordings of yours, and bought lesson dvds from your old ebay site. Your Merle Haggard "Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down" short lesson on KZbin was and is still a favorite I return to now and than. So Thank you. And yes..using any tools and hard work with your hands , really does take it's toll on them . I have to warm water facet stretch my fingers and wrists before I really hit a guitar playing session now. Lol. But it helps. Take care bud!
@stratcat9432 Ай бұрын
Sounds fantastic!
@THEItchybruddah Ай бұрын
Sound great Hoss!!
@TwangTown Ай бұрын
@@THEItchybruddah thanks Phil. Appreciate it bro
@mikemorgan4774 Ай бұрын
My band opened for Diamond Rio just after "Meet in the Middle" blew up(1989?). So I'm standing backstage, waiting to start the show, and Jimmy Olander is standing next to me warming up on Maybelle(later learning that was not a picture of his mother). I noticed he was twitching ever so often and was actually thinking maybe he had some kind of tourette's or something. So as nonchalantly as possible, I asked him if HE was nervous (or something). He chuckled and flipped his guitar over to show me the meniacal workings of the first B-bender I had ever seen. It wasn't until that moment that I realized how duped I had been by so many of the worlds best country guitarists. I thought, "OMG! They've been CHEATING all this time!!!"
@TwangTown Ай бұрын
That's awesome! Lol Jimmy is a badass. That's hilarious. I wore that record out. I had it on cassette, and every ferry trip to Vancouver Island and back, I listened the that album, and McBride and the Ride - Burnin Up The Road. Stole a lotta chops from Jimmy over the years. Hoping he swings by the studio next week as I'm producing a friend. And Billy Thomas is on drums, so it would be fun to have em both in the room. Been lucky enough to see Billy with Vince Gill twice while playing the same fair circuit. And played with Billy live once. It's kinda crazy that a kid who grew up listening and playing all their songs, ends up working with them later in life, or just hanging out at a guitar lunch, or something. That's badass Mike. I was watching Skaggs live at the KMPS picnic in Seattle in 1985. And that's when I finally figured it out. First time I saw him press the neck down and heard it bend. Then a little later I asked Jeff Hanna backstage at a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band concert who did his bender. And he gave me Joe's number. Once you see it... you can't unsee it. And I immediately knew Jimmy Page was using one on all the later Zeppelin stuff, and the Honeydrippers EP on Sea Of Love.
@Kan-o-tex Ай бұрын
Awesome. How's the trigger finger treatment going? I'm scheduled for surgery on mine this week. Still loving the '86 Tele!
@TwangTown Ай бұрын
@Kan-o-tex honestly it's not bad if I stop working. It's not locking up, but it hurts pretty bad gripping, or making a fist. I'm on the verge of ditching the guitar pick. Because It's much easier to keep the hybrid flow, without a pick. I'll explain in another video. Maybe tonight.
@Liam_Doherty_UK Ай бұрын
Another excellent customisation 🎸👍😎
@Frankie.Baby.Chicago Ай бұрын
Your pickups sound great, Forrest. Lots of spank, and the Turnstyle finds all the tones. 👍🏻 😎.............. 🎼🎶🎵🎶
@TwangTown Ай бұрын
Thanks! Took 3 years of R&D to decide on the windings. Michael does some amazing stuff with the switching.
@toastoftowne1076 Ай бұрын
Where is Porter?
@toastoftowne1076 Ай бұрын
Where’s Porter?
@TwangTown Ай бұрын
@toastoftowne1076 don't know. He wasn't at the reunion.
@toastoftowne1076 Ай бұрын
@@TwangTown thanks for the reply. I love watching the older Porter clips. I also love those teles your making:) Aloha
@waynegram8907 Ай бұрын
What is the Turnstyle switch assembly doing? S mode, T mode, Wide Range T mode, etc
@TwangTown Ай бұрын
@waynegram8907 great question! It's all passive, there's no battery. So I'm assuming Mike does it all with capacitors. TurnstyleSwitch.com It's pretty amazing. And I didn't even pull the tone pot. And kick on the 2k boost.
@rshock Ай бұрын
Very cool
@doughutchison358 2 ай бұрын
Outstanding! Wish the audio quality was a tad better. Killer Tele tones!!!
@JanJohanssonmusic 2 ай бұрын
Great instruction... lot of substance to digest,
@braderrick 2 ай бұрын
I’ve added middle pickup routes to existing pickguards with great results before. Unless he was just wanting to keep the original one as well. Neck pickup hole could have been modified too looks like. Thanks for sharing, love your channel!
@TwangTown 2 ай бұрын
@braderrick thanks Brad. No existing route on this one. Jimmy asked for it to match his Valley Arts Brent, which I put a bender in about 15 years ago. It's super close. About an 1/8" closer to the bridge pickup than the standard Nashville Tele route. So when I routed the body, I made a little more room. The LSL is just a bit off from a regular / 60s Tele anyway. But since I already had it completely apart for the B bender install it wasn't a biggie. Besides Jimmy has 9 of my benders now. He's the record holder.
@braderrick 2 ай бұрын
@@TwangTown 9 wow, here I am just hoping to get one in the next year or so! Lol. Again, thanks for sharing