Building a custom electric guitar like no other!

[@thatonedynamitecuber]

I actually thought I was watching someone with 300K subscribers. You deserve more subs

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you I appreciate your comment! Cheers Dave

[@guitarzleo]

Amazing job!!!! The bird artwork is astonishing and that sliding platform you made for the pickups genius!!! Congratulations!

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you! Cheers Dave

[@juanantoniotorrecilla3956]

This is the most amazing build I’ve ever seen for a guitar. Thanks for sharing it!!!

[@DaveDickens]

Wow thank you! Cheers Dave

[@latrovaBR]

It's outstanding! Thanks for sharing the process! Greetings from Brazil

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you! Cheers Dave

[@AxelShelleyMusic]

Brilliant work and incredibly satisfying to watch!

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you! Cheers Dave

[@robinleebraun7739]

That hidden pickup insert and adjustment system was brilliant, Dave.

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you! Cheers Dave

[@greylocke100]

@@DaveDickens You should patent it if it hasn't been already.

[@RuffTymesBob]

This one was one of my favorites! God bless and keep doing Dave things!

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you, I appreciate your comment! Cheers Dave

[@brettbunke9096]

Amazing work with that said I would much rather hear more of you talking about the building an less time lapse an music . Brilliant work nonetheless 😊

[@DaveDickens]

I agree, my weekly videos are mostly talking with the occasional music clip when I have to wear a mask. Cheers Dave

[@andrewmize823]

I'm planning on building some guitars in the near future, so every video I watch is part of the "research and design" process going on in my head. It's very informative to see how people with different taste in aesthetics and overall design bring their ideas to life, and there are some really great concepts at work in this build.

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you, I produce weekly videos showing my step by step process. Its not conventional and probably not the most efficient. I believe the best way to learn is to start building and mistakes are just part of the learning process. All the best with your endeavours. Cheers Dave

[@ghosthawk65]

Brilliant. Thanks Dave 😎

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you! Cheers Dave

[@coregeek]

Such an inspiring build. Sounds as good as it looks! Now, I want to try my hand at that type of hollow body.

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you! Go ahead and build! Cheers Dave

[@rudisentosa8238]

Awesome guitar….. 🎉🎉🎉

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you! Cheers Dave

[@stevesstrings5243]

Brilliant!

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you! Cheers Dave

[@colinhall1216]

looks remarkably like one of my designs on a LP type guitar i built awhile ago, but i used blue paua abalone for the kingfisher catching a fish

[@DaveDickens]

That sounds really cool, I love to see a photo. Cheers Dave

[@colinhall1216]

@@DaveDickens Do you have any form of contact/app I can send photos through? Cheers Colin

[@DaveDickens]

If you go on to my website, the link is in the description, there’s a contact form and I can get back to you. Cheers Dave

[@DaveDickens]

Hi Colin I would love to feature your Kingfisher guitar in an upcoming video. I will be making a modification to mine and making a video on the process. It would be great to show a photo of yours. If you are on instagram you can message me at footstepguitars or send an email to info at my website. Sorry I don’t give out the full email address to keep the junk email out. Cheers Dave

[@colinhall1216]

@@DaveDickens i've sent a message thru your instagram site, but can't send anything until u accept the invite, thx

[@davidnash4393]

Fantastic! What talent 👍 I'd love to know how you got the switch and volume pot in there.

[@DaveDickens]

With a lot of patience 😂 . I used string to pull them in through the end and through the hole I had cut in the central section. It took ages. Thank you for watching. Cheers Dave

[@สมพรพูนผล]

G o o d

[@DaveDickens]

👍

[@wikuscombrinck512]

Awesome build! Two links out of your watch strap?

[@DaveDickens]

😂 unfortunately my old watch is no longer used, its rechargeable battery died (after many years), good news I have a new one and this one fits 👍. Thank you for watching. Cheers Dave

[@andriilytvynenko602]

Hi, great job! Good sounding guitar. You not need to make such amount winding of a string around tuner's cilinder or the winding will work as a clock's spring changing length of the string. 2-3 turns are enough. Have a good music projects!

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you, you are right and I have changed the way I wind strings. Cheers Dave

[@ПашаПашенько]

🤘💙👍

[@DaveDickens]

👍

[@Dreamdancer11]

Well yes..thats what i call an actual custom build....i make my own guitars but those are essentially strats cause i love strats....cant really call them unique though..hehe...your build is very cool...

[@DaveDickens]

Nothing wrong with Strats, I’ve not made one but modded a red squire Strat which is lovely. I did built a tele style, and that’s my fav guitar at the moment. Cheers Dave

[@Dreamdancer11]

@@DaveDickens I know there is nothing wrong with them..on the contrary..i absolutely love them...but when i build one i dont feel like its a super custom build and not some cookie cutter stuff....but then again iam not a builder....i just enjoy anything about strats...lol....

[@ElliotCole333]

Beautiful work dave. It really is unique. How was the sound of it for you? Sounds versatile to me. Regards, and all the best.

[@DaveDickens]

Thank you! The sound is quite different from a normal electric because the pickups are further away from the strings. It’s a softer tone, more like an electro acoustic guitar. I hoping to do an update video soon where I will replace the preamp with an improved version. Cheers Dave

[@ElliotCole333]

@DaveDickens I can definitely hear the acoustics of the guitar through the pickups. I've done such things in the past, like hiding pickups in a Telecaster under the pickguard, you just need really high output pickups I guess? Love the design very much, elegant shape! Good on you sir, must be fun to have a workshop like that, I'd be building guitars all the time. I used to build guitars in Denmark Street London, "tin pan alley" but that's a long story.

[@martinlouden9005]

Wow Dave. I'd forgotten just how much work and innovation you put into this instrument. Beautiful end result.

[@DaveDickens]

To be honest I shocked myself when I did the edit and I had to cut quite a bit out. Thank you, cheers Dave

[@sutorguitarsbytondewit6854]

a Monty Python fan are you??

[@DaveDickens]

Absolutely but i’m not sure of the context with this video. We know the parrot’s dead but I’m not sure about the Kingfisher 😂 cheers Dave