Building an Electric Guitar from Scratch (with no experience)

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[@robscallon]

No retailer has called me back yet to stock the guitar yet... BUT I have gotten a company to stock Sca-Taylor Guitars T-shirts! store.dftba.com/collections/rob-scallon/products/copy-of-bella-canvas-template-shirt

[@moppy2172]

Should I buy this for my first electric guitar when its out??

[@flythrumylife]

Oooooh koopoooooo o oo

[@flythrumylife]

Ok oooooookoooooooooooooooooo

[@flythrumylife]

Onoooooo

[@flythrumylife]

The The rest oooooooooooonb are Oo

[@andrewhuang]

K before we make the next album we have 10 hours to make a bass and 10 hours to make a drum set

[@landlockedamphibian3823]

YO WASSUP XD XD ROFL

[@AxxLAfriku]

My haters throw rocks at me and IT hurts. I hope they don't throw The Rock at me because I like him as an actor. GAGAGAGAGA!!! I am funny!!! I am the funniest KZbinr EVAH! Please agree, dear drew

[@GoviaM]

Andrew Huang

[@Kiaran249]

LESGOOOOO

[@BenAck912]

Are you still "Space Truckin'?"

[@galgrunfeld9954]

Alternative title: Rob and his buddy build a very sophisticated knife

[@wesleyalan9179]

Lol

[@carter3101]

More like an axe

[@EricLeCrennSanchez]

I didn’t get this comment when I first saw it, now it’s hilarious 😂

[@joshuacabezas8061]

Haven’t watched the vid yet but I’m excited

[@inelnel]

Knife with extra steps

[@tamarockstar45]

I'd love to see a second attempt not bound by a time constraint. Honestly though it's impressive you guys got a functional guitar in one day with no prior knowledge of building guitars.

[@ScienceofLoud]

I love that the humbucker is permanently wired as a single coil. Watching the soldering was the most painful part, possibly more painful than the eye gouger fret.

[@kashrutharam5411]

Lmao

[@leoglasmeyer2853]

Colin the one and only 🙏🏼😔

[@RJW14]

Spoken like a luthier :)

[@failgun]

@CSGuitars At least if your contribution to the GGBO goes horribly you can be satisfied that it wasn't THIS bad.

[@JuveriSetila]

(Hi Colin)

[@billylemart]

We desperately need Simon to become a recurring character on the channel. He's just such a cool presence in the video, we need more!

[@billiedeadkid3374]

Agreed!

[@davigrd]

Yes !!!

[@RedBeerdN8]

Make a series on teaching him an instrument Rob!

[@smithmcgruder5110]

Simon was such a great addition to this channel

[@worhed3722]

Yeah this was awesome, so wholesome lol

[@mitchelm9828]

Having Simon's dad come out to check on you guys makes this seem like 2 10 year olds stuck in 30 year old bodies fooling around in the garage trying to make a guitar. I love it

[@calicobat29]

Simon’s brother coming out there to judge them also adds to this

[@ErikaCrist7749]

Omg yes lol

[@LSZ71F4Ucorsair]

wym thats what it makes it seem like, thats exactly what was going down lol

[@jacksongatens2419]

Dad: Did you make a guitar son? Rob and Simon: Well yes but actually.....no

[@InformatrIIcks]

Official petition for Rob to make a guitar with an actual experienced luthier to see how different the result would be

[@noahculp9900]

I mean that's basically his Chapman line

[@NeoRichardBlake]

He needs take it to the guys at Texas Toast. I think they'd be into helping him make this monstrosity work. ;P

[@InformatrIIcks]

@@noahculp9900 what i meant is the experience luthier tell him what to do, not makes one for him !

[@JJ_-fp9sj]

But simon has to be there

[@InformatrIIcks]

@@JJ_-fp9sj and comment every decision of the luthier. I would love to see him give an expert the "ok, but i would not have done it like that" 😂

[@craigmead3484]

"I played guitar for like 8 years before I knew what a truss rod was, I didn't know it was there so I don't think it really matters" Famous final words.

[@SpecialFragoutYT]

"I played guitar for like 8 years before I even knew what a truss rod WAS, so it's probably not that important." I lost it.

[@roxnroll8050]

LMFAO!!! I couldn't stop laughing either

[@mattiescreations]

It must not be important if you can go so long not knowing about it

[@Beets82]

When Rob is actually outdoors and it looks cold = no hat

[@fajaradi1223]

I guess those hairs had some internal heating properties

[@nuclearwaffle11]

like a true midwesterner

[@AnarchistMetalhead]

the hat is there to press the hair down onto the head and squeeze out the air it"s the air between the hair providing insulation, the hair just holds it in place

[@joermnyc]

It’s not out of tune, it’s just extra microtonal!

[@PhillipRaymondGoodman]

Those threats at an angle, those are by far the most fun and I wish he leant in to those.

[@choirsofdeath]

@@PhillipRaymondGoodman *frets

[@PhillipRaymondGoodman]

@@choirsofdeath doh! I was really not thinking, like I don't think I can even blame that on autocorrect. That being said being said they are danger frets so.....

[@Crovax]

Jazz!

[@astiaj]

That's taking fan frets to another level

[@michaelh9656]

Rob really just went to the store and bought wood like it doesn't cost a billion dollars per board foot right now, what a flex

[@Mark-gd5vr]

Yes, but Im sure he has a lot of experience handling long hard wood

[@nikiyerbamate]

@@Mark-gd5vr man

[@asinine7545]

@@Mark-gd5vr 😐

[@Mark-gd5vr]

@@asinine7545 mad

[@Mark-gd5vr]

Well it seems I have upset a few people

[@DimIsHigh]

This is what "boys will be boys" should exclusively mean Absolutely loved it

[@DimIsHigh]

Also, you could've AT LEAST MEASURE the string spacing on that poor nut 😩😭😂

[@ggmusic6974]

"Mom, can I get a Chapman?" "We have Chapman at home"

[@IngoGarza]

I'm a musician and a hobby carpenter and this is just pure joy straight into my pleasure center.

[@leviathen151]

"I dont think the truss rod is very important" made me laugh so hard

[@logankeilty4529]

Hi Logan

[@alextuozzo7138]

Hey the original broadcasters didn't have any

[@m1chacha]

I mean, in all fairness, this guitar has a lot bigger issues than lack of a truss rod

[@IanOPadrick]

"That's so intimidating" "Yep" The healthiest attitude to have towards a table saw is a little bit of fear

[@hellomoney333]

As a wood worker. If you're scared of the table saw. DO NOT USE THE TABLE SAW. they sense fear, and are unmerciful.

[@omgvague]

@@hellomoney333 I think they're talking more about respecting the tool so you're not so careless that it becomes dangerous.

[@seanlanders4180]

@@hellomoney333 kickback on circular saws is a sight to behold

[@boopsce]

@@hellomoney333 When I took woodshop, I respected but did not fear the table saw. I feared the band saw.

[@thenameiso1119]

i love the attitude of this video. just doing it without any planning and having fun on the way, being spontaneous.

[@drsch3]

Sca-Taylor Guitars: “That’s downright tolerable.”

[@Zearo298]

*makes a measurement* “that’s pretty normal, actually”

[@erk9822]

“You got 10 hours, GO!” *cuts to a snack break 4 minutes in*

[@corax___]

Simon has such a cool voice for some reason, I'm obsessed with it

[@DexxusAndres]

When you have a friend you want to bond with but your hobbies are polar opposites

[@drpibisback7680]

Rob detailing all of the ways the Eye Gouger could stab him was way funnier than it should have been.

[@GuitarmanIeuan]

I was crying

[@xSamWaynex]

Rob: Basically if I do *anything* this could stab me in the face.

[@AllisonKraus1]

26:44 Simon's happy dance is this whole video's energy

[@peteplaysmusic]

I love this haha :)

[@matheusstratocaster]

Pete, be careful, now you have a competition from rob's brand. Lol.

[@jebbediah212]

I’m so disappointed that you didn’t call the fretboard ‘the threatboard’ This was awesome dude, so entertained the entire video.

[@user-sw1wq8lh2w]

Rob, I used to run the front end team for GC and I just wanna say, we utterly BLEW IT by never working with you directly. So lame, but you're so much cooler than we could ever have been. I'm so stoked you're venturing out on your own and making your own quality instruments.

[@BrotherLawson]

I love how stoked they are when something goes smooth. This is the kind of team you want in your life

[@eslamnasr8692]

damn, brian may & his father must have been a megaminds 😂

[@jazzram_]

THIS IS WHY IM HERE-

[@Dwendele]

In a nutshell, yes. I mean, he IS an astrophysicist.

[@altrumodi5694]

They are fucking geniuses, genuinely.

[@klaxoncow]

That's Dr. Brian May, I think you'll find. He went back to complete his astrophysics doctorate after a short sabbatical... where he was Queen's guitarist for several decades.

[@stuarcari]

While no doubt they were geniuses, they also took like 2 years to build it, rather than 1 day lol

[@aydenmcfly1362]

one of the funniest videos ive seen in a while reminds me of me and my old buddy building the worst longboards as kids XD thank you for this!!!! 100% would buy!!!

[@turtletown456]

“i played guitar for like 8 years and i didn’t even know what a truss rod was so i don’t think it matters” i’d hate to see whatever guitars you were playing

[@drpibisback7680]

I'm sure they had truss rods and he just didn't pay attention to them.

[@zerofox641]

I mean I also went a few years without knowing what a truss rod was. I played an SG when I started and never knew until I took it in for a repair and the guy showed me how to remove the cover and adjust it

[@ryanchalker8196]

@@zerofox641 ya I agree I’ve been playin for a year or so and I know what it is but have never messed with it. I think he had one and just didn’t know what it was for cause u can’t play classical guitars for 8 straight lmao

[@barretprivateer8768]

@@ryanchalker8196 It's literally one of the easiest things to adjust on the entire guitar. Why is everyone scared of it. Set your neck relief, it's probably fucked.

[@RubberSalt]

Had my Gibson SG for 15 years, never had to adjust the truss rod since I got it. Come to think of it... I've only had to adjust 1 of my guitars to make it playable.

[@tonepotproductions5825]

Shark 2.0 bring in a third partner, who's actually a guitar builder, give yourselves 2 days, you guys could come up with something actually amazing. This is as well, but how well you did with so little time, and experience, it'd be rad to see what you could do.

[@MarkSchmidtTheRecoverySystem]

"The time to be accurate with the frets has passed. The time for chaos is now." - Rob Scallon, 2021. Spoken like a true chaotic evil.

[@AugmentedSmurf]

I feel like it's more chaotic neutral, tbh. He's not inherently doing evil things. Just whatever he wants, because he can lol

[@patrickhunter]

"The time to be accurate with the frets has passed, the time for chaos is now." 😂😂😂

[@TheLowest]

Looks like if a kid drew a guitar with that pencil from SpongeBob that makes drawings exist

[@lucarossi5133]

30:52 always cracks me up for some reason

[@althejazzman]

I love how knowledgeable and experienced Simon is, just not quite in the right areas.

[@fajaradi1223]

Yeah... It's like asking plumber to do a gas piping work Edit : high pressure gas piping work

[@ryanblumenow]

"Also, it being thicker makes it heavier, which makes it feel expensive..." "SWEET." LOL

[@Mephiston]

The beauty of this thing is the more you play, it changes colour; it becomes more red with all the blood shed. You should call it the Shark-1 Masochista

[@tomjacqueme3805]

Rob : i've been playing guitar for 8 years without knowing what a truss rod was, so I don't think it really matters Me : *laughs in luthier*

[@T0asterB4th]

Cant wait for the Chapman "Cease and Desist" letter to come in the mail

[@DaddyThrustAlot]

😁

[@superidoluwu]

Waiting to see what Ichika can do with this.

[@fivedfiva]

could probably still play "i miss you"

[@theemoguitarist2449]

I NEVER MEANT to write this comment :)

[@BrainyCrafter]

Underrated comment! He really should send it to Ichika tho, would love to see that

[@hopefulhyena3400]

I'm wanting to get into making guitars since I want to really have that special feeling of playing something I made, but I'm afraid of not doing a good job. Seeing you guys fuck around and not know what you are doing makes me feel like I'm not alone.

[@austinvonglahn]

"The time for chaos is now" -Rob 2021

[@BatuOrhunBilgic]

Dude today was literally the worst day ever, the cops confiscated my longboard, something stung me on my way back home and it also started raining when I was going back but watching this video really brightened up my day like it legit got me to laugh in this sucky day. So I really want to thank you man, hope you have an awesome one 🤘🏻

[@JugaJuga14]

That was honestly probably my favourite solo you’ve come up with

[@Neurotoxin97]

This is so cool to watch. I just finished building a guitar/banjo/psaltery hybrid for my architectural capstone project and it’s fun to see him running into the same problems I had!

[@celloman1235]

I watched the Schecter professional build and then this one, and it was perfect. Seeing all the bits where the pros took so much care, and then watching the "how hard can it be" attitude throughout this video 😂 And then it worked! I am so impressed by the murder guitar! Great job!

[@maromaro1337]

*Building a Stylphone from scratch...* *(secretly calls a Chinese factory)*

[@fajaradi1223]

Some random Indonesian : Why buy MIC guitar while MII is better?

[@ItsJustDre-TV]

😂😂😂😂😭

[@ivan_osorio]

"That's downright tolerable" has entered my guitar-testing-vernacular forever.

[@hopefulhyena3400]

Seeing you compare watches is such a wholesome dad moment. Two dad's and their guitar son.

[@andrewcroghan5060]

Love the optimism, “you can kind of get a power chord with that”

[@wombat1_]

"I just have so many muscle memory of playing guitars without all these small little knives in them" ~Rob Scallon, founder of Sca-taylor guitars

[@Mortally.challenged]

that guitar is the embodiment of anxiety in a instrument...

[@recguitare17]

I'm a luthier and I had a great time watching the video ! You made my day :)

[@manray9275]

“They’re extinct, rob!” Was hilarious

[@travisnorman]

Scallon: "Do you know what frets are?" Taylor: "Yea it's the pickup, right?" Ah, I see he too is a bassist like me 😁

[@MrGreenbottleblue]

i would love to see a new version of this with no time limit and using whatever new knowledge you gained from building a guitar with schecter.

[@BarrySmoother]

I'm forever going to be calling "guitar strings" "Cables"

[@tinyrhinoonakeyboard275]

I've known both of these two most of my life, and seeing both of their skillsets and unique brands of crazy working together is fantastic.

[@activist5741]

"you tell him, 'No it's NOT'" had me dying

[@rosonowski]

@7:20 - "That thing is so intimidating." "Yup!" Table saw will absolutely ruin your day.

[@woodandwandco]

This is the best piece of luthier sacrilege I have ever seen

[@EpicStarman]

When he was originally noodling around with it, it sounded like some sort of Primus Riff. Fucking massive.

[@CyrilViXP]

Bridge - is where all these cables are going. Wow! This is truly amazing luthier!

[@Headlessthirst]

Laughed with you guys the whole way through the build. That looked fun and makes one appreciate the art of making GOOD guitars but don't let that deter people with experimenting with new guitar innovations. I'm a fan of the Multi Scale guitars.

[@leftyguitarist8989]

I would've gone fretless, filing frets was the hardest part and the frets you ended up with are super painful.

[@kanapkitozo3169]

Me too

[@twolfn]

This brings me back to changing out my first pickups. this is amazing.

[@xiZark]

This has some heavy Jackass vibes, especially the beginning starting in a Home Depot parking lot

[@marialiyubman]

That moment you realize you did this in 10 hours with zero experience… my GOD! 😱🙌

[@rickshearer]

"Cables" go through the bridge! It all makes sense now!!! 🎸

[@iankellymorris]

This whole video exudes a kind of joyful anxiety that confuses and delights me to my core.

[@danielhoward8354]

if it cuts you its fine because bleeding in rock n roll is cool.

[@mysteryloaf]

The footage of him playing and subseqently hurting himself multiple times on the wretched thing gave me so much anxiety

[@wesleyalan9179]

Haha,ikr?!?!

[@Fredness2300]

"...I don't think it really matters." @5:03 [Narrator]: "But it DID matter..."

[@whitecoconut22]

I've recently started watching your videos, and just want to say one thing: please don't stop what you're doing, it's entertaining and knowledgeable. Love from a India❤️

[@theelectricant98]

Based

[@LesPaulManiac]

Sees Rob at a Home Depot Sees oddly Green water tower ".....He's at Randhurst." Sincerely, someone who grew up within walking distance of that water tower.

[@Chicklo11]

Remember that there are creepy people out there that might use the information you know to be weird to a celebrity and find them irl.

[@themightymcb7310]

@@Chicklo11 true but also rob has never exactly been secretive that he's in Chicago.

[@jamessmith84240]

30:52 this silly little tune made me laugh so much! Briliant video mate, well done. :)

[@dilianvt]

I know this video was posted on April 19th 2021 but this guitar definitely needs to go places as I can’t believe that you built something so unique and impressive especially you did everything like almost perfectly and to be honest I didn’t even expect anyone to diy a decent guitar so well done! That really impressed me

[@gyro1488]

Simon Taylor the Woodworker is my favorite anime character

[@darkhouse66]

Can’t wait for it to hit the shops

[@FireRainFimficReadings]

Surprised you didn't amputate your hand, Rob. Should have used wire wool to smoothen out the sharp edges of the frets. Could have also used a fret spaced from StewMac to figure out the gaps according to the scale. I also suck at wiring: did okay for a first go, but cut them a bit too short when they should have had some slack, so they don't fit properly into my Strat after putting new pickups in after the stock ones broke. Looks like I'll have to route out parts between the middle and bridge slots in the body to get it to fit properly.

[@paulandre3250]

playing that guitar would be like that scene from Whiplash where he bleeds all over the kit, but in this case, the fretboard

[@johnennontucker3555]

an extremely anxiety inducing, dangerous and uncomfortable guitar with really sharp edges that without caution, would cut your flesh and make you drip blood while using it? dude that's so metal!!

[@mrfrogth5283]

Simons voice sounds like Philip Seymour Hoffman in twister. So good to hear his voice again

[@cjdabes]

Rob: "I don't think truss rods really matter" Let's pour one out for the century's worth of guitars destroyed after 1922 when steel strings were developed and put onto guitars lacking truss rods lmao

[@HahnGFX]

Thinking about it, "Scallon" would be an amazing guitar brand name. I can already see it.

[@captainzoll3303]

the frets weren't chaotically placed, they were microtonally tuned.

[@autofigure00]

"I don't think the truss rod matters" Uh oh

[@fxxking_gaijin]

The only guitar where you start a song with a special tuning and end up with a completely different even more experimental tuning

[@deejalvaro8048]

I love that simon not knowing anything about guitar at the first minutes of the video and ending like he played guitar for 8 years without knowing what a truss rod is.

[@DRAGONGRANTG101]

"What's the blame for that" Rob: "Everything" killed me

[@MrZantas]

Well...You have more experience in guitar-building than Rob Chapman now...

[@SlyMan420]

This should be sent to King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard. They'd be able to make it work for them.

[@musicaltroutmountainextrav3153]

This is a gallant effort. I have no idea of your stoned level while making this video, but the actual guitar is the most stoner thing I have ever seen. My only qualms are that you should have done this in eighth grade wood shop.

[@conormurphy4328]

You playing that guitar sounds like me playing any normal guitar.

[@hammerbro6677]

You had the perfect chance to call them Sca-ylor (Scale-er) Guitar Brand n Fluffed it.

[@stormboy-official7261]

I've built a few guitars myself, I'm nobody famous, but considering this comedy, it's still incredibly cringeworthy. 😂 Thanks Rob. This is AMAZING. ✌️😎

[@Thoracius]

1:15 FYI "Mosrite" is a portmanteau of two dudes' last names stuck together -- Semie Moseley and Ray Boatright.

[@PhyNxFyre]

This was super entertaining and believe it or not educational, please give this another shot with no time constraints and try to make something you'd actually use