Rubber bridges are taking over indie music - Let's make one

[@mr.giggles4995]

That sounds way cooler than I thought it would. I really dig the song too!

[@gothridercreations]

Never heard of a rubber bridge until now, very cool 😀 and the song/video surprised me, you should release that mate!!!

[@MarkGutierrez]

Thanks so much! Check out this Spotify playlist, all rubber bridge songs: open.spotify.com/playlist/0TGiA9E4UIcJtWrXI5lChU?si=05ef6f4741ed434a

[@ezequielgonzales210]

Brother that sound is wonderful, definitely worth the effort put into making it playable again! The inlay work looks sick too👍🏻

[@markmccawley2526]

And a music video to boot?! Awesome!

[@DominusFeles]

Since there’s a plethora of filaments to choose from today, a 3D printed bridge would be interesting to see explored 🤓 Heck, one could even program options for intonation into the model come to think of it 😃

[@DJBuglip]

Absolutely, and still go nuts with designs. Great idea.

[@juliomorel5516]

Really cool mod! The song is great too!

[@xamislimelight8965]

Got mixed feelings about them. As a metal player, my brain goes "just use your palm, stupid!" but as a guitar fan, I love seeing things I've never seen before and how they work. This was... interesting, not sure if they're for me or not, but I like that it's a thing.

[@MarkGutierrez]

It is true, palm muting achieves a very similar tone. So do dead strings.

[@xamislimelight8965]

@MarkGutierrez I mean, I'm also a bit of an ass hat haha. I have realized, upon retrospect, the rubber bridge muting everything could also enable some potentially crazy sounding thrash tapping. They're growing on me.

[@thebreakfastmenu]

Very cool to see that guitar get a second life

[@DJBuglip]

I just discovered your channel tonight, man, and I'm so glad I did. I really like your approach, the zen you give off. I admit I was skeptical of the rubber bridge idea until I heard your composition. Spectacular, keep em coming just like this please.

[@DJBuglip]

Unquestionably the nicest that Stella has ever looked or played.

[@Markleford]

9:46 Kitty break 🐱 11:44 Man-bun achieved

[@TheLowest]

Reminds me a lot of the mutes on old fender jaguars. I tried getting that jaguar mute sound on my acoustic by literally sticky taping a folded up zip lock bag just in front of the saddles and found it was a real cheap and reversible way to get in the ball park

[@MarkGutierrez]

There are so many materials you can use to mute and they all sound different.

[@TheCueTube]

Really lovely vid. Enjoyed the pacing of it and the care and patience in the restoration that came across, and absolutely loved the video and song at the end. Nice to find your channel.

[@dizzystardust7452]

Super rad video, I especially enjoy watching the process and experimentation that went into restoring and moding this cool looking guitar. Oh, and although I enjoyed the music and production at the end, I still wish we got to hear the guitar being played on its own with minimal processing. I want to hear the final product :) cheers!

[@thenerktwins]

Great quick project! Would have liked to see the inlay process on the fingerboard. Love it, man. Great music at the end as well!

[@MarkGutierrez]

Thanks! I lost the inlay footage. But it's the exact same process I used for the inlays on the Tom Delonge build video. I just put the laser on stilts and burn the pockets for the inlays straight onto the fretboard. Then cut out some rosewood.

[@thenerktwins]

@@MarkGutierrez Appreciate the info! I'll go rewatch that one to remind myself

[@vontinkles]

Sounds like you got a cheat code for palm muting... very cool. I just came across your channel recently and really dig it... thanks for sharing your gifts and talent, broski. 👍🐢🕺🤗🍕

[@xblinketx]

How about intonating it? I converted my Jim Dundee to a rubber brigde but for now I simply added a thin rubber strip in front of a saddle as I didn't want a permanent mod. Now I am thinking of shaping a compensated saddle out of the material you used and repalcing my original saddle with a rubber counterpart.

[@MoodGuitars]

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[@ivancrookedhand7895]

Дуже круто!!! Зробити гітару, музику, кліп в одному відео - це надихає. Маленька історія життя. Вимір, в якому взаємодія людей та інструментів долає межі.) Дякую)🎉

[@GahMehGrrrr]

awesome as ever. And that video....very cool

[@Cyberbronco]

What makes these great is that, as I reach my late 50’s and my ears are more sensitive to the high pitch ringing of guitar strings, I can enjoy playing again. I wish you sold those rubber bridges with your laser cut mount. That really had a great finished look to it.

[@MarkGutierrez]

Same here, as I got older my ears changed, I prefer the muted sound. I'll put one or two bridges on my store in the near future. May as well.

[@veikkajoensuu]

How do you not have like 6 digits of subscribers? I have watched only a few of your videos but these have got to be some of the best cinematography in the guitar side of KZbin.

[@chubbyoo7]

FRank Dardaino gave me one of these when ai was a kid. My sister still has it.

[@pavelmazalek2838]

when i started experimenting with rubber bridge out of JM/Jag bridge the first I tried was also heatshrink tube. I had two layers and than I put piece of scrunchie between those two and third layer of heatshrink. I also quickly realised that rubber is only way 😀

[@clmrsmn]

a good temp option for the rubber bridge sound is putting something like blu tack either on top of or under the strings on a normal acoustic guitar bridge

[@TerryBowling]

@MarkGutierrez great video and luthiery! What was that blade pickup you installed?

[@laurentaramsjr]

Well done!

[@billo5227]

Great video. Very informative and peaked my interest in getting a rubber bridge guitar. Thanks

[@lookmanostrings]

What a great video. Love your conversational style. Necessity brings me to rubber bridge guitartown (cover band stuff). Great explanation of the different types of material. I might just take my Jim Dandy and slap the weatherstrip and call it good... but what you made looks so so good.

[@markmccawley2526]

How about a tele 3 saddle bridge with fuel line pulled over (insert) the saddles and holes for the height adjustment and intonation screws? I bet a tele neck pu with a rubber muted bridge would sound phenom... Maybe in all your spare time, LOL? Thwack thwack

[@MarkGutierrez]

wow, that is actually a good idea. and yeah, that would sound epic.

[@kk.555]

Mark question I am restoring a Bronson slot head lap steel By Regal mid 30 model. I am trying to do away with the wire thru the body bridge, I was thinking trapeze tail and floating bridge. I was wondering if the rubber bridge would work for this project? And thought or suggestions would be appreciated. Keith

[@chadwilliams8583]

Wow!!!amazing.have you looked at the Baxendale modded ones?I played one in Houston,amazing!! Dude your turning into a cinematographer/musician I love it!!

[@chadwilliams8583]

Mark yours sounded great too,the sounded of the bridge made it very percussive

[@MarkGutierrez]

Just looked them up. Nice conversions. Thanks for watching!

[@MarkGutierrez]

Yes! Percussive is the best way to describe it. Like instead of the guitar projecting outward, it projects back into the top and adds a percussive thump.

[@chadwilliams8583]

@@MarkGutierrez yes and your example is VERY percussive.man,can you imagine if we took the ladder bracing off the top and put some good scalloped bracing with your bridge and other miss you done would put that axe OVER THE TOP!oh and once again your musical example was amazing

has a very nice mellow tone

[@TheSufferingJukebox]

What pickup did you use for this project? Really struggling to find a good pickup for mine. Thank you so much for this video!

[@NealCaen]

Please please please tell me how you created that beautiful background organized chaos at minutes 16:38 i hear randomness and some type of pitch shifting happening! how did you do it??? 😅

[@MarkGutierrez]

Custom VCV Rack patch.

[@aimr75]

Cool sound. What SD pickup is that? Hotrails? Bridge or neck?

[@stephanevanstaen4088]

I do love the song at the end !!!! Name of the band ? Title ?

[@carlchameleon9847]

he made it. its a demo

[@mr.giggles4995]

"With of the Mountain" - Mark Gutierrez It's in the video description.

[@AndrewMcKean-xo6cc]

Do you have a wiring diagram for the pickup and volume knobs you used? Would love to take a stab at that myself and would be happy to pay for something like that!

[@MarkGutierrez]

It's a basic one pickup wiring. I downloaded the diagram from the Seymour Duncan site. Search for single humbucker wiring.

[@kbaedke]

I can't believe you mentioned the inlays and then, boop there they are. That would have been a juicy bit.

[@MarkGutierrez]

haha. yeah, I lost the footage. it was juicy. I put the laser on stilts and used it to burn the pockets on the guitar. then just layered some rosewood. and inset them. same process that I recorded for the Tom Delonge build video.

[@shanespruiell93]

Have you considering selling these bridges on etsy? I would buy in a heartbeat

[@BrettLeMans]

You lost me at Hipsters, but I stayed for the sound. Thanks anyway.

[@theComaCalling]

Nice, I was making one out of the same Stella (‘64)! Great video btw. Any chance you’ll be selling your bridge design on Reverb? That pickup mount is awesome too!

[@MarkGutierrez]

It's tough to make a one-size-fits-all bridge for these old guitars because they are have all aged differently. The neck angle will probably always be different for each of these guitars which means the height of the bridge or the string slot depth needs to be custom made for each guitar. Technically I could make a generic one where the buyer would then have to dial in the height and string depth. Let me know if that is something you're interested in. You can message me on instagram.

[@nicspinksmusic]

I was thinking this too!

[@theComaCalling]

@@MarkGutierrez also, what is the material used for the custom pickup mount? Seems like that might be tricky to get right.

[@MarkGutierrez]

@@theComaCalling 3mm basswood plywood from amazon.

[@markgrimm3564]

so mark off the wall question how you liking the laser i've been looking at them just trying to get feed back and if i would do it over i'd buy this info like a 20watt?40watt for engraving/cutting ? didn't want to d rail the vid which i'm in the process of making a rubber bridge epip acustic thanks so much for your time

[@MarkGutierrez]

I have two 20watt lasers and a 10watt. I use the 10watt for every project. I only cut small material and don't have a use for cutting thicker stuff. You can't go wrong with a 20watt. Just get something with a nice thick frame.

[@kbaedke]

Did you try a lasering on the rubber block? Could you get intonated saddles that way?

[@MarkGutierrez]

No, I didn't try layering the rubber but that is a very clever idea.

[@bman3983]

wow.

[@jeffjachymiak4994]

I would love to buy one of these guitars off of you if you'd be interested in crafting a brother/sister?

[@MarkGutierrez]

I'm considering building another. The trick is to find these vintage guitars at relatively low prices. That's been tough lately due to Taylor Swift.

[@dinnervan-g]

I wonder if a hockey puck would work...

[@SMAWA9]

old style forever

[@cohnjoyne]

My Silvertone 604 is missing one of those pickguard screws, wanna trade for something?

[@MarkGutierrez]

lol. I sold the pick guard and the screws on Reverb.

[@cohnjoyne]

@@MarkGutierrez Understood, I'm warming up to going for the jailhouse rock look over the taylor version.

[@wriglarzzz]

You could just wire that to the direct out, and then install a usb port for charging. Boom wireless guitar

[@MrF3nox]

i would try felt

[@oliveskytattoo2369]

have you tried the rubber off a capo?

[@BenCDaugherty]

I have! It works. Both of my rubber bridges have the jewelers block :)

[@18JR78]

Bass players use sponges 🧽 under the strings for motown tones. Add flat wounds for extra vintage tone haha. I wonder if a rubber bridge would be a better alternative. I just created your next project.🤭😂 cheers.

[@RustyRaceHorse]

Sounds like a nylon guitar. Hmmm.

[@garethde-witt6433]

Don’t why it’s a crappy sound

[@daylightliving8929]

good sound