Thanks for all the nice comments and the well done showcase of my Uke :) looking forward to the next DIY-challenge :D
@jonathanyun78172 жыл бұрын
I'm far from the only or first person to say this, but these light up necks *need* to be a thing, on a uke or any stringed instrument, especially on fretless ones! If you can get the business side to work, I could imagine this tech being picked up by Fender for special edition Strats or as a standalone boutique effect. For sure, I'd be one of the first in line to buy!
@ChrisFranklyn2 жыл бұрын
Mate, it's amazing. Have you entered this year too?
@DorAndy2 жыл бұрын
@@ChrisFranklyn I wanted to do so but my Wedding tomorrow took a lot of my time - so maybe next year or I will just upload something without an official Challenge;)
@ChrisFranklyn2 жыл бұрын
@@DorAndy Priorities man! Yeah, fair enough :) Well, I look forward to it if you do.
@mariusvermin3 жыл бұрын
make the tele a production model, and pay the guy royalties
@woulf10313 жыл бұрын
This LED ukelele idea is really great. Imagine this as a guitar for beginners. But they are all crazy and creative, i couldn't name a first place.
@svens.37433 жыл бұрын
I completely underestimated what people would build for this challenge. I thought it would just be nicely painted and built guitars, but these are just masterpieces. The amount of work put into these instruments is just mindblowing. Congratulations to everybody who won/participated and just keep on building these amazing instruments.
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
100% true!! I couldn't believe it myself. I love modding guitars and know how extremely long it takes to make these beauties. Massive respect to all, as told many times! :) //Kris
@svens.37433 жыл бұрын
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses Yeah, I changed the pickups on my bass and changed some other small things, but the planing alone takes a lot of time. I can't imagine the time it takes building something as complex as these instruments.
@josephhughes94903 жыл бұрын
Kris, I've never seen anything like these entries. Just incredibly inventive. Another phenomenal show. The ukelele was just insane. A phone notary on a guitar wow. Just fantastic show guys.
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! Yeah it's too bad we didn't get to play and show the telephone caster, that thing is mind blowing. :) //Kris
@getenlightened3 жыл бұрын
Congrats to the winners and really to everyone who submitted an entry.
@michaelolz2 жыл бұрын
That is the coolest Tele I’ve ever seen. Crazy retro 60s styling and gorgeous beveling. You guys chose wisely.
@Thoracius2 жыл бұрын
Yeah the headstock is even art-deco-ish. Very cool.
@theprogguitarist3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the kind words about our 3D printed Haru guitar! It was a really fun challenge :)
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
You both did a fantastic job with the Haru guitar! The filming was beautiful too. Great build, absolutely one of a kind! And the t logo on the back... wow!! :) Thanks for being a part of this fun challenge! Cheers //Kris
@pepezoomba2 жыл бұрын
This is great! You should give prizes at least to 10 artists. And maybe increase the top prizes value. People is really dedicating so much love to this challenge.
@allboutthemojo3 жыл бұрын
Such brilliant work from the artists and creative minds. I would be worried that Thimann would steal some of these ideas. You guys have provided them with free R&D projects of ideas they could never come up with on their own.
@leepek35752 жыл бұрын
this is the most inspiration for building your own instrument ;d great job for all
@sirgear-a-lot85823 жыл бұрын
Hey Kris and Guillaume. Thank you very much for putting me into the honourable mentions. 😊 the contest was absolutely exciting and i am looking forward to participating in the next one. Keep up the good work. Cheers! Sir Gear-a-lot
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
Loved the guitar, thanks for participating! cheers //Kris
@christiansigl16 ай бұрын
You should continue this series every year. Its so great and inspiring
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses6 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot! Guillaume and I really want to and we are doing our best to make it happen! :) //Kris
@hearpalhere3 жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm speechless! Congratulations to everyone who took part in this wonderful contest!
@bubuAndBass5 ай бұрын
all those projects are result of pure genius !! so cool ! 😍
@tramlad22 жыл бұрын
There some really talented solo guitar builders out there, as long as decent kits are about, the world is your oyster, some of these look superb, they all deserve credit for the work they put in, excellent project, well done to all
@ipuya3 жыл бұрын
Wow! Amazing entries! That ukulele though!!! 🤯
@benmaguire40983 жыл бұрын
Fabulous I hope you do this every year. Beyond my skill levels but huge respect to all .
@mentalcog2187 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love the Winning Guitar! Just stunning! Ukulele is insane! WOW! Then he plays IZ's version of Somewhere over the Rainbow! Perfect, lol.
@reneliebregt63193 жыл бұрын
I would give the guy with the LED ukelele the first price. Completely insane what this guy did. Of course the tele style guitar was also awesome 👍🎸😀
@DorAndy3 жыл бұрын
Thanks alot
@PolytheneBoy2 жыл бұрын
Came here for inspiration for this years challenge. Might just give up now!
@CANNIMAGINE2 жыл бұрын
You guys should post links to the builders so people can order custom guitars from them as part of the contest top builders.
@ArturBrzozowski4443 жыл бұрын
What did I just watched 😳 Thank you for this crazy dose of inspiration ❤️
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
Haha, it's pretty insane, isn't it? :) Best community ever! Literally. //Kris
@jomamma17503 жыл бұрын
Hey, you guys need to get with the uke builder. If you could build guitars with the led lights and the chord programming every guitar student on the planet will want to buy one!! Make it happen and split the money with the builder/engineer. You could even program it to show the fingering for tunes, scale runs, the solo for Stairway to Heaven(lol) ect. Pure Genius Idea. And you guys are a guitar company as well. I'm not joking. 😎
@DorAndy3 жыл бұрын
@Makivala3 жыл бұрын
Just crazy! I love this video. It's incredible. Congratulations to all.
@maomao1803 жыл бұрын
The white tele is tasty!
@duarteestelita72572 жыл бұрын
Bloody hell... Sick entries !! Congrats everyone!
@stefanfyhn46682 жыл бұрын
S--- DOUBLE CUT!!!
@Behrater3 жыл бұрын
For shure I´ll buy this Ukulele, if Thomann / Harlery Benton will release this. I dont know the Chords on Ukuleles and I could be fun to learn from the LEDs
@overvieweffect90342 жыл бұрын
the winner is the one I'd buy if it was a production model (specially with ss frets), but to me that damn ukulele was the most impressive and the winner, just from the work put on programing those leds, and actually installing them into the fretboard, man, that's a winner for me!
@bobafett48893 жыл бұрын
That should be a real model. It's so freaking cool!
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
Yeah right? It REALLY looks awesome. I mean how many companies try to come up with a great fresh body shape, right? It's very hard actually. I love this modded t-style guitar a lot. //Kris
@derekwalton162 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!...
@nym0532 жыл бұрын
This is not meant as a negative critique, but just an interesting observation 😊 I've got both a HB T-style DIY and a Squier CV 50s Tele. The neck feels shorter on the HB, even though they should be exactly the same in scale length. So I measured them, and the HB is actually 1 cm longer if measured between the nut and the lowest fret. But the neck is also mounted 0,5 cm deeper in the body. Though the fredboard on the HB has a overhang of about 8 mm. And there's some difference in measurements regarding the bridge as well, when measuring the entire scale length. Though to make a relevant measurement, and since they're slightly different in bodyshape, I had to place each guitar on my lab where it felt most right, and then measure the distance between the nut and the mid of my thigh. I have quite good eye-measuring, and checked several times with one eye closed to be sure. But yeah, the HB falls about half a cm shorter in distance. The same difference when measuring from that flat rest on the body just behind the bottom of the neck where it's mounted and up to the nut. Incredible that such a small difference for such a relatively large item can make such a significant difference in feel 😄
@guitarbattleru2 жыл бұрын
the sound is great!
@chriscuthbertson3 жыл бұрын
Harley Benton should put the winners guitar into production.
@06szymonszymanski3 жыл бұрын
Every single entry was amazing but there is something about that white T-style 🤩
@peterdegoeij62343 жыл бұрын
Harley Benton should make a guitar that looks very similar to that tele DIY guitar!
@BenFTI2K2 жыл бұрын
You need to make that ‘Tele’ a production model, I’d buy it in a heartbeat
@VintageSlide Жыл бұрын
I wish you would make two kinds of kits besides the existing ones: A tune-o-matic one with 3+3 headstock and a pair of humbuckers, and one with a strat vibrato and 6l headstock. Both with uncut headstock shapes and a large square body. You could shape it into anything, and really design your own guitar. Yes, you can kinda do that with the tele as shown in the video, but you are very limited because of the existing shape, and the body will end up rather small. I’d love to get a kit to make the offset guitar of my dreams, with an unique body shape.
@trjb1767 Жыл бұрын
Amazing
@18CC3 жыл бұрын
I want a guitar with the leds. PLEASE
3 жыл бұрын
Matt black with orange leds and that black strat at 20:24 were the coolest, I think
@Steven_SK3 жыл бұрын
There are some talented folks out there!
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely! I honestly wasn't expecting such masterpieces. haha! It's so nice to see all the impressive entries. Cheers Steve! //Kris
@ottolandgraf67373 жыл бұрын
Vielen Dank für das coole Video. Hab mich sehr darüber gefreut so viel Lob zu bekommen. Auch super das andere Projekte noch gezeigt wurden. Hätte etwas mehr sein können 😉. Ich freue mich auf nächstes Jahr, aber rechtzeitig Bescheid geben, damit ich mehr Zeit habe. Danke allen
@PooNinja3 жыл бұрын
Soo much fun!
@lucagambetta58423 жыл бұрын
We need a HarLED Benton.
@johnriley83143 жыл бұрын
I was wondering who won this contest ya'll. Great sounding(& Looking) Tele style that took 1st place!!!! Great job to ALL WHO ENTERED !!!!!
@LupinoArts3 жыл бұрын
A guitar with programmable LED indicators is generally a great idea for beginners, don't you think? Thomann, go original!
@gerryloughran16763 жыл бұрын
WoW ...great stuff
@boomerbassmeme3 жыл бұрын
Great job by everyone! Wow really creative and well done! 😎👍
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more! Loved this challenge! //Kris
@Thoracius Жыл бұрын
Is there no DIYKitChallenge23?!?! I missed last year's and was really looking forward to participating this year.
@weedyguitarstudio17153 жыл бұрын
I wish I could have entered love your channel you guys play so tasty jams and licks!!
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!! Well, you might have the chance to enter a similar challenge in the future... who knows. :) We loved seeing all the creative instruments and we're looking forward to seeing yours too next time. Cheers //Kris
@weedyguitarstudio17153 жыл бұрын
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses Thanks awesome guys been wanting to work with your company a while I'm a lefty though😎⚡🤘
@HavendaleBlvd802 жыл бұрын
I'd love to get that ukelele if it is ever in production.
@ChadwickRider2 жыл бұрын
I want to document the creation of the $78 JA kits, but unfortunately it cost more to have it shipped to the states than the kit itself. :( Definitely want to get my hands on one of these kits, somehow.
@jochen9702 жыл бұрын
Can we get that body shape as the next HB model?
@KarlKarsnark2 жыл бұрын
Anyone know where to get the White, Tele bridge pup? I've been trying to find one for years.
@lone-wolf-12 жыл бұрын
The builder painted it white himself
@KarlKarsnark2 жыл бұрын
@@lone-wolf-1 ahhh, way too obvious. LOL! Thanks or the pro tip. cheers!
@DEZZA123 жыл бұрын
cool socks dude
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
Haha! Tone socks for life! :) Thanks man! //Kris
@Briansgate Жыл бұрын
was there a 2023 challenge?
@marccarter13502 жыл бұрын
Because we tune in to listen to you -play?
@fredericadda3 жыл бұрын
Kris’s face when he’s playing is the closest thing in real life from one of the 2 muppet show grumpy grandpas 🙃
@KrisBarocsi3 жыл бұрын
I’ll go ahead and take this as a compliment. 🤣🤣 I like those two grumpy bastards. Haha!
@fredericadda3 жыл бұрын
@@KrisBarocsi oh sure, they have always been my favorite characters! We all make faces when we play, at least yours is famous 😉
@sperl427 ай бұрын
Kris' socks 😄
@yetimatzenightcat87023 жыл бұрын
Lololooool 😛😅🌊🌊🌊 ich krieg ein rohr 👏👏👏 das muß man einfach gesehen haben. Volle punktzahl 💯🥳 🐈
@sperl423 жыл бұрын
Are this the KIT Pickups in the tele?
@AndrewAHayes3 жыл бұрын
You failed to notice that the TNT box was a homage to the Crash Bandicoot Playstation game!
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
You are so right! Damn it, we're too old... Haha! Loved the Cajon anyways. //Kris
@salmonline3 жыл бұрын
Looks like Bloomfield's Tele.
@deandee80822 жыл бұрын
so its more about gimmick than a good quality great playing sounding guitar then?
@edwardlayer42593 жыл бұрын
Ah, I thought winners were going to be chosen randomly. Oh well.
@nowherebrain Жыл бұрын
it's a shame so many people here(ja, Deutschland) do not know rick and morty....makes me sad...ofc, I work in a factory(normal mitarbeiter) and most of those people, while they are not stupid, are un educated...I really don't like the school system here, but that's a whole other thing.
@lowtunedg921111 ай бұрын
That white one is terrible 😂😂😂😂
@Aint1S3 жыл бұрын
That carved tele was crazy and the tele, TELE was equally insane! The telephone tele would be perfect for a guy like John Popper of Blues Traveler! A real shame I missed one of their shows about 40 miles from home and just before the *Plandemic* was kicked off!
@captainchaos3053 Жыл бұрын
I didn't like the wining guitar that much. It looks and sounds like a tele with a basic carve job.
@a.jcostello29843 жыл бұрын
Do thomann reply?
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
Indeed! :) //Kris
@ottolandgraf67373 жыл бұрын
Vielen Dank für das coole Video. Schon toll wenn man gelobt wird für seine Arbeit. Schön das auch andere Projekte noch gezeigt wurden. Alles wunderschöne kreative Instrumente. Ich hoffe wir sehen uns das nächste Jahr wieder. Aber rechtzeitig Bescheid geben, damit ich mehr Zeit habe 😉
@ThomannsGuitarsBasses3 жыл бұрын
@@ottolandgraf6737 Ich kann nicht mal vorstellen, was du baust, wenn du noch mehr Zeit hast! haha! Tolle Arbeit Otto! Mach's gut! //Kris
@kirbonite Жыл бұрын
it's smart to wear all black so the viewer can see the instrument. distracting to look at Kermit the frog socks.
@minkorrh2 жыл бұрын
Maybe make sure the entrants aren't professional luthiers? Most people buying these kits are not that, rendering this video useless. Just buy a guitar.
@NissEhkiin2 жыл бұрын
huh? dude I'm one of the people who's guitar was in this video and I have never built a guitar and everything I did on the guitar was my first time doing those things. I don't think the others were professional luthiers either
@catzdollz98103 жыл бұрын
The white stray is too loud.It hurts my Perfect pitch ears. It shouldn't be that much louder than the one playing a nice soft rythm.