Yamaha ERG121C electric guitar shines again! [4K] - 3D Printed Parts - No talking/music

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Making the jack plate: • Designing and making a...
Making the nut: • Video
Being poorly stored, this 2005 Yamaha electric guitar suffered minor damage and got rusty. I decided to do something about it as this was my first guitar and I wanted to see it shine again!
00:00 Intro
01:18 Removing the neck
01:48 Body parts disassembly
06:55 Body cleaning and polishing
08:43 Tuning pegs removal
09:44 Neck cleanup and frets derusting
14:17 Pickups
18:58 Rewiring new pots
19:50 Assembling body parts
25:27 3D Printed Jackplate
26:14 New pegs
27:46 Strings and 3D printed nut
28:49 Finish and Outro
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[@thetimetravelingdude8798]

This is exactly what i needed, this was my very first guitar, and now that the time of its restoration has come after 12 years of use, I can learn from the way you work! and do it myself, thanks a lot!

[@Cellu1053]

I love Yamaha guitars so much

[@davidfrank2824]

You really did one hell of a job. I love seeing old becoming new again. I think it our society today we are too quick to throw something away instead of putting some honest work into the item to save it from the dump. I was sure to hit the like button and subscribe. Look forward to watching more of your videos.

[@antonisvidakis]

Thank you very much, I hope you will like my future videos too!

[@leomilani_gtr]

Changing these pickups would have taken this guitar to another level, man.

[@simpleone1989]

This was my first electric guitar from the starter pack too!

[@MrBaldypete1]

Same here, still got mine in my dad's loft. It's going to be my next re-finish project when the weather gets warm again!

[@antonisvidakis]

Mine was not from a starter pack, were sold individually back then and the price was significantly higher.

[@raytothet7665]

My brother and I have these guitars. He's a righty and has a righty, I'm a lefty and have a lefty. Still one of my favorite guitars to play! Well done on the resto btw!

[@Dave-qy1fn]

I've got the same guitar 3 production number later ... Great job sir

[@skalewilly]

Magnificient !!! What a great job in this guitar, congrats!!!!!!

[@ronsieghart7759]

Very satisfying to watch.. this is my fave guitar model.. so simple and cheap yet does the job.. 🤘

[@JohndeKock]

So awesome to find this video. I am currently halfway through a rebuild on this exact instrument, which was my son's starter electric guitar. My previous effort involved removing the black polyurethane finish and then doing a blue burst paint job, finished with TruOil. (The dye I used has faded terribly over the years. I sanded back down to bare wood and am currently half way through applying a 'Chinese Red' lacquer finish. It is looking great. I'm modifying the electronics too - doing a coil split on the humbuckers and adding a second tone control (push pull on both). Watching your pickup work is extremely helpful.

[@antonisvidakis]

Very glad it helped you. I would never repaint it, many people are more than ok with natural wear but anyway apart from dents here and there it looks fine for me. I would miss the point too to change the color as this was also my starter guitar and has sentimental value for me.

[@kayokk-]

That was a great demonstration on how to refurbish a guitar! Thank you.

[@daffo001]

Absolutely superb! Respect!

[@neivaldoduarte4576]

Lindo trabalho!!👏👏👏👏... como é bom ver um instrumento voltando à vida pelas mãos desses mestres do restauro. Parabéns!!!

[@XPhantomLord]

My first guitar ever. I regret I trashed it, it was not that bad. Cheap yamaha guitars are surprisingly good for their price. Many people talk about how good Harley Benton instruments are, and I do not doubt it, but maybe they forgot how good Pacificas were back then and now.

[@davepelfrey3958]

Very nice and detailed job. Should last along time.

[@rogermellie1514]

My guitar. Cheap as chips. Easy to keep in tune and doesn’t sound that much different to higher end guitars with a decent amp.

[@wrzkace1]

great job !!

[@DarrellW_UK]

I’ve just finished building a Partscaster, using a Telecaster body with a LH Strat neck, made a nice guitar out of it! I like yours, that model was good!

[@antonisvidakis]

Thank you!

[@MrBaldypete1]

2:52 - same happened on mine. I went to my dad's shed, found a scrap of sheet aluminium and made a very crude one that's still there to this day!

[@antonisvidakis]

Yep, it did last months before the plastic cracked. It was very weak.

[@DreidMusicalX]

I did a restoration on a boat paddle guitar that was not a real guitar from 6 Flags TX. It was nearly as bad as shape as this guitar. A guy who sold it to me left it in a trailer that it rained indoors on it. I ended up replacing the neck because it was a fake neck with a fake truss rod in it. I ended up decking this Batman guitar out with brass big block,PRS style tremolo. Bone nut, roller string trees, I did put in some EMG's that were voices for 50's Dick Dale surfer music Strat and I messed up getting the wrong pickups but ended up loving them! Then I put some Fender locking tuners on it. and this thing plays like a pro guitar. Only thing is, I found out the body was made of plywood. haha! But its sturdy and sounds and plays awesome.

[@blancaaguilera1264]

Buen trabajo en dejarla así felicitaciones esa viola es un cañoncito, todas las Yamahitas al igual q el modelo pacíficas eran muy buenas, en fin mí nombre es Xavier saludos desde Argentina,,,,

[@sagargurung5535]

love from Nepal 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

[@DayRider76]

I like it.

[@carlosfabiannavarro]

Great video, I want to do the same for my Ibanez Gio...

[@senterpoint]

Nice refurb. I did notice the strings are not centered over the neck and pickups. To close to the little E side. What could cause that?

[@johnhulse4124]

Why the small, cheesy pots and capacitor after the rest of the effort put into reviving this Yamaha? I'm sure the pickup bezels and knobs could have used some extra care as well.

[@thomash4447]

One thing I noticed about Yamaha guitars is that people tend to hang onto them for a long time. 7, 10, 12 years....I see this all the time.

[@chefmel5366]

nice

[@PrinceWesterburg]

All that work - Its still got awful pickups, all the pivot screws in the trem and the body is still plywood - but hey, the memories are worth it!

[@WeighedGuitar]

🎸🎸🤙🏼

[@TheRockinDonkey]

I really like the 3-D printed jack-plate. Did you make it from a plastic or metal?

[@antonisvidakis]

Thank you. It is plastic, my 3D printer makes plastic items from resin.

[@roadster241]

What tuners did you use? I did not see the frets leveling. It wasn't needed with such a damaged guitar? For frets final polishing you may use a steel wool 0000.

[@antonisvidakis]

Cheap ebay tuners, basically identical to what the guitar had. Thanks for the tip about the wool. I use frequently 2000 grit sand paper and then polishing compound and cotton, it creates way more polish than anything else, I have turned aluminum to absolute mirror finish with just those. Have not done any fret leveling, I do not have the right tools and I do not think it was necessary too. Some frets had some significant wear so to lower the rest according to them I would probably do more harm than good. I think these should be first replaced and then do the leveling. If not changing them all. But again I have more guitars and I do not play much anymore anyway.

[@roadster241]

@@antonisvidakis I understand With large differences in height the leveling may not be good enough. Then you have to reshape the crowns of the frets.. A lot of work and may be for nothing. Good luck.

[@paulyoung4781]

What is that stuff u use on the maple buddy oil stuff,good work buddy all the way from Scotland mate u have lots of pride mate wish I knew how to do the wiring haha nice work buddy

[@antonisvidakis]

It is lemon oil. Good for rosewood fretboards but also gave a good polish on the wood of the neck.

[@howardgillingham4763]

My schechter is 17 yrs old and looks brand new

[@skylineXpert]

Just like studio asyl...

[@wdavis6814]

Should've just thrown the cheap pickups out and bought some SD Humbuckers. Restoration and upgrade!

[@paulslack4303]

Great rebuild think those fretts needed more attention and why those crappy tuners back in you can get a cheap set of locking tuners?

[@antonisvidakis]

Maybe you are right but I did not want to sand them too much, some of the frets are already worn down. I prefer to keep the guitar as it was from factory so I chose the exact same parts. Thanks for your comment.

[@dannybeausejour7205]

Man when he says damp conditions... then i see the rust on the screws and such im thinking a bottom of a swimming pool for like 15 years... jesus love that guitar those were and still are awesome by todays standards they were entry level hard rock and metal machines but they sounded and playes like nobodies business

[@antonisvidakis]

Even the other guitars I keep in my living room have not escaped some minor rust. It is nice to live close to the sea but also have to live with that fact.

[@absolutdagegen84]

where do you find a guitar like that? and who treats an instrument so carelessly!? your result is very good!

[@antonisvidakis]

The model is still produced and is available in Europe as far as I know. We have extreme humidity and I live by the sea. Even my other guitars that I keep in my living room have not escaped some minor rust after having them for more than a decade.

[@bram6163]

@@antonisvidakis Wow! this brought back some memories, I had one guitar exactly like that. It was also very rusty like yours I bought it second hand and later ended up selling it. Great restoration you did on it!

[@sadpotato7029]

finally a guitar restoration that didnt start with a shirtless dude walking on swamp or something and randomly finding an "old" guitar then fixes it entirely the wrong way. im so tired of seeing those in my recommended lmao and im very happy to see this

[@antonisvidakis]

Yet I receive unexpected messages of pure hate for this video which I hardly believe in my eyes. I explained in it that the guitar was neglected. And if you live by the sea like I do everything gets rusty but still... Thank you for your comment.

[@javiergarcia-rd5lj]

If a guitar with Setimental value to you ended up like this, I wouldn't like to see any of your other musical instruments you don't care for.

[@antonisvidakis]

People tend to loose interest for their stuff and then they get nostalgic. Never heard of that? And a hint: I live 120 meters from the sea shore. Nothing escapes corossion.

[@javiergarcia-rd5lj]

@@antonisvidakis Nope, never heard of it. Now I get it. Disadvantages of living in such a nice area, I guess. Thanks for minding my sarcasm. Greetings.

[@antonisvidakis]

@@javiergarcia-rd5lj Greetings my friend.

[@papajoeclips1990]

waiting for a lespaul restoration or a telecaster

[@antonisvidakis]

Thanks bro. Nah, I do have a tele but it is in great condition. But intended to manufacture some parts for it in the next months, hope I will get the time to do it.

[@fred64000]

What's your iron station brand?

[@antonisvidakis]

Nameless brand actually, cheap stuff that made welding more difficult. And not a station, just the gun with a power cord.

[@gregboykin127]

Who is playing the song at the end of the video??

[@antonisvidakis]

Not really know, the song is in description.

[@tomaslopez2940]

So the ERG was basically an HSH Pacifica?

[@antonisvidakis]

Without being expert on the subject, I think that Pacifica was available in their range back then and it was a more expensive model. They still make ERG too and they lowered the price compared to 2005.

[@tomaslopez2940]

@@antonisvidakis Weird because ERG is not sold in the USA, only Pacifica and Revstar.

[@wowwow363]

The ERG was a starterpack guitar back in start 2000's, I bought and owned one myself

[@nmnmnm9509]

@@wowwow363 I can buy one of those Yamaha its action and neck looks very well I don't know about pickup and headwear. Is it any good?or is just another cheapo guitar like Ibanez, LTD,...

[@dankmazzi2376]

Abused?yes.

[@argi0774]

And others take their new and shiny guitar and try to make it look like this one here

[@triax7006]

Fender & Gibson would be charging thousands to get the same effect, it boggles the mind of how ppl are so gullible in paying them.

[@brgl61]

"humid storeroom"? on the beach? what's with all the sand?

[@antonisvidakis]

Not on the beach, but my house (and the storeroom obviously) is 100 meters from the beach. There is no sand on the guitar, its layers of dust deposited one upon another. Could fool someone for sand on the headstock. Thanks for commenting.

[@Machintosh460]

i have the dame guitar! no way but its original and all black but it’s spthe same thing!

[@admiralbob7797]

I am highly skeptical of some of these videos - not the restoration, which appears genuine - but the state of the guitar at the beginning. I think younger players who get taken in by these videos don't really have a sense of how quickly guitars age: here's a tip - not as much as this, unless stored underwater in the ocean. I have 4 guitars that I have owned for 40 years, and I gigged them really, really hard all over the country. None of them are in a state like this. That bridge - there's no way something like that happens naturally, unless this guitar is 200 years old and was kept in a barn less than a mile from the sea.

[@antonisvidakis]

Thanks for commenting. Well the thing is that this is not a restoration channel. Out of 8 videos I have created until now only one has to do with restoration. So I am in no need to go around looking for old stuff or faking them for content material. Without saying that I will not do restorations in the future, hell, I have a few 30+ years motorcycles sitting around.. I do not know where you live, but my doorstep is exactly 150 meters from where the sea wave hits the sand, so the rust make no exceptions here on cars, motorcycles or guitars. Not some lake or some northern sea, I am talking about Mediterranean saltiness... Plus, these guitars are made in China and the plating quality of the metal parts is not top notch that will hold. I have an american Strat almost same age, never went outside house, yet you see that the chrome parts are not as shiny anymore. Believe it or not, three years ago I bought a brand new GPU. In less than two years I noticed corrosion on the aluminum heatsink. A working GPU inside my room..

[@thomashorvath7026]

In would have taken an air hose to it before brushing that crap around scratching it even more lol

[@octopaul]

this looked so much cooler before the resto! good work though

[@deleteexistence6175]

What mm is that whammy bar please?

[@antonisvidakis]

Around 5mm

[@deleteexistence6175]

@@antonisvidakis thank you

[@vultuze]

great restoration but the restring job was a crime

[@antonisvidakis]

Not finished in the video, guitar needed the saddles to be adjusted for intonation and some more details. Actually noticed later that the neck screws needed much more tightening. I had to finish the video at some point to avoid becoming boring.

[@atakdragonfly1675]

Looks like it never got played after the scrub and buff. That guitar must have sat around and got moved around, neglected, and just got rotted. I'm betting it's got very little actual hours of play time.

[@antonisvidakis]

Not true on the play time part. That was my first guitar and I self taught myself on it. It played hours and hours every day for a few years. Then bought more and as you say it was neglected and sat around.

[@atakdragonfly1675]

@@antonisvidakis lucky guy you.. my first electric guitar was also a Yamaha. When he washed it...I couldn't see any wear, not even pick scratches...

[@grantkoeller8911]

Middle pickup way too low!!!

[@brucehayes7251]

I have an earlier Yamaha,single coil had a piece of foam under it rather than springs,Ive bought bass pickups with same system.

[@anggapradana9470]

@@brucehayes7251 Every pickup will have that foam if your guitar didnt use pickup mounting ring.

[@grantkoeller8911]

Middle pickup needs to be raised.

[@kayokk-]

Agreed 👍🏼

[@bennoobguitar]

Wow.. im using this guitar untill now (already 20years) check my video,, my 1st guitar, a birthday gift from my father

[@antonisvidakis]

I checked some of your vids man, nice playing!

[@bennoobguitar]

@@antonisvidakis thank you, and you doin a great job on that old guitar.. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@stanpopovsky]

Это ж как до такого состояния можно было довести… Стачивать наждачкой хромированные части звукоснимателей это тоже сильно

[@rustess]

Реставрация хорошая,но камера плохая.Нет фокуса,что бы детально всё рассмотреть...

[@danielktdoranie]

That 3D printed jack plate is stupid, the metal one that came with it is way better.

[@antonisvidakis]

Well it did not... I made that metal plate years ago. The guitar came with a plastic so thin that broke in a year.

[@danielktdoranie]

@@antonisvidakis so you learned nothing?

[@antonisvidakis]

I did learned something, I made it double the size and thickness so this will not break again, thank you for your concern. @@danielktdoranie

[@danielktdoranie]

@@antonisvidakis You're welcome Antonis Vidakis. I am not convinced it won't break. 3D printer filament is nortorious for being fragile and prone to cracking. It also looks cringe AF. However, good luck!

[@michaelmoonsorrsdcustomsho1186]

Прекрасная работа, выше всяческих похвал! Бедная гитара, её будто на Помойку выкинули, жалко ведь, раньше была Эталоном выбора новобранца.

[@michaelmoonsorrsdcustomsho1186]

По поводу Датчиков - я бы не заморачивался вообще, взял бы сразу датчики Shadow комплекты и вставил, они будут по звуку немного лучше стока.

[@toabove2]

It’s amazed me how seventeen years old guitar looks this bad.

[@antonisvidakis]

I have explained in the video and in the comments. Thanks for your comment.

[@user-hh6dr9oy2j]

Ну такое.... Особенно доставила намотка струн на колки. Я б за такое руки поотбивал.

[@dwainespradling9233]

All that work gutting this thing for cleaning; you should have at least taken the opportunity to upgrade the electronics.

[@antonisvidakis]

Haven't I? I changed the pots, selector, output jack and the wiring. Thanks for your comment.

[@dwainespradling9233]

@@antonisvidakis sorry, in my head I was speaking specifically to the pickups. I personally would have taken the opportunity to put an EMG H4 in the bridge and H4A at the neck, with an EMG S4 in the middle.

[@dwainespradling9233]

Since you had to replace the nut too - I probably would have gone the extra mile and converted to a Floyd Rose/Locking Tremolo system - though that's more a personal taste. I know many people that hate locking tremolos.

[@antonisvidakis]

@@dwainespradling9233 That would be surely an upgrade, but to be honest I have a few guitars, yet I do not play as much as I used in the past. I fixed this more out of nostalgia than anything else, so I would not spend money on it. Stock pickups were not bad actually too.

[@antonisvidakis]

@@dwainespradling9233 You mean the saddle? Floyd Rose is great but you can not just switch to it. I would have to drill the body and install it's mounts and that would be pretty aggressive for a guitar that I wanted it to remain stock as much as possible for nostalgic reason as I previously mentioned.

[@AliKhan-sy9jy]

Bro did you apply soap on the body? Did you seek therapy?

[@antonisvidakis]

Not yet, thanks for your concern.. The body is primed-painted-clear coated and pretty well sealed from water. The soap was very dry too on purpose.

[@danielpreston2263]

Great work,but in the end you can polish a turd all you want but it's still a turd 💩💩💩

[@antonisvidakis]

It is not an american strat but it is a decent playing guitar. It was sentimental for me to fix it above all regardless it's value. Thank you for your comment.

[@paulyoung4781]

@@antonisvidakis ignore them haters bud u did a great job mate

[@paulyoung4781]

Ur a absolute belend!! Eh,polish a turd!! Wow ur a nasty prick the man knows probably more than u least he has pride what he does bet u dont! Least he ain't a little helmet like u!

[@antonisvidakis]

@@paulyoung4781 That's ok bro he was not disrespectful to me, he just does not like this guitar. Thanks for your support.

[@supriadimc4747]

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