Holy Crap, Hand build!!!

[Death by Uberschall]

Part 1
http://youtu.be/k647UA3Avwg

Part 2
http://youtu.be/Up2tLlfPCyk

Part 3
http://youtu.be/xHNaH_JK4cM

I could not stop watching this guy build his Les Paul completely from scratch, including the pickups!! 

Demo
http://youtu.be/mXr0pmcE21Q

 

[Corey P.]

On part 1 right now - seems SO wasteful, yet fascinating...

 

[DangerousR6]

I couldn't stop watching either, just mind bending the thought that he put into building that...

 

[Cagey]

Pretty ambitious. I don't believe I've ever seen a one-piece body/neck build like that before.

 

[lucky13]

WoW! now thats some balls there.....talk about ambition, I would be buying off the rack for life if this was the only way..... :laughing7:

 

[swarfrat]

:blob7:

Bravo sir. A man afflicted as I am. But I'm still trying to wind the motor for my router unfortunately.  :help:

 

[dmraco]

looks great.  Massive skills and tools there.  A lot of planning I am sure.

I will have to say, I was extremely disappointed in the sound.... :icon_scratch:

 

[Corey P.]

looks great.  Massive skills and tools there.  A lot of planning I am sure.

I will have to say, I was extremely disappointed in the sound.... :icon_scratch:

I think the demo video may be a different guitarist playing, it was much better than the brief stuff in part 3.

 

[Cagey]

I will have to say, I was extremely disappointed in the sound.... :icon_scratch:

I wasn't impressed, either, although I wasn't entirely surprised. Too much Mahogany dampening things.

 

[Strat Avenger]

Serious skills.
I have to imagine that those slabs of raw wood by themselves must cost a pretty penny.

 

[DangerousR6]

I will have to say, I was extremely disappointed in the sound.... :icon_scratch:

I wasn't impressed, either, although I wasn't entirely surprised. Too much Mahogany dampening things.

I was, so when you make your next set of pick ups, we'll compare... :dontknow:

 

[Jumble Jumble]

So you're saying, they're OK considering he made them? That's different to them actually being good.

 

[DangerousR6]

So you're saying, they're OK considering he made them? That's different to them actually being good.

Yep, for home made pickups they sound pretty damn good..

 

[Hbom]

Awesome build!
But I have to say that with this guys attention to detail, I was a bit surprised that he didn't draw his own wire for the pickups.
Still it was inspiring.
:rock-on:

 

[swarfrat]

Finally had a chance to watch the whole thing. For someone who was otherwise pretty fastidious about making templates and jigs for everything, watching him drill the holes for the tuners with a hand drill, even using template, seemed a bit out of place.

I got to wonder though if there wasn't any Crocodile Dundee shaving going on with the resawing with a handsaw bit, although we've already established he's a masochist when it comes to doing things the hard way.

 

[AutoBat]

He is amazingly skilled at woodworking.  I didn't care for the top finish (not knocking the quality, just appearance) and the sound wasn't hot, and the tuners were angled down.
Was he going for the win on a $100 parts build or something?

 

[CrazyGrain]

He is amazingly skilled at woodworking.  I didn't care for the top finish (not knocking the quality, just appearance) and the sound wasn't hot, and the tuners were angled down.
Was he going for the win on a $100 parts build or something?

I'm pretty sure he wanted the tuners angled. Ever play a bass with that style? It is pretty comfortable.

 

[ihavenothingprofoundtosay]

I don't have an adjective strong enough for this project.  "Awesome", "stupendous", "amazing", etc.... they all fall kinda short on this one.  The skills involved in this guitar construction are so far beyond what I could hope to achieve....  I'm totally stunned.

 

[KaiserSoze]

Wow...Seriously , wow.  I enjoyed that more than the last couple movies I've seen.  Worth it just to see the "half-pencil-to-measure-the-nut-radius" trick.  I'm a noob but that was a face-palm for me.  Had another holy crap moment when I realized he was carving his pickup bobbins...I mean come on.

 

[Alfang]

I also watched all three straight through, Very creative build,

My first thought was how much is that neck gonna move after removing all that wood around it?  Most necks are cut to near finish size and allowed to cure for a few months to get all the warping done, then crafted into a finish neck