I HAD to build a Les Paul style guitar after the Electric Shelf 335 ! (Guitar Making ASMR)
It took me more than one year to finish this build, not so much because the build was complicated, but life is...
A little bit of context: this was supposed to be the material for a tutorial on how to make guitars at home for the beginner woodworker. But then I broke my wrist, and ended up making a Telecaster for that tutorial , using only one hand (most underrated video on Youtube by the way).
In March 2021 I began this build and didn’t want to use the original Les Paul shape, so I redesigned the plans to my tastes. And then Crimson contacted me for the GGBO, so I did the One Piece Build which took me a few months, and then I made the Blue One for another partnership, that also took me a few months, and then life happened, and procrastination hit hard.
I immediately had mixed feelings about this build because I intended the one-piece top to be symmetrical, but the carving exposed some sapwood here and there, and I do have very bad OCD’s ... Long story short, when all the pieces came together I just fell in love with the whole thing again, it sounds gorgeous to my ears and plays heavenly, I think it’s my go-to guitar now ... (until I build the next one I guess). Also, I wanted this guitar to be an ode to wood, so I hope it shows!
Some specs:
- One piece top, unknown wood
- Two piece body, sapele
- 5 plys neck, cherry, padouk (from my neighboor’s decking), mahogany
- Ebony fretboard (Madinter’s Crelicam)
- Maple bindings
- Eucalyptus pickguard and truss rod cover
- 50 year old maple for the backplate cover
- Grover 502CK locking tuners, Schaller GTM bridge and tailpiece
- All Switchcraft electronics, modern wiring, 47nF caps
- Seymour Duncan Phat Cat P90
- 22 frets, Dunlop 6140
All the wood comes from Lochten et Germeau (BE) and Madinter (ES).
For the demos I only used 3 pedals:
- Paul Cochrane Timmy clone, on veroboard
- Klon centaur clone, on veroboard
- Marshall Guv’nor clone, on veroboard
Everything was recorded directly into Logic using a 2notes Torpedo Captor through my Egnater Tweaker head 15w)
Everything was filmed with a Canon EOS RP and a couple of lenses (Sigma 18-35 F1.8 and Canon 85mm F2 macro)
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And hey, thanks for 100K subs, it happened last week, so I’ll begin my Red Special build right now, it shouldn’t take too long, I’m very very emotional about that build!
Bisous !
tchiks
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