Building an Explorer Type guitar - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Hey everyone,
this is the video series on how I build an explorer type guitar. I had done many stages of the building process (on both body and neck) off camera, since I wasn't planing on video documenting this build in the beginning. However, with the corona pandemic I had more time than expected, so I wanted to complete the guitar and also make new videos. Also, I had to move from my workshop space to my old Plan B kitchen workshop, as I couldn't enter the building where my actual workshop is due to the quarantine rules here in Germany.
In this part you will see the following steps:
- custom 12th fret inlay
- fretting
- neck back contour shaping
- headstock logo carving.
The next part will be up soon.
Enjoy!
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Very cool toolstand/jig for working on the neck! I consider building my own. Great! Kudos!
This is easily one of the best guitar building vids on UA-cam. Love this guitar man. You're very skilled. 🍻
Thank you very much 🤘
Crazy inlay work!
Thank you!
Amazing inlay design/work!
Way cool!!
Stunning!
Cheers from Texas!
🤘😎🤘
M
Excellent work.
Loved that headstock.
Thanks!
Excellent work my friend✌️
amazing job
Amazing to watch , very skilled craftmanship
Thanks
Nice Job !!!
It must be very satisfying after all that neck profiling... feeling it and get the exact results you had expected... great work
Yes! The whole process of shaping the back contour of a neck is very relaxing and satisfying in a way. Feeling the end result in your hand is amazing…if you nailed it right away…otherwise more filing and sanding needs to be done! 😎
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I was dumb lost the account password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me
@Finley Oakley instablaster ;)
@Bruno Case I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and im in the hacking process atm.
Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Bruno Case It did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I'm so happy!
Thank you so much, you saved my ass !
HEADPHONES USERS BE WARNED: the intro can be deafening. Please turn your volume down a bit.
Thank you for your attention. 😉
I LOVE the designs you did on the neck, what type of problems did you run into when building the guitat
Thanks! What problems? Well, on this one really only COVID-19 since we all (in Germany) had to stay at home in the beginning. Therefore I couldn’t finish the guitar in my woodshop but instead in my kitchen 😉
gostaria de saber qual é a medida para se fazer o shape do braço, de onde vai sai do inicio do headstok até a parte onde ele encaixa no no corpo? E se possível também com quantos milímetros voce deixou o braço já com o acabamento pronto para colocar a escala? agradeço e voce é um super profissional.
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Those inlays are awesome, you did great job homie, & random question, do you know if you can do the same thing to customize a kit guitar neck?
Thanks. Well, it depends on the kit guitar neck. If it’s already fretted then no. Otherwise yes.
Cheers
What's the tool at 8:22?
Those neck inlays are beautiful btw.
Hey, thanks. That‘s a contour gauge, making sure the carved neck profile is symmetrical!
Amazing work man!!! Cheers from Greece.
What kind of templates did you use? I have found/paid for several Explorer Templates but all of them lack a lot of information about the neck etc...
Thank you. Well, yeah. I had an Epiphone explorer from which I got many details. Although this clearly isn’t a Epiphone shaped explorer.
Excelente artesano... Un maestro.. alguien sabrá el costo de esa guitarra???
What is that tool you used to transfer the print to your headstock? Also it is just a regular ink jet print out?
It needs to be printed through a laser printer. Other than that it’s a normal print out.
Boa noite amigo. Estou querendo fazer minha própria guitarra mais não sei como fazer esse gabarito do braço como você vez, teria como você me mandar as medidas de como faz? Foi o único vídeo no UA-cam que vi fazendo assim, muito bom seu trabalho, já sou escrito do seu canal, desde já agradeço.
من اندازه ها رو دارم
You’ve done excellent work I’m not a hater but please please don’t have your fingers in front of the chisel like you did there are a million great techniques out there about your fingers at risk like that. Otherwise outstanding work.
Yeah that was definitely a bad technique
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Hey man, can you tell me where you found your plans to build this guitar? I’m struggling to find any MX-250 Explorer shape plans/templates.
Hi,
as I told you before, I came up with the plans using my old Epiphone Explorer and making it sharper.
@@ArkesGuitars Sorry! I thought I asked you about the headstock not the body.
No worries 😉
I’d like to build my own guitar one day. Could you give any tips for a beginner?
Hey, that sounds awesome!
My first tip would be: Just do it! It’s not brain surgery. You’ll make some mistakes for sure but will also fix them!
Get a basic tool sortiment: router, jig saw, a lot of clamps!
And with each build you’ll buy more tools.
There are many ways to build a guitar!
I would recommend using some cheap woods for practice and not AAA-flamed maple...
Welche Zange benutzt du um die Bünde zu kürzen?
Folgende:
www.rockinger.com/werkstatt/werkzeug/1103/overhang-fret-end-cutter?c=120
Arkes Guitars danke
What type of wood are you using?
In this build, it’s a one piece mahogany neck with a ebony fretboard and a one piece mahogany body.
Where did you get that wood you used for your inlays?
Actually, it was a gift, bought from a local carpenter on a Christmas market here in Munich.
@@ArkesGuitars ah cool not seen that before , cool build!
@@VENMGameZ thanks!