I did bad things to this $100 Temu guitar
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
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00:00 The Plan
01:42 Ad Read
02:27 The Build
05:31 The Demo
06:18 The Review
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Hell yeah you gotta make another one with better parts. Imagine playing shows with a stage-worthy one? It'd definitely draw some eyeballs.
Yes, please.
I like it, the real question is, what kind of base budget acoustic do you use?
oh you have to.
Let us see more!
I'm totally down to see this guitar get elevated with better parts. Seeing a luthier do something this professional...yet so unprofessional at the same time is a strange kind of enjoyment 😂
Same here
I want to see it with a slightly nicer guitar so we can compare between the two - how much better can the disastercaster really get? What’s the final evolution and is it even worth it lmao
yea and it should be called the Master Disastercaster xD
@@Nug_Lord I'm down for that as well!
How about cutting an acoustic in half and reattaching the back to make a thinline hollowbody?
I’m genuinely impressed at how good it sounded at the end, like wow. You guys did a great job, loved it
Well he probably played it through a good amp and recorded it with a quality mic
@@dom-ru5cc I mean yeah, but it still sounded killer nonetheless
@@dom-ru5cc Theoretically that means what you're hearing is the purest sound it can make, making it even more impressive?
I was scared for a second when I heard the neck pickups and thought they sounded good. I thought I had completely lost my mind and then saw people in the comments saying they liked the sound as well.
I was surprised with the sound of this monstrosity. it was surprisingly good, I can't imagine what an expensive disastercaster would sound like.
The fender acoustasonics are kind of similar to this
Another vote for doing this with all quality stuff. It started out as a gaff, but I ended up seeing the finished guitar and thinking "man, this could actually be really dope."
I love how the only problem I'm having with it is the pickguard flapping in the breeze.
DUDE wtf is that lmao I can’t believe they didn’t make a custom pick guard to this
Right? Mismatched knobs? Nah, fits the theme. Non-working bigsby? What do you want, perfection? How about the pickguard--YOU AND YOUR LUTHIER SUCK SAMMY G!@@jhammons2310
I think making a custom pick guard would be completely missing the point of the challenge
I'm infuriated by how amazing it actually sounds
Yeah, it's got a vibe!
I think it's more the player than the guitar.
@@myautobiographyafanfic1413 well yeah I know that. You can plug a guitar into an amp worth 1000 dollars and it'll sound great. It's the painter, not the brush I get it. But the guitar itself sounds really nice
@@myautobiographyafanfic1413 Even a good guitarist wouldn't be able to do anything about their electronics being muddy or overly bright. For some cheapo pickups/electronics, they sound surprisingly decent. I'm sure the knobs will get crackly in a few months, though.
It's basically a Gretsch guitar. They're acoustics with pickups and tremolo like this
You’re the kind of guitarist that makes all “monstrosities” sound good 👏👏👏
I’ve had this gentleman do three refrets for me now and a couple things, I love his work. I’m very fortunate to live in the same city. Look forward to more content with Lucas!!
Ahh yes, the long-awaited sequel to the Frankenstrat. This is certainly one of the most beautifully wretched things I've seen in guitar modding. And even after all of that, this looks like something Chet Atkins would play!
Which video do you mean?
omg. right?
Honestly doesn't sound too far off from his "Dark Eyes" tone, either. Especially in the neck position.
@@TheAlexFromGalax did you figure out what video they are mentioning
@@TheAlexFromGalax it’s not one of Sam’s videos. They’re talking about a guitar by Van Halen if what I found is correct.
This is one of the most beautifully insane guitars I've ever seen. Wonderfully done, Sammy, and PLEASE keep this bizarre guitar train runnin'!
One way you could deal with trapdoor could be a magnet to latch on when its open to stop it from rattling👍
This is the kind of mad scientist guitar content that I love to watch, but rarely do I see it involve an actual luthier. What an awesome direction. Hope to see more.
The acoustic disaster-caster is definitely going to become a trend now I can’t wait to see what others come up with and how you guys do an upgraded version of this! 😊
Disastercaster. I am stealing that for the logo for all my guitar builds
Happy Holidays from South Texas to you, Jenny and the kids! Thanks for the great channel!
Yes, definately do another! This one would be awesome to hang on the wall as artwork!
i hate the fact that I actually love how this thing sounds. It's so woody and wide and I kinda adore it.
I would love to see this with higher quality parts and maybe a higher quality guitar. A used Baby Taylor wouldn't break the bank and would be a huge step up in quality over the Temu special. Great video and I'm looking forward to seeing any future updates to the Disastercaster!
I'd say stick with a valueless husk, this thing is basically destined to self-destruct/become unplayable over time no matter how well you do it.
That would just be a Gretsch guitar. Acoustic, with pickups and tremolo
ACTUALLY… I have a GS Mini that someone accidentally stepped on that was never quite right after repair. This is inspiring 😂
This is amazing! Id love to see this concept with elevated parts but i must say for what this is its pretty remarkable!
Well done, you caught me with the youtube short. Glad i checked out the whole vid. Very cool
This is one of my favorite videos. And I’ve been a subscriber for years. I wish it was longer and you went more into detail with how the luthier did what he did, but I’m sure most people enjoy it more this way.
I'm halfway through but I already wish it was longer!
This is so creative in a destructive and constructive way. Need more this type of videos, very fun process to witness!
I’d love to see more videos with your luthier! He seems like an awesome guy!
You proved once again that a talented musician can make about anything sound good.
ITS GLORIOUS!!!!! This is how the SammyG custom shop starts.
We definitely need to see this with higher quality parts. 👍🏻👍🏻
I started watching videos on your channel because of the short of this build. I love the idea. Looking forward to seeing what kind of disastrous beauty you cook up next.
Sounds pretty cool man. I like all of the variations. Sweet!!!!!
I did a Temu guitar gear vid myself… I highly suggest the finger shakers from there! The only thing I’ve actually used more than once
I think this is a great idea and I am shocked that not more people do these kinds of ridiculous mods. It actually didnt sound half bad either! Cool project, pleeeeease do the same with higher quality components!
Check out my main axe. It has pretty ridiculous looking mods. Mines not silly though aside from jokingly adding stickers of vol/tone knobs where they used to be. The rest is carefully calculated prioritizing the function to be performance quality.
I mean, it is a lot of effort for what effectively amounts to a scuffed hollowbody electric guitar.
So nice and mellow sound in the end!
This was a cool experiment. Would love to see more like it.
Great tech to actually take the time to do a quality build! I would love to see him do the same build with quality parts, that would surely become a collector's item.
This was great - I'm doing my first ever strip and rebuild of a epiphone SG (had been given to a friend as project guitar and came back black with sparkly green flames, but unfinished), I was looking at those exact P90s on Temu!
Had been considering turning it into a basitar but I may save that for my next project when I've learned to basic things, like solder.
But yeah, really enjoyed that - would love to see the concept with higher quality componenets!
The tele pick guard is just so funny looking the way it sticks out where the cutaway is it’s amazing lol
I actually love how you transformed it, definitely gonna try
As a primarily acoustic player, this guitar totally rocks! I would totally want to see you make a better version of Disastercaster with a much more decent guitar - maybe pick up an inexpensive Epiphone or another brand with decent budget acoustic models?
Ive seen a lot of beautiful DIY guitars on youtube, but finally theres a video about one thats intentionally bad. LOVE IT!
I liked the sounds you were able to pull out of this with the electric components. A Disastercaster 2.0 might surprise us all.
this is probaby one of my favorite videos from you. You have to make this a series!
I love this! Do more of this please!
This feels like a spiritual successor to Kurt’s live unplugged guitar. I’m all for it
This was fun to watch. There were nice video and segment transitions and I find I'm still a bit curious about Lucas after watching him work a little. Love that you're thinking outside the box, Sammy G.
The topics of your videos are always so enteraining. Feels great to play a little, then eat some snacks while watching your vids
Well, I must not know anything, 'cause I thought it sounded amazing.
HOW the HELL do you make it sound that good? That's... honestly incredible.
What a fun project! I love it!
The first 15 seconds. "All the time! Lets see what you've got!!!" Fired up already. 🤘🙌
It sounds surprisingly good as an electric!
I'll be honest, I actually quite liked the sound of the "double single coil". Turned out way better than I expected. I'd love to see you do one with good parts on a good guitar. Say $500 - $1000 budget (excluding labour) so you're still not sacrificing a guitar you shouldn't be. And let Lucas take his time to do things properly. I feel like you'll end up with a really nice guitar!
Love it!!!! More please............
This is BEAUTIFUL!!!
There was a little guitar shop I used to frequent in my youth that had an annual "Ugly Guitar Contest" around this time of year .(I entered with my headless converted Teisco franken strat several times). This thing would have done well.
And thing is it actually sounds way better than it has any right to.
Hell yeah, I’m down to seeing a better version of this. Better parts, better building. Would love to see it. Do it man!
Totally on board with a high-quality version of this. The neck position sounded surprisingly good imo.
Outstanding. Really enjoyed that.
I definitely vote for DisasterCaster 2.0z My thoughts are - this is awesome! The tones actually sound amazing! And that’s probably cause you are a phenomenal player. I would buy this if you sold it and I could afford it.
Someone gotta have this as their signature guitar
That was a good Idea. Ive thought about a lot of rebuilding on some of the axes I collected but unfortunately I moved across the west side of Canada that I left those axes behind. Good video. Nice to have a handy guy moding it all together. Cheers
Love the Garnet poster in the background. I owned a Garnet amp for many many years (I am reasonably confident that it was a Revolution III 4x12 configuration, with the jacks, knobs and switches on the top-facing side of the amp instead of the front), and even bought a Herzog pre-amp from Gar himself (RIP), back when he was making them again in the early '00s (as far as I know, my perfidious brother has both pieces, somewhere in his vast collection of musical technology). That man was almost solely responsible for the crunchy tones of Randy Bachman that were immortalized in _American Woman,_ one of the most internationally-famous Canadian rock songs - Bachman was getting that kind of sound in...creative ways before he met Gar, but kept melting his amps in the process. Gar managed to find a way to achieve a similar effect without destroying any more amplifiers.
Gar was as much a part of the rock 'n roll explosion that took Winnipeg by storm in the '60s as any of the musicians he furnished with gear. The man's a legend, and is very much missed, but I am extremely glad those still in "the scene" in my hometown are keeping his legacy alive, both by educating new generations about his fine work (and thus his place in music history), and by embodying the man's humility and generosity. Gar always had a minute (or 30) to chat with you, but he _especially_ loved it when amps of his "came home" and he could take a look at them, give them a good once over, and fix any issues that might have developed (at little, and usually no charge). He held no illusions of perfectionism - musical gear is meant to be used (and mildly abused), and so seeing a well-loved amplifier, a veteran of hundreds of concerts, made his day.
And as much as the enshittening of basically every possible technology has made people like Gar Gillies somewhat obsolete (why pay a local guy for a high-quality product at a reasonable price, when you can pay a company in China to give you a product that is half as good, but a quarter the cost?), it is heartening to know that there are still people like him making a go of it, for barely living wages, because they love their job (and the kind of experience they can offer their clientele) more than they care about wealth. Gar was an example to us all about how to live a fulfilling life.
I endorse the idea of a disastercaster with actual quality parts.
This is magnificent. I'd love to see more of these -- maybe making an acoustic out of an electric, too?
Check out the Nylocaster
This thing sounds surprisingly good as an electric! Would love to see a version with expensive parts!
A good & fun video, thanks!
Either youre super short or the luthier is extremely tall
Short
That sounds quite nice and I like the fact that you can get different voices out of it.
This is fun, i want to see Disaster Caster 2: Disasteree Casterer.
Also doing a serious franken-accoustic where you actually planned it, got good quality parts, and put an appropriate amount of effort would be a total blast and i would totally like and subscribe and hit the notification button for that!
Really awesome video dude ⚡️⚡️
You should do this with a high end or mid tier Taylor acoustic!! And better parts as well, of course
It is a cool idea. I love modifing guitars. I have a 76 Tele originally with a Fender Bigsby but I modified it into one OBL humbucker with Floyd Rose. I also have a home made headless with Floyd Rose Speedloader tremolo.
I really grew a love for the epiphone casino the sheraton is also such a beautiful guitar too but the casino is a pleasure acoustically and with lower volumes it’s pretty live thru a amp
That was fun. I think it will be more rewarding to do a build with a guitar you like to begin with. It makes working on it a little more risky but if you take time to carefully plan out the mods and select parts you know work well great things can happen. I did that with my main gigging mandolin when I added the keyboard on it. The more I thought and planned it out the more confident I became to chop into it. Not everything is perfect with it yet but I still have a mandolin that can sound and play like no other and in a good way. I wanna see you do wild mods but with the quality parts and carefulness to make something you really want to pick up and use.
This would be really cool to do with an Orangewood guitar now that they ship to Canada. Then you may be able to scoop some parts up from local shops around Winnipeg to help them out. I've only know of Beardsell guitars because of you for example and when the time comes I will be using their services.
Thanks for the video!
I totally loved this! I would love to see a 2.0...and maybe a x3 with good guitar and good parts!!!
I learned the moving open chords thing from Rik Emmet of Triumph way back when he wrote a column in Guitar Player Magazine. Thanks for the nostalgia.
I have an aria that I put a humbucker in the sound hole. I also sunk a cheap strat hardtail bridge into the body mounted to a 1x4.
I also put a piezo/mic acoustic setup in it.
I've been thinking of swapping to a tele bridge with a pickup in it.
Litterally just threw a bunch of spare parts I had laying around into a guitar that was broken. Cost me nothing and its fun as hell.
I’ll love to see this done with better quality parts. Also I felt you could experiment with a different placement for the sound hole.
That guitar ended up being hilariously cool, I love it looked at the end and really shows that was moded by someone that really knew what he was doing
i actually really love the sound of the acousitc with the trap closed. would love that sound and vibe for some of the indie style stuff i make.
It was pretty cool dude, thanks for experimenting!
Excellent job
This idea reminds me of the Burns Steer, famously played by Billy Bragg. It's a dreadnought-shaped semi-hollow with a bolt-on maple neck, a Strat-style hardtail bridge, a bridge humbucker and neck single-coil, and a big top-mount pickguard with the electronics in it. And it only comes in green burst.
my sweetie discovered Temu a little while back and has been going crazy with their stuff. I was especially amused by your skull knob, considering I have 3 small (about the size of the distal phalange on my pinky finger) skulls, made from something that looks like poured clay, staring at me from my desk. she bought like a bag of 50 for the silly spots in the garden she’s working on.
I love this! Would love to see more disastercaster vids so I can live vicariously though you lol
I’ve been wanting to do something like this for the longest time! Glad to see someone living the dream
It has a unique sound too; nice job!
Thanks!
Definitely one another one. I loved the sound. The cheap price makes it more exciting
I did something similar for an acoustic bass, addedca piezo, abd a magnetic pick and a wolume/tone. It actually was a lot of fun
Pleaseee do this with great parts, that initial demo actually sounded really good
PLEASE!!! You’ve GOT TO do another, more elevated Version of this Project. I’d be tempted to buy that thing from you!
I love this video and would love to see more
genius video loved watching it
I second doing a Disaster Caster with better parts and see how that turns out. Because with the price of this being a beginner guitar to somewhat alright with everything said and done, would definitely be interesting taking a similar guitar and seeing what's possible for a DIY project like this or getting it to someone to do the mods for you
Definitely would love to see you create more weird guitars. :) Especially when you play them so well!
When done with decent parts these are awesome. Joey StLucas from San Diego Psychobilly band The Strikers did a pickup and Bigsby set up on an acoustic 20 years ago as his main rig. The most rock n roll thing ever.
I met you a couple weeks ago and you told me you were filming this vid, keep it up
I recently finished putting a telecaster electric neck, ashtray bridge and full standard tele pickups and electronics into an acoustic body (had its head broken off). Still has a sound hole too 😊.
Great vid as always. Definitely make not-a-disastercaster. I think an Orangewood would make a great, reasonably inexpensive base to start with.
this was so fun!