SMASHED! Electric guitar rescue. Supro/airline vintage custom restoration electric unicorn
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
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Today's victim was on the receiving end of an apparent blunt force trauma to the lower bout. Can it be saved? Will it require a heart transplant? a bionic leg? A fricken UNICORN????!?!?!? Find out today when we repair a 1963 Tremo-lectric Airline model 6214.
I've always hated the term "Thunderstick", ascribed colloquially to the line of short scale guitars made by Valco (National, Supro, etc) in the 1960s. Though, with their very short 22" scale length, baseball bat necks and POWERFUL pickups, the name is, admittedly, befitting.
Though this thunderstick looks like it got struck by lightning! Its tremo-lectric unit is also, as the kids say, "smashed to smithereens".
With a good bit of gusto, and a fair bit of swearing I managed to put a new heart inside this unicorn of a guitar and came out the other end...a better person?
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Came for the repair, stayed for the repair and the weird hypnotizing music. I feel zen.
😵💫🫶🫠thank you
WOW! You are an Artist! I Love the Unicorn
Thanks!🙏🏼
It’s too bad I live 8000 miles away because everything I see in your videos makes me think you’d be super cool to hang out with 👍🏼
Metric or imperial miles?
Where, 8,000 miles away?
I love everything about this but man…that pick guard +LED is something special. Super inspiring work.
Thanks!
I like that you showed your mistakes. Super relatable honestly 😂
It was a real treat to hear that wreckage sing again. There’s just something sad about a silent guitar.
Watching wood getting done feels so relaxing
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This is easily my favorite channel on this platform. The vibe is impeccable 🦄
You give off big lighthouse keeper energy, dog. And I am here for it. ❤
Hahahha, I’d take that job!
That pickguard is awesome! Nice job!
Thanks!
LED placement 11 out of 10. Love that build! It’s fun seeing some woodworking mixed in!
First of all: great work! Watch out with plastics, some can be nasty. Don't breathe any in. I always take into consideration the string guage when bowing a neck. I've had a customer palying 13's (no kidding) and his trussrod was ultra stressed to the point of breaking. A bit of backbow wouldn't hurt in that case. Love that you took into account the fall away from the 11th fret, makes playability a lot better!
Dude, you have no idea how interesting and relaxing I find your content!!
Awwwwwwe thanks! 🙏🏼
Im about to get back into guitar after 15 years and your videos have been super enjoyable to watch. I hope you find great success with youtube and your luthier work to where you can get a full studio and booth with ventilation and whatever else you could ever want. maybe just more guitars.
Thanks very much! Enjoy your re-entry!
That guitar had a rough deal in a previous life. Superb workmanship bringing it back. 👍Looks brilliant and sounds cool. nice touch with the Unicorn LED
definitely one of the coolest restorations in my opinion. that guard is absolutely fire
Thanks!
Beautiful guitar with the majestic unicorn stead heading to the norther most star in the midnight sky. Breathtaking the sound truly matches the beauty. To you sir I say bravo and well done.
Many thanks!
Love the music! And the repair of course.
Thanks a lot!
My first guitar was a used beat up Teisco E100. It does not have an adjustable truss rod but I've been very fortunate that the relief is decent with the string gauge I use. Gives me hope seeing vids like this that if it warps too bad over time there's still hope. The sentimental value is more important to me than the monetary value. Love my effed up Teisco
You're really such an artist....❤❤❤ love it
Thankkkkkksssssss!
Beautiful! You fixed it up pretty nicely and I like the pickguard. Definitely has a unique vibe and sound to it.
Decent guitar, awesome video. Looking forward to more. That pick guard was a good choice and matched the bridge perfectly.
You'r right, a guitar Luthier you are not, but a pick gaurd artist you are one of the greatest, as for the sounds/feedback, just like I would expect, from a non Luthier would be, I have to admit it looks good on the wall though.
Oh my giddy aunt! That tone without the overdrive made my knees tremble
Not a luthier knot... That unicorn pick guard really ties the room together, fabulous video as ever. I like this guitar.
Guitar shaped object artist. You have given it some charm, even when played.
Man when do you sleep? Putting out high quality videos like this and doing so much repair work and living that single dad life? That is a heck of a lot, take care of yourself, sir!
Thank you thank you thank you 💁
I SAW KURT AND I GOT SO HAPPY!! lol i'm a big nirvana fan, but also besides that this video is AWESOME
That pickguard is epic!
I had to watch this in 2 parts, I dig that guitar,
Awesome editing! You have a subtle way of painting an adventure… 💯
Nice edit! Keeps me glued to the screen😊
Thank you!
Incredible! I love everything about it! Even its imperfections
pickguard and LED look amazing.
Thank you
Cool, original content. Thanks for posting. Nice work of art on the pickguard! Sounds killer!
Thanks!
You can always tell you’re a craftsman by how will you fix your mistakes.
Another worthwhile video, well done. Good to see Buggy is still making guest appearances, too.
Really cool guitar! Great video as always! Thanks! That red LED needs to be in the eye of that unicorn.
That was a thought! That would’ve been twisted …I can always add another
@@Notaluthieryeah, but then with different colours. Red for the eye, of course.
Dude the dog is gorgeous
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You are not a luthier ... you are a magician :D And of course - the unicorn whisperer
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That dust looks lovingly cultivated and cared for
Yeah, that guitar rips. Beautiful pickguard.
Thanks!
This makes my current Guitar repair project look easy lol.
So next week you're going to reassemble a guitar from atoms? You sir, are a wizard to be sure, and that guitar is feckin ace! I love it.
Thanks!
I kinda would have liked to see the new wood be kept unpainted and the old pick guard glued back together somehow: really play into the history of the instrument. But end result is super rad too.
Whoa, that LED at the tip of the Unicorn's Horn! #AllTheVerbs🦄🚨
You got my like from the peacocks making out but now that I've seen the final guitar I wish I could like it again!
I keep waiting for the pizza delivery guy in short shorts to arrive and make it a 3 way! 😉
This is art. I love this guitar.
Thanks!
Another classic episode of your journey 👌
Dude, I love your humour and wideos! Plus it’s about guitars. Bonus
Strings ain’t straight with the neck Bruuuuuuuuh 😊
Yeah, turns out the tailpiece needs to slide over a lil bit
... and my faith in humankind has been restored ...
love the vibes and weird editing bits, always a w video
Thanks!
That thing is so sick!!! I need it in my life
That pick guard and light, your best so far! I'm sure you'll sort out the houling wiring! or not.
Yeah, it’ll be better once I have the bypass audio option.
Your videos make me very sleepy 😴
Goodnight sweet prince 🪄🫅💤
@Notaluthier 😴😴😴
The pickguard goes extremely hard
dude that thang rips! love your videos, brotherman
Thanks!
I’M GIGGLING SO MUCH “BUT THE STANG’S STILL STANGIN!”
That pickguard is so sick!
Than thang has some nice fibes to it!
Looks awesome!
I am here for the Peacock Gathering, parts 1 & 2, but the guitar content is also cool as...
Your music is calming an unnerving at the same time 🤔
I totally agree and I like it alot!
Ooohhh man…VERY NICE!
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play smells like teen spirit with it, i'd kill to hear some punk rock with that guitar.
¡Qué chingón video!
Love the Barry White oriented Peacock love scene! Oh your Beardedness, 👑 oh Stormbringer of luthierageseseses🙄es. Lol. The Wizard of Wanton Repairs! You did a great job my man! It's that stored up knowledge in your beard isn't it?!!! Sort of a Luthier's honing signal! 🪬🔮Great job and that clean tone on that guitfiddle in the end of the vid was pretty damn chimey! Love it! 🎉🤘🏻🎸🥁🎤🎵🎶⚡️😎I'm sure they all say this but, 'Would make a great Black Crowes slide guitar! 👍😉
“Great for slide” is code for “not worth fixing”
@Notaluthier oh no! Didn't mean that at all! I'd love to have that lil bad boy! Cool new toy for sure! I'd have to stick a wah pedal in the mix! Lol Keep board bending my man!
If you're ever gonna mess with that wiring so that you have the bypass signal, put a second led right in the eye.
By the way, when dealing hammering brass back to shape, it's a good practice to apply some heat on it to anneal it first. Stamped shaped parts made out of brass tend to be work hardened, and can be brittle.
I even had a torch within arms reach… maybe next time I’ll actually use it!
this was cool! very satisfying. perfect with mon morn coffee
Inadvertently chilllllllllll one
Amazing!!!! Beautiful!!
So excited for this !!!!!
❤️Buggy . That’s. Beautiful coast line
That's so weird and funky. Your eye for aesthetics saved this from being a three legged dog
So glad this guitar was saved! Love what you did with it. The thing that makes me sad is somebody smashed it, when somebody cared enough to save the pieces and sell them. Would love to know the story :)
I reached out to the seller to see if they know more
@ Awesome :) would be cool to find out!
pure enjoyment, thank you
You're right, the difference in the paint isn't really noticeable when you take in the whole thing.
Hi Buggy.
Thia viewer says: "exceeding expectations" and bringing tears to my eyes !!
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Another eggselent video! 🦄
That better be Tofu and Nori with Avocado. Yum that looks great. I'm doing that. That guitar is awesome.
Yep! Brick of tofu, it’s actually zucchini under the avocado. And laziest/best 2 ingredient hot space. (1 can chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, to 1 can’s worth of white vinegar) it is better with cilantro and sautéed garlic and onion, but its super good simple too..
@@Notaluthier sounds great. I do a similar thing where I wrap the tofu block with Nori seaweed sheet dust with flour and cook crispy. Kind of like a vegan salmon steak with crispy skin.
🦄that pickguard! WOW! 👀
Need a pick guard guard now....😊
Bro, i just use a heat gun for the neck re-bending stuff. Clamp up cold and then heat, always along the back, maybe three times for about 3-5 minutes at 1/2 hour intervals maybe three or four times with a rest of an hour before un-clamping. Only done it twice but each time worked a treat. First was a totally back bowed skinny as (thin) bass neck, much too tight truss rod without strings for too long, that took two sessions to bring it into a relief which when strings were added I could then pull back with the truss rod and the second a kids guitar (short scale, about 22-23") without a trussrod and too much relief, plus a weeny twist, and that I put in the slightest backbow so the string tension pulled it into weensy relief. Truly, it's well fast and easy as.
I believe you, but I find heat guns, heating lamps risky on finishes!
@@Notaluthier What about a small heating pad on high, like the type I'm using on my back because I sprained it the other day?
@@Notaluthier Heat lamps for sure! My first ever attempt, didn't know shit, way back in the 80's was heat lamp and I ruined a fretboard and neck... I've only really got into guitars again after a few decades doing art stuff. loads of it welding sculptures, so maybe that has something to do with it. Either way the heat gun really needs to be held close and long to get the 'paint' to bubble and be scrapped and the wood heating isn't like that at all, needs way less heating and the finishes really don't come into it. Plus you're right on the wood you actually want to change as opposed to a fret board and frets, you can get a lot more heat in much faster... stop bein' a pussy!
Making out peacocks? Buggy living best boi life? Oh yeah, and a fixed guitar? A cinematic masterpiece! Also, if the guitar isn't passing signal in bypass it might be the switch you used? If it's only dpdt, you need an extra pole on there!
I tried to bypass/jumper the input
-actuated switch. Presently The pickguard mounted switch grounds the battery only.
thanks for the videos man
Sick
Keep that in your mouth Dude, if possible.....
Sick
Hell of a lot of fun!
Okay, okay. I've Elled and Essed like all the cool kids. Just wanted to say that's one shiny turd. And I mean that in the best possible way. What a treat your videos are, warts and all.
cool in a punky sort of doctor Doolittle on lsd trip vibe!!!!
That tofu looked hectic & delicious.
good one
I was worried about U.S. election results, impending world war, nose hair...and now you've added fucking peacocks to the list. Thanks for the shiny bits !
so, it basically has a killswitch? thats rad as hell
Oh true! Hahaha, maybe I’ll make it momentary
its the last unicorn!!!!! :)
What you need is a tachymeter on the drill press and an algorithm that converts RPMs to degrees C!!
Epic pickguard!
Awesome 😎 Jesus and Mary unicorn 😊
11:28 "There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. "
Nice to see you live in the same hood!! If you find an Ibanez Blazer let me know, I'm always on the hunt for that 1980's vibe!!
I’ll keep my eyes peeled, neighbour.
That's cool, thanks !
You can use stereo jack and wire it as when you plug it in it will turn the pedal on. And for the hole maybe tone pot? Sounds it could use some taming of that highs, judging by the screaming pickup feedback 😂
Yeah, it’d be nice to have the bypass signal. These pickups are extremely microphonic…coupled with overdrive…it’s NOISY
Wicked good. I especially enjoyed the fixing of the H’Airline cracks. (See what I did there?)