We Build A Super Tacky Les Paul… With Plywood! Part 1
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I have been working on this video idea for a while now and I’m really excited to bring it to y’all. I guarantee... you will have to wipe the screen off after this one. I'll let you decide why.
The most popular videos we do are the ones where we make guitars from crappy woods… I don’t get it either. There are also a lot of great videos where people make working guitars from unusual items and epoxy or just go to the home center and whip a guitar together. Hell, we should combine all these things together and make what should be our most popular video series yet.
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I'm currently making an explorer out of the ultimate tone wood, plywood.
Should be rockin' brotherman
I'm doing the same thing.
The ultimate plywood tone wood? That would be grabbing a piece after a tornado or wildfire went by.
You gotta get some blues happening before you can play it.
I found an old Peavey T-15 pickup in a drawer, and knocked together a quick LP Jr ish thing out of a double stack of 3/4 birch ply to remind myself what it sounded like. That was a LOT of fun! :D
@@johnwattdotca funny you mention that , im working on a body built from trees that burned in a wildfire that came through my area last year
I think you ought to fill those holes with dog terd LOL. Keep on smiling.
You are the second person to tell me that HAHAHA
This is brilliant 😂👍 I built a Tele out of pallet wood recently and I like it. There is nothing wrong with reusing scrap wood or cheap wood, too much in this world goes to waste when it could be used for something. Good on ya!
BooleanUniverse lets see how you feel about that in a few years. These types of guitars can’t maintain proper intonation as the tolerances change
Arthur H 🤣I’ll be fine about it🤣 It doesn’t really matter to me, I enjoy building guitars out of all kinds of things. If something like this idea doesn’t work, I’ll just reuse the hardware on another project, no big deal. 🤣 Actually, I’ve still never built a LP and this way I get to practice on scrap wood. It’s a win win! 🤣🤘😜🤘👍
Thanks so much Boolean
I love how you checkmated the know-it-alls at the outset. Sun Tzu would be proud. Happy Thanksgiving from Texas.
The funny thing is I don't really care what it sounds like I just think it will look really cool
@@TexasToastGuitars Oh it will sound in a very unique way no doubt. But it will sound. Nothing alike its shape suggests of course. I´m thinkig in a banjo or resonator attack and decay, or also in those muddy guitars from the 30 (yes they are opposite, I know) and P90s in it, no place there for humbuckers. My major concern its about stability. Of course its not intended to be a pro instrument (a project guitar will be accurate), but it have to stay in tune at least from a dar to another. Will Plywood stand the task? Let seee, very interesting....
Cool car Chris
Chris is the Mac... Macaroni!
You should have used maple ply and claimed that it was tone wood. The more experience I get with modifying guitars the more I start to believe that "high quality" wood is BS. A quality nut & bridge and good fret job seem to have more impact on tone than anything else. Keep the great videos coming, I can't wait to see how this one turns out.
Thanks Kent, I think you will really dig the next video
What about 4" X 1/4" Cherry Wood flooring tiles to use as a guitar body build ? ? ? 🤘🎸😎🙏 DDH 8-16-2020.
Seems alright to me
Yea that coloured pencil guitar guy has got millions of views and plenty of money,, but no one recognises him anymore because he's been playin that epoxy guitar he made - and it's that heavy he's now got the posture of a banana 🍌😂 "funny how things turn out" !!
It had to be crazy heavy
I've got a japanese strrat copy with a plywood body, sounds just fine...
I didn't really do this to compare the sounds of plywood and mahogany. I just thought it would look neat and be a popular video.
Me 2 just bought an 80,s vantage guitar made of plywood. Sounds great!
He's gone mad! 😜 I like it! 😜 Lol
MAD I SAY!
NICE and strong ---YOU USED APPROX 14 PIECES -of 3/4 plywood each cut to 5 cm thickness --approx ----- I did it using the FLAT PLYWOOD layout --2 pieces only ------STILL STRONG sounds great!---(total thickness one and a half inch --
Nothing wrong with plywood ,s tone ---nice job --stunning !---Mine is 2 pieces 3/4 plywood ---but joined FLAT --glued together (not mULTIPLE sideways pieces composite like yours) ----cannot tell the difference sonically between Strat and plywood total thickness =1 1/2 inches --thin & light !
So you basically made a Chibson? LOL.
Just like the old Japanese Guitars of the 60s
Well 90 degrees different
BARITONE THAT BEAST
DO you like Bucket Head?
I bought an old Asama (japonese 1970) guitar ... body plywood,,, and the sound is really amazing ... it's so amazing that I'm investigating it ... because I'm nuts about the sound/resonance of the guitar.
(but i think that not all plywoods are the same)
the fact of it's age may influenciate, but i think that is realyy what kind of wood you had use to made the plywood..
If anyone as an idea abiut this Asama... please let me know.
Nice video.
It takes more time to make a guitar out of crappie supply's then it does good.
You got that right, but that isn't really the point
No it's viewers@@TexasToastGuitars
Chambered bodies have been around for a long time but I think you're the first to do a chambered neck.
Or what ever they do in their moms basement, never laughed so hard!
HAHAHAHA There are a lot of those guys floating around... their moms basements
Is that Prince's guitar on the far wall? Make one of those!
Dog terd guitar. The ultimate in brown sound.
totally
He mentions a guy living in his basement raggin' on his uniquely crafted instruments right after dissin' that one dude's colored-pencil guitar. Hmmm.
Actually, I like the colored pencil guitar quite a bit. If you think I was "dissin" it you couldn't be more wrong
Geoffrey Jellineck The point is......arm chair quarterbacks and their trolling comments are needed. I don’t read all the comments but I’m sure he does.
Not related to the video, just a thought: There are practically no short scale builds on UA-cam. I’d kill for a video of something like a reproduction of those Japanese Thinline Mustangs.
Related to the video: love the idea of a plywood build. I have a soft spot for those super cheap weird plywood offsets from Japan in the 60’s and 70’s. Every time I see a Teisco or similar type of guitar for $100 bucks, I begin debating if I really need a 10,000th mod project. The answer is always yes... ;)
There is always room for one more mod project
I once owned many moons ago a plywood Explorer type guitar with a single SD JB in the bridge. The guitar was heavy and tone even heavier. I loved it!! I sold it because of GAS but it was great. Go Matt!!
Thanks Jack, this one is going to be so awful it will be perfect
That router copying table looks bad ass!
Its is going to be great!
The copy carver is really cool, glad you are digging this so far
Sprinkle table salt during your glue up, reduces siding around
I have heard that but have not tried it. Have you used this technique before? I kinda like salt on my food, not my glue but maybe I'll give it a shot
We call this technique “Stack Fab” in the Custom car audio world.
It's a real thing?
Texas Toast Guitars Absolutely. Many high end home speakers are built with high grade plywood using this technique. Magico is a good example and I believe the first to use in in a commercial product. It’s nice since with speakers.....as in guitars the shape is not a limitation when compared to using MDF. Excellent content on your channel. I’m a woodworker and drum builder and seeing the techniques you use are very helpful.
I think the plywood Les Paul looks cool, I’d gladly play it on stage
Maybe we can make it happen
Lots of entry level guitars are made of plywood. Epiphone, Yamaha, Squier, and evening Martin necks
Yep
Could you use the epoxy to fill the holes in the body and be the finish? Just a thin flood over the top.
I'm sure you could. I don't think I want to level sand epoxy though
Irony=Other guys are making dog turds from everything .... Purists complaining about my plywood (ie Dog Turd)
I don't understand your definition of irony. I never said people are making dog turds form everything. In fact only dogs can make dog turds and I guess they make them from dog food.
If you think my guitar is a dog turd than I guess I'm sorry you don't like it. I think making guitars from zany stuff is really fun and I'm having a lot of fun with this. I also said on my channel many times how much I enjoyed the guitars made from crazy things and epoxy. You certainly don't understand what irony is and you don't know anything about me.
no different than what Gibson uses...lol they just charge A lot more
Oh, I don't know, I'm planning on charging a lot for this
Always when I see a video of a guitar build, I think: That have a TON of work..
This one sure was a ton of work
@@TexasToastGuitars Yes.. 👍🎸🇪🇸
Nice vid boys, Chris your car is supercool
Chris is the Mac Daddy
Very nice idea, doesn't Danelectro make plywood guitars and they sound good.
I know they used Masonite
Check out the through body on Stonefield basses. A good example of using laminates of high end materials on top quality musical instruments.
I'll check it out now
Man, making a living welding shit together is hard. Not many customers wanna have welded shit.
I wish I knew how to weld shit
What would you think the difference between the tone of real Les Paul's tonewood, your toneply and toneturd 😈😈😈
Beats me man?
I didn't make this because I thought it would sound the same. I just like the look of the endgrain
What's the bike brake handle form on your carver?
Chris used to own a bike shop. So... some bike?
I'll see if he can answer
I've watched this video 5 or 6 times.... it's like going to the old girlfriend's house for a wild weekend. I know I shouldn't but I can't help myself!
Thanks brougham
Why did you have to slam the Burl's Art ( colored pencil ) guy ? Dog turds ? That's low . What he does is just as valid as your fabric topped guitars .
I'm sure someone, somewhere will criticize your fabric topped guitars . " Yeah, there's some bearded feller on the computer box finishing guitars with his grandma's drapes.....or old potato sacks or whatever.
Like that.
You are right... I get lots of hate and criticism. By the way, I love the pencil guitar and have said so in many videos. I'm sure you can find lots of examples of me contradicting myself
$5 says Fender already has Turd-O-Caster trademarked. 😝
and it's authentic
Texas Toast Guitars oh man that's "corny"!
99.9% of your electric guitar tone is from your electronics and amp setup and your wood species isn't doing anything. So no, I will not talk shit about that. Awesome job.
We are still guitar makers first and foremost
2 part epoxy...I know it’s cliche now but it still looks better than bondo
Maybe, I still think the more industrial the better.
Hey birch wood sounds great... XD
I love birch
Nice! You guys need an apprentice? I'll move to Colorado from NW Louisiana! 😁 I'll even be a shop bitch just to be able to be there and learn. 🙏🤣 And it's been 20 years since I've been one of those lmfao
We have one apprentice right now but it is an unpaid position
Even with a Floyd Rose, the dog-turd build just won't stay in tune. There's a lesson there for all leisure time luthiers...
What if it is really, really old dog turds
I love it ! I’m the same
Way think outside the box and who cares
Thanks Rosa
I used the two part epoxy from Lowe’s and learned that it’s better to get the one minute setting epoxy and not the five minute. The five minute epoxy was absorbed right into the wood and never fully cured.
Bummer man
Hey, at least the pencil and epoxy guys don’t cover their turds in fabric ;)
Good to know
Very cool. If it turns out to your liking, maybe try some 18 ply Baltic Birch on a future build.
I touched on why I didn't use the nice plywood. I think the cabinet grade stuff would be nice. Having said that I don't really like doing this kind of thing more than one time. I like to move on to the next dorky thing that I want to do
@@TexasToastGuitars Yeah, I totally get that. I do the same thing. I'll try something and think about how I'll do it differently the next time, but then I never do it again. Anyway, happy Thanksgiving from just down the road.
@@HighlineGuitars Happy Thanksgiving to you as well brotherman
Everyone secretly oves that plywood grain plus it's all around!. Wondering if a few holes on those pieces before gluing them would make a cool weight relieved body... Anyway not so smart, can't make it myself
This little guitar is going to be so cool everyone is going to want one for their room
I've got an 80s Harmony Strat with a plywood body. It weighed ten pounds, which is super heavy for a Strat. I removed the pickguard, routed out as much as it would cover and got about eight ounces off the weight.
HAHAHAHA
You could have gone the easier route and made a flat top LP, but no, your plywood LP has to have the carved top. LOL
HAHAHA
That guitar is still one of my favorites.
Actually, it might be the only TTG I own
Dog turd guitars. They must sound like the shit!! ;)
Hard to say
666 likes!! I disliked just because I didn't want to make it 667 lol.
HAHAHA nice move brotherman
Funny thing: There are even more type of plywood then types of normal wood. I once use a rooter to make place for an additional pickup in a japanese made hondo guitar. You know, the cheapo hertiecaster type. Over the last fourty years everything at that guitar was replaced so I did not bother about 'originality'. Original those things were terrible and at best mediocre. But the smell of that old plywood being cut by my router was something very interesting. Like the mens aftershave rack in your local Douglas store. Lots of exotic hardwoods. Talk with a luthier and he said: "Yes, that kind plywood is nowadays crazy expensive. You find it in marine and aero applications."
Plywood is a fun medium to work with. I don't see doing more of these but I am having fun with this one
Matt, you'll have fewer layers slip around when clamping if you sprinkle a little salt on the glue coated face before you slap them together.
I have heard of that trick before but never actually tried it
Are ya gonna color the epoxy ya fill the holes with, my vote would be for a flake fill or cake sprinkles.
Just brown
A little bondo, a few coats of high build primer, a bit of gold lacquer and let the tone police guess what's inside.
I bet they could tell, I really want to show off the plywood
Seems to me like using ply-wood looks as if it will take considerably more work than just working with solid wood because of having to repair all the chip-out and fill all the voids. But then again I have never built a guitar from scratch like you guys do. What do you think is it more work or about the same?
The plywood guitar, as we are doing in these videos, is actually a really dumb way to go. LOTS more work and at the end of the day it's still plywood.
We are doing this because people seem to enjoy the crazy guitar builds. This seemed pretty crazy to me so here we are.
Thanks for watching
what is the trigger for on your duplicarver?
That is actually a bike brake to keep the Y axis from shifting.
Make a hollow chambered body and fill it with water. Now that is a guitar so far has no one has attempted to make.
People will probably will say that quality of a sound will greatly depend on whether it's a tap, mineral or fizzy water.
🎸
Ice guitar
Love all your videos and how shut up the naysayers.
Is that copy carver custom made? It's bad ass!
The copy carver was custom built here in the shop, it is a pretty slick little tool. Thanks for watching Ruben,
Butchers block tele guys! The back could have a trough going around the outside to catch all the meat juices like a cutting board
The carved top is actually a bell carve so it almost already has that
I think I wouldn't mind playing it after it's finished. It will probably have a tone all it's own can't wait to see the finished product.
Thanks for watching my friend
LMAO at the "Purist" Comment. FOLLOWING!!
Thanks my friend
looks like a guitar you could paint with a paint ball gun
I'll actually be using my Iwata LPH400
I wish you were doing two. So you could paint one and fabric coat the other.
We are going to leave this one plane and just do a clear finish it will be totally rad
Just a little tone-wood talk. If you take a Fender bass and cut away the body, so there is just enough wood
to bolt on the neck, pickups and bridge, all it does is make the bass sound a little more treble.
Turn the tone and it's back to where it was. And that's deep tone talk, being about bass.
I'm sure this guitar will be decent but I didn't make it because I thought it would sound good or to prove a point. I just like the look of the plywood endgrain
it should be as strong and stable as any other wood I'm just curious what effect al the glue might have on tone You have all the glue from plywood manufacture,plus all the glue You used to laminate all the layers together neat experiment though
We aren't really doing this for an experiment in tone as much as we are for the industrial esthetic
Tried a ply neck guys similar to the way you intend but I could not get it to stabilise left to right so be warned. Great show TT team
Looking good so far, can't wait to show y'all the next episode
Cool build. Thinking outside the box!
Thanks my friend
Would you say that the weight of the body alone is heavier than bass wood or mahogany?
Certainly heavier that bass wood
The body is very stripey! Mad but why not!
it's all end grain really tricky to sand smooth
You should copy your handsome face to poster and epoxy it into a guitar
hmmmm that is a really good idea
Cool! Can´t wait to hear this one. But Matt youré doint it wrong ;) Gibsons Zoot suite is the other way around!
I'm a neat guy
I'm all out of map colors and Ramen noodles , guess i'll use wood.
This thing is going to be cool
What's the final weight of this Les Paul?
I'm pretty sure we talk about it... it's almost 11 pounds.
Sweet ...how about a Tuner LB clone ?
Sure man
You crazy ,I love it and no dog turds ha
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the dog turd guitar either
I love it! Showed my son. He said, “What’s it made of?” I pointed to the top of his work bench and said, that. He just laughed maniacally.
Good to hear that you and your boy are digging this so far. I love this project and I'm looking forward to it too
Texas Toast Guitars It’s looking damm cool!
Hillbilly wood! More metal!🎸
You got that right Joe
Love it!! Good to hear a mention of the Kubicki Factor as well. Geez, if you could make guitars our of dog turds I'd have an assembly line going. We have a Basset Hound and boy can he poop 😂😂
I'll let you know HAHAHA
Is this a Pine?
I think it is Douglas Fir
What a colossal waste of time.
During a nuclear explosion, there is a certain distance of the radius where all the frozen supermarket pizzas are cooked to perfection.
How old is that car? 👍🏻
69 Duce and a quarter
that thing looks sick!!
Thanks my friend, I'm having a lot of fun with this guitar
Looks like a long haired, pot smoking, greatful dead listening, mushroom tripping hippie guitar.
You say that like it's a BAD thing... LOL!
If you see a hippie, kick his ass!
I own Philip Kubicki’s pin router. For real! Now I gotta make a plywood guitar
NO WAY!
That is really cool man, how did you get that?
Texas Toast Guitars. Crazy but it was on Craigslist for months. I bought it from his ex wife who had possession of his tools and templates because she owned the business. Anyway It’s in my shop. I got a bunch of papers and pictures from her too. She’s a wonderful person and her husband Woody was a great guy too.
DOG TURDS !!!! Lol !!!
Yeah, the dog turn guitar might not have been my best idea
You Sir are a mad man.. and I dig it!!
Thanks Adam I'm having a lot of fun with this
An interesting test would be to paint it black LP Custom style and do a AB test with an Epiphone or USA Gibson LP Custom to truly explore the tonal properties of plywood.
No way man, I'm showing off all this plywoody goodness
@@TexasToastGuitars Haha can't wait to see/hear it, cracking vid!
Hahaha hillbilly wood!
It is totally hillbilly wood
You crack me up!!! :P
I try
First time I have watched one of your videos,enjoyed the hell out of the video,subscribed,and thanks so much for not playing stupid fucking background music.
HAHAHA I normally play stupid background music. Thanks for watching brotherman
Well Matt,not the first time I’ve ever tasted foot.
I did cabinet making n milwork course in the joint in 90'. I built a surfboard coffee table with a piece of plywood like that. Lots of fill putty.
HAHAHA I hear ya man. We thought about using the void free kind of plywood but thought this would be a funnier thing to do
@@TexasToastGuitars your work came out beautiful bro! As far as a drummer can see!
Glue and sawdust!
and a bunch of fox epoxy
I'd love to see the "Dog Turd Guitar" (wouldn't wanna play it, though!🤭😁) Happy Thanksgiving Matt & all at TTG!✌👌🤘🤘💜🙏
Hope you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving too my friend
No shit!
Well... I had a Cort bass, once. I wanted to sand off the black paint and give it a cool transparent blue finish. To my surprise, it was plywood underneath! ;-(
That is a bummer. BTW the same bummer would be had if you sanded the finish off a gold top Les Paul. Wait, it isn't plywood but they are hardly ever a nice 2 piece top
@@TexasToastGuitars That may be true however, one of the most famous Les Pauls was refinished by Rick Derringer and traded hands through a store to none other than, Eric Clapton. And, of course, it's the famous, "Lucy" Les Paul I'm referring to!