That's a LOT of hard work you put into an inexpensive instrument, and your result is amazing! No, it looks like original equipment one would know the nut used to be a bolt if you didn't tell them. It looks like original equipment. Stay safe there my friend.
There's something very gratifying about watching Craftsmen make something out of nothing. I bought a 1971 hand-wired Marshall 50w JMP for $500. Everyone laughed and said it looked like it came from the bottom of the Titanic or was a boat anchor. I lovingly treated it with toothpicks, Q-tips solvents, sprays, cleaners, blah blah blah and by the time I was done it turned into a $2,500 amplifier. All it took was time and attention to detail and a little loving care.
hardware replacement was great as usual, but i'm most impressed with the results you got on the dowel fill for the electronics, you barely blew the finish and the re-shoot on the color looks pretty spot on, when you skipped straight from unpainted to fully painted i was surprised, i'd be curious to see your method for color matching and painting. Great work!
BEAUTIFUL workmanship! I've seen and heard comments about expensive guitars but hand craftsmanship on a budget guitar is what makes true quality, not a headstock decal or a price tag.
Awesome work! You've put a lot of effort for the restoration of the neck. For the steel nut, at first I must admit I was surprised, but the final result is a masterpiece! And this bass sounds really cool, lot of power.
Very well done and so happy to have found your channel, you sir have a new subscriber... I look forward to going through your previous videos and will keep an eye out for your new videos as well. Thank You!
Fantastic work restoring the neck, and the fretwork and nut are absolute works of art! I had brass nuts on 2 of my basses, and ended up removing them - but that's only because I prefer much, much darker sounding basses myself. That said, under other players fingers, metal nuts sound great, especially this beautifully crafted stainless steel nut!!! 👏👏👏
heard a lot over the years about people having to refret instruments multiple times, which makes me wonder why they wouldn't switch to stainless steel frets the first time and not have the problem? Excellent work sir.
It's hard to answer, maybe some specific religious beliefs Or it's all about the high cost of steel frets, but in my opinion, it's cheaper to install steel frets once Thank you!
My first bass that I bought back in 1989 was one of these (but without the active electronics). The headstock, the tuners, the pickups, and the bridge all look very familiar to me.
Well done & great job! Turned out Awsome! I bought a HSS Vester Catalina / strat, for $80 Australian, a couple of years ago. Absolutely 1 of the best guitars I own! Well, close anyway. Lost count of how many I own. All types & sizes.
Fascinating work! The result was really good. If I were in your position, I'd do exactly as you did with regard to the decisions you made about that Vester. The only thing I was able to aspire to would be to make it a fretless bass but I'm not sure if that would be suitable for this bass. Keep up the good work! Stay safe! Macedo Pinto Portugal
Good job man. I've changed the Frets of my old LTD guitar with steel ones, but I have concerns about an Ibanez Jem I own. I want to change them too, but I can't find any information on how to work with inlayed maple fretboard. Like What finishes or varnish to use....
Great work. As to the claim that the steel frets will never wear out: Check out Trigger (Willie Nelson's guitar). Gut-string classical guitar that has frets so worn that they almost aren't frets anymore.
I would be interested to know how the steel nut affects the string life. Steel on steel is going to cause a higher sheer factor so I'm curious if it causes more string breakage. Nice work, BTW.
Excellent work....one question for you though..can you slot the stainless steel nut with regular files easily?I have cut several nuts out of aluminium and its not a problem at all but stainless steel is fairly hard so i was wondering about the files you used to slot them....thanks in advance.
Hey hey brother great video, I pray you all are doing OK with all that is going on there 🙏 also how did you learn how to do all your working on everything?it's so cool 😎 and also how did you learn how to play bass guitar?thank you so very much 😀 stay safe OK 👍
awesome work, the only thing that i didnt like that much is to use a hammer for the frets. Please! try to clamp them, you will find it is a lot better! You owe yourself to give it a try because you are really good with this stuff
Man i wish i had those skill set. I have about 15 guitar necks and still cant get it down, lol Im positive tho, that to do the job you must have proper tools. The tools are ungodly expensive! Good job.
With Stainless steel frets, do you over radius the frets before installing them? I'm not sure but I have a feeling that they will pop if over radius will take place.
Oh boy, I owned two Vesters in my life time and apart from the QC being very inconsistent they are known for having certain issues. These were 1989 super strats we're talking. The tuners were janky, the truss rod nut is almost always worn out so you would have to use a dremmel to carve a flat head screwdriver insert in there. And that's not talking about the "floating bridge" that was up to bloody Jupiter before I blocked it off on both units. What's also weird is that one had a very thin Jackson like C neck while the other had a very classic Fender like U neck. Same guitar, same year, just a different colour. I embraced the jank, tried to make it work so far but I'm going to mod the hell out of the guitar I still own. Video on that coming soon.
Норм такий інструмент, п'ятка грифа величенька, масивний брідж, PJ конфігурація. Ще й такі лади й поріжок - у самих Warwick такого нема =) Кайфонув від роботи, все ще збираю для свого проекту деталі потрошку, скоро Бас-2 отримає своє друге життя.
That's a LOT of hard work you put into an inexpensive instrument, and your result is amazing! No, it looks like original equipment one would know the nut used to be a bolt if you didn't tell them. It looks like original equipment. Stay safe there my friend.
It must be so satisfying to return these lovely old guitars to such a beautiful condition - probably better than the day they were made.
Oh yeah
Steel frets, and nut......very nice. The whole repair was 👌
There's something very gratifying about watching Craftsmen make something out of nothing. I bought a 1971 hand-wired Marshall 50w JMP for $500. Everyone laughed and said it looked like it came from the bottom of the Titanic or was a boat anchor. I lovingly treated it with toothpicks, Q-tips solvents, sprays, cleaners, blah blah blah and by the time I was done it turned into a $2,500 amplifier. All it took was time and attention to detail and a little loving care.
I agree, the process of reincarnating old things is a pleasure.
hardware replacement was great as usual, but i'm most impressed with the results you got on the dowel fill for the electronics, you barely blew the finish and the re-shoot on the color looks pretty spot on, when you skipped straight from unpainted to fully painted i was surprised, i'd be curious to see your method for color matching and painting. Great work!
Thank you!
I was lucky, I have several shades of black in stock and one of them fit better than the others.
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Nah! Gold is not hard enough -
not only was the nut made of steel it was made from a steel bolt lol very impressive you have unbelievable skills
BEAUTIFUL workmanship! I've seen and heard comments about expensive guitars but hand craftsmanship on a budget guitar is what makes true quality, not a headstock decal or a price tag.
So beautiful! I love the nut, such an interesting approach 👍🏻
Unf***ing believable restoration, video production, and overall feeling! As always, kudos, MRKT!
Thank you!
I love that shot of the tuners moving by themselves.
Not afraid of some hard work I see. Loved this video. When someone can take a piece of trash and make it beautiful !! Cheers to you.
I’ll be honest, I’m usually a fan of steel nut. But, this one looked and sounded amazing. Nice job.
Thanks!
This is my first time making it out of steel.
Excellent job
Nut looks amazing and the sound is kick ass
Awesome work!
You've put a lot of effort for the restoration of the neck.
For the steel nut, at first I must admit I was surprised, but the final result is a masterpiece!
And this bass sounds really cool, lot of power.
Thank you!
I like the final result too, It's a rare thing)
Great work! I missed Vesters. They had amazing products...
They made different quality guitars, but they were all for a nice price.
Very well done and so happy to have found your channel, you sir have a new subscriber... I look forward to going through your previous videos and will keep an eye out for your new videos as well. Thank You!
Happy to welcome you to the channel!
Fantastic work restoring the neck, and the fretwork and nut are absolute works of art!
I had brass nuts on 2 of my basses, and ended up removing them - but that's only because I prefer much, much darker sounding basses myself. That said, under other players fingers, metal nuts sound great, especially this beautifully crafted stainless steel nut!!! 👏👏👏
Thank you, it took a lot of time)
3:44 Bass is definitely enjoying it! Awesome work!
Thanks!
Absolutely stunning. The work on the neck is fantastic. And how you restored the body without a full refinish is so cool. I’m a fan !!! 👍👍👍
Thank you!
Excellent work. Riff at the end sounds great too
Thank you!
All I can say is you got great craftmanship!
Absolutely awesome video. The nut is killer but the work you put in to restore that board is freaking boss! Nice job.
heard a lot over the years about people having to refret instruments multiple times, which makes me wonder why they wouldn't switch to stainless steel frets the first time and not have the problem? Excellent work sir.
It's hard to answer, maybe some specific religious beliefs
Or it's all about the high cost of steel frets, but in my opinion, it's cheaper to install steel frets once
Thank you!
Wow, very nice work! And it's sound great!
Amazing work. You transformed than beat up bass into an amazing instrument that’ll last a very long time!
Thanks!
My first bass that I bought back in 1989 was one of these (but without the active electronics). The headstock, the tuners, the pickups, and the bridge all look very familiar to me.
Awesome Dude! I’ve never seen your channel before, will be watching!
Thanks and welcome!
Well done & great job! Turned out Awsome! I bought a HSS Vester Catalina / strat, for $80 Australian, a couple of years ago. Absolutely 1 of the best guitars I own! Well, close anyway. Lost count of how many I own. All types & sizes.
Beautiful job my friend. The steel nut is crazy 🎉
Thanks!
Many years ago I used a hexagonal piece of tool steel, to make a nut, for a slide guitar project i built. Worked extraordinary well.
Wow, what a great job in this bass!! Congrats!!!
Thanks!
Very nice first class work Really great job!!! super upgrade !!!
Your work is beautiful. Respect
Thanks!
It's high quality work! Respect.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Absolutely nuts! ... great work
Thank you!
Nice work. I really like the music tracks playing from the start.. please check the track listing description as the ones listed are all different
I like the idea.of stainless steel frets.Nice work.
Damn, that tone at the end, my kind of nasty bass tone!
The nut work was awesome.
I love your work dude. Awesome!
Fascinating work! The result was really good. If I were in your position, I'd do exactly as you did with regard to the decisions you made about that Vester.
The only thing I was able to aspire to would be to make it a fretless bass but I'm not sure if that would be suitable for this bass.
Keep up the good work!
Stay safe!
Macedo Pinto
Portugal
After this video, I have several orders, one of them is just a fretless bass)
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Excellent work and it sounds great.🎼🎸🎼
Thanks!
That is awesome you have created something to enjoy
That's amazing, great work!
Very Nice, great job. Congratulations.
Thanks!
Complimenti! La tastiera è uno spettacolo!
Last comment, my history teacher in 1983 has family name Vester. Come to the Netherlands more often, it helps against rusted ideas inside your head.
Un verdadero maestro artesano!! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Felicitaciones maestro 👌🏼💪🏼🇺🇾
Amazing work! 🙌
Thank you!
You do excellent work.
Thank you!
WOW! And it sounds great.
Excellent work
Thank you!
Nice work! Regards from Brazil!
Thank you!
Greetings from Ukraine!
That's a cool bass man. Good job
Thank you!
Very nice job. Thanks for sharing
Good job man. I've changed the Frets of my old LTD guitar with steel ones, but I have concerns about an Ibanez Jem I own. I want to change them too, but I can't find any information on how to work with inlayed maple fretboard. Like What finishes or varnish to use....
Just don't remove the neck cover and that's it.
I'm really respect for that.
Nice job!
You said something about seeing the last bottom fret in half what do you mean are you making the fret thinner at the very bottom for action purposes ?
Yes, you understood me correctly.
Awesome job
Thanks!
Very nice job, compliments
Thank you!
Fantastic job, absolutely beautiful. Did you retain the original electronics ?
Thank you.
No, I had to use the preamp from an old Ibanez
Excelent! It's so shine!
Thank you!
Great work. As to the claim that the steel frets will never wear out: Check out Trigger (Willie Nelson's guitar). Gut-string classical guitar that has frets so worn that they almost aren't frets anymore.
sick looking and great tone, lucky buyer
I would be interested to know how the steel nut affects the string life. Steel on steel is going to cause a higher sheer factor so I'm curious if it causes more string breakage. Nice work, BTW.
Excellent work....one question for you though..can you slot the stainless steel nut with regular files easily?I have cut several nuts out of aluminium and its not a problem at all but stainless steel is fairly hard so i was wondering about the files you used to slot them....thanks in advance.
Of course you can, but don't expect it to be easy)
That was a bass that needed some work, and you did give it that, and then some.
Hey hey brother great video, I pray you all are doing OK with all that is going on there 🙏 also how did you learn how to do all your working on everything?it's so cool 😎 and also how did you learn how to play bass guitar?thank you so very much 😀 stay safe OK 👍
Thank you!
I had a good teacher and also many hours of practice.
And I don't play bass in this video)
Just amazing man!!!!
Thanks!
What do you use for fret dressing end file please?
Nice video great results. What did you use to darken the fretboard. Thanks.
Thanks
Wax and mineral oil
awesome work, the only thing that i didnt like that much is to use a hammer for the frets. Please! try to clamp them, you will find it is a lot better! You owe yourself to give it a try because you are really good with this stuff
Thank you!
I have those clamps. Using them on occasion. But I prefer hammer)
This is beautifull!
Thank you
отличная работа! желаю удачи в развитии мастерства и канала, очень приятно смотреть подобные видосы! однозначно подписка) ps звук у баса шикарный
Не понял по видео чем и как вы покрасили гитару, было бы интересно посмотреть процесс покраски, и полировки.
Это был акрил
Did you replace the pots and rewire it?
Yeah, I threw out the old preamp, soldered it to passive electronics. As soon as I get some good, active preamp, I'll put it on
aboulute,,brilliant job,,sounds great!
Thank you!
Man i wish i had those skill set. I have about 15 guitar necks and still cant get it down, lol
Im positive tho, that to do the job you must have proper tools. The tools are ungodly expensive! Good job.
sounds amazing!
good job. nice to watch)
Great job!!!
Sounds great.
Fantastic job you did but would it not have been cheaper just to buy a new bass...
Thank you!
Maybe, but that would be boring as hell)
sounds so heavy metal!!!
real nice bass now.. wow
Good job
Thanks
Is that neck the standard ROSEWOOD or Mahogany ? Your restoration made the neck perfect and Gorgeous !!
Thank you. It’s rosewood
Muy hermoso buen trabajo
With Stainless steel frets, do you over radius the frets before installing them? I'm not sure but I have a feeling that they will pop if over radius will take place.
Great job
Thanks!
Que trabalho grandioso, parabéns
Obrigado!
Oh boy, I owned two Vesters in my life time and apart from the QC being very inconsistent they are known for having certain issues. These were 1989 super strats we're talking. The tuners were janky, the truss rod nut is almost always worn out so you would have to use a dremmel to carve a flat head screwdriver insert in there. And that's not talking about the "floating bridge" that was up to bloody Jupiter before I blocked it off on both units. What's also weird is that one had a very thin Jackson like C neck while the other had a very classic Fender like U neck. Same guitar, same year, just a different colour.
I embraced the jank, tried to make it work so far but I'm going to mod the hell out of the guitar I still own. Video on that coming soon.
I've had a few superstrats in repair. They were all of questionable quality. But there was also a Stratocaster that looked and was made very well.
Did the nut files survive carving that nut?
Of course, they are much harder than stainless steel.
Nice work. Where do you get your stainless steel frets from?
Thanks! We order from Jescar
I need to replace the frets on my 4 atting bass as they have light to medium gouging.
I am thinking atainless steel, but I will need to tool up first.
Stainless steel is an excellent choice
@mr.k1t my bandmate thinks so! His MIJ Jackson Dinky now has SS frets and it REALLY is like playing on glass 🙂
Looks nice to me 👍
Nice
а чем и как подкрашивали корпус?
Акрилом с баллона
Норм такий інструмент, п'ятка грифа величенька, масивний брідж, PJ конфігурація. Ще й такі лади й поріжок - у самих Warwick такого нема =) Кайфонув від роботи, все ще збираю для свого проекту деталі потрошку, скоро Бас-2 отримає своє друге життя.
Ооо, то серьйозна апаратура)
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