Building VALKYRIE for Eric Meyer of Dark Angel - Full build - Custom RR / Flying V style guitar - 4K
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- The building process behind a custom electric guitar, which features a spalted birch top on a locally sourced alder body, custom mother of pearl fretboard inlay, Kahler locking tremolo, EMG 81&85 pickups.
Additional footage / live video courtesy of Eric Meyer, and VampireZine, used with their permission.
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All music from UA-cam audio library.
00:00 Intro
00:40 Neck blank
01:56 Headstock
06:29 Fretboard outline & truss rod
07:29 Body sides
11:02 Body top wood
15:04 Fretboard & inlay
17:57 Body outline & hardware routing
22:33 Neck profile & fretboard radius
25:05 Fret install
26:10 Body bevels & finishing
29:20 Fret level & assembly
32:48 Outro - Наука та технологія
Somehow I find the parts where you spray the glue with a stick (17:33, for example) to be very, and yet oddly, satisfying. 😆
I'll have to take glue spread videos for you when I'll start building your guitar then 😁👌
@@Kiiras feel free to make a video of the whole build, you can even show my mediocre photoshop montages. But yes, glue spreading videos would be a treat I can be happy with!
@2:50 holy shit 😮. That's one hell of a strong neck.
This is just outstanding craftsmanship! 👏🤘🍻
Stunning guitar. Very well done.
I'll have to invest in one of your builds one day! So refreshing to see a luthier specialising in metal axes instead of the usual semi hollow jazz shit. You rock! 🤘
My semi-hollow is the best high gain metal guitar i own. It has an evil sounding low mid voice that none of the rest have. Its a Grote 335 copy that i upgraded with all quality parts.
@@jeremiahfiek5495That's grandpa's guitars. 😉
@@AWMJoeyjoejoe grandpa was a closet death metal head. Dont let the trousers fool you. Lol
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Man, once I have practiced enough that I feel worthy of such a beautiful instrument, I'm gonna order a RRouta for sure. I must've clicked through your configurator at least ten times by now.
Glad you're back.
Definitely my favourite guitar crafting channel.
Sickkkk!!!!!!
Awesome build man!!
And a funny Vice Grip Garage reference also 😂
Good work!
excellent builder!
Killer build as always man! Wish I could afford some of these beasts! Looks super awesome when you split and mirrored the spalted wood for the body!
wonderfully built...I would like one as original as the ones you make, they are a perfect creation...greetings from Chile. 🤟😎 Lautaro.
Super cool! 👌
Now THAT, is a V...Awesome guitar, Amazing craftsmanship. Well done and thanks for the video, so much work that goes into it but the end result is really worth the effort and I cannot wait to hear "No One Answers" played through that Beast.
Love your videos and your guitars !
The red on the spalted is totally sick man !
I wish I could afford one of your guitar one day !
Sick guitar! :)
Love the humor and editing!
class great stuff
F’N sick! I love this. 💪
Thank you for the video. Makes me happy.
Awesome build and superb reference to Monty Python!! Bring out your dead!!!!😀
AWSOME!
2:55 holy fuck! That's quality man! Amazing build!
Dude you are a scream! Awesome Axe, awesome channel!
Makes me want to move to Europe just to get one of your fiddles man. Killer work, awesome videos.
I ship worldwide, no problems there 😅👌
Killer! \m/
Holy Fuck! I want one these now!
kiirasinstruments.com 😁👌
Cool Video. Would like to know who the guitar shredder is in the background music?
Little homage to Monte Python there...I like it.
Beautiful guitar. Only problem is, now all mine don't look so eye catching. Jealousy has spoken.
Aww shit my guy used "The Fiery Furnace" by Ethan Meixsell @17:49
sick
Great to see a build with a Kahler tremolo. But your custom V is an esp Arrow II production model?
Similar model, but different. The Arrow 2 is asymmetric model, the Valkyrie is symmetrical.
🤘❤️🤘
Beautiful guitar! Great job!
May I ask, what is the name of the tool you use on the frets at 25:50?
That's a standard 0° / 30° angled file, most luthier's shops sell them, like Guitars & Woods in Europe and StewMac in US.
@@Kiiras Ok! Thank you!
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How backed up are you? Do you personally do every build? Woodworking is addicting. Love seeing you build a masterpiece! Will check out your website. Have a happy day everyone.
Hey!
Quite backlogged at the moment. I have 40 guitars in my production queue, but I'm questimating that I can finish 3-4 guitars per month now that I have found a capable apprentice to help me out in the workshop.
So about a year's wait, give or take.
entertainig vid as always !
ps: would love to see how you build a bass.. :)
Bass for sure at some point. I have an idea about which one, but can't make promises yet.
Great video - laughed a lot and that axe is brutal (though why would a Fin need to consult the 'book of Malmsteen'? 😆)
The Old Man works in mysterious ways 🙏
Where are you from ??? Do you ship to Canada for a custom built??❤
Hey!
I'm Finnish (and my workshop is in Finland), hence the "finnish" jokes 😁
Yes, I can ship to Canada. I have some information on the pricing for overseas shipping on my website (at the bottom of the page):
kiirasinstruments.com/online-order-form-information-help/
You can use the online order form on my website to check the price for a guitar with your preferred specs. If there's anything you don't find there / need any additional info, just drop me an email and I'll reply ASAP.
Onpas muuten helvetin ruma keppi! Mut niinhän nää on kaikki.
Mistä hankit decalit vai teetkö ite?
En tee itse. Nää on jenkeistä, Bedlam Creations.
Couple missed opportunities here. I'd have done blind frets spherical fret ends and glow side dots but otherwise killer guitar
The sidedots are Luminlay (= glow in dark & UV).
At one point I was thinking to start doing blind fret slot and spherical fret ends, but decided against them on two major points:
1) Around half of my guitars stay in Finland. The winter is brutal here, and the fretboard shrinks during the dry winter air on every new guitar here causing fret sprout, more on cheap guitars, less on more expensive / well made guitars. So the spherical fret ends would be meaningless after the guitar's first year as they needed to be re-dressed, and the sphericalness shape would be lost.
2) Cost. I guestimated that both blind fret ends and the spherical fret ends would take somewhere between 5-7 hours of extra work on them (just a bound fretboard is easily 1.5hrs of extra work on fret install alone!), meaning easily 300-500€ extra cost on the guitar for, what feels to me like, a minor cosmetic upgrade.
Yes, I've played a 5000€ Ruokangas guitar (10 years ago, would be closer to 7000€ nowadays) which had both of these features, and it didn't *feel* any different to play. Looked very nice, but no change in feel.
I prefer to keep my guitars more on the affordable side (1695€ gets you a bolt-on playable guitar with basically all basic specs as Eric's guitar), the high-end would also clash with the more rustic style of finish I actually prefer and which keeps the relative price lower.
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@@Kiiras fair enough the build quality looks top notch
The music was overwhelmingly loud.. but cool guitar.
glueing the trussrod????????? really?
Sure, why not? Fill the gaps, keeps the truss rod from rattling / vibrating about, and keeps it in place so it won't come out when at zero position.
@@Kiiras thx for the answer. I've only heard to avoid glue at all cost on the trussrod, thus my surprise. Indeed, isn't that glue avoiding the truss action , by blocking it somehow?
Nope, doesn't affect it all. All the moving parts on the truss rod are proctected by the black plastic film around it, so the glue doesn't really get into direct contact with anything mechanical. Glue might have been an issue with the old-timey one-way truss rods, but for the ca. 200 guitars (kiirasinstruments.com/EVR-GTR) I've built this way, I've never had a problem with it.
@@Kiiras awesome feedback, thanks a lot!
And beautiful realization here, to say the least!!!