Let's Bring This Epiphone Back To LIFE! Sharpen My Axe
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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I bet that roll of paper was in there to keep the battery from sliding around.
Haha... "That's where they kept their weed man". Cool what you did to this guitar!
I thought of this when he said that...... ua-cam.com/video/eFktbuhAyLM/v-deo.html
Once I was considering parting with my 1963 Fender reverb unit and I took it to the guitar store to see what I could get for it. When I was showing it to the shop owner an old dope pipe of mine fell out of the back. I still have the reverb.
I hide mine in my guitars lol
Dude sold this guitar on Reverb a year later and said it was this featured guitar. Said he didn’t like mods...put in Lace pickups, black bridge/saddles, changed out Ratio tuners for Planet Waves, changed toggle to white, and looks like he painted pick guard black. In my opinion Phil’s mods looked way classier. Shame all those upgrades got tossed. Maybe kept all the free good stuff for another guitar.
Seriously? Really? That is so wrong. I play mostly jazz and I thought this a great guitar...except the pick guard. Yikes....
Dude's a bum with tacky taste. He ruined it, had it fixed up by Phil, and then ruined it again. What a douche!
Thats messed up man ! He ruined the value of the guitar, 2wice !!
Even worse the 2nd time because it got upgraded by Phil .
I don't know about you , but to me I would've loved to have that guitar after Phil worked his magic on it and put a little of his mojo into it
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What a bum lmao
What a shame. Apparently he didn't like his own mods either. After modding again, why woukd he try to use the feature video as a selling point. Had he left it as is, it would have likely sold to a subscriber of Phil's channel. Instead, he gets a lifetime of comments bagging on his ingratitude & his ruinous mods. In the words of Bugs Bunny as voiced by Mel Blanc; "What a Maroon"
Love this series!!! This is literally the best concept I've seen on a guitar channel. You should make it a permanent feature.
Right? Very interesting videos.
Man, this is fucking awesome! The owner is gonna be really happy. This series is so good, I hope you keep it going.
Agreed! Great videos can't wait till the next one.
He wasn’t! He sold this guitar a year after this!
@@harls7317 Damn, that sucks.
That is an amazing upgrade! The arcade button kill switch awesome. I'm really looking forward to the next one and have become a patron to support your future Sharpenings.
This just might be my all-time favorite video of Phil's
Love the guitar and nice work. Also like the end where you do the products used and stuff. Thanks for being awesome
I have a thunderhorse and I love it. put locking tuners, a fine tune tail piece, and swapped the pickups for a black winter/sentient, and then for a fishman classic set. set it up perfect and it plays better than most gibson hp explorers.
I'm 2 minutes in and praying you change that pickguard.
Good luck finding a ready made pickguard for an Explorer. ;^)
Yeah, a got to learn to love it thing. But, without it the guitar is just another Epiphone.
Not a fan of diamond plating myself!
it adds flavor, and if he likes it, well it's his guitar, not Phillip's.
didn't Brendon do it to his personal explorer? that's probably why the dude did it to his
I like this series. The best part is the flow of your commentary. You could spend all day kicking around the internet to get the info you get in 5 minutes of one of these.
Wooooohooooo, that is freaking fantastic. You knocked that one out of the park. The strip down, rebuild and demo. Thanks Phillip !
Phil, this is a great use of your channel. Five people get great upgrades, and we all get to learn something. Thanks for doing this!
The difference is stunning and it now sounds incredible. This series with the five guitars is turning out to be one of my favorites.
leaving in the burst bucker was genius!sweet guitar
I like to work on cars and computers, so this kind of video is fascinating to me. To see what you start with, hear your thought process on what needs to be done, then watching the process unfold= excellent.
8 bucks for the kill switch!?!? Wow, that's a steal, you could have way more than 8 dollars worth of entertainment value playing around with that.
Talk about getting back to life! Literally! Amazing job Phillip. Cheers from Costa Rica...
Maybe its me or because I play Thrash & Metal I love EMG 81's in Gibson's gives them a nice high end for shredding !
Hi Phil! You should install no load tone pots in your guitars. When turned up full, it comes out of the circuit. Rolled off, it turns on. Nothing against CTS pots. I have those too. I only know of one other person with one. Should be standard. This guitar sounds great btw. I enjoy these videos.
This is one of the BEST guitar series on the net. Great job Phil!!
You've inspired me to repair and completely redo my old 1993 / 1994 model Alvarez Dana Electric (the one without the mid body cut out). Great job man!
Been upgrading my own thunderhorse from stock for the last few months. Was trying to create a cheaper version of the mastodon golden axe explorer sig so I put the same lace pickups with a new graphtech nut and new electronics. Sounds beautiful, next up is a new hipshot Tone-A-Matic bridge so I can properly intonate in C standard with 13's as the stock bridge just doesn't have the saddle room. These thunderhorses are really some of the nicest explorers at their price point and the resale value shows this. Take good care of them!
Totally makes me want a kill switch... you know for my acoustic ;-)
Congrats !!!
I would have gone with a black scratch plate and hardware. But it would have been too expensive then maybe. But I like watching these repair videos
Siiick!!! It’s better than stock Thunderhorse now! I’d fret (full pun) to see my Snow Falcon in such disarray. Wonderful job!!!
I love this series. I hope it continues in the future!
You are such a cool dude Phil !! I missed the contest registration but if you ever do that again, I'm in for sure. Keep it up !
Marvelous work! A $500 price tag to bring a dream guitar to life. That's why so many project guitars never get off the ground. I've had 4 in the works and it's been years.
I just buy new in the box, now. $100 set-up and it's all good.
I have the same blue Jackson in the background and fixed it up a bit and works great now :) broke the head off it as a teenager and haven't played it 10 years
This series is Awesome Phil, Thanks so much, wow that axe is unbelievable great job Phil, cheers
Brilliant Phil. Thanks. You are extremely skilled and experienced. Your knowledge of what to do to improve guitars is first class.
NAILED IT!!! Kudos for matching the Duncan Custom to the Burstbucker 1. Excellent pickup combo! Looks and sounds great!
have never ever been into explorers but after seeing this one I just want to get one myself and start ripping out metal licks. It started out like the worst most uninteresting tacky guitar ever and you completely transformed it. I simply love your work. Please keep it up.
Have you ever done any videos about modifications on bass guitars? Your videos are fantastic and your advice is concise and so helpful. Would love to see some episodes on basses though as I'm a bass player myself!
Thanks for this video, I could just relax and not worry about anything while watching what was happening. This was like a good Christmas gift before Christmas. Thanks and cheers.
The arcade machine button kill switch was a stroke of genius. Looks great and feels satisfying to push.
Great guitar for this segment and killer upgrades added. I like the choice of keeping the BB in the neck and adding an SD Custom in the bridge. Definitely one of my favorite bridge pickups. Awesome job and thanks to you and the vendors that have helped you out as well.
the thunderhorse is just sick, such a nice guitar. brendon did well! and you did some great mods bringing the 'horse back to life, making it glorious again.
Awesome work Phil! Modding instruments is one of my favorite things to do..
My respects for the passion and professionalism. All way back from Mexico. You Turned it to be a very very very good beautifull guitar.
Thank you Phillip . Keep on doin what you do.
Phillip, maybe consider putting links (with referral links) in the description for the parts you used? Anyway, great video! That axe isn't just sharpened, it's had its edge re-ground and then honed to a mirror-like sheen.
PHil McK is pretty metal!
lol are you serious
As a lover of silverburst guitars I gotta say that the guitar is beatiful. Great job Phillip!!
Totally missed the competition/contest...I have a Jackson that needs this level of love sadly, she was my first electric from high school too.
This thing is pretty sweet in the end. Wasn’t digging it at first but I hung in there. Fell in love w the axe
Probably my favorite video on your channel so far, and I've watched them all! That guy is getting a really, really nice guitar back!
Unquestionably! But I bet they guy that gets it back is gonna be thrilled!! Or if he's not, he sure ought to be!
Really dig the mods on this SMA. This Epi sounds amazing Phil, looks waaay better. Love the kill switch and the three-way location & the simple single volume & tone swith. MO BETTAH FO SHO!!
That’s a “thunderhorse” model. Stock burstbuckers and a phenolic fingerboard
Sean Jackson That guitar needs to be in C Standard and have some Dethklok played on it :)
Amazing upgrade Phil, that guitar is a beast now. Very versatile but still a metal machine at heart!
Fantastic work! The owner is very lucky to have you work on their guitar.
Personaly I'd gone with Hetfield-specs on this one. Dual volume controls, toggle switch in the tone control position and, of course, leave the pickguard as is and put in another EMG.
Had I upgraded the hardware I'd gone with a TonePros bridge, sperzel locking tuners, Graph Tech nut and Schaller strap locks
Good choice taking out the emg their an ok pickup but after owning them myself I now realize passive pickups just sound way better.
LOL, You put your weed in there SNL flashback. Thanks!
How are you so good hooking wires up with pickups? I can't do that easy... You look like Billy Corgan.
Anyone else come back to watch these again? I find it oddly relaxing. Phil would you sharpen a axe from the UK? because I'd love my dean flying v 79 sharpened.
Literally subscribed because of this video. This was fun to watch and is the type of thing I aspire to do, taking beat up old guitars and giving them the love to make them cool, fun to play instruments. I look forward to the rest of the series and hope you keep doing videos like this after that.
Cool, my daughter and I made the credit pics. Love what you did with this axe, it looks awesome.
Thank you for the Photos they were great!
That guitar is one very lucky lady!
Yeah my old guitar would love being repaired by Phillip
HAHA She's a beauty now.. Shiny Black and Silver... Love changing to 2 Passive Pickups... All good fixes... and what a great tone.. Nice job Phil. This viewer should be very happy.
Great job bringing that guitar back to life. If it were me, I'd of put an EMG 85 in the neck. Awesome with the EMG 81 in the bridge. But that guitar sounds Awesome. Also great job fixing the body where the volume pot is. Could hardly see it anymore.
So great to give back Phillip!
Superb transformation, night and day and sounds great!
If The owner of this guitar only wanted this guitar for metal purposes, I would've put an EMG 81/60-89. If you wanted to make it versatile with EMGS you could put a 57/66 set and those cleanup really nice for cleans for being actives. Just my .02
Nice Axe Phillip.GREAT WORK. I'M SURE THE OWNER WILL BE IMPRESSED.
I was hoping for more coverage on that repair over the control panel. I need to repair that same issue and could have used some tips.
I would have changed one other thing as a personal preference. Moved the strap hook near the neck to behind the body near the heel so I could play it standing up. I need a classical-like high headstock playing position. Low slung, neck heavy guitars are too awkward and uncomfortable for me to play standing up because I don't cradle the neck. I need my thumb mostly in the centre of the neck to get a full range of motion for my fingers because my hands aren't that big. I had an epiphone explorer one time where one of the neck joint bolts was extra long to accommodate a strap hook and it was very comfortable for me because I could rest my right arm on the body if needed and the neck stayed in position and only dropped if I wanted it to.
Just awesome Phil!! That's what this for, the first one (chapman) was disappointing because it didn't need much . This epi, was a prime candidate!!
Man you raised the cool factor on that ax by 100% !
So it basically a brand spanking new YOUCISIAN IS AN INTERACTIVE WAY TO LEARN GUITAR
CAN IT TEACH ME TO READ BARS?!?!?!?
No but I know who you can buy them from
Nice! Perfect candidate. Wasn't too expensive or too cheap of a guitar and it didn't even work. Now it's awesome! Good to see you ditched the battery. Nearly impossible to access and they go bad. The kill button is too cool.
I luvs me an Explorer. Nice work Phillip. Interestingly enough the guitar came with Burstbucker pickups and the fretboard is phenolic (resin).
This makeover by far, was my fave. Good stuff.
Awesome job Phillip, I love seeing a guitar brought back to life!
What a great idea for a video series. Bravo. I wish I had known about it sooner so I could have entered the contest. Looks like the guitar felt pretty good too. You seemed to be enjoying yourself. Hope you do this again sometime.
Phillip I gotta say I really appreciate these videos. I have recently really gotten into upgrading my guitars, but doing them myself. I have learned a lot from your video's including tools, tricks, things to look at (that one might not think about etc).. I've got a few guitars I'm "Sharpening" right now..Wish me luck..
This is a great video. I could watch videos like this all day long. Not a fan of that pickguard or epiphones in general but you did a great job with what you had.
Gave the guy a new guitar! Awesome job
And the world just got a little bit louder!!!!! Phil, you rock.
Two horns up my friend. Great work great video and great series. That's the first time I've ever written horns up...lol
Oh my god. This guitar sounds beautiful. It gave me chills down my spine. What I would do for a tone like that....
I like the little pedals for the icons in the corner.
Phil, these are some of your best videos.
I have this guitar... haven’t modded anything because it’s perfect stock. The epiphone version has push-pull pots to get single coil tone out of each burstbucker. It’s sad to see that feature not on this guitar because in my opinion, that’s what made it better than the Gibson version.
You can actually use ACTIVE and PASSIVE pickups in a guitar. Jim Root had it when he was still in stone sour.
I think they used to volume knobs and the pickup-switch was wired differently so both circuits can stay away from each other.
Maybe thew manual was to stop the battery from sliding around.When I install the tesi led killswitches i just use a piece of double sided tape.
I used to have one of these. They are super fun to play
Skwisgaar is going to love the mods you've made to his guitar, that's f*cking amazing!
Thanks for the tip on the swirl remover.
I CAN'T STAND THOSE DIAMOND PLATE PICK GAURDS ON GUITARS.
I agree, mate! I always hate them, pretty ugly IMHO... I would prefer more classy options.
Don't like it as a pickguard.. But as a full guitar it's awesome
b a d s o y 100% agree
It is pretty ugly
Agree. White is a way superior choice.
Merry Christmas Phil awesome job, a 59' Jazz neck pup would've been a great addition as well
loving this series Phil! great job on the repairs. Liked seeing the info at the end. Did this guitar need a neck adjustment at all? Thanks for sharing.
Extreme makeover!! I would like to see the big reveal when the owner gets it! I hope the recipients of this service post videos.
Great job. Great series. You are the nicest guy Phil
Very nice refurb I must say. Thanks for showing us.
Your stuff is so much fun to watch! Thanks!
That turned out great. Only thing I’d change is that pick guard but that’s all personal preference.
Sharpen my axe!!! Awesome concept. Very generous of you as well. Best guitar based UA-camr in my opinion. Especially since pixxy is dead.
Yes, love this series. Nice work for sure Phillip! That thing was in sad shape and now its a great player for sure.
You're one great guy! Love watching and learning! Thanx!
tbh this is like the coolest guitar info channel