How to Build a Kit Guitar without Expensive Tools or Soldering -
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
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This is the first video in my series of building a Harley Benton Kit Telecaster. To help you learn how to assemble your DIY kit, i build it straight out the box without using any luthier tools. Then I take it into my studio to play through a Fender and Marshall amp to hear how it sounds!
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00:00 Competition and Unboxing
03:18 Tuners
04:30 String Trees
04:59 Ground Wire to stop hum
05:38 Bridge
07:08 Output Jack
08:48 Pickguard
10:08 How to connect the pickups correctly
11:41 Screwing the Neck to the Body
13:09 Time for Strings
17:00 Does it work?
17:38 Playing it in the studio
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The only kit in the link is the t-style one. Should there be others?
4:05 "it would be kinda cheating if I'm showing you how to put this kit together and I'm using specific guitar tech tools"
Just posting to say thanks for that basic-household-tools approach. It answers my biggest hesitation - what if it needs any fret levelling or sprout filing or nut slotting or remedial routing etc to get it playing well. 🤔 The tools would cost me more than the kit. So this is the perfect series format to find out the reality! 👍🎸
Get you literally any flat solid something-or-other and some sandpaper in various grits, so you can level, dress and polish frets to your heart's content. Routing really shouldn't be required at all. Nut slotting... you can get by with cheap "needle files" from any hardware store.
Welcome to the rabbit hole, young Andy ;)
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Oh goody... it's like a model kit for a big kid!! :) Honey.. where are my Testor paints?
Awesome video! I watched with my 7 year old and we were enthralled! I’ve never put together a guitar before but you made it look so easy! Thanks!!
"screw pots" tip: For electronics projects I use ice cube trays to hold and separate small parts!
Have to hand it to Thomann’s marketing folk for coming up with this “competition”. All the better guitar channels on YT. ( Menotic Stringworks, Twoodford and Dave’s World of etc etc are all excused because they are professional luthiers) are doing the build and the publicity is priceless. Thomann’s accounts department are also on top form, you dont get cash, you get a €500 store credit, but I could spend €500 in the Thomann store in a heartbeat.
The greatest american hero retires and sets out to make guitars what a chap 👍
Really informative basic guitar mod kickoff Andy. Anyone looking to start doing mods would do well to look at this. Not everyone knows the basics like not over torquing the screws and evenly cross tightening. And you kept it interesting too 😃👍👏👏
Thanks Tom. Glad it hit what I wanted it to hit.
woah, you have a drill press! I wish I had a drill press.
I have a drill press. You can borrow it if you like. I’m a good neighbour
You're the NerdCubed of guitar UA-camrs amd I love it.
Brilliant, might give it a go, that looked easy enough to do
Hey Andy, most Groovy man! Will be watching the cus- toe- my- zation😱💥👍🤙
Best videotutorial for this kit.
Much better that the guidebook included.
Thank you for the effort. It has been fun to do it with you :)
I had a great time building a J-Bass, with my Dad, at last year`s DIY challange. There were some crazy builds last year I think it`s worth checking out the 2021 DIY vids by Thomann.
Just a tip.. if you use the bridge pickup more than the neck wire it backwards... that way the switch knob won't be in your way when you work the volume pot if you do that kind of thing :)
I flip the control panel around
Thanks so much for this video. I finished my guitar last week (ST style) and just uploaded an in depth build video yesterday. Your video was probably the most helpful tutorial that I watched, and I came back to it several times to check through different steps. I also loved what you ended up doing with the kit. Thanks again!
I am watching your as soon as I am done with this one.
Thank you thank you thank you for posting this! I have always wanted to buy a kit and try it myself. I think people should be aware though, the body, being made of Rengas might cause allergic reactions similar to poison ivy in some people. Shouldn't matter though if you're going to paint the body and apply poly. I ordered a T-style kit and ST-kit after watching this video. Great video Andy!
My tip: i use an plastic ice-cube maker (Eiswürfel Form) to separate the screws, nuts and all that tiny things, which always get lost an were found in the vacuum cleaner.
how long does it take for the ice to melt? :)
Good tip. My fingers are too big for an ice tray though
Magnet sheets with grid lines to show where each bit comes from 👍🏽
Mine is underway as well! Can’t wait to play the thing!
Enjoy it!
Some great tips. I have been pondering entering the challenge. This video helped me think it was within my capabilities.Only problem would be convincing my partner that another guitar is essential...😉
I will watch out for the mods. 🤞🏼
Cool always fancied having a go at one!
Now is a good time.
A really cool looking and nice sounding guitar and you put it together very well.
Thank you kindly!
I just bought one arrived today,super stoked after watching your video,I was thinking of painting mine,,never don anything like this before,any video posters? Look forward from hearing from you,cheers!
15:50, that's what she said! I saw your little "look" there. Spit my coffee out, thanks!
My thoughts exactly, pickup height adjustment. Has potential!
We’ve had a record rainfall. Perhaps an🕊Ark with animals for a design? 🌧
Whatever the design is going to be... it has to be able to be painted by someone with the abilities of a 2 year old... (me)
Great idea, just subbed! :)
Welcome to the channel!
It's been my understanding that the strings included with kits are really only there to get your setup dialed in. After that you're supposed to replace them with whatever you prefer. Idk how true this is considering strings have different tensions so after switching strings your setup would have changed. But they would get you in the ballpark so you don't have to do too much adjusting so maybe that's it.
I'm new to the channel btw and this was a pretty great video. There's plenty of helpful info for people new to kit building and it's easy to digest and follow. Well done sir, looking forward to watching more of your videos now!
60£! Ordered. I'm making a silver sparkle. And lobing in some old hotrails
That wood would look good with an SG semi-transparent crimson colour with a dark filler in the grain. A set of awful strings are always handy when playing around with guitars so you can save the good'ns for the final set up. I was too cheap to buy something like this kit to play along this year, so I got a uke... well, two ukes :) Looking forward to the rest of this series, I really enjoyed when you stripped down that Les Paul before.
thx
I tend to throw the strings and the cable out but those terrible strings can be used jused to check that everything is aligned.
I 3d printed a string winder for mine. Of course you will need access to one for this.
Building a better world one instrument at a time.
Someone has to do it...
Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
darn straight!
AMAIZING HEADSTOCK
I think it might be too small...
@@TheGuitarGeek mm yes you right
Hey Andy,
Awesome vid but did you ever customise it?
you got yourself a Macmull there....
It has turned out very nice, could you tell me how much the guitar weighs once built?
Did you ever revisit this guitar and do any upgrades?
I want this shirt!
Just wondering why you didn't shield the routed cavities before you started assembly? Is this a future mod?
Did you ever do anymore on this bud?
Good video! How much real time to get to the end of the build?
If I wasn’t making a video I could do it in under 15 minutes. 30 minutes with hand tools tops
Dude, out of the box it sounded great, it did not howl or squeel or fall appart. The whole point of this, is to let a beginner put it together, understand how a basic guitar works and from then on....the sky is the limit. Upgrade the tuners, pickups, knobs, the finish....it will be YOUR guitar, to do what you want with it and never worry about modifying a €400+ instrument and ruining the value....it will "grow with you" basically.
Hardly building a guitar, more like assembling a guitar! Just saying! Good video!
Very informative video, thanks!
P.s. You could have used a cheap plastic string winder. Even the most clueless newbie either has bought one or will after the first time trying to wind by hand. 😁😁🤘
Great video idea!
I think it would be very nice to go from necessary to extreme mods. Like: start with intonation and the nut. Then making a proper headstock, then changing any other shapes of the guitar and end it with a paint job and finishes.
I like it! Yes, the sensible stuff will be done first
@@TheGuitarGeek please do. It's important to show regular folks that none of this is really rocket surgery. It can be very intimidating for people who don't have luthiery training or other shop experience.
I just wish they had any lefty kits ...
Is the body pre finished? Looks like it.
It’s sealed. Feels kinda waxy
I do the same when i Put new strings in i have to use my hands
Are you sure that's not a 4 piece body? I'm almost sure I saw more join(joint?) lines. Pretty sure I saw 3 altogether. One in the middle and one more on each side, somewhat parallel to the center line.
Yep! Two piece!
2:33 That's what he said
is there a diychallenge23?
I'd like to buy a kit if only the wood was a traditional one. I'd of course pay more for that. Nevertheless, the guitar sounds decent.
Did you see the stained glass Tele on Trogly's show the other night? Just sayin.....
Hahaha no i didn’t… I need to take a look
60 cycle was very fast
In the U.S. we have this new fangled tool called a socket wrench…here’s hoping this modern technology makes its’ way across the pond soon
ANDY! wotcha matey. I'm first! which is...meaningless.....yay..... :0
Not to me it isn't. It is meaningFULL!
How can the Kit go for 79 and the finished product for 79 to 89? I understand that i can be fun to build your own guitar. But there is no benefit.
I couldn’t find a spanner, so I had to settle for a wrench.
Oh no... You will ruin it!😂
Fffffffffffffffffffffffffffire!
You know it
15:50 that's what she said (since we already got a "he" in the comments)
Me : I don't want to buy the kit !
Me : Go on, buy the kit !
Me : Noooo
Me : Yess, do it..do it !!
Welcome in my mind :|
"Not get obsess"? Well.... this is videos 1 of 50.
Hahahahah yes… just maybe!
arrrgghhh why to people string their guitars the hard way? I have never once done it like this since 1980 and haven't ever had a tuning stability issue.
Pull the string all the way through, finger tight.. tune it up, making sure to get one wind over top the part of the string you pulled through. It locks into place. You can whammy to your hearts content, bend, alt tune you name it.
Of course this past year I've discovered locking tuners, but that does pretty much what I do without having to worry about where that first wind goees
how to build a kit guitar with a riddicilous headstock.
LOL it's left vastly oversize so you can cut it to whatever shape you want.