The Ridiculous Sound of a Fretless Guitar
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As a former fed-ex employee, I can tell you that that was absolutely chucked across each warehouse it entered
Make sure the walls are flush
As another former fedex employee, I can confirm
As a former guitar center employee, it was probably packaged by someone making $9/hr who, despite learning the CORRECT way to package stuff from the website's "training modules", got yelled at for taking too long by attempting to do it *right*, was forced to half-ass the job, and then got yelled at for doing _that_.
I mean just. Hypothetically
@@imlxh7126 alexa, play “this is America”
☹️ that sucks. Any advice? Package like hell and make it heavy to avoid being tossed around.
I can’t believe the frets fell off during shipping. They seriously need to be more careful with packages smh...
Epic comment
Ha ha ha ha
I feel like someone’s gonna get wooshed
I'm PrEtTy SuRe ThAt He SaId He BoUgHt A fReTlEsS gUiTaR
And it also depends on the guitar quality
as someone who was forced to learn violin,
_now you know the pain_
Me who forced myself to play the Oud *same same*
I play cello lol. I feel your pain.
@@stevenpochatko945 cello is lit
I've played the erhu, at least you get a neck for the strings to rest on.
Violin actually isn't too bad
The flow between notes just sounds so clean. Fretless really is a beast unto itself, but it sounds wicked cool.
I was noticing that, and it's probably the only real reason to play anything fretless (aside from impressing people that can't play it.)
What a pain in the ass, but notes & transitions really are silky smooth! No buzz/snarl/"fret clank" at all.
Receives guitar with broken neck.
"First things first, we need to lower these pickups."
😁
@BlueJayRobin I'm half the axe I used to be
@BlueJayRobin it's half the guitar it used to be
I find it’s easier to work on a guitar with the pickups lower
surely first thing is to fix the crack? Then sort out the pickups?
"Its like a sad guitar."
You mean your guitar is....
Gently weeping?
Lol
Hi-yooo!
Haha⚠️
You mean djently weeping?
Ghiaccio?
I LOVED the sound!! Really smooth, a different flow and mood... just hated that it was destroyed at the end.......
I had to learn bass on an electric fretless. Got thrown into band duty the following week after receiving it. It was a tough learning curve, and nobody else would touch it with a bargepole. Over time, I fell in love with the sound and the things you could play that would have been impossible on a fretted bass. It really improves finger accuracy. Another BIG plus is the microtone capability...
As someone who doesn't know anything about guitars, hearing "a fretless guitar that doesn't have fret markers", seems completely reasonable.
I thought so too!
@Johnny Pippet violin players exist yk, just a matter of practice
@@agent2face512 As a violin player, there's definitely a big difference. When playing a violin, your hand stays in the same spot on the strings most of the time, and when you do move it, it's not very far - basically the length of three to six fingertips. A guitar neck is over 25 inches long, and requires you to move your hand around it constantly. Getting lost without a visual indicator would be extremely easy, and you have to be very precise to avoid making a note sound slightly off. That's what the fret markers are for - showing you at a glance precisely where to put your hands when you need to make a long-distance jump. Also, almost everyone who learns violin starts with markers too ;)
*laughs in double bass
@@hunterdowds777 what do u mean
"I'll be playing a fretless guitar without fret markers."
Violin/Viola/Cello/Double bass players: "First time?"
I think that point has been made another 25 thousand times.
A lot of pro player put signs behind the neck
But are there versions of those instruments that are commonly used with frets? No, the answer is no. So for an instrument that is commonly used WITH frets to go to a version without frets or fret markers, is extremely odd and defeats the purpose of the instrument.
@@irx_9gaming436 Well...actually, there is the viol family, a similar family of instruments with some differences, one of them being having frets
@@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8 but are they COMMON?
Absolutely unwarranted to break it like that.... it sounded awesome
Agreed. I don't think he liked how the lack of frets was making him reflect on his already-developed skill set as a guitar player. But how should I know?? I'm mainly a singer.
The sound of a fretless guitar is so unique and I love it, seeing it break was rough.
Seeing a guitar with a cracked neck like that has completely traumatised me.
Yeah, now I’m super worried about the guitar I have coming in. It’s taken 4 months to show up, don’t need it to be cracked too
Just reminds me of the Stewmac shipping system testing done by Trogly
It confirmed my greatest fears as well.
i had to fix a 12 string acoustic with a cracked neck once
@@vxyrrrr Oh boy, I feel for you.
The 'face' on the neck @ 2:50 looks like Beaker from the muppet show.
That's what I thought too! 😂🤣😂😎
Meep meep!
D:
Exactly!
Me too!
It has a really cool sound to it!
Sad to see an instrument getting destroyed
Just breaks my heart to see a guitar being broken like this man while on the other hand I've been wanting one for a long time now.
Guitarists: I can’t play fretless
Me: laughs in violin
mood
I've seen guitarists who can play fretless guitars & guitarists who can play violin. It's all just muscle memory that can be learned with enough time 🤷♂️
You (as well): Laughs in Homosexual
@@boolosboi7503 why bring up homosexuality?
Mr. Fahrenheit doesn’t make it ok
Imagine asking the tabs for this
Wee to the left, half wee to the right
A bit more to the right
...
Weeeeeeeee
1.28 4.13 8.64
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*sobs in lead guitar*
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Something really cool about fretless is that it opens up other bodies of theory to play with. Quarter tone eastern stuff, for example, could be pretty fun to learn on that.
Im pretty sure that is my old guitar. So I bought it at a pawn shop in early 2000s so I could learn to work on frets and I butchered the frets and put a black fretboard on it and we decided not to put fretmarkers on it. No the neck was not broken lol. I never played it much because I felt it needed marine epoxy or something to make it harder. We actually decided to do this right after our friend Shawn Lane Passed away and then I realized why Patrice Vigier made his fretless out of different material. No, Im not the one who sold it. lol
If this was somehow you, its a beautiful guitar. I love the look of the fingerboard
Cool, If it was you. Great work!
@@zachkelly1847 it was a cool guitar and that is definitely it. It was a one of a kind that my ex kept when we broke up then she left it with her now ex just to get smashed on youtube. That kinda sucks but it is what it is.
@@bestguitarchannel I know the feeling.. I also quite unexpectedly came across a video of one of my exes getting smashed, but it certainly wasn't on youtube.
Double bass, cello, viola and violin players: “first time?”
Rick and Morty fans: Yes! 👉
I was gonna comment this
fiddle too 🙃
Fretless bass player 🙋♀️
Or fretless bass
8:20 - This is what I imagine life sounds like on mushrooms.
Have you have ever played a game called: "sludge life"
Maybe dmt but not shrooms
It makes me wanna fall asleep😂😂
Bruhhh for real
It does sorta *_feel_* like that a bit. At least if you do a low dose and you’re by yourself just pondering different things.
As someone who used to work in retail shipping, that was a shit packing job. When we shipped guitars, we used at least four layers of bubble wrap plus loose fill or air cushions to stabilize it.
"There aren't even any fret markers on the top of the guitar neck"
Laughs in orchestra
I will play any instrument I can get my hands on, mainly I play guitar though. I try to find the octave and the fifth on each next string, it's easier from there.
Laughs in massive Double Bass fingerboard with too many god damn shifts.
@@RGENRN that's what I play lol
@@basementcat4939 Hahaha nice
Really? because I don’t think I have ever seen anyone in an orchestra bang out a 4 minute solo included with finger picking and dive bars those chumps couldn’t even touch the greats
Its fretless
"There's no fret markers!"
"The action is so high!"
Just play it as a slide guitar at this point
Nonexistenttt The action is high, to avoid feet buzz.
wolfmannn2008 🤣
Is it in a state of fretlessness?
I don't play guitar but I do know that if you play an instrument which I do you eventually gain muscle memory....so....
He said action was low
I like your videos a lot. Funny but also great stuff to take away ! As someone from a middle class upbringing, and having fantasised owning a guitar for over a decade (before I could finally afford one), I hate to see any guitar die that way. Just breaks my heart :((
Just wondering, are you American? I see Americans online saying "middle class" to basically mean anything from "poor" to "not a billionaire" sometimes, which is kinda strange to me, so I was just wondering if you are. It seems like a lot of Americans feel that there is some sort of shame attached to saying that they come from a working class background, and so just say middle class instead or something, I don't really understand it
btw I agree with you, I thought it was pointless and disrespectful to destroy the guitar like that too
@@Muzikman127i think there is a middle class anywhere in the west, (europe, north Amerika, Oceanië)
Outside of that i dont know
@@dylan2478 indeed there is. I'm not sure you understood my comment. Thanks for trying to help though :)
You didn't need to break it. That was the most brutal part.
Classical strings player in the comments:"imagine playing an instrument with frets"
Theremin Players:"imagine touching ur instrument just to play
Hahaah
@TheRecordScratch its a instrument that used electromagnetism to play music so you dont have to touch it.
@TheRecordScratch it's that wooOOOooooOooO sound in old horror/scifi stuff
@KermitTheFrogHere whole lotta love by led zep
I resemble this comment
I was kind of surprised that it still didn’t have fret buzz somehow
He must have used a gate
Its not a fender. 🎸😨
I think I heard a little fret buzz at the beginning but maybe I’m wrong... maybe it’s just a little neck buzz
It has no fret buzz because it has no fret lines. But so far I heard some slightly neck buzz in the start.
400th like for great comments like this!!
Our bass player had a fret less Peavy and I always loved how clean it sounded. No string buzz whatsoever, but still sounded great when slapping or plucking. Of course his had markers on the side of the neck so it was easier to navigate.
through it all, I still feel bad for that guitar at the end. no guitar should have to be smashed.
no cap, I really liked how it sounded before you marked the frets, it sounded very bluesy, and hearing those kind of micro-tones from a guitar is really nice.
Agreed.
I love microtones
@@SadieSorceress tine to go listen to some king gizzard
@@honuadalaranwow5106 damn right buddy
@@honuadalaranwow5106 rattlesnake
This is the perfect guitar for people like me who fake shred an imaginary guitar while listening to a song without knowing what they're doing
Basically me
Exactly what I do
Same here
So....me
That's me
Hahaha that part in the solo with all fast notes and the sliding had me laughing so hard and then you destroyed it thank you
thinking back to before my first guitar, I woulda killed to have anything. I don't feel you gave it a fair shot or see why you'd destroy your only fretless guitar either way, the neck coulda been fixed, but the body was totally fine.
Looks like the damage on the box was only a fender bender.
Damn you.
Nice 😎
DAD! I told you to stop going onto my UA-cam channels and commenting!!!!
Iiiii hate you..
@@travistotle Now that was my T funny.
"I have no idea where home base is." Still pulls off tasty little pentatonic....
...In the key of F 3/4#
Nathan Weiss honestly the out of tune pentatonics sound really cool. Microtonal music becomes more and more interesting to me every time i listen to it. You should hear some of sevish’s stuff on youtube
@@user-dj6lj1dl1c I tend to like it more in theory, as in discussion videos on it, than in the actually listening to it.
But mostly I was just trying to annoy or confuse people with perfect pitch. :)
Nathan Weiss hello fellow Weiss
@@nathanweiss5174 hello fellow Nate!
I like the sound of the instrument. What may be useful is to become comfortable playing the natural minor starting on the 2nd fret up and down each string. After you play a fingered note there is a harmonic on each note. That can go a long way in helping you orient yourself on the fingerboard.
Awesome!! You need to do this again but with a guitar you really love and are willing to pop off its frets!!
Next up: The Fretless Sound of a Ridiculous Guitar
Yup 😂
That’s what this was. 😂
Aka djent
Dude I don't know why but this is too funny
So Djent?😂
"There's no inbetween"
Me, a lefty: *lol relatable*
Facts
"Lefty bassist crys"
My sister is lefty so I kinda know the pain :p
@@piolopscl it's rare to find lefty guitars that aren't super expensive nor super cheap
im also a lefty but i play regular guitar. i find it easier to fret with my left hand
Looks like you just bought a really big viola! Some good wood glue like furniture makers use (I do that) would hold that cracked neck just fine. I would recommend Titebond III. The reason it cracked is that the maker didnt pay attention to the grain direction in the neck, so it split along the grain.
as someone who has played violin for about 6 years, now you know how it feels
That was actually a beautiful instrument and I am fascinated by the whole idea. Poor baby was so abused. T_T She didn't deserve the botched repair/custom job or the outright murder that came afterward.
It hurt me too 🥺😢😢
Agree 🥲😓
The fact that he used sharpie instead of beginner tape or pencil was horrifying
He just wanted attention
Don’t lie to yourself it was a piece of crap
8:19 honestly that sounded amazing
yeah, it definitely doesn't sound ridiculous.
do you know if is it improvised or is a riff of a song?
Yeah that shit was great
@@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8 damn
Is that just a freestyle or does anyone know the name of that song
It is definitely possible to play without markers with the same kind of intonation violinists and cellists have
Great sound. Just shows how an expert can get an amazing sound from anything. Thanks for posting.
I play fretless bass guitar. From my experience fret markers only take you so far. I learned to play it by ear. The markers aren't 100% reliable because there are other factors involved such as intonation, string gauge, tross rod tension, etc that affects the pitch of the note on a micro tune level. You are honestly better off just learning to play the thing without looking at the fretboard, that way you can learn to react and correct pitch by ear regardless of the state of the these factors. This of course up to a certain point. If you are widely out of tune that will still throw you off a bit, but fretlessness does give you the possibility to correct in real time way more than a fretted instrument ever could.
I'm a Fretless player . I can confirm everything you wrote. At one point you simply "know what you are doing" , but it took me nearly ten years of hard practice and a lot of tears.
But in the beginning you just need something keeps you on track. A full blind instrument for a beginner is impossible. Myself too I started painting the fret ten years ago. It took me at least 4 years before I started to follow ears and my hand .
But yeah, the control you get after the years of practice is something a fretted player can never truly understand.
It's called a violin.
@@williamleardini8876 String instruments beginners start almost always with markers (any tape). They last usually for a couple months. The difference is that you also need some exercises to put your hand and your ear in order, while in guitar/bass and etc you don't. There's plenty of ways to understand if you are playing on tune or not, before you train ur ear, for most instruments. I don't play guitar but by logic, I'd say that if u take too long or can't learn how to play a fretless instrument, it's because you are not following a method for that, if u just ignore the marks but keep doing the "normal" exercises, u will just be making everyhing way harder, it's just not worth it. I'd recommend to watch some shifting position exercises for violin just to understand the logic and then just apply to a guitar,bass and etc.
@Zack Hall No. Many guitars have truss rods. Their purpose is to counteract the tension of the strings. You can actually adjust them to get different curvature on the neck of the guitar.
@@bestscenes4759 Well,... more like a cello-viola.
lmao. all orchestra people are laughing their ass off at this
Right?! Really let down that they wouldnt innately develop their ear and finger placements after years of playing
Even as a meh cellist around year 3 I could find any note without looking,
Good guitarist and bassist tell me they have ear training
Nah, the orchestra ppl does not laugh of the ppl, they know what real bullyng means, u are just stupid man n.n
Taylore Red It’s the same with me
Taylore Red A cello, violin, viola, etc are different from a guitar different sizes, different way of holding and playing. And the vibration speeds are different never compare a guitar to an orchestra
@@lilp4pii310 I never compared anything to an orchestra, intonation is intonation regardless of instrument
Hard to watch at the end when i cant even buy one guitar for my own🥹
haha You've just about got my luck, my friend. Loved the vid, cool sound! Amazing job considering what you had to work with. Rock and Roll finish 10/10
This the guitar of my dreams…..
Where I do a 10 second metal riff then just go full lumber jack and smash into the ground with a epic smile on my face💪🏻🎸🤟🏻
Just had to comment on this cuz 10 seconds later he made my dream come true and I honestly didn’t think it would happen but he definitely understood the assignment just got a like for sure👍🏻
as a beginner guitarist, that ending hurts my soul.
It needed to be put out of its misery.
As an experienced guitarist of 10 years,that hurt my soule too.
Me too!!
please i hate when people do that 😭😭
absolutely same feeling here
I wanted to e-mail him to see if he would be willing to sell that guitar; i have the exact same model, a Ibanez EX Series 350 in laser blue color, it's just the best guitar i've played and i've been longing for another one, they're just too difficult to find. All that fretwork was done by someone who didn't seem to care too much about the guitar, you can see how bent the guitar neck is, i wouldn't mind repairing it, it'd been such a delight to add some frets and bring it back to life... until i saw the end of the video, it felt like a hit in the nuts.
Same here man, same here 😔
It's always sad to see someone treat instruments with that kind of disrespect. I'm totally pissed by that *** right now.
Also, I want a fretless guitar!
He's a higher enough caliber of guitar player that he can do whatever he wants. He bought it, so whatever. Should have set it on fire
@Antony Blazhev So theres literally millions of guitars out there. Who cares, he bought it, literally every rockstar ever has destroyed a guitar at some point on stage. Good for him. It was prolly frustrating making this video and felt good to break that piece of crap
I’ll subscribe to u if u repair the full guitar
You being such a goober makes your shit funny af. Love you brother.
1. Gently spread the crack apart 2-3mm
2. Apply wood glue to the inside of the crack
3. Wrap with several layers of paper towel
4. Secure with as many hose clamps as you can fit on the cracked area.
“I don’t think anyone can play a fret less guitar without fret markers”- laughs in violin, viola, cello, double bass
in oud also (the arabic lute) which is basically a fretless guitar with a pear chaped raisonnance chamber hahahah. And they play perfectly, even the semi tones
a lot of turkish guitarists play fretless
Play 6 note chords all on the same beat
😂 was about to comment that
Yeah, the dude is the exemple of average guitarist.. fret dude
Not having a middle pricing, is what it's like being a left handed player
God right though?
Someone should make a guitar with a uniform symmetrical body that can be played comfortably both right and left handed, call it an Ambitar, or anything to do with ambidextrousity. We could then petition for Ambitar to be the new universal standard! Man I wish there was some stupid level music company like As Seen On TV that would buy anyone's dumb ideas, I'd be rich lol
@@mariemacfhionghuin11 it's called a classical guitar
@@mossmacarthur504 although left or right handed classicals don't have a middle pricing
i am a left-handed player of quartertone guitars (even more rare than fretless). too bad about the broken neck. there's no hope with a broken neck.
im working one making one right now, im thinking piazo pickkups are going to sound sick
The end demo sounded really good though. Very interesting tune
I feel like there’s light everywhere except on the guitar
Anfd on his shirt asswell
Should’ve worn white
I couldnt see anything!
Also, this crack happened with mine, so I took all the hardware off, reglued, and clamped it. Good as new
jcwarlock good job
What glue did u use
mgmt1215 Liquid Nails or J-B weld would probably work well.
mgmt1215 I recommend elmers glue 👍
@@mgmt1215 I just used basic wood glue, I wedged open the crack more by bending back the neck, squirted glue on both sides, removed the wedge, clamped it shut hard, wiped off any excess from the crack and left it for 6 hours. Shaved off any dried excess glue with a razor, Sanded with 2000 grit, and polished some candle wax into it
I started violin in third grade, and remember some kids using white tape on the fingerboard when they moved out of first position. I just did it by ear, and think that's the best approach. You refine your intonation over time by listening and adjusting the finger position accordingly.
It's not as big of a deal as it probably seems initially to someone who learned on a fretboard first. Vibrato technique is a factor too.
Great video. Why didn't you just glue the crack before clamping it and fix the guitar before playing it? That said, LOVED your riff, and think the fretless sound is WORTH exploring! I hadn't expected that!
Strings snapping...in 1963 or 64 I was tuning a guitar for the first time in my life when the skinny E string snapped: I couldn't find the end of it and I was getting confused so finally I set the guitar down on the couch to figure it out when I felt something on my cheek. I thought it was a bug or a fly and tried to brush it away. I grabbed the string at the bridge, ran my hand along it and discovered that the end of the broken string had stuck straight into my face barely below my eye. That was scary. I've been real cautious ever since. Watching you turn your head away is what reminded me of that incident because that's how I tune my guitars every time.
Safety glasses
@@kenheisner288 Face shield. But with my luck it'll stick in my carotid artery and give me a fatal infection....full suit of armor maybe...robots in another room...
@@choimdachoim9491 omg, I was thinking the same thing the other day when I re-strung my guitar! I HATE that part! lol
Had the end go right into the very middle of my pinky fingernail top. I shook my hand because it hurt but I didn't realize what had happened at first until I looked at it and pulled it out. Blood started to come out of the tiny hole in my fingernail. LOL.
@@choimdachoim9491 I'm gonna wear a chastity belt and take it to the next level.
Any beginning luthier can easily de-fret a guitar for you: just pull the frets and fill the grooves with a slightly different shade of filler so you have perfect markings exactly where the frets were.
I did that to get into playing fretless bass almost a year ago, except I didn't fill in the frets, I got the cheapest used p bass at guitar center for $50, though I plan on upgrading to a warwick before too much longer now that I know I enjoy it
@@deathsicon not filling in the frets is one of the worst things you could do, its going to warp like hell
@@cursedcliff7562 haven't had a problem yet, and even if I do, the thing only cost me $50 and is a Wal-Mart quality instrument, already looking at getting a decent warwick to replace it
but then no saran wrap fun
I remember looking into it and true fretless guitars apparently have to have slightly differently shaped not-fret boards or something like that to play better
Nothing screams sadness like a newly shipped guitar with a broken neck : (
The surprisingly satisfying and unexpected conclusion of this video is appreciated!
Better fret marking process: find the harmonics, mark those.
That’s exactly the fret marking process currently. The higher frets denote harmonics above lower fretted notes. I think you mean harmonics of open strings...?
@@henryzproduction7945 watch the video before commenting.
@@henryzproduction7945 Really? When in the video is that? All I see is 6:46 doing something much sillier.
squawk
The correct technique is to find the right positions using a metronome
I wish I could afford a fretless guitar, no matter how cheap it is. The last part of the video broke my heart
yeah. i enjoyed the video til that, but that was unnecessary.
Rondo music had them cheap AF
lol it was worthless piece of shit guitar
I died inside to bro
It would cost more to repair than buy a new one.
You hurt my soul smashing that beautiful instrument
Thats so funny, i was thinking it could be an ibanez, but i was like i never seen the reverb website so i had no idea what guitars they had 😂
Geez! He literally destroyed it at the end! I would have at least kept it and framed it because, it actually look pretty cool. And it’s also rare to have a fret less guitar
Yep! Also he could have just changed the neck and made it into his own thing, it's a bolt on.
I was hoping that he’d fix it. Broke my poor heart
You mean replacing the one part that makes this cheap, generic guitar special and is also quite rare and expensive to find?
Yeah, I can understand that he didn't want to do that after the frustration of it arriving broken. Especially since he never planned on playing fretless after the video anyway...
@@dystopia2386 yeah its such a waste even the mega fancy dont destroy their own stuff
He just showed you what are doing people when they have too much Money. 😒
Man. An electric guitar is worth more than 1 year of full time job's work in my country and this man just destroys it that easily. My heart has been broken
where do u live in?
@@ataberkozcelik9328 i live in Iran, our government has banned import of musical instruments because they think it's "foreign influence"
@@brainrot___ I could have guessed it... I am from Turkey and the situation isnt any different here. So I understand you, I hope you get rid of the islamic regime and build up the democratic Iran again. I respect your country and history a lot. Best regards from your neighbour
I knoww I've been saving up to buy one now I can't even pay the cheapest one 😭😭
Same here
The first time I've actually been pleased seeing a guitar getting smashed. Great Vid.
8:19 Wow, I'm amazed at how well you can play in tune on that. It looks really hard to do!
Tyler: excited to get a fretless guitar
Guitar: ☹️
It was more like :c
im crying laughing at this comment
The sad thing is, a little wood glue and a home made clamp and time would have fixed this guitar pretty well.
Right? That was a nice long break along the grain of the neck. My favourite because of how easy to fix. I would've probably pulled the break apart a little more to sand a bit of the break cleaner and give a little more surface area for the wood glue.
What do you think about a couple of wood screws? Not too long and not too short?
@@OneGrahamOfWrath no don't pull the break on a cheap guitar apart.
@Warren552011 Yeah YEAH! Countersink em countersink em and Bob's my,, errrmmm,
*sideways glance* "Whatchu talkin bout Willis??"
When i saw him break the guitar that was an instant dislike for the video, you are not a fuckin' rockstar, don't do that shit.
You sure got a hold of the pitch quickly. Your track sounded great.
Haha! You made it sound pretty cool! Nice work!
I never like to see a working musical instrument destroyed, I spent too many hours wishing for one before I finally was able to get mine. Interesting video though, think I'll stick to frets for now.
"Working". That thing was ruined before he opened the box.
@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 that could be easily fixed or given to people that can't afford one and would like to have any guitar?
@@SomeoneThatIsHappy it would cost more to repair and ship than the guitar was worth.
The reality is that one man's priceless object is another man's disposable toy.
@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 it broke at the seams. If he would have just glued it and clamped it…. All would have been fine. Have you not seen a Gibson neck repair. There is no excuse for this
@@chrish1695 so you wanted him to glue the neck, and then re-fret the cheap guitar? Did you forget it has no frets, or do you just not understand how much work that would be?
Instruments played with no fret markers: Standup bass, violin, cello etc.
p i a n o
@I’m-a-plastic-bag horse radish
Skin flute..
Rusty trombone
Electric bass too. Jaco pastorious says hi
Don't destroy your guitar💥send to me in Brazil 🙏
I'm struggling to buy one 😣but the video got a nice surprise in the end, you rock!
Sounds pretty good to me. Not your everyday guitar but one for the utility belt. So it looks like the package got the old UPS Stamp of Approval before delivery. I can tell that it was UPS because if it had been shipped USPS it would have gotten "lost".
His fingers are like my father. They start moving around and can’t find their way home.
MEGA MORPHIWEENIS THIS DESERVES MORE CLOUT
Whats a father?
Are you winning, son?
Uhhhhhhhh.....what?
They are also like my father. They grab you by the neck and body slam you onto the concrete, then kick you when you're down.
I'm a guitar repair guy and i could have easily fixed that guitar neck. 😭😭😭
Anyone with common sense could have reapplied glue and clamped it. This was some bullshit
Always hate to see people trashing instruments. Even if you don’t know anyone that can’t afford a guitar, to give your old guitar to. Stop by any good local music shop and tell em give this guitar to the next kid that walks in looking at guitars. Or someone on the street holding a cardboard sign.
@@ryanhughes4726 ...I don't think anyone holds cardboard signs looking for musical instruments. What a strange thought
@@heroicskeleton1566 WILL WORK FOR FREE GUITAR
@@thomassicard3733 lulz
1000 satriani's sittin on curbs looking for work. gl w that irony! :D
Thank God for youtubers like you. I did have the idea to pluck out all the frets on a really cheap 12 string because of the intonation and equal temperament were not accurate, almost exact half of a ... Half note out, which is mighty annoying if you love playing up near the 12th frets. Hearing this, makes me wonder now if I should have just done it, rather than return it.
9:16 unecessary and disrespectful.
I'm trying to buy my dream guitar (PRS SE Paul Allender) since 2007 living here in Brazil and still couldnt buy it.
Is very sad to see a good and new guitar being destroyed for no purppouse at all.
that is quite possibly the worst packaging job I've seen
yes, it's the IDGAF method
Bought a Jackson Soloist off Reverb two years ago - it was wrapped in a few towels and thrown in an oversized box, and predictably fucked up. Not exactly what you want to see with a $700 purchase.
And some of the vendor shipping on electronics, pedals, etc. is even worse.
The QC / QA on that site is shit.
Even with the existing damage, it's painful to see someone smash a guitar.
Yup, he had to repair it first, just some white glue in the scarf joint and it was done. Not difficult to mark fingerboard edge properly as well... Stupid guy, anybody would have repaired it, so what, just for the show on a video ? Disgusting.
@@strat0871 it's a floyd rose fretless guitar, that's a pain in the ass and not something any good guitarist wants to play. sure, he could have given it away or something if he didnt want it, but he's basically just giving away a headache and a bad guitar. what was he meant to do?
@@strat0871 ikrr :((((
* cough * Davie504 * cough* * cough*
He has money to waste, at 7:25 you can see the basses he bought but definitely doesn’t play. One of which I know is about 1000 dollars and he only got so someone else could play it on his album
I pulled the frets out of my first guitar (80’ Kramer Pacer Series) and filled the slots with wood putty and installed my first double locking trem (Kahaler) myself, on a Adrian Belew geek fest in the 90’s.
I finally resurrected that guitar from the closet of shame with the best replacement parts in 2019.
It still haven’t forgiven me yet but we’re working on it.
That's the same shade of red that my 1985 Roadstar II was.
This was like one of those vidoes where someone takes in a homeless, mangey, one-eyed puppy and then lovingly helps it to make a full recovery. Except on this one they took it outside and stamped it to death.
Why this sounds like floods outro?It's freakin' awesome.
A lot of sus2 chords, the end of the dark trail by the fall of troy has a pretty floods-ish sounding outro too
THAT IS IT BROTHER!
By Of Mice & Men?
@@skinnyjeens5521 I was assuming pantera but if not then I'm dumb
Cause it’s played with a slide which gives a fretless sound
i love how you always sound like you don’t wanna be doing any of it 😂
The ending was both satisfying and made me cry lol- I had to give my $100 guitar so many repairs because I can’t afford a good one and I desperately want to play
When your so rich that you laugh when your guitar is broken
Yup
"When you're" or "when you are".
Luis Vilela Silva This is not school buddy
You’re not your
@@johnp.smithasimpleman7281 If we are going to spend the rest of our lives on the Internet and not talking to each other in real life. Might as well actually try and make sense to one another by using correct grammar.
How many of you were yelling at your screen for him to glue this thing before tightening up the strings? LOL I know I was!
I could see the headstock pulling forward as I'm cringing so hard. This could have easily been saved with a little bit of patience and time .
For Real!!! And then when the clamp was on, I was like "ok, he finally found the wood glue" But no... ??? Literally could have been made like-new so easily
Yep. Pray to the goddess Araldite.
@@jackdallwitz5086 lol good one
Yeah, I was thinking he could take off tension and glue that guy and clamp it up for a day or two and give it a proper try. This was funnier though and he probably would have wanted to smash it at the end anyway. :)
Sounds amazing. Or perhaps your skills made it sound amazing. Surprised there aren't more famous musicians playing this type of guitar.
I just found this vid because I just got a Fretless guitar on the way. As far as the crack at the scarf joint it's a very easy repair some titebond III and some clamps a day or two to dry and it will be as good as new. Seeing this vid is two years old I am sure the guitar is long gone.