I built an EPOXY-TOP STRAT!!! 😍 ... then immediately repaired it 😭
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- I used trial, error, and force of will to build a Blue Pearl Epoxy-Top Strat loaded with Tex-Mex pickups. Did I succeed?... Eventually... kind of.
Body - Ash with Blue-Pearl translucent top.
Neck - Fender made maple
Pickups - Fender Tex-mex
The music in this video can be found at:
open.spotify.com/artist/1JugN...
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0:00 - Build
6:18 - Ambient tone test
8:08 - Funk tone test
I came for the build, stayed for the music.
Hey thanks for the encouragement! Glad you enjoyed it!
Me and my friends were obsessed with Bill the Butcher and Gangs if New York! Daniel Day Lewis was epic!
oh ya! DDL is my boy for sure. I think he kicks off that track very nicely!
Fucking brutal, awesome)
Thanks! Ya brutal mistake but it sounds good so I'm not complaining too much.
Brutal chipping, good work around, I would have liked to see the back milled a little further I think. Any word on total thickness? That being said this is a total win in my book because rather than DREAM you DID. You made your vision reality! At the end of the day mistakes are all about the takeaways and how we learn to overcome. Bonus points for F.C. Arsenal!!!!!
Hey thanks so much!! Ya it's a thick and heavy guitar. By far the heaviest 6 string guitar I've ever held. The total thickness was about 1 and 3/4 inches. About the same as my LTD but like 5 times heavier... no exaggeration. Not a touring guitar thats for sure, unless you want to throw your back out. I'm just about to start a new build... epoxy/wood checker board type thing. Should be fun! Thanks again for the encouragement!
@geresmusic Thanks for the response. The thickness is pretty spot on. ( I guess it's true the camera adds a few inches or pounds.... maybe that's the weight of it, too?) But honestly, the weight is likely due to the epoxy I played a vintage luthite bass years ago the weight for me as a gigging bassist was a deal breaker. I mean, it was heavier than my 80's Warlock bass, and that thing was God awful heavy. It was great for rowdy punk shows because it could clear a stage without damage 😆 . By contrast, my Squire P-bass is crazy light. I think the body wood on that was cedar (odd, I know). Some instruments just feel better to play seated ( my jazz bass I like that way. it's just so relaxed, and IMHO, any acoustic instrument is that way too). If you enjoy it, that's all that matters, and it looks bada** doing it. Happy strumming Sir!
@@karlvogt8891 ya wood has a lot to do with it for sure. This guitar is just random Canadian Ash from my back yard. That plus the epoxy definitely ads up.
Sounds like you've got a nice bass collection! I love those old Warlocks! I made a bass a couple years back also... you can see it in any of my cover videos on the channel if you're curious.
Resin top guitars are like a cross your heart bra. They lift and separate.
oh damn really? good to know. lol well at least I have that challenge to look forward to. I'm doing a checkerboard thing on the one I'm currently working on. I'm assuming that will work out a little better?
@@geresmusic Yes I did one back in the seventy's. The resin and timber expand and contract at different rates and even more with humidity. I was forever injecting resin in to drill holes to glue it back together.
@@John-William-000 damn that sucks.
@@John-William-000 Then maybe the answer is to cold treat the wood to drive all of the moisture from it, and then seal the wood so it can't absorb any moisture. There is a place somewhere in Europe that cold treats guitars to drive all the moisture out and artificially age the wood so the guitar resonance is far more like a very old guitar that has naturally lost its moisture. They take the guitars down to very low temperatures.
@@bigbasil1908 The problem isn't moisture. The wood and resin expand and contract at different rates to temperature which breaks the bond between the two surfaces.
Left because the music. Bet that log weighs a ton
ya its the heaviest guitar in history. completely impractical