The Captain Meets Paul Waller (Fender Masterbuilder)
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
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⏰ Timestamps ⏰
» 0:00 Introducing Paul Waller
» 0:50 Your Fender Career?
» 1:44 What Got You Into Guitar Building?
» 3:12 Your Unique Approach?
» 20:48 Pickups?
» 31:40 The Guitars!
» 39:11 Guitars For Artists?
» 44:15 How Long To Relic Naturally?
» 51:00 About the Strat Design
» 57:30 Strats Over The Years?
» 1:09:04 70th Anniversary Guitars!
» 1:11:38 Thanks Paul & Thanks For Watching!
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Captain, big respect to you, I'm a big fan of yours but you should have let Paul do more talking in this one.
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Meh, you guys have to comment on every video. There is nothing that seemed off in here, to me. It was a conversation, not an “interview”. Well done Captain.
Sadly, I have to agree. It's Parkinson's law. You let the guest talk & so they take the.conversation wherever it goes.
👍 yup
Man, Captain. You should’ve let this guy talk
He made my HSS seafoam green relic 60’s strat which is amazing.
Lee interviews Lee. Most of this is Lee thinking out loud. Would have been great to hear the masterbuilder talk.
Anyways, the guitars look and sound great.
It’s a shame and a bit frustrating
He never should have left The Jam
But his municipal district needed more style in their council.
@@RF_Burns So I heard, but in my opinion Stanley Road was more deserving of the investment
@@davidkelly831 Trouble is, Stanley Road is in a Strange Town...
I quite liked his solo career. Pebbles on a beach was a particular favourite. It appears that didn’t go as planned and now he’s screwing together partscasters. pity.
@@LysanderLH Partscasters pays the rent, but his real passion is servicing old Eton Rifles.
I really enjoyed working with Paul when I worked at Fender and to his credit, he's always looking to improve and take on new challenges. Some of the builders don't like to get out of their "comfort zone" as much or take on a really challenging artist recreation.
7:00 The Captain dinging the neck of a 10k guitar with his engagement ring xDDDD
I was lucky enough to meet these guys at the Andertons Fender event. Top people in general. Was a real honour.
So, in the 60s, Fender hired Seth Lover to make them a pickup, and basically told him to just flat out copy the PAF he made for Gibson - he didn’t. I like that Paul sort of took Seth’s original marching orders from Fender R&D and made a modern version that would’ve pleased 60s Fender. Nicely done.
I like his concept of fretboard rolling and fret finishing. A thick Fender style neck done in this style is the best fit fot me. Super comfortable to play because the fretboard edges are not on your way.
wonderful insrtuments: the look and sounds. Stunning
Super fun episode, thanks
Excellent show Lee! Very well done. Thank you
Paul Waller, the Tele meister 👍👍👍
That yellow strat sounds amazing! Holy crap!
Made,I beleev,for classical,stiyal,palying.😊😊😊
I am getting my first Custom Shop guitar tomorrow, this is great timing lol
Congratulations
which one??! Good for you, too.
@@keithbriscoe99either a 59 natural finish Tele or a white 61 rosewood one! Thanks!
I went for the white rosewood 61 ltd edition Tele. Omg incredible guitar, unreal neck, beautiful looking and classic sounding. Boom.
I,HOP,YOU ENJOY THE GITAR,🎉🎉🎉
Just bought my first ever Custom Shop Strat. A truly unique experience and moment.
Those pickups sound amazing. They might be my favorite I have heard on a Stratocaster, and I will be considering buying that set if it’s released.
I love it that you made the Captain's signature lick the jingle for this channel 😀
As a strat lover, I loved this! Thank you Lee and Paul!!
And,the man hoo,make,them😊😊😊
This is the single greatest perspective I've ever heard from a Fender builder. His restaurant analogy is perfect!
Four stars! Great conversation.
I too had a shop class in high school and built an electric guitar. That was back in 1983. I still play that guitar every day. I’ve gigged with that guitar hundreds and hundreds of times. I wish I had pursued that skill further and started my own custom guitar company. Maybe there is still time. If my young son shows a passion for working with his hands like I did we will do something like that together. Working for fender custom shop must be pretty special.
Paul is a legend! That Yellow Tele Deluxe.. man oh man..🤘
Really great interview, this guitar I believe fits with your style of guitar playing.
The resonance is special!
That tele looks so playable. Two humbucker and four knobs is underrated.
MAN..!! Love this guys take on relic. Totally correct in my opinion. Fake fret board ware specifically. Set it up perfect.. Super thin coat. Vintage guitar that's PLAYABLE.
Yeah man.. this dude has the magic.
You want a relic guitar make it easily replicable. Instead of making it up. Great take on it.
Great guy, gorgeous guitars.
LOVE the Tele Deluxe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a dream video.
I’m so happy that Paul mentioned the amplifier. I have been saying the amplifier makes the sound.
Picups are A big part of it
Possibly the most underrated part of the whole recipe.
Hopefully it stays that way. Amp prices are high enough already. 😂
I couldn't agree more. I have an old Vox Valvetronics and I have gigged it for years. Mine had more of a barbq grill made of metal. I redone that. Guitar snobs always compliment the sound when I am playing. Thet have no idea it is a hybrid modeler with a little tube stuck in there.
I love singles and humbuckers and have guitars with both, but those yellow Tele humbuckers are sensational.
I don't know why but as soon as I read the title I thought Lee was talking with Paul Weller from The Jam
Good job Cappy, best music dealer on the net….👍🤗🤘
Great playing around 38'!
Great video, even with an F-bomb. Nice playing Cap'n
I love that yellow
Veri nice song
My WOODTURNER friend says that wood, particularly Flame figured has soft and hard layers. This means when sanding the soft parts will be honed quicker than hard, naturally. THIS means no mater how the sanding is done a ripple effect on the surface is inevitable. This accounts for the different feel ie texture of a flame neck.
If the sander is larger than the soft areas then it will be level surely
@@anomalousresultSpeaking as a fine finish woodworker turned guitar builder about 9 years ago amd having built just under 100 one, three, and five-piece necks from maple to mahogany to walnut and even poplar, nope.
Again, it's not the sanding device/size. It's the nature of the grain - literally 'nature'. Softer portions simply wear down faster than the harder ones. Figured grain 'patterns' vary constantly - even within general categories "fine/tight vs wide" stripe, so that makes it not only effectively impractical, but impossible to adjust the 'face' size of your sanding device for every possible grain configuration. Regardless, whatever size sanding face you use, those softer portions of grain will 'pull' the grit while the harder ones resist it. But, hey, the Internet and blog dwellers are always hungry for the next debate fodder, so this should keep them satiated - at least til next month.
And that's the fact, Jack.
@@anomalousresult YES you have a point. However, ...
no. Soft material will incrementally be removed faster than hard. Irrespective of the level of the abrasive.
We are talking 1000s here, which is sufficient to feel undulations when moving up or down the fretboard.
@@roughcutguitars haha... I expect you might know this!
🎶🎵😀
It was a fun video 😁
Captain, if you keep that 70th Anniversary Strat, please, please don’t have one of your techs relic it.
Please. It’s gorgeous. Keep it that way.
That faded yellow strat must be the first strat in my life ive ever liked the sound of.
Paul seems super cool. But he is very clearly keeping a lid on his real thoughts about Tim Shaw's pickups and really dancing around saying that he was studying Gibson PAFs to design his low output humbuckers. Good on him for being a company man though!
My first real guitar was that yellow strat with a white scratch plate that I swapped out to black. 1981 it weighed a ton
I wish they had an online ordering process for the master built custom shop.
What does he mean by an Elevator Plate for guitar pickups? I never heard of an Elevator plate or what does an elevator plate do to pickups, video time is at 21:53 he mentions it
When you can enjoy a electric guitar acousticly, you know you have a good instrument.
Lots of Players were going into Pawn Stores way way back and buying Guitar's and Amplifiers and Basses , and going to Pawn Stores to Pawn there instruments too ( Slash from G n R ) comes to mind , could this have also helped the Road Worn or Relic Guitar market ? .
ohh yes,,, the professionals 🙂
Agreed, I always have my amp cranked and the volume knob sometimes even down to 2-3…sounds incredible
Now I wanna know what's the thing with made in USA vs the made in Japan ones?
Solid body electric guitars are simple. Use quality electronics into a top of the line speaker. That’s how you get a great sound.
My goodness that Strat with Lee's PB sounds amazing!!!
That was very interesting....cheers
The key to any interview
Know what questions you are going to ask
And ask the question and get out of the way of the answer
It stops interviewer WAFFLE
In my place i can buy a brand new city car only with the yellow strat that Lee holds.
I would like to hear a master builder talk about the Bass range
1:10:14 Cap10 F-BOMB 😳
WHAT
It’s yellow fender day, I see 3 of them.
Why Captn why? Why did you pass by the thinline tele with bigsby?
Remember the famous story (and photos?) Of Leo's Christmas wheelbarrow? He'd wheel this thing full of candy,snacks and CIGARETTES around the floor on the work day closest to Christmas and employees were encouraged to grab a handful!! A nice thank you and morale booster -huh?? And so very 50's innocent too...
hopefully he can find the piece of resistance and save us from the kragle
Guitar companies want us to buy their guitars. I expect themto be good to persuade me to spend my money with them. The name isnt enough. If you dont make good instruments there are many other guitar builders who will. Fender is a long lasting name. Dont take it for granted, you have to keep the quality up, not just the price.
Is really better wood going to CS ?
Here's a thought: give the master builder some space to talk about his craft by asking questions instead of getting him to reflect on your opinions and assumptions.
Lee is not a good interviewer at all
I was thinking the same in parts, I guess it's cos Lee was excited to meet Paul but would have been nice to hear more long form anectodes from him.
Master denter.
YELLOW STRAT = 23:34
YELLOW TELE = 37:37
GREEN STRAT = 47:09
BLUE TELE = 49:09
70TH STRAT = 1:04:34
Honestly, from the profile angle... He looks a little like Pete with a few years added through AI :)
Now I have to most officially demand a blindfold challenge about flamed and non-flamed necks. Lee said it, now he has to prove that he really can feel it.😅
Btw: I really love this channel!
Anyone can feel it, it's really obvious. Flamed maple has different density to the grain and so when you sand it- you have low and high spots no matter what you do- and they follow the flames, which are the grain. Sanding with a really hard, flat sanding block helps- but nothing makes it go away and most ppl can feel it if they run their hand over it.
Bro wut? ⬆️ maybe if unfinished? If nitro or poly finish, you can’t “feel the flamed necks” lol 😂
@@alecalfaras5936 OK- how does that change anything I said? You're right, if it's finished you won't feel it- doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out, I kind of thought it was a given- especially since capt. said it specifically about an unfinished, flamed maple neck, but o.k.- if you think it needs spelled out in crayon- go for it.
Hello, I have a problem with a brand new Fender Telecaster Paul Waller Masterbuilt.
It smells terrible…. Very chemical, it’s impossible to play it more than 20min… could Paul Waller help me please? I wrote to fender custom shop, they have no answer… many thanks 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Ya gotta love that fat Strat headstock on a Telecaster Deluxe............
He doesn't even mention his long time collaborator Steve Cradeck
Is that Danish Pete's lost uncle from America?!
Resonance of the soul of the players before you?
His name is Paul Waller
I played a Ibanez with a Floyd in a metal band for five years. The top of the Floyd was bevelled from the sweat from my hand. Toxic sweat!! I guess
"Humbucker that's more Fendery" Yeah, they solved that like 70 years ago... It's called a Gibson Firebird pickup. The Seymour Duncan Antiquity II sounds exactly like what you would think a Telecaster Humbucker should be to match the Tele bridge pickup.
Here's a good example...
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Who's gonna buy that yellow strat though?
The other Mod-father.
I love this sweetboy 😍
Can I have a master builder Fender guitar, only issue being I have £1.
The waiting list is very long. You probably have time to save before delivery.
@@PaulCooksStuff I'm all serious I'd love a professional guitar to see how I would do but it's just out of my price league. Thanks to Paul for unleashing his knowledge upon the viewing public :)
how can the lacquer depth change the resonance when the strings are actually going across the plastic cover plate? the sound would be hitting the plastic, not the paint. as for relic'ed guitars, I've got older guitars and tbh they aren't half as worn as the modern relic'ed versions. Personally I don't see the appeal but a lot of people like them.
Imagine hearing Paul Reed Smith say "Fret sprout is inevitable"
,And depending on how the gitar is treeted,and the envirement,woodshrinkach,does,hapen,😊😊😊😊
Lovely guitars but not worth paying up to £5,500 for , come on people get a nice 1984 stratocaster Plus already reliced naturally for third of the price & play the heck out of it plus holds it's value . the fender strat plus is just example , could be Tele ,Jazzmaster etc
where the hell is the "double like" button?
Does a Fender master builder have a better screwdriver?
He's merely turned more than others.
Nah just 10,000 hours in his field. That’s usually the criteria for a master title.
I'd imagine he's on a good screw😂, 💵 so perhaps
Did Pele have a better football?
One day . Vinteras till I can afford CS .
Paul makes a point at 1:02:00 that debunks the greater "Tone Wood" argument. That point is that guitar Pick-Ups and Amps make up the Voice (or tone) of the guitar WAAAAAAY more than the wood. Its all about pickups, amps and speakers... then tone wood and other hardware
Does that make you happy? 😉
@@TeleTonemonkey Doesn't matter if it makes me happy, it's just reality
Man. The internet makes playing guitar seem really miserable sometimes.
😮😮😮
My issue is with the HEAVY relic, especially when I see two of them next to each other, with virtually the exact same wear pattern and it’s not a tribute (I.e. copy of a famous player’s guitar). I also feel like a little bit goes a long way, and, most importantly, the wear has to look authentic. These guitars that have 90 of the finish gone are so few and far between, in the wild, it just irritates the hell out of me to think about paying 5 grand for something like that. Tarnish the nickle hardware, wear off the back of the neck, again, within reason, but don’t make it look like some jackass drug it behind a pickup, down a mile of asphalt road. Simple really.
I’d like to say third, fourth
The magnetic pickup transforms the MOVEMENT of the metal string in ELECTRICITY and sends it to amp
Zero tone or sound leaves the guitar. Just electricity.
Wood sound is not something magnets pickup
Just saying I red something totally different then masterbuilder lol
11:25 Lee realising that he and most of y'all play incorrectly may be one of his greatest business insights; "STOCK THE SHELVES WITH BOOMER BENDER NECKS NOW!!!" (im obviously being silly/hyperbolic ...but when every second comment on any gear forum is about players with this style complaining about cramping on modern neck profiles with sharp fingerboard edges one takes notice. * And at this stage when most of the best high profile online tutors are all thumb over the top chunky neck devotees,...the "correct" classical adjacent technique means absolutely nothing now. It feels like a fundamental change, but im sure its just my confirmation bias, because it would be an issue too important to ignore.
Man… I did not read “Master Builder” the first time…
I thought this dude was a rapper/dentist
Thank Hod the guy didn’t answer the questions about laquer thickness or the amount of relic impacting the tone.
I am glad the guy is not as guitarded as Lee
I love the look of relic'ed guitars. But a huge part if me sees paying big money to MESS UP a new guitar as kind of stupid. I prefer my nicks and dings to come organically.If I bought a Master Built I would get a closet classic or a very very lightly aged one. So THEN the question is FORGETTING the chains and whips and sandpaper to age a guitar which Master Builders are the most talented at building NEW guitars that feel and play like older classics?? Or put differently which Master Builders are crazy good at beating shit up?? Versus guys who just have massive talent in recreating a classic.???
If I can make a slight criticism Lee, it’s always people with business as a best interest who lean into the ‘not caring’ (or even trying to disprove of factual evidence (or ‘science’)) camp in regards to guitar tone. Yes, vibe is what makes you pick up the instrument and makes you play the way you do, 100%; but facts are facts.
It’s just funny how it’s always people like PRS himself, or the literal owner of Andertons who are the neigh sayer’s, it is literal bias; and claiming against it is the guitar equivalent of flat earth theory.
Is it just me or does Paul look like a beard version of Danish Pete?