I love that you showed the history of the wood before you started. As a historian, it's great to see the origins of things. Also, I just now realized you write left handed after watching all of your other videos.
I think this is up there as my favorite guitar you've built, Tim, and I love them all! The historical aspect of the wood gets me alone, but you've done it a wonderful justice by turning it into an instrument. Love the design, awesome work as always dude!
Oh my God that his absolutely gorgeous. You really knocked that out of the park. You just threw enough difference in there that made it look all pulled together. I just found your UA-cam sight last night and I'm still watching a lot of your videos and it just blows my mind. I suffered a severe back injury 12 years ago and I get into a spot to where I cannot fall asleep so I watch UA-cam videos. I am so glad I came across yours last night.
sorry about your back. I've slipped discs 2x and back pain is legit the worst. Glad you dig my work. I don't understand why so many indy guitar makers just basically make recreations of classic brand designs with parts and features off the shelf instead of making something truly unique and taking risks. The true reward of art and creativity lives exclusively in the risks. Keep watching my channel and you'll certainly see the flip side of risks (I share some of the stuff I'm not as proud of, too :) but it is totally worth the failures for the reward.
Thank you again Tim beautiful guitar. I love building with old reclaimed wood. I built some jewelry boxes with wood from a chest of drawers that had been badly damaged at the bottom by water. It was 300 year old maple with amazing grain. I have also recycled 100 plus year old long leaf pine rafters into window sills for old homes of customers. I've been wanting to build a large blanket chest but I have to catch my guy who demo's old buildings. He travels around a lot.
Good looking copper and oak guitar Tim your customer will be happy with it and thanks for letting us watch the creation of it ..stay safe these strange times
i'll never forget the day i missed something in reclaimed wood with the metal detector, but "caught" it with my miter saw... nearly lost some fingers... oh but i meant to say that there was a company that built some guitars out of 1,000 yo shinto temple wood from japan... cant recall the exact details though..
that sounds awesome! I miss nails all the time, but mostly in the real old wood so they are iron, not galvanized steel, and a lot softer. Hitting a big, modern common nail can be very dangerous!
This is the first time is saw a guitar neck being literally carved out of a wood... Usually builders would just cut the neck in shape.... You're style is very satisfying to watch 😂
yea, the cnc is cool. I still hand shape a bit after it comes off the machine with traditional draw knives and rasps to make it feel the way I want, but the cnc gets it almost all the way there.
I love how this one looks! I'm always a sucker for oak and copper accents look good on anything. This soundtrack was just the peaceful kind of thing I needed this morning. Thanks for sharing!
I hope you don't mind but. when you wrote, let's make a guitar, I made it my wallpaper on my phone , and my screen saver on my computer...Keep rockin' n ' building, and creating, magic. You are what I wanted to be. Vicariously through you I live. Keep, keepin' on, bro. Peace n much love, to you n yours.
Your videos are always the highlight of my day, Tim. They give me that bit of creative boost that I need to keep going. Guitar looks awesome, can’t wait for more stuff like always.
Really like the look of the reclaimed wood. I bet it feels fantastic. I'm sure the verdigris patina will develop over time as it's been used and it'll look great... I just hope the new owner uses it enough to get a nice green shiney spot, a mark of love if you will. I think I'd have gone with a pearl white guard rather than the copper though.
Very therapeutic viewing on a Sunday morning in bed. 😄 Loved the rhythm of the fret hammer. Looks great with the copper and a wow what a pedigree. How about a provenance letter to go with it on parchment for its 400 year history? I’ve just made rack sides for 19” rack mounted synths from teak used on British Railways carriages from the late 1800’s reclaimed by my Father or Grandfather and lay waiting for over 60 years in our sheds waiting for this moment in time for a new life. Love wood. Thanks Tim.
Really love how this turned out! The stark black fret board with copper dots brings a classy elegance to the body shape and wood tone. Nice work and video. Sounds good too! Your bandsaw fence looks similar to my portable tablesaw fence. Very multi-purpose ;)
Very impressive build Tim! Your guitar building skills are really over the top. Kudos & keep up the great work. IF I were any good at playing guitar, I'd place an order.
I finally built my first guitar with the help of my uncle out of poplar. We miss calculated and the strings are off. Still fun to make. As always keep up the good work👍
tim i hope to see you at another show sometime. i really liked this one. is hard to imagine yourself using knotty wood but sometimes it just looks right.
I walked into a posh antique shop in London and took a saw to one of thier antique Oak tables, they went mental when I said I wanted to make an electric guitar out of it, they actually threw me out of the shop which I thought was rude. This build is fantastic.
hahaha! I suppose if it's still a perfectly good or historically relevant table they may take that as rude. I come across that a lot in my work where I have to decide if I am DEvaluing or UPvaluing (upcycling) something by transforming its use. Old, dated furniture is everywhere, but how many guitars like this? If you take something mundane and make it magnificent, you are improving it and bringing its value up. Even if you take something magnificient and turn it in to something truly glorious and unique, it's still and upward swing!
I am not opposed to the richlite but I have to ask, was there not enough oak to make the fingerboard as well? Could have gotten a beautiful black with a vinegar/steel solution. Beautiful build!!!! I'm a sucker for build's with wood that old.
Your designs are awesome. Yes, the classic body shapes are awesome, but there are so many cool and weird shapes that tend to be overlooked. Thank you. Also you should make a design based on the yamaha sg2
That's gorgeous, I like almost everything about it. The one thing I would change is the copper, I would have brass instead because I like how it looks against the wood.
Hi tim, that a great process and amazing guitar. Btw can you tell me what size the original raw old white oak t=00.05 ? especially for 1 guiltar like you built
I don't remember the initial measurements, somewhere around 2" thick. The more important number are the blanks I create from the raw material, which are usually around 13" X 22" X 1.5" thick (I go a little thinner than most guitars). In this case, it was a semihollow so that 1.5" is divided in to two blanks, a half inch one and a one inch.
I wouldn’t have had the nerve to cut into that wood but you made it look easy. I’m sure you had some doubts at the beginning? Beautiful job in the end.
I'm not really a fan of the shape but your workmanship is excellent and I wish I had access to all the tools you have. Great work!! God Bless!! Jimmy in NC....
Thank you very much! Not everyone likes my designs, I get it. If everyone did I feel like that would mean I'm creating things "too vanilla." The tools come with time. I started the biz part-time making very basic reclaimed furniture with a circ saw and drill and have been using the profits to reinvest in my biz for over a decade. You can go back through 7+ years of my channel and watch the growth!
lol. That's why we have kids, no? My deconstruction buddy salvaged materials from a 100 year old mansion built by an importer/exporter. His whole house was full of sh-t he probably stole from from around the world.
I have played a couple of oak guitars. Both were boat anchors in every sense of the term, heavy and dead sounding. Oak is one wood that should be left for furniture or the fireplace.
i do have a 3x3 design where the top is a little longer than the bottom, but I like the 6x1 better for this body style. I use the 3x3 on my single cutaway. cheers!
Today I was looking back at your 5 string electric you did a few month ago. I am curious about how you came up with how wide to make the neck pocket on the body.
The color of the wood and copper work perfectly. The copper fret markers are a cool extra. I have the same band saw fence too!
Lol. Thanks
@@JordyMarincic I have lots of inlays I do. Sometimes I prefer the simple elegance of circles.
I love that you showed the history of the wood before you started. As a historian, it's great to see the origins of things.
Also, I just now realized you write left handed after watching all of your other videos.
Yes! I am lefty in everything I do except play guitar.
Tim's a southpaw? I never noticed!
Love playing my maple fanfret you built right along with your playing.
that hammer tapping was satisfyingly rhythmic.
happy accident I noticed in editing. not planned! :)
I know, right!?
Also hammering in the frets!
@@timsway Should have added a nice jazzy bass line to that.
Actually, I was surprised you didn't :)
@@valvenator I didn't even think to do that until just now, dammit. where were you when I was editing?!?
I think this is up there as my favorite guitar you've built, Tim, and I love them all! The historical aspect of the wood gets me alone, but you've done it a wonderful justice by turning it into an instrument. Love the design, awesome work as always dude!
thanks. This guitar epitomizes my mission better than anything: History and waste combined to make art that makes art. Thank you, good night! :)
Oh my God that his absolutely gorgeous. You really knocked that out of the park. You just threw enough difference in there that made it look all pulled together. I just found your UA-cam sight last night and I'm still watching a lot of your videos and it just blows my mind.
I suffered a severe back injury 12 years ago and I get into a spot to where I cannot fall asleep so I watch UA-cam videos. I am so glad I came across yours last night.
sorry about your back. I've slipped discs 2x and back pain is legit the worst. Glad you dig my work. I don't understand why so many indy guitar makers just basically make recreations of classic brand designs with parts and features off the shelf instead of making something truly unique and taking risks. The true reward of art and creativity lives exclusively in the risks. Keep watching my channel and you'll certainly see the flip side of risks (I share some of the stuff I'm not as proud of, too :) but it is totally worth the failures for the reward.
Thank you again Tim beautiful guitar. I love building with old reclaimed wood. I built some jewelry boxes with wood from a chest of drawers that had been badly damaged at the bottom by water. It was 300 year old maple with amazing grain. I have also recycled 100 plus year old long leaf pine rafters into window sills for old homes of customers. I've been wanting to build a large blanket chest but I have to catch my guy who demo's old buildings. He travels around a lot.
Good looking copper and oak guitar Tim your customer will be happy with it and thanks for letting us watch the creation of it ..stay safe these strange times
why? what's going on? I haven't watched the news lately... :)
I'm in love with that pickguard design I can't believe how much time it probably took you to do that!
Not as bad timewise as it seems, but more than most!
tim sway the copper pick guard is a great idea. You don’t mind if I use it?
i'll never forget the day i missed something in reclaimed wood with the metal detector, but "caught" it with my miter saw... nearly lost some fingers... oh but i meant to say that there was a company that built some guitars out of 1,000 yo shinto temple wood from japan... cant recall the exact details though..
that sounds awesome! I miss nails all the time, but mostly in the real old wood so they are iron, not galvanized steel, and a lot softer. Hitting a big, modern common nail can be very dangerous!
A true delight to watch your navigation of the manufacturing art form. Great video Tim!
Thanks!
I love the way the copper foil stuff shines through the hole for the semi hollow
this came out looking fantastic, really loving the look of the pick guard with those shifting colors in the dimples
This is the first time is saw a guitar neck being literally carved out of a wood... Usually builders would just cut the neck in shape.... You're style is very satisfying to watch 😂
yea, the cnc is cool. I still hand shape a bit after it comes off the machine with traditional draw knives and rasps to make it feel the way I want, but the cnc gets it almost all the way there.
love the pickguard and knobs on this one. amazing work!
Wooooo the sound of your magnificent Oak Guitar is perfect. Congratulation You not just make guitars. You make sounds.
Very cool.... I can tell that with each build, you're tightening up the process, and getting things better and better. Great stuff.
practice makes closer to perfect!
@@timsway We never hit perfect, but practice makes better and better.
That is HAWT! I love the history in the wood. The color and shape really great!
That’s a keeper!
I love how this one looks! I'm always a sucker for oak and copper accents look good on anything. This soundtrack was just the peaceful kind of thing I needed this morning. Thanks for sharing!
It's the most beautiful one you have done. The wood and copper are perfect!
Beautiful guitar and absolutely beautiful tonal qualities!
These are some of my favorite builds, I love the vibe of the old woods and copper
That was magic to watch the whole process, making use of old and new, both in materials and techniques.
Nice work Tim.
Awesome project that will insure that wood stays around for ALOT longer !!!
Absolutely beautiful guitar !!!
Thank you for sharing with us all !!
Thank you very much!
Very cool! love that grain in the old oak and the hammered copper!
Cool video, nice editing at 5:30. : ) Very special and beautiful guitar. Mahalo for sharing! : )
I hope you don't mind but. when you wrote, let's make a guitar, I made it my wallpaper on my phone , and my screen saver on my computer...Keep rockin' n ' building, and creating, magic. You are what I wanted to be. Vicariously through you I live. Keep, keepin' on, bro. Peace n much love, to you n yours.
lol. that's awesome!
Your videos are always the highlight of my day, Tim. They give me that bit of creative boost that I need to keep going. Guitar looks awesome, can’t wait for more stuff like always.
awesome. thanks man!
Really like the look of the reclaimed wood. I bet it feels fantastic.
I'm sure the verdigris patina will develop over time as it's been used and it'll look great... I just hope the new owner uses it enough to get a nice green shiney spot, a mark of love if you will.
I think I'd have gone with a pearl white guard rather than the copper though.
Great video percussion fret solo...yeah!!!
Beautiful guitar.
Wow, amazing work! Love your shop.
Beautiful instrument, a true work of art.
Very therapeutic viewing on a Sunday morning in bed. 😄 Loved the rhythm of the fret hammer. Looks great with the copper and a wow what a pedigree. How about a provenance letter to go with it on parchment for its 400 year history? I’ve just made rack sides for 19” rack mounted synths from teak used on British Railways carriages from the late 1800’s reclaimed by my Father or Grandfather and lay waiting for over 60 years in our sheds waiting for this moment in time for a new life. Love wood. Thanks Tim.
cheers! That's a good idea. The guy I got the wood from has all the info. I'll have to ask him
Really love how this turned out! The stark black fret board with copper dots brings a classy elegance to the body shape and wood tone. Nice work and video. Sounds good too!
Your bandsaw fence looks similar to my portable tablesaw fence. Very multi-purpose ;)
Beautiful job Tim.
Another great build, really enjoyed watching this come together.
Super build. Made my weekend 😊
Beautiful work Tim!!
Nice work! I love that CNC cutter. Wish I had one!👍😎🎸🎶
Very impressive build Tim! Your guitar building skills are really over the top. Kudos & keep up the great work. IF I were any good at playing guitar, I'd place an order.
Hey man, my guitar will make you AWESOME!! :)
Beautiful guitar, Tim. This made my day much better. Cheers! - Terrence
good to know! be good, amigo
Great guitar. You really made an artistic unique instrument. One of your best.
You have some serious work ethic, impressive creation.
Wow Tim, watch you make guitars never get old. Well done with this one
thanks amigo
Interesting story and copper looks great. The 400 year old wood doesn’t look it at all! Nice job.
I'm digging your fret edge technique with the belt sander. Also, I love this design. The flamed & hammered copper looks great on the dark wood.
you gotta be careful to not heat up the frets too much so move small and quick, but it gets them pretty close and saves some hand work.
Great piece of art. Love the tap tap sound beat.
Love your work Tim.
Thanks for sharing.
Take care and all the best 👍✌😎
Damn Tim, you make me want to learn how to play guitar so that I could justify purchasing one of your originals. They always look so amazing!
You can just hang it on the wall, too. Cheaper than a Picasso:)
Wow! You have upped the game Tim!
Beautiful. Excellent work!
This channel is quite underrated.
I finally built my first guitar with the help of my uncle out of poplar. We miss calculated and the strings are off. Still fun to make. As always keep up the good work👍
You have an uncle made out of poplar? That's cool as hell!
there's a lot to go wrong in guitar making! Keep at it. It is a ton of fun.
@@timsway True. I still have a strat body. I'm going to try to turn that into a bass. Should be fun! :)
@@DrMackSplackem Damn straight 😎
tim i hope to see you at another show sometime. i really liked this one. is hard to imagine yourself using knotty wood but sometimes it just looks right.
That’s a really pretty guitar. Got to love old English oak. Cheers Tim.👍🏻
Awesome work Tim! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
Awesome! It might be my favorite of yours so far.
I walked into a posh antique shop in London and took a saw to one of thier antique Oak tables, they went mental when I said I wanted to make an electric guitar out of it, they actually threw me out of the shop which I thought was rude. This build is fantastic.
hahaha! I suppose if it's still a perfectly good or historically relevant table they may take that as rude. I come across that a lot in my work where I have to decide if I am DEvaluing or UPvaluing (upcycling) something by transforming its use. Old, dated furniture is everywhere, but how many guitars like this? If you take something mundane and make it magnificent, you are improving it and bringing its value up. Even if you take something magnificient and turn it in to something truly glorious and unique, it's still and upward swing!
@@timsway Brian May's Red special is a prime example
What a cool project! Beautiful outcome Tim!!
thanks!
That’s a beautiful piece!
I am not opposed to the richlite but I have to ask, was there not enough oak to make the fingerboard as well? Could have gotten a beautiful black with a vinegar/steel solution. Beautiful build!!!! I'm a sucker for build's with wood that old.
I addressed this in another comment: in a nutshell, I like the juxtaposition of the ancient with the high tech and modern.
Nice work Lefty!
👍🇦🇺
Another beauty!
Your designs are awesome. Yes, the classic body shapes are awesome, but there are so many cool and weird shapes that tend to be overlooked. Thank you. Also you should make a design based on the yamaha sg2
Terrific! As good as it gets. Thanks!
That's gorgeous, I like almost everything about it. The one thing I would change is the copper, I would have brass instead because I like how it looks against the wood.
Another spectacular build!
Those one was really wonderful to see. Stay safe mate.
You've done it this time! AGAIN! Beautiful piece Tim!
Jack ~'()'~
Canada
Art tone and great intonation...
I've just completed my biuld using copper accents
As copper ages it will look even better with the dark wood background
Awesome work 👍🏼
yea, I can't wait to see this in a year.
I love these beautyfull works!
Looks really great, Tim.
gorgeous. has style and a cool sound.
thanks!
Hi tim, that a great process and amazing guitar.
Btw can you tell me what size the original raw old white oak t=00.05
? especially for 1 guiltar like you built
I don't remember the initial measurements, somewhere around 2" thick. The more important number are the blanks I create from the raw material, which are usually around 13" X 22" X 1.5" thick (I go a little thinner than most guitars). In this case, it was a semihollow so that 1.5" is divided in to two blanks, a half inch one and a one inch.
Good Job I love your work.
I wouldn’t have had the nerve to cut into that wood but you made it look easy. I’m sure you had some doubts at the beginning? Beautiful job in the end.
lol. yes. I definitely planned and measured more than twice before cutting
The hammered copper is badass. I would have told the owner the guitar got lost somewhere.......and then you could have sent it to me.
Copper and beautiful old wood! It's like you built this for me.
lol. this one's sold but I can make another :)
That guitar is awesome! I am diggin it!
I'm not really a fan of the shape but your workmanship is excellent and I wish I had access to all the tools you have.
Great work!!
God Bless!!
Jimmy in NC....
Thank you very much! Not everyone likes my designs, I get it. If everyone did I feel like that would mean I'm creating things "too vanilla." The tools come with time. I started the biz part-time making very basic reclaimed furniture with a circ saw and drill and have been using the profits to reinvest in my biz for over a decade. You can go back through 7+ years of my channel and watch the growth!
@@timsway Thank You
God Bless.
I'm not gonna lie, the texture of the pickguard looks like a sensory nightmare to me, but all the same, I absolutely love this axe!
That wood could tell some stories....wowzers!
Great lookin´guitar mate! good job.
Where do you even get 1600's oak? How many souls does that trade for? ;)
lol. That's why we have kids, no? My deconstruction buddy salvaged materials from a 100 year old mansion built by an importer/exporter. His whole house was full of sh-t he probably stole from from around the world.
I was looking for an alternative to using ebony in fretboards. Now I've found it. Never knew that stuff existed.
I'm a fan. I think it's my go-to as its so much more stable than wood and eco-conscious
Another great one, Tim! I'm close to finishing my own bass build now 😀
oh cool!
Beautiful guitar!
The carpet tacks were a nice touch to the copper!
thanks. It seemed like the right idea vs screws as it's ornamental and doesn't need to come off.
that is a pretty epic build.
Great work!
I have played a couple of oak guitars. Both were boat anchors in every sense of the term, heavy and dead sounding. Oak is one wood that should be left for furniture or the fireplace.
this guitar is semi hollow, light and responsive. The material is less important than the design.
When ever I see videos like this especially homemade reminds me of BRIAN MAY.
Wonderful guitar
awesome Tim,,nails are very cool.
nice guitar. next one do a 3 x 3 headstock shape that flows with the lines of the guitar body. that would be sweet.
i do have a 3x3 design where the top is a little longer than the bottom, but I like the 6x1 better for this body style. I use the 3x3 on my single cutaway. cheers!
Today I was looking back at your 5 string electric you did a few month ago. I am curious about how you came up with how wide to make the neck pocket on the body.
I mathematically removed one string from a 6 string neck along the whole length of it, then made a pocket to fit.
gorgeous!
Absolutely killed it! Watching your videos gives me some real bad Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
Was this rough on your blades? I have some 75-ish year old oak barn wood and it's an absolute nightmare on my tools.
Oh yea. Tough to cut.