Custom-make your own electric guitar and learn how to install the ground wire on your solid body electric guitar in this video guide to making musical instruments.
Expert: Frank Pope
Bio: Frank Pope, founder of FBI Guitars, been building guitars for more than 10 years and has constructed more than 30 finished products.
Filmmaker: Charles Stewart Jr.
Duration : 0:1:25
Creating a stain effect can change the look of your electric guitar in this free video guide to making musical instruments.
Expert: Frank Pope
Bio: Frank Pope, founder of FBI Guitars, been building guitars for more than 10 years and has constructed more than 30 finished products.
Filmmaker: Charles Stewart Jr.
Duration : 0:2:13
Professional guitarist and skilled craftsman will show how to level the fingerboard by a when building a homemade electric guitar in this free video guide to making musical instruments.
Expert: Frank Pope
Bio: Frank Pope, founder of FBI Guitars, been building guitars for more than 10 years and has constructed more than 30 finished products.
Filmmaker: Charles Stewart Jr.
Duration : 0:2:32
some lame tips, you rate it:
-Bigger Strings is more material for the strings to pickup.
-Nickel sounds dull but has better Harmonics.
-A Bone or aluminium nut is better since this emits vibration to the body better. ^Aluminium^ has a bright tone and ^bone^ has a warm.
-Pickup height determines the sweetspot so every pickup has a sweetspot so check it when plugged in.
-Electronics, if cheap. mostly kill your tone so replace them as well as the cables.
-TIGHTEN all bolts, lose parts absorb resonance hence killing sustain.
-Get your trem blocked, if you ain’t using it. One way is using heavier springs and the other is placing some wood between the back of the trem and body.(spring cavity)
-The last part before battery dies, Wood is natural and has a resonance. Wood likes to breath. SO sand of with a real light sanding paper.
WARNING: OWN RISK
The places you want to sand LIGHTLY are:
-Neckpocket
-under bridge (ON A TELE IS a MUST)
Better contact: bridge+body=TONE!
-pickup cavity
-spring cavity
HOWEVER THIS IS RADICAL…BE GENTLE…VERY GENTLE WITH YOUR NECK POCKET.
I think its Eric Johnson or some dude who does this to all of his guitars…TRY IT !
Duration : 0:3:4
Learn how to cut v shaped notches for the frets when building a homemade solid body electric guitar in this free video guide to making musical instruments.
Expert: Frank Pope
Bio: Frank Pope, founder of FBI Guitars, been building guitars for more than 10 years and has constructed more than 30 finished products.
Filmmaker: Charles Stewart Jr.
Duration : 0:2:10
Learn how to do guitar setup and intonation on a homemade solid body electric guitar in this free video guide to making musical instruments.
Expert: Frank Pope
Bio: Frank Pope, founder of FBI Guitars, been building guitars for more than 10 years and has constructed more than 30 finished products.
Filmmaker: Charles Stewart Jr.
Duration : 0:2:2
Find out from an expert guitarist and craftsman how to inlay fret notches for a homemade solid body electric guitar in this free tutorial video guide to making musical instruments.
Expert: Frank Pope
Bio: Frank Pope, founder of FBI Guitars, been building guitars for more than 10 years and has constructed more than 30 finished products.
Filmmaker: Charles Stewart Jr.
Duration : 0:3:56
Learn how to mount the posts on a homemade solid body electric guitar in this video guide to making musical instruments. Learn how you can build your own Les Paul or other model of electric guitar.
Duration : 0:1:11
Learn how to buff a homemade solid body electric guitar in this video guide to making musical instruments. Learn how you can build your own Les Paul or other model of electric guitar.
Duration : 0:1:13
Learn wood staining techniques for a homemade solid body electric guitar in this video guide to making musical instruments. Learn how you can build your own Les Paul or other model of electric guitar.
Duration : 0:1:22