you are by far my favorite guitar builder hands down. the concepts you come up with are fantastic and motivate me to make what makes me happy and not just what is conventional. keep up the amazing content and the confidence to push the boundaries. I'm slowly working on starting my own build channel and seeing your work inspires me to want to share my builds and experience with others and hope it helps them in the same way you've helped me. thank you bud

@timsway

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awesome. Thanks for the kind words. Subscribed! :)

@FriendlyNeighborhoodBallsack

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agreed. i don't watch many guitar building videos, but when I do, it's tim sway all the way

This is my first look at a baritone guitar. Can't believe I'd not heard of them before. Truly fascinating. Your work designing and building are a marvel.

Definitely would hear a baritone as you’re entering the underworld. Nothing sounds like that low B.

I love the geometric motif and the gutsy sound. The name is perfect too. All around a very cool guitar. Thanks for sharing!

@timsway

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Thanks. I'm starting to find "my voice" in the geometric vs traditional guitar shapes. I will explore this shape more for sure.

Send it to buckethead, he would rock it. And his guitars got stolen

@Mizai

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artists are rich enough to buy new guitars

@rcjd7834

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@@Mizai Buckethead probably isn't lol. His style is too obtuse for the average listener, and artists that aren't mainstream make far less than you'd think

Appreciate the details on the neck work. Very cool concept for the body too.

Looks and sounds great Tim.

There is clearly (lol) a step in the right direction. Your builds get better and better every day. Great design, great work.

@timsway

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thanks!

@glenkersul8536

Жыл бұрын

Big fan Tim. You are awesome!!!!

I was looking forward to part 2 !

Sounds amazing!

Love the pickup idea for this, sounds awesome too.

love the shapes & design of this. incredible job

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

thanks!

Really appreciate your positivity, creativity and craftsmanship. Thank you!

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

thank YOU! :)

Tim, your work is generally great, but this is a special gem of an instrument! Thank you for the two videos on the Jet Screamer, they've been a joy to watch. Cheers!

@timsway

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thank YOU!

i agree about the look of the pickup. It really stands out.

I love that pickup! I always put the treble side closer to the neck on split pickups. Sounds more balanced. I always fret after the fretboard is glued on. That way I can make sure it’s still level from the gluing process. I also glue my frets in. I also use zero frets a lot. I love the body shape too. My 80s band was called the Jetsonz. 😁

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

Oh man, this instrument would have been perfect for the Jetsonz

What a tasty guitar! Love the pickup design! Always impressed! Nice job!

Incredibly cool, very unique - and this guitar would absolutely kill it in any hard rock context. Very nice demo as well!

Love the baritone sound and it’s a really nice looking instrument.

You rock and that tone with that kill switch is the best

The guitar came out great, looks and sounds really good, cool name too. I like the range of the Baritone as well, and I find it somehow easier to hear and relate pitches to.

Fantastic as always Tim!!!

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

thanks amigo! Hope you're doing well

This is the most beautiful guitar you've made yet!

fantastic! the building and the video both.

Beautiful!

nice work man

Great outcome.

I just finished putting together my baritone guitar, and I'm pretty happy with what I came up with too

This really is cool bud , sounds great

Great sound.

Cool! Thanks for sharing the Journey.....

That thing is beautiful mate ,well done,very clean sound,very alive.

@timsway

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thanks!

Looks like it turned out well. It's a brighter tone than I get from mine.........but it makes sense with the pickup differences. Now you understand why Baritone guitars are cool.

Cool stuff man. I love the sound of a baritone guitar. Cool 2 part video!

this thing looks cool as hell tim

The frosted edges are a nice look

Awesome !!! Nice guitar bro. I'm also fan of the cero fret

Cool guitar! I love baritones. Dig your headstock too.

Great video. Awesome looking guitar. Great name. Grain on neck really pops. Love all the details. Mahalo for sharing! : )

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

Tim, I really love these videos. As somebody that cares about the environment, I love to see sustainably-sourced materials and original, unique guitars. Too many other channels build guitars that are copies of strats or teles, but these are awesome! Thanks for all your work, these are true gems.

Took a couple of days to get to it!!! Really nice one.

What a cool guitar, congrats

That was the most interesting video I've seen in a while. I'd love to play that!

@DennisCameronMusic

Жыл бұрын

I call 'shenanigans' spam, almost every comment on this page has the same 'Text me' comment.

Looks amazing!!!! 👍😃😎🤘

Wow! Nice, I love my new baritone. I haven't touched my regular guitars since I got it a month ago. It just feels right!

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

I understand completely.

“Tang…?”Ain’t nothing but a Tang! Cool! It looks awesome!! Thanks! 😎

Actually The Baritone Guitar is a mainstay for Nashville's "Big Guitar" sound. Artists like Brent Mason carry one to every Studio Session. Respectfully: This sound Ain't It!!! You can get this sound on most Strats simply by tuning down 2 steps. My sincere compliments on the genius construction. Most impressive.

@thurston7425

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A strat would constantly go out of tune

I know I keep saying this but.... this is one of my favorite builds. Like the tone as well.

Baritones are so sick! I had a Danelectro Baritone and it sounded great clean or with some crunch.

great guitar

I have that scroll saw (minus the belt guard), it's a beast!

I’ve got a baritone 8 string, it really does have a growl like nothing else - I need a 6 string baritone one day, for sure

Using pop rivet leftovers for side markers. That's a "why didn't I think of that?" moment for me.

So cool and different. Love the shape. I'm obsessed with extended range guitars.

@timsway

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cheers. It's a new interest for me as I like hearing the notes and shapes in different ranges. I was always old school. Never even played a 5 string bass. (I Often only used 2 or 3 just to make myself have to work harder and make wiser choices :)

@gavanbourke

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@@timsway you Hit the nail on the head. Will put. 👌

I swear the crunchy riff sounds exactly like a song from St. Anger.

411th LIKE posted at 7:27 in this 3,926th - was hoping you'd talk about the decision to use the ZERO fret (thumbs up!)... now for the rest of the episode. WOW - it came out looking and sounding great. 8:40 & 8:47.

i frickin hate guitars, but i love builds, and this is a sweet build haha nice job and nice work not getting the acrylic all scratched to crap!

Love it👍

It's just so cool. It has some Silvertone vibes to it. Good stuff Dude!

Yep! Very cool😎

I love an hand built instrument. One thing, I work on an assembly line, so for quality control everything and I mean everything is torqued to a very specific measure. My concern is about continuity.

Awesome.

Rob Scallion actually makes a 7 and 8 string that have fanned frets that straighten out into a normal scale length.

I want one!

Great. Tone. Looks killer too - obviously :) Jet Screamer is indeed fitting.

Sweet!

Awesome

Super Build Tim ... Hi from Italy

@timsway

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ciao!

@ecalzo

Жыл бұрын

@@timsway :-) ciao Tim

I love 0 frets too. I installed them on a few of my guitars- makes me wish that was the norm/standard!

Gotta get some Rocket Sockets! 👍🏼 Sounds incredible! ♥️

With the pole arrangement of that pickup, it's almost the reverse effect given with the angled strat pickup. Poles closer to the bridge yield cleaner tones, further away, mud. The higher strings on your setup are less articulate, and the bass more. I put a left handed tele bridge on one of mine for that specific reason. Hendrix had that effect with going for him too.

@timsway

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I did it like that as this instrument is more about the mids/lows than treble, being a baritone and all.

I enjoyed watching the video, the craftsmanship, and the artistic approach. That said, this guitar is not my cup of tea. Not bashing you man.. you have a skill far beyond me. I'm sure others would love this special one of a kind piece of art.

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

if everyone liked the same things, the world would be weird and boring :)

Transparent things are always really hard to photograph, especially when they are flat like that. When there are curves, you can use a big softbox and put some cardboard stripes in front of it to show-off the shape, but when it's flat, doing that won't give much of an advantage. I feel that you probably have better results using a dark background that's pretty far away, edge lighting the plastic to make the frosted band show-off and maybe use a bit of foam core to reflect a bit of light on the front. If the back is dark enough when compared to the light on the guitar, your camera won't be able to record it and it will appear black even if it's not.

@timsway

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thanks for the pro tips!

@Francois_L_7933

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@@timsway You're welcome 🙂

Love this guitar, hope to see more Jet Screamers in the future. That ipe looks real good! I've been meaning to make a violin with an ipe finger board and fittings. Just have to work up the courage to try turning those delicate violin pegs.

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

When you say turning do you mean making them or tuning the instrument? Both are terrifying! lol. I'm making a wood-pegged instrument in a much larger scale right now (pipa). It's my first and I'm learning ...

@EricTrimbur

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​@@timsway Just the pegs. I wanted to turn them from scratch for my first violin. At some point though I had to finish it, so I did the standard thing and bought the blanks. Hope you share the pipa on your channel if you get the chance! It sounds like an awesome build.

@timsway

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@@EricTrimbur I will when it's done. Soon.

You should build more Baritone Guitars!

I reaaally like this one!! (I've got a non-baritone Danelectro Hodad tuned down to B standard and an Eko 295 tuned to drop A-DADGAD, can you see a little connection??!! :D )

Jet Screamer is perfect. I had suggested Jet Sound, and Gregory Zunic countered with Jet Screamer (Eep Op Ork!) I love the way the light collects at the edges in the sun! So cool. Have you used Ipe for the fretboard before? The loose fretting may be due to the character of the wood being *very* hard, so it's not compressing while the slots are being cut and therefore not springing back after the cut. Just a guess, never tried Ipe myself.

@timsway

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THANKS! I couldn't find the thread to give proper credit. My guess is it's the ipe that caused the problem, too as I made two other maple boards at the same time that were fine. I have used ipe before but not in a while. I can remember having a hard time getting the frets in but I was much worse at all of this them too. It could also be that I used a .021" end mill where I prefer the .020" but was fresh out (I buy them used in bulk from factories that use them for etching pcb boards or whatever)

all the way from malta you good mr

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

Malta?! What a dump :-p

Fun fact that's lived in my brain since early childhood: Jet's song went "EEP, OOP, ORK, AH AH!!!"" which was a code language that Elroy & his friend (used &) wrote down, but the paper got mixed up with Judy's submission for Jet Screamer's lyric contest. Hijinks ensues, Judy wins the contest but it's actually Elroy's language, but it's still a good song in the end. Strong name for this baritone!

@adecree

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Ok

@timsway

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Thanks for reminding me of the back story. I remembered eep oop ork ah ah and that song has been stuck in my head for a little while, too. I looked up the episode date and it originally aired Sept 30, 1962 - a year and a half before the Beatles hit the states!

would you do thisas an experiment for me? Use a fender bridge or a true brass bridge for this. I suspect the bridge being some zinc oxide pot metal makes a big difference in sound.

Beautiful build, and it sounds sick too. Where can I find songs/bands similar to the 9:00 demo???

@timsway

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that was just me noodling. Not sure what to tell you. Pretty generic metal/hard rock type stuff.

Great body shape. Any reason for that pickup placement? It sounds like a middle pickup on the low strings and almost like a bridge pickup on the high strings. I would route a non angled pickup closer to the bridge

@timsway

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I've been experimenting more and more with middle position and "sweet spot" pickups . Personally I rarely find myself using the bridge pickup.

I believe it was shaolin shoppe, who suggested Jetson.. and it looks and sounds awesome!

@timsway

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there were a couple Jetsons mentions. Alan W refreshed me that he said "Jet Sound" and Greg Zunic countered with Jet Screamer.

@shaolinshoppe

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@@timsway I'm just going to go ahead and assume I came up with it first because I want that to be the case 🙃

@timsway

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@@shaolinshoppe congrats! :)

Man I really need a cnc !

One of your finest instruments, Tim. Love the sound and look. One tweak I highly recommend is that you should get yourself into the world of staggered tuners. This will alleviate your tuning stability issues and allow you to do away with the string tree because they are perfectly measured for the break angle needed on your higher strings. Just some food for thought of course.

@timsway

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I have another headstock style I make with 3x3 inset tuners that I think are the best way to do it. I'm not sure I believe and trust staggered tuners enough to work. lol

@DoppelgangerShockwave

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@@timsway A lot of guitarists use them and love them, including legends like Eric Johnson, but if you'd rather not even bother, that's your decision to make.

@timsway

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@@DoppelgangerShockwave (The behind the scenes truth is a couple years ago I placed bulk orders for some hardware like tuners. gotta use them up first :)

@DoppelgangerShockwave

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@@timsway Mhmm... All right then, lol!

My first guitar (acoustic) had a zero fret and I loved it. Why isn't it more popular?Glad to see you include one, but now that I want to build a guitar, could you do a more in-depth video about zero frets? Are there more/special considerations for nut shape? Height? Depth of slots? String angle? Fret wire? Need the info! 😆

@timsway

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the zero fret makes open notes sound the same as fretted notes and setup easier. All you need to do is put the fret where the nut would be and put the nut a little further back. All the nut needs to do is keep the string in line and touching the zero fret, so it doesn't really have to be as precise as a traditional nut. The only tricky part is making sure the string is making full contact with the zero fret so there's no buzz. On flat headstock guitars like this, I use a string retainer across all 6 strings (like a floyd rose style) to make sure they are all seated. Or sometimes you'll think it's touching but it's not, but you'll discover that quickly as every fret will be out of tune.

I gotta make myself a baritone, that sounds great. I like VI's, but the low end can be problematic for chords in the first position.

@timsway

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Yea, I really dig the bass vi but agreed, full, open chords on it are not clear.

It might be interesting on drop A too! Also, how about acoustic Bass VI?

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

you order it, I'll make it for you :)

Another cool video from Tim! I have recently came across your chanel and really fell in love with it. So much, in fact, that I now want to try making my own guitar completely from scratch! However, the problem is the lack of material. You see, I've got plenty of wood, but it is pine (I do really have a ton of that stuff), which is told to be soft and not durable(also a bad tone wood). I've tried to buy some nice wood like maple or ash maybe, but it seems that getting such type of material is a real mission impossible. Is starting with pine even worth trying or is it better to go on looking for some better material?

@timsway

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it's possible with pine but definitely an uphill battle. try finding some old maple dining table or something like that. they're usually pretty cheap at second hand stores.

@timsway

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or pallets. they come in all sorts of hard woods, too

@mark0v0chka23

Жыл бұрын

thanks, Tim!

Knowing somebody that works at a "local harpsicord factory" is a very fucking Tim Sway thing. Who the fuck else is even aware of a local harpsicord factory?

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

lol. There aren't many left I'm sure. go follow @offyourrockerwoodwork on instagram for some truly interesting photos sometimes.

Sounds great!! How heavy is it? The one acrylic bass I had was a Japanese copy of the old Dan Armstrong, it weighed a freakin ton!

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

it's only an inch thick so it's not too heavy. Les Paul range.

Hi Tim, you mind sharing what CNC machine you have? The Baritone came out beautifully and thank you so much for the video very insightful on the process!

@timsway

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I have an Avid CNC (pro 4x2). Highly recommended. cheers!

@maurice970

Жыл бұрын

@@timsway Thanks Tim! I will look into it! :)

absolutely loved this build from start to finish! maybe i missed it but what was the tuning you went with and what tunings do you think this thing could handle?

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

I tuned it BEADF#B with light gauge strings. If the strings were a little heavier it would take down to A a little better.

The "Mad Scientist" of Connecticut, is back at it While the duration of the population is in slumber. He works with acrylics, not lumber!

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

lol. Not any more. I'm fresh out of reclaimed acrylic :)

Look at you getting kinda metal. Couch jam from the Volvo needs to happen.

@timsway

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I was just faking metal for the video. I almost pulled the Volvo out for the photoshoot for this one, but I was having such a hard time photographing it in controlled areas I gave up :)

So, the fretboard is cedar? I really like the body shape.

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

no, cumaru. It's a Brazilian often hardwood used for decks. Cedar is very soft

It's all artistic interpretation and I'm no expert, but it seems like the clear acrylic body provided an opportunity to reduce weight, through a more deeply cut shape or holes cut into the body. Also, could LED strips be cut into the edge of the body to illuminate the interior? This isn't a critique. Great results here.

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

yes and yes. I have other videos where I've done both those things!

Hey there! I’m just starting my first scratch build and I’m using a cnc router for it as well. What bit do you use for cutting your fret slots, and what speeds and feeds do you run for that bit?

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

I use a .021" end mill wicked slow and wicked shallow. Usually 8 passes of .01" for each pass. Slow your router down to keep the bit from getting too hot and slow the cut down to keep from snapping the mill. Unfortunately you will probably break a few until you dial it in but that's how you learn what your machine and materials can do

@rcjd7834

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@@timsway so I’m guessing by slow you probably mean on the order of 20 inches per minute and maybe 2k rpm on the spindle?

@timsway

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@@rcjd7834 maybe even slower than 20, like 10. If you start slow and speed up you'll break less bits finding the sweet spot.

Great.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Brilliant video and build. Does the zero fret make any difference?

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

I like zero frets for a couple reasons, the main one being consistency as the string is always vibrating between the bridge and a fret, not the bridge and a nut, then a fret, then a nut...

@in3432

Жыл бұрын

@@timsway ok I see many thanks