First video about making a pickguard which doesnt start with professional tools being used at designated garage area ;)

@Thoracius

Жыл бұрын

but the result... is not something to aspire towards either.

@onlyusernameleft2

2 ай бұрын

@@Thoracius Right? You can get a rotary tool for like $20 on sale, probably less and pickguard blanks aren't expensive. Depending on where you live you can just get a small sheet of PVC.

If you're having fun, you're doing it right.

I "bought" this lunch tray, from "amazon" he says... Cafeteria manager: "Why do people keep stealing the lunch trays?!"

An hours with a few files and sandpaper all the wonky bits will be smoothed out. You can also add a nice bevel to the edge. The pattern on the material looks rad.

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

yeah i like the pattern. it has a bit of a bamboo/tiki element to it.

A Dremel tool can be your best friend. Also...Handy tip for "relicing"... Leave the body in a warm car (or carefully use a heat gun which is what I do) till it's toasty. Then quickly hit it with an upside down can of compressed air. The kind you use to clean off your keyboard or such. The propellant will instantly freeze the paint and crack the surface for that nice "Oh crap, look what the airlines did to my guitar" look. BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN YOU DO THIS as it also freezes skin.

@elwrongo

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, Dremel, Dremel, Dremel!

@erxvlog

Жыл бұрын

I've had good luck with a cheap $14 cutoff wheel, you can cut and trim with a little practice.

I made my pickguard with a saw, power drill and files. Whatever imperfections there was I used a file and some sand paper to smooth it out.

Came for how to cut a pick guard by hand, stayed for Dinosaur Ghost MY NEW FAVOURITE BAND!

It looks like i need to find myself a nice black tray! Thanks for this useful hack!

Omg the guitar room studio has been a clever ruse this whole time. I'm shocked! Hey, anyone looking for a good material you might not expect, try looking for the masonite backing material you can find on framed posters and such at the craft store. It's just thinner masonite than what you would get at the hardware store normally, so it's a little closer to pickguard thickness, but it's easy to work with and paintable and all that. Once it's painted and sealed well it'll hold up to damage just fine. I believe the earlier Danelectro's just used masonite to pretty good effect not just for their body material, but also for their pickguards.

Love the ultra cheap git-r-done building style. The only thing that could have made this better, swiping a lunch tray from a local school. Wire that sucker straight to the jack, no controls, just a kill switch!

I absolutely LOVE these type of videos of just experimenting & having fun...keep it up brother ! ! ! ! ! ! !

That pickguard gives me an idea for a jagged sorta early 90s low poly computer model mustang build idea. I'm gonna have to pick up some wood now.

Nice one, dude! Anybody can make perfect pieces with a mass of specialised tools and materials - it takes brains and style to do it 'the hard way'. Kudos!

Informative, innovative and above all else fun!!!

I’m super pumped that you threw in some Dinosaur Ghost on that time lapse!!!! Ryan’s the best!

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, and now i have to fight CD baby over the monetization of my own song, lol.

At 4:56 - So you bought a coping saw that couldn't cope. Hehehehehehe!

I tried cutting and shaping my own pick guard for a project. It's a very hard to do with a coping saw and takes a lot of practice. The cutting angle is part of the trick in getting straight lines, I never thought of a plastic serving tray to practice with. I had cut up my scratch plate materiel that took 2 weeks to come from China. And butchered half of it. Also there is a guy in Australia called "Black guitars" that makes them for a living. He charges about $100 & it takes him about 3 days to make these beautiful pick guards. Thanks for sharing man!

Cool! I have those exact wide ranges in my 72 Tele Deluxe reissue. I anticipated changing them because they get a lot of hate but I kept them in cause they sound great.

Props for thinking of using a tray, really clever use of material and seems kind of punk rock.

Love the song, thanks for tagging it in the description.

And wow I love that song, gonna check out your band 🤘

I'm planning to cut some extra pickguard material for my headstock to match the regular pickguard, and now I have a much better idea on how to proceed, so thank you.

If you take a piece of 4" x 1/2" wood and cut a 8_ 10 inch length. Then on one end about 4" in, drill a 1/2" hole, then cut a V going large at the end to small at the hole. Now clamp that to a bench or table and you have work station. Lay your pick gaurd material on the station so that the line you want to cut is positioned within the V and always cut straight up and down. Make sure you put your blade in the saw so that it cuts on the downward stroke. So that would be teeth facing the handle. If you cut eraticly and have your saw on an angle you will brake the blade. So keep the saw straight up and down.

Great soundtrack. Cheers from Brazil!

Thanks for a very useful video. Good ideas.

Watching this yeas later because I was contemplating trying something similar but I'm so charmed by the view of your talk show set in the garage and the cameos by the wife and baby. A peek behind the scenes.

I like your attitude, man. Refreshing in the rugged land of KZread.

@60CycleHumcast

4 жыл бұрын

thanks!

Love the occasional appearance of the wife and child like “what the fuck are you DOING!?” 🤣

That's gonna look pretty awesome

Love your channel man!

It's always fun to build a guitar as you are doing without any influence other than your own ..I've built many cheap strats on the cheap and they are the best guitars ever.

@ricardog.s2505

Ай бұрын

Can confirm, it took me years to finally decide to build my own bass out of a cheap Harley Benton bass as a base, and it turned out an amazing instrument

It was fun! You can immediately see that you have not worked with such a saw in primary school. Work while sitting and the saw handle is under the workpiece!

I slowed the time lapse down when you had your visitor just to see who it was. Turns out it was Mrs Hum and, I assume, little Henry Hum (?)

Those newer wide range pickups sound pretty good . My buddy has a mexi tele deluxe with em in it . They do dirt and clean really well I think. They have kind of a mellow twang to them clean. I like em:)

I'm glad you're back on this project! I actually had an idea for the relic operation... Put the body in a box along with flat washers & throw it in the dryer!!! 😁 (set to medium heat).. You can also fashion a pickguard from an old 33 1/3 record album

@stephenbunton2159

5 жыл бұрын

I converted an acoustic bass into a hollow body guitar with a record as the pickguard with a mini humbucker but I am in the process of making a new one with a lipstick tube pickup

@Rock_Bottom_Denizen

6 ай бұрын

there are many many 7 inch records that play at that speed, fyi. and there are 12 inches that play at 78 rpm, for a 5 to 7 minute song at maximum sound quality 12 inch singles (or 10's) are actually the best, but seem to be somewhat genre limited to a handful of music types.

Great vid! I'm thinking about making a second "loaded pickguard" for my Strat since it's bridge pickup is routed for a humbucker, (cheap Strat) - so I'm trying to get some ideas. One thing I'd like to mention is "transfer tape". The kind you use for transferring a sticker and getting it straight. Might be helpful since it can come with grid lines on it and help you mark exactly what you want, where you want. Place it on the body and mark it up. Press that transfer tape onto the pickguard material and then just cut out the pickup holes with a razor blade or whatever and then mark the pickguard material. I'm considering trying to use an old cookie sheet for my pickguard if I can find a spare one around here that's large enough. Only real downer I can see with doing that is if I can't polish the edges enough and they remain sharp; that just won't fly.

The 'pretty good angle' needed with the blade is a function of the number of teeth actively cutting. Higher tooth count saw or thicker material would need less angle to cut smooth without chatter.

Diggin the fam popping in

I recently cut a pickguard for a weird travel guitar body. I used 1/8" birch plywood. I did the initial outer cut with a power jigsaw and a forstner bit to rough out the pickup hole. I finished it off with a drum sander attachment for my drill press along with a coping saw for the pickup hole.

sweet! the textured side of the tray is outside. nice touch.

I enjoyed the show! I have a Jaguar pickguard that i hope to re-use but i hafta enlarge the existing slider switch holes to suit genuine replacement parts. Im thinking dremel snce i have one. But I'll practice on something else 1st. Maybe a serving tray from dollar store. Thanks for ideas!!

Best way to cut a material like that with a hand saw is not by fixing the material, the best way is just put the material in a work-table and "fix" it just with one hand while h other hand moves the saw. The fixing hand can easily move the material to accomodate for the saw direction. The cut will be so precise this way. Regards

the idea you had for the pickups is actually genius 4:05

Awesome baby cameo!!!!

Good stuff, great job

You’re my hero. I’m building a Tele- type guitar with a Charlie Cristian pickup made for a humbucker rout. The pickguard has been my dilemma. A company here in Canada will make me one for $94. No thanks. Thanks to your video, I’ll make my own. Your pickguard design is really nice. All those angles contrast beautifully with the curvy guitar body. Thanks for the inspiration

I like that the end product wasn't perfect, personally I want to see someone have the same issues I have... Taking the same shortcuts that I'll have to. I'm guessing that most of those imperfections could be hidden with a few hours of filing or just go again with another tray. I'm going to try and cut mine with a Dremel...

You did it! Congratulations, good job. Will we see it all ready to play with that pickguard? Thanks for this mastery lutherie tutorial.

thanks dude. realy good idea

I got my view of the rest of the garage. Now I can sleep well at night.

@DIYTFY

3 жыл бұрын

Oh cool, a creeper gets to sleep. 👍

Cool idea!!!

I like your video. It gave me some good ideas.

I've had good luck angle cutting multi-ply stock material using my Bosch jigsaw which to me is a "basic tool" one may have or could justify. The footplate base on the Bosch allows the saw to tilt at 45 degrees and reveal the plies as manufacturers do, angling material results. Try to follow lines freehand and cut in continuous flow without stopping to much. Finish up with a combination of utility blade scrape and file to smooth out, watching what you're doing. For inside cuts like pickups you do need to drill a hole to get the blade in and get cutting. Some cuts like pickups or where surfaces mate get 90 degree cutting and others like edge work need the tilt. It's nice to extend your lines beyond the guard on perimeter cuts so your blade can be corrected before you get to the actual finish-seen actual guard area, so your blade enters work with it's trajectory online.

Nice job for a low budget build!

Awesome video. I have a router and a dremel but I think it’s more fun to use hand tools. Also it is habit from before I had better tools.

Good ideas, Ryan.You saved me $40.00! And, those wide-ranging p'ups are pretty good. Plug into a Fender Reverb Deluxe 65 and tell me there is a difference between those and the original p'ups with cunife magnets.

Great. Now I want banan pudding.

Hey man, thinking 'bout gettin' this guitar as well. I want to put a Seymour Duncan Jaguar pickup on the bridge and a humbucker on the neck position. Du you think I can fit one of those huge Fender-telecaster humbuckers in there, without to much routing?

I bet your wife doesn't know that you actually have a very tasteful sense of style and colour. ;-) Very nice job mate.

For the wiring of that pickup ... you need to do a pickup>volume>jack ala EVH Frankenstrat. At least the first test. Then later get the whole circuit. My experience with those wide range is they are 'just a humbucker' and tones will be relative to kohms of other regular humbuckers.

I have to make my own pickgaurd for my mark2. Due to it being a cheap montgomery wards buy, and not any 1st or 3rd party support. I figuring on using clear plexi so i can see the already routed out cavity. Which looks like i could put 3 humbuckers in, which i am either puttin just 2 or 3. And using better electronic parts than what it came with

As you were going for a black pick guard I’d have used an old vinyl LP :)

Love that song during construction…what song is that?

Thank god you have the right attitude, just go kill it smash and have fun!!!!!

What do you know, the infamous 60 cycle hum was just a KZread Channel, I feared it all of these years for nothing!

Cool video. Still haven't forgiven you for ripping on Rickenbacker, but this helps

@60CycleHumcast

Жыл бұрын

Did I actually rip on Rickenbacker? I just said that I didn't bond with them and a thousand rick fans crawled out of the shadows to tell me I'm wrong for not immediately falling in love with their favorite thing.

@PageandPlant4Life

Жыл бұрын

@60CycleHumCast we are a sensitive minority group LOL but in all seriousness I dig your vids

See, this is like total bravery, to me. The most I've ever done in over a decade & a half of playing, in terms of the actual hardware of a guitar, is learning how to restring properly (and tbh I still can't do that, not consistently and not well). I won't even use an allen key, adjust intonation or whatever, because whenever I do attempt anything like that, things break - permanently. Not my idea of fun.

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

Matt Gilbert I completely disassembled my first electric guitar within the first few months of owning it. It’s fun for me.

@Robostomp

4 жыл бұрын

Man, I know that feel. Also playing for like fifteen years I've got quite good at soldering electronics only this year. Wired a pickguard with a new pot in it a couple of months ago and didn't even overheat it! That was a miracle for me. :D

@moosey62

3 жыл бұрын

"learning how to restring properly" I read resting. Was gonna suggest leave it indefinitely, like most of us do.

He starts doing stuff at 4:50

Great now I want banana pudding

You finally did it! Completely screwed and fucked up that lovely harley benton oboy "congrats"

OH MY GOD THANK YOU

This is cool to see. Once I realized that you can make a pickguard on your own relatively easy it got me so excited to open up new possibilities. I decided to change the pickup configuration on my Yamaha Pacifica 611 from p90 neck/humbucker bridge to Telecaster pickups for fun, because while the Yamaha is awesome it doesn't have resell value. So drilling screw holes wasn't pictured in this project, that will take some careful work to get things to line up correctly.

@crimadellaphone9374

Жыл бұрын

I've just discovered another clever idea for helping the pickguard look like you prefer it to look by using thin Vinyl that comes with adhesive on the bottom side. Lots of choices as far as the art and color on it, pretty affordable also, like a $9 to 12$ roll would be enough to go over the top of many pickguards. I haven't tried this out yet, found someone else claiming to had done it, in online forums, showed pictures and said it turned out great. Size A4. whatever that means, if you add that size in when you're L○○king it up you'll find plenty of cheap rolls for things like even covering your refrigerator to make it look gold and endless designs and colors.

@blueleaftuber

Жыл бұрын

@@crimadellaphone9374 that's a pretty cool idea! Thanks

I've watched a shed load of scratchplate cutting vids looking for one featuring hand tools. Unfortunately the two vids I've found so far (yours & Crimson guitars) both used non standard materials. Still found your vid instructive though, thank you sir.

thanks for this man, this is the reason for KZread, really ;) . it turned out OK. i bet you would do a better job if you repeated the project. thanks again, cheers from Portugal

Cutting a pickguard - or scratchplate as it's actually called in English - is not a job to be rushed. Have a couple of beers first, then do the same next day.

@60CycleHumcast

3 жыл бұрын

all this time I thought I was speaking english.

@moosey62

3 жыл бұрын

It's a common mistake that anyone can make. Think first then speak. I'm just glad you didn't lose any fingers.

Whats the fancy guitar with three humbs and six knobs in the back?

Would love to do this with an old vinyl record. But I am afraid I will fu** it up. 😕

Congratulations on the new baby. We almost got to see your wife and child. Almost. 😆

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

they snuck in for a few frames, lol.

i have an idea im 90% sure on nut would like your opinion before i do it. i have a super cheap usually crappy strat style guitar made by first act, has no pickguard or pickups at the moment, i want to route what looks like a route that would take a p90 at the neck, single in the middle, and a HB in the bridge (i think) i want to route the whole thing to one cavity and build multiple DIY (or buy some diff preloaded) guards using the kwik plug pickups i have liked from GFS, and maybe not even use screws, but this 10 pound velcro i found for my pedal board that super strong and super thin, so it would be simple as loosining the strings, pulling off the guard, unplugging the pups and throwing on the other one, def would want good copper sheilding but what do you think? (or anyone else with feedback) also next time try a propane torch and an exacto knife, then you just have to smooth it out a tiny bit, cuts like butter thru pickguard material.

@Rock_Bottom_Denizen

6 ай бұрын

Also I am an old school punk and my instruments show it, they def arent wall art, their tools, that happen to hang on the wall, anyone has anything to say about how it looks before asking how it plays and sounds, is not even worth responding to imo.

you can get really good pickguard blanks for 10$ at either guitarfetish or stewmac

Can't say I like your pickguard shape, I do like the textured material though.

is this your song playing in the back ground? It's a nice one ! :) :)

yeah your saw was too wide I'd say. I'm first making one on wood, will sand that until I get my desired shape (minus 5mm for the mill guider) then I'm just milling it out. No risk of messing up my actual pickguard material

Keep seeing the wife...haha Mine would be saying...are we going to do something today...lol

It looks soo bad that it's good 😂 keep it up 👌

Truly what happens “Down in, LUNCH LADY LAND” ...yep, old ass Adam Sandler reference. I’m not ashamed.

@squatchjosh1131

5 жыл бұрын

LADY YOU'RE SCARING US! 90's Sandler was some classic and quality dumb comedy, I think the majority of his movies post 2000 sucked because he no longer had to try. He lost the hunger to make good stuff because he was guaranteed a dime out of something painfully average or worse.

Use a sharp Stanley blade to fine shape the edges. Don't cut it, scrape it. 👍👍🧐

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

i know its hard to see in the time lapse, but i was using a razor to scrap the edges clean and open up the pickup route a little bit.

You need a jewelers blade

Oh I miss-read the title? I thought it said...Cutting your hand with a pick guard

oh! cutting that pickguard was really painfull to watch

There no mistakes...

Teach us how to play surf music.

Why not just cut one from wood to match your guitar. Or perhaps just buy a pick guard blank?

Rule number one in customs, dont give a shit about people's said

Lovin this SHITTTTT

i usuallly stand behind crazy but no great start not great finish

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

would you like to get into specifics?

@winstonmackay5477

5 жыл бұрын

try a vintage wood ????

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

Winston Mackay wood? For which part? The pickguard?

@winstonmackay5477

5 жыл бұрын

orur a wood with a cazy grain easy to work with

@winstonmackay5477

5 жыл бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast yes and maby stain i dident like the cut job lol i think a grain light stain

As long as you're happy with it. LMAO No Dremel?

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

I have a dremel, i even have a router. The challenge was to use affordable hand-tools

@shckltnebay

5 жыл бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast Looks like you failed, lol. Ill have to make one myself and see if I can do better

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

how did i fail? it a bit rough around the edges but i think it should work just fine.

@shckltnebay

5 жыл бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast How is a Dremel NOT affordable? If I cant do better ill kill myself.

@60CycleHumcast

5 жыл бұрын

its certainly more than $8. The point of the challenge was to do it as cheap as possible.

you know you can buy a pick guard for $9...just saying...

Way late to something cool 😅

horrible. how about showing us tricks how to make a realistic price PG with consumer/home dremel etc that actually looks good. im a lefty and the options for a old strat that isnt very standard are just a frkin joke. it would cost 50-60 bucks a white pearloid CNC PG when i give them the CAD template...

@60CycleHumcast

3 жыл бұрын

i've routed pickguards with templates before, its not easy to do right and it makes a huge mess. $50-$60 is a fair price to avoid all that.