The BRIDGE makes me SO anxious. I just can't imagine the amount of pressure that would comes off the instrument when it eventually rips from the top.

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

I know..

@RustyX23

Жыл бұрын

Just glue it down with epoxi If you dont care too much about the sound... Many how tos on here for sure ;-)

I hate to have fun at others expense but I couldn't help but laugh when the iron fell off of the fret board. Had to watch it a few times to nail your facial expression! Just goes to show that you are human! Keep up your awesome creative content! I am really blessed with your content!

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

lol :) yes siiir

Who's gonna do this???

You gotta fix that bridge! Oh my Rotem!!

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

lol :) I have a plan now

When you make a fretted instrument fretless, it is a good idea to fill the fret slots with thin wood pieces. Also, sand the fretboard flat like a classical guitar, no radius at all. Your bridge is going to rip part of the top off when it flies out. Best you buy a couple of big clamps, clean the area, reglue with titebond and keep pressure with the clamps. Last, if you use flatwound strings it will be much better, both for the sound and the health of the fretboard as the flat ones wil not scratch it. Remember, you slide on a fretless, you do not bend!

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

yea, but this works actuality..

@JohnnyGTar

Жыл бұрын

@@RotemSivanGuitar it obviously does, I am talking about the best way to go in case you want to venture into lutherie. I mean,you already got the red toolbox, I kinda started out the same way!

Sounds really good but I'd fix that tail piece for sure.

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

YES - i will

I have a Les Paul that took flight one day and i told my kid to give it to me to fix and keep for myself, headstock snapped all the way up to 5th fret, requiring a new replacement. Its been parked for a year, time to get it back out and finish. Ill update later! Thx.

Awesome dude!

Coolest video today! Haha! I was half expecting the bridge to fly off and topple the iron on the piano... But seriously, with some work by a luthier it could become a keeper. That, or even better a floating bridge and an archtop-like tailpiece, which you can surely get on the cheap.

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

I absolutely love the instant Middle Eastern sound you achieved. Great experiment…

Sweet! Definitely going to try

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

It's fun!!

Cool! That's what I want to do as a next guitar project. I plan to remove frets from electric guitar and install a sustainer pickup.

While my guitar chops aren’t on par, my diy skills are exactly the same 1:28 😛

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

lol :)

Great! Now slap a whammy bar and some EMG's on it - it will shred like a dream :D Seriously though: have the bridge fixed and fret slots filled with veneer - I am sure you'll make great sounds with this guitar, as we can already tell by this video. Greetings from Poland!

I wonder if creating a larger base for the bridge giving it a secure mount and slightly raising it would allow it to be tuned higher and take some of the buzz out

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

that might be the move..

The have or not have of markers in the fret positions is an interesting one. To get intonation right you really have to get to grips with each finger on each note needing its own detailed positioning. I find the markers distracting visually on most of the neck so prefer them to not be there, but as the demands on position accuracy increase further up the neck markers can be helpful. As such having the markers on a de-fret conversion is the best way to go I think as it's easier than hiding the fret slots and they probably help the transition to fretless playing. Fretless' I make from new don't have them. One thing though, I've done some conversions for top class players, and they insist on markers. Have a look at my channel for a couple of basses being demo'd by a superb player, he's one of them.

At this point you can screw a whammy bar in that bridge

My luthier would drill 2 holes through the saddle to the top and glue 2 wooden chops there together with the saddle to the top. Then you'd have full resonance/sustain from the guitar top .

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

sounds like THE move ya

love to see you put love into this guitar but man i was in shock to see you use steel wool near all your other guitars. cuz of the particles that may get in your electronics/pickup magnets.

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

oh - i didn't know

did you purposefully take the bridge up like that. I just did it to an acoustic i loved i had in C.. Its a cheap guitar (harley benton) so i was ok with the experiment. it sounds fine but the high strings hardly make sound.. should i pull up the bridge like you did?

That bridge pull is mental hahah. guitar sounds wonderful but that bridge aint gonna last hahah. Great video though!

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

It's works!! Should I glue it...?

@petec223

Жыл бұрын

@@RotemSivanGuitar I'd glue it mate ahahah

Turning a Guitar into Our

la escala of king David, pero en esos tiempos del gran poeta y dulce cantor de israel no habia limites en cuanto a la escala eran mas de 7" no limits!

It's funny how it sound like an Arabic Oud, you should try one ! Greetings from Belgium, keep doing great work !

It becomes a tambur or a cümbüş.

Not to be really recommended on your new Martin D-28 though probably.

have you played fretless instruments in the past? this is very cool i'll try do this with my old cheap dreadnought i think. also aren't you scared of burning the wood with the iron?

@hectorvader4436

Жыл бұрын

If you try, fill the fret slots with resin or wood powder with glue, so the neck will be stable If you keep the guitar at tension without filling the neck will bow a lot

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

it was kinda easy tbh

Floating bridge on an acoustic

I am going to do this with my old electric ⚡. What would you suggest instead of ironing the frets?

@zaphodrahja

Жыл бұрын

Soldering iron is used by some guys

@yaroslavshevtsiv

Жыл бұрын

@@zaphodrahja did it my way)

brooklyn man goes blind in freak accident with guitar

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@BazookaBob

Жыл бұрын

Even blind and with a fretless, half-bridge, mutant dreadnought he'd still be 100x more soulful a player than I'll ever be! The sounds from this beast (the guitar, I mean :) are reminiscent of what my local curry house used to play in the 1980s, almost like a drunken sitar.

have you thought of an archtop brigde solution? שלום אח שלי

@iaint1873

Жыл бұрын

The way archtop and flat tops work is very different. Archtop bridges have a downward pressure so the top is designed and braced very differently. I've seen it done mind, but it isn't very successful from what I gather.

@neilmarsh7437

Жыл бұрын

That bridge has had a hard life - glue that sucker back down with some posh glue and a really big clamp / check you haven’t broken any struts if you have then glue them too with more fancy clamps then be gentle with those big Jazz cables 12s max perhaps - and enjoy - although it will sound less like sitar when you get proper transmission from the bridge - could also think about reducing nut and bridge height to suit the lack of frets so you don’t have intonation problems (lolz) from finger pressure in the low ‘frets’ - also stay away from chords hehe

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

OHHHHHH! I LOVE IT. I WILL DO IT!

great, more fun and less serious content

Ai Yahh .. First rule of DYI fabrication .. wear Safety glasses ..

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

next time!

Your guitar is dead actually, buy some glue and fix it up please. Otherwise, very cool sounds.

So basically, never do this. There is 0 gain and much loss.

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

Was very fun. And I have a cool guitar that was almost in the garbage. So nah

I went to the end of the video to confirm that this dude left the bridge "as-is" : CONFIRMED !!! No interest whatsoever. I will go listen to other channels whose creator DO HAVE sanding paper.........

@RotemSivanGuitar

Жыл бұрын

Lol