I also would have accepted Les Hawk

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

OOOHHH!!!

"You wouldn't believe the garbage they want us to sell in these videos!" Don't worry Tim, I watch enough youtube to know exactly the sort of garbage they want you to sell in those videos, and that's why I skip the ad bits literally every time. I appreciate what you do.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

lol, fair enough. I wish I could get the google ads out, too, but the algorithm has no incentive to share my work if I do and no one sees them if I do.

@SeraphimKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I think the most insulting thing about google ads is that they used to pay a fairly decent wage to the youtubers but nowadays google has decided that the people that create the content for the platform don't deserve a living wage for the work that they make... If it was still like the old days I'm not sure people would even take on shady sponsorship deals. Unless it's for a genuinely good product it's lose-lose for everyone.

@agoodballet

2 жыл бұрын

I pay for the KZread subscription so that I don’t have to see the BS adds. I can’t stand it when people make the adds part of their video but if it gets them paid so be it. I skip that part anyway. I don’t mind when it’s their product they’re selling but I don’t want to hear about some dumb cell phone game or shaving products when I’m watching people build cars, guitars etc.

Skateboards are the new hollow core door! 😉

We know the world is coming to an end when a "Raid: shadow legends" advertisement pops up on a Tim Sway video.

Using some of the colored scraps for a headstock veneer would have been a cool touch, and maybe dyeing the backside of the neck yellow (or one of the other colors). Still came out good looking.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I thought about doing a veneered headstock cover but lost interest when I started thinking about some of the things I'd have to do to make it happen right. Lol.

Tim You are The BEST! We all love you brother. THANK YOU!

Not only looks good, but has a nice sound, too. Nice and rich.

Very nice one Tim. I mentioned in your last vid I had finished my third bass. I sourced all of the wood, made router templates, neck, and sourced all of the parts. It all started with the bass kit I got from you a year ago. I'm almost ready to try to make my own necks. I think the kit with the neck is the perfect place to start for someone who is up for the challenge of that level of wood working.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Yes, necks are tricky. Best to learn the other stuff first instead of all at once.

Soon as I saw the thumbnail I thought woby design, great collab 😃

As a sucker for P-90s, I heartily approve.

Ending the vid with ‘ANARCHY’ is a nice touch

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

this guitar kind of wants to do that type of stuff :)

I've been out of sync with your stuff, glad to see I came in at the beginning of your pickup creation journey.

I like the fact that you just dive in on whatever you wanna build.... No fear and that is good ! Since I build stuff usually just for me if I succeed or fail it doesn't matter. Good inspiration dude. Keep building.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

my ONLY superpower is I'm not afraid to fail :)

The color scheme has a bit of a hippie/psychedelic vibe. I dig it.

Excited to see more of your pickups!

I was looking at the soldering and I thought I'd share a trick I learned from my dad. I take the stripped wires and just poke them in the flux before soldering. It puts just the right amount of rosin on them and makes the little box of flux last forever.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent tip

Looks great and sounds amazing. I always enjoy how you show how you pivot when something doesn’t work out as expected and you still manage to turn it into a thing of beauty. I’m interested in seeing what you do with your guitar kits as well as what the next iteration of your depth gauge looks like.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

cheers. I have a couple of the old style still in stock but that'll be it. It may be a while before I get to it. Still formulating ideas.

Tim, this turned out beautifully. I have been watching for a long time and I have to say, your playing is really developing into something truly unique. I always appreciated your humble approach in the demos, full of bum notes and such (I am the same in that matter) and I really wanted to express how much I am enjoying your guitar noodling. The pickups have also* (*edit) really come a long way since the beginning. Fantastic work dude, you're an inspiration.

Nice build Tim. It was also good to see you sand that red back off. Sometime it's nice to know that some of the more experienced builders still struggle with the same stuff us beginners do. 😎

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

If you're not messing up, you're not learning. :)

You wound your own Pickups! It looks and sounds great! Thanks! 😎✌️🌞🎻🎸

Nice job Tim!! FYI, in the industry they call that a German Carve.

Anarchy in the Skate Park! What's next? God Save the Hollow Core Doors? Hmmm... Or maybe you need to save the hollow core doors for some Robby Krieger riffs. :P Nice to see you building pickups now too.

Very cool project start to finish. With what little guitar work I do, winding pickups by hand works fine. You just have to pay attention to number of wraps or test the ohms until it is what is wanted. I'd like to see a cheap but good sounding amp build.

Nice pickguard. Every piece of the buffalo.

My drill press stop is broken, so i usually put a big piece of blue tape on the bit where I want to stop.

The pickups sure sound good on your first try. I imagine if I tried this they wouldn't sound nearly as good!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. I think the next set will be better :)

Nice! Screams of punk rock - Greenday or Foo Fighters. Looks grrrrrreat!

Great work Tim and your editing of many hours' work to a satisfying watch is equally good!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

thanks. Time, practice and patience, like anything I guess :)

Ben makes some stunning art in this medium and is a lot of fun to watch. I once tried winding a single-pole pickup using wire I reclaimed from a wall wart power supply. It didn't go well... You were much more successful in your first try. As usual, the guitar looks and sounds great. Thanks for sharing!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

From what I've found, reclaiming the wire for winding cam be problematic (I've messed around too). Right now I'm just buying that new until I get better

Sounds nice! Great clean tone, but distorted, it sounds killer.

Tim your channel is so underrated and I hope this new year brings you many many more subscribers and business opportunities!! Your guitars are art and I don’t seen others doing the same creativity. YOU ROCK ON BROTHER!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

thank you for the kind words.

Hi Tim! It's been a while since I have dropped in to see what you are up to. Glad to see your creativity and skills continue to grow! Love the cool stuff you do...keep on creating!

Great looking guitar! And I am looking forward to more pickup making videos, I have been wanting to get into that myself so can't wait!

An absolutely beautiful build love it 👍👍👍🇬🇧

Beautiful musical creation as always Tim

Awesome end product👌🏽 Happy New Year to you and your family, mate.👍🏽 🎉🎊2022🎊🎉

The curve on the guitar make it looks really cool !. Please, tell us more about the journey of new perspective pickups. Have a good day

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I will soon!

Goood to see you back 💖🐎💖

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I never left! The algorithms will mess with what you see unless you click the bell on my channel

What a fun guitar! Makes me want to play right now!!

sounds like it needs a setup pretty bad; everyone always goes all in when they do these types of guitars, a regular pickguard and knobs that stand out instead of all the camouflage, would be my take on the idea,. such a great number of custom things done here, well done.

Great looking guitar Tim.

Great video, cool story. The guitar is awesome. Those pick ups sound rad dude. Mahalo for sharing! : )

Awesome video, looks amazing

fantastic job man! this guitar is really cool look'n, totally pulls at all my skaterboy sensibilities.

This is so rad!!!

WOOWOWOW... very nice i know and follow both of you .. i'm very happy you did a trade or collaboration.. very nice products come out of your shops Man .. All the best to both of you .. and to Jimmy Diresta ;-) .. i saw you have his ice pick.... Hi from italy

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

cheers. I also have his old table saw. lol

since your getting in to making pickups, i dont know if you learned this already or not but its a good idea to always use the stop end of the coil as your ground connection and the start end of the coil as your output. doing so allows the outer most turns of wire to act as noise shielding for the coil because they would be closest to ground. you'll get better noise control this way

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

yes. that's the way I've been doing it. Still a lot to learn, too.

@TriodesPs111

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway i should also mention this matters more for hot pups with higher resistance. i dont notice much of a change in noise with lower resistance coils when i flip the leads around

Love your videos! Keep it up

Very nice work on that guitar Tim! I would veneer the headstock and inlay small skateboards into the appropriate sections of the neck. Now that would be very cool! Looking forward to your video about how to do the windings for the pickups... 👍👍🎸🎸👏👏

The guitar looks great! I think maybe dying the edges before the whole thing is glued up would be the only way unless you masked and dyed each layer after!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

exactly...

5:58 That's my motto 🤣

Fantastico progetto Tim👏🏻👏🏻 Complimenti 👍🏻💪🏻 Bellissima chitarra 🎸❤❤❤

Looks like a punk rockers axe! Or a beach rockers like the “Ventures”

Thats a pretty guitar! Thanks!!

Highly approve of your choice of music while winding the pickups, Nighthawks at the Diner is in heavy rotation for me right now.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

That album is in my top 3 choices for the"you only get one album stranded on a desert island" trope. (the other two are Operation Ivy, Energy and Beethoven's 9th conducted by Leonard Bernstein)

Great sounding (and looking) guitar Tim! Nice stand too :)

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

it works real well for symmetrical guitars like this and looks sharp

4:44 That made me laugh. I used to be cocky when it came to hand drafting, but would end in disaster. When I tell other people to measure again I reply with the same comment.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

It is amazing how often I do things I know I shouldn't be doing but I'm still surprised by the result :)

Looks awesome Tim! Reminds me of Gibson Zoot suit SG that I thought looked ace and wanted.

Nice job man.

Great stuff 👊💪

Damn I love the red it looks good oh well,

Did I hear Richard Thompson at 14:32? My respect for you keeps going up Tim.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I have to admit I didn't seek him out, Spotify decided that was who I should listen to next based on the alt-country playlist I had rolling - it was a good choice.

@peteholder7134

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway His back catalogue is an embarrassment of riches. Enjoy.

What about old wheel knobs? I feel horrible theres not many ways to recycle them.

Tim you should make a "Ad-request roast" where you roast the garbage that people want you to sell us. :)

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

LOL. but bad press is still press :)

i am new to your channel and i really like your content you have some interesting ideas mad wood working skills tim thank you for your videos

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

archtop made me think this was gonna be a hollowbody\big ol jazz box but still seems like a cool axe

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I want to do more of those in the future and have some ideas. Here's one "legit" semihollow archtop bass I made: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fqCcyqmSY9SYe8o.html

Also when and where is this art gallery exhibit event you spoke of? I doubt I can come out east but info is good :)

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

It will be July and August in Ridgefield CT.

Cool I like it

Nice one 👍 😎🎙🎸✅

if you put some white binding on that i would buy one from you

DUDE!!! I'm trying to get a bass guitar made on vectrix also. I am having so much trouble learning it however. Can you recommend a better tutorial for a bass? All the ones I found they imported a model. I need one from the start.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I sometimes make videos for vectric's channel. Here are two that might help you: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p4F8ubyQgZipcqQ.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/eWmI3Khqm5O8h5M.html and here's one from my channel: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y3Vh25aBp5fgdbg.html

Super interested in the pickup winder!!!! Do you have a video about that?

@timsway

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqeOxJSpqt3fqZM.html

@colinsnyder3082

Жыл бұрын

@@timsway thanks Tim! You’re the best!

are you gonna make a video about that diy looking pickup winder??

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

yes, once I get a little more experience. The winder is $200 on ebay.

@jokermtb

2 жыл бұрын

I thought a jack in the box was going to pop out when the winding was complete

Yeaaaa

It would be awesome to get a kit with your in house necks!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

that's the goal for the next kit, shop-made neck and body blanks from locally sourced and reclaimed wood.

@joshuahenry7482

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway I can't wait! I'm definitely into supporting CT based business.

HNY Tim, Great job, I liked the "Pickup winder" would love to know more about how the pickup works, did a quick KZread it is spook action at a distance. I make my own tools too, so also liking the sneakie hand shadowing on the center tool (Hope it works on metric ) :) I realy like my lasers and love to use them with my CNC, would you look at getting a metal 3D printer if you had the work for it? Roy

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I will make a video about pickups fairly soon. I always planned on making my own winder from an old sewing machine but this one was only $200 on ebay with a counter and everything already, so it's an affordable way to get in the game. I don't know much about 3d metal printers. I think if I were to make investments in more large, hi tech tools, I'd be interested in a laser that can cut metal. While additive manufacturing makes more sense than reductive, in my case reductive is an easier way to use "trash" and reclaimed materials.

👍👍👍

Modern pillar drills are crap, miss the old school stuff, that is a cool pillar drill and remember using those ones, rocking horse shit to buy 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Where did ya get that winder? I've built alot of the parts of guitars but pickups is one I've wanted to take a crack at and haven't guitar turned out great, I've wanted to do a skateboard guitar myself

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

It was on ebay for $200. I was going to make my own from a sewing machine but found this GREAT and affordable option. Highly recommended.

@MilesMcNallyLuthierie

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway I too dabbled with the idea of the sewing machine one but coming by one that functions enough to build one out of let alone the time to retrofit it turned out tougher than I initially thought 😅 I will definitely have to look into that.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

@@MilesMcNallyLuthierie ye, that was always the thing holding me back. I didnt want to spend 50p$ on a winder and the retrofit seemed like a lot of work, sourcing a counter. Etc. Now that I've seen this, I feel like I could make my own but it is totally worth $200 to not have to.

@MilesMcNallyLuthierie

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway I feel like I could throw one together too, but only ever dabbling in winding not sure how accurate it would be and fear that I'd spend all that time putting one together to have functional but not what I'm looking for pickups because of the trial and error involved in putting one together and lack of experience doing pickups. You may just have convinced me to get one, I've already found it😅

Hey Tim, I apologize if I miss it, but what scale do you usually craft?

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

Usually 25.5” but I’ve done others and a lot of compound scales

A headstock veneer would've topped it off nicely for me

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I agree and considered it. I may still go back and do one, before the art show.

Immediately after you mentioned no advertisements a KFC ad popped up 😄 great looking guitar especially the laser cut multi colours. How about a body build like that? Although Woby Design has already set the bar high.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

LOL. For years I had the google ads turned off, too, but no one sees the videos when they are posted that way. No incentive in the algorithm to show them if they don't make any money. I did a neck like that and Woby did a body. I also did some hollow core door guitars that way . It's a lot of work and I lack the skateboards to do it. If you search "skateboard guitars" there are a few people doing it with amazing results.

@johngrant5749

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway they do look fantastic. As for the ads I can’t find an ad blocker for the iPhone. 🤬

Just for aesthetic reasons I don't like maple fretboards. I'd love to have some of this kits with rosewood or richlite

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I went with maple as I was having the necks made in a factory and maple is the most sustainable of the common guitar woods around the world. Rosewood is not environmentally sound, so that's a no for me. Richlite however is pretty cool and better ecologically (and ethically) speaking but expensive and more prone to break cnc router bits. In the future, I think I'll make the necks here, so I would use wood that grows near me, which would probably be maple again, but I might look for something else for the fingerboards. I agree maple is a little "boring" looking.

God save the queen!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

We mean it, man...

Nissssssssssssssssssce 🍻

I bet tony hawk can't pull off this tone with his boards!

I thought sunburst colour and glossy finishing will make it better dude..

We dig it as well....... Dad e o

That paddle neck looks wonderful ! I have almost no true options its all parts or warmouth if I want a neck that does not warp and can be dialed in properly tuned exact tension as well as angle and intonation all of this magic others might not understand. Can one perhaps buy a maple paddle directly from you? Or should I just continue to curse at the high dollar fish neck company that has banned me knuckle down and just buy Japanese all parts necks as per usual? I have not had much luck aside from Japan! Your shop is amazing!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I did not make this paddle neck, I bought it from an overseas factory and agree they are not all that great, but I've also found the terribly expensive ones are not much better than the less expensive ones. I get asked to make just necks a lot and have considered it, but with my particular tooling and process they are too expensive. I will be looking in to ways of doing it in the future for my kits and possibly individual retail.

@haroldmagilicuti4754

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway Thank you Tim..As long as they don't bow at what is it 440 E? All parts have the best paddles Rock Maple from 160 to 220.I have 3 Vox phantom HH. Tributes projects on my table now all three Nick's Auto Parts from Japan. You are a bit of an inspiration many of your builds are out there especially the hollow-body Beetle bass thing makes me want to keep building.Thx Tim!

@haroldmagilicuti4754

2 жыл бұрын

Auto correct.All 3 paddle necks are all parts Japan. Best OEM strat, tele and LP necks period!

Les Pride guitar

LES SKATE WHAT ABOUT A SLAPPY BASS? Could go a couple ways.

You should have never cut the edge should have stained the outside edge with some color

get that fucking ad money tim! don't leave money on the table!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

lol. But at what cost? Should I make Amazon affiliate links so I get a penny for every additional dollar I make Bezos? Should I take "My Pillow" money? Exxon dollars in my left hand while I tout sustainability in my right? Some things are more important than money. For me, my body of work that I can feel proud of is much more valuable.

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this is not what you would call an archtop...the top is still flat, only the edges are rounded off