This guy built a guitar out of a shelf during lockdown!

[BluesRunTheGame]

[Phoenix61]

1. I used to know a luthier. That guy has some

really nice woodworking tools.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Me, Too!

And guy is this video has skills.
It's not that easy to make a semi-hollow in the first place.
Then, he basically using wood that would otherwise be scrap!
Pretty cool!
The guy I know actually had a patent issued for a bracing pattern on a doubleneck acoustic.
That guitar was gorgeous!

[LAS14]

2. Thanks!!! I find the best stuff on DU!!!! nt

[True Blue American]

31. I sent this to my Son, a retired Engineer

Who loves to take scrap and making something out of it. He has a room full of guitars!

[niyad]

3. Bookmarkimg for later.

[Alacritous Crier]

4. Watch later.

Thanks.

[Shermann]

5. Yeah but does it Djent?

Sorry, I had to be "that guy".

[Hoyt]

6. Nice. Even carved and fretted the neck.

[JDC]

7. A real pro.

[Ahpook]

8. Very cool

I think quite a few people have gained creative minds during this lockdown?

A friend and I morphed a Baja Telecaster into a double humbucker, front and back binding jam machine

I'd load some photos, but not sure how. Seems tricky on here? I've loaded them easily to luthier sites to discuss the build.

[reACTIONary]

15. If you have them on another site, you...

... copy the image link and post that. Right click open image in New tab, copy the link from the address bar. It should be a .jpg or .bmp or .png , something like that.

Delete any characters after the .jpg, .bmp, .png, or the like. Especially a ? mark and text after it.

[True Blue American]

32. I would love to send your pictures on.

[LudwigPastorius]

9. Thanks.

These vids are always fun to watch.

Lutherie is a dark art, learned over countless hours of work. I don't have the patience or persistence for it, but I'm sure glad that some do.

[NNadir]

10. That's an impressive set of tools and...

...more importantly impressive skill.

He's obviously quite a professional.

My wife and I were fascinated.

Thanks!!!

[Tikki]

11. Says he is Flemish and, also, builds furniture under the THCIKS logo.

Talented builder. Wish we could have seen more of his little helper.

I LOVE GUITARS.

Tikki

[calimary]

12. WOW! A Keeper!!!

Just like that guitar is!

[tclambert]

13. They should name an asteroid after this guy.

(It's a Brian May joke.)

[pansypoo53219]

14. people have time again.

[BlueIdaho]

16. That must have been some shelf!

Not to mention his mad skills. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Paladin]

17. Not a Martin D-28, but obviously a quality piece of work.. (nt)

[Dave Starsky]

18. Yes. Impressive, but that's a tremendous amount of work...

To end up with a guitar that sounds like it was made out of a bookshelf.

[1plus1equals1]

19. As a guitarist I think this is awesome

[DFW]

20. A friend of mine used to build guitars for a living

He emigrated to the USA from Serbia as a violin maker in the late fifties. He was once asked to build a guitar, and had no clear idea of how to go about it. So he played it by ear, and by chance happened upon a formula that gave his guitars, especially his 12 string guitars, a sound that has never really been duplicated. I asked him to make me a matching pair in 1999 (completed in 2000), and these were the last ones he ever made for me. The first he made for me were in the mid 1970s. He passed in 2015, but his instruments and their legendary sound survive. Here is that matching pair:

[musette_sf]

25. Those are Bozos!

Recognized them right away.

http://bozosguitars.yolasite.com/

[DFW]

26. They are indeed. That was my friend's name

Božo Podunavac. His name, pronounced "Paw-doo-NAH-vats," just means "south of the Danube," which his home town of Novi Sad indeed is.

I met him in February of 1977, when he still had his studio in Escondido, California. I had him build me various instruments over the years, and this matching pair was the last commission work he did for me. I recently bought an experimental "owl" 12 string of which he made three back in 1979. One went to Peter Lang, one went to Leo Kottke, and one went to some non-prominent player. Leo's instrument landed in an auction by Heritage in Dallas earlier this year, and I ended up buying it. I found out later that I was lucky, because another guy would have paid more for it that I wanted to, but his computer froze during the live auction, and so my bid ended up winning it.

Here is Božo:


And here is the "owl:"

[musette_sf]

27. You are fortunate to own these!

I knew Kottke played a Bozo, so quite a thrill to hear that you now own it.

[ornotna]

21. Very cool

I guess I need to look for his other videos to hear Lockdown Lucille.

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. That's some impressive work!

Nothing beats a guitar hand-made by a great luthier, IMO.

I had an early-80's Gurian that was the most beautiful-sounding guitar I ever heard in person. Even before you played a note, you knew it was going to have a very special voice - you could feel the conversation in the room coming alive through the rosewood.

I loved that thing. Broke 13 of my L radius off, and the healing was never complete. Damaged ulnar nerve made me sell it, because I couldn't play it. Still took me over 20 years after the accident to get to that point. A member of a "Gurian trio" bought it, which is great.

[JohnnyRingo]

23. I suspect it's not his first guitar.

It takes too long to build one so I doubt he sells them. He probably gifts special friends.

[Scruffy1]

33. That's just a come on.

You won't see many guitar wood shelves. It might have been used as a shelf until he got around to using it. Seems kind of silly to me to hand carve an archtop body for a semi hollow body guitar but to each his own.

[Demovictory9]

24. out of shelf and an whole lot of tools!

[colorado_ufo]

28. Next video: How to Build a Bookshelf

to hold all those books that are lying around on the floor.

[tavernier]

29. Brian May of Queen built his guitar at age 16

in his garage with help from his dad, and it’s the one he still uses.