Making the pickups have the same angular design as the fretboard was a genius design choice, looks so good

Awesome. I’ve never seen anything like it. Truly a hybrid bass/guitar. Not a baritone, not a bass VI. Unique. And your build quality is also amazing.

Amazing build! I'd tune it in an alternate NST (New Standard Tuning). Instead of CGDAEG, I would opt going a fifth below that, so FCGDAE. Now you have the same range as a normal guitar plus the range of a regular 4 string bass (minus the low open E). A lot of potential for interesting sounds and chord voicings!

Charlie Hunter is the master of playing hybrid guitars. He uses a pretty unique tuning as well.

I just wanted to note the beauty of that slab of maple - that's the perfect flame for a guitar neck.

Very nice instrument. Love the look. The pickup is where you win because it's not generic and it really fits the overall look.

Very cool thing you've made here. I once saw a two piece punk band in the early-mid 2000s where the vocalist played what he called a 'gitbass'. It was some kind of SG iirc that he had swapped out the low E tuner for a bass tuner and screwed a bass pickup to the body way over to the side so it was really only under the bass string (might have had a single saddle from a bass bridge too, I can't remember exactly. The rest was guitar strings from low E to B (no high E). He played in standard tuning just doubling up the bass notes on barre/power chords. Had two output jacks running to two amps. Very diy and very punk. Not really the same as this, but you reminded me of that cool teen memory.

This is amazing, as a bass and guitar player this gets me real excited.

I literally thought recently what if there was just a regular guitar but with E and A strings tuned an octave down, and then there's this

That little truck is awesome

Tim I hope you read this comment: I am 44 and I am literally dying of cancer. I FREAKING LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND HOW YOU PRODUCE PRODUCTS AND YOUR SPONCER YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!!! Until the day I die I'm going to watch everything!!!! You are great Tim please continue how YOU like to make products ok??????? I was a guitar player and if I had normal health I'd really want to buy one from you lol. Just know who cares what anyone else thinks of you and your work you truly are a great player and maker.

Those are some *_seriously_*_ fanned_ "fanned frets" if I've ever seen any. Glad to see someone takes the concept seriously.

this is the djent machine we all needed 7 years ago without ever knowing we needed it

i love how you play that thing so effortlessly, as if you've played them forever

Definitely DADADG. I use a Digitech Whammy's +1/-1 setting to add "bass" and higher octave parts with reverb and delay to fill in the gaps. I've thought of using something like this, but I've never seen it done. This is amazing!

loved the ruck whose bed sides become ramps!

The shape and design are really beautiful!!! It is both vintage and futuristic in a classy way. I hope it gets popular!

Yes...and you keep getting better and better and better.you play bass and guitar very well on separate instruments or like you did here both at the same time. You got it sounding good looking good...being good

I played a K.Yairi acoustic with this same concept minus the multi scale and it was very interesting to say the least. Very cool for looper jams I bet.

I loved the way you moved the laser unit to the bench! I have osteoarthritis, and kids in their 20s, and they're always telling me off for moving things that their boyfriends had already tried to move for me, but declared too heavy for them to move. What you did, is how I move heavy things! I can't carry a 15kg carton of beer, but I can move something that weighs 150kg by myself if I have to! 🙂👍

EADead maybe, I think I'd definitely split it 3/3, so you still had access to the full range of bass on the lowest guitar string, but also had access to chords. I'm not a lead player so I don't care too much about losing the high range of guitar. I absolutely love this idea and want to try it myself 100%, so many possibilities. Perhaps an easily engaged full muting system for the bass strings - either physical, or split the pickups for bass and guitar side, allowing to easily mute either - I'd want to do something like that to keep things clean when just using the guitar strings. Oh and also be able to process the signals separate, have a bass and guitar amp out there etc. I also feel like this instrument would need it's own techniques and approaches, which is so exciting that you've produced this. I can't believe I hadn't thought about this before - the only solution I could see was just having a double neck bass/guitar lol! Edit; from the comments I see you're not the first but this is the first time I've ever seen something like this and I consider myself an aficionado of the weird 😅 Eeadgb would also be great just to have a root bass note for bar chords etc. Royal Blood eat your heart out!!

This is crazy skill with an even crazier instrument. Great Job!

I think two pickups far away from one another might help. So neck pickup for bass and bridge pickup for guitar. Why not two controlcavities as well? And add an extra string ! Good stuff! Great upload! Thx!

If you want to watch a guy that plays a hybrid guitar/bass like this one, go find Charlie Hunter. All I can say is that if you’ve not heard him play, you’re in for a treat! Good lookin build, that mahogany is a nice looking slab!

Hey Tim, What an inspiration. you’ve managed to build a magical instrument once again & have now peaked my interest in trying to figure out my own Bass hybrid. Thinking 4 string Bass and 3 string guitar.

I have an electric and an acoustic guitar that I converted to this a few years back. EAdgbe. Very handy playing in a duo or solo. It helps to learn partial chords and different voicings of chords.

The guitar of the future, for those who don't want to deal with finding a bassist, ideal for those!

Awesome design Tim! Love the sound.

Excellent job on the guitar and cool design too. 👍😊 I really enjoy watching your videos of building electric guitars. Keep it up!!

Really cool, only thing I might have done differently would be the electronics, adding the possibility of 2 independent outputs for bass and guitar (for a drive tone on guitar and cleanish bass mainly). A split coil à la P-Bass may do the job and look nice.

Brilliant as always my friend! Another successful project!

I tunened mine CGDAEBf# (sort of new standard). With .10 to .125. It’s a 7-string fan-fret.

Beautifull result Man! Love it 🙌🏼

This thing slaps. As a multi instrumentalist and a jazz musician, just thinking of all of the possibilities and the solo giggability excites me. Thanks for the video!

That whole design is brilliant. I'm ready to order. [Tucson,AZ

Beautiful build man!

I have NO idea how one would tune that, but I'm thinking you're gonna get some great use out of the fiber laser and I'm always struck by how nice an simple a plain wood guitar is with no crazy, glassy-smooth paint job. I love the look of the natural wood just showing through a nice transparent or lightly tined finish. Kinda makes me regret wasting so much time trying to get the paint just right on the kit guitars I've been building. I can think of all kinds of cool things you'll be able to do with the fiber laser though. I look forward to seeing you learn to get innovative and creative with it in future projects.

Super cool! Thanks for sharing it!

One tuning suggestion might be E-B-E-A-D-G, like the bottom 2 bass strings and then the bottom 4 guitar strings. This would allow some major chug/ metal chords since you could play the bottom 3 strings as a bar (like drop D) to make power chords, and then use your to 4 strings to fill out chords. Or take that up in pitch a bit if you don't need the low E. Maybe B-F#-B-E-A-D. Just use a string tension calculator to figure out what gives you good tension for a playable feel since floppy strings are no fun to play. And you probably need longer strings too. Circle K is my go-to for custom thickness baritone strings.

Love your work Tim,,great job!

This thing would be awesome with a humbucker closer to the bridge and a single coil right up against the fretboard like a tele. As far as tuning goes, I'm an 8 string player so my head goes to something like EAEADG

Great to see people doing something that’s genuinely different! Bravo! Sounds cool! I think if you upped the string gauge on the bass strings then the definition would be a bit more refined.

Amazing stuff! Thanks, that make my day and inspire me

Nice job on a very unique instrument!

looks awesome, love the bolt inlays

That is especially nice. I've been thinking about a hybrid instrument like this myself for a while and I approve of your use of multiscale length with the fanned frets. That's quite cunning.

Love it Tim, what a great sound👍

Wonderful awesome guitar sir, Bravo.

Looks like a good instrument for a guitar show. 🙂

Absolutely amazing! Another incredibly original design and build. Probably the only guitar maker on the internet I'd actually be interested in buying an instrument from

Fifths, absolutely. Since it's a hybrid already, I'd give it a range to match. Start at a low A (whole note lower than a regular low B on a bass). I've tuned to fifths before (I also play cello and Chapman Stick, so I'm used to it) and recommend flatwounds for this. Getting it to Djent comes later 🤘😎🤘🤣

Very pretty, and an original, inspired design. I have fiddled a bit with extended range guitars myself, and getting the tuning and string gauging is a very tricky (and fun) part of the process...

To be honest, I thought you were going to throw the laser away and just keep the packing case! 😂 A few years ago, I built a filter to split off the lowest octave of a regular electric guitar and put just that octave through an octave divider. It sounded pretty good - I could apply different effects to the bass and mid frequencies and try bi-amping, etc. I like this true guitar / bass hybrid.

Man that's so cool! Many have dreamt it but rare has it been realized. There's baritone guitars, tenor basses, chapman sticks and everything in between but I like how you made it your own.

So glad to have found your channel. Great video, new subs.

Sounds amazing!

the first tuning that comes to my mind is standard for both, so E A for bass and and E A D G for guitar... or totally standard E A for bass and D G B E for guitar. Anyway, the guitar turned out great!

Great work as always Tim 👍 very nice instrument!!! 👍😃🤘😎

I love the sound you are getting out of this. Perfect for a Jazz guitar/bassist and a drummer to do an economical two piece.

I like it! love the way it sounds!

would be cool to split the output. line up a pickup so it's only really responding to the bass strings and vice versa. that way you could send the bass through a bass amp and the guitar through a guitar amp to get a fuller and cleaner sound. Really dig this build it's making me want to start a new project.

Fantastic & interesting build Tim! I wouldn't have a guess as to how to tune it. Looking forward to hear how it plays though. 👍👍🎸🎸

Really cool, TS!!! love it!!!

Cool idea! Love the style and finish of that neck. The fiber laser is going to step up the branding and customization ideas.

personally, I don't understand it. but I think it looks killer man. awesome work

that is such a beautiful guitar! I have no knowledge when it comes to wood/metalworking but your videos are super interesting :)

Cool style and the design could work great for that Swampy groovy blues country or jazz!

9:20 Not expecting a comfort cut but that's just mean. Just joking of course. Your skill and workmanship are top notch.

You're always making cool stuff! If you look at Novax guitars that Charlie Hunter plays they have three bass strings and five guitar strings. He plays bass lines on the bass and chords/solos on the guitar strings. It's a unique way of playing that I just can't do (with limited attempts at learning how), I guess it's kind of like limb independence on drums, but it's finger independence.

Tim, this is good work and a good idea...very interesting

Very similar to Hybrid Guitars from NC. Charlie hunter tunes his 6 strings like this EAD (down an octave from usual) gbe standard pitch. I have messed around with a lot of low tuned guitars with a lot of long scale lengths I would say try and get the bass side somewhere between the 29-29.5 range to help tighten it up a bit.

I do love your experiments n learned a lot from you.keep it up.cheers from India❤🤘🏻

I am owner of 8 string and it is great for playing bass riffs and guitar stuff, only problem is with pickups, yes they are stock and cheap, lack brightness. I dont know if expensive Duncans will carry it better but I think seperate for thick strings and thin with gauges would help with tone.

The fret buzz is real with this one.

Very nifty. When I see your use of CNC, it reminds me of Hartley, and how many guitar makers said you couldn't do that with the machines.......... he produced the Peavey T60 and T40 as the flagship models......an extremely high quality instrument that was remarkably affordable. It's fun to see your innovations, and how things are coming along. For a independent maker, it's unique that you're not doing things the way it's always been done.

Wow this is amazing

This is such an amazing idea. Love the look! when you were playing it all it could think of is what someone like Rob Scallon could do. No offense of course.

That unit really shines as a fingerstyle instrument.

It would have been really cool if the pickup was actually two pickups under one hood. Section off the part that handles the bass strings and add the option to route it to separate guitar and bass amps, or join them to one output for single amp use.

This is going to take off and explode guaranteed 🤙 🎸really awesome build🎸 🤘🇺🇸great video sir🇺🇸🤘

I think it could be tuned like a hybrid of a guitar and a bass. Keep the intervals of a guitar but the e and a strings could be an octave below (kind of like a mariachi bass I guess?). Or it could be like an extended cello, tuned in 5ths instead of 4ths, which would allow for some crazy voicings!

The jazz playing was a pretty compelling demo nice to hear such a split between the octibes and the tone rolled off masks gbr differences a bit

Beautiful, Tim! 49cc Club Rules!

beautiful

First time I saw one of these in the 90's, I thought it was pretty wild. Had to watch for a while until I figured out what was going on. It was also the first time I saw fanned frets, and it wasn't until decades later that I figured out how those worked. Really visually interesting design here, clearly has your fingerprints on it. Love the aluminum highlights. Use of the laser for the embellishments seems appropriate for a company called Spark. Thanks for sharing!

One thing that stood out to me is how you got the laser engraver up onto the table you have it on. I 100% would have stubbornly tried to pick it up until I hurt myself before I did it like that haha. Awesome build!

Nice concept

i think if there's two pickups and one pickup would just pick up the bass strings and the other guitar and plug it into two different amps and signal chains, could be a beast!

The kei truck is awesome. Wouldn't have expected anything less from you

I knew the second I saw that truck that it was gonna have a CT plate on it lol been seeing a bunch of those in the area lately. I've never seen anyone make something like this partial bass partial guitar before and it's pretty sick. Hella nice job

Different & a great idea also!,... I've often thought about a low "Bass" E string, it's good to see that you've done this! Good on the video, & laser tooling, that's really cool also!

Really enjoyed the process)) Love this concept. …would probably open tune.

Very cool! I bet it would sound heavy as hell with high gain or fuzzed out.

I like your logo in the fretboard... looks similar to the logo for the band The Warning, which is embedded in their bassist's custom Spector bass fretboard (fret #3? I think). Very cool choice.

different kind of Multiscale. I love it and want one

Love it so much! Want to hear more! :0)

Looks pretty cool! I'd try the King Gizzard tuning: E B C# F# C# F# (high to low).

I love the way it looks super chunky

this instrument actually makes sense

I mean i'm no stranger to extended range guitars, got a schecter omen-8 (which is awesome btw) but damn that really is something different. I really like that sound, those bass strings through guitar pickups sound very nice. that metallic clanking sound is always something that's very pleasant to me because I know it will sound great in a metal mix, and this makes it sound like a fancier version of an 8 string basically. damn now I'm thinking I should get very heavy 8 string strings