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MAN, that jam at the end was killer! Really shows that more money doesn't always equal the best tone. The neck pickup sounded especially good!

All the old time tone chasers didn’t and don’t care where something is made. It’s all about what it sounds like.

I love rebuilding guitars from this era. I also love to watch other techs rebuild also.

Dude!!! That thing came out great! From the right angle you'd never ever guess there was a hole in the front of that headstock. That thing just screams something Ace Frehley would play, I love it. Amazing work, Brad.

Honestly, that was awesome. The makeover, the electronics, the fret dressing, the rock out in the outro. Perfect. Your obvious enjoyment from playing the finished instrument. Thoroughly enjoyable video. Thank you.

I have a Univox from the same era with basically the same finish with a maple neck. Had it for 30 years and it's still one of my most comfortable guitars to play. Great video!

Old plywood-bodies sounds awesome. I have two plywood guitars, and they both have insane sustain!

Stellar blues licks, Brad! And a beautiful repair job!

To level sand you have to use a block. By hand it’s always gonna be wavy

Ive got a 1974 Ibanez Martin acoustic copy and it too has a hole in the headstock, I've concluded that the only reason for it would have been to fit a cigarette as the usual spot under the strings is too small to fit one.

I use a block with the sandpaper to help eliminate the waviness in the finish.

That jam at the end was nice, I like watching other people improvise like that.

Amazing! I love your amp work and restorations. You just turned that into a great looking and sounding guitar. 🎸 bravo. And I have to mention the guitar jam at the end. Great video Brad.

"I've just stopped tryin' to figure people out, they don't make sense." ROFL welcome to the club. Cheers.

My first quality guitar was an Electra x 220. Sunburst. Got it for $125 bucks in 1983. I still love it and play it often. 5 way switch for in and out of phase and coil taping on both pickups. Super heavy slab of a body and a screaming hot bridge pickup. A solid axe.

Nice job! The headstock looks great! Still laughing about that damn hole!

One thing I've started to notice with these overseas cheaper parts, is sometimes they're name brand stuff that maybe didn't make the cut to be on the name brand instruments. I saw a video recently of a firebird-type knockoff, and the bridge and saddle both had epiphone stamps that were partly welded over to hide the stamp. maybe those necks were made by fender but didn't make the quality control cut and ended up on temu

Great playing brother at the end of the video loved it.

Geez, I thought everybody drilled hanger holes in their headstocks. I even drill them through my bagpipes and saxophones. You know, that's what duct tape was invented for. Get a Clue!! LOL

That was some mean playing, dude...kudos !

Gotta say I enjoyed this video way more than any other video in a few years knocked it outta the park

I too have stopped trying to figure people out. Most are like broken cuckoo clocks. The little bird comes out and sounds for 11:00 The hands point to 7:30 And the actual time is 3:15 Life is just too short for such aggravation. Too many interesting and useful things to do

To get that headstock really flat use a small block to sand it. Soft fingers will never get it flat. Lucky thing that the pearl was actually thick. I have a 1972 Yamaha acoustic on the bench with a broken truss rod and a damaged headstock. Pearl logo was a decal. That was a surprise. Great playing at the end, there!

Broke right now and can't order parts and shit for a while. These videos are cool because it's like showing up at a buddies house and he has some cool shit to check out and some to tinker with. Hope all is well your way! Thanks for the uploads like this!

Your guitar neck looks 100% better than it did before. 👍👍👍

Loved this video. The Electra turned out great. Vicious playing at the end fella. Great stuff.

Great job! Actually by far my favorite part of the video was you playing the guitar at the end. You are amazing!

Man, i want that electra.. that was my first electric guitar when i was young. i bought it in a pawn shop for $80 and it was spray painted black.. i always regretted getting rid of it..

I remember seeing ads for Electra MPC Guitars in mags as a kid in the 70's and wanting one so bad. Thanks for the blast from the past Brad!

My 1st electric guitar when I was 15 in 1978 was Electra X910(Rick Derringer model), the most rarest and valuable Electra guitar now. Boy, I wish I still had that!

Love the LP..ive got a 70s lawsuit era Electra SG Copy .. I love it...mines still all original.

I just recently aquired one of the new fender blues deluxe reissue amplifier to play on with my 2016 american fender stratocaster. Absolutely loving it so far, excellant pair! But am also loving watching your videos. Love seeing your knowledge with working on guitars. Growing up i always wanted to learn how to work on guitars when older. So its cool seeing others work on them and build them even as well. I loved your strat build video. Sounded great! My first guitar was an 08 all mahogany gibson les paul(had one of the best feeling necks ive ever played on) sadly I lost it during heroin addiction. But as much as i miss it i sure enjoy what i have now. A cheap ibanez with REALLY nice sounding humbuckers(no idea what kind exactly) and an amazing neck and fretboard for the price and cheapness of the guitar. Decent ibanez two point trem system, just wish the arm was pop in instead of screw in. But its fun to play on as well.

I grew up playing a Matsumoku made Westone Spectrum LX (198mbk) it resonated so much it tickled my throat & made me cough! I miss that guitar so much!!!! Your jam at the end of the video was spectacular! See how they have a way of bringing it out of ya! That is why I love Matsumoku made guitars!!!

I've got an old Harmony that I've been wanting to make playable again. This gives me motivation.

For leveling CA glue, you want to make sort of a card scraper out of a razor blade. Run it across a piece of iron to create a burr( I saw it on KZfaq, and it worked for me).

Very nice job Brad. I recently volunteered to repair a friend's guitar. She brought me the MOST beat up guitar, bridge pulling up, cracks in sound board.(It had been languishing in her basement untold years.) now here's the kicker, it's a Larivee!!! Mahogany back & sides, plus Mahogany neck. I think the fret board is Ebony (I can't scrape it, the woods to hard grain is extremely tight.) I wanted to slap her (but in her usual condition I doubt it would have any effect. LoL) any way I'm taking my time. You don't know how sick I was when I saw the badge. OMG Any way you did a spectacular job on that Nut & headstock. (Nuts ain't easy) I ordered a bunch of those unbleached blanks. They are decent TBH. Great playing too.(As usual) Blessings!!! BTW I'm in NJ (do they have Spring or Summer? All it does is Rain. LMAO but I got a sweet woman who has given free time to do my thing.)

The bridge pickup is an Ibanez Powersound pickup.

Your playing at the end was absolutely killer!!

I love this guitfiddle, Bradley. Awesome job putting this former wall hanger back to work! Also, you said you took ill. Where did you take it? Sorry, had to get that out! 😂

I found myself shaving a plastic backplate for a Schector & @ 1st I tried using sandpaper on the ground because the tile floor was flat, and then I used the rear of a knife & shaved the plastic. It was part of a knife set. Not exactly a steak knife but, a shorter knife in the set. It did a fantastic job! I finished up with the sandpaper, but the reverse side of a knife dragging it backward worked perfectly on the plastic action covers! I was not cutting it, I was dragging the back side of the knife & it was removing it in strips kind of. It was definitely faster then hand sanding! The backplate is now submerged & looks much better than it was!

I'm thinking that hole in the headstock was to hold something like a sparkler a la Kiss.

Great work and playing Brad! Gotta love that neck pickup. Smooooth... :)

Bradford!!! Excellent work restoring that Electra headstock!!! My best friend has a MPC with the modules. It's black with the open book headstock. He says it plays as well as most of his Les Paul's.

I had an old Elektra 310 or 320 MPC Les Paul. The sustain was unbelievable. Beautiful guitar! Elektras were great for the money. Gibson players hated me, lol.

Great job on the Les Paul clone. Sound great and the cream cream pickups kind of match the body color and the headstock repair looks great from the front.

Front pickup looks really like the maxon used on my two morris les paul..with the big screws. lovely pickups really warm

I've owned a few Electra model guitars through the years and they were pretty good guitars

That would be great to have a guitologist logo token inlay cap over that dowel!

Only ever seen 2 elektras in my country. Nice recovery there Brad, and it sounds so good.

For the beginners it’s probably a good idea to use a block for wet sanding if you’re trying to flatten a finish.

Man if you were playing a bar I was hanging, I wouldn't mind that shuffle one bit. Nice job.

Can’t believe how good the repair came out !! This proves most of the sound is in the fingers or expensive pickups are just overpriced. I have left Epiphone and Squire pickups in the guitars they came in and they sound fantastic.

The first band I was in, the guitarist had an Electra Les Paul. I was probably about a 78, with the new headstock. I thought it was the greatest guitar I had ever seen. Actually, it probably was. :) Thanks for keeping this one alive.

That Electra cleaned up pretty damn nice, killer playin brother

killer sounding demo there in the end! wonder how the pickups compare to the original Maxons i will probably never use Temu but i do enjoy your videos on them. Hope they pay you well, because you deserve.

I don't go for that weird asmr shit but I could watch you sand a headstock for hours. ha ha. Came out real nice.

Great job Brad! Awesome blues jam…That guitar just may be a keeper…

This Electra guitar sounds really good. Not bad at all for $14 pickups.

I love these guitar videos man.

Hey Brad, greetings from Scotland mate. I always return to your chanel as I like your honesty and the love of saving things and making them live again..and not a whiff of guitar snobbery. I've had a number of Westone guitars(Electra in US) and they're terrific instruments, still have first guitar that's been butchered to death(I was young and stupid😊) but still plays great! Just to sign off by saying great rebuild and hey you can really play bud. Keep up the "real" chanel mate😎

Great job on the Electra. Those pups sound great!, and I loved your jam at the end. You can play, son.

GREAT EPISODE BRAD, GOOD TO SEE YOU ON THE UP! NICE JOB COVERING YOUR AND OTHERS SINS.😜

Hello Brad. I also still have my first guitar my parents bought me for my Birthday. A black Electra Les Paul copy. Same model as the one you have on this video. It sounds really good for a copy. I’ve never took it apart to see each individual pickups, pots and etc. It was my first good guitar when I got in the early 80’s. The tuning keys were not in good shape, so I bought new ones. At the time, I was not thinking of type, just as long as I had tuning keys. Well, I got home and started working on replacing them when I realized I bought Fender style 6 in-line instead of the Les Paul style. But I made it work with the bottom three keys backwards. I didn’t care, because it stayed in tune, thereafter. Awesome blues riff at the end, Brad. 🎸👍

Another great thing Electra did was moving the tailpiece back a bit more so you don't have as much break over angle so the strings don't sit on the backside of the bridge

Can’t help but comment that most of the uneven levels on the headstock might have been accentuated by using sandpaper free hand. I imagine that if you used flat backing on your sandpaper you would’ve had a faster and better result. Having said that, you’re way out of my league as far as talent goes. Thanks for sharing this interesting project.

How badass wearing an actual guitar on a huge gold chain round your neck!! Damn! Jack ~'()'~

VERY nice Brad! 😃👍! 'Linzy Luthier Services'! Temu are gonna be very happy with your video too mate! Excellent demo too bro I loved it. Who'd a thought it was a Japanese/Chinese geetar? No one. Or maybe it was more the player than the instrument?

I love your jams at the end of your videos. You rock Brad

Brad... really enjoyed the restoration on the axe and great to see you paying her after... really sounds niceeeeee! I've got a black Japanese Gibson copy same body style from the late 70s, '78 i think... (my first guitar) in bad need of restoration... I'd love to fix her up like you did there... took her to Guitar Center but they said don't bother 🙄 (think they just want a sale) but I need a pro like you to do it right! Keep rocking my man!

Commenting again after hearing you play it after doing the referb...no flies on that guitar...it sounds spectacular, and obviously is not getting in the way of playing it, haha! Just shows with a little TLC how good those guitars are, and really are a great option for someone who doesn't want, or can't, spend 2 to 3K on a USA Les Paul.

I don't know you, but I imagine easily a pub, drinking a beer while Brad is playing random stuff on some guitar for hours x)

The guitar sounds as good as many gibsons. Nice work to restore it.

Roy Buchanan did that to his '53 Tele so he could hang it on a nail on his wall hahaha

Thanks Bradley. 🙂

Nice jam Brad! You are good. Greg Martin is going to want that guitar now! Way to rip! That Chibson/Japan guitar and you sound pretty good

In the late 70's in high school, we used to play those bolt on neck import Les Paul copies. One was a black Aria with a rosewood fretboard, and the other, a white Ibanez with a lacquered maple fretboard...I don't know where the Ibanez is anymore, but the friend that had the Aria might still have it...I'm still in touch with him, so probably going to ask him if he still has it, haha!. Thanks for the video, and hope you and yours are doing great!

Really nice work & my favorite jam ever. Sounds like a great guitar.

You are on to some-thing good. I do know that "Temu" adopt the "Loss-leader" marketing approach, where the neck may have cost them a lot more to make than usual but they will make some excellent parts and sell them at no-profit to get their foot through the door. Well spotted Brad!

wow!!! that guitar really turned out nice! This was made by MATSUMOKU, in japan!!!!

That headstock job you did was amazing! I have one of the lawsuit guitars ! It’s the silver burst ! My first guitar I got back in the late 80’s! My parents got it out of the j c Pennie’s catalog! I’m a ace frehley fan and I had to have it cause it was shaped like a les Paul ! It’s got some dead spots on the fret board ! ⚡️ space ace Ron⚡️

Hey,Brad awesome restoration on that electra,sounds and plays like butter,Cheers!

With the newly exposed part of the wood dowel exposed, the wood may have swollen a little from the humidity.

Very nice work once again, Brad, a lot of effort into the headstock came out great it was worth saving and of course you played the piss out of it as usual

I have had some Electra LP copies both bolt on and set neck. Not bad guitars really. The MPC models had all the electronic effects plug in chips which were OK. Plywood body guitars are not bad either as long as they aren't too heavy.. Use good pick ups and good electronics they sound fine.

Those Electras were everywhere in the late 70s, at least down here on the MS Coast. I had one, my first electric, with a new Peavey Classic 30.

Turned out great. Tip from an old woodworker, use a small block of wood under your sandpaper will flatten the finish so your fingers don't make the wavy surface saves time.. good job !!

Really cool restore. First time I've seen foil under shielding tape but it seems like a really good idea - learned something new!!! Kinda reminds me of that metal shielding cover thingy I see in some videos of vintage Gibsons

Oh yeah I forgot that hole in the head stock totally disappeared great job keep up the good work and I'll keep on watching❤😊

Crazy playing! Wow. Guitar looks great.

Nice work man! Yeah these guitars are nice when fixed up. Great job disguising the hole in da head! Sheesh. I have a couple Aria (not Aria II) that I believe are right after this gtr, same factory, Japanese. These and the one you have, sport a genuine carved top, at least mine do. I have a 1990's Gibson LP, and the old Arias, despite being bolt on, kinda sounds more like a LP. I found a guy selling some paf's from a 335, and installed those in one of them. If you can believe it anyways. Thanks for the cool vid, and jam at the end. Is that your Steve Hillage sounding atmospheric trip track during the sanding? I like that as much as the end blues jam personally. Relaxing. We need relaxing these days. Appreciate ya.

Loved this video. Guitar came out great. Vicious playing at the end fella. Great stuff.

You should have used a block to sand it , because it makes the clear coat much more level Brad .

Brad! great job on that Electra man. that sound is just way too awesome with a nice dose sweetness

Nice results and great jam,Brad!

You wouldn't even know that headstock was cracked and glued it looks awesome great job keep up the good work love your Channel😊❤

Man I love theses types of videos please do more guitar builds like this one. Brad you awesome at the end of this video.

I think even Sean would call this beast “scarred”. She didn’t make it easy.

Yeah man, that Goldtop looks great!

I still have a ‘76 Ibanez “lawsuit” bass, a Ric 4001 copy. Bolt-on neck of course, but the detail and craftsmanship is superb. _And_ , it sounds like a Ric.