Rubber bridges are taking over indie music

Rubber bridges are taking over indie music - Let's make one

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Rubber Bridge guitars are the new barncasters.
Favored for their unique and almost dead-like tone, rubber bridge guitars are taking over indie music.
"Witch of the mountain" written & recorded by Mark Gutierrez with a modified 1966 Stella "Rubber Bridge" guitar in B-standard tuning. Thanks for watching!
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00:00 - Intro
05:00 - 1966 Stella Restoration
10:42 - Rubber Bridge examples
13:37 - Material tests
17:11 - DEMO in a mix music video
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All Music Composed by Mark Gutierrez

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@mr.giggles4995 7 ай бұрын

That sounds way cooler than I thought it would. I really dig the song too!

@ezequielgonzales210 7 ай бұрын

Brother that sound is wonderful, definitely worth the effort put into making it playable again! The inlay work looks sick too👍🏻

@gothridercreations 7 ай бұрын

Never heard of a rubber bridge until now, very cool 😀 and the song/video surprised me, you should release that mate!!!

@MarkGutierrez 7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Check out this Spotify playlist, all rubber bridge songs: open.spotify.com/playlist/0TGiA9E4UIcJtWrXI5lChU?si=05ef6f4741ed434a

@juliomorel5516 7 ай бұрын

Really cool mod! The song is great too!

@markmccawley2526 7 ай бұрын

And a music video to boot?! Awesome!

@thebreakfastmenu 7 ай бұрын

Very cool to see that guitar get a second life

@TheCueTube 4 ай бұрын

Really lovely vid. Enjoyed the pacing of it and the care and patience in the restoration that came across, and absolutely loved the video and song at the end. Nice to find your channel.

@DominusFeles 7 ай бұрын

Since there’s a plethora of filaments to choose from today, a 3D printed bridge would be interesting to see explored 🤓 Heck, one could even program options for intonation into the model come to think of it 😃

@DJBuglip 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely, and still go nuts with designs. Great idea.

@xamislimelight8965 5 ай бұрын

Got mixed feelings about them. As a metal player, my brain goes "just use your palm, stupid!" but as a guitar fan, I love seeing things I've never seen before and how they work. This was... interesting, not sure if they're for me or not, but I like that it's a thing.

@MarkGutierrez 5 ай бұрын

It is true, palm muting achieves a very similar tone. So do dead strings.

@xamislimelight8965 5 ай бұрын

@MarkGutierrez I mean, I'm also a bit of an ass hat haha. I have realized, upon retrospect, the rubber bridge muting everything could also enable some potentially crazy sounding thrash tapping. They're growing on me.

@DJBuglip 7 ай бұрын

I just discovered your channel tonight, man, and I'm so glad I did. I really like your approach, the zen you give off. I admit I was skeptical of the rubber bridge idea until I heard your composition. Spectacular, keep em coming just like this please.

@DJBuglip 7 ай бұрын

Unquestionably the nicest that Stella has ever looked or played.

@laurentaramsjr 7 ай бұрын

Well done!

@GahMehGrrrr 7 ай бұрын

awesome as ever. And that video....very cool

@MoodGuitars 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for featuring our guitars! Cheers! • Mood Guitars ✨

@veikkajoensuu 6 ай бұрын

How do you not have like 6 digits of subscribers? I have watched only a few of your videos but these have got to be some of the best cinematography in the guitar side of KZfaq.

@dizzystardust7452 2 ай бұрын

Super rad video, I especially enjoy watching the process and experimentation that went into restoring and moding this cool looking guitar. Oh, and although I enjoyed the music and production at the end, I still wish we got to hear the guitar being played on its own with minimal processing. I want to hear the final product :) cheers!

@billo5227 6 ай бұрын

Great video. Very informative and peaked my interest in getting a rubber bridge guitar. Thanks

@lookmanostrings 4 ай бұрын

What a great video. Love your conversational style. Necessity brings me to rubber bridge guitartown (cover band stuff). Great explanation of the different types of material. I might just take my Jim Dandy and slap the weatherstrip and call it good... but what you made looks so so good.

@BrettLeMans 2 ай бұрын

You lost me at Hipsters, but I stayed for the sound. Thanks anyway.

@vontinkles 5 ай бұрын

Sounds like you got a cheat code for palm muting... very cool. I just came across your channel recently and really dig it... thanks for sharing your gifts and talent, broski. 👍🐢🕺🤗🍕

@Markleford 7 ай бұрын

9:46 Kitty break 🐱 11:44 Man-bun achieved

@thenerktwins 7 ай бұрын

Great quick project! Would have liked to see the inlay process on the fingerboard. Love it, man. Great music at the end as well!

@MarkGutierrez 7 ай бұрын

Thanks! I lost the inlay footage. But it's the exact same process I used for the inlays on the Tom Delonge build video. I just put the laser on stilts and burn the pockets for the inlays straight onto the fretboard. Then cut out some rosewood.

@thenerktwins 7 ай бұрын

@@MarkGutierrez Appreciate the info! I'll go rewatch that one to remind myself

@ivancrookedhand7895 3 ай бұрын

Дуже круто!!! Зробити гітару, музику, кліп в одному відео - це надихає. Маленька історія життя. Вимір, в якому взаємодія людей та інструментів долає межі.) Дякую)🎉

@Cyberbronco 5 ай бұрын

What makes these great is that, as I reach my late 50’s and my ears are more sensitive to the high pitch ringing of guitar strings, I can enjoy playing again. I wish you sold those rubber bridges with your laser cut mount. That really had a great finished look to it.

@MarkGutierrez 5 ай бұрын

Same here, as I got older my ears changed, I prefer the muted sound. I'll put one or two bridges on my store in the near future. May as well.

@TheLowest 2 ай бұрын

Reminds me a lot of the mutes on old fender jaguars. I tried getting that jaguar mute sound on my acoustic by literally sticky taping a folded up zip lock bag just in front of the saddles and found it was a real cheap and reversible way to get in the ball park

@MarkGutierrez 2 ай бұрын

There are so many materials you can use to mute and they all sound different.

7 ай бұрын

has a very nice mellow tone

@chubbyoo7 2 ай бұрын

FRank Dardaino gave me one of these when ai was a kid. My sister still has it.

@pavelmazalek2838 7 ай бұрын

when i started experimenting with rubber bridge out of JM/Jag bridge the first I tried was also heatshrink tube. I had two layers and than I put piece of scrunchie between those two and third layer of heatshrink. I also quickly realised that rubber is only way 😀

@kbaedke 7 ай бұрын

I can't believe you mentioned the inlays and then, boop there they are. That would have been a juicy bit.

@MarkGutierrez 7 ай бұрын

haha. yeah, I lost the footage. it was juicy. I put the laser on stilts and used it to burn the pockets on the guitar. then just layered some rosewood. and inset them. same process that I recorded for the Tom Delonge build video.

@TerryBowling 16 күн бұрын

@MarkGutierrez great video and luthiery! What was that blade pickup you installed?

@chadwilliams8583 7 ай бұрын

Wow!!!amazing.have you looked at the Baxendale modded ones?I played one in Houston,amazing!! Dude your turning into a cinematographer/musician I love it!!

@chadwilliams8583 7 ай бұрын

Mark yours sounded great too,the sounded of the bridge made it very percussive

@MarkGutierrez 7 ай бұрын

Just looked them up. Nice conversions. Thanks for watching!

@MarkGutierrez 7 ай бұрын

Yes! Percussive is the best way to describe it. Like instead of the guitar projecting outward, it projects back into the top and adds a percussive thump.

@chadwilliams8583 7 ай бұрын

@@MarkGutierrez yes and your example is VERY percussive.man,can you imagine if we took the ladder bracing off the top and put some good scalloped bracing with your bridge and other miss you done would put that axe OVER THE TOP!oh and once again your musical example was amazing

@clmrsmn 5 ай бұрын

a good temp option for the rubber bridge sound is putting something like blu tack either on top of or under the strings on a normal acoustic guitar bridge

@TheSufferingJukebox 6 ай бұрын

What pickup did you use for this project? Really struggling to find a good pickup for mine. Thank you so much for this video!

@aimr75 Ай бұрын

Cool sound. What SD pickup is that? Hotrails? Bridge or neck?

@bman3983 7 ай бұрын

wow.

@NealCaen 2 ай бұрын

Please please please tell me how you created that beautiful background organized chaos at minutes 16:38 i hear randomness and some type of pitch shifting happening! how did you do it??? 😅

@MarkGutierrez 2 ай бұрын

Custom VCV Rack patch.

@stephanevanstaen4088 7 ай бұрын

I do love the song at the end !!!! Name of the band ? Title ?

@carlchameleon9847 7 ай бұрын

he made it. its a demo

@mr.giggles4995 7 ай бұрын

"With of the Mountain" - Mark Gutierrez It's in the video description.

@markmccawley2526 7 ай бұрын

How about a tele 3 saddle bridge with fuel line pulled over (insert) the saddles and holes for the height adjustment and intonation screws? I bet a tele neck pu with a rubber muted bridge would sound phenom... Maybe in all your spare time, LOL? Thwack thwack

@MarkGutierrez 7 ай бұрын

wow, that is actually a good idea. and yeah, that would sound epic.

@kk.555 Ай бұрын

Mark question I am restoring a Bronson slot head lap steel By Regal mid 30 model. I am trying to do away with the wire thru the body bridge, I was thinking trapeze tail and floating bridge. I was wondering if the rubber bridge would work for this project? And thought or suggestions would be appreciated. Keith

@AndrewMcKean-xo6cc 2 ай бұрын

Do you have a wiring diagram for the pickup and volume knobs you used? Would love to take a stab at that myself and would be happy to pay for something like that!

@MarkGutierrez 2 ай бұрын

It's a basic one pickup wiring. I downloaded the diagram from the Seymour Duncan site. Search for single humbucker wiring.

@markgrimm3564 7 ай бұрын

so mark off the wall question how you liking the laser i've been looking at them just trying to get feed back and if i would do it over i'd buy this info like a 20watt?40watt for engraving/cutting ? didn't want to d rail the vid which i'm in the process of making a rubber bridge epip acustic thanks so much for your time

@MarkGutierrez 7 ай бұрын

I have two 20watt lasers and a 10watt. I use the 10watt for every project. I only cut small material and don't have a use for cutting thicker stuff. You can't go wrong with a 20watt. Just get something with a nice thick frame.

@theComaCalling 5 ай бұрын

Nice, I was making one out of the same Stella (‘64)! Great video btw. Any chance you’ll be selling your bridge design on Reverb? That pickup mount is awesome too!

@MarkGutierrez 5 ай бұрын

It's tough to make a one-size-fits-all bridge for these old guitars because they are have all aged differently. The neck angle will probably always be different for each of these guitars which means the height of the bridge or the string slot depth needs to be custom made for each guitar. Technically I could make a generic one where the buyer would then have to dial in the height and string depth. Let me know if that is something you're interested in. You can message me on instagram.

@nicspinksmusic 5 ай бұрын

I was thinking this too!

@theComaCalling 5 ай бұрын

@@MarkGutierrez also, what is the material used for the custom pickup mount? Seems like that might be tricky to get right.

@MarkGutierrez 5 ай бұрын

@@theComaCalling 3mm basswood plywood from amazon.

@kbaedke 7 ай бұрын

Did you try a lasering on the rubber block? Could you get intonated saddles that way?

@MarkGutierrez 7 ай бұрын

No, I didn't try layering the rubber but that is a very clever idea.

@shanespruiell93 2 ай бұрын

Have you considering selling these bridges on etsy? I would buy in a heartbeat

@SMAWA9 5 ай бұрын

old style forever

@oliveskytattoo2369 7 ай бұрын

have you tried the rubber off a capo?

@BenCDaugherty 5 ай бұрын

I have! It works. Both of my rubber bridges have the jewelers block :)

@18JR78 5 ай бұрын

Bass players use sponges 🧽 under the strings for motown tones. Add flat wounds for extra vintage tone haha. I wonder if a rubber bridge would be a better alternative. I just created your next project.🤭😂 cheers.