Priceless with the baby looking at the blueprints!

Saya sudah ber ulang kali melihat video ini, sangat menyenangkan, begitu banyak detail yang anda ajarkan.. rasaynya saya adalah salah 1 dari ribuan penggemar anda yang ber mimpi memiliki gitar ini... Semoga sukses selalu tuan😮🔝🆗🎸‼️

Nice video and build. Just finished my Les Paul. Next year I start with a Telecaster build. I will visit this video's then over again for tips and tricks, thanks for it.

Congratulations you are a Master !! - From Italy

great helping hand you had. So much joy to have them around.

Mike knocks it out of the park again

That's awesome! Grandpa spending quality time with the grandson!

At last, a no nonsense approach at sharing guitar building techniques that make sense. And you don't have to deal with someone that loves to hear the sound of their own voice. A good watch over morning coffee that is informative as well as inspiring.

it's a pleasure to watch you work !

Great video! Thank you for sharing.

Amazing, as usual. Thanks a lot!

Excellent video, thanks for sharing with everyone.

You are a master craftsman I learned a lot watching this video. Thanks for sharing!

That’s what I call the true blue trades man with fantastic skills and amazing craftsmanship 🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

I do enjoy watching other folk build their Guitars and the different methods they employ. It's always good to be able to pick up new Bow strings for want of a better term. Thank you for sharing MIT G, no worries about me watching the other 2 parts. Good stuff, thanks.

This is one of the most relaxing build videos I have ever seen. 👌🏽

Well done Mike !

Guitar building amazing skills, cats, joyful little kids... you are my hero

Great job. 😁👍👏👏👏👏

I love it , that you let your grandson help you .

Great build 👏👏👏🇬🇧👍

I watch lots of these guitar build and repair videos (I haven't been getting out much lately!). You, sir, are the guv'nor! Your videos are a real pleasure and education to watch.

Your shop is so clean!

I love watching videos of people successfully doing things that I would completely fuck-up.

Truly inspired. I keep watching your videos over and over and I am amazed at your craftsmanship.

I like how many times you measure and check and then measure again then check....... Old time quality craftsmanship!

Good to see new content from you, always a pleasure :)

Very good job !

Great craftsmanship!

You know your woodcraft! Awesome vid.

I've watched this video 5 times, I'll never be able to do this kinda job but watching you work is like relaxing meditation for me. I so wish I had your patients and skill. And the lack of heavy metal background music and/or attempts at stand up comedy is really nice. lol. Thanks.

Amazing as usual, Mike. You're a wizard among luthers. Ed SV

You have a beautiful family and amazing taste in automobiles.

Nice team effort!

No talk, music just perfection. Enjoy your video builds.

It's a great video, but the best part was you and your grandson. I have one that same age and being together, Grampa and grandson...well, there's nothing quite like it in the world except Grampa and his granddaughter. The best to my friend, like Rush said, you have "Talent on loan from God."

Master sus maquinas y herramientas le.ayudan mucho ....y sus manos son magicas ..

Always good to have an apprentice

You do great work Mike. I wish you weren’t so far away from me. (Eastport, NY. USA)

Great.

Great great...genial.!!!

A master craftsman for a “giant” electric guitar ever made

Lovely video. My son and I just commented on how relaxing it has been watching it. He did have to tell me to shut up for repeatedly commenting on your watch collection too! Diolch for sharing this with us.

Such videos are very rare. The working technique and the accuracy are already very, very good. I've never seen such precision and such a way of working, WOW. It's a pleasure to see these videos. Greetings from Germany Tom.

Just discovered your channel and this is the the third straight video I’ve watched. I play guitar but I am about as unpractical a man as you could find but I’m always fascinated by the art of guitar building. Your videos are among the best I’ve seen. Thoroughly enjoyable and beautiful end product!

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This just popped up on my feed. What an amazing skills to have. I’m putting together my first telecaster but I’m just going to assembling it. Sources all the parts from Fender. This video will help me get through the build easier than doing blindly. Thank you and aloha from Hawaii. You have earned a subscriber.

Gostei do shape !!! Ficou muito parecido com a minha 😍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Greetings from Buenos Aires Argentina!!! 🙋🏻‍♂️

Loving the build, also love the T-shirt ,i used to own a 1973 Norton 850 MK 2a Comando ...and now I'm soon to start building telecaster style guitars... Watching from here in New Zealand 👌

Real craft.

This is so relaxing to watch

I really like your shop floor

At first I thought you were gonna chuck that cat across the room, what a sweet video... oh and the Guitars looking great too x

I sincerely hope this is the best sounding guitar you've ever played...you deserve it!

Absolutely brilliant work Mike. And what's clearly apparent in the background is a creative life well lived. I have to say, watching you applying and trimming the binding was nerve wracking, as I tried to imagine myself doing it with my unsteady hands. What a neat job you made of it. I wanted to share something I learned from Texas Toast guitars that you might consider when working the fret and neck together. They put two pins in the neck at the same locations you do on the fret board, then nip the heads so that they're about 1/4" or so proud of the neck. They then the neck onto them to index it without making through holes. When done routing, they take off the fret board and pull out the pins. I may have missed some detail that makes this irrelevant to your work. If so, mae'n ddrwg gennyf. Your mileage may vary. Going to watch part 2 now. Keep up the great work.

The little girl with the ruler. "Silly Grandad, use a CNC router and CAD software, look I'll show you how" ;-)

Total respect. Fantastic skills , a humble true family man who happens to be a genius. Outstanding viewing, thank you. I see by your tee shirts you share my passion for classic motorcycles too? I also was a friend of Tony Wilson , your X band mate. Gratitude. Quality. Respect. Regards Gareth Wiltshire UK.

So after watching your video journal a few times i decided to build myself another T style. I already had a beautiful Peavey Neck so i just needed the body. As I'm sure your aware, Musicians without work have to take up other work and my sad job was working in an Abattoir. It certainly gave me the Blues. Anyway the Boning line was being overhauled and all the thick Pine blocks were being sold off apart from those that were not sellable. So i took one and i made the body of my Tele from a Pine Butchers block. My guitars name is 'Blood' for obvious reasons. Thought i would check back and fill you in on my Guitar exploits. If you have an email address Mike i would like to send you a couple of pics. Thanks for the encouragement you unwittingly gave me over the past few years.

Спасибо.

Good skills my fine fellow. I plan to make myself a telecaster this year. I m sure nothing can go wrong 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is beautiful. I love the fact that no words (outside of grandkids) were needed. You took the time to really zoom in on the important stuff, but wasted no time doing it either. You got a like and a subscribe from me!

Absolutely agree with many of your choices and techniques. Specifically; mahogany body/thin maple top, cream binding on top/soft roundover on the back, electrosocket output jack, (looks like) pau ferro fingerboard, staggered brass saddles, comfort relief at the neck heel, etc. Oh, and most of all, NOT routing that ridiculous wire slot that forces you to cover half the beautiful body with a cheap, ugly piece of unnecessary plastic! (I try to keep as much plastic off the guitar as possible.) 100% on the money in my book. Where I differ from your choices (so far) is the double gluing and the belly relief on the back. I'm a third-generation carpenter/craftsman having experienced hundreds of other craftsmen. 'Almost' none apply glue to both sides of the work. If it is applied correctly to one side, that is plenty. Too much glue can actually create problems as it increases the chance for air bubbles and bulges where the excess glue couldn't escape when trying to squeeze it out. (End grain, okay, maybe there). Oh, and one other thing... I would never let a cat anywhere near my shop! (nor anything else for that matter) ;-) All told, much respect and appreciation for your craftsmanship and diligent attention to the small details. I enjoyed watching you work. Best to you and those grand-kids.

nice work, great! I've got small tip for You. If You use baking paper instead newspaper, glue won't stick to it :)

LOL, just like a cat...."stop what you are doing and pay attention to me". Great video!

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Nice work. But if I were making my own I'd round the top off under the right forearm, like a Strat, and I'd move the controls out of the way (strictly a personal preference). I'd also lighten the body with chambers.

Computer/machine made is 10 times better. Always perfect. But I guess this is fun if you have nothing else to do !!

What, would you say, are the essential power tools to get for building a standard telecaster guitar? I’m moving to a new place this summer, with a bigger garage and finally room to start building guitars. I’ve made a tele with an unfinished body and neck from warmoth, but now I want to do the real thing. Gonna start with a basic slab tele and work from there. Any tips greatly appreciated. Real great video to watch. You are probably the best grandpa in the world. Seeing those kids smile at you, melts my heart ❤️ And the cat. Anyone that has that kind of bond with a cat is a good man, in my book!

I found a way to glue up tops without all those clamps. I have a perfectly flat table, a perfectly flat 2 in thick, 2 ft x 2 ft slab of abs on top of the work. I then pile on 300 pounds of iron barbell plates. That way I get a perfect squeeze, and a good workout.

15:20 Unexpected billion dollar smile 😃

Where do you get your wood and plans from, awesome video's really enjoy watching them, very informative without all the waffling on. Thanks.

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I love watching your videos, Michael! They’ve helped me increase my luthier knowledge immensely! I have a quick question. When you’re attaching the fretboard to the neck, what size tack/nail do you hammer in right in the fret slot? It’s the two nails that you use to keep the board from sliding when gluing. I just want to make sure I’m not using too large of a tack. Thank you!

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Im so glad you do I want one but the wife says no way , I will wear no shirt that says that I do until I do

Another great build in progress Mike! Did you work at the Ebbw plant, or did you ever venture down to Llanwern?

question what type of bits do you use to routing the body and the pickups cavity? dimension of them? and how many watts the router have?

Did you pre-select the wood pieces by video-conference before ordering? That's some GORGEOUS wood(especially the slab fingerboard)! As usual, great work.

What are you using to stick the binding on with?

Great build, thanks for sharing. Question: What is the implication of placing the adjustment nut of the truss rod at the heel vs the headstock? I've heard that one keeps neck more straight than the other...is that true?

Hi. How do you get on with the portable planer? Ive got an Axminster lunchbox thicknesser and its brilliant, but I just dont have space for another big floorstanding machine, so whilst I can get by ok with bench planes and a thicknesser......it'd be nice to have a planer too. Thank you for posting the video.

Hi Mike. Congratulations on the videos, they are outstanding. I'm not new to woodworking, however, I am new to guitar building, and your videos have been invaluable. I am about to embark on a telecaster build not too dissimilar to yours. Could I ask I what size edge banding you used on this build? Regards, Josh Victoria, Australia.

Precision work, lovely to watch. Did you learn the superglue/masking tape trick from Ben at Crimson, or did you teach him it? Lol.

I got a lot of questions! First off your work is meticulous, I'm impressed! Second are those clamps made from old caulking guns? Thirdly I noticed you use that palm sander for a lot.i see it is a Bosch, can you tell me the model #? I have been wanting to get one for my shop. Thanks.

where do you get your measurements on the depth of the neck to the neck pocket of the body

Awesome! What truss rod length did you use?

I have that same Jet drum sander and I have a heck of a time getting it exactly parallel to the deck. Got any tips?

shouldbe teaching this

what material did you use for the white contour of the guitar 11:49 ? and where can I buy it

15:05 ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️

Hello from Russia! Your work is impressive. Can you please tell me, is mahogany better than alder?

may I ask where you got your wood for the project, Lowes isnt really cutting it for me here ahah

Firstly, Will watch because of T-Shirt, still many old Brit bikes here in Australia...machinists make the spares. Secondly, I just bought a similar 6 inch Jointer - so interested! EDIT - YES! I use Acid Brushes too. Was the Jointer ENOUGH? or did you have to use a shooting board too? have the same Sander too. Bloody hell - are you my other Brother?

where did you acquire these body templates?, cheers, and great video.

That was really nice to watch. What did you do just before you glued together the top?...with that pen looking thing. Were you scoring it for better glue adhesion? I haven't seen that move before. I see your cat likes it ruff huh?

Can you share the brand/model of electronic caliber you’re using? Thanks

Cool. What’s the router you use, looks handy!