thanks for the info! I got most of that in my research except the veneer explanation (although several people compared the veneer to their cheap furniture from the era :)

You have no clue what you're talking about, as a Ukrainian, I can say that just means that you can play both rhythm and solo.

Standard Soviet guitar tree is the most Soviet way to describe that veneer =D

@@user-xf6tr9vk5y that’s... just the name of the instrument, I don’t think he can do anything about what the manufacturer called it..? Am I missing something?

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. I'm glad you have fond memories and am honored to play a small part in them.

Sorry for your loss Nathan. I can relate, having lost a cousin to COVID as well. Be well & stay safe yourself.....

Very sorry for your loss...

Shinji, play the guitar!

@@emorydavis997 I build guitars because people compliment me when I do it

It's no good, it's not responding!

@@emorydavis997 shinji. your guitar is your mom

now i want to watch that lol

Wholesome banter fr

I prefer buttons and switches over knobs aesthetically and, often use wise, too. While I'm sure there are many who do, I rarely find myself using knobs in positions other than 0 and 10.

Looking for archtop bridges online this design pops up quite often even today

@@volpsita7676 With separate pieces of metal for each string?

@@JBergmansson yes, like this one m.it.aliexpress.com/item/1005001860862076.html?spm=a2g0n.productlist.0.0.11a6641fJS6aEL&browser_id=1e2d6e7575a34f43a04edf9a6b5bcfc5&aff_trace_key=&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=rtrff905rvucau6g176c95ead18145d46cb0987d08&gclid=&_imgsrc_=ae01.alicdn.com%2Fkf%2FH002456302a8943158b7c7b3e405c8ff9F.jpg_640x640Q90.jpg_.webp

@@volpsita7676 I've for sure seen this on "cheap" guitars in the past, but never really put much thought in to it until I started to set up a guitar with one. It has merit...

@@timsway it really does, the floating bridge probably helped eliminating the need for precise centering and intonation (thus making production cheaper and faster). The ease of setup is one of the reasons I always loved floating bridge instruments. Anyway, love your work, I've started getting into luthiery (and also playing some double bass) thanks in part to your videos, so thank you.

oh yea, totally. The metal is a little thicker and the spring a little better built IMO (at least compared to the last one I messed with, which was new).

@@timsway and the mounting screws are not directly in the path of the strings. American and Asian made Jazzmasters eat A strings like M&Ms

Sure it. It's a blatant knock off of Fender's design. Same basic design in the Fender Mustang too.

12:04 Cute. Smart boy you got there, Pal. Good little thinker.

lol. It would be better done if at least ONE of us got it :)

They're called Violins or 500/1s, more people use them than just paul McCartney

I think the same could be said about me :)

Sounds as though the lad is a healthy skeptic - that's good.

he's legit

thanks bro!

it's all grounded now as the jack and controls are screwed directly to the aluminum pickguard and the ground wire to the bridge is added to the mix.

A warm recommendation from the time of socialism - never create an Al-Cu galvanic pair! The poorest option for shielding! Even insert an iron washer and fasten it with a screw ...

@@onkelpool noted! I'm not very well versed in chemistry so I've never considered looking into possible issues will that combination of materials.

@@timsway nice!

Thanks! I try to explain the "Cold War Era" a little bit and would appreciate your insight in the comments :)

вторая часть на патреоне, за деньги. не товарищ он, а капиталист проклятый!!

@@timsway What Cold War? Rock ' n ' roll, rum-cola and a bright future.

@@Huhuy2000 какой он капиталист? Мелкий буржуа.

Я бы не ожидал ничего особого. Не знает сказочник души советской гитары. И что Футураму никогда не делали в Союзе!

I started in a one-car garage with a drill and a circular saw like everyone else. Heck, look back at some of my earliest videos and you can see. For years, every dollar I made i invested back in to myself and my tools, shop used, fixed broken stuff, worked out trade deals, hunted for over a year for an amicable rental agreement etc. etc. If you have good, creative ideas in your work, you can apply the same creativity to how you work.

Thank you very much!

Thanks so much!

cheers, amigo!

good info!

awesome. thank you for reaching out!

cheers! the label there is risky, but what the heck, right? There are thousands of these guitars over there - and no one wants them. lol.

TRYING to at least :)

Thanks man. I'm trying to push his young neural plasticity now so he'll be a cognitive monster when his brain is fully developed :)

#SovietGuitarsAreTheNewHollowCoreDoor

The market value in vintage USSR and Japanese guitars has been on the rise for awhile now. I know a few ppl who collect and service them. And I know at least one person who makes new boutique guitars inspired by the vintage “wacky” guitars. The guitars have a lot of character and that’s why I love em myself

the switches are basic wall-mounted light switches. your apartment might have the same for the bathroom and kitchen, for example.

the plasticy finish on it was cracked and needed repair. Funny tho, to people who grew up in the eastern block, that veneer looks like grandma's tacky furniture because they used the same veneer. But to us it's beautiful!

I knew it!

I think I could replicate it by hand easily, too! Believe me I plan to... :)

I think it's like learning a new word for me. Now I'm going to see them everywhere :)

It has fewer intentional moving parts than a typical bridge, I suppose, but it is made of wood... I think the solution I came up with will work OK. stay tuned!

cheers. I think the show would be better if at least one of us knew what the heck we were talking about! lol!

@@timsway most of us don't :)) and when your kid asks you something you find it hard to explain, sometimes that's scary :)) I really enjoyed how honest you were with the kid. Not many people can do that, admit they don't know something. Btw, if you need help with explaining Everett's many-universe theory, give me a shout :)) it's easier than you would think, problem is, not many people take the time to explain it on the most basic level.

@@BayandurPogosyan cheers! My mission with Vance's education is not to make sure he "knows" stuff, but to keep him curious and let him know how much stuff there is to know. Big concepts like relativity, basic physics and spacetime should not be save for high school minds but pumped in to brains in these earlier ages, when they are super elastic. School does it backwards. They build up to big concepts. Education should start with broad strokes at the top then systematically break it down to 2+2 and all the other stuff :)

Essentially, most of the elementary particles we interact with, are in one of two states. When we "observe" those particles - and this is the part which gets people confused - people think "observing" an elementary particle means looking at it, but we can only "observe" their state by interacting with them - we measure that they are in a stable form. So the superposition of states is resolved. The Everett and Copenhagen interpretations argue about how it happens. The Copenhagen interpretation claims that the waveform collapses into a stable state. The Everett interpretation claims that the waveform collapses into all its possible states, each in its own space-time (imagine space-time like infinite planes in a 3d-space, though space-time, most likely, is not flat), and we just observe one of them in our current space-time. So your decisions do not create additional universes; it's that, according to the Everett interpretation, if there is an infinite number of space-times, each your decision, with each possible outcome, exists in at least one of them. This is a very simplistic explanation, I know, but I hope it's not too complicated :))

Every project has at least one "oh shit" incident. lol

yea, I had an old, weird archtop with something similar once, too, I suppose, but I never thought hard about it.

someone said for placing templates/workholding even without cnc, which also makes sense

@@timsway I didn't even consider that, definitely plausible

you are indeed "my people" and you are not alone :)

The first bass guitar I made in the late 90s I bought a bridge that did that and it totally helped.

It's certainly not rare and no one I have met or discussed in the process thinks or claims it is. It was certainly an inexpensive beginner guitar, from "behind the iron curtain" during the Soviet era, which is wanted it for this project. Also look up "Borisov Futuama" - this is probably what the guitar is, a Belarus knockoff of the Czech Jolana.

That's exactly the info I found in my research, then the Stratocaster invaded the UK like the Beatles invaded the US :)

I know HE can, not sure if I can...

@@timsway 😆😆 bwahahaha 😆😆

Socialist countries, with their notorious scarcity of many things, were teaching you inventiveness and improvisation skills relentlessly almost every day. I remember visiting a barn sale in Poland and it was like attending a folks art exhibition. From hilariously hapazard repairs to master level made contraptions with sometimes mysterious function you got the whole bandwith.

Yes, a case of needs must.

@Fiedel I bet! What an interesting adventure. Like Cubans keep those 40s and 50s cars running still but Americans need a new Prius every 4 years :)

yea, they might be the same? I'm not sure. Never really played with midi, or old German stereos :)

@@timsway Those German stereos go back to the 1960s.

it was too broken and warped. I wish I could have. I would have done the same thing with the holes but it is so thin and brittle it was beyond salvage.

@@timsway Damn. I have found that these old Soviet guitars have very brittle celluloid pickguards. I always see them warped.

I'm sorry, I don't remember. Probably around 5 or 6 k

Thanks 👍

thanks man. I will probably do something charitable within this series. It is indeed something i like to do. With my other new business (guineapigtanks.com, if you didn't see the vid) I give $1 to the CT Humane Society for each order. Hoping maybe I can do something like that with my main biz.

@@timsway I haven't. I'll definitely give it a look. I'm still catching up on videos after falling really far behind with KZfaq.

sounds familiar to me, too? Am I in your dreams? lol

@@timsway Since you asked, I have a recurring, disturbing dream involving you, me and a luan door.

@@joebikeguy6669 lol!!!

it's fun and a lot easier than starting from scratch :)

YES! Apparently Hofner and some others also did this and I had seen them, but never really tinkered with or thought about them.

lol. I get a lot of them but that's a new one

@@timsway No offense intended of course

@@CiggyRat good, or I'll kick your ass! As soon as I finish my Coors Banquet. No mercy! :)

thanks for the tip!