awesome

excellent point

yes, that factory produced as lot of hits. And indeed, it's like a real jazzbox, but half the thickness!

indeed. It's a soup of names.

I think Ibanez has a relation, too and they still make some nice looking instruments under the label FGN. But apparently "Gakki" means "factory" another commenter told me, so i think it's just "Fujigen." :)

I had a Silvertone with an amp case. It's a cool idea.

I a far from a "luthier". lol

thanks for making good soap!

Lol. Truth

excellent tip!

good to know. I'll have to dig deeper. thanks

awwww, shucks. thanks!

interesting! Thanks for sharing. I pulled the "name" from others on the web who have apparently made the same mistake!

@@timsway lowendlobster has a connect with a Fujigen ehhh partner or seller or whatever. May be worth a message. I know there’s mixed info out there on just about everything coming from overseas, we can thank stateside sellers for that, purposely hiding the fact that most of the instruments out in the wild have been made by like 3 companies haha

That was my first thought but I think I've got it without doing all that work (and running the risk of something catastrophic going wrong in doing so). Stay tuned!

i don't remember exactly but I think it was close to 50/50

steel wool pads or scotch brite pads of varying degrees will work better than sandpaper.

indeed! Vinegar is another great solvent to have in a shop. I know a double bass luthier that, interestingly, grabs cider vinegar before anything else.

Vinegar is mostly water though so you have to treat it the same.

a timlapse? a TimeSway?

yea, it's easy to do with thin chrome plating

for the most part soap is just oil and lye, but then other stuff is mixed in for fragrance, feel, consistency, etc. I would assume yes.

that recording predates the trash bass. It's my Kay and was recorded c2003

@@timsway oh wow- I was actually gonna mention the Kay as well, especially when I heard the music roughly halfway through the video

@@isetta4083 I remember recording that distinctly. I had just gotten the Kay that year (and sold my first real double bass, an Englehardt) and my whole 600 sq ft apartment in a falling down 2 Family house I had just bought was all instruments with a bed and stove. A nest of little birds had hatched in my window sill, under an air conditioner, and I set up the bass and mic next to the window and recorded there, so the birds are part of the ballad. You prob can't hear them here because of the to noise I left in but they are!

@@timsway that's absolutely ace

@@timsway Where might one download or listen to it in it's entirety?

I think it's you. I've had stuff like that happen and drive me nuts, only to find out it was a problem either in my connection or temporarily at a server somewhere.

well, if you're gonna be pedantic about it, it's actually a vibrato.

@@gramursowanfaborden5820 yep

Vibrato

wait, that stuff is flammable?

I was a carpet installer, lighter fluid removes many types of glue and doesn't leave a stain.

@@davewellings6210 Naphtha is useful stuff 😉

@@JohnSmith-ki2eq I was an aircraft fueler. 70 to 90% naphtha and 10 to 30% toluene = aviation gas. Talk about off topic.

@@davewellings6210 Going off topic is how I've learnt 95% of what I find useful in real life.

Can you sat that all again, but write "well, actually" first?:) Jk. I have a pedantic streak, too, so much so I would never call myself a luthier as I lack the formal training. I "make guitars." But I usually don't worry about coloquial speech. The most important part of communication is to be understood. Of course there's a debate to be had about the digression of language and how it relates to knowledge, truth and facts, but come on, were talking about a "wang bar." :)

Someone should have told Leo Fender about that vibrato vs. tremolo thing, than maybe he would have made some decent instruments :) ...and that's the first time I heard the spaces between the frets being called frets. That would mean a fretless guitar would have no neck? Actually it's called a fretboard isn't it? Fret wire is what is used to make the frets.

@@valvenator Oh the pedantry runs deep! LOL. I'm not sure which particular thing I said, I probably misspoke (which happens often in my videos as i try to speak very quickly to keep them moving). I think we all know the metal bits are the frets and the spaces between are not, even first-day guitar students. But since I'm also pedantic I'll bite. Indeed the spaces between are called frets quite often! First, for a general term I would prefer to call it a fingerboard as not all of them have frets but all of them use fingers (even slide guitars, as fingers hold the slides. I spent most of my career playing fretless instruments.) I've had people call me out on that term, too, saying "no, it's a fretboard" which I just chalk up to ignorance... But back to the point, if one were teaching someone to play a C chord, one would say "put your third finger on the third fret of the A string...." What they actually mean is "put your finger on the fingerboard in the spaces between the second and third fret but as close to the third fret as possible and maybe even touching it a little, but not so much the flesh of your finger surpasses it to touch the space in between the third and fourth fret." Because we put our fingers on the fingerboard, not the frets. But this is too long, so we commonly say "put your finger on the third fret." Or one might say "play the barre chord on the seventh fret" and you already pictured exactly what I mean, but in reality the chord you are playing relies heavily on the index finger being placed between the 6th and 7th frets with other fingers involved on the 8th and 9th frets! - OOPS there I go again!! I mean the spaces before the 8th and 9th frets ... :)