Building an Electric Guitar from Scratch (with no experience)

My new signature model guitar is about to take the world by storm!
Should be in every major music store in no time!... once they uh... call me back.

In all sincerity though, thanks for watching! It's good to be back :)

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Also, my beginner course, GuitarQuest, is still available on it's own too

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[robscallon]

No retailer has called me back yet to stock the guitar yet...
BUT I have gotten a company to stock Sca-Taylor Guitars T-shirts!

[andrewhuang]

K before we make the next album we have 10 hours to make a bass and 10 hours to make a drum set

[callmecollin]

This is honestly a piece of art. A seasoned guitarist with zero woodworking experience, and a seasoned woodworking with zero experience with a guitar. Collaborating. Beautiful to say the very least.

[What]

This is how guitar enthusiasts imagine squires to be

[galgrunfeld]

Alternative title: Rob and his buddy build a very sophisticated knife

[louis]

As a woodworker and guitarist, I both enjoyed this and died inside

[doomstuff]

BTW, for anyone curious, you can calculate the distance from the bridge any fret should be with this: scale length/2^(x/12). X is the fret number. Also, you can subtract this result from the scale length to get the distance from the nut. For example, on a 25.5 inch scale guitar, to find the first fret, just type into the calculator 25.5/2^(1/12), and it's about 24.07 inches away from the bridge or 1.43 away from the nut. Anyway, great video!

[tamarockstar]

I'd love to see a second attempt not bound by a time constraint. Honestly though it's impressive you guys got a functional guitar in one day with no prior knowledge of building guitars.

[preachey]

"The least comfortable and least enjoyable instrument I've ever played" - coming from a dude with a shovel guitar this really means something.

[InformatrIIcks]

Official petition for Rob to make a guitar with an actual experienced luthier to see how different the result would be

[blairjohnson]

You know, it’s really a testament to the skill of luthiers that it took someone with extremely high woodworking proficiency to build… this. (You can just tell that Rob’s friend is a very talented and capable woodworker.)

[peterfarrell]

Finally, a guitar that forces the player to pay attention to finger pressure, not touching the fret ends and most importantly face position! When the audience complains that it sounds dreadful I can proudly say, “Thats because it’s a Sca-Taylor.” T-shirt ordered.

[mitchelm]

Having Simon's dad come out to check on you guys makes this seem like 2 10 year olds stuck in 30 year old bodies fooling around in the garage trying to make a guitar. I love it

[haeretean]

"You know what a bridge is?"
"No"
"You know what a pickup is"
"No"
"You know how to solder"
"No"
"Are these cables?"
"These are strings"
"Are these adjustors?"
"They're called tuners"

SO FAR SO GOOD

[jonathanheffron]

I love how they saved the "time for chaos" part for the insanely precise placing of the frets

[D-official]

I’m being completely genuine when I say that this is the most badass guitar I’ve ever seen.

[ScienceofLoud]

I love that the humbucker is permanently wired as a single coil. Watching the soldering was the most painful part, possibly more painful than the eye gouger fret.

[DrumeoOfficial]

We should try and build a drum-set in 10 hours. :-)

[IngoGarza]

I'm a musician and a hobby carpenter and this is just pure joy straight into my pleasure center.

[craigmead]

"I played guitar for like 8 years before I knew what a truss rod was, I didn't know it was there so I don't think it really matters" Famous final words.