Name: A GUITAR with a MOTOR?! 1938 Rickenbacker Bakelite Vibrola Electro Spanish Guitar @Notaluthier
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A GUITAR with a MOTOR?! 1938 Rickenbacker Bakelite Vibrola Electro Spanish Guitar

NOT A LUTHIER 2026-09-19 | A GUITAR with a MOTOR?! 1938 Rickenbacker Bakelite Vibrola Electro Spanish Guitar

Another DAY, Another DUD. Why New Guitars Suck.

NOT A LUTHIER 2025-10-09 | What can you expect from a new, factory made guitar? Not much! a diamond in the rough, at best. A good setup, by fluke. Here we have another guitar that came out of a factory without even the option of playing in tune. A misplaced bridge/saddle that laughs in the face of intonation! HA HA!

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What THE HECK? #notaluthier #experiment #guitar #howto #diy #tips #vintage #tubeamp

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Just WOW. Expectations Exceeded #whatsinthecase #gibson #prewar #electric #guitar #rare #vintage

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WORST. DESIGN. EVER. #guitar #notaluthier #eko #vox #phantom #ghost #electricguitar #design

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I SUCK at GUITAR! #notaluthier #guitar #fender #electricguitar #luthier #acoustic The Sheepdogs

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PRO Musicians Play My WEIRD Guitars (with The Sheepdogs) ⁠⁠@TheSheepdogsOfficial

NOT A LUTHIER 2025-10-02 | Face-melting mash-up of two worlds. Luthier meets The Sheepdogs as they stop by my workshop in the midst of their nation wide stadium tour with @bryanadams I let them pick whatever they wanted to try out and then they jam out one of their classic tunes, before heading to their big gig.

A chance to see some of my guitars in the hands pop some guys with skills way beyond my own.

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Survived Katrina #guitar #fender #notaluthier #electricguitar #mustang #hurricanekatrina #guitar

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Breaking The Law? #guitar #flanger #notaluthier #electricguitar #effects #effectspedals #boss

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Instant SITAR #guitar #notaluthier #tips #electricguitar #repair #custom #tips #sitar #tricks

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Screw THIS! #guitar #notaluthier #electricguitar #ai #cordelljackson

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Simple Inspiration #notaluthier #guitar #tips #electricguitar #acousticguitar #experiment #vibrato

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NOBODY WANTS THIS! #guitar #notaluthier #tips #amp #kustom #free #electric #acoustic #marketplace

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WTF is a VIBRAPHONIC GUITAR

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HOLD THE PHONE! The VIBRAPHONE that is! For years I've been wanting to try out this experiment...and before even hearing a fragment of a sample, I pondered going to such lengths as to even patent the idea. Follow along as I go through hoops to try and reinvent the wheel...or guitar...and see just how it turns out! The world's first...and perhaps last... Vibraphonic guitar is now here!

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#inventions #acousticguitar #guitar #vibraphone #acoustic #electricguitar #diy #woodworking #tips #tipsandtricks #weird #experiment #test #vintage #dreadnought #japanese #pickup #winder #motor #weird #silly #dumb #Martin #gibson #antique #luthier #notaluthier #rare

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2 🐕 🐕1 🪓 #electricguitar #doubleneck #vintage #guitar #notaluthier@TheSheepdogsOfficial

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My Dog Fixed This Ukulele #uke #ukulele #howto #repair #banjo #puppy #chiweenie #luthier #diy #tips

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Play Stupid Games #notaluthier #guitar #tips #acousticguitar #luthier #experiment #wronghole

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FREE Brazilian Rosewood?! #tonewood #rosewood #woodworking #free #marketplace #guitar #luthier

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Did you know?! #guitar #gibson #electricguitar #history #spanish #notaluthier #tips

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PLASTIC GUITARS! #guitar #notaluthier #electricguitar #rickenbacker #slingerland #rare #vintage

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BEST RELIC?#guitar #patina #relic #gibson #rickenbacker #electric #fender

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Wut the Hecking Heck?! guitar #acoustic #harpguitar #notaluthier #repiar #restoration #tips

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YOU HATE Guitironing board?! #guitar #customguitar #electricguitar @TheSheepdogsOfficial

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This Pedal is REDONK #electricguitar #notaluthier #guitar #effects #pedal #wah #boss #effectspedal

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Invisible Neck! 125 Year Old Guitar With EXTRAS!

NOT A LUTHIER 2025-09-11 | Oooh eee oooh ah ah Schramel lamel ding dong. It's a Turn of the century Schrammel Guitar! and it wouldn't be a NOTALUTHIER joint without a smorgasbord of problems, issues and errors. Join me as I struggle to get this two headed monster back in action!

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Ribbed for her pleasure. #luthier #ukulele #aluminum #cast #uke #guitar #rare #vintage #dixie

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Playing RARE guitar WRONG #guitar #notaluthier #electric #rickenbacker #electrospanish #bakelite

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I werked hard. #guitar #notaluthier #ugly #ugliest #ebay #custom #electric #shorts

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You’ve NEVER seen one of THESE! THE FINAL MILE. E4. Electric Harp Mandola

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Sometimes, in our naivety, we take risks. And sometimes those risks pay dividends. But other times, those risks are liabilities. I bought the most expensive wood I have ever purchased, and resultantly ended up bringing powder post beetle into super secret wood room. The first and smallest piece of this "master grade" (cringe) quilted, big leaf maple from Vancouver Island only had modest signs of the beetle, a couple of pinholes on live edge off the slab, and it is with this small 24" long piece that I began the endeavour of designing an instrument that would maximize the potential of the wood. This ended up being a 16" scale length 4 string Mandola, with an additional 4 sub-bass harp strings for sympathetics and whatever else you'd like to use them for (I think perhaps slide might work)
The piece was 90% completed when I decided to start diversifying my income and task stream with this very YouTube channel. And so the mandola got slipped into a drawer to be all but forgotten for almost two years, but now, in my series The Final Mile. I get an opportunity to hone and perfect the design and playability while also serving the almighty algorithm. I do hope you enjoy it, and please check out my other videos!

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I froggin forgot the hashtags! Sorry robot overlord, please accept this delayed pittance:
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ZOINKS! Is It Fixable? #guitar #notaluthier #tips #harpguitar #guitarrepair #vintage #antique #rare

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Smallest fret ever? #notaluthier #guitar #tips #frets #luthier #guitarrepair

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ROCKING Chair?! #guitar #notaluthier #woodworking #magic #shorts #electric

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ZERO self control. #addict #lute #guitar #acoustic #antique #vintage #notaluthier #rare #old

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SG= SEA-GOING. #science #guitar #epihpone #gibson #electricguitar #experiment #shorts #notaluthier

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Oh SLAP! What BASS is BEST? #guitar #notaluthier #tips #electricguitar #bassguitar #bass

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Worlds NASTIEST Congas 🤮 #drums #congas #latin #music #nasty #craigslist #notaluthier #guitar

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BEETLE 🪲MANIA? #pestcontrol #quiltedmaple #guitar #tips #tipsandtricks #hack #scam #notaluthier

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100s of MUST SEE antique Guitar photos

NOT A LUTHIER 2025-08-14 | omfg, firstly, OYVAY. This was supposed to be a light, easy filler project to feed the algorithm whilst I deal with the infinite $hit$how that is my life right now. Everything IRL is going absolutely haywire and so I was like...HMMM...how about I just compile a simple slideshow of all the old photos I have saved for no good reason over the years...BUT ALAS! My editing software EFFED UP royally on the first 3 attempts, causing me to start all over again at which point my eyes could no longer even recognize what photo was what and whether it was already in the video 1 or 5000000000 times, so if there are repeats, goodness me I am sorry but I JUST CAN'T anymore with this crap.
This dumbass slideshow could well end up being algorithmic self-death, harikari, if you will, the final nail in the coffin of my brief YouTube career. Gosh DANG I hope not. Holy crap, this might be a terrible idea, but if you like it, please do all the things that make the algorithm be my friend! Like it, share it, that bell thing, smash some stuff. god dang...hopefully I don't forever regret this post and look back on it as the end of my "career" here in the inter web.

I realize now that it’s likely that many of the harp guitar pics are probably from Gregg miners site:
So check out that site, it’s awesome.
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IF YOU FREAKING LOVE HASHTAGS, THEN BOY OH BOYBARE YOU IN FOR A FRICKEN TREAT:
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Does SIZE Matter? #electricguitar #shootout #heavy #tips @notaluthier #shorts #guitar #hofner

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