Guitar Hunting In NYC | You Wont Believe What I Found!

alright so we finish up the Black Keys tour a couple of days ago and my parents until II came up to the city to New York to catch the last show we decided to spend a couple of extra days here in town so we're gonna go tour some of New York's best guitar stores today Stewart [Music] yes so these are all old Timbers so there are trees that grew three to four hundred years they were cut down and then brought down the Hudson and then they were in these famous buildings for another 150 200 years but yeah this is kind of like the first step you kind of just lay out the body shape that you want and then we clean it glue it up trace it again cut the rest of the basics out and pin round a lot of it well but yeah we have to pull the nails by hand and you know a lot of the time we'll go dumpster diving and get the wood really but uh yeah so you just find the stuff when they're renovating buildings are yeah you really got to be around for it because it disappears pretty fast yeah yeah it's kind of like one of those things you walk by it I'm sure and it's like what are you guys doing where people will tip us off or some people know what we're doing so they'll bring the wood by for us yes so what buildings you were saying earlier you have something yeah we have Chelsea Hotel would suddenly speakeasy Jim Jarmusch's loft Trinity Church Serbian Orthodox Cathedral that burned down we got burnt wood out of and we've made guitars with the actual burnt outside literally charcoal like I've used it to draw yeah so all this is reclaimed all right wow I guess you do everything on the pin router mom and then this machine right here this guy was actually four guns originally it's called a duple Carver yeah and if you look at these little sort of pins right here you'd have a main template over here this board wasn't there and this was like 40 years more years ago that Rick Rick modified this and bought it you have the main template here and then two blanks and you'd have another cutter over here so you'd trace whatever was going on here with a gun and then it would carve over here so we do that for our our contours right there offset see you know the s styles and everything so it's a lot of work even though it's not just a hand tool for that the rest is all done by hand it's a very rough very rigid and then you know we do a lot with the rasp and uh and then sand it all by hand everything else is hand sanding how long have you guys been here so this this shops been here 30 years Rick's been building for about 52 I've been building for seven yeah see all these no but they're all templates but those are all templates that Rick made throughout the 70s and and you know there's hundreds of them not made by hand and it really each guitar takes mostly between three three and six seven sometimes templates so basically the guy wanted me to chamber this so and it only had two - mom buckers in it only had these two pickups he only had it routed the normal channel so he wanted to move the electronics from being way down here up here like a Strad as close as I could get it to that cuz that's what he was used to playing add a third pick up and just chamber the whole thing to give it a different sound so I chambered all of this under here i routed it all down and you know hollowed it out chambered this part and then open the back cavity and put a pine top on it and then he wanted like a Sun and Moon really really colorful theme I'm guessing he was going for like one of the like Clapton yeah I'm still working on this one but it'll be done with probably I have to have it done in about five days or so okay and then I just fill it in followed by I otherwise for portraits I keep the basic outlines obviously just take it you know make small time wise yeah but I worked with a lot of I worked with Michael Grimaldi and a life drawing in anatomy class and art students League for a bed and you know I can draw from from life with things but for portraits and stuff like that I am obsessed with the cuttlefish and octopuses and all this stuff so you wanted this whole kinda be secret yeah it's like I said think of Beach Boys that's some reason this is like you know another custom murder so we do like very traditional looking stuff and then we also do really funky cool crazy I mean everything's one-of-a-kind here I've never built a guitar myself that's been the same as another every single builds been different even if it is like similar and look there's always something that's different on it so um show them what you're doing with this one this is when I write still while we worked on this together but it's uh that's when I Ritz kind of new signature models because that's his signature shape on there yeah that's Rick's Coupe DeVille model and it I love that slotted what the wood on top where it was that from this one came from the Bowery actually it came from wood number 67 yeah what's you know what the papers 267 667 Barry yeah it's like right across from Whole Foods [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's humor this one is for the wood from this was from the bodies actually came from garment law Wow Paducah way back alright so that was carmine street guitar that was incredible man i originally heard about Cindy on the guitar nobs podcast a few months ago and decided that the next time I was going to come up to New York I had to check out that place so if any of you are in or around New York City come check out carmine Rick and Cindy are super cool super nice and they've got some really cool stuff in there so next I think we're headed wanna know where we're headed next we're gonna find out [Music] yes over here we got this [Applause] you have a uh I guess I need to clean every day that I probably now try to help ladies that go beyond words lawyers this is a 65 65 super clean and usually you know that the binding is going to be a record yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's how they access the back put all the electronics in and there's a big like plastic thing here they put this over to kind of cover it up yeah and also it's comfortable it's a planar collector yeah sure your play-by-play yeah you'd have to be friend of problem yeah cuz it's essentially like an es 175 with the longer Bell tail piece you know and the gold finish use like a gold powder you know right really beautiful like a bunch of copper in a - right which is what that's why turns green green yeah cuz it's not actually that's like a Bryce yeah exactly 53 [Music] [Music] first [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I [Applause] so like like it's really good that's why the light is gone [Music] all right we just left Rudi's music unbelievably nice shop guy Rob there was super helpful I got to play some really cool old guitars so they haven't forgot one more stop to make our little guitar tour of New York City and then you know see if we can't go home with something [Music] the cap job or anything probably it's got it all dance working well all right fully serviced for Firebird real-deal 5u3 tweet deluxe 6 I think but this is the real version of my mojo brother take my check [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we pay 4000 we do that you're serious I [Music] mean I'm not not serious you

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Length: 17min 41sec (1061 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 26 2019