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Extended cut: you’ve never seen a guitar like ARNOLD
🕑 Added 2025-07-03 12:56:18 +0000 UTC
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Eric Hall
Hey Ben, any chance of a video on your techniques for doing the Fallout motif? Doing the randomize pater with the leaf shouldn’t be hard but weathering it without doing a blue patina is what I’m after! Thanks for the awesome videos and content! Love it all!
Matt Griffin
Transparent pick guard?
Standupunk
Finally watched this. Very cool and love your style
Duncan Neilson
I think the oxidised copper finished pickups with the plain black guard looked off the charts aesthetic wise
Joe
Your sound description of the pickups is spot on. Love the Dimarzios for a different tone. I would try the distressed bare knuckle covers to match the volume knob, or a set of cream would look great. Not a big fan of the green…but not a deal breaker by any means. Killer demo to show off the pickup differences…both sound fantastic!
steven katien
Nice one, B. regarding the problem you mentioned with the action, make sure the neck hasn't been pulled up while you were messing around. You might want to re-seat the neck, by just loosening the screws (not all the way, just a few turns!) while the strings are on it and then re-tightening them to see if it fixes the action issue and pulls the neck tighter into the joint.
Matthew Briggs
The distressed leaf is honestly one of the best finishes I've seen on a guitar. I think it sounds a little better with the Dimarzios too. Hear me out real quick on the pickguard; is there a way to do one that looks like a weathered Radioactive hazard sign? You know, make it look beat up and faded with some copper leaf spots to mimic rust? I know that's definitely way more work, just an idea I had.
crispernaki
Yeah, tone knobs are for chumps!
Glenn Lysack
OK for what it’s worth I like the sound of the new PUs minus the crackling but for the aesthetic, I’d go w/ the black mirror pick guard and the oxidized pickup covers like what you had on there before. I think that would pull it all together.
Kyle Nix
Would love if you could list songs you're playing in the video in comments. I know I should know them, but my memory won't let me! THANKS BEN!
