Secrets of retired Fender Masterbuilder Chris Fleming: Pickups, Wood & the LSL Edge

Chris Fleming is a retired master builder from the Fender Custom Shop. In this video he shares his industry secrets for making perfect Telecaster and Stratocaster style guitars and why he has chosen to work with LSL Instruments on new builds. Links: • Visit Watchtower Guitars to shop Chris Fleming instruments: http://Watchtower-guitars.myshopify.com • LSL Instruments: https://www.lslinstruments.com If you want to support these videos please: • Comment, like and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/notbadfi... • Join me on Patreon for exclusive content and behind the scenes adventures:   / jeffstarr   • Shop my handmade guitar pedals: https://reverb.com/shop/jeffstarrnotbad ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- Timestamps: 0:00 Why the Telecaster? 2:59 "It's a system." 5:02 Tone Wood 8:16 Ash wood 12:31 Guitar Pickups, in detail 16:43 What Are Scatter Wound Pickups? 20:05 Potting Pickups 23:47 Strat Style Pickups 27:30 Torrified or Baked Maple 31:26 Neck Shapes 37:18 Quartersawn Necks 39:22 International Mass Produced Guitars 40:40 International Mass Produced Guitars Continued 44:59 PRS SE Guitars 46:24 Guitar Finish, does it matter? 50:06 Why work with LSL? 52:40 Relic'ed Guitars 56:53 What Excites Chris? 59:02 What luthier skills should guitar players learn? 01:03:33 Neck Pocket Myths 01:08:06 Why Build Guitars? 01:12:14 Starting Late in Life? 1:13:54 How to be remembered? ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- Other Links:   / jeffstarr     / mrjeffreystarr   http://Notbadfilms.com