I do guitar repairs and setups in Ottawa - Canada. I have been teaching myself guitar repair for the past few years and sharing the experience on RU-vid. Follow the adventures of a guy who just loves music and guitars.
***I've had to add this disclaimer. I'm not offering services to the general public. I do repairs for people I know, have met through guitar related transactions or trades. I'm not actually running a guitar repair business. This is all just a hobby for which I don't charge anyone a dime***
I would imagine people see your channel name and take it quite literally. They assume you know your way around a guitar. But you were completely baffled when the neck behaved exactly like it should with no string tension. You've got all the tools and look official but you're measuring neck relief with no stings on the guitar - an entirely pointless exercise. Neck relief is only measured with the guitar strung and tuned to pitch. And any truss rod adjustments can only be measured once the guitar is tuned to pitch again. You should really take this video down. It's loaded with misleading information.
Take a pot of water and warm it up on the stove till it almost boils. Then remove from heat, then put you cans in before your paint. Warm all the fluids up before spray. Might help. I hate nitro for this reason. Trash, fish eyes, sputter. Stew Mac nitro and I had to remove it all and start over. I use polyurethane now.
If the bridge was sitting flat on the body of the guitar, you can pretty well bet you have a neck angle problem, not a headstock repair problem. Gibson guitars, and any Arch top guitars have pronounced neck angles. A guitar with no headstock at all but with an arch top will still require the neck to be angled. No offense but you should know this if you are an experienced tech. .. I've worked on these things for close to 50 years, when a guitar would come into my shop with the bridge completely flat on the body and the action too high, it would have been a no-brainer.. Dan Erliwine at Stewart MacDonald has some great repair books. You might want to invest in a couple of those.
not trying to tell you what to do i always end up commenting as im watching, by the way its possible to solder the wire to that aluminum tape i do it when ever shielding cavity's
man id rather have the mexi tuner that the old f style which look cooler but one hit and they bend, at least those are the ones with the heavy duty insides but with all my years around 25 to 28 sometimes i forget how old i was when i started modifying and fixing my guitars haha, i find f tuner to be problematic im rough with my guitars live though. i put grovers on everything my 1963 jaguar mini grovers same on my 1964 jaguar , my es paul jr regular grover rotmatcs, but to each they own it is his instrument
I have that exact guitar, I bought it because my back is not what it used to be, and the guitar weight 7lbs/ 1 Oz. Sweet. ...The nut was originally a brass nut that adjusted, but Gibson offered a Titanium replacement which works really well. I love the guitar but hate Les Paul's script signature on the head stock it. I'd love to get that off and replace it with the branded silkscreen script that graces others.
I own 2 Gibsons, a vintage ’67 ES 330TDC and a vintage ’57 J50. They both play like a dream! But the ONLY REASON I own them is because they were given to me by my elderly neighbor who can no longer play them. I WILL NEVER BUY A GIBSON BECAUSE THEY ARE OVERPRICED AND OVERRATED. Fender guitars baby. Only Fender.
If the camera picks up th break, (we all can see it) why in the hell didnt you see it before? Your inspection skills leave something to be desired. Shame on you. And what kind of glue are you using on the nut? Is that super glue? Oh, that's a good idea, Not! You are just making it a harder job for the next guy to fix.
Your entire commentary is self serving to make yourself out to be a hero which you're not. They're all normal problems in the guitar tech world. Grow up. Mommy should wash out your mouth with soap.
I have a 2007 Les Paul Studio which I bought new. I love it, it is the best guitar I have ever owned (played really). And it gets better with age. It's chambered. I have never abused it. I don't throw it around, bang it around. The gold is wearing off the hardware in places, the finish has weird inconsistencies, but ome of the coolest things I'm noticing is that checking is happening. I think it started a long time ago, but it's noticable now. I used to think they were scratches, but it's checking and spreading further with every season up here in Canada. Cold winter, hot humid summer. And over all, the guitar has yellowed and darkened. I can even see the yellowing on black on the back an especially the neck. Looking at my guitar.... My brother picked up a Gibson SG Jr a few years back, probably partly due to how awesome my guitar is. He's a Fender man. Actually he's a guy who prefers to look at his guitars more than anything (which bothers me because with my guitar, I am amazed at the tone and playability of it. I WANT to play it and I want it set up well). When he bought this SG, the first thing he wanted to do was buy a spare pick guard?!? I remember telling him, why? Why would you do that? A brand new spare pick guard? Just play it. You should not care about normal wear and tear you Gibson because of your doing it properly, it WILL happen. That includes sweating on it, or accidentally dinging it on the case latches, or the gold wearing off the hardware, or the checking. In fact when it was new, it was too new looking IMO. I don't abuse it, or intentionally mess it up, but whatever happens, happens. Looks are part of the guitar but it irritates me when people either intentionally weather a guitar, or they own the guitar to look at it and not even play it. It's looks will not affect the awesome of your guitar which you should be playing.. It cleans up well when it does get cleaned, but I bought it to play it. PS I know this is satire and I absolutely agree with you.
I was looking for locking tuners for my 2011 J-45 with Grover tuners. I did found Grover locking tuners, but when I search on RU-vid I can only find videos of people showing how to put them on electric guitars. Well…, I think I know how to replace Grover tuners with Grover locking tuners, so that’s not what I was interested in. What I wanted to know was can you use them on acoustic guitars? It seems obvious, but if you can’t find anything about THAT you start to wonder. So I was more than happy to see you using locking tuners. I do have one simple question and I really hope you are willing to answer me: what tuners did you use and was there anything you needed to do besides unscrewing the old tuners and replacing them with the new ones? Did you use Grover Rotogrip 502C Chrome tuners? If so, that would make my life so much easier! I absolutely HATE restringing guitars and especially acoustics. I know how to do it, but I just can’t stand it and for some reason it always takes way longer than is necessary. In the last 12 months I replaced the original tuners on two of my electric guitars with locking tuners and in my opinion it’s the best invention since sliced bread. 😊
Wish you lived near me - I have an Épi just the same - for me would stand up against any Gibson I have played ( that is a lot ) . This was a great vid - thanks .
Got the same guitar and want to do the same change you did. First I bought gotoh locking tuners but they did not fit, they where to loose, the peghole is just to big. But I will try with this groover instead. Can you please give me the name and modelnumber on this groover so i don´t do the same mistake again.
