Repair facility and Custom OEM Guitar (electric) Builder in SW FL (Port Charlotte/Englewood). Building since 1999. I work with mostly working musicians in the area. We are a dealer for Babicz FCH Bridges, Ernie Ball, Kent Armstrong Hand Wound pickups. We are state licensed and taxed. Currently building an Ever safe Carolina Carports 1500 square Ft metal building. South West Florida.
Question.. Not much info on used Hohner HS 35 (335 copy MIK) I was looking at. They were made in Korea and had Kent Armstrong humbuckers supposedly sold by SKY. I heard there was another Kent Armstrong version PROPER sold in UK. Can you give me a history lesson? Loved everything else you already stated. I live near LInden NJ Thanks in advance!!
Kent's son who was born and raised in England runs the European Division out of England. I grew up in Edison just down the road. Kent's son naturally also winds pick ups. There is a Korean version that is popular online but they are not hand wound.
All of the "synchronized " bridges are fulcrum with either the two point or six point fender bridge. Fulcrum is a pivot point that remains static while the bridge moves. The six screws for the fender bridge have smooth shoulders where the bridge rides. The two pint has a knife edge that rides the posts.
Are there strat style replacement bridges with a string span of two inches, the saddles ten millimeters wide? I have two cheap old 80's strat-style guitars with bridges that size. (I guess it was to have proper spacing for a gibson-style neck pickup in the bridge position.) I've wondered about replacement parts for them, and how common such bridges are these days.
If you look hard enough you can find anything. There are other work arounds but I would need a lot more info to include pics of the bridges. Even some of the Japanese bridges are still available. The current saddles are exactly 10.0 mm ? or are they 10.2 to 10.5 mm? the tolerances are like that. My e mail is FXHDTPa5@msn.com send some info. I have probably 50 old bridges and may have the parts you need.
So you do the fall away first!! Before doing the normal fret level? Ok. Bring up the 15, last 5 frets get the hit/sanded level (so 17 to 22 frets are going to get hit on a 22 fret board and 19 to 24 get hit on a 24 fret board). I am correct on this?!?!? Please advise.
everything from 13 to 21,22,24 will get the fall away there will be tape over the 12th fret. With 8-12 wraps of tape at the 5th fret put a straight edge across and you can see where it will touch. The key to any fret level and dress is to remove the minimum amount of material from the frets. Hope this helped.
@@talonguitarworks7514 Another question for you. The 12 piece of tape thing. Would you consider that about as thick as a .25 and a dime put together or just a quarter? I was thinking of putting it on the beam instead of wasting the tape on the fret. Then tape over the coins. I understand your fall off issue, I agree with you. It seems to me that I get more fret buzz at the first or second frets. So I have to CRANK the truss rod to get it to stop. What am I doing wrong? I make sure the board is straight. Use the fret level tool, mark which ones and then decide on either single or full fret level. Than crown and polish and do fret ends. Then it will fret buzz and it sounds near the nut. Causes me a lot of distress of what I am doing wrong. Please advise.
@@scottdahlberg4890 Its the nut if you have done all the steps correctly your buzz is coming from the nut. From working on acoustic guitars the buzz is always the nut or the saddle. Check width of the nut slot, break of nut towards tuners, depth of nut slot it should be low to high .020, .018, .016, .014, .012, .012 (this is the space between the bottom of the string and the top of the fret.
Great video. Good info. I put the Les Trem on my Epiphone ES339 after agonizing over what trem system to use. Then I added the roller bridge. Great combo. Stays in tune 98+% of the time which is good enough for me (as even if I'm playing normally with my tele I usually check tune every other song anyway) and if I hear any out off tune notes I just give the Les Trem a little tap and voila back in tune.
Ive had guitarists in 80s that had that slant. When i picked up guitar and got into playing i thought that was the correct way but watched the over produced big sub pros and never got that info. So i did it anyway as my old bandmates did it. I have never had tuning issues tough thank God ive just been super lucky. Thats the ones with the tilt and ones without. I even tried an even claw with differing spring tensions of spring by design and that worked too. So i am lucky i suppose no matter what. Lol. Great info man. Old school is key. It worked for the pros then. Will work now.
Tuners, yep. Put Schallers on a Fender Jaguar as a teenager. Used a hand drill. Recently put a Chinese jazz bass neck onto a Fender P Bass Lyte and had to fill and drill the holes. At least I have a drill press now. Then I have two guitars from the 80s with string spacing that matches a Gibson neck pickup in the bridge position. Maybe one centimeter per string? Narrow! I've no idea where I could get replacement parts for those. Not 'Zon. My only guitar with a Floyd came that way from the factory; thankfully everything matches and lines up on that. It's a Korean Mockingbird. It's one of the nicest things I own.
@@talonguitarworks7514I bought a hipshot supertone bridge for a '74 ibanez eb-3 copy because I've seen pictures of other people installing them on their lawsuit basses, but it didn't fit on mine...so I swallowed my disappointment and drilled some holes in the stock 2-saddle bridge to accomodate 4 fender threaded saddles which worked out perfectly, and used the hipshot on something else a few years down the road...those threaded fender saddles have saved the day for me on numerous occasions
That is varying by location have seen two really good stores one SA one GC in the same town....meanwhile South Orlando GC was horrible. Lots of times it is a reflection of the manager.
Hi Tom. Interesting discussion all around. I live right down the road from where they held the Dallas guitar show recently and if you live around here you probably wouldn't have known about it unless you'd seen the sign in front of Market Hall as you drove by. Inside, the aisles were devoid of customers and the mood was like a funeral. It was so quiet you could hear conversations on the other side of the room. There was practically no dealing going on except between dealers. Hardly any guitar playing. Sad and depressing. WTF? That's about as concisely as I can put it.
Mark when I was involved in fishing and boats they used to have "Parking Lot" boot shows. These were designed to hook dealers not customers. I gave the people that ran these the name "Parking Lot Pirates" They would rent a vacant parking lot for the weekend for lets say $1000 then charge 6-8 boat dealers that to display there boats.
Just got a cheap jackson neck and it needs the heel cut down like you said. Thanks for the tip with not using a router and to just sand it. Ibwas thingking of using my dewalt muti tool lol. Im pretty good with it. Flip the neck upside-down and chop a bunch of lines to create the curve i need and depth and then cut it long ways just enough to cut off the slivers ill need. That was my idea but sanding may work too. Mine came from the same company with that same card too lol.
Appreciate your channel friend. Was wondering if you could recommend somebody competant in Central Fl. for setups/repair on vintage guitars and amps? Thanks!
Haven't lived in that area for a decade + Jimmy's Vintage Music in Auburndale would be my first call, Blackbird is closed, Guitar Attic is in Holly Hill, You kind of went from feast with a lot of repair guys to famine. Guitar Factor closed Chelsea closed. Let me know how the hunt goes.
@mc2mc277 0 seconds ago Hate to bring up politics but….BIDEN HAS DESTROYED THE U.S. ECONOMY!! People can barely afford to eat, let alone buy gear. MUSICIANS BETTER DO THEIR HOMEWORK BEFORE NOVEMBER…..If your personal finances SUCK, compared to 4 years ago, when the economy was cranking with 1 percent interest and $2 gas, maybe DON’T VOTE for a senile f*ck with a loaded diaper in his pants!! THIS is what happens…BUSINESSES FAIL, especially ones that depend upon disposable “play money” income. I spent a decade as the editor of THE main musical instrument trade magazine that specialized in the gear manufacturers and the gear retailers, plus as THE only guy who was the TV HOST for NAMM-TV, before everyone with a cell phone was shooting videos.
Such a great conversation, however the narrator has a voice that is almost indiscernible, then add the shaky audio quality, and it's almost unlistenable. I have a loud clear voice, but if I had a voice like this guy, I would make sure that I am mic'd up as best as possible, we don't want to miss any of this good information..
Carolina Carports makes a great building from what I've seen, they look good and seem to be very well crafted and thought out. I hope that works out nicely for you as a new place for your business. Beautiful location for it.
Do you have any experience with fender's roasted maple replacement necks? Are they worth the higher price? I've heard fender's maple necks these last few years have been more prone to warping than in the past, but then again I hear alot of stuff on the internet
The Fender Necks are one piece (don't count the stripe) Maple that are quarter sawn which drives the cost up because of the waste wood when 1/4 sawing. If the neck was milled at 6-12% moisture content your neck should be fine. If the neck is roasted it also has to become brittle this can be a problem with the screw (bolt) holes.Fender uses the term Vulcanized which is completely wrong as that process refers only to rubber. and it involves melding two pieces (remember how many pieces are in that neck). Next the grain does have an impact on the way a piece of wood wants to rest. I rough cut my necks and stack them for at least a year in a hot environment (Florida, Shed, No AC) If it is going to twist it will in that year. Last batch I cut were Brazilian Cherry or (Jatoba) out of 22 necks 1 twisted. SO when the big manufacturers are roasting necks its to get the moisture content down faster. Now back to the original question as I dismount my soap box. Any neck you get from Fender is warrantied so if you buy a non roasted and it has a twist send it back. If you like the look go for it $399 for a vin terra neck considering materials and labor thats not bad.7 hours of labor shaping slotting drying staining finish fretting decals nut
@@talonguitarworks7514 Thanks for that informed perspective...it being vulcanized as you say, will it have the advertised properties of roasted maple then, like resistance to climatic effects on tuning/setup stability? Is it still susceptible to fret sprout?
Thanks for that I took the wear out of the frets on a fender adjusted the truss rod lowered the action and there must have been fall away on it cause buzzing has come only on the wound strings up the fret board
Phil McKnight is my go to guy for information, with AMS being my online store of choice to buy from. After 3 visits to Sam Ash where pretty much every employee in the store ran for the store room each time I walked in, I gave up on touching an instrument first. I can send something back to AMS for $12 if I have to, but to be honest, that only happened once. Guitars shipped to me have arrived in beautiful condition, set up properly. I'd prefer to buy locally, but when people who don't know anything about music, sales, or customer relationships make it hard to buy something in person, I'm done. In the past 3 years, I've spent around $20k on music equipment - that's around $10k profit lost by Sam Ash, just because someone wasn't interested in saying hello and answering a few question. Congress has taken away the whole 'no online sales tax' thing, so in person and online are on the same financial footing now. I have to wait for something that I order, which gives brick and mortar an edge. The morons working music retail want money for nothing, and that's just not how sales works. In the 80s and 90s, music stores had a captive audience. Now, having to work a little seems to make these overly tattooed social rejects ill. Customers have adapted. That's all there is to it.
Yeah it’s very interesting where we’re at now. I remember great prices, and just out of curiosity looked up how much I paid for them, and when, and then converted those costs for our current inflation, and low and behold, they actually match up. So I’m also convinced our inflation rates are also to blame for the rising prices. Also another thing I noticed, you can pretty much get Mexican made Strats used for about $400, any day of the week, but American ones are twice as much - yet the quality is not that big of a difference. Same with the Indonesian and Korean made stuff versus the US Gibson stuff. So I think the less stuff that gets made in the US, and the more that gets made outside us, just creates a similar situation to what you mentioned with the embargo - US made just simply becomes the sought out “best”, even though quality wise, they are not normally so. The caveat to this is independent guitar makers in the US, such as yourself. But for the big 5, seems like anything American made is just going to keep causing frenzied purchasing. I also think it doesn’t help that people are treating guitar sales/selling like the stock market now. That creates weird waves of inflation of prices and deflation of prices. Definitely weird times in the guitar world
@@talonguitarworks7514 It sure is amazing that 70 year old "barn finds" still pop up from time to time, but I suppose the saying rings true that one man's junk is another man's treasure
I think there is another factor involved too and that's the manufactures themselves like jackson guitars and fender buying them or Gibson just turning epiphone into just low end gibsons. Or the snobby comments the guitar center ceo made about people just want to spend money on high end guitar not me. I would not even spend 1200 for a new jackson today because it's not made the way they were even 10 years, ago. With a, diferent style truss rod that's skinny and medium jumbo frets like fender strats that they still call jumbo. VS the old jumbo frets which really are more like super jumbo frets for that scalloped feel. I am so frustrated I am going into eddie van Halen mode meaning if I have to buy a cheap Chinese neck tear it apart mod it to my liking and buy old guitars profile them and build them from scratch I will if that's what it takes to have a guitar that's comfortable for me to play and sounds good tonewize to me. So in my opinion online sales killed stuff but guitar center could compete if they started carrying acesseries and guitar parts again in stock like switches volume and tone knobs and decent floyd rose licensed hardware and a good variety of guitar pickups again. At discounted prices. Because I think everyone is getting sick of Amazon and ebay and needing to wait they want what they want now. I. Mean I just payed 250 dollars just to get a yamaha rgx just like the one I had as a kid so I could profile it make one like this one wood wise so I can mod my copy to look just like the one I had as, a kid so I don't ruin this one like my original and guess what my Taiwanese made yamaha rgx would kick any of the guitars made today's butt even my made in India jackson that I could never get to intonate due to bad string through ferrels on the body with the neck would still kick any guitars butt today including the new Jackson's can't wait to take my made in India neck of off my king v body and test it on one of my Chinese strat bodies before I profile and replace my king v body with a basswood blank and substitute on the new body down the road a floyd in the design I place of string through. I hope my comment explains the frustration of people who actually play guitar even though I am not that technical and the frustration a, real musician with a good ear like an Eddie van Halen or yngwie malmsteen feels. It's about comfort but tone and what you like not cost. And I hate to say but with me even with a modeling Amp I can tell the diference between guitar woods pickups and the acesseries in a guitar that's just how I am in but I need to find me a decent tube Amp like maybe a Marshall jcm 2000 used and find an old scholl line 6 rack mount processor or maybe fractel design or something and just leave the Amp on clean channel and let the processor handle everything else as something about that warmth of a, real tube is special but that's, whats missing today with young people.
The market isn't declining. U can clearly see Sweetwater and AMS doing just fine. What happened is WE the Musicians, Pulled our financial support from assholes who NEVER deserved our support in the 1st place and who always took us for granted. Now they're wishing they didn't do that. Well... it's too late so fucc them. They can close the stores, we care about as much for that as they cared for us. They reap what they sow. 😎 ( pisses on country music and all things catering to it ) It's a new day in the New World 🌞
Sad to say my local GC is a shell of its former self. I used to bring my young kids there every week about 25 years ago. It was a hoppin’ place! Lots of great gear; knowledgeable sales associates who actually played. I bought a few guitars back then. My kids took up playing in local bands and the gear all came from GC. Not anymore, I’ve ordered a few used guitars online from other GCs with delivery to my local store. When I go in, I feel like I’m in Ollie’s. Stuff is stacked everywhere and very disorganized. The sales associates are ok but the old sales counters for various gear have been removed haphazardly and it shows. The store is tired and run down, and lacks the energy and atmosphere I remember. I’ve bought more recently from Sweetwater - they’re great - I have to make a trip to Indiana to see them in person. I’ve also bought online from a small private shop on Long Island - Safe Haven Music - BEST customer experience ever! I have to make a trip there, too. Any mass consumer industry which relies primarily on discretionary income is cyclical and GC and Sam Ash are no different. They’re now competing with the masses’ other discretionary pursuits and sadly, losing.
I've bought 90% of my gear online for 15 years or though small local companies. Guitar Center & Sam Ash was where I looked at or played/tested stuff, but I wanted my money to go to better companies. Gullihur Bass, Sweetwater, Musician's Friend, local biz.
sw only has one location so can't play anything unless local .great overall concept though with an incredible facility ..owned now by private equity so publicly traded . gc is owned by private equity as well . such a niche industry curious as to why manufactures just sell direct to the public
