I always think he has the mannerisms of a person that have him comfortably hanging out with Noel Fielding & Russel Brand , he'd just slot in like it was the most natural thing in the world and you'd just nod like it had always been that way.
#1 Change the tuners 1:14 #2 Adjust the nut 2:18 #3 Intonate your guitar 3:54 #4 Change the pickups 5:02 #5 Replace the volume pot 6:21 #6 Change your strings 7:55 #7 Strap locks 9:06 #8 Change the pickguard 10:26 #9 Shield your guitar 11:28 #10 Replace the bridge 12:23 #11 Add graphite to the nut 13:34 #12 Split / tap your humbuckers 14:19 #13 See a guitar tech 15:22
WHY DID I BUY A NEW GUITAR AGAIN?? Why not get one of your old guitars and do one of these or all of them and save the money on the new one. We have essentially replaced all the parts of my brand new guitar?????
Change tuners Adjust the nut Intonate your guitar Change the pickups Replace volume pot Change your strings Strap locks Change the pickguard Shield your guutar
THE FIRST THING many guitarists should do....is TAKE OUT the strap peg near the bridge (placed at 9'oclock, b/c ALL guitar makers are DUMB)... and drill a NEW hole for it, 3 - 5 inches HIGHER (11 o'clock?). EVER STOOD A GUITAR UP and it falls over BECAUSE they pointlessly put the peg at 9 oclock? That's happened to EVERY guitarist! ALSO, with the peg at 11 oclock, YOUR GUITAR WILL HANG BETTER, and more vertically, so your fretting hand NEVER has to hold the neck and headstock up while playing! WIN / WIN!
I get my hands on cheap or free guitars that don't need new frett boards, or major neck or body work, and I'll change to Grover locking tuners, a bone nut, and make sure the fret wire isn't working it's way out, then I redress the fretts, usually the cheap stuff has sharp cutting fretts, which can really put off a new player. I then, depending on what type of music they like, will block in a floating bridge. I give detailed instructions on how to reverse this, for later, then I'll show them how to restring the guitar and usually go with a coated string to ease care. and most either need a better pot, or need a resistor added. I give them the guitar with the action adjusted, the stringing tool, several RU-vidrs to learn other basics from (including your channel), and toss in a better than stock cable and recommend several amps, and RU-vid samples of those amps, they P pay me $25 USD,which I feel is great to get an excited kid to start playing. the reason I do this is because I'm jobless right now, and like most of these kids, I wanted to learn guitar but my family was poor and instruments were not an option. the schools have had a lot of cutbacks on funding too, and music always gets the first cut. I've done 33 guitars so far, and a few cheap amp speaker upgrades, and I've got another 4 I'm waiting on delivery. it's made a lot of kids happy and given them a start I'd wished I had. on another note, I bought my ten year old nephew a Slash AFD starting kit, and he's already learned so much. I started learning two years ago at age 38, and I'm way behind lol. it makes dreams come true, so it's worth the out of pocket. I guaranty that those kids won't settle for a crap guitar next time. I have a Gibson and an Epiphone SG, a couple of Ibanez RG, plus a Mikro, and a Charvel Dinky, and won a lovely red wine Epiphone Les Paul, and have a '79 Strat, from Fender. almost time to collect my new Solar 6 string guitar. I love the more ergonomic styles, since I've broken my left wrist twice and I'm in a wheelchair since 2010. I'm nearly ready to try my hand at custom leather guitar straps. Cheers from Iowa, USA!
Not true cause the harmonic isn’t the played note. You want the played note on the 12th fret to be the exact same as the string note. With the harmonic you leave out the fretting hands pressure and the distance from string to fret which is changed by fretting.
I've had a few coil tapped guitars, but in my experience they never have the same chimey pop as an actual single coil pickup, just weaker sounding than the full humbucker. I've always preferred the humbucker sound though.
Great video! These are things that actually make a difference. Brass saddles do wear down, btw. Rather than coil-splitting, get a no-load pot and wire in a resistor to gradually dial out most, but not all of the second coil in a humbucker.
Awaiting Chaos i was watching this on my tv then checked my phone to read the comments because i had a feeling there would be at least a few Russel Brand comments.
You can also mount a "graphite tree" for players that like to use their whammy bars and bend strings in/out of tune. It seems that the smaller strings are more prone to dropping out of tune because of the gripping nature of bends when your steel strings move against a steel tree. Using pencil graphite is a nice short-term play but you can permanently fix the major issue of throwing strings out of tune by installing a super-cheap graphite tree. I have one on my '98 Deluxe Series Strat and it never goes out of tune like it could when I first played with whammy bars.
I actually have done several of these to my Ibanez Jem Jr. Including the strap locks and an aluminum purple Pick guard with a circuit pattern. It looks fantastic I must say.
since you mentioned coil tapping, im gonna go ahead and put forward phase switching. only needs to be on 1 pickup (if its a strat the middle unless you have one of those weird "all 3" switches if its humbuckers again just pick one of them) gives a really interesting "scooped out" sound
I get that these weren't done in order of importance, but for me, the first 3 IN order of importance (certainly for new players) are, strap locks, strings, intonation.
Alumium was the original name suggested but this was criticized and aluminum was then chosen as its given name. There was an objection afterwards and it was decided to use aluminium instead because they didn't like the way aluminum sounded... "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound." So despite IUPAC's adoption of aluminium in 1990 as the standard international name, and subsequent acceptance of aluminum as an acceptable alternative in 1993, doesn't change the fact that it was aluminum first...
Shielding a guitar's cavities is not a quick process. It's fiddly and needs to be done with care and decent foil(preferably copper with conductive adhesive.)Shielding paint is useless in my experience. Also, the foil needs to be earthed to a suitable earthing point in the control cavity, so that means soldering a wire to the foil and then to one of the pots perhaps...another reason why using aluminium foil is out 'cos it ain't gonna take solder! Doing a Strat will take about 3 meters of 5cm foil and you then need to check the total electrical continuity of your work with a multi meter. You've made the job sound far too easy but this point is the only one on which I would take issue in an otherwise fun presentation. Wish I could play as well as you! Dave M.
@@davidmitchell8490 Not only does one need to earth the copper foil to the body of the pots, but there should be a connection to the metal bridge or tremolo which make contact with the strings. Then you are fully shielded. Don't forget the backs of pickguards and cavity covers. All metal that is not used to pass the guitar signal should be linked together for a complete shield against transient interference. PS: It does take a little longer than 2 seconds.
I'm just getting ready to buy my 1st guitar, and I've watched at least 100 guitar videos. You are the first person I've seen mention strap locks. Thank you! The last thing I want to have happen is for my new guitar to hit the floor!
May I suggest that you schedule your videos for one or two daily please? For me as subscriber to your channel it would be much easier to watch them all and also I believe it would be beneficial in terms of the RU-vid algorithm as well. Apart from this it would make you constantly having new material rather than having weekly bursts of a number of (5 to 10) videos each time out of which I watch only one or two. Thanks.
Hi Antonio, thanks for the feedback. We'll certainly take that on board. Sometimes we have so much good content we want to make it available to all of our viewers. I appreciate the comment and thanks so much for watching. -Lee
@@PMTVUK Thanks so much for the reply - yes it's appreciated that you want us to watch the videos immediately but sometimes the situation is counter-intuitive :)
PMTVUK are on a constant musical meth high Antonio. Musical gear and knowledge flows through their veins like Kieth Richards H. They probably eat guitars pics instead of cereal with their milk. If I purchased everything they talk about on this channel I would need like a billion dollars.
Totally agree with this sentiment. I love the channel, but don't have time to watch 63 vids at a time. Certainly could keep a large viewer base interested over a longer time by releasing consistently
Sustain tip for bolt on necks: With strings on, loosen up the neck screws just a bit, half turn usually at most. You should hear a small pop as the neck is pulled tighter into the pocket, tighten back up, retune, and reset intonation if needed. Youre welcome 👍🤘
I believe your tip would probably work but u don’t believe the shit about bolt ons, that has been proven to be false many times! Floyd roses or tremolos definitely aren’t a help for sustain, locking the strings isn’t compatible for sustain
I'd just like to say that first off this video was very educational. Second I really enjoyed watching it, you have an amazing camera personality and it really grabbed my interest through the whole video. These type of videos I'm usually bored by the 5 minute mark but I wasn't even bored after all 17 minutes. Just wanted to compliment you on that!
Thanks Dagan. However I feel you missed one cheap and useful mod, that being if you're going to change your tuners, strings, file the nut, hardtail the trem to improve tuning stability then it's a good idea to change the string trees (if present) from butterfly to roller to prevent binding. Only costs a couple of quid.
It ain't about what it looks like or how much it cost, a couple of lessons I learned a long long time ago & if it "feels" right & "sounds" right then it's as right as it needs to be!
@@Axess-sv8nq: Oh right I'm new here so had a "woosh" moment, my apologies. My go to guitar is an old Columbus Series 2 Strat copy I paid £20 quid for about 20yrs ago, I put some locking tuners on it & a really nice blue scratchplate - changed the crap standard strat style tremelo for a solid one & had it set up by Dave Hill's (Slade's Guitarist) guitar tech & it plays nicer than all the expensive strat's I've played & it owes me about £ 275.00 if that :-) Happy days.....
Great video! If you are not a handyman/luthier and don’t know what you are doing, please consult a guitar technician as mentioned in the video, for the more difficult tasks; or at least watch a channel that shows you how to do these mods. Please don’t ruin your guitars, nothing breaks my heart more than seeing a guitar mangled by someone who has a friend who is, so called, “handy”.
Dagan, you recommended strap locks. I MYSELF recommend finding a LOCKING STRAP! They are low in cost and can work on multiple guitars without modification.😎❤️️🎸‼️
Going through this list, I’m realizing how good (how few mods I have/want to do) my Yamaha 112 is. The only thing I want to do is get a new bridge humbucker with a split pot.
I just put fender locking tuners on my squire, you should add that sometimes you’re going to have to drill new holes, and fill the old holes to change out tuners.
I think I have a kind of crush with Dagan. I really enjoy seeing him enjoy himself talking about guitar stuff and playing guitar. The dude sure loves what he does.
Yes I'm one of those antiques that "tech" guitars and everything you touched on is totally correct. Prefer 50s wiring skem with a treble bleed! And a shim in the neck pocket to tilt the neck back maybe 1\2 a degree. If you'll ever notice, almost everyone who plays a strat, or a Tele leans over their guitar a bit, but LP, SG, Ovation, 335, don't seem to! Had an old rocker who'd played thousands of gigs tell me the bolt on necks are a little TOO strait, and the tip back helps em be played a little more comfortably. You ever heard of that?
What I usually do is, I buy a new better nut with the exact same size, then fiddle with my current one. If the nut filing works - great! If it fails - no problem, I can pop in the new one right away.
I took sand paper to my guitar neck, and sanded down until the finish was all off. Man, I tell you - that neck is now one of the most comfortable necks o have ever played on.
Fourth video I found and watched with you so I subscribed now. I watched the Jackson videos background and then the 7 string I’m lookin to buy and now this one cuz I wanna upgrade it. You’re the man! +1 subscriber
I can't speak to it first hand (I play hardtails), but supposedly packing foam into a trem cavity can really help with tone. Something about dampening all the moving metal parts....
Did you just say big bens nut sauce and you have to pay for it? I'd give my nut sauce for free but I guess Ben's nut sauce is better for guitars... Wish I had special nut sauce : (
