Dude, you're a machine...I have learned so much just from watching...thank you for that. Really. For a rock star, you are so relatable. Which is awesome.
I have a 1895 euro Dean and I'm gonna "shave" the neck tomorrow. Always wanted a satine feel neck after one of my older guitars had it. I had no idea it is this simple. Thanks alot!
You are very generous giving more novice players some of the little tricks to help make playing the guitar more comfortably (or bass for that matter). You are too kind, E.V. Keep blasting loud with phat juicy lushness and muscle that's made to be played at maximum volume !! 🔥💪👏🙏🤙
Hi Euge...I'm a guy from the USA, roughly your age and have played guitar a long time...though I wish I played as well as you do! Thanks for your videos and just a few comments... I really appreciate you sharing information and how you get your points across even though English is not your first language...you don't stress about a word, you still make the idea clear. Also, I LOVE guitars, and some rare/vintage guitars are like precious jewels...but a lot of them are more like wonderful tools, which will be even better if you make some "adjustments". For example, you don't think twice about taking sandpaper to the glossy neck of a nice LTD....to make it play better, for you. If you know what you're doing, are cautious and take your time...it turns out good. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and keeping it "real". Respect!
A couple of friendly suggestions Euge :). 1) When sanding down try to move the paper up and down (with one motion) across the entire neck while covering all its width so that the neck is sanded evenly, otherwise you risk altering the shape randomly over time. 2) There is no point in going to 180 grit (too coarse) and then to 320 (unless the neck is initially rough e.g. when you are constructing it). By moving to a finer sandpaper you are basically "undoing" the work you already did with the coarser one, because you are creating deep scratches (180 grit) which you then polish back up to a finer level (320 grit). This way you are wasting clear coat, which means that you will be able to do this process fewer times (compared to going straight to 320 grit) before you expose the undercoat. If you like the feel of the 320 go straight with that. I have tried 600 which seems fine as well and its way less invasive.
@@EugeValovirta230V oh sure man!! I didn't mean to disrespect your experience :). My apologies if I offended you. I am restoring an old Jackson KV3 and I have watched tons of relevant material (e.g. vids from crimson guitars) to get some better understanding of working with wood. These are some good tips I learned and thought worth sharing :)👌
I string my guitars the same. I thread the old string ball end on the new string so the wrap on the new string doesnt stick out of the tail piece, it really works :)
It's sooooo reconfortanting to see another man who KNOWS what a guitar is and have NO PROBLEM to adjust beauty to funcionality and free health issues about this kind of neck paintings... i am not alone about that!!! GREAT video and thanks again 4 to be a musician, not a gooffy guitar player who see beauty first, instead funcionality...
Keep up the Great videos, excellent tone trips and ticks...as well as great playing and No Bull straight ahead delivery.. time to shave the neck on my Dean Z.. Rock on!!
Great video. I've been having trouble with tuning and keeping it in tune. Now i know why! You just saved me so much headaches. (that dog gone G string!)
Another great video Euge, well done. Oh, and the English word you are looking for regarding the feel of the fret board after oiling is 'slick'...a well oiled board makes for slick licks!
hey Euge!!! i also do the wrap-around thing with the strings...saw it a while back from joe bonamassa's tech...to me, the guitar "feels" better, more sustain and less tension maybe...
I was looking for a P90/Humbucker guitar, and was considering buying one of these LTDs after I watched your demo. But I was concerned about the lacquer finish on the neck. I hate how tacky they get under the light when you start to sweat. Great tips. This has really helped me decide to make the purchase.... Cheers : )
I sand down the necks of my guitars as well. Then i got a PRS SE Paul's Guitar where my fingers were really sticking and sweating on the neck, so i sand down a bit and a bit and a bit - still sticky- and a bit, only to find that the nice fat neck got suddenly noticeable thinner and different...................................... Needed to restore and reshape it with tons of wax layers. Now it feels -and plays- great again. So be carefull at what you do!
You are our ‘guitargodfather’ Euge (Huge) In an other vid you show us to trim a 2203 to a JCM 800 sound, Hell yeah, the Danish Beast!!!!!! This time a vid ‘bout important things; the neck. Is it all about the Metall Euge, or do you appriceate Mark Knopfler’s style at Sultans of swing? Do you have also a feel with Strats with or without tremsystem? These days I have a HB strat and I love to know more at the tuning and maintenance about it. You have the qualifications to ‘helicopter-view’ to advice us about Strats! I am curious at your opinion Euge!
Off topic, but being from Finland, have you ever tried Flaxwood guitars? I just switched to them and love them. Pretty cool that they're not affected by humidity, and they play and sound great.
I usually sand my painted necks down to bare wood and and then use Tru-oil to finish and protect the wood. I do about 10 super thin coats and then wax it after it is cured. I've never had a problem and the neck feels raw. Tru-oil is what is used to refinish gun stocks. If it is good enough for a hunter to trust his gun out in the muck hunting ducks and animals, it's probably way more durable than my guitar is ever going to need.
If you cut out a square of sand paper, enough so if you lay the paper on the back of the neck, you can grab the sides of the paper. Grab each side of the sand paper, applying downward pressure but you actual hands dont touch the neck, move the sand paper up and down the neck. This way, you dont risk getting finger grooves in you neck from sanding too much of an area. I.e. more consistent job
Itse teippaan rajat ylös ja alas että tulee siisti, käytän mm. hiontasientä joka tarkoitettu viimeistelyyn näin saa yhdellä kertaa hyvän. Pieni öljy(todella pieni) käsittelyn jälkeen myös hyvä...
Very cool. I knew a guy who used an old straight razor like what men used to shave with, and he scraped the paint and finish off the neck. It was on a Dean setneck guitar and it worked great. Subscribed to your channel. Cool channel sir. Where are you from may I ask? You sound German or Russian with hour accent, but I can't tell for sure.? Thanks for the cool videos man. I agree by the way, guitars are just tools to enjoy and make them the way you want. Thanks again. Regards from Seymour, Indiana. USA.
@@EugeValovirta230V Very cool. You live in the German speaking Canton? I'd love to visit there. I lived in our western state of Colirado which has very similar mountains. Love the mountains.
Thanks Euge, very complete video. I think you just missed string action at 12th fret. Do you set your string action low or high? I usually set high E around 1,50/1,75mm and low E around 2,00/2,25mm
Thanks! I don’t really pay attention to that. If the notes ring throughout the neck then it’s good. The action is whatever feels good. I have no idea about millimeters. Sometimes it’s lower and sometimes higher depending on the guitar, tuning, strings etc. 😎👌
Laitan nyt tähän videoon tän kyssärin vaik ei sinänsä liity juurikaan asiaan. Tähtäimessä olis hankkia sellainen Strato of the life time ja vähän vit…aa maksaa Fenderistä brändiveroa varsinkin jos on muita parempia vaihtoehtoja. Sä oot kehunu Tokaita ja Esp:tä. Mikä vois olla sellanen millä saa kunnon räkästratotwängit aikaan ehkä kolme singlecoilia tai sit ehkä mieluummin tallaan humbuckeri. Mut idea ois saada aikaan kunnon Blues/Hevisoundit ja sillai et ei tarttis ikinä enää vaihtaa. Vaik sut maksais vähän enempi. Oisko heittää stetsonista joku idea?
Mulla on se yks Tokain Strato, missä tallassa Humbuckeri. En kyllä muista mallia, mutta joku HSS se oli. Laita Musamaailman kyselyä, ne kyllä tietää mikä se munkin malli on 😎👌.
180 Your crazy!!! I'm assuming you use a light touch. I love satin necks too. I'll try that technique for bending the strings I haven't seen that before. Thanks for making this. Do you polish your frets too? Do your ESPs have the G & B tuning issue like Gibsons? If so, how did you fix it?
21:35 Toi kohta verrattuna edestä kuvattuihin videoihin selkeytti muuten aika paljon sun pikkaustekniikkaa - josta tietenkin vois tehdä oman videonsa myös :D
Hyvää matskua taas 😎👍 (myöskin toi maiden video btw) But now in English if someone would happen to have the same question as I : do you know how to set the intonation for a guitar like Jim Roots signature Telecaster? I don't know what the bridge model is on this guitar and I can't find too much information online either. Thanks in advance!
Kiitos! Yeah sure. It’s the same principle I explained on the video no matter the guitar / bridge. If the 12th fret note is sharp compared to the open note, then the string is too short so you have to move the saddle back to make the string longer and if the 12th fret note is lower, then you have to make the string shorter 😎👌.
@@EugeValovirta230V aah aright, thank you! 😄👍 Actually, another question that came to my mind which might be even more important was: how do I "increase the height" on the bridge? If you understand what I mean by that 😅 (the same guitar, James root model)
There should be small screws on each saddle so just ”screw” them in one direction or another. Tune O Matic bridge has just two big screws on each side of the bridge 😎💪.
@@EugeValovirta230V aaah okay! 😀 I might try to do that then! (or I might try it on a cheaper guitar first so I don't mess up anything! 😜) But thank you once again, super content, super channel! 👍
title is misleading, when you shave a neck you are removing wood to make the neck thinner. this is just sanding down the surface on the finish (which is great) but... a whole different animal.
Just shave it more and you can make the neck as thin as you like. Or shave little and you’re just shaving of the surface of the neck. The technique is the same.
