Repairing Dweezil Zappa's #1 Guitar 

gorgeous! The music is a little intense tho lol

Mr AlBright .. I hope in my Life time the heat of any of my ax's dont get Fubared but if the do I know the Cat its going to

I couldn't help myself after watching that! I purchased amp and few things from Sweetwater and it always has been a good experience. I still wanted to know why this was dweezils fav ax?

@@395PRS it sounds amazing that guitar all the frets are filed to perfection good quality wood more finishing hours went into that guitar then a reguler off the wall guitar purchased at a shop.

Joe my man, you're the man!!!

Yeah,it's not like volute joints are around for ages and literally every other manufacturer puts them on their guitars,even their budget models.

You know if they did, there would be someone bitching about them messing with a classic.

And the headstock tilt angle doesn't help. A fundamentally flawed design kept for marketing purposes. The tilt angle is one; the break of the "D" and "G" strings is another, causing tuning instability. Their ridiculous auto tuning is not the answer. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for them to fix it with engineering and not gimmickry. Cheers.

You do understand that the tilted head stock is done to increase tension between the tuner and the nut. This allows more of the energy from the strings to be transferred more efficiently to the neck which helps increase sustain and allows the wood to influence the tone of the guitar by transferring some of that energy back to the strings. What is really apparent is you have no understanding of Physics or Engineering besides only a cursory understanding of how an electric guitar actually works.

So again with the assumption that the superior design id one that does not have a tilted head stock. If all you are concerned about is which head stock design might be superior in strength then why not make it out of titanium? You have to ask yourself why would any manufacturer use a design that is more complex, introduces an are where mechanical stress will be trapped, actually uses more material not less as many assume. Why does Gibson do this? It is because they build Guitars not Bridges or Buildings. If you are one of these the material the instrument is built from does not affect the tone you really have zero understanding of sound works, how pickups work, or how the entire thing can be stated in just two simple words, Energy Transfer.

wait a minute....I'm AA and I love guitars (of course there's not many of us) I do work with some fools

That is insane. Frank's very own children can not play his music on live performances. That's a big slap in the face to Franks legacy. I'm sure their mother has all to do with it like you said or some other bureaucracy . There's a lot of shady history regarding Frank's family routes.

@@derrickenbuenosaires Wow i didn't knew that, what's the whole story on that feud?

That's now straightened out, everyone's working together again.

Give him a small router & jig to carve the spline channels & splines on.. About a two hour job & most is spent sanding, the rest is waiting for the glue to dry, which takes overnight.. Then wait for the lacquer to dry..

Jim Deecken wow I didn't know that, I thought they did that to save money. Now I can forgive my g and l asat for not having a skunk stripe. Thanks!

it's like that with all wood working. A glued joint is stronger than the grain of the wood. That's why cabinet makers will cut boards that don't even need to be cut when making panels, so that they can glue them.

Not correct. They break there because of the huge amount of wood removed for truss access. All Gibson would have to do is make an unobtrusive access like on the newer Fenders and you'd never see another broken head - flat or quartersawn.

RD - so you've just done 30+? That's cool, keep doing it ;) No but seriously, good info - have you seen their new volute? It starts (of all places mysteriously at the truss cavity) and tapers all the way to the tip of the headstock, no joke! As goofy as that sounds it will support the headstock better.

Hi RDE, so you've just done 30+? Cool man, keep at it ;). Seriously though it certainly is a combination of the elements we're talking about. Have you seen their new volute? Mysteriously enough it starts right beneath the truss cavity in a wide diamond shape that tapers down to a point all the way at the tip of the headstock! Crazy looking, probably very strong and the traditionalists will hate it. I would still maintain that if Gib put a spoke truss adjustment wheel past the 22nd and the head was solid you'd have way less breakage.

Paddy O'Lantern He used to cut my grass

made me laugh..............thx.................wb

Would have been better if you didn't explain it to us after.

Dweez was not using a Fender Champ, though. Too bad.

@@kevgh3869 But that's what makes it funnier!

Repaired better than new. One of the finest I've seen.

Guitar is a Roxy sg. Limited edition 400 worldwide. I have 1 Dweezil signed for me. Go troglys review to see 1 demoed

Despite being damaged by American Airlines, Inc., United Airlines, Inc. is still the worst airline on the planet. And furthermore, another very important thing to keep in mind ― is Sweetwater’s shipping department either forgets or refuses to put FRAGILE, HANDLE WITH CARE and DO NOT DROP stickers on the shipping box ― without these three stickers, the courier will drop and toss the shipping box and damage your brand new guitar, or any guitar traveling back and forth for repair work.

they double box everything...that was probably the "inner" box. they do put handle with care stickers on their boxes. Bought several guitars from them and always WELL packed...

I always request those labels (to be placed on the outside shipping box), and only once did Sweetwater honour my request ― all the other times (read: many) they shipped guitars to me with no labels. This is very risky. Most Gibson guitars are sold with and shipped in a case, and on the Gibson factory box it reads: DO NOT DROP. Most Epiphone guitars are sold without a case and are shipped in an Epiphone factory box placed inside another shipping box ― and it is on the outside of these boxes that Sweetwater’s shipping department either forgets or refuses to put these stickers on.

+Platinum Black They didn't forget, they just know better. "One disheartening result was that our package received more abuse when marked "Fragile" or "This Side Up." The carriers flipped the package more, and it registered above-average acceleration spikes during trips for which we requested careful treatment." www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/a6284/which-shipping-company-is-kindest-to-your-packages/

One of my guitars was damaged twice (suffering a cracked neck ― two times) due to having to send the guitar back and forth to Sweetwater three times ― for a total of six trips ― all because Sweetwater’s guitar repair shop did not correctly install a brand new nut properly. Due to the severity of the second crack, this guitar could not be repaired so, I had to select another guitar (which turned out to be defective). I then found and ordered an excellent guitar and requested again the nut be replaced and upgraded. And then, guess what? I had to send the guitar back again ― three times ― (for a total of six trips back and forth) and only on the first trip to me did Sweetwater’s shipping department place stickers on the outside of the shipping box. It took one of Sweetwater’s guitar techs three times to finally get it right. This guitar tech had already done prior work for me that was satisfactory.

It's a learned art woodworking is.. Ask him & he'll tell you his teacher was the best = Master!!

Agreed!!!!!!

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