Your guide to evaluating the condition of acoustic and resophonic guitars, and making them play their best. If your repair experience is mostly with electric guitars, these DVDs will show you how to apply your skills to flattops and resophonics. If you specialize in acoustics, this information is essential.
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Maintenance & Setup for Steel-string Acoustic Guitars Vol. 1
"If acoustic setup makes you nervous, this DVD will give you the information and confidence you need."—Dan
The focus of this DVD
Evaluating the condition of your acoustic or resophonic guitar, and getting the most out of it.
Information covered Flattop Acoustic Guitars:
Installing strings correctly on the inside of your guitar: understanding the relationship between the bridge reinforcing plate's ("bridge pad") condition and good tone, playability and a guitar's longevity
What to do about bridge and bridge pad problems
Structural integrity checklist. Prevention is the best cure, so learn what to look for inside your guitar
The most common problems with vintage flattops
Optimum action setups for different playing styles
Good nut and saddle height
When does a neck need to be re-set?
When does a bridge need to be replaced?
Pro setups
Understand the setups of these professional players, and hear the results
Roy Bookbinder shows why he likes his Recording King and Washburn De-Luxe (both made by Gibson in the 30s and 40s)
JD Hutchison shows how he gets his '52 Martin D-28 to keep up with "the boys the Telecasters and steel guitars"
Paul Geremia details the setups of both his Stella 12-String and Gibson J-35 - Two different setups for two different playing styles
Jorma Kaukonen details his road guitar, a Gibson acoustic electric as well as his "pure" (unamplified) studio guitar - a Gibson Advanced Jumbo
Maintenance & Setup for Steel-string Acoustic Guitars Vol. 2
"If acoustic setup makes you nervous, this DVD will give you the information and confidence you need."—Dan
The focus of this DVD
Evaluating the condition of your acoustic or resophonic guitar, and getting the most out of it.
Information covered Flattop Acoustic Guitars (cont.):
Modern acoustic/electric amplification, effects, sound equipment and guitar setup featuring Bill Dutcher
Cleaning a dirty guitar
A "microbuilder's" approach to setting up new guitars (with Bryan Galloup)
Archtop Setup:
Setting up a 1957 Gibson L-5 archtop jazz guitar
Fitting an archtop bridge
National and other brands of metal-bodied guitars:
Disassembly, cleanup, and reassembly
Getting the proper down-pressure on the cone
Shaping the saddle
Custom tone options
Common action settings
Wood-bodied resophonics:
(Guitars played on your lap, Dobro-style, with a high nut and saddle)
Disassembly, cleanup, and reassembly
Seating the cone in the well
Fitting the spider bridge to the cone
Cutting the bridge saddle
Common action settings
Pro setups:
Understand the setups of these professional players, and hear the results
Modern acoustic/electric amplification, effects, sound equipment and guitar setup featuring Bill Dutcher
Bluegrass guitar setups with Todd Sams
Playing a metal resophonic finger-style (no slide) with Del Rey - the "Memphis Minnie" of the new millennium. Del understands her setup, and describes it well
"Lap-steel" setup with Kelly Joe Phelps: a new approach to playing slide on a flattop guitar set up for slide (different than the Dobro)
Preferred setup for for "big band" chord backup with Bob Montalto
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