Useful to pros repair shops as well as players. See Dan Erlewine demonstrate some techniques from his book "How To Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great!" and beyond. Each DVD is 2 hours.
"His books and videos allow you to see a master at work in his shop." — Neil Harrell, Cincinnati, OH
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Maintenance & Setup for Electric Guitars and Basses Vol. 1
"Learn from real-world jobs — guitars belonging to real customers. Every time I turned around, the exact job I needed waltzed in the door! This is for players as well as repair shops, and even experienced repair techs will find some gems in this DVD." — Dan
The focus of this DVD
See how we reclaimed a 1973 Gibson Les Paul® "fretless wonder" that came into the shop playing badly.
Information covered
Evaluating the guitar before setup
Dating a guitar by potentiometer code
Getting an unworkable truss rod working perfectly
Cleaning dirty potentiometers
Straightening a collapsed Tune-O-Matic Bridge
Cleaning, and replacing corroded bridge parts
Comparing and selecting replacement hardware
Slotting saddles to match the fretboard radius
"De-luxeing" Tune-O-Matic bridge saddles
Tone-Pros locking bridge system
Refurbishing the nut for low action and clean sound
Replacing humbucker mounting rings
Low-action setup
Setting pickup pole piece height
Setting intonation
Gretsch Brian Setzer 'Hot-Rod' setup:
Installing TV Jones replacement pickups
Protecting a new guitar while working on it
Fine-tuning a Bigsby vibrato
Setting up Jorma Kaukonen's Tele®:
Troubleshooting a pickup that won't work
Rewiring the toggle switch
Jorma's electric action setup for playing blues
Setting up Jack Casady's P-Basses®:
Repairing a shrunken pickguard (1963 P-Bass) and freeing up pickups that won't raise or lower
Conquering a hard-to-adjust P-bass truss rod
Repairing '53 Bakelite Telecaster P-Bass saddles
Setups for three of Jack's basses
BONUS: Dan and Jorma play "Dan's Place Blues"; Jack plays and describes the circuit design and tone of his Epiphone Signature model bass.
Maintenance & Setup for Electric Guitars and Basses Vol. 2
"This is not a recap of volume one - it features different guitars, basses, setups, tremolos, and neat modifications. This DVD should be important to players and experienced repair techs alike."—Dan
The focus of this DVD
Moving beyond what's covered in Volume 1, here are more maintenance and setup tips.
Cleaning, deburring, and lubricating a Strat bridge
Ibanez Jem "Steve Vai" setup (complete Floyd Rose tremolo setup and factory specs
Danelectro modifications. The new Danos are great - these mods and adjustments make them better! (Flattening a warped Dano bridge; making a "vintage" aluminum bridge with rosewood saddle from scratch; installing a center post support for the typically weak Dano bridge; replacing compressed lipstick-tube pickup supports)
G&L ASAT bass: another "hard-to-adjust" neck
Making and installing a full-sized neck pocket shim for a bolt-on neck guitar (G&L bass)
Replacing shrunken plastic tuner buttons
Fender 5-string bass setup (learn to clamp a back-bow into an up-bowed neck)
Shown on page 94 of our latest catalog. Stratocaster® and Strat® are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Telecaster®, Tele®, and Esquire® are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Precision® Bass and P-Bass® are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Les Paul® is a registered trademark of Gibson Guitar Corporation.
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