Maintenance & Setup: Electric Guitars & Basses Vols 1 & 2

2xDVD5 | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | MPEG2 ~4331 kbps | English: AC3, 256 kb/s (2 ch) | Duration: 01:55:22 + 01:58:03 | 3.79 GB + 3.88 GB

"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

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