Dan Erlewine's Maintenance & Setup for Electric Guitars and Basses

Dan Erlewine's Maintenance & Setup for Electric Guitars and Basses

Useful to pros repair shops as well as players. Dan demonstrates some techniques from his book "How To Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great!" and beyond. Each DVD is 2 hours.

"Dan's books and videos allow you to see a master at work in his shop."
— Neil Harrell, Cincinnati, OH

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. Information covered Cleaning your electric guitar's finish Correct ways to install strings Fender "10-Step Strat®" Setup (complete vintage Strat tremolo setup and factory specs) 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) Also see: Dan Erlewine's Maintenance & Setup for Steel-string Acoustic Guitars Vol. 1 and 2

These DVDs are not "region-specific," and are intended for worldwide use.