5 Cheap Tips To Improve Your Guitar
Here are 5 inexpensive tips to help you improve your guitar!
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Originally posted by UCs9AN-WTBsWP72aewXlNKUA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3pkxmFNpVY
bro you had me at "lube that nut"
Don’t watch Fluff or whatever his name isn’t.
Seriously bad for your progression watching these youboobers try to play.
It’s like the deaf leading the blind
Every now and then, it's a good idea to tighten all of the screws on the guitar and the tuners. Screws work them slightly loose over time and a lot of playing. Sometimes, you won't notice that the screws have loosened. Sloppy tuners can sometimes be remedied by simply tightening the mounting screws on the back of the headstock and the screws that hold the buttons onto the tuners.
It's a good idea to tighten the tuner nuts on the front of the headstock as well.
Tighten the screws at the neck plate, strap buttons, and control plate. It doesn't hurt to tighten up the pickguard screws while you are at it.
Only tighten screws until they snug up and then stop. Over tightening will strip screw holes and cause more problems that you don't want.
I tighten the screws on any guitar I buy before I put it into service.
Love Every Time I Die, saw them play live a few years back and they fuckin KILLED it, prolly one of my favorite bands
Gonna do this!
Glenn Fricker did a pickup shootout recently. Very little to no difference in tonality from pickup to pickup.
Don't be stealin' any pencils… those pencil police are watching you!
ok, WHY buy a USED pickup when someone took it out of their guitar for the same reason you're trying to switch yours out regularly? what am i missing?
Awesome video and much appreciated. Awesome ETID shirt too btw. I've never seen that one.
Aluminum foil + glue stick = poor man's cavity shielding
Just straight up replacing the nut on factory guitars is a huge upgrade. Many of them are just plastic or some kind of synthetic bone material. LSR roller nut, GraphTech or good old fashioned BONE are all better. Even Floyd Rose guitars if they're cheap will have soft metal locking nuts and you can buy a German made OFR nut by itself for pretty cheap and slap it on there…… (Don't slap your nut that might actually hurt). I always upgrade the nut when I do the tuners. Great vid Fluff!
I just saw you in a picture with Glenn Fricker from Spectre Sound Studio!!!
You kinda look like james hetfield????
In regards to a sticky neck (no pun intended) if you wax it properly that works and for unfinished you can get the gun stock oil/wax that music man use.
I hate when my g string is tight and chaffs my nut
Good thing I know how to measure my string height huh…
I just want to know where to find that every time I die shirt???
3 mins in and if been told to check my nut and rub my neck ????????
Now lube my nut… you sure this is a guitar video ????
Did the graphite hack on my first string change. Original strings at 14 months, 3-6 × week. I studied, prepped, broke it into steps & it went well. Thanks again.
The scotch-brite first, Locktite glue for strap screw 2nd…thanks for all of your informative videos.
Always done the pencil thing
Hmmmm 4 tips not 5
Most guitars with a fender style tailpiece(ht and trem alike) has height adjustment quill screws sticking up from the saddles. Replacing them with shorter screws, that are submerged in the saddles, is one of the BEST and CHEAPEST ways, to have a better hand rest, better connection when palmmuting, and just overall smoother feel of playing.
Hey guys… i need some help.
Im modding my jackson dinky.
It has one general tone and one general volume knob.
Im gonna put a SD sentient/nazgul pickup kit on there and id like to be able to coil split the nazgul.. i dont really need a tone for the sentient.
So it would just be the coil split(tone) for the nazgul and a general volume knob
Is this possible and if yes… what do i need for this??
(Im new to modding so im kind of confused)
Good video on the nuts thanks beard
Caps and pots! Seen sooo many humbuckers sound like crap on 250k pots…add a 500k and bam!
Also, people will complain about a muddy pickup and still have .047 caps…swap out for a .022 or even .012 and now its sounds brighter.
I just ordered, the Kramer Beretta special. Will my Wilkinson contemporary six hole bridge, fit as a replacement or upgrade.
Thanks for the tips I just recently swapped the bridge pickups in my two epiphone traditional pro 3 les Paul’s to these cheap knock off dirty finger pickups I found on eBay for 20 bucks each so for 40 bucks basically but man I love them and the sound they gave it
How often should i change my strings
I HATE when it’s too high on the nuts
Heigth? Is that a word?
New strings in most cases have to be changed. Cheaper Guitars usually have cheap strings. A set of D'Addario strings are about 10 dollars. cheapest fix you can make.
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That shirt is siiiiick
Practice
I love his every time I die shirt
I have a great mod tip for a bad guitar.
1st acquire a axe,
2. chop up aforesaid guitar,
3. bin guitar.
If it's a turkey, just get rid of it… I've spent lots of time and effort on crap guitars.
what is that beastly axe on the wall behind you? o bearded one?
The Scotch Brite Tip has worked like a charm! Thanks Fluff
Also you can wax pot your own pickups if they have feedback issues. The dollar tree mini candles you use when the lights go out are made from paraffin wax. Pretty much the same stuff the big guys use.
As far as tuners go I usually find a cheap
Guitar with good tuner (yes they exist if you know what to look for) and swap them out then sell the cheap guitar and get my tuners for essentially free.
I have a few tips of my own
1. Adjust string height on the bridge
2. Use a hard shell case as guitar work station
3. If your nut slots are too narrow for bigger strings make them wider with a finger nail file
4. Use car wax to get rid of surface scratches
5. Use head phones on your amp instead of playing electric unplugged if you don't wanna wake the neighbors
6. Use second hand carpet for acoustic panels if you can't afford them
7. Learn to wire an electric guitar and buy a soldering gun
8. Buy an audio recorder to remember riffs or songs you've created
9. Realize one of the biggest differences between cheap and expensive guitars is how well/long they stay in tune
10. Lastly buy a Stratocaster if it's your first or second guitar and customize it yourself
your definition of cheap is strange
Satin neck's only for me. I'm done Sticking to the neck, with all that Shiny, Uncomfortable Wood. Locking tuners on my Suhr (never going back). Nut sauce on the bridge saddles, also helps. Great tips.