I love this, thank you so much for sharing. This is so stupid simple, and nothing brings quite the joy as something done stupid simple and well :)

GENIUS

based!

thank you

Amazing, thank you.

If the gap between the berings bellow is smaller, the wire can be bend in all the extention. Half inch is appropriate

That DID help me out. Thanks dude.

Genius! Thanks!

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pop the end caps off 1st, not needed

Figured that out for the fist nut I made. No brainer. You can flatten a regilar pencil athough I purchased a carpenter pencil. String spacing for me is hard. If you have the old nut mark with it also.

Watched this last night and went and bought the torch tip cleaners today. I can't believe how few times it took to fix the nut. The G was hanging up horrible, and it's good to go now. Inflation has hit hard though, had to pay almost $11 at the parts store but it was money well spent. Thank you for the heads up!

HELP!!!!! Fender Bi-flex truss rattle tips PLEASE!!! My 30 yr old AM Standard is my first wife, Am Stan's. for some reason have a bad rap. I've played many over the years and I LOVE HER!!! 30 years I never had a problem until she got sick. :(

For builders: Most two-way truss rods available on the open market are trash. There should be no gap between the flat bar and the rotating threaded rod when the rod is in neutral, yet there it is. So even if the flat bar is flush with the top of the slot (and will touch the underside of the fretboard when that gets glued on), the treaded rod portion will still smack the underside of the flatbar if you whack the back of the neck. The gap between the two portions of the truss rod needs to filled up so that when in neutral, the rod won't ever rattle. It's very risky to introduce foreign material into that system. I'm thinking of just making my own rods at this point, to eliminate the design faults inherent in the mass market ones.

Fail. When drawing the line, you need to keep the pencil parallel to the centreline of the neck. The line you drew is too high on the bass side because you didnt keep parallel

You didn't really make a mistake at all 3 degrees is for guitars with the tunomatic or a trapeze style tail piece and tunomatic but for a wraparound yes it has to be less to be honest beautiful fucking work

I have an Epiphone Rumblekat bass, semi-hollow body and I’d like to pull and glue back in all the time inserts and change the 3-point bridge with a Hipshot. This will work? (Man, I hope you monitor your channel! But this is an OLD clip!)

I have a classical guitar which are more delicate and I'm worried that so much heat could cause issues. Since I would like to completely replace the fretboard with a new one, would it be safer to plane or sand off the fretboard so that no heat is involved ?

I bought these Hiroshima Uo-Chikyu files some years ago and really regretted it. They have worn out very fast, and I don't use them professionally, after 2-3 guitars I had severe problems. They are not suited for metal (which they should). The Ibanez files are much better, also diamond coated ones.

If you just back out the screw enough to lift the old saddle, drop in new saddle, push the screw back home then you don't have to deal with the spring, at all. I was hoping you would talk about the notching, too...

If you only needed to fill in a very small gap in the binding (from filing frets) what could you use if you didn't have binding? Do they sell plastic fill (similar to wood fill)? I'm talking like pinhead type areas that may need filling (white binding color). Thank you

Thank you for the brilliant tip! DIY at its best. Also very important advice towards the end, the screw method is known for cracking SG type guitars in the back, and you’re spot on, if that screw gets stuck that would be even more s*#t to worry about! Cheers mate! ❤🎸

Very clever. Thank you 👍👍👍👍

I just did this exact thing out of frustration then went to Google to find out if I did something stupid. Nice to know I discovered a pro tip.

just bought one cause of you! thanks brotha!

I have an 11 year old gibson lpj with the thinnest nitro finish imaginable that i was hoping to put a poly clear over just to keep the color from rubbing away. Any chance that between being rhin and over 10 years old, tje nitro wont loft under the poly?

Boudreau that sounds Quebecois🤔

The smell of bone almost makes me puke.

WHAT THE FK WAS THAT BOZO THINKING 😅

small twist you could pull the frets to re-radius of the board, or if the twist is really small you can just take down the frets to deal with the hump

Ohhhhhh!!!! Thank you!!!

Great Video, Thank you!

what would you do if its still flat??? loosen the screw, zero spring tension anymore and it's still off.

Ken, we miss your show, any chance you will make another video to let us know how you are, and what you've been up to?

That pencil trick is awesome! Thank you!

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

Fact: Just because you tune the g to pitch then make sure its in tune at the 12th fret DOES NOT mean your guitar is in true intenation. You have to play the string up the neck and make sure that the notes you are playing are at picth as well. If you play an A at the 2nd fret and its sharp of flat youre guitar is not intenated.

Great video! I was given a buffalo horn pick that's just magical, but I have no idea who made it. Can you recommend someone who makes custom picks? Thanks!

Martin u shaped truss rod is 22 dollars at stew mac. It works the same way.

Thanks

suppose it's still is not intonated after what you did?... i've seen a case like that, where even without the spring it's still is not intonated... i wanted to shorten the saddle by way of filing the saddle's back edge a little at a time

Several years ago, when I bought a medium priced Martin, I noticed that not only was it going sharp on some first position chords, especially fretted near the nut, but it was killing my fingers. I had it worked on by a technician at the store where I purchased it and the main thing he did was cut the nut slots much deeper. What I don’t understand is how a company like Martin could let such an elementary thing happen. That is an easily measured and adjusted thing. And NOBODY wants strings that high off the first fret.

Great advice! Thanks. Will do!

Great video! I’m doing this today for an acoustic that needs a new bridge. Question: do you need to put it in the oven to maybe strip out moisture and get better tone out of it? Is that even a thing?

Thank you!

Why not moving the saddle to length?

Excellent tip!

You got a haircut and maybe lost a few pounds since the last vid. No...I"m not gay...

Hellagood vid!

Dude...Adjust your intro music volume WAY DOWN to blend into your most excellent voice instructions!