Homeskoolin’ Volume 390, Tom Bukovac, “Hello...1983 Calling….”

[@chrisjmansa]

Almost found myself like a moth to a fire heading over to JB channel it’s like a video of a car accident you just keep rewinding 😩😩😩

[@501chorusecho]

our dear beloved Jiveboy.....oh how i wish someone would go through all his videos and make a greatest hits compilation of all of his pathological lies....beautifully edited with quick cuts... i would do it myself if i had the time and if i knew fuck all about editing videos... it would be literally comedy for the ages i mean, can't you just picture it? the buddy hackett of 80's hair band rock giving us 10 straight minutes of pathological lies...haaahaaa

[@chrisjmansa]

@ you’d probably be dribbling on yourself by the end of the video and get carted away in a straight jacket

[@chrisjmansa]

@@501chorusecho probably get a million views a million imagine where’d I hear that before 😂😂 I’m here all week folks

[@501chorusecho]

@@chrisjmansa dude, can you imagine?...the world is CRYING for it

[@chrisjmansa]

@ what’s really nuts is I’m sitting here with ear buds my wife’s watching tv and I’m laughing out loud so hard she’s like wtf is going on imagine I can’t tell her she’ll think I’m crazy AND if I showed here the videos we’d both be in the nut house

[@jasonpitts8395]

2025 is awesome so far. As long as we can wake up, play guitars, and get lessons from Uncle Larry, we have no reason to complain.

[@girotn9065]

I'm new to your channel. You might be my favorite person on the internet. Thanks for being here.

[@501chorusecho]

awwww....love you too my friend

[@joebill663]

Best channel on yt! Been homeskoolin for years now! What a ride! Welcome to class!

[@GraemeCampbellMusic]

Watching from Scotland. Yes it feels like a weird year here too, but channels like yours keeps us sane. Keep up the good work. Thanks for these videos, they do a lot of good.

[@projekct_amk]

Me too, Larbert, Stirlingshire

[@scottcoutant2826]

I've been playing guitar quite a long time and I have to say I learn something new from your videos all the time. Things I never thought of. Why I enjoy the videos. Thanks for putting them out

[@stringlocker]

See you're the real deal. Changing strings ABing guitars adjusting pickups see that's what we do and that's why we're here. You still have the passion and it comes through the video

[@501chorusecho]

thank you honey...i still love this shit

[@stringlocker]

Me too

[@jerryhatrick5860]

I'm just here for the awesome community and their comments.. And learn guitar chording. And understanding to put names to what I feel and know already.. I'll put any guitar I have up against the tomfoolery of cork sniffing hahahaha

[@johnsmith-bk4ps]

@jerryhatrick5860. I dunno man.. toms got a red 335 thats hungry

[@gwbuilder5779]

​@@501chorusecho It's so worth it.🤙

[@janigorse]

That "Hello friends.." with a opening beer sound is just so humble.. Greetings from Slovenia.

[@tango_victor2753]

...with Genesis playing in the backround. Perfect 😀

[@joshellyson]

Thanks much Uncle Larry for this guitar nerd hang, living out here in the rural west makes fellow guitar nerds far and few between so sitting with you is a real treat

[@padovann]

Year has been going pretty well for us so far! Sending some of the good luck your way 🙏

[@jergreen9050]

Great video uncle Larry! These past few years I've gotten into learning to do my own set-up work. I learnt to solder and I was so proud the first time I swapped out my own pickups in my les paul. Please keep bringing the set-up wisdom

[@Tobias_Upright85]

Man you really got me playing on that SG... just awsome! Thank you so much for all your content Uncle Larry 🙂, pure pleasure to watch 🙏🙏🙏

[@Frettedchaos]

It wouldn’t be Home Skoolin without the intro. Bench videos are always entertaining. Love you Tom!

[@Zavijava1]

Thanks for the most excellent guitar set up workshop(ha...big fun)cheers!

[@501chorusecho]

glad you enjoyed it my friend

[@irababoon6050]

​@501chorusecho Can you help a bloke out with some Larry neck relief wisdom? Have loved the ride since ep 1, and the bench videos are gold. Cheers mate 🍻

[@mennowokke2965]

Tom thanks for showing us the whole process fixing that nut from start to finish, this is so helpful!

[@vaisatchatrucci]

“Rubber Shirt” 😂😂😂😂 That just made my whole Friday. Nothing can ruin it now. Thank you sir🙏

[@John_2Much_Coffee]

Thank you big time Uncle Larry. I lowered my LP pickups, to heights you like. It changed everything. My amps sound proper now, not brittle and harsh anymore. I am 4 yrs into learning guitar just 2 ish years younger than you. I've been learning power chords and palm muting. Couldn't get the deep muting thud sound , thought was doing it wrong. It was because pickups were too high. Now I feel like a Rock Star. So a Giant thank Uncle Larry for all you do on your channel. Cheers from Canada!

[@kurtc2894]

Listening to you on my way to a job interview. Fellow December ‘68. We had Super TVs scrambled signal.

[@edkutschke814]

I can't imagine how cool it must be to play music with your boys. I have two sons, both gave up on guitar. I hope yours keep playing. Maybe on a future birthday celebration at 3rd and Lindsey they'll be up there with you as part of the band. Always great to see a father so engaged with his kids. Your a good man, sir.

[@jimgansman8317]

Thanks for so much understandable information. I could feel the neck needed the truss adjustment just like you said. Put it on the table and made the truss rod adjustment . Feeling much better now. Satisfying making your guitar better. Thanks Doctor Larry!

[@george6520]

Always amazes me how different a guitar can sound by adjusting pickup height. These bench vids are the best Tom… your years of wisdom always teaches us home skoolers a new thang or two. Best channel ever!

[@JayMurph91]

My pops had an old studio just like this but with gold pups. He called it his poor mans Randy Rhoads.

[@dianeramos5829]

Just love the Hello Friends peek a boo!!! 😂😂😂 We need this every single day lately.. even if you don't have time to post just do this... thanks Tom🙂🙃

[@Austin18025]

Lol, hello friend. Honestly it never gets old. Cracks me up every time.

[@guitarlovearoundtheworld6684]

Love the bench videos, l always learn a lot plus great view from above on how you are playing certain riffs and such....Happy New Year Sir

[@dhh488]

Thanks for the setup videos, I find them very relaxing.

[@Ruudis9er]

Look forward to changing strings and making a few tweaks. Love that players view Tom. Thanks for bringing a guitar hang home for we Homeskoolers

[@TheFeelButton]

Finally bought my first Gibson...59 Melody Maker! Cheers Tom!!

[@501chorusecho]

cool bro....thats some GREAT old wood

[@TheFeelButton]

It's got something to say.

[@501chorusecho]

@@TheFeelButton it will REALLY come alive with a music city stud finder bridge my friend

[@TheFeelButton]

@@501chorusecho I look forward to being the first guy to get to play it properly set up! Got one on order.

[@stringlocker]

Melody makers are cool.

[@ScottWalker-uw3rp]

There's no way that was your first beer of the night haha! And I say that with no judgment. You're the best Uncle Larry. I have an1992 white Les Paul Studio that looks a lot like that one. I bought it brand new when I was 18 years old in 1992 and gave it to my son a few years back (he's 16 now). He plays it in his own band, and it brings me so much joy. Have great weekend.

[@jerryhatrick5860]

Third I would wager. Only cheap.eer needs to be ice cold. Ask keystone labatts and anheiser Busch hHahaha . I'll drink warm Genesee though..especially creme ale.

[@tadmorrison]

Regarding our malaise. It's a lot of work 'looking out for #1' instead of living cooperatively. The main reason I LOVE this channel is because of the community. Too many capable folks think it weakness to need other people. Nothing could be further from the truth.

[@501chorusecho]

I agree

[@Nozmo_King_NJ]

I am so with you on that. The older you get the more you realize how much you need other people.

[@lancemorgan644]

I’ve got a ‘61 LP SG too. Cool to see how close in comparison you got it. The pickup lowering was big. First time for me to hear about the nut binding. I’ve only been playing since 1970, so there’s that.

[@1legmoto]

Wow, my LP Custom is an 83, and I have no recollection of the Studios being around then. I definitely thought they came later. Mine also has the Styx guy pickups in it. Thanks for your efforts, and sharing your gifts Tom 🙏

[@501chorusecho]

1983 was the first year of the LP Studio model

[@1legmoto]

@@501chorusecho I was just a wide eyed rock and roll youth, astounded that I now owned the same guitar as Ace Frehley 😂 The Marshall was yet to come...

[@robwalsh3187]

Dude. So happy this year! Such positivity afoot.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Love working on guitars. I liked getting old Japanese guitars at thrift stores when I lived in Tokyo, refretting them, bringing them to life, gigging them a bunch then setting them free to my friends in the states. Love listening to you play and gab, thanks for the good times!

[@StarshipTrooper2050]

Loved this video…as soon as I heard Genesis playing in the background, I thought , how cool is this…then to hear Yes being played on the guitar….very cool…thanks for talking through the set up etc…always a pleasure watching you tweak a fiddle! The camera angle was perfect for the tweak and the jam…peace!

[@kwkoch1966]

“Binding in the nut slot is bad”😂😂😂 that cracked me up. Someday I’ll grow up, but not today.

[@averyprice9422]

I'm 45 going on 15 😂 all good

[@TheBigHeavies]

Nice! Spot on comment about what Studios used to be. My first legit guitar when I was 16 was a 2006 Alpine White Les Paul Studio with ebony board. That guitar looks very similar. That was a great guitar

[@jacksonrepetskimusic]

These videos are always a highlight of my day...Thanks Uncle Larry!

[@chrisbrowning6102]

I love that Tom gets such a kick out of sneaking up on the viewers from the lower left corner of the screen in these bench videos.

[@Paul-lj3qw]

I couldn’t be happier, It’s been a great 2025 so far.✌️🇺🇸

[@rjlane3475]

I'm still thankful one of the owners at Longhorn Guitars in Fort Worth (closed many years ago) talked me out of a Les Paul Studio back in the late 80's. They had an LP Studio for sale and I told the guy I really wanted an LP Custom. He said, "don't buy the Studio ... you'll always wish it was a Custom. just find yourself a Custom". I ended up finding an '84 LP Custom a few weeks later and I'll still have it to this day. I still think of that guy from time to time.

[@robinho1978.]

Genesis is never distracting big man! Lovely looking guitar.

[@rossmitson]

The 'new' camera angle is a great way to show what you're playing - much clearer than face-to-face. I like the way that Les Paul looks; kinda like a Special but bumpier! Sounds pretty good too through the Tweed Deluxe with you playing it. 🙂

[@cpost1558]

Uncle Larry, I just moved to Oahu, this year has been outstanding so far!

[@herringbone72]

Man every time you hit those Steve Howe licks, it always makes my day. Goodness I love those Yes albums

[@DannyJonesGuitar]

Shaw's Ive had in LP's over the yrs have always been great, your channel is def a fav!! I know it's hard but, take a big swig of one those cold beers and scroll right past the stupid comments,, can't ever win responding,, much love!!

[@MONTE12ax7]

I am so happy! I am old and feel great. no artritis in me hands. I still have joy when I play guitar! Life is good! keep the creepy vibe on your channel. any updates on your lesson videos. take care, you are needed as a diversion from the distortion from the news. If the "news" was an amp and guitar, what would it be? I say it would be a Starcaster through a Fender solid state 80s amp

[@supermotorcat]

Amazing how much better the Studio sounded after lowering the pickup.

[@averyprice9422]

It's crazy the difference in adjusting pu height

[@SamRichey64]

That studio sounds great

[@KenSpears313]

I’m a Detroit Lions fan born & raised here so our year ain’t over yet I’m hoping we finally get to and win the superbowl oh and thanks for the badass defensive edge rusher we got from your team the browns. Za’darius Smith I frikkin love that dude such high energy cool cat that fits in great here in Detroit! 💙⚡️🩶⚡️🏈⚡️👊

[@brianolson_music]

Thanks for the reminder tip. Staying in tune much better. And ah.. Yes I can agree just saying

[@KevinLevesque-q5y]

I love Genesis. Keep it going. Thanks Larry.

[@abreug2]

Love ole Tommy and Uncle Larry!! 2025 going great and i hope for you and all the Homeschoolers!! 🎉🎉

[@NateTheMeh]

So far 2025 has felt like one long Friday

[@stevemyers2092]

I am happy//// very happy.

[@dugeedug-hop]

Started 2025 with the flu but feeling better today--uncle Larry videos help...so thanks Tom! Trying to be positive about the new year. I agree that everyone seems extra edgy and whatnot, but i've lived through divorce and the Marshall fire (Colorado 3 yrs ago--this Cali situation hits close) so "this too shall pass" seems to always work. Hang in there skoolers! Play guitar and be good to each other!

[@bross63]

I have a 1982 Silverburst Les Paul Custom that’s all original (and in pristine condition), including Tim Shaw pickups and wiring harness. It was always very dark sounding and never sounded like I felt a LP should sound. I checked the volume and tone pots and found instead of 500k for both volume and tone, Gibson put 300k volume and 100k tone pots from the factory during that era. Mine measured under 300 volume and 81 and 83k each for the tone pots. Switching to 500k audio taper pots radically changed that guitar, opened it up, and it sounded like a Les Paul for the first time in the 30+ years I had owned it. The Tim Shaws sounded amazing with those 500k pots. I reinstalled the original pots in preparation to sell the guitar, so it’s back to original. But it was amazing to play and hear it with those other pots

[@michaelwest3488]

That guitar sounds really good. Particularly liked black dog. As always great playing!

[@da12ius]

So excited for Leo! I wish this so much for my 3 year old.

[@mitcharney1]

This is going to be a great year Tom...wait and see.

[@501chorusecho]

thank you...take me with you

[@fisherman10101]

thank you for the wonderful comparision

[@jimmyfrombrooklyn8550]

So far 25 is treating me like a baby treats a diaper, but I’m determined to change things around! I now can properly date my norlin era gibsons, didn’t have that ability yesterday! Always entertaining and educational! Thanks bro

[@beezersurf]

That intro does not get old. Please continue the comedy.

[@FiftyNinerWinder]

It really doesn’t. haha I look forward to it every time

[@Mcfly0856]

My birth year, I would love to have something like that to sling around the house!

[@user-pw8jk5ug6c]

Tommy plays Zeppelin, I click like. I’m a simple man.

[@Ericdakid]

yeah, that was great!

[@knotanother]

Tom, I find you totally inspiring you are hilarious. The way you attack you're playing is crazy as I was watching I was playing my 2014 2 knob Gibson Memphis. Keep going man. Thanks for being real

[@jasonmaltz7040]

That was time well spent! Thanks Uncle Larry

[@darrylweller6143]

Thanks so cool❤

[@JasonMarco]

Man! Uncle Larry! So thankful and blessed for your channel. Would you do a favor and show how you’d setup a strat? So thankful for your channel. I learn something every time 🙏. And yeah…2025 feels weird 🤦‍♂️🤪

[@dougsaroma]

Cool, when you opened that beer I was like "Dude, where are my 3D movie glasses?"

[@501chorusecho]

hahaaaa

[@theleviathan89]

I have an old Estey Magnatone. It’s fantastic 👍🏼 it’s a Custom 262 two twelve with the vibrato. And my amp guy also said it’s a work of art.

[@championhairpuller]

Stoked about '25!!

[@shagradauyo]

Hey Larry, I still have a '96 Wine Red Studio which is a killer guitar. Sounds so good! 😁👍

[@GabeHelma]

I played a red 98 studio in the store back when it was new. That guitar played so perfectly. Whoever set ot up did an amazing job. I wanted to buy it so bad but couldn't afford it. I never forgot that jam session 😂

[@Digosaurus]

"It's never the tuners, it's always the nut!" Preaching the good word Larry!

[@chrisjmansa]

Absolutely silence for tinnitus is brutal from all my years in the shop with loud tools and then guitar playing oofaaa I gotta keep a fan on at night just to fall asleep

[@ToddTheJoker]

mine is so bad from playing drums in loud bar bands that I have to go to sleep listening to audiobooks or the loud ciccada sound will drive me insane and keep me up all night. Wear ear protection kids!

[@GeeForceQ17]

I think it's going to be a great year!

[@danstheworst]

The triple “hello friends” fkin rules man it never gets old lol

[@JimFothergill]

Nice morning coffee with Tom. Thanks!

[@dlmyrs]

Uncle Larry Bench Talks….my favorite class!

[@matryan3532]

The universe is comical sometimes. I rarely browse reverb for guitars I can’t afford, but today I was looking specifically at ‘83 Les Pauls, my birth year. I guess that means I gotta buy one! Love you, Larry!

[@lifelongfan07]

Cool info Uncle Larry! Mine is an 86. The year I got serious at playing guitar but mine is a standard.

[@Mickey69745]

I had a 1980 Howard Roberts that had Shaw's in it. It sounded fantastic

[@valleywoodstudio7345]

Hello Tom! 2025 off to a great start - we had a guitar nerd evening here in Leeds two nights ago - home made pizza and beer of course - and Gibsons, Fenders (and Tokais!) One mate brought his 1960 ES345 and what a beauty! Do I need another guitar? Going to try make it monthly!.

[@501chorusecho]

sure you do

[@tombstoneslim7070]

Just one more…😉

[@bronsonwagner]

Bukovac breaking out some Heart Of The Sunrise! Nice.

[@simonwhalley1743]

There’s a million and one things wrong with the world right now but music will see us through.

[@micd9531]

So far, so good in 2025...retired on Jan 2...hanging in Florida for a few months. The music was not distracting in your video. Cool guitar...Tim Shaw of Styx 🤣

[@peterbrokas8801]

A true pro great playing Tom love to hear you and Ian Thornley jam sometime

[@mtchampion1831]

Gibson serial last three digits are as follows: first of the three last numbers is the factory code. Zero through 4 is Kalamazoo made and five through nine is Nashville made. Last two numbers are the production line placement. Thanks for the years of videos. I have had so many laughs and so much fun watching them. Hope to bump into you sometime in Nashvegas.

[@johnsmith-bk4ps]

Yes, also the first and fith date code started in 1978. 1977 the serial numbers started with 06.1976 was 00. And 1975 started with 99.

[@Dartguyjw]

I love watching old videos of Andre the Giant playing Mississippi Queen on the Les Paul Junior!

[@GabeHelma]

Hahaha!

[@Nozmo_King_NJ]

Love these bench videos. As a chronic Gibson top wrapper I agree with on the break angle being key, and yours was a very good example of why NOT to top wrap. But on mine if I crank the tailpiece down tight I get plenty of break angle without the back of the bridge contacting the strings. Guess it's a case-by-case thing.

[@MeganNisbet]

My number one is a 1992 (my birth year) white Les Paul Studio with gold hardware. Bought in South Korea, but I guess it has spent time in smoky bars in Japan (there was a Japanese receipt in the case) because it's yellow. I've taken it on two US tours so far - the finish is checking everywhere, and it's covered in dings and scrapes. It's nothing particularly special, but it's mine! Love this video.

[@iused2BAfireman]

“In the Cage” The song that went over and over in my head that night in ‘75 that I spent in the slammer.

[@ANDYONRY]

That LP studio was my grail guitar in my teens, along with a white sg special w/gold hardware... why? who knows haha. If no one was told ya today, Love ya Uncle Larry

[@sevenpoundsalad3878]

I saw Tommy Shaw open for Rush on the Power Windows tour. How cool am I? You had me baffled on that Tim/Tom thing for a half minute. I literally said "whuuuut the ****!!!" out loud.

[@clintonheider4382]

Speed knobs, metal tuners, yellowed "alpine white" - much love. I have a 79 LP custom with the same vibe. Digging the bench videos.

[@forestfloor2259]

Buddy Hacket, damn you nailed it Tom. The comparison is fn hilarious

[@gregorygoodellofficial]

I don’t think I have a SoundCloud page…. Love your videos brother. Beautiful guitars.

[@birdsfabulous]

My 1st gibson was a 1992 studio..wine red/ebony board/gold hardware. Changed the plastics to cream. It was given to me from a friend...love it to death. The other day Uncle Larry posted a vid playin a white double neck and god damn that was some of the finest playing..cant wait to dig into that. Been trying to get a soumd like that lately and there it was....awesome

[@501chorusecho]

thank you brother, that old double neck is a truly amazing instrument....soooo inspiring

[@auralharmony]

Weird year is just getting started. I watched everything you did and I still can't figure out how you got the 1983 Les Paul studio to sustain better but I heard it! Oh, and I have a Soundcloud page...

[@jonlewis63]

light Cam rocks !!!! That viewing perspective is so interesting for watching your technique

[@glenngertz9429]

I love LP Studios . I've always thought that they have the same 'bones' as the other Les Pauls . Studios can sing just as well as the higher end models . Replace the Pots and caps with quality components and you've got a keeper every time . This aged white Studio is a gem !