Chinese Ace Frehley Gets New Stuff Part 1

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[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

I have always understood it that with the strings putting a lot of tension pulling the neck one way, the truss rod is adjusted to counter that bringing the neck into alignment. Measuring the flatness of a neck should be done with strings on and tuned. Then adjust the the truss only a quarter turn at a time. It's a balancing act between the truss and the strings.

[@joeturner7959]

That is exactly the way I learned it, that is the way I do it, and I will continue to do it that way. 1/4 turn, and then wait...

[@garyheighway7635]

I bought one of these from a friend of mine. It was actually built pretty good but everything else was shit. Gave him $100 and rebuilt it. Now it plays great...only took a total re-wire and $400 in parts. Makes a good home recording guitar.

[@j_freed]

Gary Heighway - not a bad deal. And also not too valuable to display as wall art!

[@aaastuff]

Ace is back and he told you so🎵

[@steby123]

The truss rod "Evil Orifice"!!

[@sweettoof9002]

Gibson doesn’t crack down on these because they make big money selling parts to people who buy this firewood.

[@PurpleLightning6was9]

Sad part is that it's still a quarter of the price of one of their guitars.

[@mojorisen74]

The parts are not an exact fit. Every Chinese knockoff I've seen has had to have an obvious mod made to accept the quality parts

[@aaastuff]

Firewood guitars😂

[@smoothcologne187]

Highly doubt anyone with a Chibson is buying genuine Gibson parts for it. If for no other reason most won't even fit the metric guitar.

[@steveredenbaugh9058]

Ace Hardware

[@acefrehley681]

My Guitars sound like shit.

[@ShockMe1994]

Ace Frehley because you aren’t Ace, you’re a damn 12 year old, you pretend to be Ace & comment on your own videos from your other channel, using the Ace profile, you don’t fool anyone kid.

[@6161fender]

Great video, can't stop watching or waiting for all your vids, and your way of explaining the work you do , FABROCOBLE.

[@davidkastin4240]

Looking forward to part 2 😎

[@Wade6242]

Hey Dave, I automatically give you a thumbs up cause you make us laugh. Have a great day sir.

[@SimplyReg]

The state of those pickup rings. They're up and down like a bride's nightie.

[@triplesevensix291]

Good one.

[@thefuneralparade]

Simple sand job if the rings

[@leelaurence4850]

Interesting analogy.

[@larryburwell8550]

Never watched this dave great video moving on to part 2 good so far

[@davidjones6218]

Good goooooooochin luck to you Dave.👍👍👍 If anyone can, You can.!

[@danoconnor618]

Dave you got this .

[@craigtullius9613]

Solder, Soldering , Desouldering ! Love it Dave , you are funny dude! 👍✌

One of your best videos,Dave.Thank you a million for making this so clear for us. Man,in ten years Gibson will be out of business.the copies will be 5x better. And besides, what 'music' that I hear on the radio would give a damn if you showed up with a Chibson?

[@wafdaddyrocks7028]

Been there and done that. Got the blue sparkle one. Frets were really good considering but a good 3 way 3 pickup switch and 3 super distortions with chrome top bobbins and good pots and 280 bucks turns into 800.00 bucks. But it's now wanted by many who have played it. But they would never even offer what I have in the pups,so make it as good as you can cause you're stuck with it.

[@michaelevans512]

Ace is back, hell yeh!!!

[@leokimvideo]

Ace's guitar middle pickup was just a faker but it looks way better with 3

[@Snakefinger1000]

HOORAY and all praise to you sir, you are the first northern American who has pronounced the word "soldering" correctly. My world is now as it should be.

[@drippinglass]

Nice video! Glad I bought a Gibson, and didn’t have to change anything.

[@vinniedayhikerb4977]

May the schwaz be with you.😀

[@musicalcompanion5890]

As far as i know Ace has said multiple times the middle pup was never wired in. Also i have met Gilby Clarke at his 50th birthday after party and did a impromptu interview which was never published. He also said Ace didnt have the middle pup wred up himself being a big Ace fan. Just my 2 cents

[@thesundog8833]

Right, only the bridge pickup functions as a pickup. The Neck pickup is the removable door that lets the smoke out, and the volume or tone turns on the burner that ignites the smoke bomb.

[@corneliuscrewe677]

Some, but not all of Ace’s guitars weren’t even routed for middle pickups, they just stuck a dummy middle pickup on the surface for looks.

[@leelaurence4850]

Correct. The toggle thus acted as a kill-switch. The _Standard,_ had just two humbuckers, but still had a kill-switch. The neck pickup set-off the smoke-bomb when pressed-in. Same in the case of the three-humbucker, _Custom_ configuration, which just had a dead pickup.

[@outofthinair1]

The dreaded "Hot Dog " wood ... Laffin ...

[@j_freed]

carl suiter - I'm picturing laminated strips of wood that resemble a pack of wieners. It's very hard to tell from the crappy router cavity it the body back is plywood. Could just be a terrible router bit. ** edit- the pickup cavity routes look different, seem to have been routed with different bits. If the wood ply accounted for how the routes looked, then all the routes should look like the control cavity route.

[@man.i.literally.failed6772]

I bought one 2 years ago for $250US , took 7 days to come which was awesome, I gotta say its up there with an epiphone in regards to quality, it stays in tune, with a fret job, p90 humbuckers and maybe Jimmy page wiring kit it'll work, it'll be like a Frankenstein guitar

[@leelaurence4850]

The tighter the truss-rod, the more the neck will resist the tension of the strings. That's the simplest way to think of it. If you're using lighter-gauge stings, loosen the nut atop the truss-rod. Double-action truss-rods are different, yet similar. If you're unsure about you double-action, take it in, or watch a few videos on how it works.

[@TaralgaBushAdventure]

Davey, when making that brass plate, notice that the routing in the cavity does *not* have a square edge on the bottom. It is rounded, so if you make a template based on the top outline, it wont sit flat on the bottom. Perhaps using shielding tape would be a lot less headache? Looking forward to Part 2! Thanks mate.

[@amazingsnyder-man844]

The "hot dog wood" comment had me laughing way harder than it should have. Cool vid as usual Dave!

[@will.a.benjamin]

"I'm gonna quit for today cause I'm just sick of lookin at this thing." I love his attitude.

[@springy-2112]

I can't comment as I agree with everyone else's comments and it's fried my brain!! 👍☮❤

[@marshallgeorge3819]

"Hot Dog wood." That's funny as hell right there!

[@timjones1464]

Hey Dave I got one of these aces , my gf got it for me cause I said it looked cool one night when she was looking at guitars with me and she didn't know who ace was so I had to school her, anywho,. I checked it out when I swapped my pups and it is a monogamy body with and actual maple cap , I was stunned but pleased!!!!! Go figure!

[@dantanner1721]

Chinese kindling, great video, lets have an Ace smoke show!

[@hadleymanmusic]

Is there a 3 way LP switch that will choose 3 pickups?

[@hughjanus3798]

Does "hot-dog wood" = sawdust + glue?

[@joeyriche9541]

Whats ironic you find a lot of these same problems with the Actual Gibsons

[@clintmiller2408]

You ain't kidding a bit buddy to me I'm so goddamn sick of hearing oh yes Paul Les Paul well I'm gonna say it fuck Les Paul I'm a leo fender guy myself thanks y'all one man's opinion

[@LfunkeyA]

@@clintmiller2408 fuck your pointless opinion

[@vertebralremains379]

Hostile.

[@sidneygold4428]

Hi Dave I have the same guitar and where can I purchase that switch and is there a model number? Thank you for the video help

[@j_freed]

11:55 - this is likely a past-six-beers moment... ah the joys of working at home!

[@Furtheronmusic]

I know that is "the Gibson" way to wire a 3 pickup but personally I never got that way. It's so inefficient. I'd go like the Epiphone or Peter Frampton way. Have the middle always on but via a vol pot, either sacrifice one tone and go master tone three vol or have bridge and neck through one pair of vol tone and middle through other (I believe that is Frampton wiring). Then you can wind middle out and just like a 2 pick up or dial it in in any of three positions. Just my thoughts makes much more versatile guitar and you don't need special switch.

[@zdcyclops1lickley190]

Woa hoa somebody likes me! Don't you ever get you messed up my axe calls ?

[@johngilley3518]

Hope your patience holds out with this one.

[@JBSlickflyer]

As someone with 30 years of woodworking experience, plywood is way stronger than hotdog wood (mdf or osb). It also doesn't kill the sound nearly as much.

[@karlshawn9]

Part 2?

[@morbidangel47]

Looks like if you removed the two screws holding the switch together, you could vertically invert the right half of the switch and after re-assembly the switch would identically match what's shown on the wiring diagram.

[@morbidangel47]

Should have known better than to think you hadn't already considered that. Keep up the great work Dave!

[@Eddy63]

You say plywood ... I'm guessing particle board ... Lol ...

[@dbvetter7485]

Doesn’t matter what the hole looks like, as long as it does the job! Is this mike on? 🙂

[@AppleBag1000]

what size feeler gauge are you using and where can i get a strait edge with the notches out of it , like the one you have

[@AppleBag1000]

thanks for the response and info

[@sweettoof9002]

I have a problem with these guitars having a Gibson logo on the peg head. Maybe I’m old fashioned.

[@216trixie]

Agreed.

[@216trixie]

Agreed.

[@driven9863]

Its It's called stealing, the only thing China knows how to do

[@stevenharrison488]

This is what trump is on about with china stealing intellectual rights

[@j_freed]

Sweet toof - yes and no. You can buy this to stick on a wall just like you could buy a fake Frankie or a fake bootleg Gibson logo tee shirt. For that you don't need a guitar that plays really well, and the real item it might be wasted on the owner. I really expect a genuine Gibson AF Sig would be a 100% better guitar. So this only sort of infringes on the sales of real Sig models, if they are still even available. Counterfeits tend to fill a vacuum, and people tend to know

[@offbeatbassgear]

That's somewhere around three hundred-odd dollars of pickups in a 150 dollar guitar. I upgraded the three pickups in my Les Paul Epiphone Black Beauty, but that was a really solidly built guitar, which this certainly is not, so I don't see why you'd put that much money into a Chinese nightmare build.

[@drippinglass]

People are dumb.

[@triplesevensix291]

Ace Frehley? Lol. I wonder if those Chibson guys could do me a copy of that famous strat used by Eric Shipton from Derek & the Donkeydick's? I love their song Layla. Dave you're a legend. Keep it up lad. ;) Chibson's...whats the point? Lol. Buy an Epiphone instead.

[@alext9067]

I think I'm turning Chia nese, I really think so, da da da da.

[@clockwork914]

😆A big bag of China😆

[@bobnixon1964]

Hot Dog Wood strength test....🤣

[@me-bk9er]

are these chibsons EVER any good?? lol

[@MrOne2watch]

TAG your it ! LOL

[@georgemitchell9907]

I bought a $1200 epiphone and bought a $400 chibson like this and gave it a set up, plays and sounds better than the epiphone ...

[@Stratboy999]

You managed to source some Turd Polish then?.....

[@razor75250]

Ace pnly ran the bridge pickup

[@edmiami7944]

It's like one of them bulls in those china shops, eh?

[@rijosigns]

yup plywood

[@johnf6288]

Do the Pickup cavities need to be shielded?

[@johnf6288]

thanks Dave I did not realize that was only for single coils

[@vertebralremains379]

Word of the day: Fabricobble- To fabricate a needed item in a cobbled manner. To cobble something together with care and purpose.

[@RollieFingers59]

Plywood? LMAO

[@roaddog7542]

C'mon Dave... the only mod should of been a sander on the headstock.

[@notajp]

Road Dog 🐕

[@mattrogers1946]

Nicely painted firewood.🙁🙁🙁

[@kbschulze]

Well you get what you pay for. Most are like $300 USD delivered, that’s pretty fair deal and to think they get the neck angle right and most $3000 Gibson’s don’t. A lot of the Chibson dealers are now using real flamed maple tops and I piece Mahogany bodies and send you pictures of the whole process of it getting built. Although those are around $400 you can’t beat that deal. They’ll even put your own custom logo. That’s what cheap labor gets you, lol

[@hastyberford]

It looks real! Real fake.

[@daleweber2579]

Does your sticker still include a pick

[@MrWeed1977]

C'mon Dave, stop holding out. Your pick stash is in the same place as mine and you know it. Couch cushions and the bottom of the clothes dryer. You have way more picks than you think you do. LOL!

[@peetena1481]

A Chibson........well Good Luck Dave you'll need it. You might be lucky or the owner ah fuck it.

[@ToddSauve]

Is "hotdog wood" the stuff you don't want to know how they make or what's in it? Ha-ha!

[@granvillefriel1877]

There's a whole story about these guitars not really 300 made dimazio couldn't fill the order for super distortion pups . So many came with the wrong pups!!

[@ThatGuitardedGuy]

God damn Gibson......figure it out

[@chingasofarkaso]

If you're buying a $300 Chinese copy to put in work and parts that exceed the value of the guitar by at the very least double, you gotta really question what you're doing with your life.

[@clint4004]

Amazing I have this same guitar.. writing this before the view...it was legit the one I'd have sent to you if...

[@scott729]

And .... when you are finished it will still be worth, well .... nothing.

[@BrentHarmon]

I hope the guy got this guitar cheap side?

[@shoominati23]

Oh well, I guess it is original in the fact that the original Budokans were wired wrong and were supposed to come with super distortions but 80% shipped with their usual 49whatevers .. I wouldnt work on it personally

[@MusicalMonkey1056]

"...I'm gonna stop bein a d***". HAH. I feel that.

[@Yosser70]

So everyone's knocking a Chinese guitar for being junk but your forgetting it's a copy of a junk guitar! How many Gibson's has Dave moaned about for being set up badly, even new ones. There's a reason they are going bust! lol

[@driven9863]

You mad, you don't own a Gibson. Maybe you should buy Chinese Fake bike

[@QuickQuips]

At that point why not get a good Japanese/Indonesian copy with an ESP LTD Ec400 with Duncans?

[@Yosser70]

@@driven9863 Why would I own an overpriced, poor quality guitar? There are so many better options.

[@Kylora2112]

I'd MUCH rather have an LTD Eclipse (I have an EC-256 with Hipshot tuners, Schaller bridge, and DiMarzios...the 256/400/1000 differences are in the hardware and electronics, and some cosmetics). They play just as good and cost about half the price (or about equal to an Epihone).

[@j_freed]

Dave Hughes - it's still different. Gibson still makes enough good guitars that they can maintain a loyal consumer base. You can be picky buying a new Gibson, then deal with the usual one or two issues per instrument Gibson is lazy about but then enjoy a very nice guitar for many years. Not cheaply but then Gibson don't try to be a cheap brand. And resale is generally high. Chinese black market companies definitely aren't Gibson in any of the above aspects. You have no idea what the hell a black market guitar maker will put in each guitar. It will likely be a pain to own and set up. But China seem to be getting better, and with the right materials and resources a properly-run factory in China could make fairly accurate 59 Burst clones with proper woods and specs. Would you pay 3 to 4 times as much the black market for one of those 'accurate' clones, that's the question. High risk and low resale. But maybe an amazing guitar for $600. That question may become reality soon.

[@TheFULLMETALCHEF]

Who ordered the bag of Chinese throw-out? No MSG.

[@dangardace9]

Just buy a older\used Gibson. You can get it cheap ‘nuff. No matter what it’s still better than that POS. P.S. Dave you rock!1

[@gn8713]

"Wafers"LOL use to get sheet of them from Mexico.you had fat ones and thin ones which were WAFERS.😎 Mandrixs

[@tradbowseven]

Watch what you say about my truss rod hole

[@dirtysci]

Gibson. What the actual fuck?

[@John-vk4gs]

The headstock doesn’t look right!

[@ianhoyle8459]

I don’t get it, surely Ace would have signed these off though?

[@agentorange2554]

Schwaz, not to be confused with schwartz.

[@mooch514]

This guitar sells for $300 new. Put on dimarzios,,,adjust like this. And you got a good guitar. Better than spending $3000 on a "real " lespaul and finding gibson quality control issues

[@onefatstratcat]

Ace FweeWeee :)

[@johngilley3518]

onefatstratcat LMAO 😂

[@ricklavigne4466]

Noooo, Not super distortion pickups.

[@michaelcrawford4940]

Am I the only one that thinks there needs to be an intro song? Maybe an explosion sound or a gong, IDK. Sitting through dead silence waiting for you to speak, I always feel like there's something missing when your logo pops up

[@proracing9025]

My epiphone is not much better. I paid $500 chibson was $ 300 its hit or miss with them

[@stuartjohnston4044]

: )

[@austinfailz]

All this work for a fucking plywood guitar. Lol

[@8toesleft]

Ace Frehley used a DiMarzio Super Distortion in bridge and never was known to use neck or middle pick up, Punky Meadows actually kicked his ass guitar playing in Japan when Angel toured Japan with KISS, Ace is OK but Punky fuckin rules, HA HA HA

[@rijosigns]

sad part is it will prob play well look and prob sound the part...but yet when someone asks nice guitar... he has to say it's fake...and worth almost nothing so hope he or she keeps it cause there is no value there.

[@briano.5746]

P.O.S. but fun firewood !

[@weibernipple]

If you’re going to play a Les Paul down at the dusty end, you better be able to palm a basketball, besides being actually able to play.

[@salvatoredaniele8020]

It’s not worth the effort, energy, and money. Believe me I know.

[@tonyp1313]

What do you want for $250? I own one and would have killed for one when I was 15 (a loooooong time ago)...needed a new nut and locking Grovers...and a lot of gain!!!!

[@astrophotonics9470]

Feel bad for Dave some times, just gotta eat Crow on this one, what garbage that guitar is....