My Friend is Handy He Wired My Stratocaster

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[@SuperDd40]

when you hear a big snap, you back it up a quarter turn and then call the apprentice and tell him to finish the job

[@daleonov]

SuperDd40 good thinking

[@freedomination2]

lmao

[@woodyh4650]

“If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.” ~ Red Green

[@caloss2]

"The bigger the blob, the better the job" LOL so many times I've had to fix this kind of mess but I'm stealing that phrase, unless you put it on a t-shirt and then I'll just buy it Dave

[@brucechumley9195]

What Caloss2 Channel said, Dave.

[@brandan2099]

Caloss2 Channel I got an ultra bent neck with about an inch of clearance above the 12th fret. The truss rod is super bent. Is there any savior for my p bass.

[@w13rdguy]

That's what she....uh, never mind.

[@GenericSpace]

I think I remember seeing a vid where Dave took the neck off the instrument, (forget bass or guitar), put blocks under each end, then placed a clamp in the middle to bend the neck back in the opposite direction - but I don't know wether or not there was a truss rod in there. I've never heard of a P.Bass neck not having a truss rod and since bending a truss rod would be counter-productive, that probably wouldn't help you. So it might be time to go check out Warmoth or just buy another bass. ...and that's "Warmoth" - not "Mighty Mite" Mighty Mite is garbage in everything they make Could just be your instrument needs a shim. Just dealt with that on a 1970's Epiphone ET-290 I got for my birthday.

[@Why_Am_I_Sticky]

A new neck.

[@veronicakirk4784]

Where was this video six months ago when I rewired my Chinese Strat?!? Seeing this video actually makes me proud of the job I did because it shows I did a good job. Thanks for the video Dave!

[@StahlsBlues]

"THE HANDY RELATIVE" LOL!!!!!!!!! No one makes me smile like you do sir. You don't know me from a hole in the Strat but I watch you every day and love you like a brother. A genius brother who fills my life with joy and laughter. Thanks for that Dave. 🌞

[@mustafa-lt6-z06]

"Dave to mission control... come in" I laughed so hard, thank you. I really enjoy watching these videos. 👍

[@tanhelmet]

"Dave to mission control ".

[@kdrake777]

tanhelmet That had me rolling!

[@wallyg3]

That killed me.

[@timothymckane6362]

Best Morse code in 2018.

[@garrytrillo]

Yeah that really made me laugh!!

[@Thomasdgolden]

..... -... -... (wtf is this rat fuck is) .....--,-..-.-

[@cjcar63]

"... during the welding operation ..." LMFAO!

[@brucechumley9195]

me too - funn-IH :-)

[@mitchwrench239]

funniest shit ever

[@kevinfries55]

Yeah, that one was classic.

[@Storywealth]

"How to add an extra pickup to any Strat for free by using your bridge"

[@SkyAvila983]

Its amazing how you have patience with gooched guitars. Another great video. Thanks for the entertaining and educating content Dave! Greetings from Sweden!

[@sxdrujandis]

Really appreciate Dave taking the time to give the extra pointers and tips along with the usual main course of gouche.

[@jimfromoh8944]

DWOFS Hall of Fame video here. Must view for anyone with a screwdriver who thinks they want to be a luthier.

[@Scott-J]

Thanks for the wiring tips. I need to rewire my own Goochcaster later this winter.

[@blkjckgtr3075]

I see Uncle bumblefuck has been working on that poor pretendo Caster!Cheers Dave nice save.

[@radarsonwheels1]

Worst case ontario? Let’s just let it be water under the fridge. That way we can get two birds stoned at once.

[@warefairsoda]

That you Ricky?

[@jakobmorningstar]

I am the liquor

[@jimis7805]

This is awesome. The Pretendocaster looks nice. I like the body, with all the cracks.

[@RadioMartyT1B]

GSO... "guitar shaped object"

[@brianharris7243]

Classic Dave-I smiled all the way through.2018 starts the best way.

[@frozencancukfinearts]

"The bigger the blob the better the job," you are a master poet Dave. Thanks for the entertainment. Happy New Year Dave.

[@TheFULLMETALCHEF]

Wow, there was an ad at the beginning...does this mean KZbin loves you?

[@Starcrunch72]

Thumbs up just for the title, Dave.

[@paulevans4334]

Oh thanks Dave, that was frickin hilarious, I laughed so frickin hard at you takin the poss, made my day 😊

[@paulevans4334]

Dave's World of Fun Stuff Your welcome Dave, love watching your vids and your play with words......what gets me is why does KZbin keep coming down on you for swearing ? That's how us normal people talk. It's not as if you swear every other word, just when it's needed or when it's funny. Keep up the good work.

[@jonpatterson5668]

Lmao.. my new favorite expression "rat fucked and routed out " ...... awesome

[@marshallgeorge3819]

Thanks for the wiring tips Dave!

[@ItalianRocker38]

Dave, you are the best! I have never made any comments in the past but, I have to say I love your vids. I laugh my ass off with your funny comments Rock On!!!

[@robertkibbler1564]

Fu?&ing hell Dave ! You could have a leased drop filled those small paint chips??...Great pronunciation on the word "SOLDER" cheersDave... Rob from England

[@stevenpape2021]

I love it when you say, "What could go wrong."

[@rodjeffries9487]

Love the comment re putting it in a box and get a rat eating a hole. lol. great picture dude.

[@johngerson7335]

Shartocaster! Neck alignment needs a "UPS" adjustment lol!

[@TheRealScatterblak]

"Dave to mission control....come in..." BAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!

[@mitchwrench239]

this vid contains so many great dave quotes...

[@brianneal4597]

Thanks Dave for a few laughs before starting work this morning. 6 grounds to one spot on that pot, smh

[@ian-c.01]

But as the output jack was wired the wrong way they all became lives !

[@onpsxmember]

Finally had time to watch it. Dave, you mentioned refinishing a lacquered maple neck after the refret. I guess since you refret all sorts of instruments, you do that yourself. Can you show in a video how you refinish the neck and how to get back a similar nicotine coloured finish? Also, how to protect the decals (or do you just sand down the neck? Can't wait for your new reveal.

[@stargatewv]

lol! "Let's send it to Handy Dave! He'll fix anything!"

[@gearhead762]

The crummy headstock decal job was a dead giveaway its a crapbox strat.. nice " relicing" on the body lol. Dont blame you on not being jazzed to work on that guy. That morse code bridge is awesome !

[@michaelcrawford4940]

Great stuff as always Dave. I'd like to request a video or two summarizing what to look for when buying a used guitar, I think that would be really useful info

[@patbassman8251]

Make sure it doen't have Fender writen on the headstock

[@vpsaddict]

Depends if you looking to play it, or collect and resale

[@TheTruthRocks]

Regarding the pickup alignment and the strings aligning too far to the treble side: sometimes you can loosen the neck screws and tweak the headstock toward the bass side. On this Stratobastard, that would center the string alignment on the neck (look at the heel of the neck or the dots between the D & G strings when you do this) and get the strings over the pickups' polepieces where they belong. Most Strats and Teles (and clones) have a little wiggle room to do this. Many necks slip at the neck joint and the alignment goes all cattywompus, and it has to be reset. Rock on!

[@TheRobman]

I was thinking the same thing, and then add a shim on parts of the side of the neck to try and keep it in that position.

[@jdsnow9272]

I would have liked to have seen a close up of the switch after you soldered it. But, I loved this episode. "..let a rat chew a hole..." awesome.

[@Lvkkie]

The Turd-O-caster returns folks... This time someone ran a truck over it, gooched the electronics and called it a day.. And then of course sent it to Dave.

[@localcrew]

That bridge looks as if it has shifted a bit south of the old "38th parallel" there. Guess you'd have to fill in the old holes and re-drill and move it towards Pyongyang to make it straight. Just don't tell "Lil' Kim" about it. Then that axe would have some Seoul!

[@saintbrando]

Guitar looks like it’s been through hell and back. 🤘🏻🎸🍻

[@TheWesDrake]

5:11 That"s A " BRIDGE PICKUP" LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@greghenderson4582]

I always just start over .....every time I run into a situation like this ....I just unsolder everything and just start over !

[@greghenderson4582]

We agree just throw all that stuff out !!!

[@jerrygallant4284]

Hell , even the pickguard is bent ! LOL

[@jerrygallant4284]

Thanks for the clarification Captain Obvious . It was a joke . You should look into those on occasion .

[@jerrygallant4284]

smfh

[@jonpatterson5668]

When I worked in car stereo installation back on the late 80s in California We had a guy who's work was sloppy like that .. we called it the "clump" method

[@kevincozens6837]

"Electronicals"?? :) As soon as you exposed the wiring I noticed the wires were quite long and there was no shielding in the cavity. Near the end of this video you can see the strings aren't centered down the neck. That is another problem that should be addressed but is it worth the effort?

[@Woods_Hiker]

19:57 lol Dave. Was that a branded Fender? From an entry- level, chinese Fender kit perhaps?

[@HensleyDon]

Wow! That will probably give me nightmares....

[@joshuataft5541]

I appreciate you doing what you can for these cheaper guitars. Guys like me try to get deals or can't pay good enough to justify buying a 2000 dolor guitar.but I'd like one.

[@Ndlanding]

Thanks for the vid, Dave. It reminds me of a Fender Squier I bought a year or to back. I got it from "Cash Converters" for a mere 40€ because "the electronics were all bust". He-he, I thought. When I got it home and opened it up, it was easy to fix, but... there was a full set of Texas Specials in it! The guitar, however, is a disaster, with the bridge all skew-wiffety as in your video. It says Fender on the bridge pieces, but it should say Bender. And since it's a plywood body, I don't think I'll be fixing that. Still, the PUPs are fine. :)

[@thisisnotmyname91]

Hey Dave, don't you always say that those Tremelo springs are screwed? Don't you always put them so the tension on each spring is even?

[@HDDog2]

Ugly Question: "Pinned" is the basicly "Bottomed out" ? (Ran out of threads) Can a thin washer be added under the rod nut ?

[@KevinMillard68]

cool vid gota love it when people play inside that shouldn't

[@rchydrozz751]

Its never good when Dave says, Ya gotta see this.

[@2na-phish]

anticipation for the big news..... what a tease you are Dave :-)

[@BoyleJr]

Davey Boy greetings from Ireland.it is definitly a potential SRV Project

[@erdenski1]

Something tells me that all the talking and yelling occurs with or without the camera.

[@MrMisterock]

those pickups are brilliant. The whole neck could be re-done and acquire THAT real strat type feel. Big potential on that guitar. Nice video. Mission Control Over. Roger. Over/

[@robertsilva5041]

that looks hurt. you can fix it super dave!!!! love the vids.

[@Ben_Mdws]

Epic - a Dave's Greatest Hits...

[@greatreset3]

Would be good to hang on the wall as art? Maybe ask his friend to hang it? I'm sure he'd destroy the wall! 🎵🎸

[@killintime165]

David quick question .Couldn't you put some back pressure on the neck. as in pressure bowing neck backwards. As you tighten the truss rod nut and help the truss rod nut move the neck into position so you don't put so much stress on the truss rod ?

[@killintime165]

youtubesuckspoo okay I didn't read down through all the replies. I usually just loosen the truss rod nut to put the guitar between my legs so that the back of the neck is on my knee and then just kind of put pressure on the neck and then tighten the truss rod doesn't take long time. Works most of the time so far .as I am an amateur !

[@trillrifaxegrindor4411]

this is a $100 pile of shit,and that's probably $90 more than its really worth.i wouldn't have touched this repair atrocity for under $150 to unfuck the mess it was in.

[@cawfeedawg]

Dave you should teach classes in toronto on basic guitar stuff.. I mean .. um

[@crazyuncleduke8012]

Thanks for the support. :-)

[@billydeewilliams9104]

Entertaining the $hit outta me. Keep up the good work man!

[@chris_2714]

Seymour Duncan's wiring diagrams are the best out there. What a mess that was! Agree that a lot of people don't get yhat you can use any part of the pot for the ground, you don't have to put five in one spot!

[@EdKidgell]

At last! A real Venter Strapocaster!

[@fh276]

Looking at, the pickup rout. Is that a semi acoustic Stratocaster? Or where the rats, really hungry!

[@jakobmorningstar]

Loaded pickguard simply means that the pickups and knobs come pre installed all the soldering still has to be done by the customer

[@hunterfagan6272]

I need your help with something. I’m making a lefty 74 jazz bass replica. What was the neck finish in the 70s? Was it polyester, polyurethane, fullerplast, or something else? I would just use a clear polyurethane, but will it have a slight amber tint to it since it is oil based?

[@trillrifaxegrindor4411]

its a replica so it doesn't matter,but type your question into google and be amazed.

[@hunterfagan6272]

wayne rorbach can’t find the answer online. Some people say polyester, some people say polyurethane. Can’t ask fender because they’re idiots. I asked if mocha brown was nitro or poly in the 70s. They said poly, but I know it was nitro. I am leaning towards polyester, which seems correct, but I don’t know where to buy it

[@Woods_Hiker]

Buddy didn't know how to salder on the guitar shaped object lol

[@jonathanmartin3375]

What size allen wrench do you use to set pickup height? That's a handy trick.

[@stillsupro46]

Those six holes are from the stock ssix point trem screws

[@PhishyBongwaters]

"GUYS!!!" -soon available as a T-shirt

[@runningwithscissors0911]

The wiring's just all gooched up. That's what friends are for.

[@retired4365]

Wiring and soldering by school for the blind. I had to shield my bass, it was all bare wood like that one.

[@daleweber2579]

Looks like my pickguard except mine has alnico 5s cream covers and doesn't sound like that. Bridge looks it's from a squire.

[@briano.5746]

That poor Strat . Who the.......what , oh my god !

[@Ryan-re7oj]

Yikes! I guess I am better at soldering than I thought!

New from Ronco....the Pretend-O-Caster!

[@sprintcarsandguitars959]

might be the customer's 1st guitar,i guess some in here started with a $3000 les paul as your first axe? also tune down the 3 treble strings then loosen the neck screws and the neck will pull pull up to get the correct reveal,takes 30 seconds to do.that is an sx body,mex pickups,cts pots and squier hardware and neck.poorly re decale'd (clear not levelel'd).

[@warefairsoda]

Dave why did you not user shielded cable from the pickups?

[@gurukula342]

you should do a Dave's world tour of fun stuff and fix my gooched epi les paul

[@tianlee3487]

The strings shifted to one side problem might have been fixable by loosening the neck screws and shifting the neck in the neck pocket.

[@tianlee3487]

Reminds me of Borat when he’s learning how to tell a “not joke”... :)

[@moodyga40]

That's crazy work

[@thepennyarcane5358]

I enjoy your videos, they're very entertaining, but I always cringe when you tighten a truss rod without loosening the strings off first. And why not put some back pressure on the neck, to help make it a bit easier for the nut? Happy New Year from New Zealand. :D

[@depressorfull]

In the garbage? You can send it to me, I fiddle around with crazy setups a lot. Could use the extra parts.

[@ZPDSurvival]

Morse Code Guitar effects. Lol.

[@AZWings]

Surprised you put that much effort into it.

[@veronicakirk4784]

AZWings I agree but he said it was a family member.

[@johnkramer7161]

No he didn't. The person that wired it may have been a friend or family member of they guy that owns it and brought it to Dave to un-gooch

[@CaviDS]

I will never understand buying a Chinese fake strat. But a used Fender Squire for $40 at a pawn shop that you like the feel of the neck on then drop in a real prewired pickguard with your choice of pickups and you will at least have a decent guitar that you can still even put more upgrades on if you like!!!

[@pavanatanaya]

Nice job sparky

[@TheColonelKlink]

The other side of "hand crafted."

[@jamesallen7656]

Hey Dave i play bass in concert band for my school i use my own personal bass but its i don't think i have my hand in the right position on my fretting hand any tips when i play the the schools aerodyne jazz it seems to be much easier. But this isn't just for school its a bit hard to stretch for some of the notes any tips ?

[@handidrummed]

if you haven't already, check out the forums at talkbass.com You'll get loads of information regarding technique. Though not knowing what you have for a bass, my guess is that the neck is wider at the nut than the Aerodyne jazz is. That would make it more comfortable.

[@RadioMartyT1B]

Become a drummer.

[@jimmyallen1655]

Nice name James Allen

[@theamericanoff-roadrc]

Dave could only the neck be Fender?

[@oscarmarfori613]

Twist those long leads Dave so it’ll look cleaner inside of there 👍

[@kcuhc84]

So was it a Chenda Slat?

[@BrentHarmon]

A lot of cold soldering joints on this guitar

[@jeff1586er]

I view any Strat with the pickguard screw by the 5 way moved toward the headstock is usually junk. The CBS headstock is another turn off.

[@skrewflanders]

"The bigger the blob, the better the job!"

[@Aceroxx02]

So much for keeping the videos content friendly with the language...Welp...these Chenders will do that to ya! Cheers!