Revstar Disfunction

Revstar Disfunction - Frets

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2 ай бұрын

Hello People!
Thanks for joining me for more guitar restoration videos! Some of these Revstars need fretwork right off the finish line. This is my fret polishing video.
Cheers,
Scotty D.,
Harpeth Guitar Restoration, LLC.
Nashville, Tennessee

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@petertiffany8096 2 ай бұрын

One tip for the person doing this at home, once you tape over the pickups, you might get some metal dust on the tape where the pickup magnets are. Once you are finished, when you are removing the tape, put another piece of tape on top of the metal dust on the pickup, so the metal dust is trapped and won't get away from you as you remove the tape.

@ant1sokolow 24 күн бұрын

Clever tip but stainless steel is non magnetic, 'silver nickel' neither.

@picksalot1 2 ай бұрын

Impressive guitar repair/setup sleuthing! Tremolo Arms returning the G and Low E string flat after a dive bomb are a common result. I had never thought to consider the the "Finish" may be causing the problem. Thanks

@harpethguitar 2 ай бұрын

Thank You 🙏

@markfogleman8438 2 ай бұрын

One of my old management mantras..."You can't expect what you don't inspect."

@ant1sokolow 24 күн бұрын

I bought recently the same exact guitar, but in the lefthanded version. I didn't identify a need for a fret polishing job, at first. After watching this vid i checked and perhaps the frets may benefit of a polishing job but the guitar is perfectly playable as is. It's my first stainless fret guitar, perhaps she would be even better with a thorough polish.. I bought mine new in Europe in my local music shop (in France as i'm french, but the guitar came from Germany for disponibility reason.. the joy of being a lefthand guitar player....). Perhaps some guitars or batch are better inspected than others.

@Sci-Que 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for this one. I always like to see shortcuts to fretwork because it can be tedious and time-consuming. After watching you I don't use my crowning file half as much as I used to use it

@harpethguitar 2 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@RF944 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the good info, as a kid in the 70's, we had cheap ratty guitars. Repair was a learning process, I didn't even know what a luthier was.!!

@christophernorman2781 2 ай бұрын

No scrub block. Thanks for explaining the 3m pad grits. I never quite know their place in sanding.

@kkrekula 2 ай бұрын

My experience with "overseas" guitars is that they often have scratchy frets. I don't think it is lack of polishing & quality control, instead I think it is due to the way it is packed&shipped. My Revstar electronics did also suffer during the transport, so the pickup selector switch and controls were scratchy too. Seems like some corrosion is occuring while shipping with boat for months. Indonesia also has high humidity, so in addition to scratchy frets my Yamaha Revstar standard fretboard shrunk in my dry cimamate and developed severe fretsprout.

@harpethguitar 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@MauryCrowder 2 ай бұрын

Anyone that believes that Sweetwater does a "50 point inspection" probably believes in Santa Claus too. Good stuff as usual Scott

@mikedavis3841 2 ай бұрын

I had a Yamaha sg500 it was a badass guitar I wish I still had it..👍

@jonahguitarguy 2 ай бұрын

Had to laugh, "it's 4-0 but they call it double 0". Actually it is called 4 ought. Two zeros is call double ought. Maybe it's a Tennessee thing. I've had the same thing come into my shop. A lot of off shore guitars have pretty rough fretwork. But it plays like butter now. Nice work Scott.

@harpethguitar 2 ай бұрын

Thank You 🙏

@stu-j 2 ай бұрын

All my guitars now have stainless Steel frets as I'm quite heavy handed and say fenders vintage wire don't last long and divet really easy! Slighter bright sounding with ss frets but they will outlive me and very little maintenance in the future...

@nicolen.9642 2 ай бұрын

Honestly, unpolished frets...and companies who don't know how or don't do is pretty scary for the future of guitars (and music as a whole). We need more Scott D. or Ted Woodford, Randy Schartiger. Some retire. I got one where I live across the street but for how long... Thanks Scott D. for the polishing!

@stealingtomorrowband 2 ай бұрын

The closet repair shop for me is around 1.5 hours. I had looked for someone to repair my bass for a long while and ended up repairing it myself after watching a bunch of Scotts videos and our good friend Ted.... If it wasn't a 12 hour round trip I'd head to Scott's to have work done...

@vadenk4433 2 ай бұрын

Your robbing the fretboard of its precious bodily fluids- Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

@joemcgraw5529 2 ай бұрын

Your Absolutely right about the quality control issue and it went through the Factory and The Store ,I tell you Ibanez does Great quality Control even thier low end Guitars ,The big G company was famous for doing that on fairly high end Guitars ,after alot of negative feedback they got alot better ,so sometimes it has to be said ,notice I didnt call them out i used secret code words lol

@harpethguitar 2 ай бұрын

Right on 👍🏻

@troopin 2 ай бұрын

run the blade on the roll of tape and make a few revolutions of half size tape.

@johnstiteler4088 2 ай бұрын

Always nice to see DIY techniques for the average guy without lots of specialized tools. You seem to have a good impression of the RevStar Standard aside from the QC. Any thoughts about the basic RevStar Element?

@harpethguitar 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I think it’s a great design

@vayabroder729 2 ай бұрын

These imports are nice but they skip the quality control at their price point. Might be the same Indonesian factory making Squiers now?

@vadenk4433 2 ай бұрын

0000 is four ought. 00 is double ought.

@harpethguitar 2 ай бұрын

Ahhhh. Thanks!

@WallofSounds5317 2 ай бұрын

Use painter's tape for fretboard

@edadpops1709 2 ай бұрын

Import guitar pricing amazes me.900 bucks for the guitar.and in the uk or US if you sent your guitar to some one to plek , it would cost around 300 bucks. Then you still need a radius polish job . I don’t get it .

@snafu1957 2 ай бұрын

Been a problem for years I'm a 67 yr old luthier & have never been able to pass down my knowledge to any young folk. Its a dying art .

@stu-j 2 ай бұрын

I'm the same I've been repairing and setting guitars up for over 30 years and I've tried to teach a few customers to do the basics ( sometimes setups become relentless) but they would rather hand over cash instead of saving it...