Great show! you should definitely have more guest shows from time to time 👍🏼

Dr. Fludd is a very smart and insightful person. I don’t always agree with his comments, but his comments are so well informed. Fantastic having him on your channel!

Man, the way you described wanting your dream Ibanez for years and then disappointed when you finally get, that’s happened to me so many times, and I’ve wound up loving the guitars I’ve avoided my whole life.

I love that Dr Fludd says he’s a Metalhead at heart and that KZfaq is harder than getting his PHD👍

Fantastic podcast, thank you both!! Hope this format continues and Dr. Fludd comes back for more discussion

The first Parker that I ever saw was in the magazine adds. The first Parker I ever held, however, was my first day at work after landing a job at Parker guitars. My first job was wet sand and polish fresh painted guitars. The first one I ever held was a Transparent blue mahogany. It was freshly painted the day before and it hadn't even been routed yet! One of the most memorable moments of my life!

This was fantastic! It was cool seeing both Phil and Dr. Fludd discussing and sharing thoughts and stories around gear and playing guitar. I agree that having guests from time to time would be a welcome addition to the channel.

Original Bigsby springs were motorcycle valve sprints that were cut down.

Good morning Phil and Dr. Fludd. I hope Phil's dog is feeling better.

Two of the Best!!!! More of this for sure. Cheers!

This was awesome! Love how Andre preached how hard it is. I just got my channel monetized and passed 5k in my first year. Building an awesome community is goal number one and the rest takes care of itself. Keep on grinding and thanks for bringing this format Phil. If there' one thing I have learned on YT, you have to keep on progressing.

Simply Superb, a Guitar enthusiast's dream ❤

The nut being cut correctly is definitely still an important issue on nylon and steel string guitars. If the nut slots on a nylon string are too tight, it will strangle the open string notes and damage the winding on the bass strings, if they are too wide, the string buzzes, if the angle isn’t correct the strings buzz, if the slots aren’t smooth it will cut up and eventually break the plain nylon 1st-3rd strings. Steel strings are more durable against a less than smooth nut slot, but lots of steel string players bend strings. Also, for both types or any guitar in general, the strings are moving through the slots when tuning, so a correctly cut nut won’t bind when tuning, making tuning smoother and less work. Luthiers had to know these things well before the invention of the vibrato/tremolo systems on electric guitars.

Awesome. Dr Fludd is one of my faves.

Andre is cool. I heard about him from you during the pandemic Phil. I would not have guessed he’s a metal head. I love it

Great podcast! You are two of my favorite people to hear talk about guitar design, and the conversation was really insightful!

Good to see you guys together. Thanks.

Nice to see Andre on the Channel. I love the way he scrutinizes everything about guitar designs. Thanks

Geat Show...Hope you get to do more of these with artists or fellow channels!

Used to be G, but the lo E & top 3 were the ones that got off tune… so I started using D, but also because different flavors of D (remember the band Bread?, 3 forms of D chord) are all easily available to check quickly

I owned four of them. The problem was they didn’t put a tang on the fret and so they glue them on but the frets would come loose. They were very good and sent me four replacement guitars. The last one I didn’t touch it. I sold it . But very good Guitar and with the Paizo and the magnetic pick ups together great tones.

I started in the 80s with Ibanez and the 540SLTD, after 3 years I never wanted to play that guitar ever again and gave it to my friend who played guitar.

Hi Guitar 🎸 guy nice and guest video 📹 and workmanship

I learned to tune with a tuning fork, maybe because started on acoustic. Seems to work well on most electrics also.

I don't think it was the first time I saw a Parker, but the one that lit the GAS in me was seeing Reeves Gabrels play one with David Bowie on SNL circa the Earthling album. So cool.

18:00 whew. Thank goodness. I thought I've been crazy for years for not liking super-thin, Ibanez Wizard-type necks. That's usually why I pass on many Ibanez guitars. I actually bought an aftermarket neck for an Ibanez S-body just to have a little more thickness (AND a volute)!

I started playing in '87. I learned to tune by ear to the albums I was listening to. I was listening to tapes, which were usually duped from a friend. Often times cheaper cassette players varied in speed, so the pitch and speed would often vary from tape deck to tape deck. Anyway, all that to say that learning to tune by ear was once a very important skill.

Andre is fantastic. Very different from everyone else who brings lots of experience to reviews with a player’s perspective. Also I didn’t know he’s a metalhead at heart that’s sick, I wanna hear him play high gain more 😂

Great video guys…I know for a fact that my floyd guitars do not sustain as long as my non-floyd guitars!!

Great conversation. Perfect listening while working. Thanks!! ❤

It's nice to see those 2 in a conversation. I'm subscibed to both.

CEO at a marketing meeting-"Well, would they believe...? Let's run with that for as long as we can turn a profit."

Great video,went right o ver to Mr. Fludd's channel and subscribed.

Awesome video. I could listen to guitar talk all day.

Enjoy Phil with guests :)

Back to the nut friction problem . I have never learned to cut a nut properly and Ive run into so many so called techs that had no idea what they were doing when then they cut them. When Ive had a nut installed in a guitar Ive had to go back to the person several times to get the strings to stop binding. I just started using an old Strat that I just put a Dimarzio Super Distortion S in the bridge. Now when I use the Tremolo arm about 3 of the strings are binding in the nut. And I live in a place now in Florida where there is just a shortAGE OF Guitar Techs. I need to get the Nut Files and learn to do it myself.

I appreciate you Andre!

Wish I knew this was coming on. Great show Phil. Happy 4th everyone

Been waiting for this collaboration

The term to apply may be "contact interface". Some people are more influenced by "feel" than "sound" or even ergonomics. My guitar design incorporates all three. Appearance must be addressed last.

As a 5 foot 4 with small hands, this podcast has taught me to go with Ernie Ball Music Man and Ibanez guitars because Andre Fludd doesn't like the feel of them. lol

What I started to realize is Andre always has a guitar in his lap in videos but almost never plays it.

Andre is awesome and his channel is really good too.

HELL Yeah!! I Love a Crossover Episode.

Great guest and love all the gear talk. Cheers!

Excellent video. Key point comes to mind when Andre talks about enjoying a big chunky neck since he has large hands. Maybe I’m too early into the video. Would there be a benefit to the show to go over guitars made with like 48 mm nut width for this of us with larger hands. Your special Tele where you swap out the pups looks to me like the fretboard is wider than most. Is there like a science where we can go take a hand size measurement and determine a neck size closer to what is enjoyable for those with big hands. Like U shape and others. Are we just lazy to take the time to learn how to play a narrow neck guitar or is it a real thing. Would we be better at playing guitar if we had to fight less to get clean tones. Being able to unbolt a neck and go to a larger size versus having a glued in neck like Gibson. I like Gibson and the style but having a bolt in neck like a Strat or Tele just seems better from that aspect.

2 great channels together! Great video!

Weird I’ve got 7 guitars, my problem has been only 1 really fits me, the Rev-star, so now it needs electrical and I don’t want to be without it. It’s the only one I can consistently play well🙄

I had a late 80s, early 90s Carvin DC127 that had stainless steel frets. It was stolen from a gig. Man, I miss that guitar.

merle travis suggested using a harley valve spring for the bigsby. it worked out.

You guys make great content 🤘

My two faves! ....besides beato and samurai ..What is this, a crossover episode?

Still looking forward to that new research on tonewood that, if I remember correctly, you mentioned in a podcast a couple months ago as something Dr. Fludd was also looking into.

Loved this format, more guests please!

Phil would like to hear your take on modern guitar hits and misses!

I'm an Andre fan.. been watching his shows for a couple years. It's all just opinions and it's good to see so sides. Go Strandberg!!

Does an E string (tuned to Eb) of a 10 gauge set create string tension equal to an E (tuned to E) from a 9.5 gauge set?

Just knowing I have a broken string on any of my guitars bugs the heck out of me. So I replace or restring immediately.

U'mmm, I really not sure why ... whatever I make a comment, it never seems to get recognized.

F yeah it’s Fludd! Love Andre

Nice collaboration, gents.

I am compulsive about intonation and daily tuning of guitars - both are essential - one’s who come over freak- and also Solid state amps are essential to reproducing wavelength harmonics of tuned sound- for voltage reasons

Let's make this a regular thing! 😊

It’s funny- my 2 best guitar channels

Trans trem, nice!

i am a big fan of both of you, and your youtube channels! thanks for all the great info. you provide to we guitarheads .. .

“It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution” - Hannah Arendt That’s what happened to Rock and Roll 🎸

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Strandbergs...I have 3 of them. However, I am not convinced that True Temperament makes enough of a difference to be worth the significant extra cost.

Gary Levinson trems built for his guitars. Building guitars for over 50 years

Cool Colab!!!!

Thank you!

Andre doesn't like Gibson guitars. I love him already.

I Stranberged my flying v 😮

At 59:09 ... is that Gear Acquistion Syndrome or something else?

Rock on dudes

I remember not affording a tuner in the 90s. Now, all my kids are in the school band and steal and lose my tuners. Then they come to me and say, Dad I need a new tuner, And I'm like, yeah, I know. Me too.

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Stetsbar?

What happened to the shorter videos, Phil?

*EDS - 1275

Bad ass!

Yo!!

My thoughts about Parker is that they should have stuck with their original styles exclusively. In other words, they had their vibe and they should have stayed away from doing those awful looking "Tele" and "Strat" style models...I don't have an expensive Parker, I have a p44, and man, that's a lot of guitar for a great price. It's a plain wood grain and it's beautiful, and that's more of the direction they should have gone down.

Beefy conversation.

Hahaha😂 …paint and pointy objects improve tone….😂😂😂

Why so much talk about cutting the nut if there is a zero fret? There are even no zero frets for each (or every two) string...simply because it's easy to change.

Gibsons suck anyways

Ur not my dad!