I`m sorry Dave, I`ve only just discovered this gem of a channel. If it`s any consolation I`m binge watching as I type. I`ve learned more about set ups from here in the last 24 hours than years of supposed YT channel tutorials. Plus, you`re a funny bloke. Cheers.
@RollieFingers592 жыл бұрын
Ah the old “store setup”. Otherwise known as keep Dave in business.
@puppyy7802 жыл бұрын
I would pay any amount to have Dave roast my set ups 😂
@davestambaugh72822 жыл бұрын
Dave's insight is 100%. You have to be able to recognize the box before you can even tell where you are in relationship to it.
@Me-qp8vz2 жыл бұрын
Dave would spot the box even if it was pretending to be a sphere!
@honkytonkinson97872 жыл бұрын
What’s in the box!!!?
@davestambaugh72822 жыл бұрын
@@honkytonkinson9787 That's for me to know and for you to find out. I doubt that you have never heard that phrase before
@DMSProduktions2 жыл бұрын
@@honkytonkinson9787 Warm, WET tunnels of looove! ;oP
@DMSProduktions2 жыл бұрын
He has the box!
@jimballardband2 жыл бұрын
Sad to say but the music stores are sadly lacking in service. None ever told me anything about set-up when I got a new guitar. I had to fly by the seat of my pants. With what I’ve learned from you, I could make most of them look ignorant. Thanks Dave. Now I kinda, know what I’m doing. Yep gotta think inside the box before you can think outside. 👍🏼✌🏼🍻
@slamcrank2 жыл бұрын
Kind of depends... the rare mom-and-pop stores are actually really great. Unfortunately, I've seen this exact situation (chattered finish, dumb adjustments, horrible intonation etc) from the techs at Guitar Center. I would 100% believe this customer took his guitar to a GC and had them do a setup. I've seen it countless times over the past two decades. The last one I saw damaged like this was GC had done a setup on a Collins electric and had tried to adjust the bridge with a vice-grip wrench.
@honkytonkinson97872 жыл бұрын
I’ve taken chances on guitar center guitars that weren’t set up at all but I had a feeling that they were good guitars and was right. The sales associates wouldn’t even give me a multi tool to try to correct the bridge enough to be playable! One of the times I asked if the guitar would come with a setup if I bought it and they simply said their tech guy just quit! That would have to be really frustrating for someone just starting out!
@jimballardband2 жыл бұрын
@@slamcrank I went to one of the oldest music stores in town, close to home. They sell and rent all kinds of instruments. I was looking for a “ashtray” bridge cover for my Precision. I thought no problem. I knew Guitar Center didn’t have it. The owner in his 70’s replies ashtray? What’s that? I explain. He goes in the back and comes out, says; here’s what I got. I tell him those are Tele and a Strat ashtrays. 3 young guys working there just have blank looks on their faces. 🤷🏼♂️ Blew my mind. I had to order one online.
@TenFalconsMusic2 жыл бұрын
The store gooched it. Dave un-gooched it.
@nitr82 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a great segue into joke/gag products - "Daves Un-Gooching Spray (As seen on KZfaq)"
@kylemoran43432 жыл бұрын
Careful Dave, Stew Mac is watching and will turn yer Zig Zag Luthier gauge into a moneymaker. Bwahahaha Twist (ed) one
@IL2TXGunslinger2 жыл бұрын
“If your gonna be thinking outside the box……. You have to learn to think inside first….!” I’ve been looking for that saying without knowing, all my life. Thanks!
@lawrencearnemann39232 жыл бұрын
Love that Dave has rolling papers in his tool kit
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
bottle opener and cork screw
@jamesfetherston11902 жыл бұрын
@@DavesWorldofFunStuff Must have been a Boy Scout!
@daniels.27202 жыл бұрын
Sure Dave...sure...
@oneammonday2 жыл бұрын
My old fingers won't let me use them lil' papers anymore, so I'm rollin' bigger joints nowadays.
@mikecollins82412 жыл бұрын
I can imagine a young, aspiring, guitar tech somewhere in Toronto, is now crying in his coffee :) " I tried so hard to do it like Dave said..."
@ronnie51292 жыл бұрын
Dave, I love your Humor, and tell it like it IZ Factor, Most stores hire young punks that play Guitar, But Do Not Know how to work on them, but they let them work on them, a bad move, I bought a new Les Paul Standard in 2004 From Gibson Factory, The Tailpiece was put in to close to the Bridge, The Low E A and D strings Saddles were so far back that it was Imposible to Intonate, So I flipped them over to have some room and intonated it myself, rather than Dealing with Incompetent People at Gibson again, I got it to work just fine, But I will never buy a Guitar From Gibson Again, Keep the great videos coming, Cousin Figel
@brianglade8482 жыл бұрын
Dave.....love the "ear digger" hex key.....brutal how the stores screw this up, I'd seiously take a new guitar to you any day
@smasica2 жыл бұрын
Words of Wisdom: In order to break the rules, you first must know the rules.
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
that is contract law in a nutshell
@PaulKennedy52 жыл бұрын
Just arrived in Toronto for the first time, headed over from the UK. First thing my phone gives me is Dave!
@4602experience2 жыл бұрын
Welcome
@yoshshmenge2942 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
stop by I'm in the Beach area
@TSB-pg6yoАй бұрын
@@DavesWorldofFunStuff No you aren't.
@dangolguitartech2 жыл бұрын
I haven’t watched the video yet, but I’m going to guess that it was the Gooch store? And I gave her a thumbs up already just because it’s Dave and I know it’ll be great.🤠
@mamulcahy2 жыл бұрын
I like the idea of using rolling papers to check for clearance!
@heikkivuori2 жыл бұрын
Dave you are best!
@-suphur2 жыл бұрын
I bought a Reverend online from Cosmo and it arrived perfect. Most that I've bought new, I've had to tweak once I got them home.
@garyl61902 жыл бұрын
Great and informative video. Thanks!
@marshallohio55122 жыл бұрын
Dave makes me Smile 😀 all the time!
@sassycat2 жыл бұрын
Last week a sandwich artist, this week a guitar tech.
@Me-qp8vz2 жыл бұрын
New guitar with those scratches? I'd be kicking some arse if my new Les Paul came back with scratches!
@MrCaptpike2 жыл бұрын
funny. I bought a epiphone les paul and it came out the box perfect. I've owned it for over 10 years and never had the truss rod cover off.
@TheFULLMETALCHEF2 жыл бұрын
Same experience here.
@robinleebraun77392 жыл бұрын
My Martin was Plekked at the factory. When I paid a technician to set up, the nut slots were way too shallow, the action was way too high and there wasn’t enough neck relief. Plekking isn’t nearly enough unless everything else is perfect.
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
the machine is only as good as the person running it
@thedevilinthecircuit14142 жыл бұрын
If the tech on the PLEK does not take their time, it can be a total gooch.
@Thomasdgolden2 жыл бұрын
I had a similar setup issue with a new PRS S2. Customer said it was set up as per “sign off” card. Trem O Lo was pinned, pickup screw disengaged and more fun. I just laugh.
@tonyg61589 ай бұрын
I'm using the thinnest piece of paper I can find. I actually spit beer out of my mouth.
@nichesound2 жыл бұрын
Old Zag paper...haha love it!...and those scuff marks were the stores 'attempt at antiquing'??
@dis.infectant2 жыл бұрын
Those TuneOmatic angles being what they are seem to be a reason people opt for the wrap around. It does lesson the overall tension and string breakage from my observation.
@halbertking26832 жыл бұрын
I've used Zig Zags before but never as a feeler gauge . That's it . You got a fan for life , me .
@paintnamer64032 жыл бұрын
After a long day of drinking I used my heavily spattered welding pliers to make that adjustment.
@sweettoof90022 жыл бұрын
Love the use of rolling papers Dave wink wink
@Edwinvanwylick6662 жыл бұрын
I’ll be damned if i let a guitar leave the store i work at like that. Lots of my work is doing setups that other stores didn’t do or just botched.
@chrishenderson91302 жыл бұрын
Lmao at the zigzag papers. Whatcha doing, dave?
@daleturner35072 жыл бұрын
There are so many guys who believe the stop bar must be all the way to the body. You’ll hear it’s the sustain or tone but it wouldn’t be adjustable if it wasn’t meant to be.
@RideAcrossTheRiver9 ай бұрын
Wants tons of sustain Plays only eighths and sixteenths
@kerrynance17772 жыл бұрын
Another Lester plays again! Nice job, Dave. Did I see a dude silkscreening a batch of Tee shirts on FB??? Available soon???
@thedevilinthecircuit14142 жыл бұрын
Looks like a Lez Paul Tribute model.
@pcbullets87262 жыл бұрын
Too bad about the hack job on the finish. Especially on a new ax. My first Les Paul I owned, the strings were cranked down like this and being my first one, I thought the strings were suppose to be like that. Figured it out pretty quick when I kept snapping strings that it was not the right way. Cheers!
@Tomtoms-tomtoms2 жыл бұрын
Awe man, ive been playing for 25 years and never knew a hex key fits in those bridge holes!!.. the amount of times ive nearly skinned my thumbs trying to turn those ‘thumb screw’ wheels by hand 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤷♂️ 😂😂😂
@niptodstan2 жыл бұрын
It's only the new ones that are like that.
@johnsimms39572 жыл бұрын
I always detune the strings before adjusting the bridge.
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
small amounts mean nothing
@michaelmoore79752 жыл бұрын
Those are really weight relief holes.
@jlore63442 жыл бұрын
Of course Dave has Zig Zag papers around :)
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
I'm french
@jlore63442 жыл бұрын
Ahhh that explains some of the language used on the channel as well :) . Thanks for clarifying.
@ashbridgej2 жыл бұрын
Job security!
@TheLonesometoad2 жыл бұрын
Okay, Dave. WTF are you doing with the Zig Zags??
@trroland12482 жыл бұрын
That’s a nice Studio.
@stevenkimsey70392 жыл бұрын
I haven't thought about a rolling paper in a long time. I'm trying to remember the brand name from the 1980's. Zig , J&B, Tops
@kennyjohnson3362 жыл бұрын
Bambu 😁
@michaelmoore79752 жыл бұрын
Riz La+
@guitarprepnplus12 жыл бұрын
EZ wider
@BasicDrumming2 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@michaelcottle62702 жыл бұрын
Question. How high should the stop-bar be set? Instinct tells me you should be aiming to have the strings going over the saddles as straight as possible but every Gibson seems to introduce a bend at the saddle.
@relativity1581 Жыл бұрын
Pro tip: The stop bar should be set identical angle as what you have at the opposite end from the nut to the tuners. Makes sense if you think about it. Stop bar too low and strings are less bendable. Too high and strings will come off the saddles. You can do it by eyeball and if the strings have the same downward slope on each end that will be your maximum sustain point for the string. You can also go slightly more downward on the lower strings side to tighten up the lower end of your barre chords.
@billn7183 Жыл бұрын
When you said it's always the G string that gets messed up , were you still talking about guitars ? 🙂
@ThatOtherAndi2 жыл бұрын
that ZigZag just spiked my cravings
@bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb772 жыл бұрын
cut corners lol i love it i used to buy those
@Nexcroo2 жыл бұрын
Yea
@dabsafe2 жыл бұрын
🎶Long & McQuade where your wallet gets thin🎵. Bought a Gibson LP Tribute a couple months ago from L&M (aka, the Devil Incarnate). It was still in the box with the factory setup and believe it or not, it was perfect. I guess the “tech” at the Hamilton store didn’t get their fingers in it. 😎🇨🇦🎸
@dericdomino2 жыл бұрын
i had a guitar center tech scratch my finish on my lespaul gc said too bad my lawyer said different guitar replaced quite quickly
@polymorphism19662 жыл бұрын
ZigZag I almost missed that
@arrempop3 Жыл бұрын
There’s a Zig-Zag Method for everything
@stonedome932 жыл бұрын
Gooched Wars: Attack of The Store
@johnmartin51472 жыл бұрын
Some people believe that when the tailpiece is all the way down increases the sustain. So if it hits the back of the bridge overwrap the tailpiece. I have a Les Paul I did that to and works great. Joe Bonamassa has some set up like that and got hints from a video of his guitar tech doing it. Everyone has different ideas.
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
some people believe in a god..just learn to play
@vicpnut1 Жыл бұрын
What do you recommend for a pickup height? This is second vid of urs I’ve come across and you seem to be an advocate for a specific height ,seeing you have one certain device you used for checking height …or at least I think it was the Same for both a tele and a Paul …
@zeroman6142 жыл бұрын
Using zig-zags help it resin-ate better.
@michaelmoore79752 жыл бұрын
Yeah those aren't holes to to save weight, but every little bit counts on a LP.
@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t2 жыл бұрын
I do tend to deck the stopbar, but then again, like some sort of weirdo, I also topwrap the strings.
@RideAcrossTheRiver9 ай бұрын
Tonewoods!
@er54062 жыл бұрын
We won’t ask why you have a ZigZag rolling paper.
@HL-qn6xd2 жыл бұрын
He's a musician...enough said. 😎✌
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
legal in Canada
@HL-qn6xd2 жыл бұрын
@@DavesWorldofFunStuff California too...one more reason to stay...😎✌fyi...my birthday is 4/20...no kidding...is that a sign???
@Justin-eu3yd2 жыл бұрын
the thinnest piece of paper, and its a rolling paper LOL
@KenIn_NH2 жыл бұрын
Me thinks the previous 'tech' was using zigzags for more than a feeler gauge. 🤪
@JustinSmithPYRO2 жыл бұрын
I always have a problem with the g string. Maybe I should send my guitars to you. I have a few Les Paul's that need some work
@catalan262 жыл бұрын
Was this a long Mcquade in southern Ontario? Bought my first les Paul there last month, and it was a fret buzz nightmare!
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
Cosmo. I was told
@tuberocker6917 күн бұрын
"The store" must use dei hires lol Just wait until you get one of these guys working on your teeth!
@OzziePete12 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave, I hope your health continues to improve. Has anyone ever figured out why the G string is such a MOFO to tune and intonate?
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
it's a fat solid wire that used to ge a wound string long ago
@ZBoyforlife2 жыл бұрын
What is the outro song? I love that bass line and I always scroll through the comments to see if someone mentions it, but no one does.
@thedevilinthecircuit14142 жыл бұрын
It's a tune on the Penny Black CD.
@jamesreyes46542 жыл бұрын
Huh a zigzag rolling paper wonder what that’s for 🥴😂
@scottbee5012 жыл бұрын
What are you going to do with that paper, Dave?
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
it's a test tool. I keep it
@scottbee5012 жыл бұрын
I had a paper similar to that and it spontaneously went “Up in Smoke”.
@chrispfeifer76282 жыл бұрын
Nothing says my kind of channel like a Zigzag feeler gauge. Excellent my friend. Peace ✌️
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
Right on
@jeffsquires66202 жыл бұрын
Dude, I know a brand new ZIG ZAG when I see it. Onion.
@vicpnut1 Жыл бұрын
What ever would you need rollin paper for? 😜
@1muffler2 жыл бұрын
You don't have to think outside the box if you just make the box bigger..... but yah....
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
Go USA go Russia..make yer box bigger :)
@honkytonkinson97872 жыл бұрын
I have a mark of shame on my LP studio from when I was trying to adjust the bridge with pliers cause I didn’t know what I was doing. Not sure what to do about it except spill a bunch of beer on it
@ronnie51292 жыл бұрын
Dave, my guess is that the store Could have been that Miserable Guitar Center, that i read is Going out of Business IDK, Cousin Figel
@mudfly32 жыл бұрын
Hehe, when i raised my stopbar up from the body it transformed my pretty dull sounding guitar to a firebreathing beast
@MrJonguess2 жыл бұрын
Which grit of fret eraser do you use to just clean the fret?
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
depends ..400 grit is your friend then 1000
@MrJonguess2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave
@larryburwell85502 жыл бұрын
Nice guitar but store must specialize in fenders
@johnrau22652 жыл бұрын
Whether a young person thinks in or out of the box is not as important as that they actually THINK.😉 Think rationally. Think critically. Think frequently.
@chapsleathers11442 жыл бұрын
I want that guitar please
@michaelshepherd10722 жыл бұрын
Oh oh!
@MusicMike9392 жыл бұрын
He makes it look so easy. But it is not that easy. Have to know what your doing.
@scottdunbar48982 жыл бұрын
Guitar Store Guy:" Can I help you sir?" Dave (A la Ron Swanson) "I know more than you".
@larrynoe61622 жыл бұрын
If you are incapable of thinking, being inside or outside the box makes no difference. You could see from the string angle alone going from the stop bar to the bridge this little les needed some help from you Dave.
@michaelmoore79752 жыл бұрын
"Fast" Fretty Fingerboard was a good player.
@glenngardin35612 жыл бұрын
TBH, the only thing the store had wrong was the bridge height. Everything else was pretty good.
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
close but no cigar..who damaged the body?
@UncleKennysPlace2 жыл бұрын
I bought a guitar from a small shop that "set up" every guitar themselves. It was set to "cheese cutter".
@garycrouse19182 жыл бұрын
inside the box ha ha
@greenwave7922 жыл бұрын
I deal with a small Mom and Pop music store, when I went to buy my Les Paul Custom, I asked if I needed to get a set-up....he replied (with an attitude) ALL our guitars are set up and ready to go......It was NOT, Now, granted it was an Epiphone LP custom so it was 1100, for 1100 I want the best LP in the store, NOT the one I got. fck guitar center, sweetwater, I'll stick to the Mom and Pop...just wanted more for my money, 1100 bucks is a lot of money, for me.
@THESESSIONROOM2 жыл бұрын
Let me guess Long n Mcquade?🤣
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
Cosmo
@nellayema24552 жыл бұрын
Was it new from that store, or did the customer take it in there for a setup? It is a shame if the store gooched the finish. If the owner did it, then I guess he learned a lesson.
@MatthewSemones2 жыл бұрын
i have a hard time believing someone would accept that guitar with that buggered up finish straight from the store... i know i wouldn't
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
i never said who did it..it was set up at a store
@MatthewSemones2 жыл бұрын
@@DavesWorldofFunStuff what i meant was, that was probably done by someone in between the store and you. most likely the embarrassed owner. lol
@goodtimefolkrock2 жыл бұрын
your independant music stores tend to have decent techs in my experience but big box places are usually pretty awful
@j_freed2 жыл бұрын
That Les Paul tailpiece looks like it was top wrapped at one point, at least I would try that before raising it. If it’s good enough for a ‘55, it’ll work on a ‘57 style.
@RayC2342 жыл бұрын
Yeah I took delivery of my brand new Gibson from Sweetwater where they supposedly do a 55 Point Inspection that they tout about so much and it played like ass, and don't get me started on the so called plek job Gibson says they do. Probably be the last guitar I buy from Sweetwater and last Gibson as well. Which is a shame because it is my first Gibson and the whole experience just turned into a giant turd all around. sigh...should've went with the Yamaha but hey we live and learn right.
@DavesWorldofFunStuff2 жыл бұрын
PRS for the win or G&L
@taimaishu-nao19222 жыл бұрын
Gibson quality has shit the bed so hard in the last decade, it’s not even funny. Really gives “made in USA” a bad name when you spend $2800 on a guitar and the paint is ass and the neck joint is busted. But hey… “play authentic”, right? That’s why Fender is kicking the shit out of them and the Mexico factory at that!
@SeanDS892 жыл бұрын
4:30 LOL
@wayneg2962 жыл бұрын
👍👍😎✌️🤟
@Ron_Padgett2 жыл бұрын
Well, that's not a stock Les Paul. They don't come with Seymour Duncan pickups, and I have a 2020 Les Paul standard and it does not have the allen wrench holes on the bridge posts, but I have no problem adjusting it with my fingers. No pliers needed so yeah some dumbass dinged up the finish. Great job Dave.
@SSRT_JubyDuby87422 жыл бұрын
Like deployed 👍
@sqidvishus2 жыл бұрын
This is doubly bad. Gibson's are plek'd from the factory. That the store further gooched it is a testament to the pride in workmanship in today's big box stores.