Dan’s Vlog – The Ed O’Brien Strat Gets Set Up By Jonny Kinkead – That Pedal Show

[Applause] so okay Johnny here we go so this is my EAB my Edie O'Brien signatures stretch okay it I love this guitar and gave this to me as a thank you so my mother named upon yeah Edie gave this to me as a thank-you for some work that I did for him but what I'm really keen on doing is getting this set out it sounds great but it feels a bit stiff I've done that if that's the right terminology okay well the first thing I would do so is this the gauge a string you're going to be using I think the can't discern anything is a little bit heavier okay I tried some lighter strings on that because it was feeling so stiff with the heavier strings so I thought maybe a settle lighter strings would be better but this hasn't really but I don't know this rattling noise that I'm hearing a little barking yeah thing I'm not sure is that's not let's take that off just to check that is not the tremor rattling in there but there's a there's an overtone there that I don't like yes sir something's rattling so I think it sounds like something is doing something whether that's bottoming out on there so that's the base plan of it can you hear that that might be what's causing that so you find a little piece of timber like this which is why I leave these pieces that's what the best at the back of the bench is for a little bits like this little shaving off a strut well so you go I don't like it and I don't know what it is so we could spend hours trying to work out what it is whether it's some of these little plates rattling rights the more gubbins you put on the guitar the more you've got to rattle so whether that comes out the other end when you've got the whole you're rigging yeah over driven and distorted you know is you might say well I never hear that sure you know and but being acoustic guitar builder I suppose that's all I'm hearing all the time and I'm trying to guys clean to sound out of an electric guitar as possible right I want everything to sing sing beautifully that because of it loose yeah that could make a funny little rattle yeah something like that that is rattling it's robbing the energy of the devote the vibration of the string yes yeah yeah highly likely to it's it's amazing what funny little knock-on effect of something rattling in one place is having on somewhere else just drives guitar builders absolutely potty trying to work out where rattle is in the guitar are this little loose screws here you know sometimes one screw can be completely loose one of these rubs crews they can things can rattle through here through through the nut if it's an old guitar in terms of just general playability to go back to where you were your first question first thing I will do is a pleasure of the action right and see where it is because you say though it's not as easy to play because I'd like it to be and I've got one point six mill where and maybe two mill there which isn't horrendously high at all hmm it's a little bit high you've got the trim strap set flat right if we made the trim float by there's a gap at the back it might it might help cuz we'll get we'll get more of effect of the elasticity of those Springs Oh interesting that might make it feel a little bit different okay I mean a lot of these things you have to try sure there's no I haven't come up with a set of hard and fast rules about setting guitars up sometimes I've noticed that actually making the action higher on the guitar by slackening the truss rod off right makes the guitar easier to play so I trust what confuses me I don't fully understand I understand that if you tighten the truss rod the next straightens out and if you loosen the trust Rider you get more relief yeah I don't understand how the truss rod is doing that so looking at the neck sideways you've got a headstock and you got the neck here on yours but the tightening is occurring at this end and the still it's stopped at this end right and it will be underneath that walnut piece that you'll see it now the rod will be set into the neck near the back edge of the neck and it'll probably be slightly get a curved trench just to accommodate that lump so at the actual the actual trench it sits in isn't straight curved probably more than likely it is curved just so that you can get the access point at this end so you can get the screwdriver up there on him and just to accommodate that bulk of that anchor point right if you didn't have to do that it would probably work better if it was just near the back edge of the neck and that near the back edge of the neck that gap there might be three to four millimeters is that all for it to work properly but then the reason why it works is because if you've got a plank of wood like this and if you if we if we compress it here and here at the back edge so we put force on that if you thought of that is being a loaf of soft bread or something no sponge it would it would do that by squashing the back edge of it so even though if we assume that this is a straight line yeah even by putting force on it it will still Bend like that so that so this so I have to be sure but this this could still be a straight line yeah but if that's actually as you're tightening up here and what it's doing is its situation this is this distance between the two ends here I'm sure that's coming if I could bend that if I could squash that yeah do that'll do it you can see it bending on that top edge right and that's the effect of it now can only act one way can only bend it backwards right the strings of course are pulling it in the opposite direction so the so as we put right and so the strings then basically doing this job but up here yeah the string at the stringers are making it go like that because the strings are pulling that way aren't they you thought if you take it to the extreme and you didn't have a truss rod in there and that was a weak piece of timber mm-hm you strung it up there it's because it's ER in engineering terms isn't eccentrically loaded to strut right which I'd never knew until my father told me that's what it was and there's because he wasn't that bad inherit and look and now let the narrow nautical engineer in the Second World War oh this is what he was designing the stress is going not down the center of it which would be the most sensible place yes that'll bring your next a straight walk we'll put the string up the middle but we've want the string on the top so it's it's loaded off-center right so it's gonna Bend okay and the Rob there is there to make it not Bend I know that a dead flats straight neck isn't desirable is that right it is desirable for some players okay that's all some players it's all personal right and I I kind of think it's um the lower your action may be the straighter your neck is going to be okay and then if you're wanting a higher action you give it a little bit more relief equation right so let's let's talk about relief then what so if we less tension generally means more relief which means the neck is going to come forwards and sometimes it makes guitar easier to play with that higher action because neck is not as stiffened by the action of the rod I think okay but it's kind of it as I say there's no hard and fast rules about there's this a lot of it is is fiddling with each individual guitar until it goes from last I think it's good as I can get that one to feel sure okay so if you're going to site the curve of this neck yeah how do you do that in order for me to work out what the relief is first of all I look up and down the neck so you look for from the headstock from the headstock okay it easier to look at the headstock right and if you if you if you use the string you know is a straight line okay right and you can kind of look sideways on the edge of the neck and sight up and down it and you can see there's a little bit of it you know a light bow light bit relief in this and you look both sides to see whether it's you know I'd say there's more of a bend down the bottom on this treble side then the other way that just tells me whether there's a great big kick at the end or is it does it look like there's an S bend in it right you know and then the other way that I use deciding off how much relief is in there because I have to get my fret first string for apps on the first fret and I'll fret it down here at the bottom at the other end of the fretboard and I can you again I'm using the string as a straight edge and I can bounce the string up and down on the fret and I'll do it in a few different places to see but I would suggest that we've got more relief in that than I would like and people were always saying well how much relief should you have I can this might be the gap might be halfway down might be 10 or right which you're gonna go how do I measure that it's you know think of the string diameter so you wouldn't you might want it anywhere between the thickness of the first string the thickness of the third string if it wasn't bouncing you'd know the straight the neck would be dead straight or was going backwards yes of course there's more relief than I would have probably I probably want sure so I'm I would be thinking over let's let's give Dan's truss rod a bit of a tighten and then we can maybe maybe get his action down a little bit lower without him choking off up here because of it because of the thing he's coming up in the air here very slightly because there's more there's more relief ok well that's because I put different strings on it anyway yes if we whip those with those strings off it and then we'll get the neck off it and then tweak the other thing that I'm looking at when I'm down here doing this is I'm looking to see how much height excess height there is on the nut which is something that nobody at home is going to be able to adjust as they got their nut files sure and I say these goggles or extremely young eyesight I used to do without these but what I what I'm doing here is the similar thing to the to the relief but if you if you get the camera and look sideways here if I'm fretting it on the second home to holding the string down and a second fret yeah and then I'm looking at that gap there on the first fret can you see that yes and if you do that run across every string you can go or there's excess height on the nut there how does what do we want to see well you want to see a little bit of a gap I think the nut needs to be a smidgen whatever that is higher than the line of the frets okay it's because when you pluck the open string the string can vibrate a little bit more than when you've got a fretted note because this finger is absorbing some of that energy right so you just a little bit more height I think if you're playing the guitar on your open strings and it's making a horrible buzz noise which disappears as soon as you fret it you know that nut slot is lower than the first fret yeah and you can do something about that right and whether that is a new nut or whether you go actually I'm in the middle of nowhere and I'm going to do a gig tonight so I'm gonna put some it's a cigarette paper in there isn't any foil or is it a bit of superglue and and dust dust yeah but it's yeah so but most people don't have a tube of superglue on them so it's because a cigarette packet of cigarette paper a bit of tin foil off your chocolate bar or something will will just prop it up enough to get you through the gig right you know so what gauged are we going to go up against and string or down a gauge so when you're gonna go up against a string I've got guess there's even more there's gonna be more of a forward you all there before I go well let's give it a bit more of a Yank okay let's work the strings off and see see what's inside all right so what does it say any messages for you 21st of February 2017 the fine vintage that was so things I look at when I take these apart is to see how flat the surfaces off of that right and you know if you did this summer seventies fender you would find this I would have a great Oh rolled edge on it and you'd kill how on earth is anything gonna match up so that's that's nice and flat marvelous and the idea is that you want the two flat wants to fight slap two flat if it's a flat surface and around its surface the thing is going to slide all over the place and likewise with that if it's if it's not flat sometimes his load of paint built up somewhere that you know let's you can't possibly sit square things like that when the machining around there that at the back there's not that wonderful it's sort of a slight slight Ridge there stopping it sitting down properly I don't know yeah when you start taking the guitar apart since there was a nasty clump of stuff there but you know again if it's an antique instrument it's got a load of marks on it nobody's gonna want you to disappear that at cause and you might not want me to disappear that no I just want it to be awesome whatever that takes I think guitars get softer to play with time right look at that it's distracted so there's the adjusting end of this rod okay if you turn it clockwise mm-hmm it'll tighten it up yep if I to it anti-clockwise it'll loosen it yep so what I usually do is at this I want to see how straight it is so without the string tension on it it's more or less a straight line okay okay with the string tension on it we heard relief mm-hmm more relief than we wanted yep we're going up against strings from tens to 11 yep so this needs to be adjusted so it's got a bit of a back bend mm-hmm so that when the strings the heavier strings come on it's head lifts have better listen if we were putting tens back on it would have to be a little bit tighter which would give it a gap back boat and that's the guesswork is - how much do you give it right and then also what I want to do before I start tightening this up I want to see where it is okay if you don't want to bust it sure and it is you can strip and bust truss rods now there's no there's no undoing it anti-clockwise and there's no tension on that whatsoever so with no tension on it it's straight from noticer it's straight which is good right which means we've got plenty of plenty of life yeah it's bit like getting a set of shoes for the kids that have got room for their feet to grow okay that's how I look you know it's that type of philosophy because the neck is only gonna sag more and more and more as it gets older and older I don't normally right so I want to tighten this up a good bit just see what it's doing in terms of its moved a little bit but not awful lot so there's no set rule with this this is all individual per neck yeah a little bench where that rod is in the middle of the neck if it was in the middle in them in the right near the back edge of that neck where I'd like it to be mm-hm I'd give it so here we are gasps up to bearing point I'm giving that that's a quarter of a turn it's pretty tight and that's another six I've gone round that much yeah I've got a third of the way around okay yeah the clocks on at 20 past so here we are we're starting off at 12 o'clock yeah and I'm turning it to quarter past yeah and now to 20 past okay that feels quite tight there's quite a lot you know files pressure pressure we put on ten it's bent the neck back quite a nice long way but it it's probably not is back far on the negative as it could be right you know it's probably it might even be five millimeters deep there we are now gonna stick it back on again so be interesting to see whether that has gone back on in the same angle as it came off sure no the other thing is we're going up a gauge yeah so we've gotta check that these nut slots are okay for these strings right how's it looking well it's just quite tight in there you might if you know if you haven't got anything like a nut file I guess you could do a bit of filing with them with an actual string you know but it's it doesn't feel like it's that far off okay so it's not gonna it's not to give us too many problems are you gonna use this trend um I'd like to do you gonna have it floating a little bit okay yeah no I mean yeah okay everything you want to make sure the nut is lubricated that's another okay thing to do obviously trams point of friction yeah point of friction what sort of nut is that it'll be it'll be it's it'll be what Fender described as a bone nut which is actually made of plastic okay I think don't sue fender bone fender bone yes well there's a little packet they sell you it says it's a bone nut but it's made of plastic and is Fanny Burney but they'll sue us don't service please we haven't got any money how many turns do you put right yeah well this is it on this guitar you haven't got staggered height posts right they're all the same so you've got the I'm guessing I'm guessing I've got about 3 inches extra mm-hmm which I hope your viewers do inches that's a 75 mil isn't it is it 1.8 yeah 75 mil so on this it'll depend on the actual headstock a little bit as well mm-hmm you don't want too much angle on this sixth string or otherwise you're going to get downward pressure and more friction in the nut so I'm going for two two loops whoops it's popped off two two turns on that first capstan okay and then that's if I'd heard three turns on the capstan I'd have had even more angle right which I don't want I want just enough but you got to have at least a turn at the half or isn't gonna work I don't think so you gotta have some down the brother has yes but if yeah if they if there if there was a taller captain I'd have three turns sure but you don't you don't need that you only need that much angle really do I but there's nothing you can do about it just keep your fingers crossed oh this one's gonna have maybe three terms so I'm doing it a bit a bit longer this one hasn't got a fourth and third string tree right so you want to make sure you have got angle here especially on the third string okay so you want lots of you know maximum terms to get it right down the bottom to get as plenty you angle okay cuz I want the angle on that third because it's a horrible noise when that's rattling through yeah right do you know that noise I do so I probably got four times on that third string right and I'm an old one you'd be looking at the UM the wear and tear on it on these saddles right and you can sit on these saddles the machining is a little bit rough okay it is quite you know with the magnifying goggles on you can see there's quite a lot of texture in that on that surface but that's not what we want there's not much you can do about it now we could try polishing it but you've probably polished through the chrome right but on old guitars it's it's it's it's it's well well grooved okay and if the code creates string breaking problems oh yeah right so you do have to smooth out with little needle files from gradually polish it back up again because the smooth of that transition for the string going over the saddle is the less likely it is to break sure and if it's pointed on one sharp point it's going to put the stress on a shorter bit of the string and it's going to break these last two yep do you ever do that yep you do yep absolutely okay so go across that's it oh well your is interesting I've never come across anyone else that does that on the last two of them that's exactly what I do why don't the third is reality okay so the string tree yeah string tree is control you control the amount of break angle over the knife right yeah and on the on these top two because this is further away you've gone virtually no break angle right or if you go for the type of machines that got the staggered height posts right obviously it brings this down here mm-hmm and gives you a bit more angle and you can do away with that point of friction just right this one here is one of these circular do does mm-hmm yes so the string is going up and through here so if you're being thorough you have a look at the machining on here and make sure there's no or machining mark you know you could easily get a bird edge yeah right on that which would cause you a problem so just a little bit of needle file give it a smooth transition your attention to detail is just I mean my thought my attention to detail is good is to grease up that so you can use a bit of grease or a bit of this kind of pious old grease okay you know Vaseline petroleum jelly mm-hmm the wife didn't like this brand so I got it it's not it's not it's not Vaseline its boot special you see so she says it's nice it's horrible I don't like this thinking I said it won't make any difference to a guitar I'll take that to work so and you can use this in the nut oh you can okay yeah I'll use this yeah I'll use it in a bone nut as well plastic nuts don't absorb anything which is why it might not be a great idea all right but there are all those products like nut sauce that have got I've got Teflon inside them right but about a plastic nut it's probably just as well if you haven't got those things is a piece of soft pencil yeah and so all you do is you got a soft pencil and take the string out of the slot I'm gonna I'm gonna cut these slots in a minute but I'll show you one so lift it out mm-hmm scrunch a bit of dust in there and then pop the string back on top ah and it's just shaving a bit of dust off and it shaves it off better if it's a hard piece of bone than the plastic right but that just sits there and lubricates it because graphite to create rubric and because it's slippery right yeah it's more slippery as Teflon okay by those kind of products like that's all sourcing other things have got Teflon in it and they will probably work a little bit better no I have never got around to buying any I got it by you sir I've always got a pencil I'm gonna buy you some it's mixing my head's on it so that every time you use in that sauce you'll think of me and Mick right so you've brought those up to pitch a little bit yeah okay there's another little point to bear in mind when you're doing this job is everything that comes out of the USA is going to have imperial hex keys mm-hmm and then everything else is going to most likely have metric ones right so this is a Mexican guitar mm-hmm and these have got actually got an imperial hex key ah which you don't really know what you're gonna find sometimes that some some American makes to use metric parts so so you got it you know have both sets really but there are you know be aware there's Imperial in this metric sure but I guess you go to a young store likes to Mack right they'll have them no they all sell you all those bits so I've just had a look down the neck okay and you brought that have you brought it up to pick up to pitch focus up so what do you think well it looks a lot straighter that looks really nice to me there's a very very fine curve but very fine okay yeah it's just off justice just off straight which is worthwhile probably just setting it if you feel like you're setting that up without and see yeah yeah yeah what it feels like can I adjust the nut for you you can deal whatever you out mate if we were going to start this again from scratch with a Fred dress yeah would you necessarily have to change the nut no no only only if even owned if you've run out of height right okay or it's the wrong spacing right or people would say I don't want the plastic nuts on though I want boban yeah or I want Teflon impregnated like plastics or something you know but yeah there's no there's no need there's no need to do that there's nothing wrong with this one mm-hmm so we've got 11 248 these and you're just you're opening that know what I just want to get a little bit of it's just slightly too high right so you might as well start off at the right point and there are a number of ways of doing this job some people do with measuring the gap with the height of the fret feeler gauge things and then filing down until you've got the right the same height as the feeler gauge that you've but I just use that string as a straight edge system right and just look at the gap people do change the bone for tone and tone they go it stands better with bone so change it over please so if they want me to do that I'll do it you know right then this the third string here's the nasty one [Music] to try not to get it to vibrations around mm-hmm how far down should the string be sitting in the nut well I mean how much excess nut should be poking up yes thing yeah some people think it should only be halfway through the string yeah well it's kind of yes I know we do you mean it's I used to think that mmm until I had made 500 guitars no no no kind of I I put a new bone nut on a bass player mm-hmm you know let's trim off the excess so it's not looking you know too much and he and he started you know he's a name player this mm-hmm and he and he started bending the strings you know all over the place right down here like man and he was just popping them not popping the nuts I said I've never seen anybody play like that but he was bending the strings like you bend a guitar was setting nines on it you know so it needed this extra right yeah yeah I thought well it's it's down to how to play it plays yeah okay but on a traditional keep some nut for instance the string yet just sits more or less in half a slot doesn't it right yeah whereas I kind of I go for about you know half and a half really compromise this is this is all right to me you know that that's kind of height yep so you can still fill the string yeah on the bottom side you turn this I probably end up if I made a new nut if you probably look on your telly you'll probably see there's more more bone sticking up than that mm-hmm slightly but you'll notice this string this this this nuts comes straight out of the factory yeah you can see these sharp edges it's more or less square in cross-section isn't it and they do what we really ought to do is round these off right then it's nice as you run down the neck maja you don't come to this sharp edge which I find a little nasty mmm you know you know we all want it smooth as possible don't we mm-hm y'all notice that I'm doing this to the string oh oh there's other theory that when the strings brand new course is coming up along here and it's going straight but it's not going quite as straight as it will after down yeah I've been vibrated for a couple of weeks yeah so I kind of give it a Yank down to see where it really might end up so what this true kind of resting position might be all these things that guitar makers think about when they're stuck to their bench to recap the kind of order of once you've taken it apart and put them it's got the truss rod back on again it's it's establishing the relief in the right amount of relief it's strict with the string tension on it is the so that's been that stable yeah you've got to do it in a certain order so you you achieve the neck relief that you want hmm then you go to this end here and get the nut height that you want and then you can go to this end here and get the action height that you want right and then when you finally got those things sorted out then you can do the intonation right last thing to do right because all the other things will have an effect on that mm-hmm so people get very confused as to what order all that automated done in grow out so it's getting the next straightness or relief correct then it's the nut then it's the action height and then it's the intonation okay what it's gone back together at with this is gonna need to be brought up a little bit which is good so before I bring it up I've slack on the string off a little bit mm-hmm you're doing both sides of there yeah jack up jack up evenly you don't want them cuckold over I'm going for one point for the 12th fret right aprox at the moment I've got about 1.5 and that's from the bottom of the string yeah top of the fret to bottom of string right about the 12th fret okay and then as I'm gonna go across by the time I get to the base side I want to get up to more like maybe 1.7 okay which is about where it is so it's incrementally going up you know maybe 1.4 1.5 mm-hmm maybe just over one point five you know one point six or something like that one point seven and you can get little gadgets that measure your camber underneath right but I do it just by you know rolling that straight edge across it and check that nothing's right obviously ridiculous but if you're measuring it across there it's going to end up you know correct at that you know there's increased bit by bit Larry's gonna give you that yes your regular camber there anyway [Music] we were going to give you a bit of a bit of a bit of Trent won't we yeah I'd be surprised if there isn't but the heaviest rings well I might yeah that's that's very true that they will have given you a little bit yeah I've given you a little bit yeah that's true I'm being distracted by talking no not not paying attention to everything as I'm going on so apologies this isn't normally how it's done [Music] so what you need to do next is have a go with this to see whether meter security now it already already sounds so much better so I have a play with it yeah and then we'll see whether that's where they want the action okay [Music] [Music] [Music] it's different guitar is it it's it felt sloppier to me just put no strings on and get a little bit to it and a while I would guess that was down to is letting the trim float right because we've got we've got a higher tension on the truss rod we've got a higher cage springs but you've got sponginess back in there from the springs right on the other end that's all I can for like any gas man I can still hear their kind of scratching us off the frets which if you'd had a fret dress you do have some vice be stylish frets which I was think well if you're gonna you're gonna do the job you like to do the whole job but obviously people at home aren't able to do that though in fact they could do something at home right with you if you've got a rosewood board mhm you don't need to bother about the masking off yup the fret board and you can just get some quadruple zero wire wool from your specialist hardware shop and just with a bit of fretboard oil rub the frets back with some fours like that it will polish them up right and oil the fingerboard at the same time right and you'll notice that you've got a bit of a shinier fret and if you did it with thousand grade wet and dry first you'd notice that you you know got a shinier fret shelter to to Bend on with the maple board so obviously you've got this lacquer mm-hmm and this one is a matte lacquer right so if you want to keep it you would have to mask all that off with masking tape make sure you use a low-tack masking tape otherwise you can peel the lacquer off okay with the adhesion of the tape right that's greater than the adhesion of the lacquer to the board so you've you've viewed masking tape we want to make it less sticky stick it on your clothes first just what I do all the time and my clothes are always nice and dusty so so you stick it on and then tear the pieces off and then you do that same process just just but just with the wire wool not with the oil just dry wire wool and that will just polish the frets off and make sure you keep the wire world away from here mask off yeah yeah all this lock it magnets pick up a ghost yep but if you've got a glossy maple fingerboard with gloss lacquer on it you could just use polishing cream okay right like a tea cut or thinner and it will just polish everything up [Music] it's a it's a different guitar it is it is a different guitar amazing but is nothing [Music] [Applause] [Music] so all we need to do now is intonation mark so intonation means the thing playing in tune with itself up and down the fretboard which is impossible but you can make it better than it sometimes is right these are in the wrong position so what you're trying to do is get that [Music] harmonic no to the 12th fret yet match the fretted note about the 12th fret right and that's why compensated this added a little bit of extra distance because in theory that is half way up the neck yes but when you fret the string you're stretching the string and when you're stretching the string you're raising the pitch of the note so our names lengthen it to flatten it again to make it the same so the idea is that that note is the same as that node which isn't quite and also there's another one up here that's the boat to be the same sorry so that the hum work at the high B yeah and here as well same time same oh yeah cuz the same same distance same note yep but that's an octave lower right so all these things ought to match up and that will depend the lower your action is the easier it is to get it to match the better your strings are the easier it is to get it to match okay so do you are you internetting by iya how are you doing this most of the time I do it by ear right and I think is just as good as the machines as long as you have a needs to go with well you know I don't think my ears any I don't think my ears that good at all but the people who've got good ears have got perfect pitch right and and and it drives them potty yeah yeah because everything is out of tune everything's Allison yeah and they don't have an easy life so you want you don't want to have that at all good one good relative pitch you just want to kind of know it's vaguely there no and sometimes if it's slightly out it might be see it might sound actually sweeter okay but try an exact science I don't things an exact science because cuz the note can change any way from to that just pressure right so who's who's who's playing the guitar yeah yeah you know yeah and who's actually playing the guitar that carefully you know mostly it's kind of you you're going you know someone's got that note there and it's always gonna have a bit of vibrato on it so which which which isn't a true note anyway so which obviously gives it the note a bit of emotion but so I think it's just kind of you just as well doing it with with my ear is is what sounds right so what what actually is correct on the machine Shane yeah that's amazing and if it does sometimes help too [Music] it helps me get the tune into the weather notice their thing and that sounds pretty pretty sweet to me yep and it's just a matter of making it sound sweet and weather sweet is Bangkok yourself oh yeah yeah that is right okay then if as long as it as long as we're okay up here as well yep I am that's alright and I mean if anything you want it to be flat so that because once it was racing out here yeah ends up being a salad and it's kind of it's sharpened out so you know I think you've got to take a view yourself on this as to how you play and how you want to approach it as long as you understand the principles of it hmm it's that in order to if the note is playing sharp extend the string write those days always as long as you understand that you could work it out yourself can't you boss and if the if the note is flat shorten the string the opposite okay do you mind if I have a gut setting up the harmonics yeah and then and did tell me 750 kambera thereabouts okay let's have a go at that so you have the screwdriver right you have the guitar things it'll think what are you calling Frank gamble frank gambali after yes so Frank Gimbel balls this is a gimbal is a gimbal which is [Music] oh you don't do it when you plugged into it when it do it on the bridge pickup right you'll get a better um you're gonna clean out clean the note it's pretty good [Music] that's pretty good turn up atop that wants to come back a bit I'd move that one back a bit yeah [Music] so it's just down here and he's tightening clockwise to make that fourth saddle and back towards the possibly associate increase the light for the string which will flatten it what about pickup height well okay guys you're gonna tell us just white balance if you want a balance between all the pickups these these pickups up the stronger the magnetic field is on these pickups the more they're going to suck the strings right if they're too close they'll give you wolf noticed yeah right you'll hear it go so usually on a strat you've got the treble side nearer the strings and the bass side further away right and usually because because there's more movement of string here let's have this on the on them this is where the most of the movement is right this this pickup is further away than the one at the bridge right so it kind of set the bridge height pick up and then set the others to match it okay assuming you want the same volume coming out of each pickup [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's pretty good that's pretty good we haven't tried the vibrato long which is sometimes referred to as a tremor how much slop is that one got loads what happens are you going a bit further they wouldn't go further than that okay [Music] [Music] and I'm sure you know that when you're tuning with a tram that's floating but I'll just mention it after you given the string that's a good stretching in yeah then tuned up and I blip the tram down here no like every time I'm tuning and the e string I go Blanc go a little dip down so that then when you know whenever you've know used the tréminis finish off with a downward blip Ryan should come back into this right [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] awesome the answer is also bizarre some awesome Johnny thank you so much most pleasure Wow well your magician cheers thank you the guitar has been transformed by a good setup well I'm amazed I'm pleased amazing please yeah yeah so again we you like deal with it we got the neck sorted out we've got the amount of relief that we wanted yeah yeah we check the nut and we have to tell you the neck off for that meditate the neck off for that disaster at this end yep we you've sorted out the right yeah yeah not Heights we stop saying wait you can do all right we sort of the height out then yeah of the saddles of the saddles making sure that they went from one point two to one point one point for time point for what one point four to one point seven I think that's good for that camber right okay you know different cameras you might go for different things okay if it was a flatter Cammarata Gibson ish like board right you would probably go a little bit closer on the treble side okay because you can bend without choking rise that's the issue so we did that and then we set the intonation but mostly the harmonic for the 12th and the 1930s or what it is yeah is where the hi babes yep yeah and yeah it's it's changed the guitar dramatically so amazing amazing thank you so much good good good now I'm off to them and we didn't even need to dress the frets on this well yeah this is a brand new guitar you would assume that the top fret heights are okayed yeah though in my opinion you can always find out a high spot on a brand new guitar sure you know because the bit of woods shifted from Mexico to all the way around the other side of the world little something but we caught we've got good and lucky on here yeah so that's that that's that's good brilliant on behalf of everyone that's been watching you do your amazing thing back channel thank you so much with pleasure we're so thankful let's just sure this stuff you know anybody that will listen I'll talk to you know it's if people want to get in touch with you yeah it's email either via the website there this the website still still up I think yeah thank you Kim cake it has the website you know king cake guitars dot code of U K ki ki NK a de right all right guitars for you alright buddy thank you so much cheers guys hope you enjoyed that and we'll see you soon okay [Music] [Applause]

Channel: That Pedal Show

Views: 131,674

Keywords: Ed O brien Strat demo, Ed O Brien Stratocaster, how to set up a guitar, guitar setup video, That pedal show, Stratocaster setup, strat trem setup, truss rodd adjustment, action adjustment, adjusting a truss rod, intonation adjument, guitar intonation, Jonny Kinkead, Jonny Kinkade

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Length: 61min 45sec (3705 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 29 2019