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In the first diagram why would anyone have a saddle that high?

Ur full of it i took a donner upgraded everything all together the total was 500 dollars and it sounds better then a 800 dollar fender soo i disagree with everything ur saying this video waste of my time

Thank you Sir. In my micro world I didn't realize folks were that misinformed. Your explanation mostly mirrors my understanding of the Plek. Although, I didn't come to that overnight. Lots of self study, and having Phil Jacoby refret and Plek over 12 guitars for me over several years chystalized and tempered my understanding of it. And also to your point, Pete Skermetta did a stainless steel refret for me without it. And his work is also awesome. Love the video, and agree with all.

Can I do this on a bass guitar as well, the "not detuning the strings" first? I'm worried that it'll snap the neck pocket if I don't detune a bit.

This doesn't help at all. I already know that you're supposed to strum the strings on the upstroke. He doesn't seem to know that people struggling with strumming encounter massive resistance on the upstroke that turns the pick 90 degrees in one bar. I'm now giving up guitar after 6 months of not even being able to do the most basic skill of being able to strum!!!!!

Thanks for the vid but can I stop the noise?

May i ask one more question? Checking the neck back plate of my strat, it's connected with 4 screws to the body (as usual), but there is one more hole in it, which also grabs the same allen wrench as the trussrod does. Which function has that fifth "extra" hole/screw in the neck back plate?

What wax are you using?

What i don't understand is why you keep replying to people that this guitar is not for beginners, i think every beginner knows this.. These kits are for people who want to tinker, and don't want a expensive kit so they can experiment on it. that being said i play guitar for like 35 years, and i have owned many many guitars, including Gibson les Paul and USA Fenders and high end Ibanez guitars, and i do agree that a kit like this is not stellar, not even if you level and polish the frets, give it low action and intonate it properly, but it will play OK and light if you do that, and sound reasonable if you know what you're doing, i also fix and totally rework old broken guitars, and with some time i can make these kits into fine guitars. If you cannot, that only means that you're not skilled enough to make it play and sound OK. These modern kits are way better than most of the cheap guitars you bought back in the 70's. And saying that 3 hours of benchwork will net you 180 dollars of extra cost (cause that would cost it if you bring it to a guitar shop) is not the point of these kits. The point of these kits is to let people tinker and play around with building a guitar and slowly learn a bit how this is done. if you change the hardware on it after you finished up the wood decently you can make a pretty good guitar out of it, i can in about 10 hours of work make it into a beauty that plays well. So i think that making a vid about this is more for yourself to get content on youtube and earn some ads revenue, than to informatively educate people about the true purpose of these cheap guitar kits..They're not ment for beginners that want to have a cheap guitar, cause you can buy a cheap guitar for 75 dollar from Fazley or Harley Benton, that only needs setup that can be done in a guitar shop for 50 dollars and than you have a reasonably cheap and reasonably playing guitar. It's also pretty obvious that if you're going to be negative about these cheap kits, that you are going to be overloaded with comments that feel negative to you, cause many people do understand the true purpose of these kits, and they are going to be annoyed by your opinion. So this "They deserve to be informed and warned of the reality of these kits" comment is completely wrong, and that is not a opinion, it's a fact, it is merely your opinion, and probably based on your lack of tinker skills. The fact that you broke the tuners screws in the headstock underscribes this, you need to pre-drill the holes, the fact that they broke is a good sign, it means the wood they used is hard and strong, as it needs to be for a neck. And the screws are only ment to keep the tuners from turning, so you don't need to screw them in very tight. It all makes sense to me that you're not very technical.

I agree with @CANNIMAGINE, 100% This guy has no business posting such negativity, and discouraging comments. This doesn't just set a negative tone to these kits, but all. Guitar kits are not for learning to play on...they exist for learning to build on. Entry level. It's a kit...the work needed to make them playable, is the whole point of them being kits. Don't listen to this, individual, (to put it nicely),...If you wana learn to build..and all that's involved...any kit, is a great start. Build on....

Hey man, When I increase the tone on my Gibson les paul tribute in overdrive , my guitar makes noise . But when I turn down the guitar tone and increase the amp tone my guitar does not make noise. Is it a grounding issue?? Please answer. Thanks

Third diagram (too much relief): What has caused the ~12th fret to be lower than the ~21st fret?

It’s not your body causing the hum, it’s 60 cycle hum from your amp and pedal power sources, your computer power source, and whatever else is using electrical power in the room. Shield your guitar’s control cavities and the back of the pick guard with copper tape and I guarantee the hum will massively reduce.

Attach a guitar string on your cable input jack to your body and the noise goes away

I’ll be treating my first unfinished neck. No tuners installed yet. Would I use the oil on the headstock and fretboard as well? The wax? Great video for a rookie like me. Thank you! (Btw, I had Covid in 2022. Took a long time to get energy back. Trusting you are feeling well now that time has passed)

I have built two HB kits. None of the problems you mention appeared.

Best explanation ever! I've been fighting high action above the 12th as all the techs in my area kept suggesting a straight neck after leveling.

How to interpret if it's getting noisy while touching the humbuckers? I an hear quiet buzz normally but it's getting loud when touching the currently active humbucker.

Hello I never had background/static noise but now all of a sudden, my two guitars have it. When I turn to my right / left the sound increases. I literally went to the woods with a multiprocessor unit powered by batteries and the pickups of the two guitars behave the same way than when I am at home. The strange thing is that I didn't have this problem before and I changed nothing in the house. Some days ago, there was a storm, I really don’t know what to do. Thx!

You’re a good man! Thank for doing this video..

Could you potentially shield the guitar better ?

thanks. very informative and a nice quick reference for my general maintenance. too many guitars on hand to pay someone else

how do you say pedantic in other countries around the world? 😊

Sorry to hear you are unwell. Long Covid is actually long-jab. It's all experimental-jab related.

Got the exact same base, no tooling marks on the neck or scratches on the body as you mentioned. Same fret issues and intonation was off. Had my guy to set it up, polish and smooth the edges on the frets and now feels and plays great. I got it with a freinds and family store discount so I'm still way ahead. Would have a hard time parting with it now.

Great video sir. My trussrod is tightened to the max and I still have that gap tho for some weird reason :( Don't know what else I can do.

I got the Single Cut-kit for my birthday a couple of years back. To me it was a great experience painting it and putting it together. But I replaced pretty much everything even before I started the build; locking tuners, Tusq nut, pickups, pots, knobs. Painted the top gold and the back black and even put a vinyl decal with my own last name on the headstock in the Gibson font. Feel like I learned a lot about setting up guitars, intonation, cleaning up sharp fret ends and so on. I'm really proud of how it turned out and it's very playable. But I see your points, would be far from as nice with only the stock components and without a willingness to learn and put in the effort yourself. If your a beginner and just want a playable instrument, the lowest end Harly Bentons costs as much as these kits and make a lot more sense in that senario.

My man, right to the point clear as a bell, ty subscribed

I'm 44 I don't use glasses. I have that problem with my Roland system-1 synth. It has too many bright green lights. It was super distracting. It gave me brain fog.

Life saver! I was having dark thoughts about power tools... 👍

Dunno why but there's a strong Bob Ross vibe here. "We'll paint a happy little tree right here. Just a few strokes. That's all you have to do...". Great vid.

I was intrigued with this idea, as it appeared to make perfect sense, and after listening to a lot of discussion on flat necks are better as peak amplitude isn't always over the 8th fret etc.. Here are the actual results of adding more relief to a strat neck which then allowed me to lower the bridge. Interestingly the action at the 7th stayed the same whilst the 17th fret action was now significantly lower. Relief 0.04 Relief 0.08 1ST 7TH 12TH 17TH 1ST 7TH 12TH 17TH E 0.4 0.92 1.49 1.87 E 0.41 0.93 1.43 1.61 B 0.53 0.84 1.37 1.72 B 0.44 0.91 1.37 1.58 G 0.42 0.78 1.27 1.56 G 0.41 0.81 1.23 1.42 D 0.38 0.99 1.45 1.73 D 0.4 1.05 1.43 1.65 A 0.39 0.91 1.3 1.63 A 0.42 1 1.32 1.59 E 0.62 1.03 1.31 1.74 E 0.64 1.06 1.28 1.65 The neck relief by itself didn't create all the effect, but in combination with a slight lowering of saddles created a better result.

Thanks for the video. Your proof was what I needed so I didn't take my whole guitar apart trying to find a "hands off" buzz. I found a solution for you however; I bought an ESD strap (something you would have if you're working on computers or electronics) to discharge static electricity. I wrap it around my ankle and attach the other lead to literally anywhere else (metal end of a patch cable in my pedal board). Problem solved! Another thing you can do (which I did while waiting for said ESD strap) was plug a patch cable into my other amp's input and literally slide the other end of the cable in my sock. I promise you, it sounds weird but it worked. And that solution costs you nothing. You could in theory tape the end of the patch cable to the metal part of another patch cable that's on your pedal board instead of plugging it into another amp. I happen to have two amps, only one of which I would be using at any point in time. The amp doesn't even need to be on. What you're trying to do is replicate the 'touching another piece of metal' idea without using your hands (so you can play the guitar, of course). The wrist strap (which I wrap on my ankle) works perfectly for me. Thanks again for the video!

Ir worked. Thanks. But with all the technology, there should be a better way. Maybe a screw in tremolo bar? Of course that might present other problems. Well, I am not really a dive bomber player anyway.

DI box with a ground lift switch... works like a charm

Great video! Many thanks!

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Perfectly flat necks are feasible but the fretboard has to be perfectly leveled, frets have to be leveled, nut slot height perfect and saddle height perfect. I’ve played one guitar with a flawlessly flat neck with insanely low action and zero fret buzz. It was a Vigier. Also interesting thing about that guitar is that the neck has a perfectly flat radius too. It was an incredible guitar.

Your a genius thank you 🙏 had a new bridge installed, was afraid to force the whammy bar out, it’s a Wilkinson bridge but I followed your technique popped out no problem 😀

On the peterson, is it posible to use two colors if you leave the display always on blue, then red when muted?

Great idea! I love to see how they don't interfere while still muting any unwanted vibrations

So if you are adjusting the truss rod from the nut, you turn counter clock give less relief?? you did not make that clear

I have used this method to coat the neck of my bass which I sanded down the matte paint off of, which eventually turned gloss by all the playing and the grease of my hands. But I am curious to see if this would also help with the feel of the neck of the bass I play all the time which already has some sort of oil finish on it? It is a maple neck and it doesn't look dry like an unfinished wood, would it hurt to try?

hope you come out well on the other end of this Kevin! We're rooting for you.

This was so easy to follow - thanks for the video

I finally carefully measured and it was 1/8 of an inch to each side of the e strings at the nut so I decided to loosen up the neck and you were right. It made a big difference. Makes sense all the time when you’re playing you’re pulling down on the neck…. I considered putting some thread locker on the screws, but decided against it. Hopefully it stays tight for a good while. Thanks!

MY GODDAMN FAVOREITE TECH DUDE YOU ARE THE MONSTER AND MASTER AT THE SAME TIME!

My guitar noising when i turn the volume down, can you tell me why? thank you

Thanks for the video in my case I think I misaligned the nut a little bit

Thanks for your advise. I never did uit before but I will do it now.