Sorry to hear about your loss David. Thanks for the Keith upload, excellent as always.

Love your videos Dave! I'm so happy to see your videos! I love "I'm gootched" you sing awesome & great slide playing! I will do this mod, thanks for always sharing your thoughts, ideas!

So sorry for your loss Dave. A good sense of humor can go along ways. Thanks for the great vid and excellent content. keep on Keepin on.

Sorry about the loss of your friend Dave. Thanks for posting this!

Love the "SCRew Mac" sticker on the tool box!!! I can't believe I just noticed it. You're the man Dave.

Over and over and over and over ....... Awesome man

Dude you crack me up , but you keep me coming back! Good Job

Wow Dave, I never knew of this special setup. I feel so left behind! Thanks for doing what you do for all of us, cheers!!

The five string open tuning is the original blues tuning that the blues masters used in the 20's and 30's. Most of them started out on banjos then switched to electric and took the top string off. Keith didn't invent it but was taught it by Gram Parsons and Ry Cooder. Ry had already mastered it and Keith learned some tricks from Ry. Lot of history in that tuning not just stones songs, though there is nothing wrong with stones songs.

@rkabrx2722

6 жыл бұрын

hammer44head Thanks! I didn’t know the backstory of that tuning. Appreciate the history lesson.

@larryn2682

6 жыл бұрын

hammer44head there were Cuban/Spanish guitarists that used five string open-G several hundred years ago.

Sorry for your loss Dave. Having recently lost an admired coworker and friend, I feel your pain.

Hey Dave I’m sorry for your friend. I liked to just listen to you wrap.. I lost 4 friends this year. No body left. I decided at 54 years old to start learning to play the guitar. I suck at it but I’m trying. A butterscotch telecaster. Professional 2. Anyway I subscribed and hope you will make more videos. Thanks I needed that.

Good one Dave...Thanks.

Sorry about your loss Dave. Just a quick comment. Keith has the 6th string tuner and bridge saddle, spring and screw removed to eliminate the buzz those pieces create without any tension to hold them in place. Otherwise, another great video.

like how you changed the stewmac sticker in the background to SCRew Mac

@triplesevensix291

6 жыл бұрын

Screwmacula.

Dave's World of Fun Stuff I do Open G a bit differently. I use Open E Tuning & put a capo on the 3rd Fret to get Open G w/ a High G on the top end. I got that idea from Lenny Breau who's known for playing a 7 String Guitar w/ a High A.

i looked up a video of blushing brides live, i think i saw you playing the bass haha cool

I too use open G with a diff. The 5th is a high G. I can do so because hack a baby size classical guitar....its shorter length and I use a nylon string number 1 and tune it to high G. Then I change the string number 1 with metal string and tune to high D. The result is a fantastic picking banjo sound when I pick the rolls and claw hammer strum.

Sorry to hear about your buddy Dave. I've lost a few recently too.. Kinda sad.

Wow - blushing brides! I have not heard that band name since the late 70s...

On a six string neck and regular tuning, what size feeler gauge do you use and at which fret do you measure ? Thanks.

@SnappingTurtle90

3 жыл бұрын

12 thousands of an inch

Hey, love the little tele shaped blue box thingy on your desk. Where did you get?

@MonsieurVersatile

6 жыл бұрын

OK, I'll keep looking, cheers.

Sorry for your loss, Dave.

I have that Guitar now which I've converted it back into a Standard 6 String Guitar which I have tuned down a half step to Eb.

Would you mind letting me know the feeler gage thickness and which fret to check when you check for neck relief? Thanks ! Tom

@josephliptak

4 жыл бұрын

Ten thou

I would like to make an Esquire for Luther Perkins sound. Would like to know the proper set up! Tom

What are u using for checking pickup height.?

Thank you.

Holy cripes Davey ... I remember them years ago, at the El Mo - I think (??) ... "You keep telling me that my whiskey has lost its punch, boom, boom ..." I searched KZread. The Brides they still be a-Blushin'.

That's the first Stratocaster Ive seen that Ive liked. If the owner made that body then he included just the right amount of down's into it to make it work.

Saw the Blushing Brides back in the early 80s here in Edmonton. They opened for Chilliwack on the Opus X tour. Was that you?

love how you altered your stew mac sticker to "screw mac" ROFL

Thanks!

People the body is gona be in rough shape! Its a vintage guitar and keith is a rocker!! Dave awesome job! Im sure keith will be happy and its his guitar so thats what matters. Peace 👍

@Ndlanding

6 жыл бұрын

Er, sorry to tell you this... It ain't Keith's guitar. Not even mine!

@neil758

6 жыл бұрын

Ndlanding oooops 😛 lol

@STEVEM730

6 жыл бұрын

I think he's kidding

Did you make that straight edge or can they be purchased somewhere ?

@kidblanco

6 жыл бұрын

Www.stewmac.com Stewart MacDonald sells them

I'll be doing this to my Strat. I had this in my mind for awhile. I lost a bridge sattle. So open g tuning I go.

5:24 Neck relief will be different cause obviously the tension is different with only 5 Strings and a different tuning

Dave, you fuckin' crack me up man.

How do you deal with the unused Tuning Machine and Bridge Saddle? Wouldn't they just rattle incessantly?

@vitellonealvapore877

5 жыл бұрын

put some foam under the saddle and tighten it up, put an elastic band around the tuning machine or remove it.

@josephliptak

4 жыл бұрын

Keith sometimes removes them.

@RockStarOscarStern634

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephliptak Actually Dave gave me that guitar, & I finally turned it back into a standard 6 string guitar.

How can you set pickup height when all the poles are different heights? Just check the closest one?

@spidermancereal

5 жыл бұрын

Pickup height set to the outside strings. The poles are set to the radius so everything should be where they are supposed to be , ish.

@Ndlanding

5 жыл бұрын

@@spidermancereal You have obviously never seen a real Fender pickup from back then! When the G-string was roundwound, for example. And the B was always too high...

@justaridemotovlogs9282

5 жыл бұрын

The setting is a base, you should should still adjust them until they sound good to you

Open G right dave?

My most sincere condolences on your coworker, his friends and family. Those who don’t have a career, where you work with skilled laborers, day in and day out, often risking injury and/or fatality, have No Clue...peace to you all.

what model is your snark man?

Like this, but it is a bit lacking on details, as to what, why and how you are doing things. Love it overall, and will look further!

“INTONATION FOR THE NATION”

Hey Dave, please explain the higher pole pieces in the middle of the pickups. Doesn't make sense adjusting them when they are all over the place. IDK, just seems counterproductive... am i missing something?

@bluesb52

6 жыл бұрын

it to keep the volume of the strings even.to compensate for the radius on the finger board

@jasont.9559

6 жыл бұрын

Yes Scott, you are missing something.

@scott729

6 жыл бұрын

Got ya... makes more sense now. Thanks

@j_freed

6 жыл бұрын

Actually there's no advantage in the vintage stagger commonly used. The G strings on electric used to be wound, so the vintage stagger is kind of bullshit for today's string sets. By that I mean you can see they made the B string pole piece a lot lower than the G to compensate for what used to be a big volume difference, and the B is even a bit lower than the high E which has always been less powerful,than the B. The magnetic field of the poles is fairly broad in all pickups anyway. Look at blade pickups and the coveted early flat-pole Telecaster pickups, look at p-90s. No string stagger is used.

@timothysullysullivan2571

6 жыл бұрын

I never understood the staggered heights- i mean a bend is a much larger change in distance to pole. Doesn't seem to be much of an issue.

3:03 It's really the Lacquer from the Strat body.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but Richard's 5 strings have the 6th string saddle and tuner removed because they tend to rattle without a string holding them in place. Very nice job on the setup Dave. Sorry you lost a friend and mentor.

1:58 Hey the Strat Pickups are working

Sorry bout your friend man...having a beer for him. Cheers.

Now that I hear it I get what Keith was getting at.

Did you work on MacGyver?

@gbvoul

6 жыл бұрын

nerd uku cuckoo replies twice then deletes them. what a geek.

4:27 Hey the tuner is working again

🎸 Run to the hills...🎸 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Thats weird. I have a cheap guitar that is now a 5 string.no problem with sound.of course open tuning. In other words it doesn't matter what kind of guitar you have! Have fun with it!

How do you know if the pickups are too high or too low?

@jeffreyrivers1983

4 жыл бұрын

@@imorderinglasagna4614 thanks, Bob.

@12south31

4 жыл бұрын

Generally they should be 3 to 4/64ths on the high E and 5 to 4/64ths on the low E. Hold down the string on the last fret and measure from the top of pickup to bottom of string. The high E side should be 1/64ths closer than the low E. Once you set it you can raise or lower a bit until you're happy with the sound, but that will get you in the ballpark. With humbuckers you wont hear much of a difference with a small adjustment, single coils will sound terrible if they are too close. There is no set height. All that matters is that you like what you hear.

@jimjoyce424

4 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Rivers was

I totally remember The Blushing Brides.

@RockStarOscarStern634

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavesWorldofFunStuff I think I know what happened to that Stratocaster, I have it back as a regular 6 string. Right?

No "Start me up" intro?

Why didn't you take the low E saddle off and the tuner too? Keef would've.

@12south31

4 жыл бұрын

Then it would only be a four string seeing as the HIGH E is already missing.

Where did you get this from, ebay? Looks like one of those Fender mim stratocasters which owner was doing DIY sunburst then gave up on it, sold as repair needs TLC.

@jasont.9559

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think that's a Fender body. It looks weird as shit. The horns aren't the right shape, the edge contours don't look right and the pick guard doesn't sit right. I think someone bought an American strat neck and bolted it to a piece of firewood.

@daleweber2579

6 жыл бұрын

That's because Dave is video recording the guitar close-ups at different angles. He should've removed the whole pickguard and neck, to see date stamp neck heel in the neck pocket. Trust, me man that is an actual Fender strat the previous owner did a crappy Sunburst finish. I bought an old but real 1993-1994 Fender standard for $167 on ebay with the finish done the same way. Mine came from California was gigged a lot. It did need re-setup but with lots of TLC & patience. Since it was west coast traveled snow belt area I had to give it a Fret dressing mainly bevel the fret ends, fret level and reglue reshape the nut. Took me about 8 hours now neck feels 100% better like new. Then I had rewired it, my guard is black, pickups are black (stock Mexi ceramics) since it needed a tone pot change out. I went an changed the input to switch craft, used better wiring vintage cloth, installed old Fender fat 50s which are like alnico v. and also the bridge to a proper stock vintage one, the previous owner took the original and installed a crappy one. Spent less than $70 on repairs saved me a lot more by doing it myself. I don't mind it because I'm restoring mine back to stock, but I'm gonna re-paint it back to the factory solid black finish from Fender but it'll be in nitrocellulose.

@johnkramer7161

6 жыл бұрын

It's probably not Dave's guitar. He doesn't need to pull the neck if he doesn't need to know or care what year it is

@timothysullysullivan2571

6 жыл бұрын

Man, you must no value your time very highly...

I'm looking this up because broke a new 6th string

I was led to believe that you adjust the neck with the strings on..

Hey Dave !! Please say hi to Kieth for me

new t shirt my snark want snarkulate !

If the low string is a G, what gauge string do you use for it?

@wijk89

6 жыл бұрын

Open G tuning is supposed to be like this: D-G-D-G-B-D (low to high).

@diddlytube

6 жыл бұрын

I standard tune w/ 10-46, so for fiddling with Open G, I put on a mixed set, using the Ernie Ballsack 10-46 and 11-48 sets. For the outside / detuned strings (6,5, and 1 -- Low D,G, high D) I use the strings from the heavier set. For the DGB in the middle I use the strings from the 10-46. This may not be exactly correct in terms of ideal string tension, but it's less sloppy / buzzy than just tuning down using a regular set. I have one guitar permanently set up this way. If you want the true Keef sound, you leave the low string off. That gives the open G chord a more characteristic "G" flavor, instead of having the low D color the chord with an inversion.

@tjeppenbrackx9067

6 жыл бұрын

If you want to go the "Keith"-way, Ernie Ball Slinky 11 to 48, but no 48 of course :)

@kenwinston2245

6 жыл бұрын

In his bio he says he was fascinated and inspired hearing someone else and asked them . . . Imagine that. What a true creative spirit. He took off the low E instead of tuning it down to D because it made too much low register phasing chaos, it's such a full sound on its own it pushes everything else out of the way in a group, constantly banging on it the way you play the open chord formation, sliding up and down the neck.

@jaydubpdx

6 жыл бұрын

I keep the sixth string in E because the relative minor of G is Em. I'll mute it or not play it at all unless/until I'm in Em. Or I'll drop a heavy "A" string and drop it down to G. I never tune to D.

👌🏼

You forgot to mention is this Keith Richards guitar is this is one of his Stratocaster Fender guitars from the early 50s or 60s?

@Tim.Pierce

6 жыл бұрын

its not Keiths strat its just a customers strat who wanted to have it tuned like keiths guitar which is actually a 5 string telecaster nicknamed Mcawber which he received as a gift from Eric Clapton on his birthday in Dec 69 The tele made its debut 8 months later on the Exile On Main St sessions

@user-sz5xs7dm4u

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tim.Pierce from Eric Clapton

Your to unreal Dave

Intonation checking/setting should always be done with the guitar in a playing position. Having the neck in an elevating cradle with the weight of the body pulling downward on it because of the slant caused by elevating the neck, serves to cause more relief at center-neck and a potential for imperfect intonation. Just sayin'.

@paulhopkins8148

4 жыл бұрын

Could you demonstrate that, please?

@maheshchander03

4 жыл бұрын

Been repairing guitars professionally for years. Never found a difference either way. Has it is very obvious has to why it should be in playing position but never seen a difference either way.

@davekiddie4467

4 жыл бұрын

@@maheshchander03 been fixing guitars forever, there is a slight difference

sorry about your mate Dave

What's wrong with Peterson tuner? Is it on the Fritz?

I was disgusted when I had trouble bending up strings on my American Strat, when I found they sprayed poly on the frets and left it. Over time it began to wear. Was a hellish job to get it off. Fix all high frets and clean off sides of frets. This was my huge disappointment with Fender. I don't know if they do it on all guitars but mine looked like the crap on frets you have there.

Keith....

Boy does that tuning ever explain the "Keith Sound". Is that a nitro finish? My guitar has a nitro finish and I can't get the baby clean, the finish just smears. I've already rubbed some of the color off it so I stopped trying.

What a purty burst .

check the radius of those damn blue collar tweakers!

1:59 She chooches!

3:24 Where was I? Ok Open G, 6th String is off the Guitar (for right now).

If I can’t get a sticker I’ll just die😔

10:59 Let's hook that Strat up to the amp

We are the only company making a 5 String Open G. It all started with Ted Newman Jones who built the 1st 5 String with Keith Richards. NewmanGuitars.net

Nice easy set up Dave,always wondered why 5strings does he have short fingers?Or did he break a Estring and said fuck it!!Cheers

@StrixLuke

6 жыл бұрын

From what I know, Keith Richards plays in open G tuning, in which case the lowest string isn't really necessary and quite hard to avoid when you're playing chords.

@gryzew

6 жыл бұрын

He's tuning to open G and doesn't want the bass D string to get in the way, has an open clean G chrod with the G root note, G-D-G-B-D instead of D-G-D-G-B-D. Joe Perry tunes one of his live guitars to G-G-D-G-B-D where the first lowest G is a baritone/bass string tuned an octave lower than the second normal guitar string.

@blkjckgtr3075

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that,i did not know that,Cheers Lucas

you tune that way and far-out I sound like Kieth...get me a bloody joint man!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of people bash Keith as a guitar player...listen to Angie, come back with a head count of Stones fans then we'll talk.

@curtiseverett1671

5 жыл бұрын

listen to the guitar work in Beast of Burden........ fantastic,,,,,, legendary....

@maximilien_4382

5 жыл бұрын

never leave your piiiiizza buuurning

@RadioMartyT1B

5 жыл бұрын

...the cheese is melting, the sauce is squirting...

@josephliptak

4 жыл бұрын

Those people are known as assholes. There could be one living on the same street as you. You might even work with one or worse yet, you might be one.

3:26 OK Open G, the 6th String is staying off the Guitar for this one.

Rumor has it that Keef stole this tuning from Ry Cooder when they were recording 'Let It Bleed'.

@tomislavmihalic5283

5 жыл бұрын

You can't steal what is nobody's property. Open tuning has been in use long before Ry was even born. He showed it to him, yeah, but he only showed what had been shown to him before.

@josephliptak

4 жыл бұрын

Keith never stole it. He liked how it sounded and began using it. Open G has been around way before Keith was born.

@marston9106

4 жыл бұрын

Joseph P Liptak Jr 5 strings and Open G is banjo all the way!

@joeroganjosh9333

2 жыл бұрын

I think Ry is bitter over he was never given any credit for his input at that time. I think he feels he should have been given some acknowledgment for “honkytonk women”. I don’t know. All these guys absorb consciously or not the sounds and ideas of all the music they’ve heard, and sometimes other people’s ideas and sounds come out in their own music. Very little is genuinely or wholly original. Richards has said musicians are like antenae, receiving sounds and recording them for future use.

3:09 Ok Open G Major

LMAO, did I say that out loud...

Doesn't Keith play a Tele 5 string?

@nickfanzo

6 жыл бұрын

William Rush he does it on many other guitars too

@susansperrazza2790

6 жыл бұрын

William Rush maybe he means Ron woods sometimes people get old and forget ful . Happens ole Dave !lol

How do you know if the pickups height is correct ?

@maximilien_4382

6 жыл бұрын

Wow very useful answer from you, thanks a lot...

@Fabian-xb7qj

5 жыл бұрын

@@maximilien_4382 I normally press down the strings at the highest fret and adjust the pickups to the point where they almost touch the strings. Then I adjust to taste. If you have a strat i'd recommend lowering the middle pickup for less output for clean playing. The closer the pickups are to the strings the more Output they have. If they are too close they get muddy. I hope I could help and sorry for my bad english.

@Fabian-xb7qj

5 жыл бұрын

@@maximilien_4382 You should normally find recommended pickup heights on the manufacturers website.

@maximilien_4382

5 жыл бұрын

thanks a lot man ! i didn't know about the middle pickup thing, i'll try this soon :) and i think your english is pretty good (it is not my native language either, i'm french...)

@Fabian-xb7qj

5 жыл бұрын

@@maximilien_4382 Glad I could help :)

Yes for some reason fender lacquers over the whole fretboard on the maple necks, and it looks like crap as it ages and is worn away due to playing. Enjoyed the video.

@J8D2

6 жыл бұрын

It would look a hell of a lot shittier if they left it un sealed, it would be filthy within a few months and damn near impossible to clean without harming the wood grain. Also a lot more prone to changes in atmospherics. Ive seen this before on parts guitars with warmoth necks etc and its ugly.

@nitroxsam66

6 жыл бұрын

T Scott Maybe. The maple fingerboard on my 60 Strat hasnt had any lacquer on it for years and it looks ok..just worn. My newer Tele has lacquer on the frets and fretboard.

@Psyfonify

6 жыл бұрын

thats cause at some point, there was laquer nitroxsam66, and prob still is just veeery thin.

@robertobrien2903

6 жыл бұрын

I bought my American Standard Jazz and Precision basses and never noticed lacquer coming off the frets. I even unboxed the Jazz Bass at the store myself. Do they do it that way on all of them? I've had them both for quite a while and I've gotta see if I notice any stuff on the frets still......I did get different strings and setups on them before they left the stores too though. Do you think my techs were smart enough to clear that up for me without telling me because they knew I'd whine and bitch and complain until they fixed it if I did notice it?

@timothysullysullivan2571

6 жыл бұрын

Leo hated the way the maple necks looked after some use. He felt it was a negative image for his brand out there. That's why he went to rosewood fingerboards in 62. But it does change the sound slightly and the feel quite a bit. Laquering the maple is just a way to try to counter the wear/darkening.

Like a kid in a candy store except its guitars and a potty mouth lol, nice to know about all this and sorry about your friend dying. I want a sticker lol crimson and clover over over and ... what next?

Who did the finish on that, Helen Keller?

@PintsofGuinness

6 жыл бұрын

the body looks homemade to me honestly. shape is a little wonky.

@WillyMcCoy50

6 жыл бұрын

The body is less contoured and more of a slab than a production strat.

@WillyMcCoy50

6 жыл бұрын

Dave's World of Fun Stuff He did a great job and the finish is cool. Can't stand poly finishes.

Weird that the bridge is missing a piece for the string to rest on.

@PintsofGuinness

6 жыл бұрын

what?

@bills6093

6 жыл бұрын

Just lowered all the way, not missing, I think.

Needs to be a Tele, or a Junior.....???

The pick guard looks like it doesn’t fit the body.

Now I am calling it Bugle Call tuning. The Russians use Open G with seven strings by the way.

@georgeredhawk1996

6 жыл бұрын

Wamgo C are the extra strings on top or bottom of open G ?

Couldn’t this work the other way by losing the high E and retuning the rest to open G? I’ve busted enough high E strings anyway.

kzread.info/dash/bejne/h2qOyNuwn7GeY6g.html Is that you Dave playing bass

Dave's not here.

@sd3falco

6 жыл бұрын

Dave? Dave who?

Keith, not Kieth.

@islanderwinder

6 жыл бұрын

you must mean Keef ...lol