OT: Floating Trem String Change VIDEO

[Monty Billocks]

Hi Beth...and thanks!!!

It's very true that not everybody knows how to do everything to their guitar....

All too often the customers that I deal with that have had the biggest problems / disasters with their instruments, have got that way because somebody 'helped' them or 'advised' them. That advise usually ends with something along the lines of: "...or so my friend told me." Y'know what I mean, right?

So, yes, we at ovrdrvn HQ are trying to do our bit towards providing simple but informative advise and instruction through the wonderous medium that is the interweb.

Hopefully we'll do a top notch job 100% of the time but we're open to any and all suggestions and critiques etc...it's the only way that we'll know if we're actually getting it right..........

So, thanks again for your support, Beth...it really is greatly appreciated!

Cheers!

Steve.

P.S. Pete: I told you I don't drink out of umbrellas any more....got that?!

 

[Colin]

Its about time that people don't assume that just because you own a guitar that you know how to maintain it. I like the accessible approach that you guys have and loved the video. Thanks Pete and Steve!

-Beth

Great point Beth. It's a bit like just because you can drive a car doesn't mean you can change the oil and plugs.

 

[SteveB]

I love all the videos you folks at OVRDRVN have been posting. I wish you'd been around 24 years ago when I was starting out! Still, I find the videos useful and entertaining. Keep up the good work! I'm really enjoying the chicken pickin' lessons, as that's an area of playing that I know nothing about.

 

[nocluejimbo]

Great point Beth. It's a bit like just because you can drive a car doesn't mean you can change the oil and plugs.

I can understand maintenance like setting intonation and installing nuts would be akin to that, but I feel something as rudimentary as changing strings is more like pumping your own gas.

 

[Monty Billocks]

Again, it's 'dangerous' to assume that everybody knows how to do these things with their eyes closed.....

Remember there was a time in your life that you'd neither restrung a guitar OR pumped anyone's gas.....

Steve.

 

[pack-rat]

hey guys

love your vids

keep em coming

 

[Monty Billocks]

Thanks, pack-rat!!!

Steve.

 

[lumberjack]

Hey Steve,

Read your post. Thanks for the info on the Ibanez. Very cool guitar.

P.S. Love the videos
Thanks,
Scott

 

[Monty Billocks]

Thanks lumberjack,

It seemed the best guitar for the purposes of the demo video....white paint gives good contrast to show black hex wrenches and black bolts etc well, right?

I could have used a swirl or something but I don't think that would have helped the situation!!!

Steve.

 

[jaxadam]

If I were to guess at what I could do an all-strings-off string change from "in tune to in tune" and ready to play in.....timewise...I'd think 2 to 2.5 minutes. And that would be without scratching anything (not even the guitar!).........

Wow, 2 minutes... That's pretty good.

Well, I guess if you have it up on the block ready to go, it's possible. It still takes me a little longer than that.

I can do probably two minutes on my hard tails, but not my floyds.

And, I love the FS-1. Probably my single coil of choice.

 

[jappy]

Two minutes?!

Gosh I really have to work on my string changes. Took me 2 hours on a regular guitar last time. Admittedly I don't have a tripod thingy and was trying to change strings on a bed with my legs wrapped around the guitar to stop it from moving around!

 

[Monty Billocks]

You've gotta remember that this is what I do for a living and have done for the better part of 20 years....so, I've been getting some practise in!

Jappy, are you sure that you weren't playing Twister at the same time? If your bed is white with large coloured circles on it...that'd be the problem!!!!

All the best,

Steve.

 

[jappy]

Haha thanks for the tip