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Professional techniques for Fender, Gibson or Martin-style guitars
Dan's new DVD makes a tricky job much easier. You'll see how to do professional work on Gibsons, Fenders and Martins, three very different types of nut work. This video lesson covers all of the information you'd get if you could train personally with Dan Erlewine in his repair shop. Nut making is bread-and-butter work for the professional shop, and getting it right makes your customers happy. Every bit as important as neck adjustments and fret work, it's a key part of every guitar setup.
The whole process is presented: removing the old nut, making a top-quality replacement nut, and final shaping, polishing and installation.
(about 60 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on March 17, 2005 in Lutherie.
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This DVD was helpful to me. I'm new to guitar setups and this material is helping me to upgrade an Epiphone EJ-200 I got a month ago. I'm doing a new nut a new saddle and new bridge pins which I got all made of TUSQ. This stuff really sounds better then the cheap plastic which came on my Ephiphone. Be careful selecting material when making a new nut.Tools can be expensive. I got a bunch of cheap nut material to pratice on in addition to a nice little vise and a set of needle files. Shop around carefully and you can do this cheap. For tools check out www.harborfreight.com not a guitar tool place but I got files and a digital caliper cheaper there then I could find anywhere else, besides I like thier stores for good cheap tools period. Good deal renting this video here. I highly reccomend them for fast delivery and saving me $40+ in buying the DVD.
Again another DVD by Dan that I really likes. You just can't learn this stuff in a book. Dan is very thorough in his explanations. Seeing the nut removed from different types of guitar and what to look out for you just cannot get this anywhere else. I don't want to have to go to an expensive seminar or school to learn how to do something this basic. My only goal is to maintain and do simple fixes on my guitars and this is in that category. Like right now I have a guitar that was setup with low action and extra light strings. I want to move up to light and I need a new nut.
I also rented the Fret Basics and, as with that one, I found this one to be fraught with out of focus close ups.
Very good. I just wish Dan did an acoustic guitar so that you could compare two different actions.
Good Stuff!---I am SO GLAD I watched this DVD before I began. There is so much more to it, that you even imagined. Don't mess up your guitar before you watch this! This would be a BIG thumbs up!---------------JIMO
Well done and filmed. Narrow in scope, but detailed.
As with most Dan Erlewine videos, this one is superb. He makes clear the difference between a mediocre job and a professional job comes down to minute details such as the extensive preliminary preparation to avoid chipping the finish when removing the nut, cutting the slots to thousandths of an inch precision, and shaping and polishing the nut to a beautiful, lustrous shine.
The video gets only a 4 out of 5 because it is a bit too short (1 hour) to warrant the $50 it lists for at the time of this writing. However, it is definitely worth the much more reasonable price it costs to rent it from SmartFlix.
Dan is an icon among guitar builders and repairmen! He's built or rebuilt guitars for everybody from Carlos Santana to....you name it. His videos and books are among the best there is and this video is no exception! In simple, easy to understand terms and clear, well produced video images, Dan takes you through nut evaluation, removal, choosing material, fabrication, installation and slotting so even a beginner like me could understand it. Highly recommended!
It ain't rocket science, but if you don't know what to do, you can mess up a guitar. Dan is a master and watching him is like having a private lesson. Replacing the factory nut with a progressively spaced bone nut is the most effective modification you can do. With a few simple tools anyone can make their guitar play better. Great video.
