Shit, yeah baby.
I found it.
Alright, so I was actually looking if I had a Dimebag set
and I had one, yes.
What's up everyone? And welcome to My Guitar.
The video series where I give one of my guitars some love.
Some well-deserved love.
Guitars need to come out of their guitar cases sometimes
and get some love and affection.
And this particular guitar right here has been hanging on my wall in the other room.
It's been a while since I gave this guitar a little bit of love.
So, I figured I would just
you know, it's time to polish it up, change some strings, and...
make it sound good again.
Because it's... I think these strings...
They sound pretty dead to me.
So, what is this guitar, you might ask.
Well, this is the Washburn ST Pro.
They made a couple of different variations.
They also had a black one which I had, but I sold.
These are basically high-spec'd import versions
of the Washburn Dimebag guitars, so...
Basically how you would spec up a US custom shop for instance.
But made in Korea in this case, I think it's Korea.
Where is it made?
It doesn't say where it's made.
I think they were made in Korea.
And look at this thing, man.
I guess you have some sort of mahogany body
but you have a flamed maple top
or veneer, right there.
If it would have been a top, you would see how on the carves right here
how the top would go into the carve a little bit
if it was a thicker top.
But this is a veneer, so it stops just as the bevel starts right there.
But they solved this by doing a red burst around it all
which looks really sick, I must say.
Pickup-wise you have a Seymour Duncan Dimebucker right there.
Seymour Duncan 59.
You have this beautiful back right there.
And also this guitar is Buzz Feiten'd.
So I will have to remember to tune it with the Buzz Feiten method.
Buzz Feiten is a way of compensating at the nut right here
and then you tune in a specific way.
The point with that is that it was supposed to remove some of the tuning problems with...
or intonation problems, rather
over the guitar fretboard.
Because you know, guitars aren't perfect.
But the nice thing is that when you introduce something like the Buzz Feiten
you might get perfect tuning and intonation in one way
but it also raises other problems as well, so...
There is no perfect way
unless it's really like True Temperament fretboard.
That's probably as close as perfection as we will get.
When you have True Temperament fretboard.
And compensating the nut...
Uh... depends.
This particular guitar right here is ding'd up.
I bought it for a fairly good price back in the day
because it has a couple of dings on the...
on the different wings and whatnot.
And the funny thing now is that
even these import models are sold for about 2 grand.
I've seen 'em up to 3 grand even.
Which is insane for an import model.
I think that will all die down a little bit soon.
At least I hope so, because I--
I think the prices are ridiculous, basically.
Anyways, I'm gonna destring this guitar
and put on this new...
DR Strings Dimebag set right there.
That's a 0.09 to 0.50.
In terms of string--
String-- String gauge.
OK, so something that is completely different
from my US custom shop for instance, is that
the routing for the Floyd Rose bridge
is just semi-routed, so...
Usually you get a hole that's probably like a centimeter.
No, maybe not a centimeter, but like 8 millimeter thick
that goes down, so it's...
You know, there's room for the bridge to go up and down a little bit.
On the ST Pro you don't really have that.
The cavity is maybe like...
I don't know.
10 millimeters or something.
So you don't have the same leverage
when you wanna do the dive bombs for instance.
It stops right there.
However, it's protecting the body a little bit
because it has this small padding down there.
But you still can't do like the absolute craziest
Dimebag squeals and you know, bends, with this one.
Which is... I've always thought that was weird.
I have no idea why they made these like that.
I really don't, but--
The good thing about this is that
I can change the strings without blocking off the bridge.
Which is great, but I can still block off the bridge by doing this.
I'll put a little Hosco, made in Japan.
Boom, like that.
So, gives slack on the strings.
Ready to go, baby.
I've had this guitar for a while.
And you've probably seen it in a bunch of my videos.
Mainly Dimebag-related videos.
Drag The Waters I played on this guitar.
Uh... and uh... yeah.
What else? Yesterday Don't Mean Shit, maybe.
That I did with Delta.
It's a really good-playing guitar
it also has that V-shape neck.
It has this really big volute at the back right there, and the--
The neck is slightly V-shaped.
Classic Dimebag.
On most import models, Washburn and Dean guitars
they weren't V-shaped, they were just round, regular necks basically.
So it's nice to see that touch on this import.
I think when--
When these were new I think they were about like 1,200 bucks.
Something like that, so...
High-spec'd import models.
I can immediately feel that these tuners are a little loose.
That's OK.
Ooh, that's a thick bastard, I rem--
I don't remember what song I played with this.
I think I might have done Underground In America on this guitar.
And that one used a really thick low string
that Dimebag tuned down to... what did he tune it down to?
Like F#? Like an 8-string, basically.
Or it was an octave lower, like an--
E one octave lower.
Maybe something like that, I don't remember.
So that's why I might have that thick string on there.
This desk is not ergonomic for me, I must say.
I've used this desk a couple of times now, for my videos.
And I feel it's not good for me.
I'm bending over like a little bitch right now.
I have to be careful with shit like that, man.
When you get older, shit starts to hurt.
The block that holds onto the string
sometimes gets stuck.
So sometimes you have to wiggle a little bit with that.
Because right now this is completely loose.
But the block is still stuck against the...
I have to jiggle a little bit.
OK, this one is completely stuck.
How do you solve that, Ola Englund the Swede?
Well, you can either take something blunt, a blunt object.
And hammer it a little bit.
Let me just unscrew this a little bit.
And maybe we get a little bit more leverage to the block.
You know when your penis gets stuck in things?
That's the feeling I have right now.
It's just stuck there and you can't get it out.
Maybe if I rescrew it back...
it will align the block.
And it will be loose.
Alright, it's time for the man bun.
You know what that means.
It means that Ola is getting pissed.
This is a Washburn licensed bridge, by the way.
Made by Schaller.
There you go.
F**** off.
So what I'm doing right now, I'm just taking off
the Screwy McScrewface, so I can pull off this little bullshit right here.
And I can see what's going on.
I can probably push this around a little bit
now that I have it loose.
I'm-- OK, I got it out.
The string is out at least.
Now I have to realign the little saddle-face right there.
Wow, this bridge needs a f**** cleaning.
And also, that reminds me I should clean off this guitar before I put new strings on it.
Because it's f**** dirty, man.
Look at that shit.
There's shit on this bridge right there.
And that's the thing about Floyd Rose bridges.
They f**** suck donkey dick.
When it comes to intonating.
I mean, if you compare it to an Evertune bridge.
Evertune bridge is probably the absolute best
guitar and bridge for intonation.
You can keep the guitar in the same tuning.
And still adjust the intonation without the guitar going out of tune.
Or you know, the string going out of tune.
So, that's just like the perfect way of intonating.
But on this asshole right here, because--
Floating bridges are affected by the tension,
everything you do...
tension-wise, on the saddle
or you know, behind, or change other tunings of the strings,
it will affect the tuning of the guitar.
So, intonating on a Floyd Rose is...
I wouldn't say it's a nightmare, but it just sucks more than on other guitars.
Alright, let me bring out some...
Some of my polishing products, what do we have?
Spray polish, let's go.
Oh, look at that.
♫ Spray... ♫
♫ Spray. ♫
♫ Lick my balls and eat my shit. ♫
Have you seen the Vikings?
You know, the show.
Louise is completely sold on that show.
I think she's been watching--
She's on her third run-through of that whole series.
It's a good intro song, though.
♫ Lick my dong and eat my shit ♫
OK, the body looks good.
I'm gonna do something about the fretboard too.
So, we got these.
The Dunlop fretboard cleaner and prep.
This is...
A very very dry fretboard.
That's OK, I'm gonna--
There's even like... there's gunk inside.
There's usually small little cavities on rosewood, on boards in general
where shit can go inside, and...
there's a lot of shit on this, let's say that.
I don't think it's my shit.
It was like this when I got it.
Because my shit ain't green.
I mean, whatever's in here, it's green.
So, it's old gunk that turned f****
neon green for some reason, I don't know why.
Cleaned off, let's...
make some babies.
With this, the Deep Conditioner.
Look at that.
It's just soaking it in, it's...
It's thirsty, man, it's thirsty.
Oooh.
So, this is a 24 and--
24.75" scale length on this guitar.
A 0.09 set would probably be very, very... if you--
Like, it would be very, very bendy
on the high E
on this guitar, but--
You know, I like thin strings, so it's gonna be good.
Look at that, that's a darkened fretboard right there.
That looks good, man, that looks good.
You're probably asking "Why are you using the same cloth
for both the body and the fretboard?"
"I mean, you're using oil on the fretboard, why would you use the same--"
It's a good question, actually.
Oh, shit, we have to give the head a little love too.
Hello, head, how are you doing?
Looking good.
Oh, yeah, we need to tighten these tuners as well.
That's gonna happen in a bit.
Don't you just like this? This is therapy session for Ola.
It's chilling, man, just chilling.
Love it.
Well, I'm glad this happened, because now...
That was extremely loose.
This is not a big problem, that they get loose
Usually... you know, it's wood, man. Wood moves
And parts like this, they need adjusting occasionally.
So, if you feel like
"Oh, why do I have to adjust this?"
Or like tighten the--
the washers here.
It's like, you know, that's just how it is, it's a guitar, man.
OK.
Now comes the fun part.
Setting the Floyd Rose bridge
and balancing the bridge so it's absolutely perfect
for whatever strings I'm using.
And the tuning.
This guitar doesn't have locking tuners, but that's OK.
See? I'm putting my thumb right there
to keep the tension there, so...
I can just...
Oh, that went so well.
It's a little thin on the first string here.
Uh... the--
It's always the thinner strings that are a little bit of a problem, but that's OK.
That's a string.
OK, then we have the 4th string, so we have to do the 4th string
before everything else.
Cutting off the head.
Head of the snake.
Ow.
The fuck was that?
Oh, it's a piece of string.
Oh, I stepped on a piece of string, that didn't hurt at all.
Oh, I lost the other string.
F**** hell, this is going so well.
So, this is a string set that has
you know, thin upper strings.
They have the high E
and then they have a little thicker of the bottom strings, so...
The bottom string is a 0.50
which is heavy
for standard E.
But...
That's cool, man.
It's for the riffing.
And with a shorter scale length like this, you need a little bit of thicker low end.
Because otherwise it's gonna be really flubby down there.
But the good thing about shorter scale length, for you beginners out there
is that it's actually a little bit easier to play.
Uh... because there's a shorter distance between the frets.
So, a little bit of a beginner tip right there.
If you feel like, you know, your strat is fairly hard to play
and you know, I kinda wanna stretch--
It feels like I'm stretching my fingers way too much.
Try a Les Paul, man.
Try a Les Paul.
OK, so now the strings are on.
But this is still on here, the block.
So I'm gonna let this go really carefully.
Like that.
So I won't bust a nut all over my own gui--
my guitar, you know?
We have this now.
Great, it's in tune, man.
Alright.
I'm tuning this to E.
That was the D string.
Maybe it's time for me to actually change out this bridge completely.
OK, what was this? This was a 0.28
Well, thank god that I have a box full of 0.28 strings.
Yeah, this is fucking...
Oh shit, no, there's a piece of string in there still.
What happened?
So, what I think happened is that there was probably a piece of string left in here.
And as I was tightening the block
that little piece of string was probably not making the new string
uh... fixated.
So, as soon as I put some kind of tension on that string right there...
the new string, it just popped.
This is the problem right there.
I don't know if you can see this on the block, but...
I'm not sure if you can see this, but on the block right there
There's a piece of string that's completely flattened out on that block.
Let's see if I can get rid of this, this is like...
This is pressed to the block.
And this is not supposed to happen.
It's probably because it's not...
not the best quality of block.
But I-- I am getting it off right now.
Very interesting, I never actually had that happening to me
but these blocks are so f**** up.
And you know, these saddles might not be best quality, from Schaller.
Since it's a licensed one, it's probably not the ab--
You know, it's not the best.
I mean, this is what's fun about guitars, man.
Just fixing things.
I love that part about it, you know?
I probably need to...
tighten the Floyd bridge a little bit at the back.
So I tighten the springs just to bring back
the bridge a little bit.
So, I tighten this a little bit.
Not too much, because it wasn't that big of an issue, or big of a problem.
And since I did tighten the springs at the back
that means that the strings go sharp.
So I just have to release them.
And when I'm releasing them
the bridge will fall back.
And position to a much more flatter position.
And that is a flat bridge right there.
So, now...
So, now comes the very exciting part where I just stretch the strings
all over the place, and just, you know...
tune the guitar like a f**** million times.
So there you go.
I'm gonna bring this into the other room and I'm gonna play it for a little while.
It's gonna be amazing.
Alright, alright, so I'm back here in this room.
I'm using an Archetype Plini plugin right now
with my Dimed impulse response
that you get from my website, olaenglundshop.com
And this is the guitar right here, sounds like this.
OK, actually I wanna change out the sound.
Because this is not a good tone.
Holds the tuning pretty well.
And obviously I've locked the locking nut and all.
But knowing that the strings are fairly new, even though I stretched them
it's a Floyd Rose, you know? They should go out of tune fairly easy.
This guitar is tuned to standard 440 now.
So it's tuned like it is on the Cowboys From Hell album
which was in 440 and standard E
but on the other albums they tuned down to D.
And they used 425 Hz as a reference for when tuning.
But this is basically like the Cowboys From Hell tuning right here.
Doom.
This phasing lead that I have is made in the Gojira plugin
so I have a phaser happening right now, it's pretty cool.
Fuck.
That's how you play it.
Oh shit, my camera ran out of footage right there.
So I'm gonna say that's My Guitar video for you right there.
Hope you enjoyed it.
That's the Washburn ST Pro.
And it's a beautiful guitar, man.
Love to play it, and...
Hope you liked this video.
And I'll see you...
in the next one, OK?
OK? Goodbye--
I'm just following the camera, because the main camera is out of...
Uhm... memory.
So...
Goodbye.