For some reason I have to think of Seasick Steve. Steve plays (you probably know) on broom sticks and hubcabs with pick ups, sort of bolted together. Sounds great to my ear 😊
Around 2010ish Encore made a telecaster It was the business... At the time £99... Brand new. Big fan of rebuilding stuff... Love these vids Dave breathing life Into Otherwise land fill candidates.
You know the funny thing about it is... I use the same toolbox as Dave... As well as his water pump wrench method for the pots. I've been doing so since I was 14 with the same wrench.
That guitar waited years and years for someone who could listen like you. Some day, when I give up on the guitar, I'll donate my gear to you. You'll do the things justice.
I get the happy thing. I love it when I bring a guitar back to life. It’s like it’s happy to be in the hands of someone who appreciates it. I can play with it for hours. Then, you want the recipient to feel the same. There’s no such thing as a bad guitar. Just work on it ‘till it sings.
Old Japanese and Korean Les Paul copies have become some of my favorite guitars to find. Interesting neck profiles on them too, my Ibanez gold top has a soft v that I love compared to epiphone/gibson.
Hey Dave, just speaking for myself, I really appreciate your videos fixing things and showing how they are made etc. I suppose some others prefer the music 🎼 which is always great but sometimes it’s interesting to watch you make a guitar 🎸 work again. On this video I learned about the tuners. I’ve seen those on a few guitars but didn’t know what they were. Thanks for showing them. Also you did a great job cleaning it. It doesn’t look at all like trash 🗑. Nice work. 🎸🎵💛
I started on an Encore p bass. Bought progressively more expensive basses after that and they never sounded as good. They were the Squier Classic Vibes of the day.
Dave - Greetings from Sleaford Lincs. I do a lot of local guitar repairs / set ups and have handled a couple of Encore Lps over the years which are actually not bad players. The body is usually made of basswood which as you will know is found on cheap guitars you might find in Lidl at Xmas right up to Ibanez Jems and EVH Wolfgangs. I would love to have a jam with you someday - from one Hendrix / Trower lover to another. Regards - Phil.
Alright, I watched the video through and the guitar sounds great! I'm happy for your good fortune! I'm sure you'll get the frets sorted and the guitar will serve you well!
I have a late 90's encore single pickup superstrat style w/ a floyd rose rip. Its 8 ply plywood plays like a telegraph pole and weighs about as much too.
There's a lot of fun and satisfaction in renovating a guitar - even a really cheap one. I've got a HB DC Junior in pelham blue that I have modded mechanically a lot: lower intonatable bridge, locking tuners, schaller strap locks, pickup spacer height raiser, sanded back of neck, changed screws to get an all blacked out look on the scratch plate and P90 cover - I didn't want chrome or nickel - just black and blue. It's a gem now for less than £200. Dave, you would love it! A point about locking tuners that you may agree with - they are for quicker and easier string change and not tuning stability. I will never part with it because 2nd hand, it's worth about £120 but to me it's a great looker and player now. I LOVE P90s! You rescue that Encore feller but stay the hell away from those bloody awful Satellite guitar things man! 🤑
Fabulous video as per usual, Mr Dave. I do like me a project video and one with it seems a happy ending. I was late watching cause I spent many hours yesterday looking at guitars and amps that I don't need, don't have space for and can't afford. Some might say time wasted but not me. I stayed strong though, didn't buckle under the force. proud of me you would be. I need to stop typing like I am Yoda but once you start down the dark path of guitar gear googling, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.
Same guitar i have bought mine for £80 it was in a bad state been in someone's attic for last 10 years but sounds so good , I also did the bolt on neck on mine as if it breaks or warps no problem just change the neck
Ok, I need to know what amp to buy. Orange crush 60 or a Peavey red stripe bandit 112 or the peavey bandit 112 that are being made now? Both i have to order so I cant hear them side by side.
Awesome video! I have never heard of Encore guitars! It really helps to know how to work on your own guitars, I resurrected my 1994 Peavy Reactor (Tele-style guitar, one of the first CNC machined if I recall correctly) had a bad connection in the wiring harness (tension on things that are at rest always fascinates me!) that took about 10 minutes to fix: 5min to look up the wiring diagram, and 5min for my soldering iron to heat up and me take everything apart, solder the connection and put everything back together. I probably saved $50USD.
On My recent purchase of a brand new Fender Strat player which I got at a very good price it came brand new in a box but set up the action why to high and intonation was wrong. So I looked YT for information and put a capo on the first fret and on the 12 fret pressed down the low e string and on the 6 fret place a 006 feeler gauge and turned the truss rod until just only the feeler gauge could just about slip through. I always thought the neck should be straight and it seems not to be the case
I've seen a lot of Les Paul copies with a busted pickup switch. If a guitar is structurally sound and the neck is straight, everything else can be fixed/improved. I love to see videos like this one! Great video - I remain a big fan of this channel.
The Encore brand is sold here in the Czech Republic, the prices are reasonable, I have one SG from them. The guitars don't look bad, the quality is proportional to the price. Greetings Pavel CZ👍👍👍
One more question kind of related, whilst cleaning my Antiquity L1 I'm wanting to replace the tuners as they really let down the guitar(not holding tune) in your experience do I have to have specific tuners or will any decent branded machine heads do the job?
I am pretty frugal but even I wouldn't have kept those tuning keys! Other than that, the guitar looks great! I haven't watched all the way through the video yet, but I had to say something about those tuners, I've never had good experiences with those!
Hey Dave I've got an Interesting Japanese Les Paul copy in my loft in a case. It's hollow bodied finished in tobacco sunburst and has a zero fret. It has no name but the headstock is cut open book like a gibson. My older brother bought it in 1972 second hand and gave it to me about 15 years ago in a sorry state. I basically put it all back together and it plays great Most people that have played it offer me money for it. Maybe you could do review?
Dave I have an old 70’s guitar that I rescued from a mates loft after he passed. Being clever I thought I’d take it apart to sort it out. Strings were rusted to some frets and it’s a mess. I’ve been told it was a good make ? It’s a Hayman 3030. Thoughts ? ❤
sweet guitar mate! looks like a studio version there... dimarzio clone pups possibly? this reminds me of my ibanez GAX70 that i won at a goodwill online auction for 51USD....she was in sad shape...everything was loose... after a good cleaning and some artec59(chrome humbuckers) pups she sings sweet now! actually one of my faves! i clearcoated over the chips with clear fingernail polish as to save the "battlescars"....this one is a keeper! i made a short film demonstrating the sounds of it too....
Encore - an unreachable step up from the cheap rubbish I could afford in the 70's . Got to play a friends one once but cut my hand getting too enthusiastic and bled all over it lol. The modern ones by JHS are half decent.
Dave, this is a weird question. You have so much gear, how do you not feel like *you're drowning* surrounded by so much stuff? Physically there's the space it all take up and then the time to upkeep it all? It might just be a phobia I have.
love that little Honorable LES PAUL i ll swape a Black PickGuard for it for a more Stealthy effect if you know what i mean my good Sir SUGGEST you to get my BLACK BEAUTY CUSTOM EPIPHONE version that came out about 3 years ago a more affordable epic guitar that truly deserves all the attention same goes for the Black custom SG version of it happy to own them both
btw what Brand is this LP ? i mean is not a Giby neither EPI ? edit: Oh ENCORE I see also look for more under appreciated brands such KNAGGS and FIREFLY
Dave as I respect your opinion , and not based on this video, would you possibly have any recommendations for online guitar tutors for me? I've been looking for ages but I don't have money to waste and therefore would very much appreciate some trusted advice.
Check out Scott Paul Johnson, or Brian Kelley ( Zombie guitar ). Both good instructors and have RUclips channels. Not sure how much they charge though. Good luck 🤞🤞
Encore guitars get a bad rap because the "C" is silent in that statement. Seriously though the Strats they sell are absolute Pony. I've been given severa lin the past All very bad and on all the fretboard was literally painted on. You can sand all the paint of back to what I presume is maple or something similar, level the frets refile the nut set the action and likely have to shim the neck, then set them up and they will play very well for a couple of weeks, and then the temperature changes the neck all goes out of align and you're back where you started. Have to say though Encores do uses better wood than some of the super cheap Chinese guitars that won't even burn properly.
I really enjoy fixit videos because I’m very mechanical ⚙️ by nature. Actually, a gearhead. I’ve never heard of that brand of guitar. It looks great after cleaning 🧼. Sometimes those off brands can be real gems. If it feels good you can change everything if necessary to make it sound the way you want but I don’t think you have very far to go with that one. I’m puzzled by the twisting of the red wire. I can’t figure out how or why that happened. Weird. Good to see you enjoying yourself doing something productive. I can’t wait for the video of you playing the finished guitar ✅. 👍☮️🌞🎸🎵🩵
And Master Dave said, "Come, abandoned orphan child and through my hands you will live again...and you will sing."
How you know you’re an exceptional guitar player: you pick up a knackered old encore and make it sound like a vintage Gibson burst! 😊
Saturday morning, this video is a perfect start for this sunny day. Thank you.
Dr Encorestein.. She's Alive.. Alive!! An Encore was my first guitar at 7 years old pitty my skill level hasn't progressed much since then.
They sound amazing i will put my Gary Moore Parisienne walkways video up you will be surprised how good those Encore Humbuckers were
Dude you can make any guitar sound awesome, I'm honestly convinced of that.
For some reason I have to think of Seasick Steve.
Steve plays (you probably know) on broom sticks and hubcabs with pick ups, sort of bolted together.
Sounds great to my ear 😊
Another abused guitar finds a home! Heartwarming Brother Dave.👍🏻
Around 2010ish
Encore made a telecaster
It was the business...
At the time £99...
Brand new.
Big fan of rebuilding stuff...
Love these vids
Dave breathing life Into
Otherwise land fill candidates.
I think you can use a little bit strong locktite fluid on the screws on the tuners so the screws dont come off, it works.😊
You know the funny thing about it is... I use the same toolbox as Dave... As well as his water pump wrench method for the pots. I've been doing so since I was 14 with the same wrench.
Tobacco burst LP with the covers taken off and white pickup covers just screams Ace Frehley tribute guitar.
what a great way to start my day- Thanks Dave
All guitars need a good home we have many rescue guitars
That guitar waited years and years for someone who could listen like you. Some day, when I give up on the guitar, I'll donate my gear to you. You'll do the things justice.
Massive thumbs up to Crimson Guitars….. superb stuff! 👍👍👍
Great Video as Always! Been following you for a long time now and its a joy to follow you and watch youre channel! Keep up the good work
I get the happy thing. I love it when I bring a guitar back to life. It’s like it’s happy to be in the hands of someone who appreciates it. I can play with it for hours. Then, you want the recipient to feel the same. There’s no such thing as a bad guitar. Just work on it ‘till it sings.
The Guitar has a decent sustain unplugged. I'm sure you have a good guitar there, Dave. 👍
Shout out from Canada! We think you're the man over here. If I'm ever in the UK I'm coming to check out red giant 🤘
Old Japanese and Korean Les Paul copies have become some of my favorite guitars to find. Interesting neck profiles on them too, my Ibanez gold top has a soft v that I love compared to epiphone/gibson.
Hey Dave, just speaking for myself, I really appreciate your videos fixing things and showing how they are made etc. I suppose some others prefer the music 🎼 which is always great but sometimes it’s interesting to watch you make a guitar 🎸 work again. On this video I learned about the tuners. I’ve seen those on a few guitars but didn’t know what they were. Thanks for showing them. Also you did a great job cleaning it. It doesn’t look at all like trash 🗑. Nice work. 🎸🎵💛
The Guitar fixer Doctor Dave does it again breathing life into another six string! My favourite video when you revive a near dead guitar thanks Mr S!🙂
Great work Dave!! Love these kind of videos! These types of guitars just need some love and attention. 🤘🏻
you gotta love the easy fixes that jump right out at you! Sounds good Dave!
I started on an Encore p bass. Bought progressively more expensive basses after that and they never sounded as good. They were the Squier Classic Vibes of the day.
Dave - Greetings from Sleaford Lincs.
I do a lot of local guitar repairs / set ups and have handled a couple of Encore Lps over the years which are actually not bad players. The body is usually made of basswood which as you will know is found on cheap guitars you might find in Lidl at Xmas right up to Ibanez Jems and EVH Wolfgangs.
I would love to have a jam with you someday - from one Hendrix / Trower lover to another.
Regards - Phil.
Dave, Get Er Done Man, A Great Video Here thanks, Cousin Figel
Dave Simpson; Patron Saint to all unloved, unwanted, and discarded guitars. Good on ya mate. Love the fix 'em up vids! 😁🎸
Great video Sir Dave. Love these kind of videos. I had a black one of these a few years ago when I was getting back into guitar. Great little guitar 🎸
Alright, I watched the video through and the guitar sounds great! I'm happy for your good fortune! I'm sure you'll get the frets sorted and the guitar will serve you well!
if the necks straight and frets dont buzz, they usually play well. i like encores..Yorkshire made.
Those uncovered Gibson style humbuckers look amazing!!!
Looks like DiMarzio pickups in that thing.
dave has activated cheat codes to make any guitar sound glorious!
I have a late 90's encore single pickup superstrat style w/ a floyd rose rip. Its 8 ply plywood plays like a telegraph pole and weighs about as much too.
There's a lot of fun and satisfaction in renovating a guitar - even a really cheap one. I've got a HB DC Junior in pelham blue that I have modded mechanically a lot: lower intonatable bridge, locking tuners, schaller strap locks, pickup spacer height raiser, sanded back of neck, changed screws to get an all blacked out look on the scratch plate and P90 cover - I didn't want chrome or nickel - just black and blue. It's a gem now for less than £200. Dave, you would love it! A point about locking tuners that you may agree with - they are for quicker and easier string change and not tuning stability. I will never part with it because 2nd hand, it's worth about £120 but to me it's a great looker and player now. I LOVE P90s!
You rescue that Encore feller but stay the hell away from those bloody awful Satellite guitar things man! 🤑
Fabulous video as per usual, Mr Dave. I do like me a project video and one with it seems a happy ending. I was late watching cause I spent many hours yesterday looking at guitars and amps that I don't need, don't have space for and can't afford. Some might say time wasted but not me. I stayed strong though, didn't buckle under the force. proud of me you would be. I need to stop typing like I am Yoda but once you start down the dark path of guitar gear googling, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.
Same guitar i have bought mine for £80 it was in a bad state been in someone's attic for last 10 years but sounds so good , I also did the bolt on neck on mine as if it breaks or warps no problem just change the neck
I have faith Dave will bring it back from the dead💀🤣👍😁
I really like the way that guitar looks!!
What a fantastic video have a good weekend Dave ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
Dave you should apply for a job at "The Repair Shop" another lost cause brought back from the flames..... Well done that Man!!!
More!!!
Ok, I need to know what amp to buy. Orange crush 60 or a Peavey red stripe bandit 112 or the peavey bandit 112 that are being made now? Both i have to order so I cant hear them side by side.
Oh yeah Encore are a guitar brand .I'm not sure what I was expecting lol
Awesome video! I have never heard of Encore guitars! It really helps to know how to work on your own guitars, I resurrected my 1994 Peavy Reactor (Tele-style guitar, one of the first CNC machined if I recall correctly) had a bad connection in the wiring harness (tension on things that are at rest always fascinates me!) that took about 10 minutes to fix: 5min to look up the wiring diagram, and 5min for my soldering iron to heat up and me take everything apart, solder the connection and put everything back together. I probably saved $50USD.
On My recent purchase of a brand new Fender Strat player which I got at a very good price it came brand new in a box but set up the action why to high and intonation was wrong.
So I looked YT for information and put a capo on the first fret and on the 12 fret pressed down the low e string and on the 6 fret place a 006 feeler gauge and turned the truss rod until just only the feeler gauge could just about slip through.
I always thought the neck should be straight and it seems not to be the case
One of my first guitars was one just like this but in black. Didn’t sound like that though!
I have one of those, sounds ok for my playing
Dave to the rescue
I've seen a lot of Les Paul copies with a busted pickup switch. If a guitar is structurally sound and the neck is straight, everything else can be fixed/improved. I love to see videos like this one! Great video - I remain a big fan of this channel.
The Encore brand is sold here in the Czech Republic, the prices are reasonable, I have one SG from them. The guitars don't look bad, the quality is proportional to the price. Greetings Pavel CZ👍👍👍
Furch guitars are amazing!
@@MultiCugel Yes, they are beautiful musical instruments, they are made about +- 70 km from where I live. Greetings Pavel CZ.👍👍👍
Best wishes to you from UK 😃👍@@user-wv1ef2my2t
One more question kind of related, whilst cleaning my Antiquity L1 I'm wanting to replace the tuners as they really let down the guitar(not holding tune) in your experience do I have to have specific tuners or will any decent branded machine heads do the job?
I’m not sure to be honest. It depends on the hole size in the headstock.
I am pretty frugal but even I wouldn't have kept those tuning keys! Other than that, the guitar looks great! I haven't watched all the way through the video yet, but I had to say something about those tuners, I've never had good experiences with those!
My first guitar ever was an encore!
I'm sorry to hear that Lol
@@Lamster66 haha £240 from Harrow Music, all my 12 year old Slash dreams were realised.
Boom, another upload :D
Nice Silent Hill 2 background on the Mac
Labor of love!
Yngwie "I taught God how to play guitar" Malmsteen 😝Rick Beato interview. 😁
Hey Dave I've got an Interesting Japanese Les Paul copy in my loft in a case. It's hollow bodied finished in tobacco sunburst and has a zero fret. It has no name but the headstock is cut open book like a gibson. My older brother bought it in 1972 second hand and gave it to me about 15 years ago in a sorry state.
I basically put it all back together and it plays great
Most people that have played it offer me money for it. Maybe you could do review?
Serious finger cheese 😮
Dorset Guitar Museum - Dave's guitars section. Only saying..
Dave I have an old 70’s guitar that I rescued from a mates loft after he passed. Being clever I thought I’d take it apart to sort it out. Strings were rusted to some frets and it’s a mess. I’ve been told it was a good make ? It’s a Hayman 3030. Thoughts ? ❤
Never heard of that make i’m afraid.
Wow. Ok. I've never heard of Encore really
sweet guitar mate!
looks like a studio version there...
dimarzio clone pups possibly?
this reminds me of my ibanez GAX70 that i won at a goodwill online auction for 51USD....she was in sad shape...everything was loose...
after a good cleaning and some artec59(chrome humbuckers) pups she sings sweet now! actually one of my faves!
i clearcoated over the chips with clear fingernail polish as to save the "battlescars"....this one is a keeper! i made a short film demonstrating the sounds of it too....
MDF.medium density fibre board.mine was anyway.
Encore - an unreachable step up from the cheap rubbish I could afford in the 70's . Got to play a friends one once but cut my hand getting too enthusiastic and bled all over it lol. The modern ones by JHS are half decent.
Dave, this is a weird question.
You have so much gear, how do you not feel like *you're drowning* surrounded by so much stuff?
Physically there's the space it all take up and then the time to upkeep it all?
It might just be a phobia I have.
I love it all to much to feel that way. :)
Super glue for a quick fix...
love that little Honorable LES PAUL
i ll swape a Black PickGuard for it
for a more Stealthy effect if you know what i mean my good Sir
SUGGEST you to get my BLACK BEAUTY CUSTOM EPIPHONE version that came out about 3 years ago
a more affordable epic guitar that truly deserves all the attention
same goes for the Black custom SG version of it
happy to own them both
btw what Brand is this LP ? i mean is not a Giby neither EPI ?
edit: Oh ENCORE I see
also look for more under appreciated brands such KNAGGS and FIREFLY
I gotta ask... what the heck Boss Katana head is that!?? Some sort of mod? I've never seen one of those before...
Its an artist rehoused in a custom slp head box. :)
@@thedavesimpson thanks!
When it comes to encores you can polish a turd.
Oh but you can. :)
Dave as I respect your opinion , and not based on this video, would you possibly have any recommendations for online guitar tutors for me? I've been looking for ages but I don't have money to waste and therefore would very much appreciate some trusted advice.
Check out Scott Paul Johnson, or Brian Kelley ( Zombie guitar ). Both good instructors and have RUclips channels. Not sure how much they charge though. Good luck 🤞🤞
I have no idea. I’m sorry.
@@mikestroud9969 Thank-you Mike, I'll check them out.
@@thedavesimpson no harm in asking. Thanks anyway.
Just use a looper n these days u got cheap drum looper from joyo etc
Hey dave, just out of curiosity, what action height do you prefer? And what is the maximum height you feel comfortable playing?
I don’t know really. I don’t go by measurements. I just play around till it feels best.
@@thedavesimpson reasonable enough. Cheers
I like the simple fretboard dot inlays. I always thought Gibson overdid it with the large trapezoid inlays.
Encore guitars get a bad rap because the "C" is silent in that statement.
Seriously though the Strats they sell are absolute Pony. I've been given severa lin the past All very bad and on all the fretboard was literally painted on.
You can sand all the paint of back to what I presume is maple or something similar, level the frets refile the nut set the action and likely have to shim the neck, then set them up and they will play very well for a couple of weeks, and then the temperature changes the neck all goes out of align and you're back where you started. Have to say though Encores do uses better wood than some of the super cheap Chinese guitars that won't even burn properly.
😎👍👍
😎✌👍❤🖖
Result.
I'll never say no to a dirty encore from Dave 😏
I really enjoy fixit videos because I’m very mechanical ⚙️ by nature. Actually, a gearhead. I’ve never heard of that brand of guitar. It looks great after cleaning 🧼. Sometimes those off brands can be real gems. If it feels good you can change everything if necessary to make it sound the way you want but I don’t think you have very far to go with that one. I’m puzzled by the twisting of the red wire. I can’t figure out how or why that happened. Weird. Good to see you enjoying yourself doing something productive. I can’t wait for the video of you playing the finished guitar ✅.
👍☮️🌞🎸🎵🩵
don't call yourself bad names
Its hard not to do when you don’t like yourself.
A disrespected guitar. Some people treat their partners worse.
I garantee you its not plywood almost no guitars are ever made our of plywood.
You want to bet? :)
@@thedavesimpson what brands do you know of? That would be horrible.
↖️Watching Beato interwiev Malmsteen..
Hi 😊👋
Dave, you are nice bloke but unfortunately I am not