He's Lasse, actually. Lived in the neighborhood in the early 80's because there were no jobs in Finland so we emigrated to Sweden for some years at the time. Look. What's the catch ridiculing other's names? Lotta satisfaction? Sorry for being your momma when apparently there was no momma but still think it's cool? Or is this meme thing what works for you?
GG = Callaham Guitars. I don't know if the construction of his block is any different than stock, but there is a delrin insert that holds his bar steady. You don't need that goofy spring that goes inside the bar cavity to keep the bar from bottoming out. The string openings on saddles are a hair longer than stock to prevent bind and lessen breakage. The screw holes on his bridge place are back a little more compared to stock, also, to help prevent bind at the screws.
I know this is super old but the real reason the bridges are upgraded to the callahan guitar bridges is that those fender bridges have a wide vintage string spacing which can lead to the strings being way to close to the edge of the fretboard and the strungs tend to slip off the fretboard .callahan bridges make a bridge with vintage screw hole spacing but a modern narrower string spacing to solve this issue. Fender also makes a bridge called hwy one bridge that does the same. Cheers !
Here's Yngwie playing with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra. Yngwie makes an entrance about five minutes in. Yeah, you can see how scalloped his fretboard is here too. In general, he loves playing harmonic minor scales. ruclips.net/video/Mylvwhy63bk/видео.html
Hey Dave ! Here in the U.K. we have 3 kinds of jazz music , Trad (itional) jazz with clarinet and wind instuments , modern jazz (More electrical), and "What time does the tune start ??" . By the way, you talking about things in your drawers reminded me-- Q What's pink and hangs out your underpants ?" A "Your mother on wash-day" . Cheers all .
Wow I just had the exact same thing on an American Fender! Tangs were so far out I used the block and then rounded off the ends with a file. Took a while. Have a good one.
Nice to see Yngwie still freaks people out to the point where they cry crocodile tears into their pillows at night. BTW I don't doubt Dave's assessment of that guitar but the ones I've played were well-made and nicely set up.
I remember Yngwie opened up for Triumph long ago in the 80's. I was puking in the bathroom because of too much sour mash and he didn't make it any better. Got to see some of Triumph. Lasers hitting me in the eye. LOL.
b minor very solid, extremely well machined. My biggest gripe with the Fender ones are the trem arm socket. The CG is really well made so it goes is perfectly with no wiggle room. The one on the yngwie model is really quite nice, but the CG is even better. HTH
b minor - rolled and milled steel, which is more costly to do than castings or cheap pot metal Fender may use. Try a magnet on your block, it should only stick to real steel which may be good enough without the fancier CG manufacture.
Dave CG is Calaham Guitars. They make really really good hardware for Fender stuff. It's pricey but worth it IMO having used the new trem block and other stuff in a 2007 HWY 1 Strat.
Hi Dave, the Malmsteen does come with machined inserts in the neck.The frets on those guitars were hit and miss,some were fine,others not so much.You'd figure fender would do a little better on the quality control.Anyways Rock on,Peace ! .
keydiver1 yeah Callaham (dang spell check) make top quality vintage spec rolled steel trem block replacements. These are not guaranteed to make any guitar sound that great, they may or may not help but still very nice stuff. Order a short bar along with it those are fun!
I love the color of that guitar and the maple fingerboard. Not sure about the scalloped fingerboard. I’d love to have a telecaster and 51/55 P Bass like that. Reference the virtuoso stuff. I agree. Good memorable songs are more important to me. A guy that does both well is Steve Howe. The Beatles, Stones, Byrd’s, Tom Petty and the Moody Blues are great supporting evidence for this “opinion.”
Hey Dave.love what you do,I have learned a lot from watching your vids. Do you get many explorers in?.Gibson/epiphones/hamer/esp etc. I'm an avid explorer player & wanna know your thoughts on them & how you set them up. Cheers from Scotland.
My Yngwie Strat doesn’t have rough fret edges, the build quality on it is actually quite remarkable, as good as it gets imo... maybe the guy was sold a one off faulty one
I scalloped my 89 Heartfield Ex-1 , Easier to bend strings and to do pull offs but you get used to it and it just feels " normal " until you pick up a normal guitar then you feel your fingertips hitting the fret board and it feels strange !
I always geek over the strat videos. I love the guitar. Total Fender fanboy. But musicians will always be a fanboy of their instruments. It's ok it's an extension of you. I will never get down on your choice of guitar. I'm not that kind of asshole.
Dave you need the $300 Malmsteen neck relief gauge from Stew Mac to set up that guitar. It comes with a free IKEA Swedish meatballs voucher. They don't eat stew in Sweden.
Dave, Does the wood in a solid body tele guitar influence the sound of the guitar itself ? I'm very interested in your opinion Dave, you've heard 1000's of telecasters and stratocasters . I know there are people who take this stuff very seriously and are very opinionated about this. What you reckon Dave ? For instance is a swamp ash tele going to sound different to an alder tele, or a pine tele , or paulownia tele ? As you get older, weight becomes an issue, so a lighter guitar is a better option, but not if the sound is going to suffer. Heavy wood does sustain longer ie old les pauls . I'm just asking about slabs of wood in tele guitars . thanks for your advice dave.. cheers
That fretboard looks WAY scalloped between each of the frets - it's like the fingerboard rises at each fret, not just lay flat with the frets sticking up. What's up with that? Always informative and fun to watch. Thanks for it all.
Let me guess, you couldn't remember any of the songs for the Yngwie show because he shredded so hard it blew your mind? Are you trying to say one should strive to shred as he does if we want an equally memorable performance?
ying vee plays that dark voodoo speed demon stuff... I played a scalloped neck before ,it's like playing air....you don't feel any wood on your fingers
Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck. I remember when I first heard him - I was telling a youngster about John McLaughlin, and the kid said - Oh, you should check out Yngwie - he's much faster! LOL, that guy's a clown.
No one can even mention Malmsteen without saying something bad about him, it's very telling. Instead of celebrating excellence, people look for excuses to complain. It's a lot easier to do than developing skills and knowledge, and it makes you feel better about your own incompetence. Then you wonder why you can't find Americans to do high-skilled work.
My ex brother in law had one of those Japanese pieces of shit. He actually met (ying-vey) on his tour bus in Phoenix. He got (ying-vey) to put a real signature on it then fell on hard times and needed parts for his piece of shit Honda so he pawned it and never picked it back up. So he lost it for $100 lmfao
Fret sprout happens to the best of guitars, especially if you travel around with it. It in no way reflects upon the fit and finish of the axe when purchased.
I'm not sure what the point of this guy's video really is. He's completely stupid sounding but he seems like he's at least capable of doing a setup. I definitely wouldn't drop a guitar off to someone like this.
I couldnt remember one song those guys played...maybe because you are deaf? maybe too notes for your year? maybe because you never listened one single song BEFORE the concert? man i was about to subscribe to your channel for your work with that guitar but that last stupid comment changed my mind. Hope you see an ear doctor. Cheers.
My friends band opened for him last year here in NJ, says he was kind of a dick.. you wern't allowed to make eye contact with him if you were near him.. glad I missed that show
And two soundtechs that we worked with had a very similar experience in dealing with Malmsteen back in the late nineties. Something else that was extremely weird was a pretty effeminate looking young man that he had staying with him during one portion of that tour that was some sort of vaguely titled assistant manager and companion.
Sounds like B.S. to me. I heard those rumors and lies in the 80s and watched every video I can find on youtube from the 80s to now and he's nice in every single one of them. Find me one video of Yngwie being a dick to anyone on youtube. Sure he's sarcastic but he's just kidding around , I think some people misunderstand him.
Here's a few you dummy, do you're research kid. ruclips.net/video/LFMyNQKUH9U/видео.html ruclips.net/video/KcXCqQ_-gMI/видео.html In the last one he actually threatens to kill, lol.
That whole episode was awesome especially the part at the end about not remembering it because nobody remembers that kind of music the virtuoso stuff is a bunch of bulshit everybody knows to write a good song you can walk away singing to yourself is the way to go Keep On Keepin On love your show
The only concert that I ever saw the audience head for the door when the stage lights were still on waiting for an encore. If he did an encore it was to an empty room.
5 springs😥....why????? I use 2 for float and flutter....if a trem can't flutter, its crap....than again the whammy bar and shredding was why I wanted to play, so tune o matics, hard tails, blocked trems and evertunes r blasphemous ☠💀
I saw Yngwie open for Iron Maiden back in the 80's and IMO the guy's in Maiden blew him away with the 1st song they did. I can't remember what the song was but I do remember thinking "Now that's how you rock!" I stayed a huge Maiden fan after that and never gave Yngwie another thought.
Apples and Oranges...I love maiden. But it's three freaking guys only on guitar and probably one of the best bass players ever. (wait...Somewhere back in time , there were just Dave and Adrian. Now add the Stage show with Eddie... I still get it, Maiden blows every other band out of the park.
"Schmenge Malmsteen" is simply enough to keep me coming back for another year.
He's Lasse, actually. Lived in the neighborhood in the early 80's because there were no jobs in Finland so we emigrated to Sweden for some years at the time. Look. What's the catch ridiculing other's names? Lotta satisfaction? Sorry for being your momma when apparently there was no momma but still think it's cool? Or is this meme thing what works for you?
I have really missed your channel for ages now,nice to tune in again :)
Thanks, Dave! 30 years of playing and I've never even seen a scalloped neck in person...
You summed up the shredders perfectly.....love this guy's banter...Keep it up Dave....Greetings from Belfast
Dave throwing some shade. Always love that. Good stuff Davie
As soon as this notification came through I had to see it to hear what Dave thinks of these!
Always loved the colour and sound of this model. Thanks Davey!!
Always a pleasure David! Keep on keeping on. Hope you and yours are well man!
Those scalloped necks come pre-gooched for you. Schmengie Malmstein! Lol just in case there was any doubt you were Canadian. Stan Schmengie!
JEALOUS bitch I see
GG = Callaham Guitars. I don't know if the construction of his block is any different than stock, but there is a delrin insert that holds his bar steady. You don't need that goofy spring that goes inside the bar cavity to keep the bar from bottoming out. The string openings on saddles are a hair longer than stock to prevent bind and lessen breakage. The screw holes on his bridge place are back a little more compared to stock, also, to help prevent bind at the screws.
kick ass work!! you need a hats off for the great work you do.. cheersies!!
I know this is super old but the real reason the bridges are upgraded to the callahan guitar bridges is that those fender bridges have a wide vintage string spacing which can lead to the strings being way to close to the edge of the fretboard and the strungs tend to slip off the fretboard .callahan bridges make a bridge with vintage screw hole spacing but a modern narrower string spacing to solve this issue. Fender also makes a bridge called hwy one bridge that does the same. Cheers !
Another great vid Dave!!
Here's Yngwie playing with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra. Yngwie makes an entrance about five minutes in. Yeah, you can see how scalloped his fretboard is here too. In general, he loves playing harmonic minor scales. ruclips.net/video/Mylvwhy63bk/видео.html
Hey Dave ! Here in the U.K. we have 3 kinds of jazz music , Trad (itional) jazz with clarinet and wind instuments , modern jazz (More electrical), and "What time does the tune start ??" . By the way, you talking about things in your drawers reminded me--
Q What's pink and hangs out your underpants ?" A "Your mother on wash-day" . Cheers all .
Wow I just had the exact same thing on an American Fender! Tangs were so far out I used the block and then rounded off the ends with a file. Took a while. Have a good one.
I know right, should not have to do these things to a "top of the line" Strat
As a Malmsteen fan, I laughed so hard at the beginning
Nice to see Yngwie still freaks people out to the point where they cry crocodile tears into their pillows at night. BTW I don't doubt Dave's assessment of that guitar but the ones I've played were well-made and nicely set up.
I remember Yngwie opened up for Triumph long ago in the 80's. I was puking in the bathroom because of too much sour mash and he didn't make it any better. Got to see some of Triumph. Lasers hitting me in the eye. LOL.
Lol awesome story.
Wicked 👍✌️🎸😎
Nice video. My Malmsteen strat didn’t have close to all these issues.. I sold it recently, just isn’t the most fun to play.
You'd think a $1700+ guitar would have a decent fret job from the factory...
Hammer on Dave!
CG is probably a Callaham bridge. I love that stuff. Have it on several of my strats.
Steven Woolgar Me, too, but w/a Wudtone trem plate. Best Strat replacement trem by a _mile_ ...
What makes the Callaham bridge better than the Fender one? It didn't look much different.
b minor very solid, extremely well machined. My biggest gripe with the Fender ones are the trem arm socket. The CG is really well made so it goes is perfectly with no wiggle room. The one on the yngwie model is really quite nice, but the CG is even better. HTH
b minor - rolled and milled steel, which is more costly to do than castings or cheap pot metal Fender may use. Try a magnet on your block, it should only stick to real steel which may be good enough without the fancier CG manufacture.
Dave CG is Calaham Guitars. They make really really good hardware for Fender stuff. It's pricey but worth it IMO having used the new trem block and other stuff in a 2007 HWY 1 Strat.
Shmenge Malmsteen, nice SCTV reference brother.
LOL! You had me at "shmengie". 😂
The happy wanderers
"Cabbage rolls and Coffee"
JC Smith In his prime... Yngwie was pretty damn good.
Hi Dave, the Malmsteen does come with machined inserts in the neck.The frets on those guitars were hit and miss,some were fine,others not so much.You'd figure fender would do a little better on the quality control.Anyways Rock on,Peace ! .
CG = Callaham Guitars. They make premium replacement parts. I have a set of their saddles on my strat.
C.G = Callahan guitar. Nice quality. They also do nice tunomatics
keydiver1 'CallahaM', isn't it? My CG saddles are in a ziplock bag somewhere coz I got 'Pat Pend.' ones, instead.
keydiver1 yeah Callaham (dang spell check) make top quality vintage spec rolled steel trem block replacements. These are not guaranteed to make any guitar sound that great, they may or may not help but still very nice stuff. Order a short bar along with it those are fun!
I love the color of that guitar and the maple fingerboard. Not sure about the scalloped fingerboard. I’d love to have a telecaster and 51/55 P Bass like that. Reference the virtuoso stuff. I agree. Good memorable songs are more important to me. A guy that does both well is Steve Howe. The Beatles, Stones, Byrd’s, Tom Petty and the Moody Blues are great supporting evidence for this “opinion.”
Actually Ritchie Blackmore did that scalloped thing before Yngvie.
CG might stand for Callaham Guitars. They make premium replacement trems for strats. If it is one of theirs it's a premium unit.
Excellent job as always Dave! Do you recommend getting this guitar with maple or rosewood freatboard?
Mmm scallops are delicious ! Pass me the butter Dave . Thanx
Yngwie!! Yngvie Malmsteen! Yngvie Malmsteen in our van
Hey Dave.love what you do,I have learned a lot from watching your vids.
Do you get many explorers in?.Gibson/epiphones/hamer/esp etc.
I'm an avid explorer player & wanna know your thoughts on them & how you set them up.
Cheers from Scotland.
CG bridge....Callaham Guitar. they make great stuff!
Is .004 what Dave likes to set the relief at?? Jus wonderin.
My Yngwie Strat doesn’t have rough fret edges, the build quality on it is actually quite remarkable, as good as it gets imo... maybe the guy was sold a one off faulty one
I scalloped my 89 Heartfield Ex-1 , Easier to bend strings and to do pull offs but you get used to it and it just feels " normal " until you pick up a normal guitar then you feel your fingertips hitting the fret board and it feels strange !
I always geek over the strat videos. I love the guitar. Total Fender fanboy. But musicians will always be a fanboy of their instruments. It's ok it's an extension of you. I will never get down on your choice of guitar. I'm not that kind of asshole.
Yngwie was a guitar Luther back in the day back in Stockholm
The medium one is what gets pulled out of my drawers
Dave you need the $300 Malmsteen neck relief gauge from Stew Mac to set up that guitar.
It comes with a free IKEA Swedish meatballs voucher. They don't eat stew in Sweden.
That Bridge Is A Callaham Bridge , Callaham Vintage Guitar's Virginia USA
Dave, Does the wood in a solid body tele guitar influence the sound of the guitar itself ? I'm very interested in your opinion Dave, you've heard 1000's of telecasters and stratocasters . I know there are people who take this stuff very seriously and are very opinionated about this. What you reckon Dave ? For instance is a swamp ash tele going to sound different to an alder tele, or a pine tele , or paulownia tele ? As you get older, weight becomes an issue, so a lighter guitar is a better option, but not if the sound is going to suffer. Heavy wood does sustain longer ie old les pauls . I'm just asking about slabs of wood in tele guitars . thanks for your advice dave.. cheers
Is not fender block on tremolo cheap zinc alloy and new block stainless steel?
Hey Dave, what is the crowing tool that you use? I have a Baroque, just curious of your opinion on both. Thanks! Have a good one! 🤘🏻
That fretboard looks WAY scalloped between each of the frets - it's like the fingerboard rises at each fret, not just lay flat with the frets sticking up. What's up with that?
Always informative and fun to watch. Thanks for it all.
Well, there ya go - I gotta pay closer attention...
10s on a scalloped neck? Weird. I thought all of those light touch, finesse players were 8s and 9s users.
Was that a MIJ guitar??
Because the MIJ instruments were notorious for having a ton of clear all over the playing side of the neck...
Never understood why escalloped fretboards didn't catch on.
You do fret work without securing the neck in a vice?
Let me guess, you couldn't remember any of the songs for the Yngwie show because he shredded so hard it blew your mind? Are you trying to say one should strive to shred as he does if we want an equally memorable performance?
I knew you would have fun with that name. Hell, I cant Figure it out either
ying vee plays that dark voodoo speed demon stuff... I played a scalloped neck before ,it's like playing air....you don't feel any wood on your fingers
I want to listen to Polka music now Dave.
Good Ol' Smegwie Wedginsteen. Is he still alive?
at the beginning you said the truss rod wasnt working /engaged then you say no problem whats the deal
The neck on that thing was so curved that you could notch some arrows in and and use it as a bow.
Can I send my fender HM late eighties strat to you for adjusting?
*whistles* noice guitar. I would really love to get a scalloped guitar.. She is a beaut'.
Hey Dave where could i get a fret crowning file like you use? Thanks, best
Thanks
It only took me about 28 years to learn how to pronounce Ing-Vay.
The only time having too much tang is a problem.
FWIW, I think his first name is pronounced 'ing-vee' (according to a Swedish site), though many say it as 'ing-vay'.
I pronounce it Ivgeny
Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck. I remember when I first heard him - I was telling a youngster about John McLaughlin, and the kid said - Oh, you should check out Yngwie - he's much faster! LOL, that guy's a clown.
No one can even mention Malmsteen without saying something bad about him, it's very telling. Instead of celebrating excellence, people look for excuses to complain. It's a lot easier to do than developing skills and knowledge, and it makes you feel better about your own incompetence. Then you wonder why you can't find Americans to do high-skilled work.
Graham Ferguson Amen. Envy is the worst human trait and the internet seems to foster it...
Fortunately "your book" is worthless as the man has had a great career and will be remembered... unlike you and your pathetic "book"
Oh shut up Graham!
No soul in a million notes a minute
My ex brother in law had one of those Japanese pieces of shit. He actually met (ying-vey) on his tour bus in Phoenix. He got (ying-vey) to put a real signature on it then fell on hard times and needed parts for his piece of shit Honda so he pawned it and never picked it back up. So he lost it for $100 lmfao
How'd you fix the truss rod?
I have much more trouble with the other type tuners than I do these split posts.
"pinned into uselessness." I love it.
Fret sprout happens to the best of guitars, especially if you travel around with it. It in no way reflects upon the fit and finish of the axe when purchased.
I'm not sure what the point of this guy's video really is. He's completely stupid sounding but he seems like he's at least capable of doing a setup. I definitely wouldn't drop a guitar off to someone like this.
I dig Yngwies' cover of Louie Louie.
Big malmsteen fan I think. Hehehe
Malmsteen....guitar style from yesteryear. Next fix Dave!!
Pretty much all the money is between the 10th and 21st frets - and whammy technique.
CG Callaham bridge they are awesome
CG = Callaham Guitars, good stuff.
Malmsteam should check this out.
it plays morse code !
I couldnt remember one song those guys played...maybe because you are deaf? maybe too notes for your year? maybe because you never listened one single song BEFORE the concert? man i was about to subscribe to your channel for your work with that guitar but that last stupid comment changed my mind. Hope you see an ear doctor. Cheers.
THE LIGHTNING STRIKES! CRACKING THE NIGHT! IT FEELS LIKE NEVER BEFOOOOOORE!
I'll see the light tonight...
You know you live in a s-hole when the streets of your city look like that fretboard :/
Not my pig, not my farm.
My friends band opened for him last year here in NJ, says he was kind of a dick.. you wern't allowed to make eye contact with him if you were near him.. glad I missed that show
Frank Azack I guess you mean Yngwie, and NOT Dave?? :-O
And two soundtechs that we worked with had a very similar experience in dealing with Malmsteen back in the late nineties. Something else that was extremely weird was a pretty effeminate looking young man that he had staying with him during one portion of that tour that was some sort of vaguely titled assistant manager and companion.
Sounds like B.S. to me.
I heard those rumors and lies in the 80s and watched every video I can find on youtube from the 80s to now and he's nice in every single one of them.
Find me one video of Yngwie being a dick to anyone on youtube.
Sure he's sarcastic but he's just kidding around , I think some people misunderstand him.
Here's a few you dummy, do you're research kid.
ruclips.net/video/LFMyNQKUH9U/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/KcXCqQ_-gMI/видео.html
In the last one he actually threatens to kill, lol.
Wouldn't want to look at your friends dopey band either.
I bet a gooch that a Callahan Guitar bridge. He makes some nice parts.
Malmsteen Strats sell for around $1700. Fender has no excuse for the shitty QA on that neck.
uncle dave!!!
That whole episode was awesome especially the part at the end about not remembering it because nobody remembers that kind of music the virtuoso stuff is a bunch of bulshit everybody knows to write a good song you can walk away singing to yourself is the way to go Keep On Keepin On love your show
The only concert that I ever saw the audience head for the door when the stage lights were still on waiting for an encore. If he did an encore it was to an empty room.
You said, "Schmenge," ...hahahahahaha.
I call that stuff, "aimless noodling."
magmanaz but it isn't aimless, he knows exactly what he's playing
I don't know what target he's trying to hit cuz he loses me on the wandering journey to the bullseye.
I think that's the point Dave was making too
Seems like playing a scalloped neck would be the same as playing a regular neck with high action.
Kzoo Detector No, it would actually be like playing with jumbo frets.
5 springs😥....why????? I use 2 for float and flutter....if a trem can't flutter, its crap....than again the whammy bar and shredding was why I wanted to play, so tune o matics, hard tails, blocked trems and evertunes r blasphemous ☠💀
Bass players dont get it lol just kidding love ya Dave you Rock
that is a Chinese copy
"We should have made Malmsteen play it before I worked on it"... Your shop would have been destroyed by his temper tantrum.
Wonder if that is a knock off?
I saw Yngwie open for Iron Maiden back in the 80's and IMO the guy's in Maiden blew him away with the 1st song they did. I can't remember what the song was but I do remember thinking "Now that's how you rock!"
I stayed a huge Maiden fan after that and never gave Yngwie another thought.
Apples and Oranges...I love maiden. But it's three freaking guys only on guitar and probably one of the best bass players ever. (wait...Somewhere back in time , there were just Dave and Adrian. Now add the Stage show with Eddie...
I still get it, Maiden blows every other band out of the park.
I would never want to open for Maiden.
The opening act could give out gold bars and the audience would still be like "NOPE".
RackhirTheRed shame on you bruh! Lol
Haha it was so good, you forgot what song they played...
Comment sections are always so heinous lmao.
good story