The Crap Jim Hardin Does

20/02/2025

08/02/2025

Usually when someone says they got a new guitar and the neck is twisted or flat the first question I have is the person you bought it off of did they play heavy metal? Nine times out of 10 you reduced the size of the strings to normal size after getting a guitar from someone who had huge strings on it

If you think that that's the case and you have a flat neck this diagram shows you how to fix it

Otherwise you should keep your little wrench to yourself and bring it to someone who knows what they're doing. This is the most common way to absolutely ruin a guitar. Once that rod is snapped it's useless first of all. But if you got that thing Bowin like crazy, it's been my experience that you have to loosen it and wait.

A kid down in New Durham had a beautiful PRS he was going to sell me for 600 bucks. I'll tell you right now it was worth three times that. But because I'm not a jerk and I have enough guitars already I helped him fix it from what this problem is. I left his house telling him turn it and eighth or quarter turn and wait a day or two. I get home that night and he tells me he turned it three times lol

People just want to f**k things up I guess is what the moral is. If it looks like the truss rod cover was removed or there's some scratches around the hole or signs of misusing the correct size Allen wrench or anything like that don't buy the guitar unless you know this lesson

If that guitar has a Floyd Rose on it double locking tremolo of any kind and you start messing with that nut on the end of your neck you are definitely going to f**k that guitar up if you don't know what you're doing

But if you've got a junk guitar you don't care about and the neck is a little weird here's a great point to start learning. and pretty soon you'll be on eBay buying guitars that have quote twisted necks, and all you need to do is know your manufacturer

PRS has never sent a guitar anywhere in the world from any of their factories Korean or American with a twisted neck. There are ways to get a twisted neck but they don't ever happen. Maybe an old SG Gibson because that is such a thin little chunk of wood might all the sudden decide one day but it's been my knowledge that there is no energy going that direction unless you do it. You grab the headstock and twist it clockwise or counterclockwise yeah you're going to have something happen. But it's not going to stay there

The guitar world is littered with idiots learning the hard way

07/11/2024

It's pretty hard to see the Statue of Liberty from New Hampshire

06/11/2024

If you got a guitar that's relatively decent but it needs to be reset up or needs a total setup or strings change or anything and you live anywhere between ossipee and Rochester or south of Rochester even, send me a message and we can get that thing fixed up today. Michael Charles is completely gutted empty but Mark will be there today for a few hours

I'm just saying if you know Chuck or Mark you know that they do insanely good setups. It's worth the drive to get your guitar set up by one of them best people I know in the business

Of course I can't mention setups and knowing what they're doing in that department without mentioning David Luke so all is not lost if you don't catch me today

I don't know if David C Luke does setups for people just randomly or not. So that's why I'm mentioning it.

I doubt anybody will take me up in these last few hours before I leave but I think he might be there next week as well. Let me know though especially if you've got a good expensive guitar that has some weird thing you've always wanted to fix on the neck or bridge or just the overall setup feel of your guitar

I've also had them take some of those Chinese copy guitars and rip them apart and put them back together with good parts and with a good setup I don't think you can tell the damn difference with most of them

My main Stratocaster that I use to sound like a Stratocaster is a conglomeration of what most people would consider junk but properly worked over and adjusted and set and all that and I wouldn't trade my Paul Reed Smith Stratocaster for anything. It's going to go when I go. You can put that one in the box with me lol

Also if you have a guitar that is set to what you would think is your specs that you would want on everything else within reason, Chuck and Mark can do that. But Chuck doesn't do it anymore. But I did bring my hb2 in and just showed them what my gold standard was and I'll tell you man , having something set up well is the difference

You can't train your ear to know what it wants to hear if it's here in garbage or inconsistency

Anyway I don't know what Mark Edgerly would say about me posting this like this. I doubt he wants to do extra stuff. But I'm just saying some of my friends have some of the worst intonated instruments and they just power through it and I'm going to Rochester today and if you want, I can at least show it to someone who can fix it

I'm talking to you guy up in Tamworth who has a beautiful PRS custom 24 that is basically unplayable

I'm talking to you blues guy who plays The $99 bullet strat that actually would hold up if it didn't have dead frets on it

But I'm not talking to you folk guy who wore out the first four frets on your acoustic guitar. We're not talking about fret jobs we're just talking about polishing and maybe crowning I don't know if he does that

I don't know big long message just announcing in a couple hours I'm heading that way or if you're already down there I can meet you somewhere and we can get that piece of trash turn back into a treasure. That is if Mark's in the mood.

05/11/2024

https://youtu.be/jwoyCkq4DhM?si=vBHbqJVoHtX2-Kq8

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30/10/2024

No

They wouldn't do that

Would they?

29/10/2024

A Great version of a Beck song

I've always loved the lyrics.

Apparently Willie dies too

https://youtu.be/1Gafipuu8cs?si=yMMysjJDST-6VJ29

29/10/2024

With Miss Maybell – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

🪕🎙️🎵🎶

26/10/2024

https://youtu.be/SWZW5ug6BdE?si=HLe_Uj2-SuFB7sI3

Well you know...

Traveling the United States by myself brought me through Columbus Ohio to buckeye lake in 1993

One of the people visiting a friend in Ohio was a staunch deadhead who kept track of setlists

When we met up in Ohio we discussed what might be played after discussing what was already played recently

I had a strong feeling that I'd hear my favorite Bob Dylan song. Turns out it was both of them.

I remember Kevin said I don't think they're going to play Tom thumb's jim. And I just said you know what it would be really cool and I'm not sh****ng you I feel it LOL

After the trip I had around the United States I felt like I deserved a Tom thumbs. I felt small. I felt lost. I was heading back to New York City and I did believe that that was enough for me traveling

Some of us took it seriously.

I'd say things like man you got to be there when it happens. You got to get off your ass

You got to get your s**t together and get your friends in line get your ducks in a row and make it f**king happen

That's why I drove back out to Ohio the next year to catch the next years event at buckeye lake

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Isaac Heiss and his dad Joe.

Well like my other post says if you're going to make it to heaven you got to know they got a hell of a band.

Joe's jumping around with no shoes, Phil is throwing down on that four string from the grateful Dead movie, Jerry's playing the tiger, Vince and Brent playing keys wild pig pen makes you get your hands out yo pockets and dance around.

https://youtu.be/SWZW5ug6BdE?si=HLe_Uj2-SuFB7sI3

Enjoy this version of a guy who survived throat cancer before going back out there and doing it again

"A rare double-dose of back-to-back Bob Dylan, we're treated here to Phil and Bob singing lead on a couple of Dylan's classics. By the late 1980s, most Dead ...

26/10/2024

A long long time to be Phil Lesh, in a short time for us to be here

22/10/2024

s.o.g.
30th anniversary