Pickup Adjustment with Jason Lollar

Jason Lollar of Lollar Pickups shows you how simple pickup adusting on your guitar is. With just a screwdriver and a little time, you can get your guitar pickups set up for optimum playability.

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• lollar
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• vibrolux
• strat
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• fender
• B3
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[Lespaulcoolio]

I have a 1986 Japanese Strat, what height would you guys recommend for each pup? thanks a lot

[LollarGuitars]

@Lespaulcoolio thats what the video is about- in a roundabout way it explains how i dont think one setting works best and gives youthe info you need to adjust your pickups to suite your action, how hard you hit, string gauge, pickup position, magnet type bla bla bla ;)

[justjoe032]

Did you say vashon island? Like across from Tacoma?

[LollarGuitars]

@justjoe032 Right- small world bet you had no idea the most successful and largest of the small boutique pickup making companies was operating on vashon island.

Did you know TV jones is in paulsbo? we have all kinds of smaller high quality musical gear manufacturers in western washington USA custom guitars, Warmouth, Nash guitars, THD, Soldano amps bla bla bla!

[justjoe032]

@LollarGuitars WOWWWW!!! lets hang out sometime hahaha. jk but i'll certainly keep you in mind next time i need guitar help haha. any chance you're hiring? :]

[LollarGuitars]

@justjoe032 I just hired three people- there was an ad on craigs list- sorry you missed it. I play in seattle, most often hauling my hammond B-3 rather than guitar, just played the seamonster lounge in wallingford last night, i dont play in tacoma much anymore. Other than that I dont get off the island much ecxept to go to concerts or shows

[LollarGuitars]

thanks man- I had to trim the beard and hair off after 10 years or so of having it long- it all got caught in an automatic pea picking machine. People use to go- "hey ZZ" but now they go "Hey Hetfeild" oh well.

[LollarGuitars]

@dragossh I use a very small 6 inch machinist "scale" which is tech talk for a ruler. Its 1/4" wide by 6 inches long and is marked in 64ths. i also use feeler gauges like you would set a spark plug gap with. you can stack several together to create different sizes but I use the machinist scale more often. i remember my drafting teacher saying a ruler is a dictator or a king not a measuring device.

[stringman340]

@ LollarGuitars I'm in Tacoma as well (Fife). Been meaning to visit your shop on Vashon for awhile. Now that it's pickup-search time, I foresee that happening sooner than later ;)

[LollarGuitars]

ha ha!

[beeeastmaster]

so is he not playing with ZZ Top anymore?