RS Guitarworks: How To Assemble RS Vintage Kit

RS Guitarworks Tech Billy demonstrates how to assemble & solder an RS Guitarworks Vintage Electronics Upgrade kit.

RS Guitarworks Tech Billy demonstrates how to assemble & solder an RS Guitarworks Vintage Electronics Upgrade kit.

JD Simo visited RS Guitarworks, bringing his RS Slab '59 and a Reinhardt Sentinel. Shown are before & after photos of the guitar, after a year of gigs and sessions in Nashville. JD's Slab '59 started out as a lightly-aged guitar, but after hundreds of high-energy gigs and sessions, JD has transformed the guitar into a true Road Warrior. Because of JD's playing style, the nut has been replaced 4 times, and he's gone through 3 sets of bridge saddles. Initially shipped with a white single-ply pickguard, JD replaced the guard with a white 3-ply guard, like one of his hero's...Mike Bloomfield. Watch & listen as JD plays the RS Slab in the RS shop, and check out the real playing wear on the guitar...

RS Guitarworks Tech Billy demonstrates how to solder different ground connections.

Greg Martin revisits RS Guitarworks to get his recently refinished 1980 Heritage Les Paul. Greg also brings along his '58 Les Paul... Thin nitrocellulose finish, RS Psychebilly pickups & RS Hillbilly upgrade kit... Greg's playing is always amazing, and always brings a smile or two...
Greg Martin RS Guitarworks vintage Les Paul refinish Rufus Huff Kentucky Headhunters

RS Guitarworks tech Billy demos the SurfMaster HT guitar.
RS Guitarworks surfmaster HT guitar electronics Jazzmaster Lindy Fralin

RS Guitarworks tech Billy demo's the RS Guitarworks Solar Flair guitar. Acid-etched aluminum front. Mahogany body & neck. Nitrocellulose Oxblood finish. Rosewood fretboard. RS Guitarworks electronics with Luxe Grey Tiger .022 cap. TV Jones PowerTron bridge pickup & Lindy Fralin hum-canceling P90 neck pickup.
RS Guitarworks Solar Flair guitar electronics TV Jones Lindy Fralin pickups

RS Guitarworks newest offering, the Rockabilly Jr. Swamp ash body, maple neck with rosewood fretboard. TV Jones PowerTron pickup. RS Guitarworks Vintage Esquire Electronics.

Short clip of Jon Schaffer's (Iced Earth) visit to RS Guitarworks in Winchester, KY on 12/11/08. For more information on RS Guitarworks - visit www.rsguitarworks.net

The making of Jason Hook's (Five Finger Death Punch) RS Hooker guitar. From RS Guitarworks' wood shop to the concert stage... Mahogany body, maple neck, ebony fingerboard. OD green nitrocellulose finish with custom graphics. RS Guitarworks SuperPot and RS/Fralin pickup. Modified Floyd Rose Pro tremolo, Grover tuners.
RS Guitarworks Jason Hook Five Finger Death Punch superpot RS/Fralin

Another short clip of Jon Schaffer's (Iced Earth) visit to RS Guitarworks in Winchester, KY on 12/11/08. For more information on RS Guitarworks - visit www.rsguitarworks.net

My super light weight ash and rw/maple necked RS old Friend 'esquire' Fabulous guitar. Through my Greer Thunderbolt 30, Scumback Speakers and a relic drive and ghetto stomp pedals. Boss DD3 for a little slap back delay.
RS Guitarworks Esquire E Type Greer Ghetto Stomp Relic Drive Scumbacks Don Mare RS Tele

Greg Martin makes a visit to RS Guitarworks on March 17, 2009. Greg is playing his 1980 Gibson Les Paul Heritage into a bad-ass Roland MicroCube. This guitar was used on the songs "Dumas Walker" and "Pickin' On Nashville" by The Kentucky Headhunters.
RS Guitarworks Greg Martin Rufus Huff The Kentucky Headhunters

RS Guitarworks tech Billy demonstrates the RS Surf King. Loaded with RS electronics, a Lindy Fralin low-wind Tele bridge pickup, and a Lindy Fralin Jazzmaster neck pickup. Double-bound alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard.
RS Guitarworks Surf King guitar electronics Lindy Fralin pickups

Greg Martin discusses the new Rufus Huff CD, available April 14, 2009. "Drawing on the tough, stripped-down sounds of Free and early Bad Company, Rufus Huff delivers hard riffage soaked in Southern soul. Greg Martin's spine-tingling guitar solos evoke Paul Kossoff, Duane Allman, Mick Taylor, and Bluesbreakers-era Eric Clapton, while remaining utterly his own!" --- Andy Ellis, music journalist.

RS Guitarworks went to Cincinnati OH to meet Joe Perry and his tech Trace Foster.

www.maxguitarstore.com This is the product video about the RS Guitar Works Parts.
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RS Guitarworks Rockabilly Jr. & Rockabilly Sr. Guitars Ash body, rosewood board, birdseye maple neck, RS Guitarworks Electronics, including a Luxe Grey Tiger cap, TV Jones PowerTron pickups.

RS Guitarworks head tech Billy shows how to remove the harness from a 335-style guitar, and install an RS Vintage 335 Upgrade harness. In this segment, Billy shows how to connect the pickups to the pigtail leads from the RS Guitarworks Vintage 335 Upgrade harness.

RS Guitarworks tech Billy demo's the RS Guitarworks Slab Bakersfield. Silver Sparkle nitrocellulose finish. Maple neck & rosewood fretboard, swamp ash body, Lindy Fralin custom-wound pickups, RS Guitarworks Vintage Tele kit. Amp used is a Fender Blues DeLuxe on the Clean channel.
RS Guitarworks Slab Bakersfield guitar electronics pickups Tele

RS Guitarworks (rsguitarworks.com) Aged my Tele and the big benfit is that it sounds more "woody" or "Earthy" and has 100% better tone because of the thin laquer (and lack of it) on the guitar. Fender puts too much laquer on their new guitars and it doesn't let the wood sympathetically vibrate. Now, I have my dream guitar and it is priceless! Thanks Roy, Scott, Paula an Billy (and ALL at RS Guitarworks)!!!! getcloser2god.com
Telecaster fender Aged RS Guitarworks Rock Band Get closer 2 God SALT Music Video promotion Relic

I installed the RS Guitarworks Vintage Strat kit. What a difference! In this video the tone controls are on the Neck and Bridge pickup. As you can hear the bridge pickup became a little compressed with this change but the Wilde L-45's sound fantastic. I will change swap the tone to the middle at the next string change. I can't say enough about this kit. Yes it is expensive, but just listen...(and not to my bad notes...) So responsive, so smooth...massive improvement. And great customer service too. So in this case, you do get what you pay for. Other new changes on the guitar are locking tuners and Graph Tech saddles
Fender Strat Stratocaster Marshall Graph Tech RS Guitarworks Wilde Bill Lawrence

Greg Martin plays "Stairway to the Outhouse".
RS Guitarworks Greg Martin Rufus Huff The Kentucky Headhunters

Greg Martin makes a visit to RS Guitarworks on March 17, 2009. Greg is playing his 1980 Gibson Les Paul Heritage into a bad-ass Roland MicroCube. This guitar was used on the songs "Dumas Walker" and "Pickin' On Nashville" by The Kentucky Headhunters.
RS Guitarworks Greg Martin Rufus Huff The Kentucky Headhunters

RS Guitarworks Tech Billy plays the RS Guitarworks Rockabilly Custom guitar. Swamp Ash body, black binding, finished in Gold Sparkle nitrocellulose lacquer. Birdseye maple neck and fingerboard. TV Jones PowerTron bridge pickup & Classic neck pickup. RS Guitarworks SuperPot & Luxe Grey Tiger capacitor. For more details, contact RS Guitarworks @ www.rsguitarworks.net
RS Guitarworks Rockabilly Custom guitar superpot electronics

www.maxguitarstore.com guitarworks&offset=20 This is a little video Demostration about the RS Guitarworks part, from a before and after modification on a 70 Gibson Jazz.
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Lou Toomey, guitarist for Brooks & Dunn, stops into RS Guitarworks in Winchester, KY on 2/6/2009 to jam on "Old Blue" - one of our Stepside prototype guitars. For more information on RS Guitarworks guitars, products, and services, visit www.rsguitarworks.net
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RS Guitarworks tech Billy demo's the RS Guitarworks Contour Whiteguard. Maple neck & fretboard, swamp ash body, Lindy Fralin custom-wound pickups, RS Guitarworks Vintage Strat kit. Amp used is a Fender Blues DeLuxe on the Clean channel.
RS Guitarworks Old Friend Contour Whiteguard guitar electronics pickups

Demo of a converted 85 MIJ Squier. Super Champ XD was amp of choice. I misspoke saying 'GS Guitarworks' when I meant 'RS'. Oops. Enjoy.

RS Guitarworks tech Billy demo's the RS Guitarworks Contour Greenguard. Maple neck, rosewood fretboard, alder body, Lindy Fralin custom-wound pickups, RS Guitarworks Vintage Strat kit. Amp used is a Fender Blues DeLuxe on the Clean channel.
RS Guitarworks Old Friend Contour Greenguard guitar electronics pickups

Need your love so bad played on a RS guitarworks "Tele Style"guitar through a Cornell Legacy amp with a Fulltone Fulldrive II mosfet pedal.

RS Guitarworks tech Billy demo's the RS TeeVee. Alder body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard; Lindy Fralin pickups, RS Guitarworks electronics.
RS teevee Guitarworks guitar electronics Lindy Fralin pickup

RS Guitarworks tech Billy shows how to wire a 3-way toggle switch.

For the complete podcast and High Quality samples, please go to www.guitartonenetwork.com Here's the breakdown We start with a stock 2001 Gibson Les Paul R9 Historic Reissue, pickups are a 57 Plus at the bridge and a 57 at the neck, cable used is Analysis Plus Yellow Oval running into the Swart Space Tone. No effects in line, reverb on the amp was off. The recordings were done on each pickup rolling off the Volume with the Tone wide open and then rolling off the Tone with the Volume wide open, first with the stock "modern" wiring array and second with an RS Guitarworks "vintage" wiring array. The RS Guitarworks wiring array (www.rsguitarworks.net) we used is the "Pre-Wired Vintage Electronics Upgrade Kit w Bees- Short" array, however Grey Tiger cap's were used instead of Luxe Bee's. According to RS the these are the same as Luxe Bee caps just a different color. For the complete podcast and High Quality samples, please go to www.guitartonenetwork.com
Gibson Les Paul R9 Historic Reissue 57 Plus 57 pickup Analysis Plus Yellow Oval Swart Space Tone RS Guitarworks Vintage Wiring Luxe Bees Grey Tiger guitar guitar tone

RS Guitarworks tech Billy demo's the RS Rockabilly Pine; heart pine body, maple neck & rosewood fretboard. TV Jones PowerTron pickup with RS Guitarworks Esquire wiring. Aged Olympic White finish in nitrocellulose lacquer.