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September 30th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Vintage Pedal Collection Sale (Part One)”
Chapters00:00 - SOLD
00:52 - Playing
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(Please note that this pedal literally sold in the first 30 seconds of this video being posted, but i will leave this video up just so you guys can hear the glorious sound of the original chorus pedal that has yet to be topped by anything, in my opinion)
Part one in an ongoing series where Uncle Larry slowly sprinkles the dust of some of his ancient electronics collection amongst the worldwide ocean of potential tone consumers….dispersing the fruits of his nearly 40 years of heavy duty Ebaying amongst the general public
I thought I would start off with one that is special friends…one for the true collector
September 30th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Celebrity Makeover”
Chapters00:00 - It's in the description
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At my request of course , Nick Drushel from Glaser Instrument Repair in Nashville TN reluctantly explains how he turned this run of the mill 68 Telecaster into a guitar that a man would actually want to bring home to mom
Trust me when I tell you, this thing played like ABSOLUTE SHIT when I brought it to him…it was so bad i honestly had little hope it would ever turn into anything …but Lord was I wrong
Nick is a bad bad motherfucker friends, between him and Greggy Voros you gotta admit we got some damn good lookin repair guys here in Nashville.
September 30th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 710, Tom Bukovac, “Post Full Moon Blues”
Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Telecaster
01:55 - Hey friends / Fall season
02:21 - Fake slapback
04:00 - Lesson: Be loose when your playing / Don't rush your part
08:00 - Chuck Berry playing
09:35 - Lesson: Emaj7 [x x 1 0 3 3]
10:04 - [video edit] / VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / NFL
11:40 - "Bukollege" / New Brett Papa course
13:18 - "You'll still be miserable" (basic human condition)
15:12 - Producing days ahead
15:47 - Gambling
16:04 - Slapback?
16:21 - Favorite Roxy music song?
18:07 - Classical music / Genesis and Tony Banks
20:50 - "What Genesis should I listen to?" / Genesis - It's Gonna Get Better
23:00 - Lesson: Consistent loose / Tastey chords
25:36 - "Slab board" telecaster
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One of the highlights of my last weekend was on Saturday night…picture my fat ass sitting in my hot tub staring up at the most awesome full moon I have ever seen, with an ice cold Yingy sitting right next to me on a tall chair right beside the tub.
There it was in the wide open sky totally unobstructed by any trees or anything, just surrounded by slow moving clouds …it was like nature was putting on a show just for me
If you feel like Larry is putting on a show just for you, perhaps consider visiting the corporate tip jar:
Paypal is tombukovac@gmail.com
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
September 5th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Guitars For All My Friends”
Chapters00:00 - New Fender Telecaster
02:10 - New Fernandes Sustainer
03:27 - New '59 Harmony
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Uncle Larry shows the class a few new plunks that showed up recently at the Homekoolin’ headquarters .
I thjnk all 3 of these have potential, we shall find out shortly
June 26th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 658, Tom Bukovac, “The Teenage Years”
Chapters00:00 - Hello, friends / Hot and humid
03:45 - Parenting is challenging / Phone and age dilemma
10:00 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior
11:22 - Guthrie and Jedd record
12:35 - Playing: Gibson Les Paul Custom
15:15 - D'Addario half rounds strings / Playing: Fender Telecaster
22:00 - Playing: Gibson Les Paul Junior
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Uncle Larry talks about the most difficult part of parenting whilst restringing a golden age Black Beauty.
The guitar in the thumbnail is a real photo of a real burst that sadly underwent some good old fashioned hillbilly craftsmanship and some very clever D.I.Y. “repair work”
Both of the instruments in my previous video (tweed deluxe and 63 330) sold immediately (to the same guy actually)…
Special thanks to Antonio at the Green Hills Apple Store Genius Bar for not completely ruining my afternoon today ….super sweet dude that is REALLY FUCKING GOOD at his job
June 22nd, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 656, Tom Bukovac, “Experimental Doink”
Chapters00:00 - Hello
01:33 - Fender Telecaster and putting on flatwound 9's on it
03:35 - Music City Bridge Groove Master telly saddles
04:13 - Capo / Going to 9's and the super doink
12:45 - Guild S-200 Thunderbird
13:51 - Testing out for the first time
14:42 - Email about the "Uncle Larry Freeze" / Busting balls
22:33 - Plugging it in / Slamming it on table / Tuning
24:00 - Could not hate this any more than I do
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Uncle Larry forges fearlessly ahead in the quest to experiment with new sounds.
June 11th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 645, Tom Bukovac, “S**t That Works”
Chapters00:00 - Delivering those old time tones
08:29 - Lesson: Cool technique - mute as you pick
09:36 - Good morning / Circling roomers and stalkers
11:15 - Lesson: C# minor - Flat 7 is Blues note
13:17 - Playing: Tony Iommi like licks / Swinging Iron Man
14:36 - Terry Kath and Pignose amp
16:00 - Keith Urban and Austrailians / Ebo Everb / Pool vacuum
21:58 - Remember when Fender made good guitars?
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Uncle Larry braves some extreme bed head to deliver another faithful episode of the progrum.
May 26th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 634, Tom Bukovac “Blind Lemon Delta Larry”
Chapters00:00 - Plucking away on the Tele
03:23 - Hello / Berry Hill and Music Row
04:50 - Lesson: Playing like a sharecropper from the Delta
05:55 - Thanks about vintage guitar video
07:10 - Gus's buddies and PAFs
08:30 - Rascal Flatts / Driving guitar riff and being in tune
10:38 - Lesson: It is the way your playing it
11:50 - Lesson: Don't put yourself too loud / Study body language
16:46 - Demo made by A.I. and not being cool
18:42 - '59 Fender Stratocaster chopper for sale
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Uncle Larry, fresh home from a session, gives ya some pretty damn important recording tips.
The 1000 Pound Sisters were filming a TV show in the studio next to ours today …I was very excited to meet them and take a photo
Sweet gals, big music fans too
May 13th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 624, Tom Bukovac, “Murray Olderman Blues”
Chapters00:00 - Playing that maple cap Blonde Tele
04:27 - Hello, friends!
04:56 - Lesson: 1 chord Easy Listening rhythm with infinite
07:28 - Playing: Strange bending
09:30 - Music City Bridge saddles
11:08 - Freak out with a theremin
12:38 - Acoustic and baked potatoes
14:55 - Music City Bridge saddles
17:44 - Ad for YouTube
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Uncle Larry gets way deep into the science of baked potatoes and guitar bridge saddles
THIS is where you need to be today friends
For your tele AND your Strat
If you buy these….THEN you’ll be happy
https://musiccitybridge.com/products/groove-master-strat-saddles
May 8th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 620, Tom Bukovac, “Eastbound And Broke”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See on the new Tele
02:46 - Numerous names
04:00 - '65 Fender Telecaster with maple cap neck / Playing / Music City Bridge saddles
08:08 - Playing: Tele Custom
09:47 - Playing: Back to the Maple
11:58 - New '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo
14:56 - Imitation Tom / Guitar shipping boxes
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Uncle Larry gives the class a tour through some exciting new arrivals in the Spring Collection.
Special thanks to Rick Hogue from Garrett Park guitars for a very smooth transaction on a super fuckin’ rad old Tele.
If I don’t stop him Marshall will eat 10 bananas in one day like nothing .
April 10th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 607, “Does Tone Come From The Hands?”
Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Telecaster
05:21 - Hellooo, friends!
06:00 - Playing: Coming up with some Michael Jackson tunes
08:10 - "Killer Chorus" / Michael Jackson and greats making great noises
09:25 - "How do you come up with flow of ideas?"
11:25 - Paul McCartney
11:52 - Lesson: Get a motif going and then start fucking with it / Putting melodies to it
13:30 - "If you don't practice improvising, how are you ever going to get better at it?" / Pre-Internet practice
14:59 - Lesson: Weakness tentativeness
15:38 - "How much tone is in the hands?" = 95%, the other 5% in gear is important! :|
16:36 - The most interesting video - Tonal shading of 10 different individual guitar players
18:41 - Danny Dugmore story about David Grissom and tone from the hands / Gear settings are in the ear
22:56 - Summation / Play the Middle Way (not too much and not too little)
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The age old question that we are all SOOOO sick of finally gets definitely answered Cleveland style.
I even did one of those super dumb thumbnail pictures to match my clickbait video title…cuz it seemed appropriate
April 7th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 604, Tom Bukovac, “Uncle Glarry”
Chapters00:00 - '68 Fender Telecaster Custom (brand new)
03:15 - Music Emporium t-shirt
03:39 - Playing: Fender Telecaster Custom through Bassman
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Uncle Larry shows the class an NOS 1968 Fender Telecaster Custom.
Special thanks to Bubba Sarley for the recent additions to the Homeskoolin vocabulary
March 28th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 598, Tom Bukovac, “Steers & Gear” (Starring JD Simo)
Chapters00:00 - Slide playing
24:22 - Lingua with Kid Rock
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Friends, please check out the big sale going on this weekend for my guitar instructional course going on at brettpapa.com
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Half off this time , so if you have been putting it off, NOW is the time to take the plunge
A little chat with my dear old friend JD Simo…
March 27, 2026, day 4 of four straight tracking days out at Kid Rock’s Dixie Ridge studio in White’s Creek TN.
Dan Friszell: Engineer
Gavin: Assistant Engineer
Bob Ritchie: vocals, acoustic guitar and percussion
Amanda Rowland: BGV’s
Shannon Curfman: BGV’s
Herschel Boone: BGV’s
Tim Watson: fiddle
Rowan Stewart: drums
Steve Pierce: bass
Jim “Moose” Brown: keyboards and mandolin
JD Simo: electric guitar
Yours Truly: electric & acoustic guitar, keyboards
February 20th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 580, Tom Bukovac, “Listen To The Blues They’re Playin”
Chapters00:00 - Old skool tunes
02:55 - Hello, friends / Pick drop
03:50 - Lesson: So much shit right in there, friends / Endless lifetime
06:07 - How's everyone doing? / Update
07:33 - '60 Fender Telecaster Custom / Heat setting neck / Nick Drushel at Glaser's
09:55 - 250k potentiometer
11:45 - Victor Mason / Mojave amps / Plexi Palace
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Uncle Larry performs a full cavity search of the tonal possibilities of a couple Fender Telecasters while the neighbor’s dog does his thing .
February 12th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 575, Tom Bukovac, “Community”
Chapters00:00 - '65 Fender Stratocaster Ocean Turquose
05:10 - "What is the point...to leave it alone?"
07:30 - Carfax for guitars
10:00 - "Most heinous chop job?" / '52 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop P90
12:20 - Preamps in acoustics / Van Halen / Brent Mason Telecaster
16:23 - Fiberglass / Carbon fiber splines
23:04 - Neck sets
26:41 - Groove Master bridge and innovations at Glaser
30:00 - Tom Murphy / Tom Bukovac innovation on the hush about a Stratocaster
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Uncle Larry visits with the boys from Music City Bridge to discuss a very cool 1965 Stratocaster that found it’s way to it’s current owner through a very real and very organic network of people working together simply trying to help each other out.
After 30 plus years of living in Nashville, I can tell you that there is a very strong sense of community here, and we are all very thankful for that.
This guitar was originally consigned at Music City Vintage for a LOT of money due to the rarity of the ocean turquoise custom color.
I saw it there and immediately fell in love with it, and decided to feature it in one of my videos thinking that someone out there with way more money than I have might be interested in it.
My dear friend Matt Swanson saw that video and said that he would buy the guitar, but ONLY if the store was cool with having the guitar inspected by the guys at Vintage Verified to MAKE SURE that the finish is original.
You may remember me telling you about Vintage Verified, they use spectrometry and other amazing technology to analyze finishes, plastic and metal. They can tell if a guitar is straight or not, which is very important when you are spending THAT kind of dough.
Vintage Verified inspected the guitar, confirmed that it is indeed authentic. It had already been refretted once, but it was not a great fret job, so they suggested that the guitar be refretted again properly.
Matt agreed, so it was sent over to Glaser Instrument Repair so that Nick Drushel could give it to the bad ass fret job that the guitar deserves.
This whole thing is a great example of how the guitar community in this town works…there are so many great people and great resources here.
It’s truly amazing and I am THRILLED to be a small part of this great big beautiful karmic wheel .
Hope you enjoy the video friends
It stars :
Joe Glaser
Nick Drushel
Josh Rawlings
February 2nd, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 571, Tom Bukovac “Cool Old Gear Party”
Chapters00:00 - '52 Fender Tweed
01:32 - Acoustically testing '51 Fender Telecaster / Amp setup
02:11 - Playing
04:14 - '60 Fender Telecaster Custom
05:37 - '51 Fender Telecaster
06:41 - Differences?
08:56 - Playing Gibson SG bridge
09:51 - Gibson SG neck
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My dear friend Tiego Castro brought over some EXTREMELY cool guitars and amps tonite …and after we had a beer and a burger we plugged some of it in , and I thought you guys might enjoy it
If you guys want to get in touch with Tiago check him out at tiagocastro1974@gmail.com
February 2nd, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 570, Tom Bukovac, “Artificial InTELEgence”
Chapters00:00 - Playing Sunburst Telecaster Custom
03:19 - Hello friends! / Quick Tele shootouts set up / New spectacles
06:42 - Adding EQ for raunch
07:53 - '69 Bigsby Tele bridge
09:16 - '60 Sunburst Tele bridge
09:37 - Lesson: Unknown lick used a lot
10:16 - '69 Bigsby Tele bridge
10:52 - '69 Bigsby Tele neck
11:28 - '60 Sunburst Tele neck
11:55 - '60 Sunburst Tele middle
12:37 - '69 Bigsby Tele middle
13:25 - '60 Sunburst Tele middle / bridge
13:48 - '69 Bigsby Tele bridge
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Uncle Larry shows you some of the sonic differences of two sweet old Teleblasters
February 1st, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 569, Tom Bukovac, “Dregs Of Winter”
Chapters00:00 - Playing the '69 Fender Telecaster
02:10 - Beatles - I Want You / She's So Heavy cover
04:08 - The attitude of the tele / Up all night fucking with the tele
05:48 - "Like any 67-70 telecaster, totally microphonic" / Chrome finger cut
07:20 - Playing
07:42 - JizzBoy shred lessons
08:35 - Playing and shredding like Jimmy
09:34 - Nice balance in pickups / Nice guitar
11:08 - Cold outside
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Uncle Larry recounts the nasty fight he had with a particularly angry sounding 69 Telecaster yesterday
I was a bloody battle but think I won...
this is that time of year where you stop caring about things like trimming your beard, or giving a fuck about anything......the theme of this last week or so has been "BACK TO THE 1800'S!!"
and seriously friends...if you guys are getting a bunch of useful stuff out of these videos, PLEASE do not forget the fact that there is a tip jar within reach....also PLEASE do not forget that i had to bleed and give everything i had to find all these endless licks that you guys steal so freely and easily...
and you might think "why should i give to a guy who owns a '60 tele custom?"....but friends let's be honest... it probably won't be long til i get old and my hands give out...think about the big picture here
the PayPal tip jar is tombukovac@gmail.com
the Venmo tip jar is @Tom-Bukovac-1
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January 31st, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Tele Savales”
Chapters00:00 - '69 Fender Telecaster with Bigsby
02:37 - Playing acoustically
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Special thank you to the Reverb seller “French Riviera Guitars” for a lovely transaction on a fine fine instrument.
I could not be happier with this beautiful old guitar.
I can promise you that the last thing on earth that I was looking for was a Tele with a Bigsby, but when I scrolled past the ad for this guitar one night while I was Reverbin’ I swear I could just TELL from the photos that this was a special instrument.
I’ve been doing this too long friends