May 15th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 626, Tom Bukovac, “Power Tools”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing the shit out that guitar
11:34 - Ah, hello, friends!
12:12 - Lesson: Cool lick (Dmaj -> Amaj -> Emaj) / Bending octaves
15:12 - Lesson: Led Zeppelin - No Quarter


Notes
Uncle Larry fresh home from a day of sessioneering heats up the tubes of a crusty old Fullerton tweed kicker box with an old flamethrowin' razor from the golden age of Kalamazoo....a belligerent old six string sawzall from Parsons Street....a tuxedo black triple ply P-90 billy club bruiser.... ebony and blocks from a fly over midwestern ghetto...a blue handle pebble case Honduran hog brawler from McCarty's Michigan....

ya know...if you guys are indeed enjoying this shit PLEASE throw a little somethin' in the tip jar....it certainly helps keep the spirits up here at corporate...you mustn't forget i have NEVER ONCE asked you guys to subscribe or to smash that like button..

paypal is tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬
venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

May 15th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 625, Tom Bukovac, “Uncle Larry’s Bone”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing acoustic
03:34 - Hello, friends / Brandon Hood / Video lighting
06:45 - Dee Dickerson buys a guitar / People want a guitar more than me
08:57 - "What is the tape for?"
09:30 - Old man rant about truths
12:32 - "I don't have dandruff"
13:20 - '39 Martin D-28 Herringbone (Bone)


Notes
Uncle Larry explains why people are smarter today

May 13th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 624, Tom Bukovac, “Murray Olderman Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - 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


Notes
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 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Chess Bonus “A Night In Tunisia”

Chapters
00:00 - Chess game


Notes
This game raised my pitiful rating to 1078…I doubt Magnus is worried about me yet.
Hope you guys enjoy

May 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 623, Tom Bukovac, “They’re All Free”

Chapters
00:00 - Getting information about overhauling acoustics


Notes
I had so many possible names for this episode …

“Trifecta”

“Cathedral”

“Fuck Satin”

but i inevitably settled on “they’re all free” for obvious reasons.

This episode stars Nathan Golliher, Greg Voros and Tony Nagy from Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN, and Eric “Ebo” Borash from Ebo Customs in Lebanon TN

Every one of these guys is a world class repair man , and I had a feeling we would get into some deep ass water if I just asked a few questions…so of course i did

Hope you guys enjoy

May 11th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Most Underrated Restaurant In Nashville?…AND An Auction!”

Chapters
00:00 - Nice restaurant
01:25 - Old amp rack case


Notes
Hello friends and particularly my Nashvillian friends …if you want some BAD ASS clean fresh food , you GOTTA check out this place in Bellevue called Pho-Ann at 7073 Highway 70S

It’s in a very unassuming strip mall and from the outside you probably wouldn’t think much of it …(btw the Mexican place next door is also amazing and an alltime favorite of my dear sweet boys)

This place is consistently INCREDIBLE and i just pray that it stays alive ..we all know how brutal the restaurant biz is

Of course no one asked me to make this video …I am just a big believer in promoting REAL quality in this world that is full of fake bullshit

Check it out if you come to town

Simple and nice …like a good guitar part

AND…whoever bids the highest on this old amp rack will be celebrated on the progrum and the proceeds will be given to my most broke friend (yet to be determined, as I have a LOT of broke friends)…and I promise that the recipient will be worthy of such a thing

May 11th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 622, Tom Bukovac, “Kickstand Swing”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing Jazz Country Swing
01:59 - Hello, friends
03:22 - Hear the chord changes underneath?
04:05 - Playing
04:36 - Lesson: Lick that let's people know you mean business
06:53 - Lesson: Get using your pinky a lot
10:16 - Funny story about kids
11:38 - Lesson: Volume swell
13:46 - Movie: Sound of Metal
14:20 - '48 Gibson D-18
14:27 - Lesson: Bbmaj7 [1 1 0 2 3 3]


Notes
Uncle Larry shows you how to voice lead with a guitar that has a built in kickstand…and a pitched headstock with no volute…what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

May 10th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 621, Tom Bukovac, “Offset America 4”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Jaguar
02:50 - Hello, friends / Happy Mother's Day
03:23 - '64 Fender Jaguar Lake Placid Blue
03:33 - '63 Fender Jazzmaster Blonde
03:44 - '68 Fender Mustang Orange
04:42 - Jazzmaster
05:14 - Jazzmaster free-floating vibrato system
05:40 - Jazzmaster switch, preset volume, preset tone
08:00 - Playing: Jazzmaster
09:04 - Jazzmaster bridge
09:37 - Jazzmaster neck
10:19 - Mustang
10:50 - Mustang switches / Out-of-phase sound
12:18 - Playing: Mustang
12:48 - Mustang bridge
13:31 - Jaguar / Jaguar switches
14:05 - Playing: Jaguar
16:19 - Summation


Notes
Happy Mother’s Day dear Homeskoolers …hope you enjoy this trip through Fender’s offset line-up in the 60’s…when surf was king and when droves of perfectly healthy young American boys were being shipped off to strange foreign lands to fight a war that no one understood.

And totally unrelated….if you haven’t seen the movie “The Sound Of Metal” yet on Amazon worldwide streaming…do yourself a favor

May 8th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 620, Tom Bukovac, “Eastbound And Broke”

Chapters
00:00 - 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


Notes
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 .

May 7th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “50 % Discount”

Chapters
00:00 - It's all in the description


Notes
Hello Homeskoolers here’s your chance to buy a 10k guitar for half off because of a few issues.

Carson’s email is cmedders23@gmail.com

May 7th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 619, Tom Bukovac, “The Rush”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Lake Placid Blue
01:36 - Hello dear friends / #1 dad
04:06 - Love slop :|
05:02 - UPS and vultures
05:49 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Selling the Les Pauls
06:52 - Daredevil accident eBike
08:04 - Acoustic saddles
09:11 - Muscle memory vs. Theory / Depends on previous note
11:40 - Lesson: E7 - cool notes out - bend 5th to 6th / Playing
13:11 - Bought a cool maple cap tele
13:47 - Lesson: Creepy delay with cool effect


Notes
Uncle Larry takes a stroll on a sweet old transition logo Fender …through an old Fender amp from the same year

I think of it as “transitional tone” that was available in any real music store in America in 1965, just as Leo was being asked to step down and take a 10 year break from building anything with the no compete clause that the CBS suits so wisely put in the contract when they bought the second best guitar company in American history

and...here is the most interesting interview in country music history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0uSj6eA714

and...this guy gets it
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/un1i4m6K_X4

if you guys wanna donate to the cause of keeping country music country, please consider throwing something in the old tip jar...to potentially pay for e-bike related ER trips and black vulture removal

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Paypal is tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬

May 6th, 2026

Homeskoolin' Volume 618, Little Tommy Bukovac, "Wipe Out"

Chapters
00:00 - Best sounding acoustic
06:06 - Hello friends
06:39 - '39 Martin D-28 Herringbone (Bone) / Different sounds
09:00 - Jedd, Guthrie album is finished
10:00 - Son is natural born guitar player
11:00 - eBike wreck
11:30 - Back to the acoustic sound / eBike wreck
13:53 - Martin Bone sounds / Selling off other gear / Playing
15:38 - Park Guitars and purchase
16:12 - Jamie French and video
17:00 - Lesson: Check out these chords
17:43 - Martin 000-18 comparison
18:40 - Martin D-28
19:00 - Lesson: Bbmaj7 [1 1 0 2 3 x ] / Ebmaj7 [x 1 1 0 3 3]
19:46 - Wipeout



Notes
Unbelievably, his friend Benny just HAPPENED to be filming when it happened.

Hope you enjoy this somewhat intimate look at the best acoustic guitar I have ever personally owned.

For the last couple days these creepy ass black vultures have been hanging around my house ...the neighbors dog is barking at them...hope they get the message that they should move on

May 6th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 617, Tom Bukovac, “For Baseball Fans Only....(Complete 1956 Topps Baseball Set)"

Chapters
00:00 - Topps baseball card collection


Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class the alltime sexiest set of sports cards to EVER hit the shelves of your local convenience store in Massapequa New York, or Providence Rhode Island…or wherever the hell you grew up…the 1956 Topps baseball set

Hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane friends

I promise we will get back to guitar soon my friends…but I would imagine that if you stuck around through all the old cars, the chess, and the old sports cards etc etc…you MUST enjoy a little variety in your life.

and if you guys wanna check out the new Jaime French music video....well here ya go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3i4kQhqHRA

May 5th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Quick Musical Brain Analysis”

Chapters
00:00 - Figuring out Captain and Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together


Notes
Uncle Larry takes you back to where it all started…with the Captain ….and the Tennille

May 3rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 616, Tom Bukovac, “Master Volume Madness”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello friends / Radio stations
01:33 - Marshall JCM 800 / Marshall JMP 2204 / Gibson Les Paul
02:06 - Different than a Plexi
04:00 - Amp settings / JMP
05:50 - JCM 800
06:26 - JCM 800 with no Bass "AM Radio sound"
06:58 - JCM 800 turn up the Treble "Presence"
07:19 - JCM 800 Mid Range "Treble"
07:38 - JCM 800 Presence "Subtle"
08:13 - Playing: JCM 800
08:34 - JCM 800 Preamp on 10


Notes
Uncle Larry gives the class a tour of the amps that powered the youth of America in the 80’s….the legendary vertical input JCM-800, and the JMP 2204 50 watt…

I KNOW that for many of you out there, this was the amp that was in the trunk of your high mileage late 70’s GM vehicles when you got your first blow jobs after a gig.

and totally unrelated , I know you’ve already seen it, but go back and watch the original 2004 Friday Night Lights movie by Peter Berg….

I watched it with the boys last night ….so gripping , so powerful…UNBELIEVABLE acting performances by Billy Bob and Tim McGraw…
just an incredible movie…and the soundtrack by Explosions In The Sky is soooooo fucking good…and when “just got paid” by ZZ comes on it’s just the perfect marriage between film and music

What a fuckin movie holy shit

May 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume Area Code 615, “Chief Wahoo”

Chapters
00:00 - Topps baseball cards


Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class an absolutely GORGEOUS complete set of 1971 Topps Baseball cards.

I am ABSOLUTELY SURE this video will bring back some fun memories for all you guys out there who are old like me.

This set is known by collectors as being a particularly difficult set to find in high grade condition due to the black borders…it was also Topps earliest foray into “action shot” cards and also the first time they ever put the players photo on the back of the card.

People think i am ONLY into old football cards…but i have a KILLER 1973 Topps baseball set as well…as well as nice complete conservative sets of Topps Baseball between 1975 and 1983

As far as my well documented football card obsession goes, I have beautiful complete sets by all four companies (Topps, Bowman, Philadelphia Gum, and Fleer) between 1954 and 1980

April 30th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Big Generator Gambit”

Chapters
00:00 - Chess
04:15 - Generator


Notes
Two part video

Part one :
Uncle Larry shows the class how he likes to play chess with very much the same mindset that Dick Butkus played football…pure violence

Part two:
Sweet John from the Generator Supercenter takes us on the maiden voyage of the device that was purchased IMMEDIATELY after the great Nashville ice storm of 2025

April 30th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 614, Tom Bukovac, “American Youth”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing the Martins


Notes
Uncle Larry is joined today by Steve Kovach, a brilliant young guitarist from the band CLIFFS…he also plays with big machine artist Hunter Flynn

Lovely young man with good parents and good hands.

April 30th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 613, “Hey Kid, You Like Old Gibson Acoustics?”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing acoustic
02:45 - Hello, friends / David Allan Coe
04:15 - Today's show: Gibson acoustic comparison
04:53 - Gibson Jumbos / Gibsons have a sad component in general
06:39 - Gibson Banner Head / '48 Shadetop D-18
07:40 - '57 Gibson SJ-200
11:20 - '64 Gibson J-50 ("Saddest guitar ever")
13:05 - '64 Gibson J-200
14:24 - Hot ass chick that is a total dumbass / Things Larry will never do
17:30 - Gibson Century of Progress
21:29 - '57 Gibson SJ-200
22:11 - '64 Gibson J-200
22:38 - '64 Gibson J-50 ("Saddest guitar ever")
22:55 - Gibson Century of Progress
23:20 - '48-'49 Southern Jumbos (Dan Auerbach)
24:49 - Lesson: Bbmaj7/13 / Coolest chord of mankind history (Drop D)


Notes
Uncle Larry breaks out the late spring collection of dead string sadness for all to see

RIP David Allan Coe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXYmOW-hO3Y

Also, this video is rather sad…the sweet French boys at Collision Devices are having a very hard time because of tariffs from the “Orange Man”…

They wanted me to share it with you

I’m telling you guys right now…if you like music, and you DON’T own a collision devices black hole symmetry pedal I truly feel sorry for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4YHkVVJkhM

April 29th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 612, Tom Bukovac, “A Bone To Pick”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing beautifully
01:03 - Hello, friends
02:16 - 3 30's Martins and a Gibson J-45 Banner Head ('39 D-28, '39 D-18, '38 000-18)
03:11 - Playing: D-28
04:55 - Playing: 000-18
06:10 - Playing: D-18
07:34 - Playing: D-28
08:50 - Playing: 000-18
09:49 - Playing: Gibson J-45
11:06 - Playing: D-28
12:25 - Playing: D-18
13:06 - Banging on them
13:20 - D-18 banger
13:33 - Gibson J-45 banger
13:50 - 000-18 banger
15:18 - Summary


Notes
Pick your favorite bone from the late spring line-up of 30’s Martins that are piling up at the Homeskoolin’ Industries headquarters nerve center….warehouse…station….place.

These guitars were all built in the same factory within a year from each other, yet they are so COMPLETELY different..I even threw a bad ass old piece of Parsons Street history in there so you can compare that too