January 8th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus , “The Third Floor”

Chapters
00:00 - Gibson ES-335
02:44 - Gibson Banner Head
06:35 - Back to the ES-335


Notes
One of my favorite places on this planet is the legendary third floor of Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN…the repair department.

I filmed this little video Monday before I left for Muscle Shoals, and I thought you guts might dig it .

There’s about 8 repair guys up there that work full time keeping the Gruhn inventory moving along.

This team of guys are truly world class titans of guitar repair…Greg Voros, Tony Nagy, Phil Jones, Tom Stadler, Joel, Peter, David, Julio Pinho and Nathan Golliher and a couple others I don’t know as well….but you have seen most of these guys in my previous videos.

The collective brain trust, the repair gear and the general level of high end instruments you will see up there on that magical third floor is nothing short of amazing.

Much like making it to the NFL, the guys that work up there all know how good you gotta be to even get that job in the first place …and you can tell they all respect the job and each other’s skills
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Interesting side note, young Nathan Golliher can also imitate all of the other repair guys perfectly ..and he also does George, and me …he’s like the Rich Little of the bunch.

Im this video , Julio Pinho shows us the amazing work he has been doing on my 59 factory mono es-355…and Nathan Golliher shows us the “trifecta” he just completed on my 44 banner head j-45

I never fail to appreciate the resources we have in this amazing city of Nashville…still in my opinion the best city in America …and I’ve been here for 34 years.

Where else on earth are THIS many talented musical minds all collected together?

April 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 424, Tom Bukovac, “Sunday Morning Acoustic Shootout"

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming
01:38 - Hello, friends! / Playing
02:40 - Lesson: Unexpected cool chords
06:25 - '64 Gibson J-50
06:56 - Martin D-28 Age Authentic
10:17 - J-50
11:15 - '64 Gibson J-200
13:14 - The Who and cell phones banned rant
16:05 - '43 Gibson J-45 Banner Head Mahogany
21:38 - J-45 Banner Head
21:59 - J-200
22:24 - D-28
22:50 - J-50
23:22 - Lesson: "What song are we playing"


Notes
Uncle Larry explores the dark corners some sweet old acoustics on a nice relaxing Sunday morning....grab a nice coffee and enjoy the ride.

friends....why do we all have all these different instruments?

is it an obsession? maybe

is it because we never know what song we are gonna be playing next? probably

if you are indeed enjoying this fine Sunday morning sermon, the collection plate is being passed through the aisles

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