August 9th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 680, Tom Bukovac, “3 Strats And The Truth”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Senn Strat
02:53 - Hello, friends / School
03:48 - Setup of video / Jeff Senn
04:24 - '65 Fender Stratocaster - Lake Placid Blue
07:47 - '57 Fender Stratocaster - Maple
11:43 - Jeff Senn Guitars Strat-style
13:38 - Senn bridge pickup


Notes
Fresh out the bed, Larry wrestles with 3 old Strats for your viewing pleasure …showing the difference between rosewood and maple for all you tone wood believers

August 4th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 673, Tom Bukovac, “A Couple Cardinal Rules Of Guitar”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Reverb magic
04:04 - Anyway / Back to home
05:23 - Lesson: Starting guitar again...long chords / Reconnect
06:33 - NFL coming
08:00 - Lesson: Out of the game a little...jump back in
09:00 - Tile business / Music City Saddles on the Jeff Senn Guitar / Collison Devices, Black Hole Semetry
10:04 - Movie: Warrior
11:25 - Lucky in life...selling guitars / '57 Strat incoming
13:26 - 'Tom Bukovac' video search / Broken cardinal rules
14:36 - Lesson: Cardinal rule - Bend up and down on certain strings
15:39 - Lesson: Cardinal rule - Bend with fingers together for more power
16:56 - Lesson: Cardinal rule - Sometimes the thumb is nessa!
24:36 - Things you think about on your death bed / Thanks


Notes
There’s not a lot of things in the world of guitar that I would say a person should ALWAYS ALWAYS do, but there’s a few…

Thanks again for all the kind words of support and donations to the channel friend

It helps more than you know

Today’s amplification courtesy of Vox Unlimited

July 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 665.9, Tom Bukovac, “Fret Heads”

Chapters
00:00 - Refret class taught by Greg Voros


Notes

Uncle Larry and his dear boys stop by Gruhn Guitars on a lovely Sunday afternoon to visit the guitar repair workshop hosted by Greg Voros and Tony Nagy


Lots of cool shit and cool people happening here as you can clearly see

Hope you enjoy

and friends , if you wanna jump in on the next round of this contact Tony Nagy

Tony@gruhn.com
Tony is the guy setting all of this up

July 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 665, Tom Bukovac, “Six String Steinway”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Exploring a different route
02:17 - "Got a million ideas that can come at you" / Greg Voros guitar class at Gruhn's / Show: I Shouldn't Be Alive
04:28 - Martin Herringbone / "Tumbleweed City" off the new album
05:30 - Lesson: Tumbleweed City (Amin7 -> pick inside a strum C/G -> Gmin -> Gmin6 -> F)
07:20 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Cleaning the cluttered house and real organization
10:52 - Cleveland friend troubles
13:11 - Neil Giraldo
15:21 - "What key is your favorite?" - B is home base
16:18 - "What are the most important speakers made?" - Celestion / Vox Silver Dog / EV


Notes
Uncle Larry delves into some titillating VCB on a steamy Sunday afternoon, whilst coaxing ancient tones out of woods from trees that were probably cut down before Prohibition was even a glimmer in Andy Volstead’s eye.

July 8th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 662, Tom Bukovac, “Get Your Groovemaster On”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello Homeskoolers / Music City Bridge saddles
02:20 - 1 saddle at a time to match old saddles / No string tree string wrap on peg
04:00 - Listening for a difference in the saddles
04:22 - Part 2: Looking good
05:45 - Part 3: Taking time / Documentaries
07:37 - Playing / Intonation / Trifecta
09:43 - Playing / Ryan Adams


Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya how to turn your Strat from zero to hero

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I’m tellin ya friends …this MCB shit really fucking works …I can already tell the guitar is WAY better than it was …check em out friends

Check out these docs

The Grand Coulee Dam
The Brooklyn Bridge
Flood In The Desert

June 26th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 657, Tom Bukovac, “Cigarette Burn Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing Gibson SG
05:47 - Hello Rock 'n' Roll Enthusiasts / Wild West of parenting / Ken Burn stuff
07:31 - Forming of this country and the old days
09:18 - Question: "What year would you have chosen to be born?"
10:00 - Gregg Allman documentary (The Music of My Soul)
11:12 - Reese Wynans / Book: Sky Dog
13:02 - Question: "What Classic Rock band should you be in?"
14:43 - '65 Gibson SG ('64)
15:00 - Putting different tuners on a guitar / 99.9% it is bridge
17:15 - Denmark Street Guitars good story
19:08 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: Fender Tweed Deluxe
20:55 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '63 Gibson ES-330
21:16 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: Fender Tweed Deluxe


Notes
Uncle Larry offers up a few cool items for the garage sale

59 tweed deluxe 7500…local pickup only
63 es-330 chopped for old 60’s parent sticker humbucks 6K

Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com

May 30th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 636, Tom Bukovac, “The Harsh Truth About Being Uncle Larry”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Rickenbacker
02:33 - Hello / Pepe the dandruff attendant
03:30 - '59 Rickenbacker 360 Capri with work by Greg Voros
05:07 - James Burkett - Harmony Sovereign
07:09 - "Harsh Truth..." / Nashville difference between now and then
09:10 - Word of mouth is the only way / Son interruption / Rate of pay the same
10:56 - True story: Paying band members
14:30 - Playing: Pink Floyd - Hey You
15:27 - Hot movie recommendations
16:09 - Thanks and James Burkett
17:27 - Duesneberg at Gruhn's Guitars


Notes
I just wanted to try doing one of these “harsh truth” clickbait titles that everyone is doing now, just to see if this video would get a zillion views…the harsh truth is that it probably won’t.

the ACTUAL truth is that i'm just checkin' in to show you guys the INCREDIBLE restoration work that dear Greg Voros did on my trusty old '59 Ricky Capri 360, and also show you one of the amazing acoustic guitars that James Burkett in Dothan Alabama builds for way too cheap....whilst concluding with a quick but effective tour of the recently added "Duesenberg Wing" at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN.

Co-starring, Cory Terrell, Emmett Rozelle and young Marshall Bukovac.

stay tuned and stick around if you happen to be into bad ass old golden era Gibson and Fender guitars my friends...ol' Uncle Larry's got some top shelf freshly hornswaggled grade A 100 % wood pussy to show y'all real soon....i got a feelin' you're gonna like it

May 27th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 635, Tom Bukovac, “Dad’s Old Amp”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends / Fender amps galore!
03:14 - Playing: the Jeff Senn into Blackface Vibrolux
06:33 - Playing: the Gretsch
08:05 - Light shock and playing with some players
09:00 - Session advice?


Notes
Tube amps are on their way out , haven’t you heard??

Well, not in this town…

Uncle Larry thought you guys might enjoy a quick gander at this lovely old 1966 Fender Vibrolux that he purchased recently from the Sutton family.

Bryan’s dad Jerry bought this amp AND the factory black 1959 Gibson ES-345 that you always see Keith Urban rocking out on, for 150.00 back in about 1968, in Asheville NC. (No I’m not kidding)

I owned that ES-345 for a while, I had it TOTALLY restored…the thing was a BASKET CASE when I first got it….literally in pieces.

Greg Voros did all the extensive restoration work on it….when it was done it turned out AMAZING.

Even though I loved it , I could tell it wasn’t MY guitar…I sold it to Keith and it has literally been his personal favorite guitar for about 10 years now .

Old guitars are cool….you’re cool

May 23rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 631, “How To REALLY Tune A Guitar By Ear” with Vince Gill

Chapters
00:00 - Martin D-18 and intro to video
02:44 - Gruhn's guitars hanging / Vince Gill tunes guitar
08:00 - George Gruhn weighs in / Guitar 2 tuning
12:00 - Difference tuning makes on chords
14:06 - "No note"
15:07 - Jack Schneider and a '57 Martin 000-28 original acoustic
16:47 - '26 45


Notes
It was damn hard not to title this video “Tuggin’ It With Vince and Larry”, but i somehow resisted the urge.

Vince Gill, George Gruhn, Greg Voros and young Jack Schneider join the class for today’s fun at the greatest guitar store on planet earth, Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN

Any man with half a brain knows that, right next to hitting a 102 MPH fast ball, tuning a guitar by ear is one of the hardest things in this world to do…correctly

Special thanks to Vince for showing us HOW to do it …
special thanks to Nathan Golliher for the beautiful restoration work he did on this sweet old 48 Shade Top D-18…
special thanks to George Gruhn for creating such an amazing environment for guitar lovers to thrive in way back in 1970 …
and special thanks to Greg Voros for being the coolest dude that has ever lived.

April 25th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 610, Tom Bukovac, “Bone To Be Wild”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Acoustic style in the utmost beauty
01:49 - Hello friends! / Gruhn's
04:15 - '39 D18 for sale
05:13 - '57 SJ for sale
11:17 - '65 Gibson Thunderbird


Notes
Uncle Larry randomly accesses memories from his last 10 days of heavy sessioneering and offers a couple life changing acoustics for sale, in an effort to fund his recent decision to buy a 39 "Bone"

Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you want to move some money around to greatly improve your personal happiness

Every single person that I have seen pick up either one of these two guitars IMMEDIATELY loves it …and I have some fucking picky friends

April 24th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 609, Tom Bukovac, “Ice Cold Beards”

Chapters
00:00 - Back at Gruhn's with the '65 Guild Thunderbird S-200
10:39 - "What is the coolest Guild electric?"


Notes
Uncle Larry visits with the boys at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN on a lovely spring day

After a world class refret by Greg Voros, this old 65 Guild S-200 Thunderbird went from playing like a log wagon to being one of the best playing guitars I have.
I am ABSOLUTELY STUNNED by the complete transformation.

Starring:
Greg Voros
Cory Terrell

April 14th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Southern Strings”

Chapters
00:00 - Bringing out the old Senn


Notes
Uncle Larry unwinds after another day in the studio

February 27th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 586, Tom Bukovac, “Killdozer”

Chapters
00:00 - Ja'mon'
03:17 - Hello, friends
04:02 - Happy Friday / Producer friend talks, "Trying to be as comfortable as possible for as long as possible..."
07:43 - Funny story about son / Killdozer - Marvin Heemeyer / Son's song he created "Channeling"
14:44 - Amazon Prime series Soul Power and the history of sports


Notes
Uncle Larry recounts a funny story from yesterday regarding the crazy musical mind of his dear sweet 10 year old boy Leo.

January 31st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Tele Savales”

Chapters
00:00 - '69 Fender Telecaster with Bigsby
02:37 - Playing acoustically


Notes
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

January 20th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Vastly Improved Playability”

Chapters
00:00 - Tuning up the Rickenbacker because it played like shit
02:32 - Nut spacing
03:44 - Mods
05:22 - The transformation / Raise bridge, lower nut
06:59 - The "buzz open"


Notes
Uncle Larry brings his old 58 Ricky Capri to Gruhns for a MUCH needed set-up.

Greg Voros and Peter were kind enough to do a quickie set up that took it from zero to hero in about 30 minutes

Much appreciated fellas!!!

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
….
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?

December 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin Volume 535, Tom Bukovac, “The Boss’s Guitar”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello
01:29 - Vince Gill's '54 Gibson Les Paul
03:29 - A.I. hasn't affected work / Straps
05:50 - New Brett Papa album / New Country star albums / Ozempic and weight loss drugs
07:08 - Humidifiers
08:12 - Collision Devices - Tars and Black Hole Symmetry / NFL
10:58 - Rickenbacker thanks
15:20 - '52 Gibson Les Paul mini humbucker install
19:04 - Do you regret doing any work? / Country version of First Cut is the Deepest by Cat Stevens & Sheryl Crow / John Shanks


Notes
Uncle Larry sets up a cool old chopper 54 Goldie with some cool history

September 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Session Update “Someone Left The Cake Out In The Rain”

Chapters
00:00 - Sound Emporium look about
00:32 - Jeff Senn Guitars refin (explanation here)
01:42 - Osmo Pocket 3 (stabilized camera)
02:35 - Fred Mullen, Larry Paxton, Greg Marrow, Pat Coyle gear (Slingerland drums)
03:33 - Jenco
04:23 - Look at some charts
05:37 - 'The Human Phaser' - acoustic guitar top muting
06:09 - Lesson: Bryan Sutton Bb voicing [7 5 4 0 x x]


Notes
Day two of tracking Jimmy Webb at Sound Emporium studio in Nashville Tennessee

Sweetest dude in the world

Lots of chords and lots of fun friends

May 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 452, Tom Bukovac, “Gold Tooth Display”

Chapters
00:00 - That Dean sustain
01:23 - Hi, friends / Ebo Reverb for preamp
03:15 - Lesson: Chord that no man should be able to play [25 5 4 4 2 0] Dmaj7913
03:48 - Vince Gill power trio
04:11 - Dean Cadillac
05:00 - Tal Wilkenfeld / Freaky brains
07:00 - Duesenberg Multi-benders
09:24 - Yngwie Malmsteen
12:24 - Maximumlarry.com course
13:17 - Lesson: Crazy lick
14:41 - Middle pickup on guitar vs bass
17:00 - Thanks
18:30 - Gretsch 6161 amp / Trade bait ES-330 for Bubba


Notes
Uncle Larry rambles a bit on this fine Wednesday....special thanks to the boys at Gruhn's for dialing in this old Dean Caddy....it's on fuego now

The thumbnail depicts the first of many bumps and bruises that the new Hellcat will be sustaining over it's next few years of rigorous speed testing on the poor helpless streets of Nashville Tennessee

so, do you guys think that Gus could play what happens starting at around 2:47 of this video?
Alcatrazz - Yngwie Malmsteen

i might have just been a dream, but i think i may have heard Gus play something similar to this one night at a mind blowing Chinese buffet gig in St Lous when he was doing music from his seminal instrumental heavy metal album "Master Of Peepees"

May 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 450, Tom Bukovac, "maximumlarry.com/course"

Chapters
00:00 - Gibson Firebird string changing
02:17 - Dean Cadillac back from Gruhn's
03:09 - Second wave of vintage / Pink Ibanez
05:03 - Jedd's copied amp circuit and Ebo
07:21 - Shaq, convertible Hellcat
16:00 - Redd Volkaert
22:18 - Gruhn Guitars Inc. - George Gruhn


Notes
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