We talked about these tuning tools before.  This is to make sure that your armature bar is lined up properly.  I just want to put this in here real quick whenever we’re doing a tuning just to make sure that the armature bar is actually lined up with the vice and the tube vice hole.  I just push down on the armature bar.  This has a little groove notched out into it.  I click this in here just to make sure that there’s not very much give, that we have a pretty straightforward line.

The key to tuning is going to be a couple of things.  Keeping a straight geometry where this hole, this hole keeps these coils, that these cores lined up over the armature bar.  The armature bar springs are straight and aligned with the contact screw, which is in line with the front of the armature bar, which is in line with the tube vice hole.  Once everything is in general alignment, then you can fine-tune the alignment by putting these shims in between the gaps where you need to bring things up or down or move them left or right.  Use your 

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When we talked about the front coil getting slapped by the armature bar, you want this armature bar, the very front of the armature bar right here, to 

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How do you get that gap?  You get that gap by 

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The text above is a few cuts from the rough audio track for DVD2 (welcome tattoo apprentice DVD)