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1953 Gibson L-50 with hand wound Gold Foil pickups
Just a little teaser for an upcoming series for the restoration of an abused 1953 Gibson L-50 archtop. The previous owner had hacked pickups into the top (and through the braces) so I decided to turn a lemon into lemonade and retro-fit some Gold Foils I hand made using traditional the construction method of wrapping very thin coil wire around a rubberised ferrite magnet.
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1969 Martin D-28 Restoration - Part 6 | Spraying the body
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1969 Martin D-28 Restoration - Part 6 | Spraying the body
1969 Martin D-28 Restoration - Part 5 | Filling the grain
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In this series we’ll be restoring a very sorry looking 1969 Martin D-28 - the last year of the Brazilian back and sides. In this episode I work out the ideal bridge position, drill the bridge pin holes, sand the top down and fill the grain on the back and sides using a shellac and sawdust method I learned from Robert O'Brien.
1969 Martin D-28 Restoration - Part 4 | Setting the neck
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In this series we’ll be restoring a very sorry looking 1969 Martin D-28 - the last year of the Brazilian back and sides. In this episode I re-set the neck so that it's at the optimal angle for great action, remove the bridge then plug the old bridge pin holes.
1969 Martin D-28 Restoration - Part 3 | Removing the neck
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In this series we’ll be restoring a very sorry looking 1969 Martin D-28 - the last year of the Brazilian back and sides. In this episode I inspect the relief and string alignment to assess what needs to be done during the neck reset. We then take the plunge and remove the neck... using foam cutters....
1969 Martin D-28 Restoration - Part 2 | Removing the terrible finish
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In this series we’ll be restoring a very sorry looking 1969 Martin D-28 - the last year of the Brazilian back and sides. In this episode we strip off the terrible shellac finish and get to hear the guitar for the first time
1969 Martin D-28 Restoration - Part 1 | Assessing my $6k investment...
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In this series we’ll be restoring a very sorry looking 1969 Martin D-28 - the last year of the Brazilian back and sides. In this first episode I assess the guitar, take a look at the neck angle, and repair the abused saddle slot. BUT... I also make an ENORMOUS mistake when removing the pick guard... I suppose there are 3 options to choose from: 1. Don't make any mistakes ("...I've made mistakes...
Fender Strat Relic Restoration - Part 2
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This American Professional I Stratocaster came to me in a very sorry state having had a DIY relic performed on her. In this video we sand the epoxy layer, paint and polish the guitar.
Fender Strat Relic Restoration - Part 1
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This American Professional I Stratocaster came to me in a very sorry state having had a DIY relic performed on her. In this video we strip the guitar down, sand it back and fill the voids with a thin skim of epoxy resin.
Bringing a Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble back from the dead
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In this video I try and justify my drunken purchase of a vintage chorus pedal by attempting to repair it (despite being a massive idiot with electronics).
Gibson SG Special Restoration - Part 7: Final Assembly & Reveal
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Well, that was a whole lot of work, but I hope you agree it was worth it! In this video we do a final assembly of the SG including cutting the nut, and winding the pickups. We then do "The Big Reveal" including some sound clips of the guitar with the T-top style hand wound pickups with coil splits. Thanks so much for supporting me with the first of many video series for this channel. Your subsc...
Gibson SG Special Restoration - Part 6: Wet Sanding and Buffing
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In this video we finish off the SG's re-finish by sanding the cured lacquer smooth with wet and dry sandpaper, before buffing it up to a mirror shine!
Gibson SG Special Restoration - Part 5: Restoring the logo
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In this video we try and save the original Gibson screen printed logo with a series of questionable and somewhat unorthodox tricks... can we pull it off?! We also wet sand our initial clear coats, before applying a final round of Microtone MIROCAT pre-catalysed lacquer.
Gibson SG Special Restoration - Part 4: Grain filling, staining and painting
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In this video the SG Special gets grain filled, stained, sealed and sprayed with Heritage Cherry Red nitrocellulose. Grain filler: Timbermate wood filler Stain: Feast Watson Prooftint Sealer: Mirotone Mirocat 3244 Sanding Sealer Base Coat: Dartfords (Rothko & Frost) Heritage Cherry Red Nitrocellulose Spray Gun: ANI R160 Music: Number Station - Way Down Low open.spotify.com/track/1GxlfRNKqvLcV2A...
Gibson SG Special Restoration - Part 3: Fretting & Sanding
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In this video we install a new set of frets, do some experiments with colour, grain fill and stain, and then sand in preparation for paint.
Gibson SG Special Restoration - Part 2: Stripping and removing the frets
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Gibson SG Special Restoration - Part 2: Stripping and removing the frets
Gibson SG Special Restoration - Part 1: Fixing the broken headstock
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Gibson SG Special Restoration - Part 1: Fixing the broken headstock
the back and sides look ok but that top is ugly.....
It’s actually come out looking lovely. Wait until you see it finished and with the pickguard and bridge in place before passing final judgement :)
They do sell a bridge removal tool. It has a big wooden ball handle, curved steel blade, and the end is like a chisel. If you can get it under a good maple or rosewwood bridge plate you can pop it off in one sharp/quick motion. I admire your patience with the plane.
Yeah I think I’ve seen those. I’m actually not planning on removing the whole bridge plate though as despite them not being as desirable as their maple predecessors it’s part of the heritage of this particular guitar. Unlike the big block of rosewood glued to the bottom of it!
Looks awesome! Great job!
Thanks so much for your support. Means a lot more than people realise I think, especially when I’m being called an a’hole by the trolls!
I’m really a solid body electric guy but that is absolutely gorgeous!
Hah yeah I’m with you! Archtops aren’t my thing but this one came out nicely. I ended up fitting a pickguard at the new owner’s request and it actually looked great.
Doesnt look like Brazillian rosewood tho, not that I could tell the difference ;)
I used to quit at #1800 grit
Just call me an idot please! As I now see you DO go up in sandpaper grade my bad please ignore first comment
Haha I would never do such a thing - I’ll leave such behaviour to the trolls! From memory on this guitar I went up to 1500 but I’ve since reverted to going up to 2000 grit. In retrospect, it’s a false economy to skip the finer grits and spend twice as long buffing!
Next time you might try taping the logo with pin striping tape they go down even finer that that logo
That’s actually a great idea. It would have to be super fine though!
Yes worth saving the logo for sure. Pain in the ass? Yes but still worth it
Thanks, Joe. Yeah I agree on both counts!
I wonder why you don't use a very high grade of sandpaper? I see many Luthers go up as high as #1200 grade before finishing then end with a nano product like the N3 nano kit protectant?
Nice!!
Thank you.With a value that high it has to look and play as good as you can get it.Customers at those price tags will be very discerning unless it has a very special provenance. At the end of the day it's your guitar, you're making the decisions and judging by the results thus far you're doing an excellent job. Looking forward to the next episode.
It’s looking really good, the amber hue is spot on! I’m really curious now, looking forward to hear how it sounds!
Thanks very much for your support!
It looks very nice, and a lot better than when you received it. Ignore the naysayers; it's your money, and your guitar. You weren't the one who messed it up with the first "refinishing", and I think you've sorted it out. Play it, and enjoy it, or sell it to another player rather than a pedantic collector.
Thank you so much for your comment. It honestly means a lot. This was always going to be a player’s guitar and I think a lot of people forget this, and where this guitar started its journey of restoration.
I'm really excited to see how it comes out. It is looking great. Your second pronunciation of oxalic acid was correct.
Thanks very much for your support, and yep - Oxalic! I don’t know why I struggle so much with that word 😂
Now is time to sun burst
Hahaha sacrilege!
I admire your patience trying to save the original logo however the value of the guitar doesn't warrant the time and effort you are investing. Doesn't matter how good it looks it won't be original. Neither colour nor hardware. It has a neck break and some silly cosmetic issues that you can neither remove or disclaim. That's why it ended up on the scrapheap. The hardware being sold by the previous owner to soften the blow. Your pickups may be better than the originals and the hardware as good but it's not original and not Gibson. The finished guitar may look, sound and play better than the original but it's still almost worthless. That, unfortunately is the way the market works. They cost around 1500 quid new (a lefty might be a tad more expensive) and used prices start at around 800. All original and no neck break.
Hey thanks for your reflection here. In many respects you’re right, particularly about the previous hardware and electronics likely being flogged to cut losses, and probably also about trying to save the logo. Luckily I was still able to sell the guitar for the equivalent of about £775 some time ago. Thanks for watching!
@@BeardsworthGuitars Yes I saw afterwards that it was an old video. Pleased you sold it and I've no doubt whatsoever it was worth that price. It's the market that's strange. If you buy an aged guitar new you pay more but if you're trying to sell a used instrument with a few battle scars it will be difficult. I gave up trying to sell my Vox Standard 24 with DiMarzio SD's because potential buyers offered me the price for the used pickups but not for the guitar. Note this guitar was made at the Matsumuko factory in 1979 and is as rare as rocking horse shit
I love that colour.
With martins with no trust rod, you can pull a few frets in a few places with a new ret with a wider tang which pushed the neck straight.
That’s a great tip actually, thanks. I know StewMac sell that tang crimping tool. Might be worth a look. Thanks for watching!
So you payed a tone of cast for a martin, and and you rip off the pick guard with out protecting the time? I seen some use dental floss and sawed back and forth after heating it up,
That about sums it up… It was absolutely an exercise in what not to do but you live and learn, and ultimately the guitar will not be affected by the blunder. Great tip re the dental floss btw. Thanks for watching.
I believe the neck pickup is upside down at 16:52.
Hah yep - well spotted! Not sure whether I installed it upside down before or after cutting the nut right handed but I was obviously having an off day! You’ll see the pickup orientation is corrected later on. Thanks for watching :)
You should should sing tenor. Tenor twelve miles away
I’m touched that you think my singing is the most troll-worthy part of this video.
Looking great. Keep them coming.
Thanks very much for the support!
Beautiful
Thank you 🙏
amazing job again i can not wait to see and hear it at the end
Thanks so much - and me neither!
Thanks again for taking the time to record and edit these videos. They are excellent entertainment and education
Thanks so much for all your support and being with me from the start on this journey. Very much appreciated!
It’s coming out great! Looking forward to finishing the top (from video 1, when some fibers remained attached under there pick guard / I’m obsessing over it 😂). The shellac has already given a lovely amber hue! Keep going man!
I had tried to compartmentalise “the incident”, but editing the video brought it all back… not my finest hour!! Hopefully I shall redeem myself. Thanks for your support!
@@BeardsworthGuitars well you know, I also mess around with guitars, and I can assure you that my success rate is substantially lower than yours 😂 if I made videos, the channel should be named “a luthier-y disaster” keep building man! Looking forward to the next one !
I love the look of the guitar, it's hard, patient work. I have a Martín OM-28 guitar in which the last two holes of the bridge pins are a little lower in relation to the others, is this normal? The sound and tuning of the guitar seem good. Thank you.
It’s a little unusual but it could be an effort to keep a more consistent break angle over the saddle I suppose? Shouldn’t affect tuning though as it’s behind the saddle which is what determines the intonation. Thanks for watching!
@@BeardsworthGuitars Thank you very much for the reply. I also think it may be due to maintaining a more constant break angle on the saddle, because the wood, for whatever reason, is a little weak at that point, I don't know. I wrote to Martín but they have not responded yet. I'm curious to know.
Looks great!
Thanks!
Shielding is not necessary
That musta been one hell of a lap dance.
Poly knows how to give a good time.
Why don't you level the frets before finishing? A lot less risk that way I would think
That would make sense in theory but unfinished wood is more prone to movement so you’re best off making the guitar stable by sealing it with finish, and preventing large changes to moisture content before levelling the frets.
The walnut finish would have been a seriously classy guitar. That said, it was finished very well.
Yeah I agree. Maybe next time around I’ll have the courage not to paint it the same colour as every other SG! Thanks for your support
I had that exact same jumper in blue. God, I miss that. Best jumper ever. Great vid. I think Mahogany guitars should always have woodgrain visible when finished.
Hah I still wear it an excessive amount a) because it’s my favourite and b) because I keep spending all my pocket money on ridiculous guitars like this one 😂 Thanks for your support!
Monkeys are not allowed anywhere near the shed where the live grenades are stored "Humans" who suck the glass pipe should never be allowed to have anything sharper than a crayon.
Trying to work out if I’m the monkey or the meth head in this metaphor 🤔
@@BeardsworthGuitars You are neither. you're the guy who's trying to unscramble the eggs. you didn't cause this. But I think I do know what happened. Moe called in sick that day, and Curly was in charge.
Curious situation here, and maybe I didn’t see something, but I watched it three times to be sure, when you are setting the neck, you place a piece of sandpaper on the body, say 5cm worth, then you set the neck on top of it and pull the sandpaper out. In your case you started by doing this five times to each side and then you did a little more on each side until you got the “set” you wanted. Now I notice you were very careful to do this and equal number of times on each side, which tells me this is a very sensitive adjustment and even the smallest amount of sanding makes a great difference. So here’s my observation: switching our attention from side-to-side to front-to-back, when you draw the sandpaper through the joint all 5cm moves past the wood on the back of the neck but the front of the neck gets almost no sanding (I guess the very end gets cut by one grain of sand). Thus, after five pulls, the front has been sanded by five grains of sand while the back has seen twenty five centimeters of sanding paper come through. Does this uneven sanding treatment have the effect of making the neck tilt backwards ever so slightly adding to the bow or did I miss something you did to make the sanding strokes even from front-to-back?
Yeah this is a really good observation and is actually exactly what’s happening. Over time, guitar bodies fold slightly due to the tensile forces from the strings. The net result is that the neck tips too far forwards resulting in high action. When setting the neck what we are actually doing by design is moving more material from the end of the neck heel and less on the fretboard end of the heel. Essentially removing a very small triangular section of wood. So the fretboard end of the heel hardly has anything removed. The other advantage here is that removing material from the fretboard end would shorten the scale ever so slightly by moving the nut closer to the bridge. This with throw your intonation off. Just one correction here though - this process doesn’t make the neck bow. It remains straight- it’s just the it angles further backwards. Hope that helps!
It does, and thanks for the reply. The solution works well on a rebuild but would work against you on a new rebuild. Didn’t think about it getting closer to the nut. Another very good point. Thanks for the response.
Just saw five more parts to this .,caught last two..we'll be watching them as this guitar is a beauty....👍
Haha yeah - being succinct has never been one of my qualities! Glad you’re enjoying them. Thanks for watching :)
Beautiful man...👍
yet another great job and video cant wait to see the next
Coming soon!
Titebond II ??.. Why not original Titebond, it doesn't creep over time
I normally use Titebond 1 on my builds and for everything else will be using hot hide glue on this one. But for the veneers the glue’s sole purpose is just holding the veneers in place. The forces are compressive rather than tensile and the veneers are sandwiched between the neck tenon and the neck block mortise so creep wasn’t a concern.
Epoxy - 1936. Patent 1946. There times when it is fine, especially if the use is very limited, as here. Good stuff!
Hello Tom! I LOVE your content and this Martin series is truly fascinating! The fact that you also show mistakes is so fresh and enjoyable. It’s a great learning journey for me, as I also mess around with guitars (electrics so far and planning to restore an old nylon for the first time now). So keep up with the excellent work, I am truly looking forward to the next one. Ciao Dario
Great work 👍 Are you using Nitro clear?
Sure am! Behlen stringed instrument lacquer. Thanks for watching :)
Interesting job, only just come across this series, so will check the full story. Epoxy has been around for a good while: fibreglass boats were made certainly from the early '60s, if not before.
Yeah I hadn’t really considered its use in things like fibreglass. Thanks for watching.
Great to see that you're addressing all the problems as you get to them. I think intonation above the 12th was always an issue with these guitars but let's be honest there's not usually much happening at the sticky end of a an acoustic guitar with a traditional body shape. Even Ted Woodford doesn't worry too much about this issue. It is what it is and you do what you can. Judging by the neck joint Martin were still doing everything by hand in the late 60's but that doesn't explain why the neck wasn't centralised with the bridge. I'm starting to ask myself whether it might be better and easier to just make a new bridge but you're the man up close so I expect you'll be taking a close look and weighing up your options. Using acetone on that old binding certainly scared me a lot but you've obviously done it before or you wouldn't have gone hell for leather on a vintage Martin. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
Yeah you don’t want to hang around with the acetone or stay in one place for too long because it definitely will turn the plastics to soup. That’s partly why I didn’t strip the paint with it. The bridge is actually not in bad shape. I think it just got glued back slightly off centre in a previous repair. Cheers for watching!
G'day Beardsworth Guitars, Thanks for a great video. I'm enjoying this series - I like seeing someone who knows what restoration means. I was particularly interested in the method you used to remove the bridge. I have an old nylon string guitar, where the strings have torn through the bridge. It's just a cheap guitar that I bought in the 80's, to get back into playing, but it should be repaired. I'll give it a try one day. If I can remove the bridge without damaging the soundboard, I'll go through the rest of the guitar, & see how it all turns out. Keep up the good work Andrew
Hey Andrew, thanks for the kind words! This bridge removal method works great with both hide glue and regular white wood glue. You can get all sorts of heat blankets etc for the job but honestly an iron does the trick. It’s just a bit awkward. Good luck with your project! Thanks for the support. Cheers, Tom
No worries, Tom. I'll pinch mum's iron to get the job done - just don't tell her what I've done with it. LOL
Looking great! I’ve been hoping for this video and looking forward to the next one. You’re making the best of a pretty messed up situation, and I really appreciate patients, care and concern for the old guitar.
Thanks very much for your kind words. The good news is that the next video is nearly ready so you shouldn’t have to wait too much longer!
@@BeardsworthGuitars Very good!
This isn't the first time I've seen this!
And won’t be the last! I actually also have an Ibanez JS100 in the backlog that appears to have had similar treatment or fallen off a motorbike 🤔
What a fantastic job you did.
Thanks so much for your support - honestly, comments like this keep me going despite the trolls.
That was as clean of a neck removal as I've seen while watching guitar repair videos. I'm not a luthier, but I very much enjoy watching you gentleman and ladies who are do your thing. The wood on this instrument is simply beautiful. I'm hooked to see how this project comes out!