Surprised to see you here on a Saturday evening, but a very nice surprise.I think the most of us missed you and are glad to see you back.Excellent repair on the Gretsch and the bass was a nice change of pace.thank you for taking the time and work to bring us these most informative and enjoyable videos.Until next tine God bless.
Truly inspirational repair work. That jack color matching was pretty amazing. And we all just enjoy your wit and delivery. The Bob Ross of instrument repair....
Great job matching the color around the Jack repair. It looks natural, matches the grain, and wear. When you started working on it, and when putting in the wood patch, I was thinking about how difficult it was going to be on a Burst. I'm impressed.
Incredible Job @twoodfrd 👌🏼 @picksalot1 speaking bout a burst, i found this little entertaining video today ua-cam.com/video/vgOepLrHkTA/v-deo.htmlsi=NTjeMm4kFzPlTKcC Also a really neat job!
I just repainted a Mustang guitar in this antique white color then put on a new red tortoise-shell 4-ply pickguard. Sprayed the white top coats over a tan primer which gave a little bit of an aged-looking amber undertone, then hand polished it to a semigloss. Looks aged but cared-for, not like a 'relic' job. This guitar was formerly gloss metallic blue with white pickguard, and it was a nice paint job but it just didn't turn me on. Your eyes would be drawn straight to the pickguard, and the blue paint did not show off the nice offset body shape. Wow, what a difference now! The antique "Olympic" white body, red pickguard, maple neck and rosewood fretboard make for a really beautiful and flattering color combination like the bass in today's video. Now I want one of those!
Nice work as usual. Those caps are 47nF and 10nF. That stands for nanofarads. Looks like the 10nF is directly across the pickup to earth. This would lower its resonant frequency fairly significantly I would think. Six poles works ok for bass, the string response is actually quite even. FWIW I strongly recommend using closed cell neoprene for installing bass pickups. I buy it in A4 sheets, 12mm thick and with self adhesive backing. That soft grey foam will not spring back and make it impossible to adjust the pickup. Cheers mate!
@@Obscurity202 Yeah, it'll work ok for a while, but I work on a lot of basses, and I often have to replace this stuff. I think a lot of pickup makers even suggest just using the grey foam from their pickup packaging.
So a capacitor is essentially a short-circuit for high frequencies, the larger the value the more lower frequencies it attenuates. Ie. if you place it in series with the signal it acts as a high-pass filter (ie. it reduces lower frequencies), if you place it between the signal and ground it acts as a low-pass filter ie. it reduces the higher frequencies.
@JWsDPP yes. Sort of. In this case, it will probably roll off the high treble, but since it is in parallel with the pickup, a (huge) inductor, it may actually increase the low treble or upper mids. But that depends on the inductance of the pickup, and the load of the pots. A cap and an inductor in parallel creates a resonant circuit. The frequency of that resoant peak is related to the actual inductance and capacitance. (You can look up the LC resonance formula. The maths aren't hard. It's an inverse square relationship IIRC.) Pickups also have their own capacitance. So does the guitar cable, The height (amplitude) of the resonant peak is dependant on the impedance load of the pots, and the input impedance of the amp (or pedal, DI, recording interface etc).
Nice, wasn't expecting a video this week! PS Never expected to see H.R. Giger cited in a guitar repair video, which is exactly why I come here every week
I had to do that with the tuners on my Precision - it's my age, a 1973. They would barely move at all. I took them each apart, polished off all the surfaces, and lubed - all the stuff I saw was recommending a StewMac wax-based lube, but I wasn't going to pay what they wanted for that. I used unflavored Chapstick. Perfect.
I can hardly wait to see the Gretch again. Your work on the headstock is amazing. I would never have thought you could get the original logo back. I really look forward to your videos Ted, the craftsmanship is truely fun to watch. Thanks for the vids...
Note about the 6-pole pickup that was originally in the bass. You are always focused on the string being over the pole piece, but in this case, there are 6 pole pieces and 4 strings which could in fact give you a "better" signal than with 4 poles. I have done a few measurements of the output signal from the pickup based on the vertical location of the string. Quite an interesting profile of the output signal.... just think about that in between the pole pieces you get contributions from both of them to the output signal.
Hi, true Master, i watch and learn, thank you so much for detail in narration, most just put music to it. I enjoy it all, Master Craftsman, great teacher. Be well.
I’ve never cared for tortoise shell material in any application and admit that I let out a lightly audible groan when I saw the new pick guard material for the Musicmaster, but man, does it look nice with that aged cream finish.
Just watched Tom Bukovac's channel where he was visiting Gruhn's in Nashville where another fine repairer of all things stringed was admiring the work done on a 1959 Gibson Les Paul. That's right, the holy grail of electrics!! The thing had crazy mods that the new owner wanted remedied. The work was as you'd expect from a Gruhn's employee. However, the work that Ted did on this ES easily rivaled it, if not surpassed it when considering the instruments involved. Ted is such a master at this, and the bar is so incredibly high at this point in lutherie, that I had to comment and say, Thank You, Ted for being such an inspiration and example in this great art of craftsmanship. Cheers, mate!!
Lol. About 12 years ago, I also had to cut a replacement pickguard for a Musicmaster bass. I made a template for it, and like you said will probably be the case with yours, I haven't used it again since then. My collection of templates is pretty ridiculous at this point, haha. It's always good to keep them around though, you really never know when you may need them again! I was also surprised to see six pole pieces on the back of the pickup. I said to myself "Oh, CBS, you cheap bastards!" lol.
Short scale basses are just like you said. That hollow body looks great from here and good luck with that volume pot. Would like to hear both pups. Good stuff , almost always a great pleasure to learn from your videos. The only ones not quite a pleasure are for obvious reasons that you state clearly but are still informative.
5:40 Shame or no shame, my ‘76 Musicmaster bass sounds really good. They nailed it. I only wish mine *looked* as good as that one. Same colors, just a lot more yellowed now.
My first bass purchase was a used Musicmaster bass and it came with a dead six-pole Mustang pickup. I had it replaced with a DiMarzio PBass pickup. This was back in the 80s.
Just the most beautiful work, then the "bad pot", and I was like this poor fuck has to deal with this the next day. Love you and your channel man. Thanks
THe bass turned out great! Evan Gluck worked on my guitars for many years., He's awesome. I'm glad he gets recognition from the guitar repair community.
I don't know much about basses, but; that looked really nice after you got through with it. The yellowing and the material you chose for the pick guard made it very attractive.
First video where Ted worked on a guitar I actually own! crazy meta feeling. I used the music master for quite a while when I just starting to play, was kind of dissatisfied with the tone; I ended up learning about the guitar pickup thing. It was a worthy explanation why 😂now I know roughly how difficult it would be to switch the thing out, Thanks Ted.
worked on a similar bass ages ago and replaced the original pickup with a Seymore ducal quarter pounder...Sounded great and didn't have to do any mods as it was the same size as the original.
Great job! Interestingly Neck stamped by J. Torres. He was a longtime employee at Fender from pre CBS times, and there is a bit of a cult around necks carrying his stamp, believing they are extra good. Have one myself and can’t tell if it’s better or worse… So many mysteries in guitarland..
A small 3 axis router table, laser cutter, or shaper origin would really augment your workflow for template making/headstock engraving etc Although they are expensive initially.
Great masterful work as always Ted. Good choice of a pickup for that short scale bass.... That 330 seems to be a problem child.... You get it all together then find it has another problem! Good luck repairing the bridge volume pot...
For a budget bass you REALLY made it look awesome! Easy to imagine the sweet tones through an actual bass amp with the TV Jones. Great job on the color blend for the Gretch. Feel sorry about you having to work through the F holes... 😪 Love my thin line- hope to never have to work through the sound holes.
Hey Ted, here's a little hack to make your bass playing sound like a bass line (not that what you did was bad or anything). At the third fret of the E string play a G in a "day-today-today-today-today-today...." rhythm. Then your good to go to sound like George Thorogood or ZZ Top...do it on open E and you're 95% the way to Roadhouse Blues. lol.
Just for your info 473k is .047 ufd first two numbers are actual numbers 3rd is number of zeros expressed in picofarads (10 E-12) and the K denotes tolerance
Teds intro music has reached within metres of CBCs hockey night in Canada theme of yesteryear for me. The extended period between our fibre optic weekend visits has caused my psyche to lean heavily upon euphoric recall and reruns :-) Ted you are just steps away from the friendly giant with his friends Rusty and Jerome …ah yes, I can hear that theme music now.
You should start premiering your videos. I'd love to be talking about this and asking questions. I'm just watching the view count go up every few seconds, so there are definitely many people here right now watching this along with me.
@twoodford nice job as always ... i assume with that top-loader bridge u could use short scale strings and not have to use mediums like u have to on say a thru body mustang bass bridge?
Imagine cutting that patch around the input jack less like an oval and more shaped like the grain around it. I'll bet it would disappear. Don't get me wrong. It looks great! You "get it"
"That's 18 years ago now folks"
Why you gotta do me like that Ted
We have to go back!
Thought it was more like seven or eight…
That hurts hard 😂
I’d call that color buttermilk.
Nooooooooooo!!!
At first I thought "What kind of thumb pick is Ted using with that bass?" Then I realized it was a Band-Aid.
That's a Curad .5 mm thumbpick
@@jeffthevideoguy23 Nah, Curads are only 11/16 wide. The tone is more Curad though...
@@jeffthevideoguy23 Ha!
Same lol
Surprised to see you here on a Saturday evening, but a very nice surprise.I think the most of us missed you and are glad to see you back.Excellent repair on the Gretsch and the bass was a nice change of pace.thank you for taking the time and work to bring us these most informative and enjoyable videos.Until next tine God bless.
Hallelujah! Ted’s back.
Truly inspirational repair work. That jack color matching was pretty amazing. And we all just enjoy your wit and delivery. The Bob Ross of instrument repair....
Great job matching the color around the Jack repair. It looks natural, matches the grain, and wear. When you started working on it, and when putting in the wood patch, I was thinking about how difficult it was going to be on a Burst. I'm impressed.
Incredible Job @twoodfrd 👌🏼 @picksalot1 speaking bout a burst, i found this little entertaining video today
ua-cam.com/video/vgOepLrHkTA/v-deo.htmlsi=NTjeMm4kFzPlTKcC
Also a really neat job!
Yes I was skeptical of how it would look, but the result is excellent.
I like the mother-of-vanilla-pudding color on that bass. I'd love to have a short scale bass like that wired with PJ pickups.
That is just... SUCH an evocative description.
I was thinking the same. That looks to be a fun, light weight little hotrod.
@@ElvesvsShinyRocks Heh... Dad always said I had a way with words, and that someday it would get me into trouble
I just repainted a Mustang guitar in this antique white color then put on a new red tortoise-shell 4-ply pickguard. Sprayed the white top coats over a tan primer which gave a little bit of an aged-looking amber undertone, then hand polished it to a semigloss. Looks aged but cared-for, not like a 'relic' job. This guitar was formerly gloss metallic blue with white pickguard, and it was a nice paint job but it just didn't turn me on. Your eyes would be drawn straight to the pickguard, and the blue paint did not show off the nice offset body shape. Wow, what a difference now! The antique "Olympic" white body, red pickguard, maple neck and rosewood fretboard make for a really beautiful and flattering color combination like the bass in today's video. Now I want one of those!
Nice work as usual. Those caps are 47nF and 10nF. That stands for nanofarads. Looks like the 10nF is directly across the pickup to earth. This would lower its resonant frequency fairly significantly I would think. Six poles works ok for bass, the string response is actually quite even. FWIW I strongly recommend using closed cell neoprene for installing bass pickups. I buy it in A4 sheets, 12mm thick and with self adhesive backing. That soft grey foam will not spring back and make it impossible to adjust the pickup. Cheers mate!
I was thinking the foam looked too soft too
@@Obscurity202 Yeah, it'll work ok for a while, but I work on a lot of basses, and I often have to replace this stuff. I think a lot of pickup makers even suggest just using the grey foam from their pickup packaging.
So a capacitor is essentially a short-circuit for high frequencies, the larger the value the more lower frequencies it attenuates. Ie. if you place it in series with the signal it acts as a high-pass filter (ie. it reduces lower frequencies), if you place it between the signal and ground it acts as a low-pass filter ie. it reduces the higher frequencies.
@JWsDPP yes. Sort of. In this case, it will probably roll off the high treble, but since it is in parallel with the pickup, a (huge) inductor, it may actually increase the low treble or upper mids. But that depends on the inductance of the pickup, and the load of the pots. A cap and an inductor in parallel creates a resonant circuit. The frequency of that resoant peak is related to the actual inductance and capacitance. (You can look up the LC resonance formula. The maths aren't hard. It's an inverse square relationship IIRC.) Pickups also have their own capacitance. So does the guitar cable, The height (amplitude) of the resonant peak is dependant on the impedance load of the pots, and the input impedance of the amp (or pedal, DI, recording interface etc).
As a scale model enthusiast was surprised to hear Tamiya product come up in a luthiery context!
I question Tamiya when it comes to scale (looking at you 1/20th F1 cars) but they know how to make paint.
Nice, wasn't expecting a video this week!
PS Never expected to see H.R. Giger cited in a guitar repair video, which is exactly why I come here every week
Ted's channel is the place for some Guitar Salad Surgery...
I had to do that with the tuners on my Precision - it's my age, a 1973. They would barely move at all. I took them each apart, polished off all the surfaces, and lubed - all the stuff I saw was recommending a StewMac wax-based lube, but I wasn't going to pay what they wanted for that. I used unflavored Chapstick. Perfect.
I can hardly wait to see the Gretch again. Your work on the headstock is amazing. I would never have thought you could get the original logo back. I really look forward to your videos Ted, the craftsmanship is truely fun to watch. Thanks for the vids...
Note about the 6-pole pickup that was originally in the bass. You are always focused on the string being over the pole piece, but in this case, there are 6 pole pieces and 4 strings which could in fact give you a "better" signal than with 4 poles. I have done a few measurements of the output signal from the pickup based on the vertical location of the string. Quite an interesting profile of the output signal.... just think about that in between the pole pieces you get contributions from both of them to the output signal.
Hi, true Master, i watch and learn, thank you so much for detail in narration, most just put music to it. I enjoy it all, Master Craftsman, great teacher. Be well.
I’ve never cared for tortoise shell material in any application and admit that I let out a lightly audible groan when I saw the new pick guard material for the Musicmaster, but man, does it look nice with that aged cream finish.
Just watched Tom Bukovac's channel where he was visiting Gruhn's in Nashville where another fine repairer of all things stringed was admiring the work done on a 1959 Gibson Les Paul. That's right, the holy grail of electrics!! The thing had crazy mods that the new owner wanted remedied. The work was as you'd expect from a Gruhn's employee. However, the work that Ted did on this ES easily rivaled it, if not surpassed it when considering the instruments involved. Ted is such a master at this, and the bar is so incredibly high at this point in lutherie, that I had to comment and say, Thank You, Ted for being such an inspiration and example in this great art of craftsmanship. Cheers, mate!!
Lol. About 12 years ago, I also had to cut a replacement pickguard for a Musicmaster bass. I made a template for it, and like you said will probably be the case with yours, I haven't used it again since then. My collection of templates is pretty ridiculous at this point, haha. It's always good to keep them around though, you really never know when you may need them again!
I was also surprised to see six pole pieces on the back of the pickup. I said to myself "Oh, CBS, you cheap bastards!" lol.
"....non-intermittent in a bad way...."😂
I am constantly in awe of your patience and good humour Ted.
I try hard to never miss a video Ted. Thanks, great repairs and first class soundtrack (as usual).
That color match is choice! The explanation of the sprayer and how it doesn’t melt previous coats in this sort of situation is great.
You always make it look so simple and I suppose it is if you have the tools and experience !
Top notch work as usual Ted !
Wow, that's great bass!
Nice work
as a bassist, i always love seeing an episode with one! thanks for sharing!
Sterling work as usual mate. Particularly enjoyed the bass pickup swap.
Hi there Ted. Glad you are back.
The guitar that wouldn't go home. I have had a few of those in my shop lol. Good stuff!
patch looks great! thanks for these videos, i do enjoy them
I have 78 musicmaster too. Such a comfortable instrument. Put in a drop-in 4 saddle bridge, a McNelly pickup, I love that bass!
Short scale basses are just like you said.
That hollow body looks great from here and good luck with that volume pot. Would like to hear both pups. Good stuff , almost always a great pleasure to learn from your videos. The only ones not quite a pleasure are for obvious reasons that you state clearly but are still informative.
You are a credit to us repair guys of a fuller figure 😊
You turned that down-scale 1970s bass into an up-scale 1960s bass!
The new pick guard on the Bass looks fantastic!!
Nice to have you back.
5:40 Shame or no shame, my ‘76 Musicmaster bass sounds really good. They nailed it. I only wish mine *looked* as good as that one. Same colors, just a lot more yellowed now.
My first bass purchase was a used Musicmaster bass and it came with a dead six-pole Mustang pickup. I had it replaced with a DiMarzio PBass pickup. This was back in the 80s.
Just the most beautiful work, then the "bad pot", and I was like this poor fuck has to deal with this the next day. Love you and your channel man. Thanks
THe bass turned out great! Evan Gluck worked on my guitars for many years., He's awesome. I'm glad he gets recognition from the guitar repair community.
Watching someone performing his art is always nice and satisfying. Thanks.
I haven´t watched your videos in a while, and it´s great to be back!
So soothing watching you work while explaining, thanks a lot 😃
Love that bass! Looks awesome!!!
Love ya work Ted! Can’t wait for the next brilliant episode!
Holy crap that looks fantastic!
Wait...sorry...BOTH look fantastic!
Great cosmetic work on the 330.
That bass turned out awesome.
Always interesting. Great way to start the day. Thanks.
Cool smorgasbord this week. Thank you Ted.
Another beautiful restoration! All of these videos are really professionally done, and I almost understand what he’s doing.
Google him. He’s on a video by someone else, describing his workshop, etc.
Beautiful job as always!
Aged white (olympic white?) and tortoise is the best combination. Thanks Ted!
Thank you for another amazing video! Cheers!
Great stuff Ted, as always!
That Musicmaster bass… mine was powder blue. Six string pickup and everything.
had one in the 70s, wish I'd kept it....
I don't know much about basses, but; that looked really nice after you got through with it. The yellowing and the material you chose for the pick guard made it very attractive.
First video where Ted worked on a guitar I actually own! crazy meta feeling. I used the music master for quite a while when I just starting to play, was kind of dissatisfied with the tone; I ended up learning about the guitar pickup thing. It was a worthy explanation why 😂now I know roughly how difficult it would be to switch the thing out, Thanks Ted.
worked on a similar bass ages ago and replaced the original pickup with a Seymore ducal quarter pounder...Sounded great and didn't have to do any mods as it was the same size as the original.
That bass... I've had my eye on Thunder'Blades for a while now. Trying to decide if they'd be a good fit in a baritone.
i used a bridge humbucker , with chrome cover, from an epi les paul for a baritone. very nice, full and clean tone.
Not the most esteemed Fender creation....i love that so much.
Aah yes, the Hans Ruedi Giger theatrical grime spatter technique.
After 5 years at conservatory I know it well.
Great job! Interestingly Neck stamped by J. Torres. He was a longtime employee at Fender from pre CBS times, and there is a bit of a cult around necks carrying his stamp, believing they are extra good. Have one myself and can’t tell if it’s better or worse… So many mysteries in guitarland..
I think about that same John Patitucci story all the time when I'm setting up basses! :)
A small 3 axis router table, laser cutter, or shaper origin would really augment your workflow for template making/headstock engraving etc Although they are expensive initially.
Great masterful work as always Ted. Good choice of a pickup for that short scale bass.... That 330 seems to be a problem child.... You get it all together then find it has another problem! Good luck repairing the bridge volume pot...
That plastic looks gnarly-I’d be tempted to build a sandblaster-like cabinet for the router table.
A wonderful tidy job on the Fender bass. Now it just needs a set of flats.
I sold a music master to a guy in Hong Kong last year, Olympic white, as this one is. $1500. Even budget guitars become valuable eventually.
For a budget bass you REALLY made it look awesome! Easy to imagine the sweet tones through an actual bass amp with the TV Jones. Great job on the color blend for the Gretch. Feel sorry about you having to work through the F holes... 😪 Love my thin line- hope to never have to work through the sound holes.
Having Za, a frosty pop and rocking in my chair( for those who like to rock)..all with Uncle Ted...Saturday Night Heaven.
From the thumbnail, I thought this was a Dave's world of fun stuff video :)
Hey Ted, here's a little hack to make your bass playing sound like a bass line (not that what you did was bad or anything). At the third fret of the E string play a G in a "day-today-today-today-today-today...." rhythm. Then your good to go to sound like George Thorogood or ZZ Top...do it on open E and you're 95% the way to Roadhouse Blues. lol.
It looks French vanilla and Fender Bass is good no matter what model it is ! The Fender Factory gets it right!
Thanks for the videos Ted
H.R. Giger? That's too funny! ;)
One of my favorite things about your videos is that you are ALWAYS wounded.
That's a sign of a maker.
To each it's own - I like a bass to be low to feel air movement from to what bass is real neat to watch solos! Cheers!
Love the sound you got from that bass Ted.
that jack patch brilliant looks great
He's back ❤
An amazing video, your hard earned skills on display. Fine work, really impressive.
Impressive patch & match on the 330!
Thank you for the video. String spacing on bass (distance between D and G) seemed slightly weird to me.
welcome back sir.... nice little bass there..ihave a small body bass myself( cort curbow, red)
"That was 18 years...." Hush you.
Yeah, but 28 years ago was the era of pointy Strats in neon-crackle finish!
Very much appreciated, Ted. Mark Morrison.
Just for your info 473k is .047 ufd first two numbers are actual numbers 3rd is number of zeros expressed in picofarads (10 E-12) and the K denotes tolerance
Hollow body’s can be a pain in the ass to work on. You can tell Ted had had enough after he realized he’d have to get the tone pot fished out.
Teds intro music has reached within metres of CBCs hockey night in Canada theme of yesteryear for me. The extended period between our fibre optic weekend visits has caused my psyche to lean heavily upon euphoric recall and reruns :-) Ted you are just steps away from the friendly giant with his friends Rusty and Jerome …ah yes, I can hear that theme music now.
You should start premiering your videos. I'd love to be talking about this and asking questions. I'm just watching the view count go up every few seconds, so there are definitely many people here right now watching this along with me.
Nice job on the patch
Frisket!! Ha! Man, there's a word I've not heard or uttered since my days at graphic design college!
Sympathetic repairs are very satisfying to watch.😀
Great job! What kind of Tamia paint was that you sprayed on the headstock?
And now Fender does exactly the same pickup trick with the Squier Bronco bass
@twoodford nice job as always ... i assume with that top-loader bridge u could use short scale strings and not have to use mediums like u have to on say a thru body mustang bass bridge?
8:58 That's a washer from a Schaller strap lock, or I'll eat my hat.
Great video but would have liked to have heard how the original pickuo in the bass sounded.
Thanks Ted!
Thanks, Uncle Ted.
Imagine cutting that patch around the input jack less like an oval and more shaped like the grain around it. I'll bet it would disappear. Don't get me wrong. It looks great! You "get it"
Great job Ted.
Nice work young man , morel please !
Thank you Ted 👍🎸❤🔥