Inspired by you, Ted, I just purchased 3 LP clones, with necks broken, just like that Epiphone, and fixed them. They are perfect. I sanded my glue down, so the scars are there from sanding, but the cracks are undetectable by feel. I have no intention of hiding the scars, they are part of the story. Thanks for your tutelage. I would have never attempted that prior to finding your channel three months ago and binge-watching them all.
@@luiscuixara4622 Relatively inexpensive guitars that suffer from fractures or cracks never end up going having the money spent on them to fix them in the first place. These are mostly the ones that end up in the hands of amateur home repair people that watch this and other luthier channels. If anything these videos will take away from the production guitar market and keep luthier's in business doing the more critical work. ...Just my two cents...which is not enough to make it sound out of tune.
@@luiscuixara4622 If you're gonna get offended, at least apply basic logic first. Ted (And a lot of pro luthiers have similar rules) has said HUNDREDS of times that he doesn't work on Chibsons (Except for that Zakk Wylde lefty, and even then he noted it was an exception to the rule.)and thus 99.9999999999999% of Chibsons/Chenders end up in the landfill. Michael using what they've learned watching Ted to apply (And proper application of what you've learned is knowledge...) to keep some Chibsons/Chenders out of the landfill doesn't affect Ted's/pro luthier work, because Ted was never gonna work on them to begin with.
In a difficult world (for me at the moment, at least), the most reassuring, relaxing intro mucis and words in the world. Thanks, Ted - and that's before I event watch the vid and learn loads.
I hadn't made a nut in a long time. That was until yesterday. Wish I could have watched this video first as a reminder to ramp the slot and protect the headstock :). As always, you've given us an informative and enjoyable video. Many thanks!
In college we studied twisting forces on a cylinder. After a lecture on all the math the professor picked up a piece of chalk and twisted it. And just as the math predicted it broke in a corkscrew manner.
27:12 I know why it has these 2 patches, there's some cracks that needed to be plugged. I recognize these as Sound post Patches:ua-cam.com/video/09j5mV2qbCY/v-deo.html
I’ve had a special edition Taylor 914ce crack at the neck very similar to the one you work on in this video. Now I understand how and why the repair is undetectable to someone who doesn’t know what to look for. Amazing professional work thank you for showing us your art.
'A bit of a rise at the end of the finger board' - I built myself a telecaster and found the pick guard thickness was causing a pushing of the fingerboard upwards. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Ted. You've taught me a bunch, especially about measuring using dial calipers.
Also, I have fixed 4 guitars using your methods with neck cracks. All but one came out fantastic. The other was broken so severe there were little pieces missing. I got it all filled and fixed. Played fantastically. Just wasn’t pretty and my airbrush is trashed so I couldn’t blend in the color and finish. It’s left a Frankenstein scar. Thankfully my friend was fine with it and like that is shows scars says it shows it’s a workhorse and it’s been through hell but still here, still working, still rocking. (This was friend that just wanted it to play, not a customer of any kind)
Wonderful concise instructions and walkthrough..! Thanks so much..! Now I need to track down the fish glue and syringe for my repair on my Gibson TBird bass..! Thanks man!👍🏼
You Sir, are a master of the craft. I have learned so much and appreciate every video you make. I look forward to every Saturday and I just can't thank you enough. Matt
About that nut sloth height - I had the opportunity to visit one of the world's most famous boutique guitar manufacturer. They use the "click-clack" method: When a ruler pulled of the nut slot makes a "clack" sound on the fretboard, the slot is too high, if it makes a "click" sound, then it's just right. :D
If I was a luthier, my vanity license plate would probably be "NUT LUBE". Very, very few would have a clue about my profession. That fractured neck turned out superbly, by the way.
You can avoid shipping damages like this by making a really tight form for the body (at least the upper part directing to the neck) with a hot wire tool from hard foam. Then glue this foam form in the guitar case / package so that the force, if the package falls to the neck, is absorbed by the foam; the neck should be free, so that no force is applied to it. In other word: fixate the body, not the neck, and this in a way that the body cannot move more than app. 1/2 inch or 1 cm. Of course you have to prevent that force from the side is applied to the neck, so the package mus be quite big or very stable. You can buy a cheap foam guitar case, glue your custom body holding foam form in it, then put it in a package. You would need really huge forces to damage this sort of package, which is very unlikely.
To gage the distance between two cylinders at right angles I prefer using a cylindrical gage. It's more like gapping spark plugs than setting points or valves.
I expected to see remove material from the set screws on the Tele bridge barrels...I know mine needs them filed down a little shorter... Great work as always...
Found your channel via a mention from Adam Savage during his video "Favorite Tools: Heat Gun and Iron" video. I have now been working my way through your back catalogue. Amazing stuff dude, learning so much!! Thank you for the great content.
my guess is at some point someone put steel strings on the violin and it cracked at both sides of the bridge or it made old cracks worse, so they got it 'fixed' and reverted to gut strings
Fantastic video. Yet another.! I love it when you really break stuff down and explain. I appreciate your guidance. It's helped me and my guitars so much.
Helicore Strings would be a huge improvement over the Gut Strings & by changing the friction pegs out to Geared ones it'll hold tune more plus you won't need fine tuners on the tailpiece anymore now that you have geared pegs.
I just finished doing a new setup and string change on my 1964 Matsumoto Japan Mustang it’s the best cheap guitar I own. I paid $50 for the loaded body and the neck pocket was splitting apart and the back had a seem opening up so I cleaned the area and the fitted the joints and glued with triple bond glue in both areas and clamped them up then you know the routine I just waited for the drying in two days I started setting up the guitar
Many thanks for sharing your skills. I copied your technique to set a Casino neck: an almost identical break, although I did need to drill some holes & heat the hide glue to make it injectable 👍👏
My nut tip: use a clip on tuner on the headstock. File each nut slot til you get a perfect half step between open string and first fret in half position. Go slow. If you go too deep, a little CA and nut dust. I never go by height. Try my way, and let me know what you think. Intonation is achieveable on the cowboy chords, and sets up for a clean fast action as you finish your setup. Peace!
I have been repairing guitars for many years now and have fixed maybe 60 or so over the years, amazing but one I have just repaired had exactly the same break point as this one (which as you said is unusual) I have never ever had any returns with my neck repairs and everyone always tells me that after the repair the guitar actually feels and plays better than before it was damaged, I am sure you have come across this with your own repairs and I am certain you will know the reason which is this, the guitar was never set up properly in the first place before the break, time after time I hear this, of course the answer is is to pay someone who actually knows what they are doing and while it is being set up get the guitar man to fit some STRAP LOCKS, nearly all the breaks I mend have been the result of strap failure and of course in this case shipping, when I buy a guitar online I always insist the seller remove the strings and then the neck put the screws and neck plate in a bag and tape the whole lot together, easier to pack as well.
I ordered a Pelham blue Gibson SG from American Musical Supply and the first one came fed ex and there was a crack from the knob all the way around to the pot cavity and so I sent it back and I got a second one and wouldn't you know it same thing so I sent that one back finally three times was a charm .
Great video. Succinct with clarity of detail. Amazing what work goes into the repairs. This was very educational. A real asset to UA-cam. They are lucky to have this content 👍 Thanks and much appreciated!
I bought the Music Nomad nut file complete set and so far so good. I have used them on about a dozen guitars in the last month or two, on various nut materials including bone and Graphtech. So far I haven't noticed any loss or wear to the diamond coating.
Thankyou Ted. I have 3 cheap Chinese made hofner shorties that need the nut slots sorted and this information is perfect. (These hofner shorties are not set up at all out of the factory, they are pretty terrible). I bought a couple of shorties a few years ago and they both have fret buzz and don't play the accurate note on the first couple of frets. A week or so ago I bought a hofner shorty deluxe and a hofner shorty bass and they also have the fret buzz and are not playing the accurate notes on the first couple of frets. I'm an idiot for buying more shorties but I thought the online store might have sorted those issues before delivering them. Both these new guitars have frets that are not seated (gaps underneath every bit of fret wire), which is really terrible lol.
I feel your frustration from working with dangerous tools which could easily cut you very badly and then getting hurt on the k8nd of things people would never imagine like a sharp piece of wood or in my experience from building models a piece of shim steel or thin plastic sheet.
You got your calling as a Luither your very fortunate that your able to be a professional craftsman in life because a USWA on Zug Island was RUNNING MAN PRISON 30 years. You are doing much better than I ever did lol 😂
Wow! My 2 favourite guitars a tele with the same bridge (I put grooves in it against advice.) and a casino with the same neck damage. It's interesting that you don't use 2 part adhesive. There are some really thin epoxies that are moisture resistant forever.
Great projects! I agree with the "what do you gain from putting locking tuners on a guitar like this". I own an old OLP MM1, and I make sure to put more windings on the D and G-string, otherwise the angle won't be sufficient. The G-string travels quite a bit, just like on the MusicMan Guitars, so you can imagine that a few wraps won't be enough. Keep up the good work! Cheers.
I repair guitars, but speaking of shipping, I worked at a bike shop, and bike boxes are BIG. It says on them what direction to have the box and to not stack them. Every week they would come in stacked? I called UPS. They said to have instructions written on the box? I didn’t get very far explaining. Shipping company’s simply do not care. They have insurance and they accept the fact that there will be inevitable shipping damage. This is why I recommend flight cases and racks for everything. Absolutely everything. You roll it out, one plug, roll it back. I was a stage hand for a summer and if the act didn’t have flight cases it took longer and was risky. Invest in good cases and it’s going to pay you back.
While I’ve never (and god willing never will) seriously damaged one of my instruments to the point of needing repair, I see the dings and dents and scratches and wear as chapters in the guitar’s story. The scars tell me that these are tools, not just artwork to hang on the all. I can’t afford collector grade guitars but even then I feel like the scars add to the perceived (if not monetary) value of the instrument.
25:35 This is an August Kniezel Violin/Fiddle. I figured out why the soundboard has these 2 patches (1 on each side), there were some huge cracks in the soundboard w/ big chucks of wood missing so rather than make a new soundboard, they simply made some patches so they could plug those cracks up.
I had never heard of fish glue. The glue that I saw recommended for such woodworking repair was Gorilla wood glue which is a water based PVA adhesive. It is claimed to be the strongest type glue for wood repairs.
Little tip for getting glue deep into those tight cracks, after injecting the glue blast it with a can of canned air. It's messy but it will force it down into it.
It would be nice if when your working on the guitar you explain the tone wood used for fretboard and the metals used for frets and other parts and the other parts that I always wonder about like the plastic Gibson nut I didn’t know that until you told me Gibson used plastic nuts! Thanks again for your help!
Really love your videos and techniques, but just got to comment on the Deft - to acquire some in the UK suppliers are asking for anything from about £50 to £100 per can, plus £40 or £50 shipping - for a can of laquer!!!
Nice video, thanks. Could you not adjust the downward angle of the strings with a string tree? What about the tuning problems with too many windings on the peg, isn't that why we use locking tuners (as well as quick string replacement)? The saddles have quite a sharp compensation angle, could that make string breakage issues? And the bridge plate looks quite thin, could that translate to weaker sound?
Inspired by you, Ted, I just purchased 3 LP clones, with necks broken, just like that Epiphone, and fixed them. They are perfect. I sanded my glue down, so the scars are there from sanding, but the cracks are undetectable by feel. I have no intention of hiding the scars, they are part of the story. Thanks for your tutelage. I would have never attempted that prior to finding your channel three months ago and binge-watching them all.
So, 'Professional shows amateur how to take work away from professional' ? As Ted hath said: ''Not a good business model." . . .
@@luiscuixara4622 doing it properly takes so much work that most will gladly pay a good luthiers to do it. Im sure hell be alright lol.
@@luiscuixara4622 Relatively inexpensive guitars that suffer from fractures or cracks never end up going having the money spent on them to fix them in the first place. These are mostly the ones that end up in the hands of amateur home repair people that watch this and other luthier channels. If anything these videos will take away from the production guitar market and keep luthier's in business doing the more critical work. ...Just my two cents...which is not enough to make it sound out of tune.
@@luiscuixara4622
If you're gonna get offended, at least apply basic logic first.
Ted (And a lot of pro luthiers have similar rules) has said HUNDREDS of times that he doesn't work on Chibsons (Except for that Zakk Wylde lefty, and even then he noted it was an exception to the rule.)and thus 99.9999999999999% of Chibsons/Chenders end up in the landfill.
Michael using what they've learned watching Ted to apply (And proper application of what you've learned is knowledge...) to keep some Chibsons/Chenders out of the landfill doesn't affect Ted's/pro luthier work, because Ted was never gonna work on them to begin with.
@@luiscuixara4622 There's enough work for everybody.
In a difficult world (for me at the moment, at least), the most reassuring, relaxing intro mucis and words in the world. Thanks, Ted - and that's before I event watch the vid and learn loads.
It is the mucis that binds us.
@@MegaChoo2words to live by my friend
i got some mucis in my sinus cavity, you can have it
If you don’t have “Penetration is Paramount” on a piece of merch soon you’re just leaving money on the table.
You win this week’s best comment Steven. Hilarious.
I'd buy that shirt
Are we taking pre-orders yet....I need this in my life!!
😂😂😂
Facts 😂
August Kniezel was an instrument maker.
I love the description of the 'lisping' string.
Im a finish carpenter,40 years, and of course a guitar junky. I find your videos very satisfying. Thank you.
Ohh Danny Gatton. That full beer bottle slide is sooo awesome
I own a Telecaster and am most appreciative of the valuable tips and procedures shown here.
if you look closely on the label of the violin its says 18.. something, looks most like 1898!
Lovely stuff. Incredible reveal at the end. Invisible repair. Cheers Ted.
What a treat this week. Loved the detail on the nut of the tele.
I hadn't made a nut in a long time. That was until yesterday. Wish I could have watched this video first as a reminder to ramp the slot and protect the headstock :). As always, you've given us an informative and enjoyable video. Many thanks!
the violin could have had certain undesirable symbols inlaid into it which were removed at some point in the first half of the 20th century.
I use “the press test” when setting up my home built ukuleles. Works great!
In college we studied twisting forces on a cylinder. After a lecture on all the math the professor picked up a piece of chalk and twisted it. And just as the math predicted it broke in a corkscrew manner.
Did a similar thing with my fibula a couple of years back.. :-)
@@dughuff8825 QED :-/
27:12 I know why it has these 2 patches, there's some cracks that needed to be plugged. I recognize these as Sound post Patches:ua-cam.com/video/09j5mV2qbCY/v-deo.html
I’ve had a special edition Taylor 914ce crack at the neck very similar to the one you work on in this video. Now I understand how and why the repair is undetectable to someone who doesn’t know what to look for. Amazing professional work thank you for showing us your art.
'A bit of a rise at the end of the finger board' - I built myself a telecaster and found the pick guard thickness was causing a pushing of the fingerboard upwards. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Ted. You've taught me a bunch, especially about measuring using dial calipers.
You are not a Luthier, you are a wizard. I absolutely love your work.
Many thanks, especially for the detailed coverage of nut issues. (Splendid extra item at the end, too.)
Also, I have fixed 4 guitars using your methods with neck cracks. All but one came out fantastic. The other was broken so severe there were little pieces missing. I got it all filled and fixed. Played fantastically. Just wasn’t pretty and my airbrush is trashed so I couldn’t blend in the color and finish. It’s left a Frankenstein scar. Thankfully my friend was fine with it and like that is shows scars says it shows it’s a workhorse and it’s been through hell but still here, still working, still rocking. (This was friend that just wanted it to play, not a customer of any kind)
Wonderful concise instructions and walkthrough..! Thanks so much..! Now I need to track down the fish glue and syringe for my repair on my Gibson TBird bass..! Thanks man!👍🏼
Dan Erlewine is my personal hero, and I love your attention to detail.
Awesome video!
Man, I love your channel! I love it when you bust out that Korg tuner! Brings me back to the 90's.
I used to work for UPS. I'm kinda surprised that anything makes it intact
A foreboding sound. Man I love your vocabulary lol.
You Sir, are a master of the craft. I have learned so much and appreciate every video you make. I look forward to every Saturday and I just can't thank you enough. Matt
About that nut sloth height - I had the opportunity to visit one of the world's most famous boutique guitar manufacturer. They use the "click-clack" method: When a ruler pulled of the nut slot makes a "clack" sound on the fretboard, the slot is too high, if it makes a "click" sound, then it's just right. :D
Thanks for the tip re: the DEFT Satin Clear Finish. That is awesome.
Excellent video as usual. The info and explanation on the parts-tele nut is super- informative and helpful. Thanks!!
If I was a luthier, my vanity license plate would probably be "NUT LUBE". Very, very few would have a clue about my profession. That fractured neck turned out superbly, by the way.
Yes, it is indeed important to "maintain that rounded bottom we prize so much!" 😁
You can avoid shipping damages like this by making a really tight form for the body (at least the upper part directing to the neck) with a hot wire tool from hard foam. Then glue this foam form in the guitar case / package so that the force, if the package falls to the neck, is absorbed by the foam; the neck should be free, so that no force is applied to it. In other word: fixate the body, not the neck, and this in a way that the body cannot move more than app. 1/2 inch or 1 cm. Of course you have to prevent that force from the side is applied to the neck, so the package mus be quite big or very stable. You can buy a cheap foam guitar case, glue your custom body holding foam form in it, then put it in a package. You would need really huge forces to damage this sort of package, which is very unlikely.
Finish blending - wow. Great tip for that product. Thank you.
I have been playing, buying and 'fixing' guitars for 65 years. Happily, I agree with every bit of your wisdom!
I love that Telecasters look.Sounds great too. Thank you!
holy crap that final shot of the repair (?) looks amazing ! it virtually disappeared! Xlnt work.
Never seen a milled brass 3-saddle tele bridge like that. Thanks
Hello Sir, Adam Savage recently mentioned your channel, and I just love it. Thank You!
Thanks. I've just (this morning) started working on my Tele. Got some insights from you I haven't found before. My instrument will be better for this.
Just got one with the same fracture. It has a painted neck that I'll smooth out with a gold filler paint to make it look like a kintsugi fix.
What a luthier. Absolutely brilliant. Very Informative
You can use suction to pull glue into a broken/dry joint, the same technique used to pull epoxy into windshield damage.
Best Nut tutorial I've ever seen. A thumbs up doesn't do justice . So, I have to say again Great Video. Thank-You.
To gage the distance between two cylinders at right angles I prefer using a cylindrical gage. It's more like gapping spark plugs than setting points or valves.
I really like that satin Deft lacquer as well. Very easy to work with, and pretty darned durable.
I expected to see remove material from the set screws on the Tele bridge barrels...I know mine needs them filed down a little shorter...
Great work as always...
I learned a gem about nut slot angle shapes!
Thanks.
Beautiful "burst" on the violin, would like to see it on a Les Paul.
Found your channel via a mention from Adam Savage during his video "Favorite Tools: Heat Gun and Iron" video. I have now been working my way through your back catalogue. Amazing stuff dude, learning so much!! Thank you for the great content.
my guess is at some point someone put steel strings on the violin and it cracked at both sides of the bridge or it made old cracks worse, so they got it 'fixed' and reverted to gut strings
Long time watcher, but a new subscriber (no excuse really) Just want to say that I appreciate the quality and the expertise of Your work.
Decoboom makes those deco styled pickguards, they're awesome
Fantastic video. Yet another.! I love it when you really break stuff down and explain. I appreciate your guidance. It's helped me and my guitars so much.
Helicore Strings would be a huge improvement over the Gut Strings & by changing the friction pegs out to Geared ones it'll hold tune more plus you won't need fine tuners on the tailpiece anymore now that you have geared pegs.
Ive had great results running locking tuners opposite a bigsby vibrato. Really helps tame that annoying restring process 😁
Some of my favorite videos on UA-cam
Great fun. Thanks for another fine video. Your skills are much appreciated.
I just finished doing a new setup and string change on my 1964 Matsumoto Japan Mustang it’s the best cheap guitar I own. I paid $50 for the loaded body and the neck pocket was splitting apart and the back had a seem opening up so I cleaned the area and the fitted the joints and glued with triple bond glue in both areas and clamped them up then you know the routine I just waited for the drying in two days I started setting up the guitar
I believe you! Sharp wooden or resin edges are so much more dangerous because you forget you are creating them.
Graphite from a pencil in the nut slots has worked very well for me for 46 years.
Many thanks for sharing your skills. I copied your technique to set a Casino neck: an almost identical break, although I did need to drill some holes & heat the hide glue to make it injectable 👍👏
My nut tip: use a clip on tuner on the headstock. File each nut slot til you get a perfect half step between open string and first fret in half position. Go slow. If you go too deep, a little CA and nut dust.
I never go by height. Try my way, and let me know what you think. Intonation is achieveable on the cowboy chords, and sets up for a clean fast action as you finish your setup. Peace!
I have been repairing guitars for many years now and have fixed maybe 60 or so over the years, amazing but one I have just repaired had exactly the same break point as this one (which as you said is unusual) I have never ever had any returns with my neck repairs and everyone always tells me that after the repair the guitar actually feels and plays better than before it was damaged, I am sure you have come across this with your own repairs and I am certain you will know the reason which is this, the guitar was never set up properly in the first place before the break, time after time I hear this, of course the answer is is to pay someone who actually knows what they are doing and while it is being set up get the guitar man to fit some STRAP LOCKS, nearly all the breaks I mend have been the result of strap failure and of course in this case shipping, when I buy a guitar online I always insist the seller remove the strings and then the neck put the screws and neck plate in a bag and tape the whole lot together, easier to pack as well.
I ordered a Pelham blue Gibson SG from American Musical Supply and the first one came fed ex and there was a crack from the knob all the way around to the pot cavity and so I sent it back and I got a second one and wouldn't you know it same thing so I sent that one back finally three times was a charm .
wow ted!!!! very nice neck repair!!!
Looking great so far Mr. Woodford 👍🏼
Always a pleasure to watch you work
Thank you for passing on your knowledge, great video, love the violin extra
Great video. Succinct with clarity of detail. Amazing what work goes into the repairs. This was very educational. A real asset to UA-cam. They are lucky to have this content 👍
Thanks and much appreciated!
I bought the Music Nomad nut file complete set and so far so good. I have used them on about a dozen guitars in the last month or two, on various nut materials including bone and Graphtech. So far I haven't noticed any loss or wear to the diamond coating.
Thanks for the great set up tips
Thankyou Ted. I have 3 cheap Chinese made hofner shorties that need the nut slots sorted and this information is perfect. (These hofner shorties are not set up at all out of the factory, they are pretty terrible). I bought a couple of shorties a few years ago and they both have fret buzz and don't play the accurate note on the first couple of frets. A week or so ago I bought a hofner shorty deluxe and a hofner shorty bass and they also have the fret buzz and are not playing the accurate notes on the first couple of frets. I'm an idiot for buying more shorties but I thought the online store might have sorted those issues before delivering them. Both these new guitars have frets that are not seated (gaps underneath every bit of fret wire), which is really terrible lol.
Great work and really appreciate your experience and knowledge ...
I feel your frustration from working with dangerous tools which could easily cut you very badly and then getting hurt on the k8nd of things people would never imagine like a sharp piece of wood or in my experience from building models a piece of shim steel or thin plastic sheet.
You got your calling as a Luither your very fortunate that your able to be a professional craftsman in life because a USWA on Zug Island was RUNNING MAN PRISON 30 years. You are doing much better than I ever did lol 😂
Wow! My 2 favourite guitars a tele with the same bridge (I put grooves in it against advice.) and a casino with the same neck damage. It's interesting that you don't use 2 part adhesive. There are some really thin epoxies that are moisture resistant forever.
Very pretty Tele.
It would be cool to see a video on your own home guitar collection.
Great projects!
I agree with the "what do you gain from putting locking tuners on a guitar like this". I own an old OLP MM1, and I make sure to put more windings on the D and G-string, otherwise the angle won't be sufficient. The G-string travels quite a bit, just like on the MusicMan Guitars, so you can imagine that a few wraps won't be enough.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers.
Job well done,,always an education watching you.
I repair guitars, but speaking of shipping, I worked at a bike shop, and bike boxes are BIG. It says on them what direction to have the box and to not stack them. Every week they would come in stacked? I called UPS. They said to have instructions written on the box? I didn’t get very far explaining.
Shipping company’s simply do not care. They have insurance and they accept the fact that there will be inevitable shipping damage.
This is why I recommend flight cases and racks for everything. Absolutely everything. You roll it out, one plug, roll it back. I was a stage hand for a summer and if the act didn’t have flight cases it took longer and was risky. Invest in good cases and it’s going to pay you back.
While I’ve never (and god willing never will) seriously damaged one of my instruments to the point of needing repair, I see the dings and dents and scratches and wear as chapters in the guitar’s story. The scars tell me that these are tools, not just artwork to hang on the all. I can’t afford collector grade guitars but even then I feel like the scars add to the perceived (if not monetary) value of the instrument.
25:35 This is an August Kniezel Violin/Fiddle. I figured out why the soundboard has these 2 patches (1 on each side), there were some huge cracks in the soundboard w/ big chucks of wood missing so rather than make a new soundboard, they simply made some patches so they could plug those cracks up.
The crack on the Epiphone neck is terrible. Thanks Ted for sharing your caring work 🎶🎶🎶
I had never heard of fish glue. The glue that I saw recommended for such woodworking repair was Gorilla wood glue which is a water based PVA adhesive. It is claimed to be the strongest type glue for wood repairs.
That neck repair disappeared. Great job!
Nice work- as usual for you!
"Penetration is paramount" great advice, advice that also applies to a good love life 😉
Love every video. Would love to see more of your violin work..!
Locking staggered sets for fenders Is very much better.
You’re looking sharp, get down my friend. That’s how I remember to intonate.
Little tip for getting glue deep into those tight cracks, after injecting the glue blast it with a can of canned air. It's messy but it will force it down into it.
I'm a big fan of the slotted vintage style tuner over locking or for a fender use staggered tuners as they help a lot fro string pull.
Hi, funny line: "you can drive a truck through that" (first fret gap), nice. take care.
It would be nice if when your working on the guitar you explain the tone wood used for fretboard and the metals used for frets and other parts and the other parts that I always wonder about like the plastic Gibson nut I didn’t know that until you told me Gibson used plastic nuts! Thanks again for your help!
That little Tele rang like a brass bell!!!
Really love your videos and techniques, but just got to comment on the Deft - to acquire some in the UK suppliers are asking for anything from about £50 to £100 per can, plus £40 or £50 shipping - for a can of laquer!!!
Nice video, thanks. Could you not adjust the downward angle of the strings with a string tree? What about the tuning problems with too many windings on the peg, isn't that why we use locking tuners (as well as quick string replacement)? The saddles have quite a sharp compensation angle, could that make string breakage issues? And the bridge plate looks quite thin, could that translate to weaker sound?
I suppose on the tag of the violine it is not a date. In Vienna it´s common to indicate the location by stating the district(Bezirk).