@@michaelprivate8115 In the sense that the CBC did it to themselves and removed the Canadian element from coast to coast, then I might agree.On that note, the other Canadian broadcasters are just vessels for American programing.I wonder if Big Bang Theory is on right now?
The Gibson version of the Casino was the ES-330. My father owns one from around 1962 - gifted to him from one of his guitar students. This particular guitar most likely started out as a Gibson ES-330 but "customized" by an employee who liked the name Casino better than ES-330.
This guitar has the Casino fret board inlays, which are slightly different than the es-330. I think it started out as a Casino. The headstock is from an ES-345, not as ES-330. When the headstock broke, it is possible that the whole thing was replaced. It is curious that the orange label is so faded and discolored. I have heavily used orange label Gibsons, but the labels maintain their orange color.
@@radrandall No, it started as a Gibson 330. Look at the headstock. It probably had the fretboard switched. OR like I said, it was a custom one off by someone who worked there for themselves. As for the crown inlay, for a 345, they simply used a 345 headstock overlay.
I have that vibrato and it can be improved by taking it apart and lubing with graphite powder. The spring is a torsion rod and quite simple to dissemble, remove pin.
Paul McCartney has often said his Casino is his favorite guitar, and in addition to using it on for the famous solo on Taxman, and on Drive My Car and Paperback writer, I think he said he’s used it on every album in the past decade or two.
I love Casinos! I have a “coupe” of my own and a customer brought in 2019 USA full size Casino for some lacquer touch up (very nice). As always thanks for sharing!
I have an es330 of that era. Yes my small handed friend loves playing it. I remember swapping humbuckers into these guitars was popular in the 70s and 80s.thankfully now p90 prejudice is at an end now :) Merry Christmas
To see a guitar like the Casino , just amazes me. We as the audience can only surmise that you reach a lot of people. The word gets around that you can do just about any fix to an instrument. Folkways , I thought was tops for years. I think they got too expensive. A different set of business. They don’t teach ! Right out of the gate you have that great gypsy jazz tune that hugs the viewers . Thank you Ted for sharing … you are a truly amazing repair teacher of cool , fine and unique instruments . Merry Christmas to you and family . Alberta Dave 🇨🇦😊🇨🇦
It’s peculiar how people seem to experience better tone, corresponding with techniques widely spread by fora, like letting wood breathe. Usually fed from people observing old guitars, where the lacquer have been worn off from playing, sounding amazing. At least when someone named Rory is playing them. A great violinist, playing a Stradivarius, once had a visitor in his dressing room, the visitor complimented how amazing the violin sounded. The violinist opened the case, listened briefly and said: I don’t here anything.
It's called "The placebo effect", and it's a lot stronger than most would think, let alone admit. I have been building and repairing stringed musical instruments for 40+ years, and only at very first fell for some of the snake oil, but thanks to having studied electrical and mechanical engineering at the same time, and then geeking out on physics big time, learned the difference between fact and fiction pretty early on. The hardest thing to deal with, are perceived "Something special" about a physically impossible, or at least immeasurable difference nowhere near audible within the human range of hearing. Things like "This nut makes the whole instrument sound better" even on fretted strings where it has no bearing whatsoever in any audible way, the removing the finish of an electric instrument, phony misconceptions like "Tonewood" and the like where: a. the pickups cannot sense wood, but only string vibrations, and b. any string vibration into the neck and body (the preferred Good vibes BS) is at near 94% loss due to the vibrations being converted from linear waves (Strings) to radial ones (body and neck, which are forced frequencies, not resonant ones, and therefore decay quickly, where most are carried off by the players body and the surrounding air air, and any residual within a sympathetic range that can reflect back to the strings, only converts back divided by pi so an additional ~2/3 loss to the strings going from radial back to linear, leaving just enough to aid a little sustain one would not need if the instrument was stiff as a rock, and didn't vibrate as much to begin with! (
@@Bob-of-Zoid I agree, with about 15 years experience. The only way to end a discussion about i.e. tone wood properties, in electrical instruments, is to ask for proof. Wood, as you say, does not influence impedance, magnetism or any other factors that makes an electrical instrument produce sounds. And the “I HEAR A DIFFERENCE” argument simply isn’t scientific. I usually claim that practicing your scales will improve your music much more, than changing the fretboard wood of your guitar. Can you imagine the talent, a musician needs to posses, in order for the perceived subtle nuances, in the instrument, to actually make a difference?
@@Bob-of-Zoid I have been playing guitar for over fifty years and also repair and restore violins and other stringed instruments. You are absolutely right but the idiots you are talking about probably also read their horoscopes every day, are scared of walking under ladders and believe in Father Christmas. They are a gift to every conman and slick salesman who comes along. Take their money - they're too stupid to be allowed to keep it!
You can see an artisan at work, one who has encountered so many obstacles he knows how to avoid them even before they occur. I have expertise in other areas that I am reminded of every time I watch your videos, things that only come with immeasurable hours of experience.
Question on replacing the saddles, curios your thoughts on the plastic, or nylon etc. saddles, maybe not such a distaste for them on a hollow body, thanks, Clive.
Just got done fixing two ukes and a violin. The client brought them in with the most terrifying words, "this used to be my great grandfather's violin". I'm exhausted and couldn't wait to sit down and listen to you. You are so relaxing.
Thank you Ted for all of your content. Learning new things about how guitars work that I never new before. Have a safe and happy holiday. Looking forward to what you come up with next year. -Cheers
I have ‘63 ES-330 that I bought around Y2K. Absolutely luv it. Been toying around w/ doing a refret on it w/ taller frets. I will run the frets to the fingerboard edge to gain more acreage at the nut. A new nut w/ wider spacing will need to be made. This will help playability for me since I have big fingers… Also on the bridge post screws: Mine were loose & wobbley, causing the bridge to lean forward. I replaced them with stainless steel screws & superglued them in place. Along with that; I put another set of height adjusting wheels (orig were missing) against the top as they should be. Bridge is rock-solid now w/o any movement. ThxTed for sharing all your expertise on repairing guitars & your exclnt presentations…
All the best for Christmas and the New Year, Ted. I only "discovered" you during this year, and have been binge watching to catch up! Yours is now one of the first sites I check at the weekend for your new vids! Thank you for helping to keep us sane during all this current madness!
A couple of comments. First of all, of course, some of us LOVE unpotted pickups. In fact, I just bought a set of brand new Seymour pickups antiquity unpotted PAF style pick ups. Yes, some of us actuallythink that there is a kind of presence there from those weird mechanical interactions, and we love it. Also, I have some pick up that you can actually yell directly into, my Gold foils in particular. They make pretty decent microphones, lol.
Oh my God you just brought back an old memory with the “Hey good looking we’ll be back to pick you up later!” Hahaha wow. The old mic commercial. So they had that in Canada too? Lol
All the best for the holiday season! I loved the "hey good lookin we'll be back to pick you up later" reference. Nice blast from the past. Your asides I find very entertaining. Thanks much for all you do!
One downside of adding bee's wax to the mix m, it makes the pick-up smell delicious. Just ask my dog 🐕. She did her best to eat a freshly wound and potted one which now lives on as an expressionist sculpture.
I had a 1990s Korean-made Epiphone Sorrento (same body, but single cutaway with a big Florentine swoop) with two P-90s that I absolutely loved. That thin fully hollow body has such a cool tone
I had that issue with my 81 Tokai LP copy. I had to do another leveling as the neck doesn't flex the same with the truss adjustment as it does under string tension. So I made a leveling tool the length of the fretboard with 2 aluminum bar stocks. The wide end down to adhere the sandpaper down with two sided thin clear scotch tape. Like the kind you use to wrap presents. Then I jb welded the other piece thin side down the length of the other one down the middle. Looks like an upside down T from the ends. The middle support is a little thicker. THe thin side is so it can fit under the strings. THe strings do have to be lifted out of the slots of the nut and saddles and set next to the groove then tuned. I then surface the sanding side on a 3'x4' Starrett surface plate. It's flat to .000050. Or 50/million. Totally over kill unless you are going for super low action. It works perfectly. I draw a grid and level it on the plate before I level any guitar frets. It fits between and under the strings and does a few strings width at a time. I go length ways and vertical stretching the strings a little being careful to maintain the radius. It's a feel thing and marker on the top of frets helps keep the radius. I can then pull the strings for polishing. I have found for Fender Strat and Tele bolt on necks this is not needed as the harder Maple flexes less and more in sink with the truss and strings. But it is a fast easy method so I just use it on all my guitars. It does ruin the strings so I use the old strings then replace when done. I choose to use flat stock because it can be easily leveled. Stock that is machined to a radius can move with the weather. Even with aluminum braced, it can take a few seconds to get it perfectly flat or a few minutes depending on the weather differences from the last time I used it. Again it is over kill but I like to have the ability to go low action if I ever sell to someone that likes it low. Like beginners for example. Especially on hard to play acoustics with bigger gauge strings. I have small hands and need lower action on my Taylor to even be able to play it. I use 11's on it and it is almost as easy as my electrics with 9's. I could not even play it when I got it. Now it's a dream.
Another awesome video. I own a 65 Epiphone Texan FT79N and can confirm that they were very well made guitars back then. I love mine. Keep up the awesome work you do.
@@stavrospapadimitriou7631 That is one of the reasons I like that guitar so much. I don't have large hands and it's a perfect fit for me. But I can see how others might not like it.
I just started to watch your channel, I don't do the guitar thing but love fine woodworking And learn from every one that is skilled at their craft . Keep doing your repairs I will keep watching.
Just ordered a tee shirt, seems like the least we can all do for the amount of entertainment and knowledge Ted provides to us guitar nerds. I pour myself a little bourbon or scotch in my glass, tune in and watch a true craftsman ply his trade and just relax and wash my day of bullshit away. If I was in Canada, I'd trust you with my guitars Ted, that's saying something!
"Even with out the serial number, we know it's an official Gibson because it's got the proper headstock break." BEST LINE EVER!!!! Happy Holidays, see you next year!
When I wax pot pickups, I have figured out a long time ago that the wax has to get sufficiently fluid in temperature and stay that way to really penetrate and do it's job. So I tape off any areas of the pickup I don't want wax on, or to run out once done, and do submerge the pickup as soon as they will sink in (let them do it all by themselves) so that the pickups and wax reach the right temperature closer to the same time, and use the wax pot (no jar) on top of a vibrating plate (a bonus) so that the wax penetrates much easier. Temp control is important though, and low and slow works best; once it flows just right ~145F, then keep the temp there and steady. That way you can watch the bubbles come out and when that subsides turn off the heat let it cool down, but don't take the pickups out until the temp is at ~120F to prevent too much wax run-out. You can't get any more thorough penetration, and I have yet to overheat a pickup and cause damage, as the wax melts much sooner as any plastics in the bobbins or any lacquer on the wire, and by heating them up together, rather than shocking cold pickups with hot wax, you greatly reduce the chances of rapid expansion, leading to lacquer cracking and electrical shorts... Sure, there is more cleanup when done, but paraffin wax is not too hard to get off when still hot. So I let them cool thoroughly first, and then use a heat gun and and scratch free shop towel (the blue paper towel like ones) to soak up any larger unwanted deposits, mainly around the screws. For any residuals on the housing, I use another shop towel with vegetable oil (a lipophilic solvent) and a bit of elbow grease, and that does the trick in removing any fine film, or spots previously missed, and follow it with a damp (closer to dry) microfiber cloth to remove any veggie oil. I don't use it on salads... Olive oil is much better for that! Yum! (
I’m not a big commenter, but I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your work and I learn something new every time I watch your videos. I hope you enjoy the holidays and I look forward to your videos in the new year. Regard, Mark
Thanks for the diagram about filing the nibs down too far. Very helpful. And thank you for all your videos. Safe and fantastic holidays for you too. For us all.
Came across your site on the way to something else, but found your repair sessions relaxing and almost therapeutic; great skills, knowledge and narration.
Gibson used the Epiphone brand as a way to sell Gibson quality instruments in exclusive sales zones. Atleast that’s the way I understood it. I’ve had a ‘65 ES-330 and later a ‘67 Casino. Not concurrently, but blind folded I doubt you could tell a difference. As I remember the casino was louder acoustically. Sadly, now gone however I do have a Casino Coupe that has had everything changed except the wood. Lollar pickups sound great.
had some smashing video's from you this year, thanks so much for your time and effort, have a wonderful Christmas and new year, looking forward to next year cheers :)
Hey Ted. I'm Just a face in the crowd of admirers wanting to thank you for all you've done for us. I do have a question though: Since you are in Canada, How come we don't see any Godins and seagulls on your bench? I think they are a wonderful company. I'd like to hear your thoughts on that. Thank you!
Love the channel, even if I’m not Canadian! Ha Ha! You are a very good luthier! HHs and will be thrilled when you post a new video! Love from the lower 48! Thanxz
I bet if you took that whammy bar rig to a machine shop they could bush it back to spec and reinstall the springs without sproinging them. thanks for the cool videos!
Never have I seen such a tail piece as that. I do love the nylon saddles on the bridge. I had a bridge like this one on a late 60s les paul. "Back to zero" is a very good thing.
I had a Epiphone Casino in the early 70's. My cousin bought it new, took about 3 months of lessons and it hid in the back of a closet for many years. I started taking lessons and it was gifted to me one Christmas. The tremolo sucked! Ended up trading it and some cash for a well used ES-345! Merry Christmas!
6:18 "a disturbing cutlet of dried sludge" is a phrase I plan to sprinkle throughout my conversations going forward.
“We known it’s an official Gibson because it has the proper headstock break”. What a gem!!!!
“It’s like a far more complicated, and yet less efficient Bigsby.” He’s got a million of them.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@mightyluv I drill a hole in both sides and pin those crummy Epi vibrolas in place with a couple of grub screws.
That had me laughing out loud
Haha yep i laughed out loud
You should have ur own CBC/ PBS television program. You’re definitely an old world artisan. Thank you,Ted and merry Christmas.
That would be TVO .,,and it would actually be a real homegrown educational program. He'd probably get too much interference though.
So true!
But if it was on CBC no one would ever see it!
@@michaelprivate8115 In the sense that the CBC did it to themselves and removed the Canadian element from coast to coast, then I might agree.On that note, the other Canadian broadcasters are just vessels for American programing.I wonder if Big Bang Theory is on right now?
I concur.
"We know it's an official Gibson because it's got the proper headstock break" 🤣🤣
You beat me to the punch! So true...
@@pepppery Haha...very on target! I have 7 Gibsons [ 5 SGs ], and no headstock disasters yet, but there is still time...
Don't taunt the headstock gods. They'll come to your house and reenact the French Revolution if you're not careful.
@@duckrutt Indeed - 'No One Expects the Inquisition' ...
Solid lol when he said this
"We know it's an official Gibson because it has the proper headstock break..."
If that isnt the funniest line here....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So true!! I knew someone had to have posted this!
Production worker elbow nudges a co-worker as the Gibson label is affixed inside says: "This will make 'em be guessing in about 54 years".
“hey, good looking, I’ll be back to pick you up later”...now that is a blast from the past...awesomeness as always Mr. Ted!!!!
i lol'd at that mr. microphone reference.
Ted, I love they way you add the English pronunciation of "soldered" after your own "local" pronunciation...thank you !
Yea, a lot of foreigners have trouble with the English language (you ought to hear the Brits...)
Indeed we Brits do talk a little strangely ! Ted does it every time with a little sigh, humo(u)r and a nice ironic smile !
Have a great Christmas and New Year Ted. Thanks for the outstanding content. You're the best dude.
The Gibson version of the Casino was the ES-330. My father owns one from around 1962 - gifted to him from one of his guitar students. This particular guitar most likely started out as a Gibson ES-330 but "customized" by an employee who liked the name Casino better than ES-330.
This guitar has the Casino fret board inlays, which are slightly different than the es-330. I think it started out as a Casino. The headstock is from an ES-345, not as ES-330. When the headstock broke, it is possible that the whole thing was replaced. It is curious that the orange label is so faded and discolored. I have heavily used orange label Gibsons, but the labels maintain their orange color.
@@radrandall No, it started as a Gibson 330. Look at the headstock. It probably had the fretboard switched. OR like I said, it was a custom one off by someone who worked there for themselves. As for the crown inlay, for a 345, they simply used a 345 headstock overlay.
i love the es330..
I have that vibrato and it can be improved by taking it apart and lubing with graphite powder. The spring is a torsion rod and quite simple to dissemble, remove pin.
Ted I'm shocked you didn't recognise the 'detune bar™️' that takes the guitar down half a step for transport and long term storage 😁
Lol.
Paul McCartney has often said his Casino is his favorite guitar, and in addition to using it on for the famous solo on Taxman, and on Drive My Car and Paperback writer, I think he said he’s used it on every album in the past decade or two.
he said his first casino is his favorite casino, his favorite is a bass
When I saw him live in 2017, he was still playing the Casino
I love Casinos! I have a “coupe” of my own and a customer brought in 2019 USA full size Casino for some lacquer touch up (very nice). As always thanks for sharing!
4:45 Watching the bridge flex when the whammy bar is moved. Yikes! I would want a roller bridge.
I have an es330 of that era. Yes my small handed friend loves playing it. I remember swapping humbuckers into these guitars was popular in the 70s and 80s.thankfully now p90 prejudice is at an end now :)
Merry Christmas
To see a guitar like the Casino , just amazes me. We as the audience can only surmise that you reach a lot of people. The word gets around that you can do just about any fix to an instrument. Folkways , I thought was tops for years. I think they got too expensive. A different set of business. They don’t teach ! Right out of the gate you have that great gypsy jazz tune that hugs the viewers . Thank you Ted for sharing … you are a truly amazing repair teacher of cool , fine and unique instruments . Merry Christmas to you and family . Alberta Dave 🇨🇦😊🇨🇦
There’s a patience in your methodology that I envy.
I love these oddities; one offs, employee builds, transitional period offerings,… The original “prehistorics” are some of my favorite LPs.
The headstock break joke was comedy gold!
Your illustrations are just spot on ;-)
It’s peculiar how people seem to experience better tone, corresponding with techniques widely spread by fora, like letting wood breathe. Usually fed from people observing old guitars, where the lacquer have been worn off from playing, sounding amazing. At least when someone named Rory is playing them.
A great violinist, playing a Stradivarius, once had a visitor in his dressing room, the visitor complimented how amazing the violin sounded. The violinist opened the case, listened briefly and said: I don’t here anything.
It's called "The placebo effect", and it's a lot stronger than most would think, let alone admit. I have been building and repairing stringed musical instruments for 40+ years, and only at very first fell for some of the snake oil, but thanks to having studied electrical and mechanical engineering at the same time, and then geeking out on physics big time, learned the difference between fact and fiction pretty early on.
The hardest thing to deal with, are perceived "Something special" about a physically impossible, or at least immeasurable difference nowhere near audible within the human range of hearing. Things like "This nut makes the whole instrument sound better" even on fretted strings where it has no bearing whatsoever in any audible way, the removing the finish of an electric instrument, phony misconceptions like "Tonewood" and the like where:
a. the pickups cannot sense wood, but only string vibrations, and
b. any string vibration into the neck and body (the preferred Good vibes BS) is at near 94% loss due to the vibrations being converted from linear waves (Strings) to radial ones (body and neck, which are forced frequencies, not resonant ones, and therefore decay quickly, where most are carried off by the players body and the surrounding air air, and any residual within a sympathetic range that can reflect back to the strings, only converts back divided by pi so an additional ~2/3 loss to the strings going from radial back to linear, leaving just enough to aid a little sustain one would not need if the instrument was stiff as a rock, and didn't vibrate as much to begin with! (
@@Bob-of-Zoid I agree, with about 15 years experience. The only way to end a discussion about i.e. tone wood properties, in electrical instruments, is to ask for proof. Wood, as you say, does not influence impedance, magnetism or any other factors that makes an electrical instrument produce sounds. And the “I HEAR A DIFFERENCE” argument simply isn’t scientific. I usually claim that practicing your scales will improve your music much more, than changing the fretboard wood of your guitar. Can you imagine the talent, a musician needs to posses, in order for the perceived subtle nuances, in the instrument, to actually make a difference?
@@Bob-of-Zoid I have been playing guitar for over fifty years and also repair and restore violins and other stringed instruments. You are absolutely right but the idiots you are talking about probably also read their horoscopes every day, are scared of walking under ladders and believe in Father Christmas. They are a gift to every conman and slick salesman who comes along. Take their money - they're too stupid to be allowed to keep it!
You can see an artisan at work, one who has encountered so many obstacles he knows how to avoid them even before they occur. I have expertise in other areas that I am reminded of every time I watch your videos, things that only come with immeasurable hours of experience.
Thanks for a year of edutainment. Merry Christmas.
Love the One Piece at a Time Gibson. What a thing it is. Edit: Surprised you’re not a CA glue activator enthusiast.
White misting can be unpredictable.
Hi Ted! I've finally got hold of that sticker you sent me in the mail. Thank you so much, definitely one to add to the toolbox. 👍
Thanks for naming my new band….SLUDGE CUTLET!
Question on replacing the saddles, curios your thoughts on the plastic, or nylon etc. saddles, maybe not such a distaste for them on a hollow body, thanks, Clive.
I don't mind them. It might be easier just to buy a whole replacement bridge and keep the original one in the case.
Another fun watch! Happy holidays!
Every morning, I learn a lot from your videos, thank you.
Just got done fixing two ukes and a violin. The client brought them in with the most terrifying words, "this used to be my great grandfather's violin". I'm exhausted and couldn't wait to sit down and listen to you. You are so relaxing.
Love the Mr. Microphone reference. Love the videos, you are a true craftsman.
Got my T shirt yesterday, good quality so very pleased, thanks.👍
ES-330, buddy of mine has one. Really nice guitar, sounds amazing, great natural feedback at higher volumes.
Great video thank you, and you win the award for the only person West of the Atlantic, who can pronounce "solder" correctly (with an L) 😁
Thank you Ted for all of your content. Learning new things about how guitars work that I never new before. Have a safe and happy holiday. Looking forward to what you come up with next year. -Cheers
when filling the tang put two small nails in the board kinda V shape to support the tang so it doesn't flop while filing.
I have ‘63 ES-330 that I bought around Y2K. Absolutely luv it. Been toying around w/ doing a refret on it w/ taller frets. I will run the frets to the fingerboard edge to gain more acreage at the nut. A new nut w/ wider spacing will need to be made. This will help playability for me since I have big fingers…
Also on the bridge post screws: Mine were loose & wobbley, causing the bridge to lean forward. I replaced them with stainless steel screws & superglued them in place. Along with that; I put another set of height adjusting wheels (orig were missing) against the top as they should be. Bridge is rock-solid now w/o any movement.
ThxTed for sharing all your expertise on repairing guitars & your exclnt presentations…
All the best for Christmas and the New Year, Ted. I only "discovered" you during this year, and have been binge watching to catch up! Yours is now one of the first sites I check at the weekend for your new vids!
Thank you for helping to keep us sane during all this current madness!
A couple of comments. First of all, of course, some of us LOVE unpotted pickups. In fact, I just bought a set of brand new Seymour pickups antiquity unpotted PAF style pick ups. Yes, some of us actuallythink that there is a kind of presence there from those weird mechanical interactions, and we love it. Also, I have some pick up that you can actually yell directly into, my Gold foils in particular. They make pretty decent microphones, lol.
I got my Tshirt. Now I feel like a real member of the gang. Love your channel. Merry Christmas .
watching your craftsmanship makes me realise you are my hero!!! 😁
Oh my God you just brought back an old memory with the “Hey good looking we’ll be back to pick you up later!” Hahaha wow. The old mic commercial. So they had that in Canada too? Lol
All the best for the holiday season! I loved the "hey good lookin we'll be back to pick you up later" reference. Nice blast from the past. Your asides I find very entertaining. Thanks much for all you do!
I definitely have come across pickups that you can speak into and have it come out the amp!
great way to start the week, with TWoody!....Merry Christmas, Ted!
One downside of adding bee's wax to the mix m, it makes the pick-up smell delicious. Just ask my dog 🐕. She did her best to eat a freshly wound and potted one which now lives on as an expressionist sculpture.
Lol.
I had a 1990s Korean-made Epiphone Sorrento (same body, but single cutaway with a big Florentine swoop) with two P-90s that I absolutely loved. That thin fully hollow body has such a cool tone
I had that issue with my 81 Tokai LP copy. I had to do another leveling as the neck doesn't flex the same with the truss adjustment as it does under string tension. So I made a leveling tool the length of the fretboard with 2 aluminum bar stocks. The wide end down to adhere the sandpaper down with two sided thin clear scotch tape. Like the kind you use to wrap presents. Then I jb welded the other piece thin side down the length of the other one down the middle. Looks like an upside down T from the ends. The middle support is a little thicker. THe thin side is so it can fit under the strings. THe strings do have to be lifted out of the slots of the nut and saddles and set next to the groove then tuned. I then surface the sanding side on a 3'x4' Starrett surface plate. It's flat to .000050. Or 50/million. Totally over kill unless you are going for super low action. It works perfectly. I draw a grid and level it on the plate before I level any guitar frets. It fits between and under the strings and does a few strings width at a time. I go length ways and vertical stretching the strings a little being careful to maintain the radius. It's a feel thing and marker on the top of frets helps keep the radius. I can then pull the strings for polishing. I have found for Fender Strat and Tele bolt on necks this is not needed as the harder Maple flexes less and more in sink with the truss and strings. But it is a fast easy method so I just use it on all my guitars. It does ruin the strings so I use the old strings then replace when done. I choose to use flat stock because it can be easily leveled. Stock that is machined to a radius can move with the weather. Even with aluminum braced, it can take a few seconds to get it perfectly flat or a few minutes depending on the weather differences from the last time I used it. Again it is over kill but I like to have the ability to go low action if I ever sell to someone that likes it low. Like beginners for example. Especially on hard to play acoustics with bigger gauge strings. I have small hands and need lower action on my Taylor to even be able to play it. I use 11's on it and it is almost as easy as my electrics with 9's. I could not even play it when I got it. Now it's a dream.
Another awesome video. I own a 65 Epiphone Texan FT79N and can confirm that they were very well made guitars back then. I love mine. Keep up the awesome work you do.
My first guitar was a '63 Texan. If the neck hadn't been stupid narrow at the nut I'd still have it today!
@@stavrospapadimitriou7631
That is one of the reasons I like that guitar so much. I don't have large hands and it's a perfect fit for me. But I can see how others might not like it.
Man, that thing is COOL
I just started to watch your channel, I don't do the guitar thing but love fine woodworking
And learn from every one that is skilled at their craft . Keep doing your repairs I will keep watching.
Just ordered a tee shirt, seems like the least we can all do for the amount of entertainment and knowledge Ted provides to us guitar nerds. I pour myself a little bourbon or scotch in my glass, tune in and watch a true craftsman ply his trade and just relax and wash my day of bullshit away. If I was in Canada, I'd trust you with my guitars Ted, that's saying something!
Great job increasing fret width on the
1 9/16 “ narrow nut and neck with binding
Thanks for sharing your process
Thanks for the weekly fix! Greetings from the Netherlands 👌
Another masterclass from a craftsman. Thank you.
Epi Casino is the version of Gibsons ES-330. I owned a 61 330.
Thanks again Ted!! Love to see you back in the new year!!😍
Thanks for these wondeful videos! Great to watch througout the year!
"Even with out the serial number, we know it's an official Gibson because it's got the proper headstock break." BEST LINE EVER!!!!
Happy Holidays, see you next year!
When I wax pot pickups, I have figured out a long time ago that the wax has to get sufficiently fluid in temperature and stay that way to really penetrate and do it's job. So I tape off any areas of the pickup I don't want wax on, or to run out once done, and do submerge the pickup as soon as they will sink in (let them do it all by themselves) so that the pickups and wax reach the right temperature closer to the same time, and use the wax pot (no jar) on top of a vibrating plate (a bonus) so that the wax penetrates much easier. Temp control is important though, and low and slow works best; once it flows just right ~145F, then keep the temp there and steady. That way you can watch the bubbles come out and when that subsides turn off the heat let it cool down, but don't take the pickups out until the temp is at ~120F to prevent too much wax run-out. You can't get any more thorough penetration, and I have yet to overheat a pickup and cause damage, as the wax melts much sooner as any plastics in the bobbins or any lacquer on the wire, and by heating them up together, rather than shocking cold pickups with hot wax, you greatly reduce the chances of rapid expansion, leading to lacquer cracking and electrical shorts...
Sure, there is more cleanup when done, but paraffin wax is not too hard to get off when still hot. So I let them cool thoroughly first, and then use a heat gun and and scratch free shop towel (the blue paper towel like ones) to soak up any larger unwanted deposits, mainly around the screws. For any residuals on the housing, I use another shop towel with vegetable oil (a lipophilic solvent) and a bit of elbow grease, and that does the trick in removing any fine film, or spots previously missed, and follow it with a damp (closer to dry) microfiber cloth to remove any veggie oil. I don't use it on salads... Olive oil is much better for that! Yum! (
I’m not a big commenter, but I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your work and I learn something new every time I watch your videos. I hope you enjoy the holidays and I look forward to your videos in the new year. Regard, Mark
Merry Christmas Ted (and family). Thanks for sharing a bit of your knowledge with all of us. Let’s hope 2022 brings us all a better place to be.
You and Dave are great masters.
Thanks for the diagram about filing the nibs down too far. Very helpful. And thank you for all your videos. Safe and fantastic holidays for you too. For us all.
Came across your site on the way to something else, but found your repair sessions relaxing and almost therapeutic; great skills, knowledge and narration.
"cutlet of dried sludge" might be the most accurate and shudder-inducing phrase I've heard in a long time...
Ted, thank you once again for an entertaining and instructional year .
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
Gibson used the Epiphone brand as a way to sell Gibson quality instruments in exclusive sales zones. Atleast that’s the way I understood it. I’ve had a ‘65 ES-330 and later a ‘67 Casino. Not concurrently, but blind folded I doubt you could tell a difference. As I remember the casino was louder acoustically.
Sadly, now gone however I do have a Casino Coupe that has had everything changed except the wood. Lollar pickups sound great.
I enjoy the anticipation of your weekly broadcasts and can't wait for next year. Happy Holidays everyone.
had some smashing video's from you this year, thanks so much for your time and effort, have a wonderful Christmas and new year, looking forward to next year cheers :)
Hey Ted. I'm Just a face in the crowd of admirers wanting to thank you for all you've done for us. I do have a question though: Since you are in Canada, How come we don't see any Godins and seagulls on your bench? I think they are a wonderful company. I'd like to hear your thoughts on that. Thank you!
I always appreciate the mini history lessons. This is an interesting piece of Gibson and Epiphone heritage. Is the fretboard Brazilian rosewood?
Merry Christmas Sir Thanks For all the guitar love!
Thank You and Merry Christmas Ted! As Always, Respect. Peace, Mark
Love the casino! One of my first guitars was an Epiphone casino coupe. I love the way they feedback! Makes for all kinds of beautiful noise.
Logic and experience. Magic.
That's a very handsome guitar. I like the way nitro finishes age, with the classic surface cracks, etc.
What an absolutely gorgeous guitar! I love the tailpiece assembly.
wow, new frets..so exciting. Very beautiful old guitar. Thank you
Happy Hollidays, Ted! Thanks for making content, another reason for looking forward to 2022! 😎
Thanks for your videos. Merry Christmas from the UK.
Love the channel, even if I’m not Canadian! Ha Ha! You are a very good luthier! HHs and will be thrilled when you post a new video! Love from the lower 48! Thanxz
Happy holidays, thanks for all the great vids this year!
Thank you so much for your videos, I thoroughly enjoy them. Happy Holidays, my friend.
Enjoy your holidays, Ted! Thanks for your videos, I look forward to the new ones in 2022.
Thanks a lot for another great vid, Ted! Have a good holidays! Greetings from Poland.
I bet if you took that whammy bar rig to a machine shop they could bush it back to spec and reinstall the springs without sproinging them. thanks for the cool videos!
Happy Holidays! Thank you for an awesome series of videos this year!!!
Nice "Mr Microphone" reference! Happy holidays.
Have a great holiday I really enjoy your show and look forward to 22 cheers
I hope the owner sees this video so they appreciate all the care and attention.
Happy Holidays! Got my Woodford T-shirt and baseball cap in the mail. Great quality and look. Appreciate what you do! Take care.
Have a good holiday break, thanks for your videos this year.
Wow, what a cool, beautiful guitar! 😎 Happy holidays
Never have I seen such a tail piece as that. I do love the nylon saddles on the bridge. I had a bridge like this one on a late 60s les paul. "Back to zero" is a very good thing.
Merry Christmas Ted, and thanks!
Thank you for another cool guitar story! Have a great holidays too! 🎄
I had a Epiphone Casino in the early 70's. My cousin bought it new, took about 3 months of lessons and it hid in the back of a closet for many years. I started taking lessons and it was gifted to me one Christmas. The tremolo sucked! Ended up trading it and some cash for a well used ES-345! Merry Christmas!
Hey.. Have a great Holiday.. Thank you so much for your great videos!