Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Shop Guitar!
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Adam is so stoked to get back to the cave after a few weeks of filming abroad, and one of the first things he opens up is a package from luthier Ted Woodford (aka @twoodfrd), one of Adam's favorite UA-cam creators. Ted has sent back a 1970's Japanese electric guitar he restored for Adam--documented on his own channel--and Adam completes the build with a few aesthetic additions of his own. Time to break in this shop guitar!
Ted Woodford's repair of this guitar for Adam: • Mysterious 70's Japane...
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Ted Woodford's repair of this guitar for Adam: ua-cam.com/video/_dsNSzMu_zs/v-deo.html
I can’t believe how poorly he packed it for shipping!!!
😂🤣😂
@@sean---the-other-one I would be very surprised if Ted shipped it like that. He's a pro that ships expensive instruments all the time. Adam's team probably removed a bunch of the packing material beforehand and resealed the box to avoid making a mess while filming this.
Whats the little Orange branded box? I havent seen one of those before and am interested.
@@elcorado83 that's a dark terror it's a totally insane little valve head. I have a tiny terror they are well worth a look.
I'm surprised you didn't design and 3D print a Savage Industries decal for the headstock.
As Gunny said - there are many others like it but this one is mine.
Ted Woodford is really a gift to humanity.
I agree, I've loved Ted since long before Adam mentioned him.
I’ve been watching his channel for at least 5 years. They are very informative. I got his t-shirt a few months ago. The Woodford Re-capitation Services, “If it ain’t broke, don’t break it!”
Agreed
weird....
Agreed! Invaluable
Classic Adam, working between and around the strings instead of just loosening them and moving them out of the way because he's so impatient 😂
I was going to say this would be much easier with the strings off
It was setup by a pro. I'm pretty sure he didn't want to risk messing up the setup because he knows that's not something that's within his skills to fix ;)
I was silently screaming at him the whole time. The cost of a set of strings is almost certainly less than the amount of extra work he put in if he was billing himself for his own time, just replace the fecking strings Adam!
@@SyntheticFuture changing the strings wouldntveffect anything about the set up Ted did, he's just being impatient 😂
@@guyincognito1423 As long as he uses the exact same kind of string and doesn’t leave them off for too long.
Adam sure knows how to build suspense. I'm 5 minutes in and sweating over whether he's going to put a neck rest under the neck or just one-day build himself a headstock break. At six minutes I can finally let out my breath. May have to pause and lie down.
Dude I’m telling you! 😂 When he just laid it flat on the table my heart stopped
Some folks just have to invent their own drama when they can't find it in the wild.
No one ever broke a guitar neck by simply laying it down on a table. I've owned and repaired guitars for over 3 decades. It doesn't happen.
This is typical, childish tiktok drama.
@@johnd5398agreed! Now leaning a guitar against a coffee table and it slips sideways, that’ll cause a headstock break. But you can just glue it back together and the guitar will play great for another decade lol.
@@johnd5398 i hope you're not implying you're working on guitars flat on a table
if thats the case i wouldn't trust you to work on a $1k guitar let alone one with any real value...
hypothetically a 1952 telecaster with flawless finish rolls through your shop, still no neck rest?
its not even about the neck "snapping" anyway, its about easier maintenance
@@maxinecantspeaka tele has the neck inline with the body, so the neck plate should hit a flat surface first. Gibson-style archtops and LPs have the neck set at an angle and then also have the headstock angled to the neck (not one piece neck and head like Fenders), so the tip of the headstock always hits first.
Truss rod cover!
I was going to say it if you hadn't lol
Ted Woodford is so much more than a luthier. If you browse thru the comments on his page, many people find comfort in them. It's like therapy without it being like therapy. If you aren't familiar with him, you are missing out. It's a great relax and rewind channel.
He really is just the Bob Ross of guitar repair.
It great when a new video of his pops up. Oh, oh, oh, a new vid from Ted !. Feet up, cup of tea, watch & chill.
Love Ted Woodford's videos, not only is he an expert on repairs but also entertaining and informative about the history of guitars.
Ted is great!!!
I'm more entertaining.
The statement days are OVER buddy.
This is the everybody's a winner era.
Love Teds channel. Its like a calm in the storm even if he is having a heck of a time with a non compliant guitar. Was doubly thrilled when he brought your guitar out. Been a follower of yours since the first episode of Mythbusters way back when. It was like to different worlds collided in the best of ways.
A major plus here is seeing a happy customer of Teds.
I commented on his channel that I must be in good company if you also followed his channel! 🎉
I love Woodfords channel. He's the Bob Ross of guitar repair.
This is the very best description of his channel!! I've been subbed since the beginning. He's a true craftsman.
A man of infinite patience, a great craftsman… With a lot of love. And a very good sense of humor.
I couldn’t have said it any better myself
He's great!!!
"Happy little polishing. polishing, polishing..."
I am now a practicing luthier and my knowledge came almost completely from Ted. He even graciously advised on a repair path on a Gibson for me when I wasn't sure which method would be better. Awesome and humble man with mad skills!
I'm a practicing luthier too. With some more practice, I may even feel confident enough to work on other peoples instruments.
On a more serious note, I learned a lot from Ted also. Then there is Jerry Rosa, with Rosa string works who does amazing work as well.
Nice use of an old pick guard. My wife hates that I collect and keep that sort of stuff. Ted Woodford is one of my favorites too. I have been a woodworker for 50 years, and an amateur luthier for about 5. Ted is really, really proficient (my highest praise - I don't do superlatives). Keep up the great work, and collabs.
Get a headstock cradle. Never lean the headstock on a bench... eek
1960's Univox Tempo in sunburst pattern (which IMHO, is one of the best color set for a guitar of that vintage). Having seen Ted's video, i can tell it was gutted (maybe someone wanted to upgrade it from the Japanese bits) it never had a tremolo arm, that would've been an option you would have to buy yourself. The missing name plate would've said "Tempo" in gold cursive.
Dude. Watching you work that scroll saw I'm astounded you still have 10 fingers. My anxiety kicked up a few notches for sure.
Love that he just decided to craft his OWN truss rod cover as if it was easier than buying one.
Ted is awesome. I love his videos.
I live close to him. The great thing about Ted is that unlike a lot of woodworking YT channels that have enormous shops (and thousands of dollars in StewMac luthier's tools), Ted has a small shop and the most basic tool kit. But he does great work on some challenging oddball guitars.
Amateur guitar maker here. Great to see Adam doing this! I’m now going into the workshop to make the end of a drill bit pointy….
YES!!! Never saw this collaboration between two of my favorite UA-camrs coming, but I'm loving it.
Love this, and I LOVE Ted's videos too. Ted and "Uncle Doug" are the titans of guitar/amp repair vids on UA-cam- soothing, funny, knowledgeable, and focused on the content first, rather than being a personality and mugging for the camera.
One word of caution: that shelf liner rubber sheeting is great for keeping things in place, but it reacts strangely with some guitar finishing products- I have had it leave marks on guitars finished with nitrocellulose lacquer, so I wouldn't advise leaving a guitar sitting on that stuff for any period of time, or using it as packing material. Learn from the mistakes of my unintentionally-checkered past!
Thanks for the recommendation on Uncle Doug!
@@artbk, Uncle Doug seems to have cut way back on his repairs, or at least his video postings of amp repairs, but you might want to try the Psionic Audio amp repair channel. He does stellar work, and being as he is in Memphis he sees all different kinds of amplifiers, old and new, belonging to players of just about every stylistic music variety of that you can think of: blues, rock, country, metal, bass amps...... Not just Fender but a lot of Marshall and a fair number of Vox, Mesa Boogie and Badcat and Bugera, and Ampegs, and all kinds of stuff, a whole gamut.
Only a natural born engineer and creator can do work this wholesome whilst calling it a "neck bolt"...
You are a legend! xx
Yeah that made me lol "truss rod cover" is the term you were looking for there, Adam.
Ted got me through the pandemic. He is a luthier/artist, plus he is entertaining to watch.
I’ve been watching Ted every week for a few years. He’s the Bob Ross of guitar repair.
Great job on the restoration. Personally, I think I would have repainted the headstock, but I guess it would take the years away :)
If Adam ever moves to a shop where the floor doesn’t move, it’s gonna completely throw him off.
He'll have to lose his sea-legs lol
3:05 man the twist in that neck... what we call a real wall-hanger in the biz.
4:20 Truss rod cover is the name of that piece, Adam 😁
Seeing you excited for this kinda makes me wanna build another subminiature tube amp in a Honeytone mini-amp enclosure, like the first one i did back in 2018 that was featured at the time in Hack-a-Day, but for you to keep.
Hmm. Wonder if it'd survive the trip.
Ted amazes me with his patience and dedication. And he takes no prisoners. Looks great, Adam.
Really cool to see Adam tackling this project.
I’m about to finish my first full telecaster guitar build and am about to polish.
Polishing polishing polishing
Just when you thought Adam couldn’t be more awesome. We find out he plays guitar. 😊
That’s super old news…
I didn't know either. But I don't follow Adam around and learn everything about him like some clearly do. Creepy.
Thought the same thing
Hi there Gang! Isn’t Ted amazing?
My god if I ever had a guitar show up in that packaging I would be very displeased.
Wah wah wah
Apparently you didn’t pick up the video edit that skipped ahead during the box opening. You assume when he took the guitar out of the box, that is how it was packed. Nonsense.
@@stevemc75if so, he did the other guy a disservice. I was shocked at the packaging as well
@@stevemc75Except we can clearly see all the shipping labels on the outside of that box. That was the shipping box.
Maybe it was returned in the same packaging it went out in.
Also, i think the screws for the truss-rod cover were bigger than usual screws? Usually, the same small screws are used for; truss-rod covers, scratchplates, jack sockets etc. Looks fine but if there's other small screws on the guitar you might notice?
Spends $8 on a pick guard to chop up instead of $3.00 on the truss rod cover lmao. I love Adam
But now he has the rest of that pick guard as stock for some other project! My brain doesn’t work that way, so it’s so interesting to see a different solution.
Adam, I have been waiting for this moment since I was 14 watching MB. I actually reached out many many years ago about that guitar in hopes I could be the one to repair it for you as I’m in the Bay Area also. I’m super glad to see it finally put together. Now let’s get you a bass and you can come see the fun amps we build in the east bay. Shout out to Ted for being the person we all truly aspire to be.
You could have just bought a truss rod cover plate for the headstock instead of making one Adam, just saying.
Guitars that Have Boxed,in Electronics,Are Quite Challenging to Access to Change out!I vintage Gavitt,cloth wired,A Gretsch G2420T,Strealiner.I Put in a Vintage PIO 50s Styled New Old Stock Russian .022 Tone capacitor,With 500K Potts,by CTS,Presprayed With Electronic Spray,like D5,De Oxit,for Smooth,Controls!Took me 3 to 4 Hours to do this!The Results are Awesome!You Get That Every Ones A Winner Baby,Tone,and thats No Lie!And It will Leave You,Satiesfied!Take care,Adam?
I subscribe to Woodford, as well. His channel is full of tips that are applicable even if you aren't a luthier.
NICE WORK ADAM!
😉👍
LOOKS AWESOME! 😁
"I don't understand why someone would go to all the work of building such a beautiful guitar and then deciding too not include they're manufacture name/logo in several different places on the guitar..." 🤔
Adam did great , I am a guitar repairer etc. of 40 years +, have watched both your channels for ever , the truss rod cover is way above a usual first try , you have the best super glues!!!! .You may have gone about it all in slightly different ways with differing results but that makes this video. This is a job you could charge full price for in my opinion. Thanks has been a great video collaboration, there should be more of it on YT.
I can't believe you used a hammer to make that label adhere, that's the most sensitive part of a guitar is its headstock, and always used clamps, I've repaired so many broken necks it's ridiculous
Watching this channel has helped humanize Adam for me away from some kind of TV superstar/childhood hero but hearing him reference the "what? no bless-yous for Giacomo" meme actually threw me for a bit. what a laugh!
Why didn't you take the guitar strings off? It would have been so so much easier and more effective to clean up. Edit: ok I see now, I just finished it, I thought you were cleaning up the guitar.. a little oil on the neck and polish up the body, new strings etc, my OCD is a little disheartened 😅 Love your channel though
Made my day... as always.
Thanx Adam and Ted!
As a guitarist Ted's channel is a joy to watch. You get to learn so much about the instrument you're playing and also giving you GREAT tips on whether a guitar is 'worth' repair or restoring. Luthiers are a rare breed of people, and their time and resources are limited so he give you great tips overall and I love it. Also his videos are kinda ASMR-ish in a way you just watch it to sooth you from the rushes of the world XD
Oh my- I hope you will be fine quickly as much as possible and will be happy creating full of passion and inspiration like in the past. We love your enthousiasm and free spirit! Keep on going, my dear!!
You've made some wild builds over the years Adam... lets add a grenade launcher attachment please. Thanks.
Ted is an absolutely incredible craftsman and he could explain paint drying and I would gladly just listen for hours. He's gifted in the ability to speak as well as bringing back guitars from the grave. So glad you're in contact with him!!
Now we need a @phillipmcknight collab! - www.youtube.com/@PhillipMcKnight
I love Adams perspective on music. It's so engineering-minded, it's so unique!
Wrong.
You live a very sheltered life.
You should introduce yourself to other people for once in your life.
truss rod cover little bit bigger, but looks great ,i think you should try relic guitar , i really want to see a high skill movie props maker do a relic job on a $150 telecaster or cheap les paul, make it looks like a beat up fender tele or gibson les paul from 50s ,like 70 years old guitar, maybe good as Gibson Murphy Lab 😁
Very Cool ES-335 Gibson Copy.
Hey Adam, cheap yoga mats work great for a quick rollout table protector! I use them all the time for my guitar repairs.
Many many moons ago when I was an aspiring rock guitar god, my first guitar was a budget Japanese copy of an SG with a bolt on neck. That guitar was the same vintage as Adam's and probably came from a factory down the street. Almost every guy our age had similar for their first guitar because everything American was not in the budget.
Here's a tip for you Adam, Ammo makes glossy black CA glue.
as a fanatic and collector of obscure vintage japanese guitars, this makes me so happy. this thing is absolutely gorgeous, and i hope it serves you well
I've had handful of them over the years, mainly Kay's. They're neat but there's no hiding that they were affordable!
I have a '78 Vantage 700VP that I bought in the early 90's. To this day it's still my main over my Gibson's and Carvin.
In case you're curious, this is a 1960's (late) Univox Tempo. There's a couple online in listings you can look up that are complete and original. You can tell this one apart from other models because of the gold, cursive font plate that says "Tempo", there's a couple more that share the Sunburst color scheme, but are not Tempos. Trivia, the tremolo arm was optional, something the owner would have to buy to get.
As a sidenote... i think a lot of people buy these, thinking "MiJ" from today or "yesterday" but then they find out that this is that period of cheaper Japanese products, and they're particularly stumped about it, some quite pissed, if online discussions about them are anything to sniff at. The screws not being standard (JiS) really get a lot of people, hence why these older (60's~mid 80's) pieces have particularly munched screws. All it takes is one twist with the wrong driver bit, and the cheese grade metal is done for.
@@CaptainHoratioPugwashmy favorite brand is lyle, matsumoku made, like arias and the like. quality is pretty hit or miss on lots of these old things, but they’re always pretty neat, and not all that expensive. you definitely got what you paid for when they were new, but now they’re mostly just interesting novelties for collectors. none of my lyles are my go to guitars, but they definitely make it into my playing rotation.
@@asertai have found that i’ve needed to replace the screws on a lot of mine, but that’s hardly a dealbreaker. i recently bought a lyle stratocaster copy from (as best as i can tell) the early 70’s. definitely not an amazing player, but it looks fantastic, and was fairly cheap. the trem “block” was a bit of a surprise though, a simple flat piece of what looks like extruded aluminum with a few holes drilled in it for mounting to the trem plate, and for strings and springs. certainly gave me a good laugh, i’ve never worked on an old strat copy like this before. most of my experience with these things are either hollowbody or fixed bridges.
Love this! I've always wondered about Adam's relationship with music and guitars, having seen a few in the backgrounds of videos ❤
Love all your stuff Adam, but You really make an electric guitar boring, lol
I have resurrected several vintage guitars and love bringing them back to life. Don't worry too much about fixing the bumps and bruises, people seem to want to pay good money to have someone beat up their guitars these days just so they look road worn. Yours has actual wear for the 40+ years it's been around. From the holes in the headstock I would guess it was originally a Silvertone and the Conqueror label is from an Ibanez, but probably made at the same factory.
Loving all the guitar content that you’ve been putting up lately Adam!
I love vintage Japanese and Korean hollowbodies! They don’t really have any sound dampeners in them so they resonate and roar if you play rock and roll, rockabilly, garage.. surf etc..
[13:22] I'll tell you what I want, and that's an Adam Savage karaoke stream now.
Something comical about seeing the Orange Micro Dark just sitting on top a Blackstar cab XD Looks like it could be either a 1x12, or maybe a 2x10? The guitar is absolutely gorgeous and has that right amount of wear to show it's been loved and used. Also just love that he cut his own truss rod cover rather than just buying one XD Probably would have been cheaper than buying the entire pickguard to cut down hahaha
I hope the action never needs to be adjusted. That piece will need to come off to access the truss rod.
Has Ted watched this video?? Asking for a friend, Cheers
How long before a one day build on a case? A road worn anvil style guitar case would be cool.
There had to be more packing we didn’t see. That guitar would have arrived with the headstock hanging by the strings.
Adam, I have the exact same guitar ... It's branded Silvertone, but the layout and construction are identical...a really beautiful guitar to pjay too
Adam, you should build your own electric guitar from scratch in the fashion of “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing”.
Would be an incredible series to watch!
I’m sure he could and should contact Ben from Crimson Guitars, that would be my dream at least.
Ben mentioned reaching out to him in previous years about the GGBO invitational category. Hopefully they can connect this year. I participated last year and it was a blast.
All I keep thinking is, "why is he doing this work with the strings still on?"
So cool to see a guitar on here! One of my guitars has an all black bridge, but the grub screws on the saddles are steel. I've been trying to find UNC 4-40 1/4" grub screws in black here in the UK and no-one seems to do them.
Try your local gun shop, they should have some "cold blueing solution" that you could stain the existing grub screws.
alternately, how about finding some brass screws and make a feature out of them.
@kenwalker5384 I live in England so gun shops aren't an option haha. I have looked into bluing but because they are stainless steel I think it complicates things? Also UNC sizes are american I believe, which is why I'm having difficulty because we use mostly metric.
@@WokeUpScreaming I'm in Norfolk UK, there's a gun shop on the industrial estate no more than 200 yards from me, and another that I know of in Norwich, my nearest city. sub 12 ft lbs air rifles are a thing, you know! And since many of those are made by american companies, You may be able to sort the brass alternative screws there too.
another alternative I just thought of, a little dab of acrylic paint on the tops, after they've been correctly adjusted?
Kent was another name they were under. My dad had a Kent Americana.
Trussrod cover ! ;)
5:35 You see his hands in the top wings of the guitar as he gestures, too!
Outstanding! Ted is one of my favorite people on earth! Nice to see another of my favorite people delighted in his efforts. Lovely stuff all around!! Thanks for the share!!
This is one of those situations where I get excited to thank you for something cool. Seriously.
I'm a moderately terrible Luthier, and I love how you consistently take something I do all the time, and casually introduce me to a brilliantly fresh technique, methodology, or just some combination I'd never considered.
I won't bore you with the details but you just saved me enough time to be a better... everything.
Just by brilliantly using your success and passions, authentically.
It's always been fun. You just passed something on. Thank you, sir. ❤
Thanks so much for the comment ... It's really appreciated!
I love that Adam is repurposing a pick guard instead of buying a truss rod cover. If you're not as crafty as Adam is, Hell Guitars over in Japan make some exquisite pieces and are opening a custom shop soon.
By chance are you a Grateful Dead fan
Ted is such a lovable curmudgeon.
Combining my favorite UA-cam spaces, guitar and making!
That bell shaped thingy Adam is a "Truss Rod Cover"
Cool a fellow guitar player too.
Support that freaking neck!
I was wondering when you were going to post the reveal.
Awesome job on this adam !! Ted's a awesome repair guy !!
I Love Ted and his work! From the Family of luthier innovators who worked with Les Paul in the 50s-70's, Ted's repairs and educational posts are invaluable, with examples of all of the Very Rare Gibsons with Low Impedance pickups in my Les Paul Professional, Personal, Recording and L5-S. Adam Savage...has the amazing skills of...wait for it...Unboxing(?)...
I was screaming "truss rod cover!!!" At the screen 😂😂😂 the follow up One Day Build should be Adam making his own fitted hardshell case 😉🤘 also, Adam gets bonus points for quoting Bill Murray in Caddyshack!
Before I even clicked I was thinking Adam would appreciate Ted's channel and then he opens with a trademark "Hey gang!". Lovely stuff.
Adam I really miss Mythbusters, and everone on the show I am glad to see you on youtube, and I watch Ted Woodfords channel religously so I thought it was great to see your guitar on Teds channel. Good Luck to you man!!! Thanks for the awesome content!!
Thanks. Enjoyed that.
I’m also learning Blackbird 😉
Expected you to use the hammer you made yourself
As others have said, Ted is brilliant in many different ways
Adam would probably appreciate guitar relic-ing, taking a brand new guitar and weathering it so it looks like Keith Richards has been gigging with it for thirty years.
What’s a guitar?
😏
In the 90s I worked at a music store after college, that was ran by a band mate -- he was a luthier too.
I studied electronics so initially I fixed the amps and we created the ultimate distortion combo peddel, because electronics wasn't his thing. But later on I learned to setup guitars, fix them, resprayed a couple after patching holes and dents. It was a rewarding job and one that I learned to loathe Gibson guitars! The most serious broken guitars that came in! The idiot who designed that headstock didn't realise that the angle was too steep and the slightest fall would just shatter it. Even Epiphone Les Pauls were cheaper and more reliable because the angle of the head stock was less steep and also stayed intune some what better. The best jobs for me as a shredder was to hot rod guitars. The early 90s was the tail-end of the hot rod scene. But nothing made me more happy than getting a good strat and yank off that horrible 6 screw flimsy bridge take the routing template of a Floyd Rose and hack that body up to accommodate that. And then pull the neck through the drill press and route out the nut to accommodate the locking nut. And put in nice Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge. Whilst my friends would actually turn the neck into a compound radius neck and do his magic on the fret board making it from a 10" to a compound 10-12".
Adam, I think I found *this model of guitar* (or at least a *_very_* similar one) being used by anither UA-camr, *samuraiguitarist,* famously on his Wild West style cover of Rick Astley). Correct me if I'm wrong, maybe it's not the EXACT same model, but it's close enough for government work. In case someone wants to hear how this model of guitar can sound.
I watched Mr. Woodford s video about the work he did to this guitar for Adam. It is SO COOL to get to follow the process of luthier repair AND the customer receiving their refurbished instrument!!
Watched Ted to you. Even Average Dog's Gets Bones Eventually = EADGBE in 440 Tuning. Glad to see Guitars are in your Family's life.
trusrod cover
Truss rod
The Japanese made and make great instruments. I like the use of a sharpened drill bit to use as an Awl. I recently filled the unneeded holes on the back of a headstock while installing new tuners. I filled the holes with 1/6” maple dowel, filler and shot the entire surface with two part high gloss black epoxy automotive paint. Actually some leftover Imron aircraft paint
Awesome. Started making guitars a couple of years ago and just finished #7. A hollow body electric is next.
The most over engineered truss rod cover in the history of man. Fantastic.