I share what you are going through , I have severe C.O.P.D. and a terrible everyday cough , and i wish to God I had never started smoking cigarettes . A lesson to all who smoke , give up now . I hope you recover soon , i so enjoy watching you repair guitars .
I’m a carpenter who’s been in my own for 5 years. You pretty much nailed the way they do us in the states. Enough money for a higher tax bracket, but not enough to afford the insurance you can’t qualify for a discount on. It’s pretty neat. 😂
My girl and I run a small business in Ontario and the way the government treats people struggling to get ahead up here is criminal. Glad you're able to manage the BS, Ted. Many cant.
The parasites, and rich elite always come out on top. For some reason Western governments don't want a middle class, or upwardly mobile class anymore....The rich have lawyers, and tax professionals to get them off, and the parasites....are basically parasites, and think they are entitled because of something that happened 150 years ago, or whatever....Don't get me started on all the additional parasites Western governments like to bring in every year called "refugees". It's time to get realistic, and call out this BS. The working man is struggling, they don't assimilate foreign refugees properly anymore for political reasons, and we are running out of room. Period and end of report.
As an independent guitar repair-tech for 40+ years, I appreciate and sympathize with Tom's 'tale of woe'. Please, Tom - keep sharing All your experiences - not just your repair expertise!
Just want to say that I've been watching for a long time; and I really appreciate all that you do, and the fact that you take the extra time in addition to your actual work to make, edit, and upload all of this awesome content! I, also, am an independent luthier in CT, USA, and I got the virus for my first time at the beginning of this month; followed up with a bout of dehydration.. all in kept me down about 15 days.. oof! You have my sympathies, and I'm glad that you're on the mend. Again; thanks for all the great content.. and I'd be lying if i didn't say that I've picked up a trick or two from your content. Thank you! That SG is just the perfect color.
Well done, Ted. Friends complain to me (I'm not a pro luthier or anything) about the cost of a} repairs and b) handmade guitars. This is insane. Most guitar repair people are not living the highlife and all but the most famous makers are on minimum wage or close if they cost their time properly.
Agreed. Expertise whether formally trained or not, costs money. The day to day expenses in running the business, costs money. Then as Ted pointed out, paying tax. This all before you get to take a living wage out of your earnings. And I'm no raving rightwinger either.
Repairing just costs a lot of time. And it's hard to ask too much before people don't want it anymore. I did some repairs for people but it's just not worth it unless you're really good and really dedicated. And to then also film these episodes weekly...hats off to Ted.
I have seen both luthiers that charged too much and not enough. The lowest one I used to give 2X what the bill was and the highest I wouldn't ever go to. How does anyone fixing guitars think that $300-$400 an hour is sane? I mean what did they do - find the cure for cancer? No! They made a new nut for a guitar.
@@channelsixtysix066 The way I see it, you're not paying for the 2 hours it took the guy to fix your guitar, you're paying for the 10 years it took for that guy to get good enough to fix your guitar in 2 hours
Thanks for sharing how the sausage is made. This needs to be shared and known to folks thinking of getting in the biz and it's just a great case study in modern economics where no good deed goes unpunished. Keep up the amazing work. Cheers from FL, USA.
Ted, I think when people say "take your time, come back when you're ready", just mean for you to not worry about posting videos right away. Hope you are doing well, love your talks and sense of humor.
I put the surgical tubing in as the bridge was super unstable with the factory springs. Neck was fine so I left it alone. Looking forward to playing it. Feel better soon and thanks for doing the work.
Ted… your talent is worth way more than a mere 60 k! I wish I knew of a someone with your skill level near me here in the US. Always amazed at the work you perform, a genuine craftsman, a hard working man indeed. Your ok in my book,keep doin what you do,thank you so much!!!
I have watched your entire youtube opus in a week or so. And i am not a luthier, nor do i intend to be. Was a musician, but not for years now. So, that's saying something about your content, not just my mental health. The calm, erudite way you go about things is really refreshing. Level of bullshit that has become standard almost everywhere is exhausting to some of us. Thank you.
We’ve got the same thing here mate in England it’s called tax on account , they basically want all your money off you before you’ve earned it ,love the videos by the way keep up the good work you are a great craftsmen they can never take that of you !
You can only pay a tax on gains that are actually realized. some financial gains can't be estimated accurately, few can. that's called speculation. the markets use it but your tax authority should not be able to. you can't pay what you haven't earned, that's called an IOU ;-)
Love the Emerson pre-wired pots! I also love that you took the time to shield the cavity and cover plate. I know putting this video together when you feel really awful was no fun. I hope you feel better soon.
I love the spoon method. I've used it for years and always get lucky I guess. I use a micro fiber rag as well under the spoons. Ans also I like the idea of the surgical tubing for the pick-ups. Ill be using that idea in the future. Cheers. Im so so glad I found your channel. Its awesome, entertaining, and educational!
Oh, by the way, you did an excellent job on that lovely Epiphone SG. I did the same thing, but it took me days, working at a snail's pace as I hadn't done it before, but watching you like hawk really helped. Thanks!
I'm going to listen to this again. It was wonderful. Why so many of us watch? We are in somewhat similar places. I feel reinforced and validated in my values. It's a kind of pay you can't spend, I know, but still. I feel many of us as viewers have metaphorical accounts in the same bank. My guitars range from my Grandfather's, my Fathers, and the one he gave me at age 9 for learning three tough numbers. I still play the last in service to a local congregation. Thanks Ted. Sincerely, Sam at 70, playing family heirlooms thanks to Luthiers who care beyond the money.
Well done, always enjoy your videos and totally understand about the old tax thing, used to do construction and a self employed contractor, it sucks. Hopefully you are feeling better. Be safe.
True words... The Govt is locking people into lower income expectations and making folks more dependent and controllable on them. Happening everywhere but unfortunately, the Peoples Republic of Canada is not even remotely recognizable as the country I used to hike, canoe, fish, and camp throughout in my younger years!
I know the pain of too few threads showing through the wood. Just had a customer bring in an SG and wanted that fancy electronics swapped out for standard (was '61 reissue, but pretty sure they didn't have that thing in '61). Was going g to put in a Switchcraft "drop in replacement for SG" switch that didn't have enough threads. Had to go with a metric import! The difference is 3/16" threads to 5/16" threads. Hope you are feeling better!
I gots an epi just like this sg. It’s great ! Soft frets but other than that,I love it. I put a Wilkinson bridge on it which really helped intonate it and keeps the strings from jumping out of their slots. It’s already turning green after two years!
Those push on connectors are great for on/off voltages and digital signals but they are absolutely terrible for analogue signals and they oxcidise over time. I've had amps come to me that sound dead, a quick temporary fix is to reseat the connectors a few times once they're soaked in switch cleaner or, way better still, cut them off and hard wire it and the amp sounds like new, full of guts and sparkle again!
Get well soon Ted! Im a Luthier here in the UK and the situation regarding pay is the same. I do it for the love, not the money..of which I have very little! I think there is a worldwide war against small businesses so hang in there. Its our patriotic duty to fight back by surviving! :o) xx
I lurk in a FB amateur luthier group. Someone recently posted they want to make a living from it. I thought of your previous reality of luthiery vids. This is another classic. I enjoy fixing guitars to my ability & watching your vids. If I had to make a living from it, it would become work. Nah.
I'm retired, but I still work part time to suppliment my meagre SS stipend. If I'm lucky, I may make 27 thou a year. My wife figures our taxes. Basically, we owe zero and expect to get nothing back for a refund. I'm a senior citizen and expect to work till the day I drop on the job, which I have already done because of shortness of breath due to a aortic heart valve problem, which I knew nothing about back this last November. I now have a better artificial valve, so I may last 8 or more years. How can poor people stand such times as these, no matter what country one lives in ??
My old man is a boilermaker close to retirement age (65yo in AUS), he shit scared that he can't afford to retire and that he's going to have to keep going till he drops.
@@ar2612 That seems to be the way things are going these days. It is not a fun prospect looking for the time we reach the end of our trails, so in the meantime, give it all ya got, there mate, Cheers
Thanks uncle Ted, I’m an apprentice carpenter and I’m having a hard time making it all happen financially sometimes so it’s good to know I’m not the only👍🏻
Damn, this puts some things in perspective for me. For a couple of years it was my dream to move to a place like Canada to start working as a guitar tech, you know, in a music shop or something, to start off and see where it goes from there. Maybe I'll stick to my 9-5 in my own BS country and leave my guitar tech hobby as just a hobby.
I trained, full-time, Stevenson College, Edinburgh, 35 years ago as an Orchestral String, and Brass Musical Instrument Technician. For several years I was one of two factory based Customer Repairmen for Boosey and Hawkes, London. I have professional memberships, and letters after my name 😉 I ended up as a NHS Scotland specialist hospital equipment, Electro-mechanical Engineer... Mending instruments just doesn't pay!
Pipe cleaners work well for removing pesky knobs too. Pipe cleaners also work well for replacing/installing a wiring harness into a 335 type. Wrap them through and around the splines on the pot to pull the pots and jack through. They grip without marring, and they release easily with a firm tug.
I know Ted doesn’t read the comments as he has enough on his plate. He’s effectively working two jobs. Luthiery and then youtube production. I don’t have a lot of money but Ted’s videos are one of the few things I look forward to watching. I’d happily pay $10/£10/€10 a month, whatever the currency would need to be to enjoy this content and take the pressure off him a bit. I think he’s a bit like me and so many people i’ve met and doesn’t want to put others out at his expense. Wonder if we should band together and do something.
Hell im sure many people would pay 10$ just to get an extra normal video every week, this is one of the best channels on youtube and he deserves a patreon or something
I have a Custom Shop version of SG Special ‘63 Lightning Bar Reissue. With tens strings in the normal tuning it intonates perfectly. That bridge is period correct and one of the features of the model. It gets medium C neck to and that made me get it over other SG’s while most models have slim taper neck or they have vibrolas that actually do not work well. Neck carve is perfection and neck is super fast. Feels like a dream in hand. Mine is dark cherry red though. Changed all wiring and after it guitar reached it’s perfection. Needles to say disinfection fluids are mots of the times alcohol based and absolutely ruin the Gibson nitro finish even in smallest amounts especially if applied and left in the case. Best option is to leave it two weeks in clean place.
When installing a harness you can use rubber cement to glue the washers to the pots. Just a tiny drop does the trick, and it peels right off if you wish. Get it at any art or craft supply store. Best wishes and hope you are well soon!
Mine is 2018. I swapped the pickups to Craig Vineham minis, bridge and posts to Faber locking and it is a really nice guitar. Will upgrade the electronics too.
The lecture at the beginning was quite sobering. Thank you for that, and I am glad you're on the mend.
I share what you are going through , I have severe C.O.P.D. and a terrible everyday cough , and i wish to God I had never started smoking cigarettes . A lesson to all who smoke , give up now . I hope you recover soon , i so enjoy watching you repair guitars .
Hope you’re okay man.
Good advice
Try vaping
I’m a carpenter who’s been in my own for 5 years. You pretty much nailed the way they do us in the states. Enough money for a higher tax bracket, but not enough to afford the insurance you can’t qualify for a discount on. It’s pretty neat. 😂
Are we not gonna talk about how perfectly timed that was at 3:49? LOL!
I thought the same thing lol
Right? lol
My girl and I run a small business in Ontario and the way the government treats people struggling to get ahead up here is criminal. Glad you're able to manage the BS, Ted. Many cant.
The parasites, and rich elite always come out on top. For some reason Western governments don't want a middle class, or upwardly mobile class anymore....The rich have lawyers, and tax professionals to get them off, and the parasites....are basically parasites, and think they are entitled because of something that happened 150 years ago, or whatever....Don't get me started on all the additional parasites Western governments like to bring in every year called "refugees". It's time to get realistic, and call out this BS. The working man is struggling, they don't assimilate foreign refugees properly anymore for political reasons, and we are running out of room. Period and end of report.
As an independent guitar repair-tech for 40+ years, I appreciate and sympathize with Tom's 'tale of woe'. Please, Tom - keep sharing All your experiences - not just your repair expertise!
I agree with everything you've typed here except that his name's Ted not Tom.
I agree with everything you have typed except the man's name is Ted, not Tom.
Tom is the man. Ted is okay too.
Just found this video. You earned a new subscriber. Loved watching you work.
Just want to say that I've been watching for a long time; and I really appreciate all that you do, and the fact that you take the extra time in addition to your actual work to make, edit, and upload all of this awesome content! I, also, am an independent luthier in CT, USA, and I got the virus for my first time at the beginning of this month; followed up with a bout of dehydration.. all in kept me down about 15 days.. oof! You have my sympathies, and I'm glad that you're on the mend. Again; thanks for all the great content.. and I'd be lying if i didn't say that I've picked up a trick or two from your content. Thank you! That SG is just the perfect color.
Well done, Ted. Friends complain to me (I'm not a pro luthier or anything) about the cost of a} repairs and b) handmade guitars. This is insane. Most guitar repair people are not living the highlife and all but the most famous makers are on minimum wage or close if they cost their time properly.
Agreed. Expertise whether formally trained or not, costs money. The day to day expenses in running the business, costs money. Then as Ted pointed out, paying tax. This all before you get to take a living wage out of your earnings. And I'm no raving rightwinger either.
Repairing just costs a lot of time. And it's hard to ask too much before people don't want it anymore. I did some repairs for people but it's just not worth it unless you're really good and really dedicated.
And to then also film these episodes weekly...hats off to Ted.
I have seen both luthiers that charged too much and not enough. The lowest one I used to give 2X what the bill was and the highest I wouldn't ever go to. How does anyone fixing guitars think that $300-$400 an hour is sane? I mean what did they do - find the cure for cancer? No! They made a new nut for a guitar.
@@channelsixtysix066 The way I see it, you're not paying for the 2 hours it took the guy to fix your guitar, you're paying for the 10 years it took for that guy to get good enough to fix your guitar in 2 hours
@@m.f.3347 Yes, agreed, expertise takes time and effort.
Thanks for sharing how the sausage is made. This needs to be shared and known to folks thinking of getting in the biz and it's just a great case study in modern economics where no good deed goes unpunished. Keep up the amazing work. Cheers from FL, USA.
Feel better soon, sir! Thanks for sharing your work with us. You are one of the best. Cheers!
Ted, I think when people say "take your time, come back when you're ready", just mean for you to not worry about posting videos right away. Hope you are doing well, love your talks and sense of humor.
I put the surgical tubing in as the bridge was super unstable with the factory springs. Neck was fine so I left it alone. Looking forward to playing it. Feel better soon and thanks for doing the work.
Lovely guitar, man. Enjoy!
How do you feel about those new pickups? Do they beat the stock p90s?
@@Les537 I'll let you know. It's still in Ted quarantine.
Hope your recovery is swift! Your content is the best. Many thanks and keep it coming
Your open D playing is the best I ever heard. Thanks!
Ted… your talent is worth way more than a mere 60 k! I wish I knew of a someone with your skill level near me here in the US. Always amazed at the work you perform, a genuine craftsman, a hard working man indeed. Your ok in my book,keep doin what you do,thank you so much!!!
I have watched your entire youtube opus in a week or so. And i am not a luthier, nor do i intend to be. Was a musician, but not for years now.
So, that's saying something about your content, not just my mental health.
The calm, erudite way you go about things is really refreshing. Level of bullshit that has become standard almost everywhere is exhausting to some of us.
Thank you.
Get well brother! Thank you for all you do.
Thanks for sharing this knowledge. Always good to see others here 🇨🇦 doing the business.
We’ve got the same thing here mate in England it’s called tax on account , they basically want all your money off you before you’ve earned it ,love the videos by the way keep up the good work you are a great craftsmen they can never take that of you !
You can only pay a tax on gains that are actually realized. some financial gains can't be estimated accurately, few can. that's called speculation. the markets use it but your tax authority should not be able to. you can't pay what you haven't earned, that's called an IOU ;-)
Love the Emerson pre-wired pots! I also love that you took the time to shield the cavity and cover plate. I know putting this video together when you feel really awful was no fun. I hope you feel better soon.
Love your sense of humor. As a guitarist I have watched your videos so I can do some of my own repairs. Your videos are full of useful information.
He wasn’t being funny…
I totally understand your working for yourself. Wish you good health and all the best. As always thanks for the knowledge and entertainment.
Sorry you were sick! Wishing you the best in health and life! I love your videos.
I love the spoon method. I've used it for years and always get lucky I guess. I use a micro fiber rag as well under the spoons. Ans also I like the idea of the surgical tubing for the pick-ups. Ill be using that idea in the future. Cheers. Im so so glad I found your channel. Its awesome, entertaining, and educational!
Thanks for the video Ted and hope you feel better soon.
Take care 👍
😎🎸👍🏽🏆👈🏽 You’re the Boss! Thank you for your great presentations.
Oh, by the way, you did an excellent job on that lovely Epiphone SG. I did the same thing, but it took me days, working at a snail's pace as I hadn't done it before, but watching you like hawk really helped. Thanks!
I'm going to listen to this again. It was wonderful. Why so many of us watch? We are in somewhat similar places. I feel reinforced and validated in my values. It's a kind of pay you can't spend, I know, but still. I feel many of us as viewers have metaphorical accounts in the same bank. My guitars range from my Grandfather's, my Fathers, and the one he gave me at age 9 for learning three tough numbers. I still play the last in service to a local congregation. Thanks Ted. Sincerely, Sam at 70, playing family heirlooms thanks to Luthiers who care beyond the money.
I’m there with you. I’m earning more than I ever have while simultaneously having less money to live off of than I ever have
My happiest time of the week ❤️
That's a beauty, that Pelham Blue. Bet it feels so smooth a sleek you hardly want to play it. But those SGs are made to be played. Cheers.
That Pelham blue SG is a beauty. Times are hard for a lot of people right now, take care of yourself Ted.
Well done, always enjoy your videos and totally understand about the old tax thing, used to do construction and a self employed contractor, it sucks.
Hopefully you are feeling better. Be safe.
The timing on you loosening that e string after "we're buds, aren't we...?" was perfect.
Made me smile. Something very cartoonish about that :)
That made me chuckle too
Hope you get better soon! Love your channel.
be well man, thanks for sharing your work with us
Get well soon.
The SG sounds amazing.
Love the sg special, my favorite sg
You play better than I could in open d! Thanks for another great video
Those quiet coil P-90s are amazing. I have had them in a bunch of guitars.
$1 CAN in 1993 is worth $1.77 today, inflation adjusted.
Stay healthy, Ted!
So what, who cares, who has anything bought for one Can Can dollar back then? You are talking smurf smurf nonsense.
Sorry to hear you got sick. Love your videos. Cheers.
Glad you are feeling better 👍
Closing in on 100k! Love your content.
Thanks for playing them for us Ted.
As I watch this video, I'm in isolation, recovering from the same popular virus.
Thank you. I love your channel.
I’m glad you’re feeling better!
this is one of a couple channels that i find myself eagerly waiting for new videos
Very true about the holes for routing the wiring. Sometimes just using cloth covered wire is a challenge.
That SG is stunning
Get well Ted. Glad you are back!
True words... The Govt is locking people into lower income expectations and making folks more dependent and controllable on them. Happening everywhere but unfortunately, the Peoples Republic of Canada is not even remotely recognizable as the country I used to hike, canoe, fish, and camp throughout in my younger years!
I hear you sir.. vote accordingly. The upgrades to the Gibson SG Special looked amazing. Love that stealthily intonated bridge
Hi Uncle Ted, I work for Uncle Wally Luthier in Southwest Florida as a guitar Tech.
I enjoy your channel.
Ricky from IBM, Ret
That Pelham blue really is a gorgeous color.
I know the pain of too few threads showing through the wood. Just had a customer bring in an SG and wanted that fancy electronics swapped out for standard (was '61 reissue, but pretty sure they didn't have that thing in '61). Was going g to put in a Switchcraft "drop in replacement for SG" switch that didn't have enough threads. Had to go with a metric import! The difference is 3/16" threads to 5/16" threads. Hope you are feeling better!
I’m glad you’re on the mend, I just tested positive for it and I feel like hell. Feel better soon.
Wishing you a speedy recovery mate.
Doing honest work and sharing wisdom. We need better working conditions for ALL.
I gots an epi just like this sg. It’s great ! Soft frets but other than that,I love it. I put a Wilkinson bridge on it which really helped intonate it and keeps the strings from jumping out of their slots. It’s already turning green after two years!
I'm glad you're feeling a little better.
That special is a beauty...
I have those Mojotone Quiet Coil P90's in my Les Paul Special and my Hamer Junior. I love them. :)
Those push on connectors are great for on/off voltages and digital signals but they are absolutely terrible for analogue signals and they oxcidise over time. I've had amps come to me that sound dead, a quick temporary fix is to reseat the connectors a few times once they're soaked in switch cleaner or, way better still, cut them off and hard wire it and the amp sounds like new, full of guts and sparkle again!
Get well soon Ted! Im a Luthier here in the UK and the situation regarding pay is the same. I do it for the love, not the money..of which I have very little! I think there is a worldwide war against small businesses so hang in there. Its our patriotic duty to fight back by surviving! :o) xx
Hope you feel in better fettle soon Ted, thanks for another upload.
You’re sounding like Sister Rosetta Tharpe on that SG! Great video as always, glad to hear you’re doing better.
You can also use shoelaces too to get off stubborn knobs. Old friend taught me that who used to be a guitar tech for bands back in the 80s
Please take care of yourself! This channel is invaluable!
I used the sandpaper pull technique to adjust humbucker frames exactly to the neck angle. What a genius idea!
Bravo great work as usual ! Très belle Sg pelham B ! I've a sg Pelham junior from 65 but the color became more green than blue
To get stuck tuning knobs out you can also use the rubber handle of some pliers. Best ones to use are metal with the rubber coating
Glad you are on your fee. I hope you really are feeling good enough to be back on.
Thank you, get well soon!
Love that guitar
I lurk in a FB amateur luthier group. Someone recently posted they want to make a living from it. I thought of your previous reality of luthiery vids. This is another classic. I enjoy fixing guitars to my ability & watching your vids. If I had to make a living from it, it would become work. Nah.
I'm retired, but I still work part time to suppliment my meagre SS stipend. If I'm lucky, I may make 27 thou a year. My wife figures our taxes. Basically, we owe zero and expect to get nothing back for a refund. I'm a senior citizen and expect to work till the day I drop on the job, which I have already done because of shortness of breath due to a aortic heart valve problem, which I knew nothing about back this last November. I now have a better artificial valve, so I may last 8 or more years. How can poor people stand such times as these, no matter what country one lives in ??
Sicherheits Staffel stipend?! Are you a nazi?! WTF?! STOP those moron abbrebiations. They SUCK! Never ever write SS again.
My old man is a boilermaker close to retirement age (65yo in AUS), he shit scared that he can't afford to retire and that he's going to have to keep going till he drops.
@@ar2612 That seems to be the way things are going these days. It is not a fun prospect looking for the time we reach the end of our trails, so in the meantime, give it all ya got, there mate, Cheers
Get well! Thanks! 😎
The quick connects are sweet! Just did a pup swap in about two minutes or less!
Thanks uncle Ted, I’m an apprentice carpenter and I’m having a hard time making it all happen financially sometimes so it’s good to know I’m not the only👍🏻
Damn, this puts some things in perspective for me. For a couple of years it was my dream to move to a place like Canada to start working as a guitar tech, you know, in a music shop or something, to start off and see where it goes from there. Maybe I'll stick to my 9-5 in my own BS country and leave my guitar tech hobby as just a hobby.
Hope you feel better soon 😊
Great video, get well soon!
Sending my best wishes Ted.
I trained, full-time, Stevenson College, Edinburgh, 35 years ago as an Orchestral String, and Brass Musical Instrument Technician. For several years I was one of two factory based Customer Repairmen for Boosey and Hawkes, London. I have professional memberships, and letters after my name 😉
I ended up as a NHS Scotland specialist hospital equipment, Electro-mechanical Engineer... Mending instruments just doesn't pay!
Pipe cleaners work well for removing pesky knobs too. Pipe cleaners also work well for replacing/installing a wiring harness into a 335 type. Wrap them through and around the splines on the pot to pull the pots and jack through. They grip without marring, and they release easily with a firm tug.
I have this SG pelham blue guitar, it's definitely a rock machine
nice work Ted !
I know Ted doesn’t read the comments as he has enough on his plate. He’s effectively working two jobs. Luthiery and then youtube production. I don’t have a lot of money but Ted’s videos are one of the few things I look forward to watching. I’d happily pay $10/£10/€10 a month, whatever the currency would need to be to enjoy this content and take the pressure off him a bit. I think he’s a bit like me and so many people i’ve met and doesn’t want to put others out at his expense. Wonder if we should band together and do something.
Hell im sure many people would pay 10$ just to get an extra normal video every week, this is one of the best channels on youtube and he deserves a patreon or something
Ted great show
I hope you feel better soon
I have a Custom Shop version of SG Special ‘63 Lightning Bar Reissue. With tens strings in the normal tuning it intonates perfectly. That bridge is period correct and one of the features of the model. It gets medium C neck to and that made me get it over other SG’s while most models have slim taper neck or they have vibrolas that actually do not work well. Neck carve is perfection and neck is super fast. Feels like a dream in hand. Mine is dark cherry red though. Changed all wiring and after it guitar reached it’s perfection. Needles to say disinfection fluids are mots of the times alcohol based and absolutely ruin the Gibson nitro finish even in smallest amounts especially if applied and left in the case. Best option is to leave it two weeks in clean place.
When installing a harness you can use rubber cement to glue the washers to the pots. Just a tiny drop does the trick, and it peels right off if you wish. Get it at any art or craft supply store. Best wishes and hope you are well soon!
Thank you for this! That's a great tip.
Boy, the flame on that neck!
Uncle Ted, The Cranky Luthier. I love it!
i wish this channel gets to 100k subs soon it might help more than sending fan letters
Mine is 2018. I swapped the pickups to Craig Vineham minis, bridge and posts to Faber locking and it is a really nice guitar. Will upgrade the electronics too.
"Pelham Blue" what a great name for a colour!
Learning to live from Ted better than I ever did from my parents