1953 Gibson L-50 Restoration [Part 5] - Final Episode
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- In this video I fit the back, re-set the neck, level and re-fret the fretaboard, re-shape the nut, do some finish touch-ups and then string her up for the final reveal!
Turned out nice. Someone will enjoy that where as before it looked like it was a total loss. Very clever way of fixing those holes. Not an easy repair but you made it look easy.
Love the way the colour of the pickup rings match the body binding.
Thank you so much for showing your techniques and overcoming setbacks to bring us this remarkable transformation from butchered wallhanger into a beautiful Player. It was made to be played, and you absolutely hit the mark!
Thanks very much for your kind words of support. Was definitely a learning experience this one!
What a Herculean task to bring that beauty back to life! Congratulations of a spectacular job 👏👏👏👏💪
Thanks so much for your support! Really encouraging to read such positive comments. We are but custodians of these old girls and you never know if the internet will agree with the decisions you make!
@@BeardsworthGuitars I gave up expecting positivity from most of the internet 😂 But there are some out there genuinely interested and positive.
Superlative work
What a stunning transformation!! Well done! 👏👏👏
Thanks very much. Turned out alright in the end!
Fantastic work great job I’ve enjoyed every minute of watching you work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks very much! As someone who talks too much and struggles to be succinct with anything it’s always difficult to know how much to include in the videos, so I’m glad you were able to hang in there!
That is a beautiful old girl now restored to something better than a players grade instrument for its age and will hopefully give another 70 years or more of service. Yes, the non-original changes you had to do will mean it's never going to be a mint collectors guitar as it was just too far gone for that. But its a very sympathetic and tasteful restoration of something that was probably not far from the bin otherwise.
Thanks very much. I’m glad you agree! We’re really just custodians of these guitars that will hopefully outlast us, so it’s always satisfying feeling like you may have given an old girl a few more years on her runway.
Man you should be super proud of that work well done. !!
Thanks so much! The main thing for me always with these things is how they play and sound at the end of the process and I was really happy with both on this occasion. Thanks for watching!
Well done my friend. A sympathetic yet practical repair that puts another beautiful old guitar back in action. Sounds superb.
Thanks very much. Really kind words. Thanks for supporting the channel :)
Your video happened into my feet today and I'm really glad it did because I have the same problem on my guitar and now I know how to fix it. Thank you so much.
Oh really? What guitar is it? Glad to have been of service!
Very nice work- this one sure was a hacked-up mess when you started!
Thanks very much. It definitely saw some prior abuse!
Looks good from here
Thanks very much!
cant wait for the final episode of the 1969 martin!
Me too
Coming soon I promise! The lacquer flaked a bit and sunk back along the back strip so I did a bit of a touch up there, and also some on the neck. Plus life, COVID etc etc… Ready to polish back up and assemble now though!
You should be able to get a decent price for this gorgeous piece but the time and effort involved were very intensive. Glad you decided to go for the refret. Not only did it solve the fretting out but it also provides the new owner with years of use. This guitar certainly isn't original but it most certainly is unique.
Nice work man! I wasn't sure about the gold foils at first but yeah, them's the ticket, sounds beautiful.
Thanks! Yeah my hand was kind of forced by the space I had available. It was a toss up between gold foils and Super Distortions 😂
Thanks for supporting the channel 🙂
@@BeardsworthGuitars Yeah, Super Distortions and a Floyd would've been my next choice, too😜
I just couldn’t find a D-Tuna for the vintage Kluson so scrapped the whole idea 🤣
@@BeardsworthGuitars As long as you can keep the Sustainiac in there you'll be fine
Hahahahaha amazing 🤣🤣🤣
This series is tremendous, a real luthier workshop on how to do so many things. You are very creative. I know we all wish we had hindsight in the beginning, but with all you went through to eventually get the neck working, do you think if you just went in with the idea that you would do a neck reset have actually worked out better?
Thanks for the video series, I believe I will watch it at least one more time, but now just binge it straight through. Well done!
It’s really amazing to read such high praise. Not that I compare myself to a doctor, but I guess the general mantra is you only do what’s necessary. As with the D-28, if I could have avoided doing the neck reset I would have, and maybe if it was a museum piece I would have let it be. But ultimately, I don’t feel we should make excuses for guitars just because they’re vintage. If they need surgery to play at their best then that’s best for both instruments and prospective future owner in my view. And really the only setback was having to unglue the back again along that top edge, so maybe 5 minutes lost! Thanks very much for supporting the channel.
LOVED this series!! What's next on the bench?
So glad to hear! Need to finish the D-28, I’m nearly done with a Les Paul Custom which had a previous “bondo and wood screws” headstock repair 😱, then a custom build for my godson. There’s also an Ibanez JS100, Les Paul Traditional (another headstock repair sob story!), 70s Jazz Bass, Epiphone Casino, Teisco something…. And I’m probably forgetting something!
@@BeardsworthGuitars Sounds like lots of videos, bring em on!! Lol. For some reason, I can't get enough headstock repair videos..I don't know, I guess they are all different and I'm always curious how invisible they will be once repaired.
G'day Tom,
That's a very nice guitar - good work. 🙂 It was also good to see you replacing the frets. Frets are a wearing item - they're supposed to be replaced. You wouldn't leave the original tyres on your car once they're worn.
BTW, can you grind the nose of your fret trimmers flat, so that they don't leave a ridge when you cut the fret tangs? The notches in an abrasive disc, spinning at a few thousand RPM, sounds like a recipe for a spectacular disaster. Also, have you tried Sidchrome 1/4" drive sockets for the truss rod nut? I use them here, with a mini breaker bar, and a 6" or 8" extension. I also use a Bondus T-bar Allen key for the socket-head truss rod nuts. The length of those tools puts your hand over the end of the peg head, and they're high quality tools.
Anyhow, thanks for another great video. I'm looking forward to your next one.
Andrew
At 28:27 your getting the middle dropout issues and my first thought wasn’t the fretboard but the bridge and if it too has over time lost it’s radius.
Yeah and it had as it transpired, and that’s why I then filed the saddle slots. Thanks for watching!
Super cool :) is there going to be a final video for the martin guitar?? would love to hear it
Soon, I promise! I sadly got pulled onto other projects and had to do a paint correction on it but it’s back on the bench as we speak. Thanks for your support!
@@BeardsworthGuitars Wow thats great to hear, looking forward to the final video! Thanks for all the hard work you put into this stuff it's really a pleasure watching :)
Wish I had the money for that
They’re “relatively” affordable still as far as old Gibsons go. Archtops in general are pretty great value for old guitars it seems.