Jerry, once again you have done an excellent repair for me. She looks great, sounds better and plays fantastic! Well worth every dime and then some. Mere words could never explain the esteem and respect I have for you, you are truly a master craftsman and one of the finest human beings I have ever encountered. I am happy to report NO problems from the 9 hour drive back to Dallas and I haven't stopped playing it since I got back! WELL DONE my friend!!
Beautiful work saving that one, it's definitely a J45. It will stay in tune almost indefinitely if it's anything like Mom's old 60's era J45. Love that old guitar.
You really dragged it kickin' and screamin' into being a guitar again, and a dang fine one at that! What a lovely sound it has! I would say that restoration/repair was worth around $2,000. Great video and song!
Imperfections keep it authentic! I know nothing about pricing or what that model of Gibson is worth but I’d say that starts at $1,000 and goes up quickly!
Jerry, are you using that Reel tape, the so called luthier binding tape ? It's good stuff with hundreds of uses everywhere and in the home as well. That was all we used at Flatiron. I bought a 144 rolls around the time for my own use and still have maybe 15 rolls left after all these years. Great restoration project there, buddy. Man, what a job. Gibson had many quality issues, I'm told from that era. Should be all better from now on. Thanks. Bob
Jerry you outdid yourself. I can't believe how much effort and passion you put into your repairs. I especially enjoy your commentary as you go through the repair process. You are the "Bob Ross" of Luthiers. Thanks for another amazing video !!!
Just keep in mind if the customer can afford it that's one thing 2000 dollars most people can't so are doing a labor of the guitar for love to save it I think u are awesome
sorry if this is a very obvious or dumb question, but in thinking about the economics of a project like this, I assume that the views for a particularly interesting project/video subsidize the project and make it more feasible to do the repair rather than just giving up and replacing the guitar?
I'm afraid to guess a price but it must have been substantial. I would like to know why you think that guitar came unglued like that. Plus the cracking on the top. That was more than just being dropped I would think. What say you? Great job!
$2500-$3000 considering how much time it took, which is more than it is worth, especially since it used the double X bracing that was introduced by the corporation that bought out Gibson and dictated that they be built stronger in order to reduce warranty work. (A double X can sound as good as a single X if it is voiced properly, but the suits wanted brute strength which can kill the bass.) As good as it sounds, buyers would want a discount because of the increased over building, even though this is a good one. I have a Gibson built just before they went to the double X and it includes the original hang tags and sales receipt, well cared for, etc. I'd guess its worth is $2000 or less ... probably less. But there is a lot more than frank market value present here. This guitar is now in better playing condition than it probably was when it left the factory; you got slipping the back just right. Gibsons typically have a good fitting dovetail (compared to Martins) and so I think slipping the back is just as good a solution as a traditional neck reset would have been. Wood bindings are vastly superior to plastic and probably help the sound by isolating the sides better, leaving the top to be an easier path for string energy to exit the instrument. And it looks great. The design is classic Gibson, which your restoration respected. It may mean a lot to the owner too, in some personal sense. I am restoring a 50s-60s Regal that has just about as many problems as this one but was never as much guitar as a Gibson of the same period, but has emotional value to me that well justifies the effort. But then I am not paying myself for the time.
This may sound silly but I’m glad there were so many defects in this guitar. It gives me the opportunity to see the master’s work in so many aspects of repair. Jerry you are the Abom of instrument repair. A perfectionist.
R and R binding, R and R bridge plate, reattach braces, repair cracks and stabilize with cleats, neck reset, binding fill, binding scrape, binding seal, binding sand, touch up finish cracks, fret crown, fret board scrape, linseed oil fretboard, wood polish and buff, coating with wax, metal polish brightwork, saddle custom work, custom bridge install, restring and setup = $1450.00 Jerry picking a tune on a left for dead old wall hanger? = Priceless
Jerry, congratulations on an excellent repair. By coincidence, in this months Vintage Guitar mag. Dan Erlewine tackles a 70's Gospel with the same binding & neck angle issues. He chose to repair a cracked, low bridge rather than do a neck reset. He explains Gibson used a "paddle joint" at the time. With a short dovetail on the bottom & a large tenon above it, it's very difficult to separate. Your "cheaters reset" turns out to be the best option for these 70's Gibsons.
If you take the total dollar amount you received divided by the hours spent, it’d be upsetting. There are many industries that have the same salary creep, such as construction, independent woodworking, salaried office jobs, etc.. It goes with the territory, especially when you’re a master such as yourself who is meticulous in his work. Don’t fret, you enjoy your time, you have earned a deep respect from others in your field, your customers are clamoring for your services, you’re a natural teacher, and your a fantastic musician. You deserve to give yourself a little break from the job and grab another soda or coffee during the day to lighten your perspective and recharge your batteries. Consider the reason why the British stop everything for “Tea”. Take care, Bill from Mn.
You never know about a guitar. Willie Nelson could afford a room full of guitars and yet he loves Trigger. They've been through a lot together. Trigger may have "written" Crazy! He did it with something when he was not rich. Who will buy Trigger when he's gone? ($millions$) Some guitars were all the guy had left after a divorce; others travelled to Vietnam; played on a stage in Nashville or Branson; played at a wedding or a funeral; were handed down by a military buddy or a gift from a celebrity... you just don't know where a guitars been or what it's done.
Opinions are kinda like armpits, everybody has a couple and most stink :-) so here is my opinion. A wonderful old Gibson like this J45 after your repairs would be worth several thousand dollars so charging between two to three thousand would be money well spent. Nice work!
Well, the two things involved in the price is: your labor costs and it's new value. A used 70's Gibson is on Reverb right now for @2K But it's not fully restored. Your efforts here need to be valued in the arena of ART, not used guitar market. What you did, was fix a lot of Gibson mistakes. No way all those braces should have worked free from a well glued guitar. Plus it was broken and not worth much in it's original shape. Someone said $50 and that's being kind. The Gibson you finished is one of a kind now. It is well made, will last a lifetime or three, and play like a classic. I think your repair is worth more than $1500, maybe even in the 2K (we saw so little of your actual work(., and it was over 2 hours of video. Hopefully the owner isn't trying to get a $50 piece of abused and poorly manufactured junk, and have you fix it for $499,. Try Auctioning it off on your UA-cam channel. I'd bet it'd go for over $5,000.00. There's not a handful of people alive today that could do what you did. Really enjoyed watching you do a work of LOVE on that old baby, and make it sound better than ever. There is no price you can put on that...
When you were debating on how to remove the bridge plate after fitting it for size, you should have had what is called at Dave's World of Fun Stuff: a 'suction pig.' They are more commonly used as smartphone stands, but he's found function in it to remove access plates on the backs of electrics, and it could have even got that bridge plate if you had it planed smooth enough.
Typically I'm not a fan of Gibson's Norlin era acoustics, but I wouldn't mind owning that one, Jerry. You show me time and again that it always pays to go the extra mile for a repair. Thank you again!
There is no way you can ever be paid for your priceless time, experience, and judgment. Customers who can afford perfection should be grateful to pay for it. For the others, it's just a matter of your properly caring for yourself and family. Once a long time ago a well known canoe builder built me a small boat (to my design). On delivery, he mentioned he should have charged twice as much. I offered to pay him the extra -- I could afford it at the time. He declined.
It is nice to see that you spent more time than you charged for, that guitar needed someone like you to bring it back to life what a fantastic job, I just love watching you work on difficult projects it really shows off your skills, brilliant!
I would not expect less than a 2450.00 bill as a minimum, but probably more around 3200.00. Great repair and now a Great sounding guitar. Now you can add another one you’ve brought back to life. Thanks for the awesome video’s.
WOW!!! It turned out great Jerry! It looks nice and sounds great. Your right, It ain't easy being you, good point on glueing it up and getting the neck angle just right. You know your stuff. I like how you usually always play and sing a song with the instruments that bring back to life. Great job Jerry!!!
I'm so impressed I really don't know how to expess it but I say this: the guitar is probarbly better now than it was when it left the factory; I guess your charge (knowing you) for this super exstensive operation would probarby be somewhere in the range between 800-1200 dollars. I am of course wrong but I took a guess just for the hell of it. Don't get me wrong if I'm totally of. Keep up the good work. All the best.
Magnus Gullberg. Why that Gibson wasn't built right in the first place shows that that era was lacking in quality and quality control. I would have been ashamed to have worked on those guitars from that batch. Gibson in Bozeman now has a quota system that must be adhered to. Therefore, quality can go out the window. My old J-50 was made in '64 in Kalamazoo. It was perfection. I haven't seen a "perfect" Gibson acoustic since.
Somehow I have become addicted to watching you restore these guitars. I’m not really interested in learning to restore, but find peace in knowing that if any of my guitars get damaged, there is hope they can be fixed. I used to handle my guitars like they were some ancient artifacts and that was exhausting. Now I just have fun with them knowing not all is lost if I ding or scratch them. At the end of your vids, I’m always curious how your customers react to seeing the finished product. May add some additional excitement/drama to your watchers. Just a thought.
Man Jerry, I hope that one’s a keeper because it seems like you’re about at the point where you could have built him a new one. Great watching, as always.
"What Binding is on your Guitar mate?" "Sycamore." "Sycamore eh? That doesn't get used much how exellent is that? Very nice." I'm guessing that's how the conversation would go. Great job Jerry.....As always.
Jerry, that donation was a gift to the world of music and the UA-cam community. Thank you for showing this. I work in some instruments and sometimes they have so much potencial that I just can let the instrument leave my hands without see the best I could extract from it. Best regards!
If it was my baby from the 70s, i think you charge $60/hr you said once, so I figure 20 hours x $60 = $1,200. I think I would do that, in all honesty. Ooops, better not let you know I have a Guild D25 from 1978 that could use a RSW makeover...........
I really enjoyed this one...outstanding work! If it was my guitar, I would have no issues paying $1200-$1500 dollars for that repair ( I really hope I did not offend you).
Great job. I don't think you can put a value on this in a realistic way. It might nearly have been easier and cheaper (likely would) to build a new one, but where I live in Australia a new j-45 sells for 3-4000, so 2500-3300 US dollars. That might mean the job would be worth 1500 $US or more because it is a hell of a fix job that you did and it might well be a better guitar than the new ones.
Steve Jobs is reportedly worth $144 Billion I hope your close to this after this Gibson fix .... really enjoyed watching all your hard work and attention to detail outstanding !
wow!!!what a LOAD OF WORK AND TIME and a great result!!! that guitar sounds beauyiful.i agree with you ,a great sound and you did it!! i bet that guitar never sounded that good when it was made! bravo!! ....bravo!! and now i can go to bed!!
Hi Jerry I'm just writing to tell you that a luthier here in Portugal would charge between 3000,00 Euros to 3800,00 Euros. As far as I know, there is only one luthier in Portugal who would accept a job like this and, like you, he is a very trusted Portuguese guitar and standard guitar manufacturer whose methods are similar methods to yours. Please visit facebook.com/MuseuDeCordofones.
Hy Gerry. This is an amazing repair work. Its sound is great and the guitar looks beautifully cared for by its owner. If you asked a thousand dollars for your work, I would deem it the right price but, knowing you I bet you have charged the customer roughly half that amount. Am I right?
Hello Jerry, The binding really shows up well. When the light catches the grain the patterns pop. What should the bill be? At least twice what you are charging and truthfully, if you count every bit of time and material, probably four times what you will bill. I had similar issues with my work. I wanted something "right", not just correct. I would put in a lot of my time and not bill at all. Sometimes I learned a few things. Some of them cost, like the binding measuring one way off the guitar, then fitting large and you taking it down with a razor. The cost of "being me", as you say. Certainly, nothing leaves the shop without your time in there somewhere. Good luck with your hands and wrists!
Jerry great job..and I think you did a great job with that song in fact I think its my favorite of your singing. Guitar sounds clear Canon..lol price for repair has to be 850.00 now thats a guess I dont know the actual hours.
You wouldn't get much change out of £1300 here in the UK, i believe that's a few more $'s over the pond and every Cent well spent. Your to kind Jerry, but it is a quality and i meant that with respect.All those hours you have donated, you do it all the time, to kind! God Bless.
I have the exact same guitar - I with I’d had you do all the work over the years. The neck reset was a very difficult job for my luthier, with the laminated heel falling apart, and now a prominent hump in the fretboard at the body. Still needs a fret job, so after $1000 or so in repairs, I’ll have a guitar worth about $500. 😩
We are fortunate to have this You Tube site (Rosa String Works). This is not equalled any place. Oh I like the other sites to but this is the apex site. Thanks to Rosa String Works!!!!1
My first repair was with a guitar that was smashed up pretty bad, the back needed to be replaced along with the plastic binding there was a hole in the side the neck was broke off and most of the bracing was broken or loose. I spent hours and hours and then more hours rebuilding it. I watched every video you have put out just to get an idea of what to do. As I did not know if it would be worth anything, in the end, I just used 1/8 th inch plywood to make the back and walnut for binding. To set the angle of the neck when I glued on the back I taped a straight 1x2 maple board from the nut to sit on the saddle. all in all, it did show I was able to repair a guitar. So now I have decided that the next project will be a build! Thanks for all the great Videos, tips, and encouragement. I will be watching any that your putting out.
I would love to send my first guitar to you for a tune up/upgrade. Pretty much just saddle, nut and some decent pins. It's not a very good guitar but it was my first so it means something to me. I also have never had my guitars worked on by anyone so I don't know how much something like that should cost...is it worth the money if it's more than the guitar cost 15 years ago?
Another fine repair from the Master! It did kick and scream the whole time, but you won. Far as the amount to charge for the repair, by the hour the guitar would not be worth it. Some you just have to charge by the job and being a fair man that I know you are, I'm sure it was reasonable. I'll go out on a limb and say, $1000. I bet you were even cheaper. It's called "good business".
I just love to watch these videos. I don't know if this has come up before in any comments, but I am pretty sure that your "cheating neck reset" not only improve the neck angle. If you first put a tuning fork to a piece of spruce and then do the same when the spruce is under pressure (bending it), you will find that the volume of the sound increases when it's bent. I think the cheating neck reset does the same to the top, to some degree.
How could you put an exact price on a master practicing his art on UA-cam for all of us guitars lovers to see. Smiles are valuable to me so I am certain a lot of people were very smiling at seeing that old J45 return to the world of the living. Then again that is easy for me to say because I did not have to do all that work.
I am enjoying how nicely this guitar is going back together. Kind of makes me feel like it's going better than the original build. Thanks for sharing this one with us.
I’d say the repair is worth $1500 to $2000 with the amount of time and work required. Excellent job, great video and now a beautiful guitar that sounds awesome!
Jerry, once again you have done an excellent repair for me. She looks great, sounds better and plays fantastic! Well worth every dime and then some. Mere words could never explain the esteem and respect I have for you, you are truly a master craftsman and one of the finest human beings I have ever encountered. I am happy to report NO problems from the 9 hour drive back to Dallas and I haven't stopped playing it since I got back! WELL DONE my friend!!
Very glad to hear it. Thank you very much.
Super job beautifully done
I love this guitar, and really appreciate the opportunity to watch a master at work. Incredible stuff.
Beautiful work saving that one, it's definitely a J45. It will stay in tune almost indefinitely if it's anything like Mom's old 60's era J45. Love that old guitar.
WOW! I'd never believe the results if I hadn't seen you do it step by step!!!!!
You really dragged it kickin' and screamin' into being a guitar again, and a dang fine one at that! What a lovely sound it has! I would say that restoration/repair was worth around $2,000. Great video and song!
Imperfections keep it authentic! I know nothing about pricing or what that model of Gibson is worth but I’d say that starts at $1,000 and goes up quickly!
Jerry, are you using that Reel tape, the so called luthier binding tape ? It's good stuff with hundreds of uses everywhere and in the home as well. That was all we used at Flatiron. I bought a 144 rolls around the time for my own use and still have maybe 15 rolls left after all these years. Great restoration project there, buddy. Man, what a job. Gibson had many quality issues, I'm told from that era. Should be all better from now on. Thanks. Bob
That was an amazingly thorough job. Took it apart,and put it back together better.
Sounds, and looks great. The binding is really nice.
Jerry you did great with the guitar sound awesome.
Hello! Thank you for this film - it was simply amazing to watch your work with this restoration. Love every part of it. Greetings from Poland :)
Wow what a great sound she has now. You donated a lot of your own time to this and I hope the owner appreciates it.
Sounds AWESOME! glad to see all that hard work pay off so beautifully. May she enjoy her rebirth as an almost-perfect guitar!
What it should cost? Given the amount of work you put in, in the thousands.
Jerry Rosa: Miracle worker.
Yes that Paduke has a good tone to it when you pinged it with your finger you can here the wood ring out.
Jerry you outdid yourself. I can't believe how much effort and passion you put into your repairs. I especially enjoy your commentary as you go through the repair process. You are the "Bob Ross" of Luthiers. Thanks for another amazing video !!!
You obviously have a lot of fans out here. I’m just another one. Great work.
The work you did on this guitar...Priceless!
A master at work. The guitar ain't the hero.
Just keep in mind if the customer can afford it that's one thing 2000 dollars most people can't so are doing a labor of the guitar for love to save it I think u are awesome
Straight to the work! I love it!
Wow!
sorry if this is a very obvious or dumb question, but in thinking about the economics of a project like this, I assume that the views for a particularly interesting project/video subsidize the project and make it more feasible to do the repair rather than just giving up and replacing the guitar?
I'm afraid to guess a price but it must have been substantial. I would like to know why you think that guitar came unglued like that. Plus the cracking on the top. That was more than just being dropped I would think. What say you? Great job!
$2500-$3000 considering how much time it took, which is more than it is worth, especially since it used the double X bracing that was introduced by the corporation that bought out Gibson and dictated that they be built stronger in order to reduce warranty work. (A double X can sound as good as a single X if it is voiced properly, but the suits wanted brute strength which can kill the bass.) As good as it sounds, buyers would want a discount because of the increased over building, even though this is a good one.
I have a Gibson built just before they went to the double X and it includes the original hang tags and sales receipt, well cared for, etc. I'd guess its worth is $2000 or less ... probably less. But there is a lot more than frank market value present here. This guitar is now in better playing condition than it probably was when it left the factory; you got slipping the back just right. Gibsons typically have a good fitting dovetail (compared to Martins) and so I think slipping the back is just as good a solution as a traditional neck reset would have been. Wood bindings are vastly superior to plastic and probably help the sound by isolating the sides better, leaving the top to be an easier path for string energy to exit the instrument.
And it looks great. The design is classic Gibson, which your restoration respected. It may mean a lot to the owner too, in some personal sense. I am restoring a 50s-60s Regal that has just about as many problems as this one but was never as much guitar as a Gibson of the same period, but has emotional value to me that well justifies the effort. But then I am not paying myself for the time.
This may sound silly but I’m glad there were so many defects in this guitar. It gives me the opportunity to see the master’s work in so many aspects of repair. Jerry you are the Abom of instrument repair. A perfectionist.
?????? The American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM)???????
zapa1pnt ABOM79 is a machinist channel Jerry watches.
R and R binding, R and R bridge plate, reattach braces, repair cracks and stabilize with cleats, neck reset, binding fill, binding scrape, binding seal, binding sand, touch up finish cracks, fret crown, fret board scrape, linseed oil fretboard, wood polish and buff, coating with wax, metal polish brightwork, saddle custom work, custom bridge install, restring and setup = $1450.00 Jerry picking a tune on a left for dead old wall hanger? = Priceless
Sounds fair to me.
Jerry, congratulations on an excellent repair. By coincidence, in this months Vintage Guitar mag. Dan Erlewine tackles a 70's Gospel with the same binding & neck angle issues.
He chose to repair a cracked, low bridge rather than do a neck reset. He explains Gibson used a "paddle joint" at the time. With a short dovetail on the bottom & a large tenon above it, it's very difficult to separate. Your "cheaters reset" turns out to be the best option for these 70's Gibsons.
If you take the total dollar amount you received divided by the hours spent, it’d be upsetting. There are many industries that have the same salary creep, such as construction, independent woodworking, salaried office jobs, etc.. It goes with the territory, especially when you’re a master such as yourself who is meticulous in his work. Don’t fret, you enjoy your time, you have earned a deep respect from others in your field, your customers are clamoring for your services, you’re a natural teacher, and your a fantastic musician. You deserve to give yourself a little break from the job and grab another soda or coffee during the day to lighten your perspective and recharge your batteries. Consider the reason why the British stop everything for
“Tea”. Take care, Bill from Mn.
i'd say the repair is worth quite a bit more than a 70s j45 in good shape
Could not agree more.
You never know about a guitar. Willie Nelson could afford a room full of guitars and yet he loves Trigger. They've been through a lot together. Trigger may have "written" Crazy! He did it with something when he was not rich. Who will buy Trigger when he's gone? ($millions$) Some guitars were all the guy had left after a divorce; others travelled to Vietnam; played on a stage in Nashville or Branson; played at a wedding or a funeral; were handed down by a military buddy or a gift from a celebrity... you just don't know where a guitars been or what it's done.
That is a yes And a however.
It now looks better and sounds better, than it did, new from the factory.
@@Gitfidlpickr You are talking about "celebrity value". That's a whole different ballgame.
Owner thinks otherwise above eh?
Opinions are kinda like armpits, everybody has a couple and most stink :-) so here is my opinion. A wonderful old Gibson like this J45 after your repairs would be worth several thousand dollars so charging between two to three thousand would be money well spent. Nice work!
Well, the two things involved in the price is: your labor costs and it's new value. A used 70's Gibson is on Reverb right now for @2K But it's not fully restored. Your efforts here need to be valued in the arena of ART, not used guitar market. What you did, was fix a lot of Gibson mistakes. No way all those braces should have worked free from a well glued guitar. Plus it was broken and not worth much in it's original shape. Someone said $50 and that's being kind. The Gibson you finished is one of a kind now. It is well made, will last a lifetime or three, and play like a classic. I think your repair is worth more than $1500, maybe even in the 2K (we saw so little of your actual work(., and it was over 2 hours of video. Hopefully the owner isn't trying to get a $50 piece of abused and poorly manufactured junk, and have you fix it for $499,. Try Auctioning it off on your UA-cam channel. I'd bet it'd go for over $5,000.00. There's not a handful of people alive today that could do what you did. Really enjoyed watching you do a work of LOVE on that old baby, and make it sound better than ever. There is no price you can put on that...
When you were debating on how to remove the bridge plate after fitting it for size, you should have had what is called at Dave's World of Fun Stuff: a 'suction pig.' They are more commonly used as smartphone stands, but he's found function in it to remove access plates on the backs of electrics, and it could have even got that bridge plate if you had it planed smooth enough.
Beautiful work Jerry, I think I prefer the pale binding compared to the tortoise shell, the old stuff seemed to get lost in the burst.
Typically I'm not a fan of Gibson's Norlin era acoustics, but I wouldn't mind owning that one, Jerry. You show me time and again that it always pays to go the extra mile for a repair. Thank you again!
Very Marty Robbins there Jerry! Great job singning!
Great work! I have the exact guitar, also very worn.
There is no way you can ever be paid for your priceless time, experience, and judgment. Customers who can afford perfection should be grateful to pay for it. For the others, it's just a matter of your properly caring for yourself and family. Once a long time ago a well known canoe builder built me a small boat (to my design). On delivery, he mentioned he should have charged twice as much. I offered to pay him the extra -- I could afford it at the time. He declined.
It is nice to see that you spent more time than you charged for, that guitar needed someone like you to bring it back to life what a fantastic job, I just love watching you work on difficult projects it really shows off your skills, brilliant!
I would not expect less than a 2450.00 bill as a minimum, but probably more around 3200.00. Great repair and now a Great sounding guitar. Now you can add another one you’ve brought back to life. Thanks for the awesome video’s.
WOW!!! It turned out great Jerry! It looks nice and sounds great. Your right, It ain't easy being you, good point on glueing it up and getting the neck angle just right. You know your stuff. I like how you usually always play and sing a song with the instruments that bring back to life. Great job Jerry!!!
I'm so impressed I really don't know how to expess it but I say this: the guitar is probarbly better now than it was when it left the factory; I guess your charge (knowing you) for this super exstensive operation would probarby be somewhere in the range between 800-1200 dollars.
I am of course wrong but I took a guess just for the hell of it. Don't get me wrong if I'm totally of. Keep up the good work. All the best.
Magnus Gullberg. Why that Gibson wasn't built right in the first place shows that that era was lacking in quality and quality control. I would have been ashamed to have worked on those guitars from that batch. Gibson in Bozeman now has a quota system that must be adhered to. Therefore, quality can go out the window. My old J-50 was made in '64 in Kalamazoo. It was perfection. I haven't seen a "perfect" Gibson acoustic since.
Once again... AMAZING!!! Your friend from Motorola!
Somehow I have become addicted to watching you restore these guitars. I’m not really interested in learning to restore, but find peace in knowing that if any of my guitars get damaged, there is hope they can be fixed. I used to handle my guitars like they were some ancient artifacts and that was exhausting. Now I just have fun with them knowing not all is lost if I ding or scratch them.
At the end of your vids, I’m always curious how your customers react to seeing the finished product. May add some additional excitement/drama to your watchers. Just a thought.
Man Jerry, I hope that one’s a keeper because it seems like you’re about at the point where you could have built him a new one. Great watching, as always.
"What Binding is on your Guitar mate?"
"Sycamore."
"Sycamore eh? That doesn't get used much how exellent is that? Very nice."
I'm guessing that's how the conversation would go.
Great job Jerry.....As always.
Another awesome repair job and another one rescued. That Gibby sounds HUGE. That ugly duckling swaned hard!
Jerry, that donation was a gift to the world of music and the UA-cam community. Thank you for showing this.
I work in some instruments and sometimes they have so much potencial that I just can let the instrument leave my hands without see the best I could extract from it.
Best regards!
BEAUTIFUL job, as usual! Great sounding Gibson!
If it was my baby from the 70s, i think you charge $60/hr you said once, so I figure 20 hours x $60 = $1,200. I think I would do that, in all honesty. Ooops, better not let you know I have a Guild D25 from 1978 that could use a RSW makeover...........
Love this, so therapeutic! 🇬🇧👍🇬🇧. I think with all that Work involved you should charge a minimum of £800.00.
I really enjoyed this one...outstanding work! If it was my guitar, I would have no issues paying $1200-$1500 dollars for that repair ( I really hope I did not offend you).
Great job. I don't think you can put a value on this in a realistic way. It might nearly have been easier and cheaper (likely would) to build a new one, but where I live in Australia a new j-45 sells for 3-4000, so 2500-3300 US dollars. That might mean the job would be worth 1500 $US or more because it is a hell of a fix job that you did and it might well be a better guitar than the new ones.
Steve Jobs is reportedly worth $144 Billion I hope your close to this after this Gibson fix .... really enjoyed watching all your hard work and attention to detail outstanding !
wow!!!what a LOAD OF WORK AND TIME and a great result!!! that guitar sounds beauyiful.i agree with you ,a great sound and you did it!! i bet that guitar never sounded that good when it was made! bravo!! ....bravo!! and now i can go to bed!!
I'd say more than $1500. Binding and neck reset, plus the cracks, plus the braces, any less would put you in the poorhouse.
Wow... masterpiece...congrats.. i like how you fix it...great
Hi Jerry I'm just writing to tell you that a luthier here in Portugal would charge between 3000,00 Euros to 3800,00 Euros. As far as I know, there is only one luthier in Portugal who would accept a job like this and, like you, he is a very trusted Portuguese guitar and standard guitar manufacturer whose methods are similar methods to yours. Please visit facebook.com/MuseuDeCordofones.
Beautiful work Jerry. I can't wait for the next project.
Hy Gerry. This is an amazing repair work. Its sound is great and the guitar looks beautifully cared for by its owner. If you asked a thousand dollars for your work, I would deem it the right price but, knowing you I bet you have charged the customer roughly half that amount. Am I right?
Hello Jerry, The binding really shows up well. When the light catches the grain the patterns pop. What should the bill be? At least twice what you are charging and truthfully, if you count every bit of time and material, probably four times what you will bill. I had similar issues with my work. I wanted something "right", not just correct. I would put in a lot of my time and not bill at all. Sometimes I learned a few things. Some of them cost, like the binding measuring one way off the guitar, then fitting large and you taking it down with a razor. The cost of "being me", as you say. Certainly, nothing leaves the shop without your time in there somewhere. Good luck with your hands and wrists!
Jerry great job..and I think you did a great job with that song in fact I think its my favorite of your singing. Guitar sounds clear Canon..lol price for repair has to be 850.00 now thats a guess I dont know the actual hours.
You wouldn't get much change out of £1300 here in the UK, i believe that's a few more $'s over the pond and every Cent well spent. Your to kind Jerry, but it is a quality and i meant that with respect.All those hours you have donated, you do it all the time, to kind! God Bless.
Perhaps you should have just looked for braces that were not lose :) I would expect here in Australia, My Luthier to charge between $800 and $1000.
Nice work! What a challenge to repair this guitar! Nice sound and good tunes, BTW. You have more patience than I have, sir.
I have the exact same guitar - I with I’d had you do all the work over the years. The neck reset was a very difficult job for my luthier, with the laminated heel falling apart, and now a prominent hump in the fretboard at the body. Still needs a fret job, so after $1000 or so in repairs, I’ll have a guitar worth about $500. 😩
That's got to be at least 1,200.00 Jerry. But I'm not an expert. What it came out to be is just a beautiful sounding old Gibson.
We are fortunate to have this You Tube site (Rosa String Works). This is not equalled any place. Oh I like the other sites to but this is the apex site. Thanks to Rosa String Works!!!!1
My first repair was with a guitar that was smashed up pretty bad, the back needed to be replaced along with the plastic binding there was a hole in the side the neck was broke off and most of the bracing was broken or loose. I spent hours and hours and then more hours rebuilding it. I watched every video you have put out just to get an idea of what to do. As I did not know if it would be worth anything, in the end, I just used 1/8 th inch plywood to make the back and walnut for binding. To set the angle of the neck when I glued on the back I taped a straight 1x2 maple board from the nut to sit on the saddle. all in all, it did show I was able to repair a guitar. So now I have decided that the next project will be a build! Thanks for all the great Videos, tips, and encouragement. I will be watching any that your putting out.
No wonder your hands hurt.
I would love to send my first guitar to you for a tune up/upgrade. Pretty much just saddle, nut and some decent pins. It's not a very good guitar but it was my first so it means something to me. I also have never had my guitars worked on by anyone so I don't know how much something like that should cost...is it worth the money if it's more than the guitar cost 15 years ago?
Love the lite binding. Great job it pops. I could see an easy 2-3k with that many hours of labor.
Another fine repair from the Master! It did kick and scream the whole time, but you won. Far as the amount to charge for the repair, by the hour the guitar would not be worth it. Some you just have to charge by the job and being a fair man that I know you are, I'm sure it was reasonable. I'll go out on a limb and say, $1000. I bet you were even cheaper. It's called "good business".
If I'm not mistaken, flammable plastics were to blame for more than a couple of factory fires--part of why they don't make those plastics anymore.
Another good vid good Sir. I learn something every time I tune in. Thank you and stay healthy! 👍👍
Great repair job! As for cost, I'm thinking it'd be almost cheaper to buy a new one!
I'm guesstimating $5000 for that. Awesome job tho
I just love to watch these videos. I don't know if this has come up before in any comments, but I am pretty sure that your "cheating neck reset" not only improve the neck angle. If you first put a tuning fork to a piece of spruce and then do the same when the spruce is under pressure (bending it), you will find that the volume of the sound increases when it's bent. I think the cheating neck reset does the same to the top, to some degree.
I would have used it for fire starter. Good Job! I used to do work almost like that but now my hands hurt just from watching you.
How could you put an exact price on a master practicing his art on UA-cam for all of us guitars lovers to see. Smiles are valuable to me so I am certain a lot of people were very smiling at seeing that old J45 return to the world of the living. Then again that is easy for me to say because I did not have to do all that work.
Amazing repair Jerry and it sounded incredable nice song at the end to thanks Mel for your imput 😉
I never realized that removing the back of the guitar could cause so many issues as the neck angle, Jerry as always the wisest of the wise luthiers
I love watching you bring Guitars back from the dead. And I'll bet that sounds better than it ever did.
Wow that was great. I guess you couldnt hear me screaming dye it, but when it was finished i think you made the right decision.
I am enjoying how nicely this guitar is going back together. Kind of makes me feel like it's going better than the original build. Thanks for sharing this one with us.
Wow, there was a lot going on there. Excellent couple of videos
I'm going to guess $2500 to $3000 for the cost to repair.
I’d say the repair is worth $1500 to $2000 with the amount of time and work required. Excellent job, great video and now a beautiful guitar that sounds awesome!
What were the dimensions of the binding? I need to buy binding for a j50 from this same era
that bridge plate sure added some tone I'm sure, nice job
Man that was above and beyond the call of duty Bravo super work
Lest say the repair took 30 hours total a $50 / material $ 100 total approx $1600
Very educational. Thank you!
Just what I need as I am ready to put the back on the Stella after brace repair.
You make it look so easy.What a job .2500ish
Jerry the Gladiator! Congrats!
NICE WORK.DOUBLE X BRACE SOUNDS GOOD TO ME
Well it's too small to be a base chello and to big to be a fiddle so a guitar is what its gotta be
Excellent video thanks!
Awesome vid... and the patient lived!
Boy howdy! What a triumph, Jerry. That binding looks great.