All of us who know about you and your channel, would love to see any videos you want to post. Your instrument videos are great! To know more about you as a person would be great also. Thankz
You're a real class act Jerry. It's obvious to me that your parents raised you right, and that you are a very gracious and grateful person to your viewers and customers. Appreciate your efforts to improve your video skills, I hope that as you learn it will get easier and take you less time. I like the music during your 'fast forward' sections, as well as your intro and end segments.
Hi, I am new on this computer communication. I am semi retired and I have been looking into new hobbies, a professional carpenter with a love of musical instruments especially strings. I have a couple old guitars that need some serious attention, primarily fret boards. So I have watching your channel for 4 days now just about 8 hours a day. I checked a few other ones but I have settled on yours. I really enjoyed the detail and the way you present your projects. Keep it up and I will be watching and telling others I know. We happen to be in a rural area where there are not many shops or at least any I know of, your channel is a great help, thanks again. see ya
Hi Jerry, You did a great job on this video. You were talking about your past videos earlier. Every video you did. That I have seen. You did great jobs on them. I enjoy them. You always give plenty of information on what you are doing. And you are a good luther. I can't understand why anyone would be upset with your videos or work. Anyway, I think you do a great job. I hope you will continue to make and produce your shows, Thank you and May God Bless You
Weight, thickness, brace placement equals sound quality. I can appreciate the amount of time and care you put into your instruments and or repairs. The quality of store bought manufactor made instruments cannot campare. Thanks for sharing your craft.
Here I sit again, watching your videos and not up repairing my little collection of guitars, mandolins, a few violins and a cello that need much better care than my amateur hands are capable of. Keep up the great work!
Ha! At the beginning in your discussion you said you made a mistake in the previous video and said you had 2,000 subscribers when you really only had about 200. Well, in now 6 years later in 2022, and I'm a new subscriber and this older is new to me, and you now have over 80K subscribers! That doesn't surprise me how your channel has mushroomed because of how good your work is, and how you are just a good ol' boy, and how great your videos are edited and put together in so many ways. They're just superb! I've been adding my comments, but since the videos I've been watching are 2 to 6 years old, I doubt you will see them. Oh well, I was never on time to parties. And since I'm pretty old and interested bad health, i doubt I will be around much longer. It's getting close to time for me to lay down my burden, so to speak. But I sure pray that you live a long and healthy life, for your own sake, and for the sake of all your future customers and their instruments!! You are a treasure to this world, Jerry. God bless you and all your family. I'll keep watching a long as I possibly can. PS - You also mentioned in this 6 year old video how you stay caught up on your projects, but in the videos only 2 or 3 years old you talk about how behind you are and how your shop is full and overflowing with projects waiting on you! Well, I've always saud good work is the best possible form of advertising, which i still believe, but don't underestimate the advertising power of UA-cam!! But UA-cam wouldn't help out getting new business unless the owner of the channel had great products and services, which you obviously do!! May you and your business continue to grow and flourish for MANY years to come!!
I just found your channel sir. What an awesome story about your 10 string mandolin. That is certainly a point of pride. Probably my favorite thing to see on UA-cam is all the ways that skilled Craftsman and dunderheaded wood butchers alike go about fixing mistakes, accidents, and just plain poor judgement. Because then the finished project carries more weight. It seems somehow better and more meaningful to see a beautiful piece that had to overcome a few bumps in the road. I saw the end of this series on the missing top already and now I am watching everything leading up to it. You have done some wonderful things with God's gifts sir.
You must have had a blast working with those 4th graders. I've brought my wild critters and talked to every kind of group from nursery schools to nursing homes but if I had to pick just one age to work with it would be 4th grade! They have a LOT of knowledge but yet they are still children. Hope you are well and that it isn't as hot there as it has been here in Florida.
Great stuff, Jerry !! I think you just convinced your viewers why your mandolins are such a great value considering the TLC and hand craftsmanship that goes into one of your builds.....not to mention the quality of sound that is achieved.
Jerry, what an amazing video, you have the patience of a saint, your attention to detail is incredible. I am trying to watch all your videos to kinda catch up so to speak and i love every video i have watched, keep them coming. Love and peace to you and yours from bonny scotland.
I like your videos. I am sure you know the best editing is the video looking like it has never been edited.You are pretty much there. Just keep doing what you are doing and you will be fine.
The problem with these videos is that they are so fascinating they are stopping me getting on with my own project. I'm supposed to be reassembling an old engine, yet here I sit.
You got to work on a Lloyd Loar mandolin? That had to be an honor (and nerve-wracking). It was definitely a good idea to copy that pattern when you had it. Nice job!
I've actually worked on several. But I only took one apart and it happened to be one of the very best ones. I measured in thousands of inch and I build all my mandolin to that one.
@@RosaStringWorks Been watching hours and hours of your videos, for quite a while now, and have started to build a mandolin for myself. not giving the top specs is like leading me down to the garden, then kicking me in the crotch and laughing. I have never been so disappointed.
I use Corel too mostly, sometimes Sony Vegas and it's a trip just learning them. I don't blame you for not giving out the Loar specs you have, I'm sure anyone who builds a mandolin would love to get their hands on them but they are special no doubt. Good video man!
It looks like you have over 2000 subscribers now!! I just subscribed myself. These videos are wonderful!! I've been thinking of buying a gibson mandolin. After watching your videos I'm thinking 10 grand would buy some nice woodworking tools! Whats that saying again...Teach a man to fish...... Very inspiring videos! Keep em' coming!!!
I have a custom built from my buddy back in Dallas WV. I' not a very good mando player but i just cant help myself from buying acoustic instruments. Ill send you an email and maybe we can have a chat about you building me another custom.
I think you do a great job on your videos with both the editing and content. Hopefully the new software will make the editing process faster and easier once you learn it. I find watching your skilled build and repair videos fascinating. I look forward to seeing the video on Indian artifacts too.
@@RosaStringWorks I have built some electrics so, if I got to that point, I'd probably try it myself first. However, I'm sure yours would nail it on the first try. Mine might be ok on the 4th or 5th. 😂
Jeff NIles thank you very much. The customer really likes it I know. This story is that it he bought it from a repair shop. He got a very good deal on it because it had no top. thank you for watching.
Really appreciate these videos. A lot of fine work on a mando top. Is the Kentucky worth it? Was it a carved top by the Asian factory? Is the back carved? . . . I know you believe if it's worth it to the owner it's worth it . . . and yet . . .
Edward thanks for watching. The owner didn't have any money in it. So it only cost him what I charged him. He really likes it so I guess it was worth it.
Such a labour of patience and love to carve this top it's amazing. I know that you have lots of years of experience but how do you keep track of where you are in terms of symetry ? Only with your eyes ?
There are some pictures of that amazing 10-string mandolin that Jerry built for Carmine D'Amico on this site. Wow! www.tuneyoursound.com/collection/rosa-string-works-custom-hand-made-10-string-f-style-mandolin-1998-carmine-damico
Hey Jerry, Maybe I missed it in an earlier video, but what variety of spruce is this top being made from? Thanks! Great job on video as always! BTW, Is that "you" I hear singing on some of background music?
p.s. - thanks for reading. There is actually a price to you for an exquisite didgeridoo if you come to Hollywood. I would ask you to look at some of my terrible -looking guitar repairs. "You mean you fixed a neck break on this log of a Hyundai 12-string with Crazyglue and a couple of woodscrews and it has held for 11 years? Okeedokee..." and then you will receive a superfine didge to show your bluegrass and newgrass pals and if you play it their minds will be blown. Hee.
@Rosa String Works - My guitar repair skills are formidable "field fix" style and usually look terrible as there is literally no budget for tools and such. However my field fixes, though "temporary" are playable for a while anyway. You've seen lots of field fixes and I assure you that no budget fixes can actually work - and yes I have many o.k. hand tools in a tiny room in Hollywood that would literally fit in your dining room. Enough complaining, I say, and if Jesus were my close personal friend I would call him Yeshua Ben Joseph and say hey, Yesh, let's fix a guitar. Enough of the personal or is it? I built approximately 88 bamboo didgeridoos between 1998 and 2002. In the year 2000 the world experienced "Aussie Fever" (what a song title!) and terrible didges were pouring into L.A. music stores and I found a heavily shellacked piece of Bloodwood eyucalyptus and I can't spell that. I bought what I knew to be a didgeridoo from down under from exquisite eyucal lineage of termite hollowed young tree. One-twenty bucks, oh yes, and I decided to build the best didge on earth. About 177 hours to transform the raw tree into a multi-harmonic impossibly heavy and redwood colored eyucalyptus (that didn't show before the linseed soak (the coated log is heated over a propane stove to open the pores in the wood and the linseed sumps into the wood cells for about a quarter inch in thick wood) and the color of the tree revealed itself omg. My fave plant is bamboo which I cut after meditating in the grove and the bamboo guides me to the didge culm. My didges were built to a self-taught player (myself - I did didge seminars at McCabe's for 4 years, what a fab gig) - the point is that when one invests 177 specifically skilled energy into an instrument with a sculpted mouthpiece (instead of beeswax - yuck!) - imagine a tuba mouthpiece shape and you understand how well that shape adapts to didges. So I made for a few years, the finrst didgeridoos on the planet - rather like the guy who sculpts a mando face, omg. Brilliant. I would occasionally sell a didge for about 3 hundred bucks. I should have charged more than 2 bucks an hour. Be well and mahalo nui loa.
the lasting value of your videos is for us to appreciate the woodworking and instrument making craftmanship. Your humility is refreshing. Thank you.
Thank you Howard, glad you still tune in.
All of us who know about you and your channel, would love to see any videos you want to post. Your instrument videos are great! To know more about you as a person would be great also. Thankz
That is really kind of you to say. Thank you very much.
You're a real class act Jerry. It's obvious to me that your parents raised you right, and that you are a very gracious and grateful person to your viewers and customers.
Appreciate your efforts to improve your video skills, I hope that as you learn it will get easier and take you less time. I like the music during your 'fast forward' sections, as well as your intro and end segments.
Thank Dean. I'm sure the same is true of you. I appreciate the kind words very much.
Hi, I am new on this computer communication. I am semi retired and I have been looking into new hobbies, a professional carpenter with a love of musical instruments especially strings. I have a couple old guitars that need some serious attention, primarily fret boards. So I have watching your channel for 4 days now just about 8 hours a day. I checked a few other ones but I have settled on yours. I really enjoyed the detail and the way you present your projects. Keep it up and I will be watching and telling others I know. We happen to be in a rural area where there are not many shops or at least any I know of, your channel is a great help, thanks again. see ya
You make the nicest videos ever. I love to watch them, I can hardly wait for the new videos. All the best, Edgar
Hi Jerry, You did a great job on this video. You were talking about your past videos earlier. Every video you did. That I have seen. You did great jobs on them. I enjoy them. You always give plenty of information on what you are doing. And you are a good luther. I can't understand why anyone would be upset with your videos or work. Anyway, I think you do a great job. I hope you will continue to make and produce your shows, Thank you and May God Bless You
Thomas Tommy, thank you very much for the kind words. I appreciate them very much.
Weight, thickness, brace placement equals sound quality. I can appreciate the amount of time and care you put into your instruments and or repairs. The quality of store bought manufactor made instruments cannot campare. Thanks for sharing your craft.
You are very welcome sir. Thank you for the very kind words. They are very much appreciated.
Here I sit again, watching your videos and not up repairing my little collection of guitars, mandolins, a few violins and a cello that need much better care than my amateur hands are capable of. Keep up the great work!
William G. LaCrosse thank you very much.
Thanks, Jerry! Love your guitar videos! 4th grade is still elementary! Middle school starts at 7th grade!
Ha! At the beginning in your discussion you said you made a mistake in the previous video and said you had 2,000 subscribers when you really only had about 200. Well, in now 6 years later in 2022, and I'm a new subscriber and this older is new to me, and you now have over 80K subscribers! That doesn't surprise me how your channel has mushroomed because of how good your work is, and how you are just a good ol' boy, and how great your videos are edited and put together in so many ways. They're just superb!
I've been adding my comments, but since the videos I've been watching are 2 to 6 years old, I doubt you will see them. Oh well, I was never on time to parties. And since I'm pretty old and interested bad health, i doubt I will be around much longer. It's getting close to time for me to lay down my burden, so to speak. But I sure pray that you live a long and healthy life, for your own sake, and for the sake of all your future customers and their instruments!! You are a treasure to this world, Jerry. God bless you and all your family. I'll keep watching a long as I possibly can.
PS - You also mentioned in this 6 year old video how you stay caught up on your projects, but in the videos only 2 or 3 years old you talk about how behind you are and how your shop is full and overflowing with projects waiting on you! Well, I've always saud good work is the best possible form of advertising, which i still believe, but don't underestimate the advertising power of UA-cam!! But UA-cam wouldn't help out getting new business unless the owner of the channel had great products and services, which you obviously do!! May you and your business continue to grow and flourish for MANY years to come!!
Loving every one of your videos ☺️ Learning so much from you!
Well Jerry you inspired me to get on and upgrade my guitars which i have for sale
I just found your channel sir. What an awesome story about your 10 string mandolin. That is certainly a point of pride. Probably my favorite thing to see on UA-cam is all the ways that skilled Craftsman and dunderheaded wood butchers alike go about fixing mistakes, accidents, and just plain poor judgement. Because then the finished project carries more weight. It seems somehow better and more meaningful to see a beautiful piece that had to overcome a few bumps in the road. I saw the end of this series on the missing top already and now I am watching everything leading up to it. You have done some wonderful things with God's gifts sir.
Another great video! That mandolin top is looking good, and the music is great too. I am looking forward to the next video!
Very kind of you to say Jeff. Thanks
You must have had a blast working with those 4th graders. I've brought my wild critters and talked to every kind of group from nursery schools to nursing homes but if I had to pick just one age to work with it would be 4th grade! They have a LOT of knowledge but yet they are still children. Hope you are well and that it isn't as hot there as it has been here in Florida.
Jerry, four hundred years ago they imprvised ysing things like shark skin as sandpaper.
All the best, Edgar
Yeah sharks were very easy to come by 400 years ago. LOL. Scrapers have been used for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Great stuff, Jerry !! I think you just convinced your viewers why your mandolins are such a great value considering the TLC and hand craftsmanship that goes into one of your builds.....not to mention the quality of sound that is achieved.
Thanks Leon
Thank you Sam. I really appreciate you too!
awesome job. love watching a true craftsman .
Thanks Eddie.
Jerry, what an amazing video, you have the patience of a saint, your attention to detail is incredible. I am trying to watch all your videos to kinda catch up so to speak and i love every video i have watched, keep them coming. Love and peace to you and yours from bonny scotland.
Andrew Reynolds thank you very kindly my friend. One of these days I may come visit you. I always wanted to see Scotland and Ireland.
I like your videos. I am sure you know the best editing is the video looking like it has never been edited.You are pretty much there. Just keep doing what you are doing and you will be fine.
Thank you Michael.
The problem with these videos is that they are so fascinating they are stopping me getting on with my own project. I'm supposed to be reassembling an old engine, yet here I sit.
Sorry Wayne, glad you are enjoying them.
You got to work on a Lloyd Loar mandolin? That had to be an honor (and nerve-wracking). It was definitely a good idea to copy that pattern when you had it. Nice job!
I've actually worked on several. But I only took one apart and it happened to be one of the very best ones. I measured in thousands of inch and I build all my mandolin to that one.
@@RosaStringWorks Been watching hours and hours of your videos, for quite a while now, and have started to build a mandolin for myself. not giving the top specs is like leading me down to the garden, then kicking me in the crotch and laughing. I have never been so disappointed.
I use Corel too mostly, sometimes Sony Vegas and it's a trip just learning them. I don't blame you for not giving out the Loar specs you have, I'm sure anyone who builds a mandolin would love to get their hands on them but they are special no doubt. Good video man!
Thank you Randy!
Just started watching, finally something useful thanks
Robin Bell thanks for watching.
all them shavings should get you through the winter.
+Eddy Lonergan man you don't know how much I wish. Thanks for watching.
It looks like you have over 2000 subscribers now!! I just subscribed myself. These videos are wonderful!! I've been thinking of buying a gibson mandolin. After watching your videos I'm thinking 10 grand would buy some nice woodworking tools! Whats that saying again...Teach a man to fish...... Very inspiring videos! Keep em' coming!!!
Thanks for watching Kevin. Or, you could save 4K, all that time, frustration, and buy a custom made Rosa! Lol.
I have a custom built from my buddy back in Dallas WV. I' not a very good mando player but i just cant help myself from buying acoustic instruments. Ill send you an email and maybe we can have a chat about you building me another custom.
I think you do a great job on your videos with both the editing and content. Hopefully the new software will make the editing process faster and easier once you learn it. I find watching your skilled build and repair videos fascinating. I look forward to seeing the video on Indian artifacts too.
Thanks so much Dale.
Love the craftsmanship, what type of wood are you useing on that repair? Keep up the videos.
Thanks Jerry, good video and snazzy intro and outro.
Thanks Dane
I know nothing about carving a top so this is fascinating stuff. I know you don't do that but I'd love to see you build an archtop guitar.
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@@RosaStringWorks I have built some electrics so, if I got to that point, I'd probably try it myself first. However, I'm sure yours would nail it on the first try. Mine might be ok on the 4th or 5th. 😂
I know this is an old video but was wondering if you would ever do a hands on class
I forgot to mention WD-40 White Silicon Grease.
I use that on my garage doors quite often
So Jerry, How is it that this mandolin didn't have a top. Sounds like an interesting story? Excellent work by the way..
Jeff NIles thank you very much. The customer really likes it I know. This story is that it he bought it from a repair shop. He got a very good deal on it because it had no top. thank you for watching.
Really appreciate these videos. A lot of fine work on a mando top. Is the Kentucky worth it? Was it a carved top by the Asian factory? Is the back carved? . . . I know you believe if it's worth it to the owner it's worth it . . . and yet . . .
Edward thanks for watching. The owner didn't have any money in it. So it only cost him what I charged him. He really likes it so I guess it was worth it.
Such a labour of patience and love to carve this top it's amazing. I know that you have lots of years of experience but how do you keep track of where you are in terms of symetry ? Only with your eyes ?
My eyes, my fingers, and then I also measure it in thousands of in with calipers. Thanks for watching.
There are some pictures of that amazing 10-string mandolin that Jerry built for Carmine D'Amico on this site. Wow!
www.tuneyoursound.com/collection/rosa-string-works-custom-hand-made-10-string-f-style-mandolin-1998-carmine-damico
Thank you I didn't even know that was out there
Hey Jerry, Maybe I missed it in an earlier video, but what variety of spruce is this top being made from? Thanks! Great job on video as always! BTW, Is that "you" I hear singing on some of background music?
Thanks for the note. I am not sure of the Spruce species as it was supplied by the customer. Yes that is me... sorry.
p.s. - thanks for reading. There is actually a price to you for an exquisite didgeridoo if you come to Hollywood. I would ask you to look at some of my terrible -looking guitar repairs. "You mean you fixed a neck break on this log of a Hyundai 12-string with Crazyglue and a couple of woodscrews and it has held for 11 years? Okeedokee..." and then you will receive a superfine didge to show your bluegrass and newgrass pals and if you play it their minds will be blown. Hee.
Who cares about the specs; they are on the internet!
Obviously they are. But not the one I took apart.
@@RosaStringWorks Ohh! Sorry!
All banjo players need to be pretty quick in case someone tries to catch them.
Newburg, your close to Dixon Hill where the steam engine 1522 struggled to get to the top.
Richard I hadn't heard that before, but I'll take your word for it. Thanks for watching.
@Rosa String Works - My guitar repair skills are formidable "field fix" style and usually look terrible as there is literally no budget for tools and such. However my field fixes, though "temporary" are playable for a while anyway. You've seen lots of field fixes and I assure you that no budget fixes can actually work - and yes I have many o.k. hand tools in a tiny room in Hollywood that would literally fit in your dining room. Enough complaining, I say, and if Jesus were my close personal friend I would call him Yeshua Ben Joseph and say hey, Yesh, let's fix a guitar. Enough of the personal or is it? I built approximately 88 bamboo didgeridoos between 1998 and 2002. In the year 2000 the world experienced "Aussie Fever" (what a song title!) and terrible didges were pouring into L.A. music stores and I found a heavily shellacked piece of Bloodwood eyucalyptus and I can't spell that. I bought what I knew to be a didgeridoo from down under from exquisite eyucal lineage of termite hollowed young tree. One-twenty bucks, oh yes, and I decided to build the best didge on earth. About 177 hours to transform the raw tree into a multi-harmonic impossibly heavy and redwood colored eyucalyptus (that didn't show before the linseed soak (the coated log is heated over a propane stove to open the pores in the wood and the linseed sumps into the wood cells for about a quarter inch in thick wood) and the color of the tree revealed itself omg. My fave plant is bamboo which I cut after meditating in the grove and the bamboo guides me to the didge culm. My didges were built to a self-taught player (myself - I did didge seminars at McCabe's for 4 years, what a fab gig) - the point is that when one invests 177 specifically skilled energy into an instrument with a sculpted mouthpiece (instead of beeswax - yuck!) - imagine a tuba mouthpiece shape and you understand how well that shape adapts to didges. So I made for a few years, the finrst didgeridoos on the planet - rather like the guy who sculpts a mando face, omg. Brilliant. I would occasionally sell a didge for about 3 hundred bucks. I should have charged more than 2 bucks an hour. Be well and mahalo nui loa.
No offense but the lady needs to practice on her vocals!