I used to do these kind of splinter repairs as a high end finish carpenter on expensive cabinets. It will never be perfect but most people will never notice those types of repairs if these repairs are finished well. You do great work!
Great job on a great old guitar. special thanks for the song at the end. my father sang that to my mother a million times and brought back sweet memories. Her name was Rosemary
Mr. Rosa, you do not disappoint! I admire the way you can evaluate an instrument; with damage that would strike fear into most repair guys, and you're like"Ahhh, piece of cake". Nothing ever phases you. Thanks for sharing your expertise, and more importantly... Your time. Until we speak again, my friend....
Jerry, 4 years ago (2019) you were at 20k subs. Today (Mar 2023) you’re at 90k! Congrats on growing to 90k subscribers who apparently understand what good video is! Thanks for keepin’ on keeping on!
Don't know why I didn't get a notification for this video, yet I did for the next one (coffin repair) this was most definitely another miracle repair. Looks & sounds great.
That was made the year my granddad was. He'd take a bit more than skillful scraping and a bit of shellac to get him looking and working as well as that instrument. It's a joy to watch this channel.
I thoroughly enjoy watching how you chisel and scrape away the unwanted wood and glue, and bring everything back to beautiful! Impressive for sure. This old Washburn is looking and sounding great. Thanks for posting.
Wow...ole my....great sound for 2 3 hundred year old guitar ...collector item for sure thank for sharing the video of that ole girl good day an God bless you an your family
This was excellent . Thank you . I met this older guy (about 82 y/o) while installing some air conditioning for him back in the mid 90's . And during breaks marveled at his shop . My take away after that experience and the humble words he spoke was this ; Everything can be clamped down | Nothing has to be moved or carried by brute force | And never reach out farther then where your elbow is to work on something Get closer to it > Or get it closer to you . That was a wise man .
thank you Sir. i love my family roots. i come from hillbilly's and outlaws, music has always been with me. as i stepped away from a troubled past, i thought my connection with the good parts of my family were gone. you give me hope that the respect, not the lies i was told as a child, will return to the ugliness of this world. we all make mistakes and you showed me that we can repair them if we try
Stefan Grossman talks about the path through society of Parlor Guitars when teaching Sevastopol. It seems they were the rage after the Civil War, when young women of means in New England would be given guitars and song books of parlor music. Like many things, not everything takes with teenagers and so a lot of parlor guitars made their way into the used market and refuse pile. More than a few made their way into the hands of African Americans playing blues, and many of the licks from sheet music (like Sevastopol) became part of their repertoire to the point where Open-D tuning is call Sevastopol tuning. Robert Johnson played a Gibson L-1. So that little bit of history you just restored is a great physical representation of something that linked women of leisure to men and sharecroppers who had no leisure at all, except after dark with a parlor guitar making music to soothe the mind and soul.
Guitars were given free to tramps by piano teachers in an attempt to associate guitars with the lower orders and get young ladies of quality back to the piano
this was a very special segment. The workmanship to restore it was amazing. It's amazing that a 125 year old guitar can be brought back to life with a couple clamps and hand chisles. Congrats on a great job. I'll know where to send my Martin is 100 years.
You exceeded your self there gerry what a lovely old guitar it will last another 100 years thanks to you you are a very talented Luthier and love what you do
Mr Rosa. Really enjoyed this episode watching you repair this sweet old 1800's period Washburn parlor guitar. It turned out geat! sounds real good too!
I love old instruments. I built a a 00 28 Martin kit set and set the neck with carbon paper, my friend and your Randy turned me onto Settings the neck with carbon paper and it’s the only way to do it properly the neck turned out perfect. Love your show. Keep up doing old guitars with new ones like this.Again Great Job Jerry
I really appreciate the invention of the adjustable truss rod after watching this video. A great job turning this back into a playable instrument that some one can enjoy for many years to come. Bravo!
That job was so far above my pay grade I couldn't make out the bottom of it. Awesome piece of work. Nice to see someone who sings as well as I do, too. lol
Wow Mr Rosa thank you for that end tune you sang . That just brought back a flood of memories because my dad and the Barbershop Quartet he sang in used to sing "My Wild Irish Rose" In competitions , at pizza parlors , and bars . And at home while he showered hahaha . Good times . [Kingsmen Quartet , Kings County Ca.] circa 1970's
That neck repair was a good demonstration of how good titebond is. Glued in those small bits of wood and in a few hours they were stuff well enough to be hammering and chiseling them, nice. Also a lovely guitar beautifully repaired.
Beautiful job as always, Jerry! I worked on a similar old Brazilian Rosewood Parlor Guitar. It had a crack in the side with a thin gouge along the crack like that. I filled it with some ebony dust and super glue, and even rubbed some in the crack itself. It came out perfect. Looked like a dark streak in the wood. Twas shellacked, so it was easy to fix the finish. Polished the shellac with some pumice powder.
Jerry I always enjoy your repair videos. I've learned a lot and have begun to believe I could attempt to fix my old 70's Japanese dreadnaught flattop with a badly tilting bridge and belly bulge myself. :-)
Got almost the same Washburn that had the full neck reset with carbon fibre rods and some cracks and binding fixed. It’s the guitar non guitar players like the sound of the best. 1899. I got the Washburn book and it helped date it accurately. If you haven’t got it I’ll gladly help get the exact year on this if the customer wants it. All the best and great work. It’s really inspiring what you do. 👌🏻
Mr. Rosa, I rewatched this video after a 2 year pause and wanted to bring a couple things to your attention. First, an 1890s Washburn was probably as close to a Martin in quality as any guitar could . They were sometimes manufactured under the name Lyon & Healy and restored can go for $1000-2000 on eBay. The bridge is known as a pyramid bridge. The 12-fret to body combined with the slotted headstock and the 1-3/4 inch wide nut make them the quintessential finger style guitar. You did a good job of restoring it but I remember an article in Acoustic Guitar magazine from the 1990s where Gryphon guitars in California restored an 1890s Martin O-45 that had gone with a missionary to Africa. They took it apart and used denatured water to resolve the old glues. When finished it was absolutely beautiful! This Washburn could have been just as impressive. I’m afraid the hit or miss whittling of the neck dovetail combined with the folksy .”well, I guess I’ll try this but I dunno, ...” sounds pretty unprofessional.
THAT WAS A FIVE STAR VIDEO.....THE WORK YOU DID RESTORING THAT BEAUTIFUL OLD INSTRUMENT WAS SECOND TO NONE , AND THE WAY IT SOUNDED AFTERWARDS WAS EVEN BETTER....I HOPE YOU GET MORE INSTRUMENTS LIKE THAT ONE...THAT WAS PURE JOY TO WATCH....
I'm qualified to do this sort of thing, taught by John Bailey, a British guitar maker. I didn't keep it up though - not enough money in it and none of it easy money. But I can tell you, this is the real deal and I think the cherry on the cake is when he sings a song on it. Hats off. In the time it took to watch this, I changed strings on my acoustic, tuned it and played a few tunes of my own. It's a lot less worry.
I have a martin from that era that looks so similar. Despite missing a few inches of a side panel it is incredibly sweet sounding and resonant. Great little instruments.
You have a great sense of the character of the instruments you work on, and the skills to make the repairs fit into that character without disturbing it, yet making the repaired instrument look so much better than the way it looked when it first came in.
Im impressed with the quality of work you put into every job no matter how large or small . I do hope your customers appreciate your work .
I didn't knew that Washburn was existing that long already. Thank you.
I used to do these kind of splinter repairs as a high end finish carpenter on expensive cabinets. It will never be perfect but most people will never notice those types of repairs if these repairs are finished well. You do great work!
Great job on a great old guitar. special thanks for the song at the end. my father sang that to my mother a million times and brought back sweet memories. Her name was Rosemary
Great job on a great old guitar! The song made me smile. My Italian Dad used to sing that to my Irish Mom, whose name was Rose.
Loved seeing this come back to life.
What a gentleman you are you deserve your new tool that your customer sent you
Mr. Rosa, you do not disappoint! I admire the way you can evaluate an instrument; with damage that would strike fear into most repair guys, and you're like"Ahhh, piece of cake". Nothing ever phases you. Thanks for sharing your expertise, and more importantly... Your time. Until we speak again, my friend....
Jerry, 4 years ago (2019) you were at 20k subs. Today (Mar 2023) you’re at 90k! Congrats on growing to 90k subscribers who apparently understand what good video is! Thanks for keepin’ on keeping on!
Bonnie elderly guitar brought back to life, brilliant.
I'm not a guitar repairman, so this "easy" job looked like a terrifying nightmare to me! What amazing results!!!
Same here 👍
Don't know why I didn't get a notification for this video, yet I did for the next one (coffin repair) this was most definitely another miracle repair. Looks & sounds great.
Wow Man!!!!!!!! You Inspire me Daily.
ANOTHER AMAZING RESTORATION...HAT'S OFF TO "ROSA STRING WORKSHOP" LOVE THIS CHANNEL !
Nice work again Jerry your customer should be completely happy, happy, happy.
I love watching your videos. I run them all night on many occasions. Thank you. 🔈🔉🔊
This has been so interesting to watch, I am addicted to your video's. Great stuff.
I think your an Artist. You do amazing work. Finished product is magnificent. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I really enjoyed watching a true craftsman at work.
That was made the year my granddad was. He'd take a bit more than skillful scraping and a bit of shellac to get him looking and working as well as that instrument.
It's a joy to watch this channel.
You should take a bow, not many men like you left with skills that are at your level. Thanks for the videos.
who the heck gives this video a thumbs down,they must want hip hop music from that beautiful guitar
holy shit the fact that you are colorblind but do so well at these restorations is amazing
Excellent work restoring the past and nice performance🤠🤗🤗🌹
One of your best videos, including the singing!
Two minutes into your video and I know I'm going to enjoy it Jerry. This is gonna be a good one. Thank you
I thoroughly enjoy watching how you chisel and scrape away the unwanted wood and glue, and bring everything back to beautiful! Impressive for sure. This old Washburn is looking and sounding great. Thanks for posting.
5:11 omg the neck 😳.
Your videos are fascinating. Thanks Jerry for your beautiful work 🎶🎶🎶
That's a real beauty Jerry I enjoyed watching you repair it.
Nice job.....hope you have more old ones like this again...Keep the videos a coming..
Jerry you are master luthier great job fixing that old beauty
Great job Grandpa 👍👏👏👏You have wonderful grandchildren to give you such a fantastic shirt!
“Another one bits the dust” Jerry !!! Great job and video thanks !!!❤️🇬🇧
you are an artist what a privilege to work on that must have been for you great work thanks for shearing
WOW!... thats a cool guitar. cant wait to see it finished
Wow...ole my....great sound for 2 3 hundred year old guitar ...collector item for sure thank for sharing the video of that ole girl good day an God bless you an your family
Such PATIENCE!
Such SKILLS!
Such IDEAS!
👍👍
This was excellent . Thank you . I met this older guy (about 82 y/o) while installing some air conditioning for him back in the mid 90's . And during breaks marveled at his shop . My take away after that experience and the humble words he spoke was this ; Everything can be clamped down | Nothing has to be moved or carried by brute force | And never reach out farther then where your elbow is to work on something Get closer to it > Or get it closer to you . That was a wise man .
Those old Washburn parlor guitars are great players,you did a great job my friend
Sounds good. Made a nice old guitar. God bless.
An hour long Rosa restoration. This was a highlight of the weekend! Great work on the old Washburn, Jerry.
Betty here.....I have great admiration for your work!
Got one of the limited run of the 125th anniversary editions by Washburn. Lovely to see one of the originals come back to life! Thanks
Really like that little guitar!!!! He has common sense and does great work.
thank you Sir. i love my family roots. i come from hillbilly's and outlaws, music has always been with me. as i stepped away from a troubled past, i thought my connection with the good parts of my family were gone. you give me hope that the respect, not the lies i was told as a child, will return to the ugliness of this world. we all make mistakes and you showed me that we can repair them if we try
I can barely tell the difference of the color of that binding. Another awesome job Jerry. You are an awesome wood worker!!!
I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for your time.
Stefan Grossman talks about the path through society of Parlor Guitars when teaching Sevastopol. It seems they were the rage after the Civil War, when young women of means in New England would be given guitars and song books of parlor music. Like many things, not everything takes with teenagers and so a lot of parlor guitars made their way into the used market and refuse pile. More than a few made their way into the hands of African Americans playing blues, and many of the licks from sheet music (like Sevastopol) became part of their repertoire to the point where Open-D tuning is call Sevastopol tuning. Robert Johnson played a Gibson L-1. So that little bit of history you just restored is a great physical representation of something that linked women of leisure to men and sharecroppers who had no leisure at all, except after dark with a parlor guitar making music to soothe the mind and soul.
This is a lovely commentary on the love and history of music and guitars.
I've always heard it called vestopol tuning.... now I know why..... thanks....
Pièce de resistance means chief piece of the meal, the most exciting part. Great Job, great moments , hi from France! Voilà
Guitars were given free to tramps by piano teachers in an attempt to associate guitars with the lower orders and get young ladies of quality back to the piano
Brown I do nt know if that true but it makes a fantastic story!
Fantastic job restoring the Washburn! Thanks for sharing with us.
Love watching you fix instruments, I watch your videos more than any others. Best regards from your neighbour to the north 🇨🇦
Nice craftsmanship. I especially like the home made clamps made from threaded rod, and wing nuts.
I look forward to learning more. Thank-you
A fine job. A real pleasure to watch a craftsman at work. 👍😊
Beautiful sounding instrument. Great job getting it in shape for the next 1 1/4 century.
Total respect mate .. staining and matching finishes is an absolute art form ✅✅
this was a very special segment. The workmanship to restore it was amazing. It's amazing that a 125 year old guitar can be brought back to life with a couple clamps and hand chisles. Congrats on a great job. I'll know where to send my Martin is 100 years.
Thanks for this tour through an old guitars resurrection.
I see and try to learn every bit of the way.
This was a very well spent Sunday night.
You exceeded your self there gerry what a lovely old guitar it will last another 100 years thanks to you you are a very talented Luthier and love what you do
I'm a multi repairer of most things so no expert at one. This was was a fantastic tutorial for me to repair my oldest guitar. thank you.
Mr Rosa. Really enjoyed this episode watching you repair this sweet old 1800's period Washburn parlor guitar. It turned out geat! sounds real good too!
I love old instruments. I built a a 00 28 Martin kit set and set the neck with carbon paper, my friend and your Randy turned me onto Settings the neck with carbon paper and it’s the only way to do it properly the neck turned out perfect. Love your show. Keep up doing old guitars with new ones like this.Again Great Job Jerry
Simply amazing job Jerry.
I really appreciate the invention of the adjustable truss rod after watching this video. A great job turning this back into a playable instrument that some one can enjoy for many years to come. Bravo!
Wow you really bought that back to life for future generations to enjoy. Well done mate and thanks for an hour of great viewing. 👍
It was a very satisfying video to watch. Well done!
That job was so far above my pay grade I couldn't make out the bottom of it. Awesome piece of work. Nice to see someone who sings as well as I do, too. lol
Wow! Looks like a million bucks! I can’t wait to see the case video!
What a sweet old instrument! A fine restoration too. I enjoyed watching. Thanks for the video!
Love to watch you work! Great job as always.
Amazing to watch you work sir
Wow, pretty amazing!
Another great video Jerry, outstanding work as always!
CHeers, John
Wow Mr Rosa thank you for that end tune you sang . That just brought back a flood of memories because my dad and the Barbershop Quartet he sang in used to sing "My Wild Irish Rose" In competitions , at pizza parlors , and bars . And at home while he showered hahaha . Good times . [Kingsmen Quartet , Kings County Ca.] circa 1970's
nice job on the very old guitar, love seeing your work and thanks for sharing your work.
That neck repair was a good demonstration of how good titebond is. Glued in those small bits of wood and in a few hours they were stuff well enough to be hammering and chiseling them, nice. Also a lovely guitar beautifully repaired.
What an awesome guitar... Thanks for share it Jerry.
Greetings from Germany
Really enjoyed your repair work on this old washburn guitar as Ive done many such repairs and enjoy your ingenuity thanks for sharing.
Beautiful job as always, Jerry! I worked on a similar old Brazilian Rosewood Parlor Guitar. It had a crack in the side with a thin gouge along the crack like that. I filled it with some ebony dust and super glue, and even rubbed some in the crack itself. It came out perfect. Looked like a dark streak in the wood. Twas shellacked, so it was easy to fix the finish. Polished the shellac with some pumice powder.
Jerry I always enjoy your repair videos. I've learned a lot and have begun to believe I could attempt to fix my old 70's Japanese dreadnaught flattop with a badly tilting bridge and belly bulge myself. :-)
Got an old Washburn arriving tomorrow,wow
i like the way you work my dad always said that if you do something right the first time you wont have to do it again.
Got almost the same Washburn that had the full neck reset with carbon fibre rods and some cracks and binding fixed. It’s the guitar non guitar players like the sound of the best. 1899. I got the Washburn book and it helped date it accurately. If you haven’t got it I’ll gladly help get the exact year on this if the customer wants it. All the best and great work. It’s really inspiring what you do. 👌🏻
Mr. Rosa, I rewatched this video after a 2 year pause and wanted to bring a couple things to your attention. First, an 1890s Washburn was probably as close to a Martin in quality as any guitar could . They were sometimes manufactured under the name Lyon & Healy and restored can go for $1000-2000 on eBay. The bridge is known as a pyramid bridge. The 12-fret to body combined with the slotted headstock and the 1-3/4 inch wide nut make them the quintessential finger style guitar. You did a good job of restoring it but I remember an article in Acoustic Guitar magazine from the 1990s where Gryphon guitars in California restored an 1890s Martin O-45 that had gone with a missionary to Africa. They took it apart and used denatured water to resolve the old glues. When finished it was absolutely beautiful! This Washburn could have been just as impressive. I’m afraid the hit or miss whittling of the neck dovetail combined with the folksy .”well, I guess I’ll try this but I dunno, ...” sounds pretty unprofessional.
THAT WAS A FIVE STAR VIDEO.....THE WORK YOU DID RESTORING THAT BEAUTIFUL OLD INSTRUMENT WAS SECOND TO NONE , AND THE WAY IT SOUNDED AFTERWARDS WAS EVEN BETTER....I HOPE YOU GET MORE INSTRUMENTS LIKE THAT ONE...THAT WAS PURE JOY TO WATCH....
maybe put a new battery in your hearing aid ol fella...youre yelling
Amazing! I enjoy watching these.
My five year old daughter was watching with me, and said "That's a good show". LOL Great work as always, Jerry.
Tell her hello from me.
I'm qualified to do this sort of thing, taught by John Bailey, a British guitar maker. I didn't keep it up though - not enough money in it and none of it easy money. But I can tell you, this is the real deal and I think the cherry on the cake is when he sings a song on it. Hats off.
In the time it took to watch this, I changed strings on my acoustic, tuned it and played a few tunes of my own. It's a lot less worry.
Jerry I thought I was time traveling when I saw July 2019 ;-) that’s a nice old guitar, and a beautiful job repairing it... amazing.
Really enjoyed watching you restore this beauty.
Awesome resto Jerry you saved another one!Cheers
That carbon paper dovetail checking method is a fantastic idea, whoever thought that one up was a genius.
just call me Einstein.
I've seen Ted at twoofrd using that same technique. It's such a simple but neat idea.
Hi Jerry glad to hear you are now getting nice comments and well deserved kind regards Stephen from UK
Those old Washburns and Regal guitars up into the 30’s were great guitars, beautiful Adirondack tops. I would love to own that little parlor guitar!
I have a martin from that era that looks so similar. Despite missing a few inches of a side panel it is incredibly sweet sounding and resonant. Great little instruments.
You have a great sense of the character of the instruments you work on, and the skills to make the repairs fit into that character without disturbing it, yet making the repaired instrument look so much better than the way it looked when it first came in.
Excellent work as always sir. I enjoyed watching the process of bringing that old guitar back to life.
Five minutes in, my kinda video.
→Just finished watching. The guitar and the case are so cool. Great restoration again. Thanks for sharing, Jerry.
you are amazing , if i ever need one of mine fixed , you will be the first contact . thanks for sharing !!!
That was a most interesting repair. Really enjoyed it as much as you enjoyed the results.
What an excellent job and excellent tutorial 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for sharing your knowledge for the generations to come.
Master of Masters!!!
Awesome vid Jerry. There is something very therapeutic about your vids.