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!
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.
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....
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
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
I absolutely love your videos of restoring such beautiful instruments and making them playable for (hopefully) another 100 years. I have been binge watching your videos and learning so much from them. Thank you for sharing your craft.
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.
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. 👌🏻
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 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
Jerry your are truly a craftsman. You know, you really do make it look easy but you're not fooling me. Thank you for sharing such great content and hats off to the owner of the guitar to be inspired with confidence that the parlor guitar was worth of restoring...after all if he didn't think you could do it likely wouldn't have done it.
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.
You always keep me glued to the screen. I'm doing a modern Martin with a crack in the top, and your works are in my head when working on it. Keep it up!
By what seems to be overwhelming coincidence, I have almost the exact guitar and I have it in pieces so that I can repair it. Branded inside is "1897 Style". It has 4 abalone position markers, each different, the identical binding to the one you repaired and an abalone rosette at each end of the bridge. The fretboard was (And remains) cracked, as on yours, from the sound hole to the 12th fret. Little tiny crack. Couple small cracks in the body, nothing too bad. Had to pull the fretboard off. The neck/body joint is solid but the action had gotten too high to be playable. The neck itself had warped over the years and I had to plane it to get it flat again and I'm still working on it. Fretboard might go back on tomorrow. I'm told by experts online that obtaining the correct date is almost impossible. They said mine was built between 1898 and 1902 and I wouldn't be at all surprised if yours is the same style and age. They tell me that there were three levels (Prices). The price apparently was dependent upon trim with all having the same basic wooden components. The one in the video looks like the lower end, mine is the middle and the top level had abalone binding a la Martin D45. I own half a dozen acoustic guitars, including a 43 year old Martin but the Washburn is my daily player, or will be once she's back in one piece. The wide fretboard is essential (I have fingers that look like bratwursts) and she plays like a dream when in top condition. Makes a LOT of noise for a tiny body. It's both a pleasure and an honor to watch you work. I never miss an episode of Rosa's School for Aspiring Luthiers. You, Sir, ROCK. And also bluegrass, if that can be a verb. Cheers!
"i can rock it"...you certainly can,what a beautiful job on a sweet piece of history!..thank you for sharing!.....and just started the case video.....thank you to Sue as well!
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.
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 .
I am so thrilled by the sliver fix. I have engaged exactly the same fix using Krazy Glue and it works fine. If the digout is really small I layer in very fine matching wood dust (different colors of different woods - powder is stored in Krazy Glue vials with the shade marked outside) and noozle a little CA glue in there and rub in wood powder with my finger whilst catching the falling powder on a piece of paper cuz it's precious and I keep layering till I match the level of repaired wood then I scrape and sand very carefully - the mix of Krazy Glue and fine wood powder is actually flexible enough to match expansion and contraction of the wood being filled - the wood powder/CA glue layering is miraculous and a lot easier than sculpting slivers which I really don't mind. I have lived to see somebody do a few things that I and 13 other people on earth do. Thank you and Mahalo.
I found this same 1890 Washburn parlor guitar in the family attic in 1964 and played Peter, Paul and Mary songs on it. It was in very good condition. I gave it to a luthier in Buffalo in hopes it would.be preserved.
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 .
Such PATIENCE!
Such SKILLS!
Such IDEAS!
👍👍
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!
I'm not a guitar repairman, so this "easy" job looked like a terrifying nightmare to me! What amazing results!!!
Same here 👍
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.
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....
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.
Two minutes into your video and I know I'm going to enjoy it Jerry. This is gonna be a good one. Thank you
An hour long Rosa restoration. This was a highlight of the weekend! Great work on the old Washburn, Jerry.
I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for your time.
nice job on the very old guitar, love seeing your work and thanks for sharing your work.
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 are an artist what a privilege to work on that must have been for you great work thanks for shearing
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
That's a real beauty Jerry I enjoyed watching you repair it.
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
Nice job.....hope you have more old ones like this again...Keep the videos a coming..
who the heck gives this video a thumbs down,they must want hip hop music from that beautiful guitar
Beautiful sounding instrument. Great job getting it in shape for the next 1 1/4 century.
Nice craftsmanship. I especially like the home made clamps made from threaded rod, and wing nuts.
I look forward to learning more. Thank-you
5:11 omg the neck 😳.
Your videos are fascinating. Thanks Jerry for your beautiful work 🎶🎶🎶
Wow Man!!!!!!!! You Inspire me Daily.
I think your an Artist. You do amazing work. Finished product is magnificent. Thanks for sharing this with us.
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!
ANOTHER AMAZING RESTORATION...HAT'S OFF TO "ROSA STRING WORKSHOP" LOVE THIS CHANNEL !
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.
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
Nice work again Jerry your customer should be completely happy, happy, happy.
Thank you so much for what you do. I really enjoyed watching this one brought back to life.
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.
Five minutes in, my kinda video.
→Just finished watching. The guitar and the case are so cool. Great restoration again. Thanks for sharing, Jerry.
Wow you really bought that back to life for future generations to enjoy. Well done mate and thanks for an hour of great viewing. 👍
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.
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
Another great video Jerry, outstanding work as always!
CHeers, John
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!
Excellent work as always sir. I enjoyed watching the process of bringing that old guitar back to life.
Love watching you fix instruments, I watch your videos more than any others. Best regards from your neighbour to the north 🇨🇦
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!
One of your best videos, including the singing!
Fantastic job restoring the Washburn! Thanks for sharing with us.
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.
I can barely tell the difference of the color of that binding. Another awesome job Jerry. You are an awesome wood worker!!!
I absolutely love your videos of restoring such beautiful instruments and making them playable for (hopefully) another 100 years. I have been binge watching your videos and learning so much from them. Thank you for sharing your craft.
Love your videos Jerry. This was a special one
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.
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. 👌🏻
Jerry you've done it again impeccable workmanship and a great video on top you have a great night my friend until the next video take care buddy
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
What a great video. I actually have grown to enjoy the long videos you put out... And usually a little bonus music at the end... Thank you so much!
What a gentleman you are you deserve your new tool that your customer sent you
Love to watch you work! Great job as always.
This has been so interesting to watch, I am addicted to your video's. Great stuff.
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
Jerry your are truly a craftsman. You know, you really do make it look easy but you're not fooling me. Thank you for sharing such great content and hats off to the owner of the guitar to be inspired with confidence that the parlor guitar was worth of restoring...after all if he didn't think you could do it likely wouldn't have done it.
Great video Jerry.
One of my favorite guitars you've had on you channel!
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.
What a sweet old instrument! A fine restoration too. I enjoyed watching. Thanks for the video!
Great video, lovely old guitar, can't wait to see the case restored as well
Wow that’s amazing man! Really great work.
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.
You should take a bow, not many men like you left with skills that are at your level. Thanks for the videos.
You always keep me glued to the screen. I'm doing a modern Martin with a crack in the top, and your works are in my head when working on it. Keep it up!
What a beautiful little guitar, sounds great too, you saved something special there Jerry, fine work as usual.
That was a most interesting repair. Really enjoyed it as much as you enjoyed the results.
Total respect mate .. staining and matching finishes is an absolute art form ✅✅
By what seems to be overwhelming coincidence, I have almost the exact guitar and I have it in pieces so that I can repair it. Branded inside is "1897 Style". It has 4 abalone position markers, each different, the identical binding to the one you repaired and an abalone rosette at each end of the bridge. The fretboard was (And remains) cracked, as on yours, from the sound hole to the 12th fret. Little tiny crack. Couple small cracks in the body, nothing too bad. Had to pull the fretboard off. The neck/body joint is solid but the action had gotten too high to be playable. The neck itself had warped over the years and I had to plane it to get it flat again and I'm still working on it. Fretboard might go back on tomorrow.
I'm told by experts online that obtaining the correct date is almost impossible. They said mine was built between 1898 and 1902 and I wouldn't be at all surprised if yours is the same style and age. They tell me that there were three levels (Prices). The price apparently was dependent upon trim with all having the same basic wooden components. The one in the video looks like the lower end, mine is the middle and the top level had abalone binding a la Martin D45. I own half a dozen acoustic guitars, including a 43 year old Martin but the Washburn is my daily player, or will be once she's back in one piece. The wide fretboard is essential (I have fingers that look like bratwursts) and she plays like a dream when in top condition. Makes a LOT of noise for a tiny body.
It's both a pleasure and an honor to watch you work. I never miss an episode of Rosa's School for Aspiring Luthiers.
You, Sir, ROCK. And also bluegrass, if that can be a verb. Cheers!
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.
"i can rock it"...you certainly can,what a beautiful job on a sweet piece of history!..thank you for sharing!.....and just started the case video.....thank you to Sue as well!
Simply amazing job Jerry.
Wow, pretty amazing!
Awesome vid Jerry. There is something very therapeutic about your vids.
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.
Beautiful work as ever, another one brought back to life.
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.
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.
Those old Washburn parlor guitars are great players,you did a great job my friend
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 .
It was a very satisfying video to watch. Well done!
you are amazing , if i ever need one of mine fixed , you will be the first contact . thanks for sharing !!!
I sure do love this channel. Great job.
I am so thrilled by the sliver fix. I have engaged exactly the same fix using Krazy Glue and it works fine. If the digout is really small I layer in very fine matching wood dust (different colors of different woods - powder is stored in Krazy Glue vials with the shade marked outside) and noozle a little CA glue in there and rub in wood powder with my finger whilst catching the falling powder on a piece of paper cuz it's precious and I keep layering till I match the level of repaired wood then I scrape and sand very carefully - the mix of Krazy Glue and fine wood powder is actually flexible enough to match expansion and contraction of the wood being filled - the wood powder/CA glue layering is miraculous and a lot easier than sculpting slivers which I really don't mind. I have lived to see somebody do a few things that I and 13 other people on earth do. Thank you and Mahalo.
Great job Grandpa 👍👏👏👏You have wonderful grandchildren to give you such a fantastic shirt!
Mr. Rosa , AGAIN.. You are AMAZING. !!!!!
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
Excellent work restoring the past and nice performance🤠🤗🤗🌹
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.
I love watching your videos. I run them all night on many occasions. Thank you. 🔈🔉🔊
that's an old beauty
Sounds good. Made a nice old guitar. God bless.
she is a very nice guitar ,love what you did to it to get her back especially the neck joint
Wow! Looks like a million bucks! I can’t wait to see the case video!
Beautiful work!
The « pièce de résistance » is the main dish in a full menu… Quite an old-fashioned notion, so it fits with the guitar.
I found this same 1890 Washburn parlor guitar in the family attic in 1964 and played Peter, Paul and Mary songs on it. It was in very good condition. I gave it to a luthier in Buffalo in hopes it would.be preserved.
same model
Great job and a great sound coming from that old Washburn. I appreciate your patience
Jerry your quite an interesting fellow I love your videos. Very inspiring keep up the good work.
Amazing! I enjoy watching these.