@@michaelprivate8115 In the sense that the CBC did it to themselves and removed the Canadian element from coast to coast, then I might agree.On that note, the other Canadian broadcasters are just vessels for American programing.I wonder if Big Bang Theory is on right now?
I love Casinos! I have a “coupe” of my own and a customer brought in 2019 USA full size Casino for some lacquer touch up (very nice). As always thanks for sharing!
I have that vibrato and it can be improved by taking it apart and lubing with graphite powder. The spring is a torsion rod and quite simple to dissemble, remove pin.
I have an es330 of that era. Yes my small handed friend loves playing it. I remember swapping humbuckers into these guitars was popular in the 70s and 80s.thankfully now p90 prejudice is at an end now :) Merry Christmas
Paul McCartney has often said his Casino is his favorite guitar, and in addition to using it on for the famous solo on Taxman, and on Drive My Car and Paperback writer, I think he said he’s used it on every album in the past decade or two.
To see a guitar like the Casino , just amazes me. We as the audience can only surmise that you reach a lot of people. The word gets around that you can do just about any fix to an instrument. Folkways , I thought was tops for years. I think they got too expensive. A different set of business. They don’t teach ! Right out of the gate you have that great gypsy jazz tune that hugs the viewers . Thank you Ted for sharing … you are a truly amazing repair teacher of cool , fine and unique instruments . Merry Christmas to you and family . Alberta Dave 🇨🇦😊🇨🇦
The Gibson version of the Casino was the ES-330. My father owns one from around 1962 - gifted to him from one of his guitar students. This particular guitar most likely started out as a Gibson ES-330 but "customized" by an employee who liked the name Casino better than ES-330.
This guitar has the Casino fret board inlays, which are slightly different than the es-330. I think it started out as a Casino. The headstock is from an ES-345, not as ES-330. When the headstock broke, it is possible that the whole thing was replaced. It is curious that the orange label is so faded and discolored. I have heavily used orange label Gibsons, but the labels maintain their orange color.
@@radrandall No, it started as a Gibson 330. Look at the headstock. It probably had the fretboard switched. OR like I said, it was a custom one off by someone who worked there for themselves. As for the crown inlay, for a 345, they simply used a 345 headstock overlay.
Love the history and the setup. Thank you as always for sharing. Hope your holidays are relaxing and filled with laughter. Look forward to all of your endeavors in 2022.
Thank you Ted for all of your content. Learning new things about how guitars work that I never new before. Have a safe and happy holiday. Looking forward to what you come up with next year. -Cheers
had some smashing video's from you this year, thanks so much for your time and effort, have a wonderful Christmas and new year, looking forward to next year cheers :)
Nice and unusual guitar to finish the year on Ted. Thank you for all your content this year, and looking forward to the next one too. Have a great Christmas.
All the best for the holiday season! I loved the "hey good lookin we'll be back to pick you up later" reference. Nice blast from the past. Your asides I find very entertaining. Thanks much for all you do!
What a great red Christmas guitar! Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us again Ted. I have learned so much from you throughout the year and I am most grateful for how you generously share your hard-earned knowledge. Have a very Merry Christmas! All my best wishes for the New Year.
All the best for Christmas and the New Year, Ted. I only "discovered" you during this year, and have been binge watching to catch up! Yours is now one of the first sites I check at the weekend for your new vids! Thank you for helping to keep us sane during all this current madness!
Have a very happy Christmas and best wishes for 2022. Thanks for all you have shared with us through’21, always well worth watching. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Thanks for the diagram about filing the nibs down too far. Very helpful. And thank you for all your videos. Safe and fantastic holidays for you too. For us all.
It’s peculiar how people seem to experience better tone, corresponding with techniques widely spread by fora, like letting wood breathe. Usually fed from people observing old guitars, where the lacquer have been worn off from playing, sounding amazing. At least when someone named Rory is playing them. A great violinist, playing a Stradivarius, once had a visitor in his dressing room, the visitor complimented how amazing the violin sounded. The violinist opened the case, listened briefly and said: I don’t here anything.
It's called "The placebo effect", and it's a lot stronger than most would think, let alone admit. I have been building and repairing stringed musical instruments for 40+ years, and only at very first fell for some of the snake oil, but thanks to having studied electrical and mechanical engineering at the same time, and then geeking out on physics big time, learned the difference between fact and fiction pretty early on. The hardest thing to deal with, are perceived "Something special" about a physically impossible, or at least immeasurable difference nowhere near audible within the human range of hearing. Things like "This nut makes the whole instrument sound better" even on fretted strings where it has no bearing whatsoever in any audible way, the removing the finish of an electric instrument, phony misconceptions like "Tonewood" and the like where: a. the pickups cannot sense wood, but only string vibrations, and b. any string vibration into the neck and body (the preferred Good vibes BS) is at near 94% loss due to the vibrations being converted from linear waves (Strings) to radial ones (body and neck, which are forced frequencies, not resonant ones, and therefore decay quickly, where most are carried off by the players body and the surrounding air air, and any residual within a sympathetic range that can reflect back to the strings, only converts back divided by pi so an additional ~2/3 loss to the strings going from radial back to linear, leaving just enough to aid a little sustain one would not need if the instrument was stiff as a rock, and didn't vibrate as much to begin with! (
@@Bob-of-Zoid I agree, with about 15 years experience. The only way to end a discussion about i.e. tone wood properties, in electrical instruments, is to ask for proof. Wood, as you say, does not influence impedance, magnetism or any other factors that makes an electrical instrument produce sounds. And the “I HEAR A DIFFERENCE” argument simply isn’t scientific. I usually claim that practicing your scales will improve your music much more, than changing the fretboard wood of your guitar. Can you imagine the talent, a musician needs to posses, in order for the perceived subtle nuances, in the instrument, to actually make a difference?
@@Bob-of-Zoid I have been playing guitar for over fifty years and also repair and restore violins and other stringed instruments. You are absolutely right but the idiots you are talking about probably also read their horoscopes every day, are scared of walking under ladders and believe in Father Christmas. They are a gift to every conman and slick salesman who comes along. Take their money - they're too stupid to be allowed to keep it!
"Not a booger"...haha...✌ Thank you Ted for the technical details. Very interesting and meticulous. I always love the history part. Remarkable. Have a nice Christmas and a fruitful New Year. Stay safe. 🎶🎶🎶
Love the channel, even if I’m not Canadian! Ha Ha! You are a very good luthier! HHs and will be thrilled when you post a new video! Love from the lower 48! Thanxz
“We known it’s an official Gibson because it has the proper headstock break”. What a gem!!!!
“It’s like a far more complicated, and yet less efficient Bigsby.” He’s got a million of them.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@mightyluv I drill a hole in both sides and pin those crummy Epi vibrolas in place with a couple of grub screws.
That had me laughing out loud
Haha yep i laughed out loud
6:18 "a disturbing cutlet of dried sludge" is a phrase I plan to sprinkle throughout my conversations going forward.
You should have ur own CBC/ PBS television program. You’re definitely an old world artisan. Thank you,Ted and merry Christmas.
That would be TVO .,,and it would actually be a real homegrown educational program. He'd probably get too much interference though.
So true!
But if it was on CBC no one would ever see it!
@@michaelprivate8115 In the sense that the CBC did it to themselves and removed the Canadian element from coast to coast, then I might agree.On that note, the other Canadian broadcasters are just vessels for American programing.I wonder if Big Bang Theory is on right now?
I concur.
"We know it's an official Gibson because it's got the proper headstock break" 🤣🤣
You beat me to the punch! So true...
@@pepppery Haha...very on target! I have 7 Gibsons [ 5 SGs ], and no headstock disasters yet, but there is still time...
Don't taunt the headstock gods. They'll come to your house and reenact the French Revolution if you're not careful.
@@duckrutt Indeed - 'No One Expects the Inquisition' ...
Solid lol when he said this
"We know it's an official Gibson because it has the proper headstock break..."
If that isnt the funniest line here....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So true!! I knew someone had to have posted this!
“hey, good looking, I’ll be back to pick you up later”...now that is a blast from the past...awesomeness as always Mr. Ted!!!!
i lol'd at that mr. microphone reference.
I love Casinos! I have a “coupe” of my own and a customer brought in 2019 USA full size Casino for some lacquer touch up (very nice). As always thanks for sharing!
I have that vibrato and it can be improved by taking it apart and lubing with graphite powder. The spring is a torsion rod and quite simple to dissemble, remove pin.
Have a great Christmas and New Year Ted. Thanks for the outstanding content. You're the best dude.
Ted I'm shocked you didn't recognise the 'detune bar™️' that takes the guitar down half a step for transport and long term storage 😁
Lol.
I have an es330 of that era. Yes my small handed friend loves playing it. I remember swapping humbuckers into these guitars was popular in the 70s and 80s.thankfully now p90 prejudice is at an end now :)
Merry Christmas
I love these oddities; one offs, employee builds, transitional period offerings,… The original “prehistorics” are some of my favorite LPs.
Paul McCartney has often said his Casino is his favorite guitar, and in addition to using it on for the famous solo on Taxman, and on Drive My Car and Paperback writer, I think he said he’s used it on every album in the past decade or two.
he said his first casino is his favorite casino, his favorite is a bass
When I saw him live in 2017, he was still playing the Casino
To see a guitar like the Casino , just amazes me. We as the audience can only surmise that you reach a lot of people. The word gets around that you can do just about any fix to an instrument. Folkways , I thought was tops for years. I think they got too expensive. A different set of business. They don’t teach ! Right out of the gate you have that great gypsy jazz tune that hugs the viewers . Thank you Ted for sharing … you are a truly amazing repair teacher of cool , fine and unique instruments . Merry Christmas to you and family . Alberta Dave 🇨🇦😊🇨🇦
Production worker elbow nudges a co-worker as the Gibson label is affixed inside says: "This will make 'em be guessing in about 54 years".
The Gibson version of the Casino was the ES-330. My father owns one from around 1962 - gifted to him from one of his guitar students. This particular guitar most likely started out as a Gibson ES-330 but "customized" by an employee who liked the name Casino better than ES-330.
This guitar has the Casino fret board inlays, which are slightly different than the es-330. I think it started out as a Casino. The headstock is from an ES-345, not as ES-330. When the headstock broke, it is possible that the whole thing was replaced. It is curious that the orange label is so faded and discolored. I have heavily used orange label Gibsons, but the labels maintain their orange color.
@@radrandall No, it started as a Gibson 330. Look at the headstock. It probably had the fretboard switched. OR like I said, it was a custom one off by someone who worked there for themselves. As for the crown inlay, for a 345, they simply used a 345 headstock overlay.
i love the es330..
Got my T shirt yesterday, good quality so very pleased, thanks.👍
wow, new frets..so exciting. Very beautiful old guitar. Thank you
Thanks Ted for a full year of interesting videos! So relaxing to hear you talk about instruments. Happy Holidays and see you in the New Year!
Thanks for a year of interesting videos! So relaxing to hear you talk about instruments. Happy Holidays and see you in the New Year!
Thanks for the weekly fix! Greetings from the Netherlands 👌
Happy holidays, thanks for all the great vids this year!
The headstock break joke was comedy gold!
watching your craftsmanship makes me realise you are my hero!!! 😁
Thanks for a year of great videos. Happy holidays.
Excellent workmanship! Thank you for the video - waiting impatiently for your next one. ;-) Merry Christmas, and Stay Well in the New Year!!
Thanks for a year of edutainment. Merry Christmas.
Thank you for the time you take making these fantastic videos! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Ted. Thanks for the great content over the years. Looking forward to next year. Cheers!
Love the history and the setup. Thank you as always for sharing. Hope your holidays are relaxing and filled with laughter. Look forward to all of your endeavors in 2022.
Congrats for the good work. Happy Holidays! Waiting for next year's projects.
"cutlet of dried sludge" might be the most accurate and shudder-inducing phrase I've heard in a long time...
Your illustrations are just spot on ;-)
Happy Holidays! Thank you for an awesome series of videos this year!!!
Happy holidays and thanks for another year of entertaining videos. 👍
Love the Mr. Microphone reference. Love the videos, you are a true craftsman.
Have a good holiday break, thanks for your videos this year.
Thank you Ted for all of your content. Learning new things about how guitars work that I never new before. Have a safe and happy holiday. Looking forward to what you come up with next year. -Cheers
had some smashing video's from you this year, thanks so much for your time and effort, have a wonderful Christmas and new year, looking forward to next year cheers :)
What an absolutely gorgeous guitar! I love the tailpiece assembly.
Enjoy your holidays, Ted! Thanks for your videos, I look forward to the new ones in 2022.
Merry Christmas! and thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Thanks for another informative and entertaining video, and Happy Holidays!
Nice and unusual guitar to finish the year on Ted. Thank you for all your content this year, and looking forward to the next one too. Have a great Christmas.
Happy new year and thanks for a lot of inspiring video’s.
Hi Ted! I've finally got hold of that sticker you sent me in the mail. Thank you so much, definitely one to add to the toolbox. 👍
Thank you for another cool guitar story! Have a great holidays too! 🎄
All the best for the holiday season! I loved the "hey good lookin we'll be back to pick you up later" reference. Nice blast from the past. Your asides I find very entertaining. Thanks much for all you do!
Thank you so much for your time and talents! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you sir!
Have a great holiday season Ted! Looking forward to seeing what the next year has in store for repairs.
Great job increasing fret width on the
1 9/16 “ narrow nut and neck with binding
Thanks for sharing your process
What a great red Christmas guitar! Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us again Ted. I have learned so much from you throughout the year and I am most grateful for how you generously share your hard-earned knowledge. Have a very Merry Christmas! All my best wishes for the New Year.
Another fun watch! Happy holidays!
Awesome refret job and setup Ted Merry christmas and a happy New Year,Cheers!
Thank you so much for your videos, I thoroughly enjoy them. Happy Holidays, my friend.
Thank you for all the great videos this year have a great Christmas
All the best for Christmas and the New Year, Ted. I only "discovered" you during this year, and have been binge watching to catch up! Yours is now one of the first sites I check at the weekend for your new vids!
Thank you for helping to keep us sane during all this current madness!
Merry Christmas Ted (and family). Thanks for sharing a bit of your knowledge with all of us. Let’s hope 2022 brings us all a better place to be.
Wow, what a cool, beautiful guitar! 😎 Happy holidays
I enjoy the anticipation of your weekly broadcasts and can't wait for next year. Happy Holidays everyone.
Nice work as usual Ted. Happy holidays to you and yours as well, stay safe and uncovided!
Ted, I love they way you add the English pronunciation of "soldered" after your own "local" pronunciation...thank you !
Yea, a lot of foreigners have trouble with the English language (you ought to hear the Brits...)
Indeed we Brits do talk a little strangely ! Ted does it every time with a little sigh, humo(u)r and a nice ironic smile !
Merry Christmas and thank you for sharing.
Thanks a lot for another great vid, Ted! Have a good holidays! Greetings from Poland.
Happy Hollidays, Ted! Thanks for making content, another reason for looking forward to 2022! 😎
Merry Christmas to you too! Have a great holidays.
Another great video. Cheers Ted. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Happy Holidays to you, always enjoy your videos. ⛄🎄😁
Every morning, I learn a lot from your videos, thank you.
Thanks for these wondeful videos! Great to watch througout the year!
Ted, thank you once again for an entertaining and instructional year .
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
Merry Christmas Sir Thanks For all the guitar love!
Hey.. Have a great Holiday.. Thank you so much for your great videos!
I look forward to your next video, but until then have Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
Have a very happy Christmas and best wishes for 2022. Thanks for all you have shared with us through’21, always well worth watching. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Thanks for the diagram about filing the nibs down too far. Very helpful. And thank you for all your videos. Safe and fantastic holidays for you too. For us all.
Thanks for your videos. Merry Christmas from the UK.
Happy holidays Ted and all the best to you and yours in the new year. Keep being awesome my friend.
Nice "Mr Microphone" reference! Happy holidays.
Really cool employee guitar. Great work !
Love the One Piece at a Time Gibson. What a thing it is. Edit: Surprised you’re not a CA glue activator enthusiast.
White misting can be unpredictable.
Have a great holiday I really enjoy your show and look forward to 22 cheers
Thank you Ted. Just ordered a green t-shirt! Happy holidays and a great year to you and the rest of the gang.
Cool fiddle👍🏻
Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
I got my Tshirt. Now I feel like a real member of the gang. Love your channel. Merry Christmas .
Merry Christmas Ted, and thanks!
thank you!!!!really enjoyed this!!!happy holidays.
Another masterclass from a craftsman. Thank you.
It’s peculiar how people seem to experience better tone, corresponding with techniques widely spread by fora, like letting wood breathe. Usually fed from people observing old guitars, where the lacquer have been worn off from playing, sounding amazing. At least when someone named Rory is playing them.
A great violinist, playing a Stradivarius, once had a visitor in his dressing room, the visitor complimented how amazing the violin sounded. The violinist opened the case, listened briefly and said: I don’t here anything.
It's called "The placebo effect", and it's a lot stronger than most would think, let alone admit. I have been building and repairing stringed musical instruments for 40+ years, and only at very first fell for some of the snake oil, but thanks to having studied electrical and mechanical engineering at the same time, and then geeking out on physics big time, learned the difference between fact and fiction pretty early on.
The hardest thing to deal with, are perceived "Something special" about a physically impossible, or at least immeasurable difference nowhere near audible within the human range of hearing. Things like "This nut makes the whole instrument sound better" even on fretted strings where it has no bearing whatsoever in any audible way, the removing the finish of an electric instrument, phony misconceptions like "Tonewood" and the like where:
a. the pickups cannot sense wood, but only string vibrations, and
b. any string vibration into the neck and body (the preferred Good vibes BS) is at near 94% loss due to the vibrations being converted from linear waves (Strings) to radial ones (body and neck, which are forced frequencies, not resonant ones, and therefore decay quickly, where most are carried off by the players body and the surrounding air air, and any residual within a sympathetic range that can reflect back to the strings, only converts back divided by pi so an additional ~2/3 loss to the strings going from radial back to linear, leaving just enough to aid a little sustain one would not need if the instrument was stiff as a rock, and didn't vibrate as much to begin with! (
@@Bob-of-Zoid I agree, with about 15 years experience. The only way to end a discussion about i.e. tone wood properties, in electrical instruments, is to ask for proof. Wood, as you say, does not influence impedance, magnetism or any other factors that makes an electrical instrument produce sounds. And the “I HEAR A DIFFERENCE” argument simply isn’t scientific. I usually claim that practicing your scales will improve your music much more, than changing the fretboard wood of your guitar. Can you imagine the talent, a musician needs to posses, in order for the perceived subtle nuances, in the instrument, to actually make a difference?
@@Bob-of-Zoid I have been playing guitar for over fifty years and also repair and restore violins and other stringed instruments. You are absolutely right but the idiots you are talking about probably also read their horoscopes every day, are scared of walking under ladders and believe in Father Christmas. They are a gift to every conman and slick salesman who comes along. Take their money - they're too stupid to be allowed to keep it!
"Not a booger"...haha...✌
Thank you Ted for the technical details. Very interesting and meticulous. I always love the history part. Remarkable.
Have a nice Christmas and a fruitful New Year. Stay safe. 🎶🎶🎶
And a happy Xmas to you too! Thank you for the videos and enjoy the holidays 👍
That's a cool guitar - nice work!
Another great vid...
Such a pretty piece of rosewood
Have a nice christmas time! Thank you for your videos, you make great content, I learn a lot.
Wonderful content Ted. Happy Holidays.
Best wishes for the Holidays Ted!
Love the channel, even if I’m not Canadian! Ha Ha! You are a very good luthier! HHs and will be thrilled when you post a new video! Love from the lower 48! Thanxz
Thank You and Merry Christmas Ted! As Always, Respect. Peace, Mark
There’s a patience in your methodology that I envy.
Love the casino! One of my first guitars was an Epiphone casino coupe. I love the way they feedback! Makes for all kinds of beautiful noise.