I think I've commented on it before, but I love now un-snobby you are about the guitars you work on. Expensive or cheap, you seem to treat every instrument with respect. Plus mind-blowing work on the rosette ... jeez!
i second that...there was a video where he worked on 2 junk shop guitars (i actually loved the tele clone with th f hole...i'd love to acquire a similar instrument but alas i'm a lefty..)and he prefered to show us those instead .. saying the $50,000 Martin he was working on...and i quote " is boring...."...i think he get's a bit of stick for it too it seems...but people like us can just appreciate a master at work
Not only that, but he also has an excellent way of explaining. Most other (known) guitar luthiers on YT, just basically only say that this is the method they used for years. Nothing wrong with that either it's just less informative.
I think that's a sign of a professional. I took my beat up cheap Ibanez to a local well known luthier and apologised for the lack of quality. He assured me that he's happy to take anyones money.
@@the_failed_states I hope you packed up and took your business elsewhere to someone like Todd who puts the instrument first, and sees each guitar that comes thru his door as unique and worthy of care Taking your money and excelling at their craft are entirely two differnt things... as well as having a "bedside manner" and being a dikk
'Hey Gang' is the most comforting signal for some high level CZcams! 'As always, it's none of their concern as they don't own it and they're not paying for it!' Perfect. You go!
"What you celebrities must understand is that we own you" -- Homer Simpson :D Seriously though, I love how much respect you have for the love between a player and their guitar. We can tell this by how calm you stay when you see well-intentioned amateur work that you have to rip completely out... and how frustrated you get when you see work done that hurts the player's enjoyment. Cosmetic enhancements to a well-made but economical instrument fits perfectly in your wheelhouse of improving player satisfaction.
All I know is that this man is a genius and it’s so relaxing watching him do his craft he’s absolutely amazing I wait for his videos to watch and learn
Exquisite. Your care and diligence is only outmatched by your dexterity from the way you handle tools and the little bits, to the soft hand with which you play. I always look forward to the outro when all is complete. We're still waiting on that music video.
Wow! I have owned two of these Go travel guitars, The first one suffered a fatal accident and I actually spoke by phone with the owner/luthier Sam Radding (I think he has retired) when I bought the second one. Both of mine came standard with enclosed mini tuners. However, binding was not an option. After a number of years I had to lower the bridge and saddle, and I did just what you did to improve access to the truss rod nut. I still have the guitar, and play it often when I am relaxing on the couch!
@@markbernier8434 I think the walls of a box wrench would be too thick to fit in the access slot, but I don't know for sure. I have a pocket wrench which is quite small and thin walled, but the access route to the truss rod nut still needed to be made a bit larger
“Nobody looks at a flying cutter and say it’s a calm, safe, reassuring device, let’s raise that arm shall we?” You’re too funny brother! Your sense of humor sounds a bit like mine, always watching things that can go really wrong and make comments that will throw everybody off! Thank you for sharing!
Technu works great for poison oak and ivy. My son usually breaks out horribly, but this last episode he used the Technu wash and gel. He was better by the end of the day and mostly healed within a few days
My friend had his thumb dragged into a router bit the other month. It removed most of his thumb tip and a little bit of bone. It'll be a long time before he is playing guitar again I can tell you. be safe folks.
Not bragging, I swear. But these days, I'm 45 y/o. And it's a joy and very inspiring seeing someone who thinks and works as I always tried to. In my early days, I knew that all this care and meticulous job put me away from mass profits and also miles away from other luthier's incomes. I charged badly. Too cheap. But I digress. Kudos for the care and respect for all the instruments and their owners, @twoodfrd.
I enjoy all of your videos, but this one was exceptionally pleasing. I think that it being more of an esthetic project than a repair allowed me to watch and enjoy the technique and results. Well done and thanks for posting.
I love your ethos of caring about who is going to see the hidden parts of your work. Like warning viewers about the router being more dangerous than it looks, or the fly cutter being every bit as terrifying as it appears. Early on in this video you had to decide between making a fiddly weird truss rod tool or cutting a bit of relief into the headstock and I thought "he's going to make it easier for the next luthier".
I don't usually care for 'travel' guitars, but I do like the style and clean design of that one. Very impressive work on that rosette!. It looks great, as does the pickguard and truss rod adjuster hole cover. That guitar now looks even classier than it did before. The video was a joy to watch.
He is clearly one of the best luthiers there is ! Like Uncle Doug is to old Amps , I love this channel in fact I’m building up my tools to start doing all my own work on my guitars because of watching this channel 👍
Good one. I hope all the beginners are listening. Open shapers are really scary and dangerous. Worse than band saws, because they are less predictable.
excellent journey peppered with many many experience nuggets throughout. some almost unnoticed, but could make the difference between a hurried sloppy job vs the slow steady assured quality work exhibited here. wow.
Ted's videos are always worth watching with the bonus of those frequent little jewels of information and ideas which solve your own problems. Over the years I've devised my own solutions for ensuring that the underside of a lowered saddle are flat, but Ted's setup and explanations which start at around 6.07 are pure diamond., especially the idea of the steel rule (7.20) which can be used for perpendicularity and also as a way of visually checking by laying the saddle flat against the edge. The man deserves a metaphoric bear hug for that tip.
I love the saddle ruller idea! It's like a mini saddle/nut jointer!! Lol, I'm certainly going to use the from now on. May even make a jig with a dollar store wet stone as the abrasive surface. It sure beats filing, checking that its level and at a right angle to the surface it sits on, filing, repeating until correct height. With the jig I can just focus on getting the height correct and keeping pressure even. Again, thanks for sharing!!
I can't play guitar, have zero woodworking interest or knowledge but my god these videos are fantastic to watch. I don't know if it's the craftsmanship, the calm Canadian voice, the un-snobby attitude or a mix of everything but glad I stumbled across this
As always, you are not only a master luthier, but a great inventor 😁. Quite surprised at the richness of the sound for the size of the body. Thought it would be more boxy sounding. But good woods and construction, as you pointed out.
Wow, you are amazing. I admire the accuracy, my dad was part of a highly specialized machinist crew at Sikorsky Aircraft who made the first of every new product, I know skill when I see it.
Liked this one! The practicality of the mods be damned!! It’s so much nicer looking now, and the owner wanted it done. I love the work-arounds you came up with, especially the rosette router! I think luthiers/repair people are akin to old school farmers, need to do something that there isn’t a tool for? First make the tool!! Pretty good sounding little traveler! Great project! Thanks!!
Those spiny cutting things are what scare me away from woodworking. I admire the craft and I dream of building a guitar from scratch, but the risk of not having enough fingers to play the guitar once I'm done is one I am not willing to take. Can't know what you shouldn't do without experience and can't get experience without making mistakes... Maybe one day I'll try with only chisels, files and sandpaper but in the meantime I am glad there's people like you who figured how to do it safely!
It's so nice to see you take the same level of care with this modest travel guitar as you would with a more expensive full-sized guitar. Lovely work. 👌❤
04:32 The crunching of the headstock carving combined with the dissonant ringing of the open strings is a COOL SOUND! Taken out of context it belongs in an Italian horror movie :)
Such a nice thing to watch, late in the evening. I'll dream of all my guitars playing as nice as this one! Wishing everyone a good week, stay well my friends!
Dang, that little thing just explodes with sound! I have a triple oh Yamaha that's all plywood and for some reason the thing is just like that in that it will blow my dreadnoughts away. Neat little thingy there.
Wood shop 1992 Everett Washington guy named Andy went the wrong way, the table even had an arrow pointing in the proper direction. He just spaced it, about an inch of the middle finger all the way down to the first knuckle on his pinky really heart rending to see.
When you said “Polishing the bone” a quick “That’s what she said” would have been stellar! Anyway, I love your channel. I’m a woodworker by hobby, I don’t work on guitars but there is much to learn from your channel that can be applied to many aspects of woodworking. I did make a replica Fender Stratocaster in my high school wood shop that I still play today! That project is what made me fall in love with wood working!
19:08 a useful tip, not my own, is to use the reflection on your chisel. If it looks like you're creating a 90 in the reflection, you're getting a nice 45. I had to laugh at the extreme table router waning, that it can grab your project out of your hand. I worked for years for L'Arrivee and spent a lot of time on the buffing wheel. You can probably sense where this is going. If there was a bubble in the finish, chisel, 600, 1000, buff. If there's a divot, acetone, CA, chisel, 600, 1000, buff. You're looking for a mirror finish. Sometimes you're pleading with this merciless 14" buffing wheel doing god knows how many rpms on the inside of a florentine cutaway on a $16,000 brazillian LC, and it all works out well. You take it back to your station and make it perfect.
Impressive! I always learn something new with your videos. The router jig solved a problem for me on a totally different project. Thank you for your great videos.
That was Awesome***** I love how innovative you are, You have a great imagination to invent jigs & things that you need to repair guitars. I have learned so much from you since I found your channel a few months ago
That purfling routing was genius. I enjoy stealing your ideas. I think I’ve used at least 4 of them in my current project where I’m converting a squier mini strat to a full scale headless guitar.
googaboogaloo I’m interested in your project. We bought our son a black Squire mini-Strat when he was young. He’s not 20 y.o. And finally really learning to play. I’ve built several partsCasters in the past and I do my own hobbyist level luthier work. I recently did a full setup (truss rod adj, feet leveling and buffing, bridge adjustments for perfect action and intonation, etc.) on the guitar and it’s in in excellent condition. The thought of putting a full length strat neck on it, is intriguing, but I haven’t done any measuring to see if the neck pocket is the same size as a standard strat. If you have a few minutes, can you fill me 8n 8n what you’ve experience doing your project? It would be greatly appreciated.
Bryan so far I haven’t fit the neck yet. I’m just starting out doing small repairs on my own guitars and local musicians guitars since there isn’t a music store within 60 miles of me. I just graduated from a luthier school and am still trying to get tools and what not. The reason I don’t have the neck fit is I don’t have router bits yet. So far I have a bridge and a rough location for it on the body I won’t locate that until the neck is on. I made a new pickguard (mostly because I didn’t like how the old one fit the body and I want a full size humbucker). The neck I’m using is a 24 fret 25.5 inch scale so I can move the bridge forward slightly. The neck was an old Fernandez I got for like 20 bucks and I cut the headstock off of and machined my own headless locking nut. Also I need to rout the bridge down about 5/16ths or so. I’m most excited about the pickup I have for it, I got a vintage mid 1970s Bill Lawrence L-90 (that’s the predecessor to the xl-500 I’m told that’s the Dimebag Darrel pickup). I don’t want to shamelessly self promote on someone’s video but I have it kind of documented on my Facebook page Bowen guitars where I mostly just work on my own stuff. I use the page as a pseudo resume/ and I do my Dr. Frankenstein experiments on cheap guitars just to see if I can. I
googaboogaloo sounds good. After leaving that message, I Googled around and read a couple forum threads where people did this. Lots of people were skeptical about the scale length and intonation, but it appears to have worked out. The mini Strat body is approx 7/8 the size 9f a standard; not enough to look weird. I may just give it a shot.
I have a guitar with difficult access to the truss rod nut very similar to this one. I found a set of smaller combination wrenches called “ignition wrench “ the 12 point box end is slim enough to fit the tight opening.
That 1/8th inch jack is a 'Vintage' jack made for guitarists who do not want to alter their end pin hole on their guitar. These jacks are a bit expensive, but do a proper job for plugging in, and there is no giant hole drilled for the 1/4 inch plug. I have two of these jacks,. They work just fine and are available from K and K. Twoford, the 'two dowel thing here was brilliant too!
I think I've commented on it before, but I love now un-snobby you are about the guitars you work on. Expensive or cheap, you seem to treat every instrument with respect. Plus mind-blowing work on the rosette ... jeez!
i second that...there was a video where he worked on 2 junk shop guitars (i actually loved the tele clone with th f hole...i'd love to acquire a similar instrument but alas i'm a lefty..)and he prefered to show us those instead .. saying the $50,000 Martin he was working on...and i quote " is boring...."...i think he get's a bit of stick for it too it seems...but people like us can just appreciate a master at work
Not only that, but he also has an excellent way of explaining.
Most other (known) guitar luthiers on YT, just basically only say that this is the method they used for years.
Nothing wrong with that either it's just less informative.
I think that's a sign of a professional. I took my beat up cheap Ibanez to a local well known luthier and apologised for the lack of quality. He assured me that he's happy to take anyones money.
@@the_failed_states
I hope you packed up and took your business elsewhere to someone like Todd who puts the instrument first, and sees each guitar that comes thru his door as unique and worthy of care
Taking your money and excelling at their craft are entirely two differnt things... as well as having a "bedside manner" and being a dikk
@@tommypetraglia4688 It was a joke, my dude. Also, who's Todd?
Watching the ends of the rosette go together was super satisfying.
Jason Wells I agree, he did a great job
Yes. That fit was perfect!
Yeah. I laughed out loud when that happened. Just another day at the office of Woodford Instruments.
This has become my favourite luthier channel on CZcams. The camera is focused on his brilliant workmanship rather than himself. 👍🏻
'Hey Gang' is the most comforting signal for some high level CZcams! 'As always, it's none of their concern as they don't own it and they're not paying for it!' Perfect. You go!
Yes, exactly.
"What you celebrities must understand is that we own you" -- Homer Simpson :D
Seriously though, I love how much respect you have for the love between a player and their guitar. We can tell this by how calm you stay when you see well-intentioned amateur work that you have to rip completely out... and how frustrated you get when you see work done that hurts the player's enjoyment. Cosmetic enhancements to a well-made but economical instrument fits perfectly in your wheelhouse of improving player satisfaction.
This one was just over the top. Some of the things you tackle, and how you go about it, blow my mind.
All I know is that this man is a genius and it’s so relaxing watching him do his craft he’s absolutely amazing I wait for his videos to watch and learn
Exquisite. Your care and diligence is only outmatched by your dexterity from the way you handle tools and the little bits, to the soft hand with which you play.
I always look forward to the outro when all is complete.
We're still waiting on that music video.
Ted Woodford is a steely-eyed missile man! Man, that is some fine detail work on that rosette!
Whoa! This guy is the Norm Abram of stringed instruments.
This is my 3rd time watching this. I'm not a guitar maker but the techniques used here can be applied to any craft. Excellent work.
Wow! I have owned two of these Go travel guitars, The first one suffered a fatal accident and I actually spoke by phone with the owner/luthier Sam Radding (I think he has retired) when I bought the second one. Both of mine came standard with enclosed mini tuners. However, binding was not an option. After a number of years I had to lower the bridge and saddle, and I did just what you did to improve access to the truss rod nut. I still have the guitar, and play it often when I am relaxing on the couch!
Just curious, did you ever just try a simple box end wrench? Hard to judge by eye but I would have thought a snap on 12 point would have fit in there.
@@markbernier8434 I think the walls of a box wrench would be too thick to fit in the access slot, but I don't know for sure. I have a pocket wrench which is quite small and thin walled, but the access route to the truss rod nut still needed to be made a bit larger
@@joebikeguy6669 I wonder what (checks post) Sam Radding used to turn the truss rod nut...
@@paulwomack5866 I don't know. I bought the pocket wrench myself. Perhaps Sam R. had a pocket wrench with smaller outside dimensions?
“Nobody looks at a flying cutter and say it’s a calm, safe, reassuring device, let’s raise that arm shall we?”
You’re too funny brother! Your sense of humor sounds a bit like mine, always watching things that can go really wrong and make comments that will throw everybody off!
Thank you for sharing!
I saw a co-worker slice his thumb right up the middle on a bandsaw and he actually said "Ohh I do believe I fucked up!"
Technu works great for poison oak and ivy. My son usually breaks out horribly, but this last episode he used the Technu wash and gel. He was better by the end of the day and mostly healed within a few days
My friend had his thumb dragged into a router bit the other month. It removed most of his thumb tip and a little bit of bone. It'll be a long time before he is playing guitar again I can tell you. be safe folks.
Not bragging, I swear. But these days, I'm 45 y/o. And it's a joy and very inspiring seeing someone who thinks and works as I always tried to. In my early days, I knew that all this care and meticulous job put me away from mass profits and also miles away from other luthier's incomes. I charged badly. Too cheap. But I digress. Kudos for the care and respect for all the instruments and their owners, @twoodfrd.
I enjoy all of your videos, but this one was exceptionally pleasing. I think that it being more of an esthetic project than a repair allowed me to watch and enjoy the technique and results. Well done and thanks for posting.
I think it looks VERY good! I also appreciate the safety announcements for those of us who are novices.
Yeah, let’s just raise that arm up a little bit, shall we? 😂
I love this episode. When something just works for you, investing in making it even better is always worth it, despite what others may think.
Now it's a personal, special , one of a kind! Nice work!
I love your ethos of caring about who is going to see the hidden parts of your work. Like warning viewers about the router being more dangerous than it looks, or the fly cutter being every bit as terrifying as it appears. Early on in this video you had to decide between making a fiddly weird truss rod tool or cutting a bit of relief into the headstock and I thought "he's going to make it easier for the next luthier".
I don't usually care for 'travel' guitars, but I do like the style and clean design of that one.
Very impressive work on that rosette!. It looks great, as does the pickguard and truss rod adjuster hole cover. That guitar now looks even classier than it did before. The video was a joy to watch.
Wow an honest to goodness humble guy that is extremely talented and easy to watch and listen to.
He is clearly one of the best luthiers there is ! Like Uncle Doug is to old Amps , I love this channel in fact I’m building up my tools to start doing all my own work on my guitars because of watching this channel 👍
Good one.
I hope all the beginners are listening. Open shapers are really scary and dangerous. Worse than band saws, because they are less predictable.
Yep. Bandsaw won't drag your fingers into the blade...
The tape hinge idea was exceptionally clever. Thank you Ted, that was very enjoyable.
I've had my Go-Guitar for about 15 years. Love the thing. The neck is perfect.
man, ted-that was gutsy on the rosette purfling. wonderful, fantastic, amazing craftmanship!
excellent journey peppered with many many experience nuggets throughout. some almost unnoticed, but could make the difference between a hurried sloppy job vs the slow steady assured quality work exhibited here. wow.
I always hate to come to the end of the video, they're always very informative and enjoyable!
Ted's videos are always worth watching with the bonus of those frequent little jewels of information and ideas which solve your own problems.
Over the years I've devised my own solutions for ensuring that the underside of a lowered saddle are flat, but Ted's setup and explanations which start at around 6.07 are pure diamond., especially the idea of the steel rule (7.20) which can be used for perpendicularity and also as a way of visually checking by laying the saddle flat against the edge.
The man deserves a metaphoric bear hug for that tip.
I love the saddle ruller idea! It's like a mini saddle/nut jointer!! Lol, I'm certainly going to use the from now on. May even make a jig with a dollar store wet stone as the abrasive surface. It sure beats filing, checking that its level and at a right angle to the surface it sits on, filing, repeating until correct height. With the jig I can just focus on getting the height correct and keeping pressure even. Again, thanks for sharing!!
That was some awesome work on the rosette
She was a beauty before her surgery. Stunning after. Papa will be proud. Nice work doctor.
I can't play guitar, have zero woodworking interest or knowledge but my god these videos are fantastic to watch. I don't know if it's the craftsmanship, the calm Canadian voice, the un-snobby attitude or a mix of everything but glad I stumbled across this
Thanks for the video. I learn a new and practical tip from every video. I'm glad you gave the router advice and warning,
Very impressive. Probably the best luthier videos on CZcams. No mindless blather
As always, you are not only a master luthier, but a great inventor 😁. Quite surprised at the richness of the sound for the size of the body. Thought it would be more boxy sounding. But good woods and construction, as you pointed out.
Boxy? LOL! I've heard it all now. Woody, boxy, meaty, etc... 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for the warnings about how these moves are not for beginners! This brilliantly fine work is why we hire experts like you!
A small drum sander is really recommended for mortals for what he was doing.
Nice work routing out that bit from the sound hole!
Wow, you are amazing. I admire the accuracy, my dad was part of a highly specialized machinist crew at Sikorsky Aircraft who made the first of every new product, I know skill when I see it.
Liked this one! The practicality of the mods be damned!! It’s so much nicer looking now, and the owner wanted it done. I love the work-arounds you came up with, especially the rosette router! I think luthiers/repair people are akin to old school farmers, need to do something that there isn’t a tool for? First make the tool!!
Pretty good sounding little traveler! Great project! Thanks!!
Those spiny cutting things are what scare me away from woodworking. I admire the craft and I dream of building a guitar from scratch, but the risk of not having enough fingers to play the guitar once I'm done is one I am not willing to take. Can't know what you shouldn't do without experience and can't get experience without making mistakes... Maybe one day I'll try with only chisels, files and sandpaper but in the meantime I am glad there's people like you who figured how to do it safely!
Another satisfying job with good videography and a great voiceover!
I just wanted you to know how happy these videos make me - the skill, knowledge and sheer bravery involved just blow me away! Thank you :)
That simple way for stick the pickguard perfectly in place in a only precise movement amazed me. Thanks!
It's so nice to see you take the same level of care with this modest travel guitar as you would with a more expensive full-sized guitar. Lovely work. 👌❤
Very enjoyable. Not seen one of these before. Sounded good. And as always, a joy to watch you at work and see the way you problem solve. Thanks.
I was really surprised at how good this little guitar sounds. Fun little instrument.
He said "polishing the bone'!
Love to watch a craftsman at work
I love your videos they are therapeutic in a way, satisfying and educational. Excellent craftsmanship and attention to detail as well.
Though the simpler mod - the truss rod cover is the bigger 'looks' improvement. Awesome work🍻
04:32 The crunching of the headstock carving combined with the dissonant ringing of the open strings is a COOL SOUND! Taken out of context it belongs in an Italian horror movie :)
Such a nice thing to watch, late in the evening. I'll dream of all my guitars playing as nice as this one! Wishing everyone a good week, stay well my friends!
Late to the party but I enjoyed this one very much, an excellent documentary. Thanks so much Ted!
You have the thoughtful and meticulous approach of a master craftsman. Its a pleasure to watch.
Dang, that little thing just explodes with sound! I have a triple oh Yamaha that's all plywood and for some reason the thing is just like that in that it will blow my dreadnoughts away. Neat little thingy there.
Every week I marvel at your craftsmanship.
Yet another great video! Your craftsmanship is admirable!
Huge respect for that soundhole rosette job, that was badass.
Such a satisfying experience when the job was done. You really feel the care. Good job. Thank you for sharing.
what a talented and disciplined craftsman.
A very nice project indeed! I love both your work and your narration, definitely one of the more entertaining luthier/repair channels out there! 👍🏻
Great video I actually used something you did to rout out the back of a cupboard for a wire. Transferable skills
once again I am impressed by your craftsmanship, great video
You are an artist, sir! That mitered rosette join is superb!
Bravo! Just floored at how well-centered the rosette came out; VERY impressive. Thanks for being here!
Amazing, excellent work as always. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant work, as usual. That rosette was damn flawless
Nice to see that someone found a use for an old cricket bat 🏏.
Excellent work on the rosette! Actually, excellent work on all of the upgrades!!
Nice honey colour. Such a great video. Thank you.
Mr. Patience and sharp tools. Excellent video as usual.
Absolutely brilliant work. Stunning in fact.
That was a tremendous display of a set of exceptional techniques executed with precision and care.
Wood shop 1992 Everett Washington guy named Andy went the wrong way, the table even had an arrow pointing in the proper direction. He just spaced it, about an inch of the middle finger all the way down to the first knuckle on his pinky really heart rending to see.
Always a great pleasure to watch your amazing skill and love when working on instruments.
Ted, you are such a craftsman! What a beautiful job.
Beautiful work and I'll bet the owner was thrilled. Great tip on the bevel cut for the rosette join.
When you said “Polishing the bone” a quick “That’s what she said” would have been stellar! Anyway,
I love your channel. I’m a woodworker by hobby, I don’t work on guitars but there is much to learn from your channel that can be applied to many aspects of woodworking. I did make a replica Fender Stratocaster in my high school wood shop that I still play today! That project is what made me fall in love with wood working!
Nicely done ! Kudos. From the Snazz !
Always look forward to a new vid - Excellent work.- Cheers.
19:08 a useful tip, not my own, is to use the reflection on your chisel. If it looks like you're creating a 90 in the reflection, you're getting a nice 45. I had to laugh at the extreme table router waning, that it can grab your project out of your hand. I worked for years for L'Arrivee and spent a lot of time on the buffing wheel. You can probably sense where this is going. If there was a bubble in the finish, chisel, 600, 1000, buff. If there's a divot, acetone, CA, chisel, 600, 1000, buff. You're looking for a mirror finish. Sometimes you're pleading with this merciless 14" buffing wheel doing god knows how many rpms on the inside of a florentine cutaway on a $16,000 brazillian LC, and it all works out well. You take it back to your station and make it perfect.
That rosette work is awesome!!👌🏼😃
Impressive! I always learn something new with your videos. The router jig solved a problem for me on a totally different project. Thank you for your great videos.
Killer sound from that little guy. Your work is impeccable ✌️
The stuff on your arm Looks just like mine poison ivy that turned into cellulitis, I enjoyed mine as much as you have enjoyed yours.
Very fun to watch this episode. Has a pleasing tone plugged in too. I like the new pick guard much better too. Thanks for sharing.
That was Awesome***** I love how innovative you are, You have a great imagination to invent jigs & things that you need to repair guitars. I have learned so much from you since I found your channel a few months ago
That purfling routing was genius. I enjoy stealing your ideas. I think I’ve used at least 4 of them in my current project where I’m converting a squier mini strat to a full scale headless guitar.
That sounds great :D
googaboogaloo I’m interested in your project. We bought our son a black Squire mini-Strat when he was young. He’s not 20 y.o. And finally really learning to play. I’ve built several partsCasters in the past and I do my own hobbyist level luthier work.
I recently did a full setup (truss rod adj, feet leveling and buffing, bridge adjustments for perfect action and intonation, etc.) on the guitar and it’s in in excellent condition. The thought of putting a full length strat neck on it, is intriguing, but I haven’t done any measuring to see if the neck pocket is the same size as a standard strat.
If you have a few minutes, can you fill me 8n 8n what you’ve experience doing your project? It would be greatly appreciated.
Bryan so far I haven’t fit the neck yet. I’m just starting out doing small repairs on my own guitars and local musicians guitars since there isn’t a music store within 60 miles of me.
I just graduated from a luthier school and am still trying to get tools and what not. The reason I don’t have the neck fit is I don’t have router bits yet.
So far I have a bridge and a rough location for it on the body I won’t locate that until the neck is on. I made a new pickguard (mostly because I didn’t like how the old one fit the body and I want a full size humbucker). The neck I’m using is a 24 fret 25.5 inch scale so I can move the bridge forward slightly. The neck was an old Fernandez I got for like 20 bucks and I cut the headstock off of and machined my own headless locking nut. Also I need to rout the bridge down about 5/16ths or so. I’m most excited about the pickup I have for it, I got a vintage mid 1970s Bill Lawrence L-90 (that’s the predecessor to the xl-500 I’m told that’s the Dimebag Darrel pickup).
I don’t want to shamelessly self promote on someone’s video but I have it kind of documented on my Facebook page Bowen guitars where I mostly just work on my own stuff. I use the page as a pseudo resume/ and I do my Dr. Frankenstein experiments on cheap guitars just to see if I can. I
googaboogaloo sounds good. After leaving that message, I Googled around and read a couple forum threads where people did this. Lots of people were skeptical about the scale length and intonation, but it appears to have worked out. The mini Strat body is approx 7/8 the size 9f a standard; not enough to look weird. I may just give it a shot.
I prefer that style of tuner, they look cleaner. That's the kind fender uses and I like the look better than the screws
I have a guitar with difficult access to the truss rod nut very similar to this one. I found a set of smaller combination wrenches called “ignition wrench “ the 12 point box end is slim enough to fit the tight opening.
Nice work! I always appreciate your fine craftsmanship regardless of the project.
I love your attention to detail, from the fabrication to your commentary. Inspiring
Nice work again. I love your commentaries and explanations and always learn something new from your videos. I look forward to each one
A thing of beauty. Thanks for the video and thumbs up to crush a troll.
Greatly enjoy your work and work ethic!! For a travel guitar, the Go guitar has a great voice! Thanks for including this in your videos!
That 1/8th inch jack is a 'Vintage' jack made for guitarists who do not want to alter their end pin hole on their guitar. These jacks are a bit expensive, but do a proper job for plugging in, and there is no giant hole drilled for the 1/4 inch plug. I have two of these jacks,. They work just fine and are available from K and K. Twoford, the 'two dowel thing here was brilliant too!
Excellent work and really relaxing after a big Sunday lunch! Now off to the pub. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, beers!