Among all the (rather comedic) levels of shit I'm going through right now, this channel just centres me and chills me out. I can't really express how helpful that's been, I'm not even remotely interested in woodworking or luthiering.
Being a guitar repairman myself, I cannot emphasize enough how much does it mean to me to hear "I have to psysch myself up for this" from a master of your level!
The only thing that I worry about is not being a guitar repairman and attempting a neck reset with my carpentry tools fresh out of the truck claw hammer chisels chalk line you know a standard guitar repair tools
I learn so much in every video👍. As a bonus @ 18:56 that I should "use a bone saw to remove the skull to access the brain". I tried using a potato peeler and it was taking forever.
LoL, a drummer gathering here ? Add me to the count, hah :) Something very addictive with these videos .. Maybe because he is so confident and knowing his thing .. this shows. Loving this channel!
I have no idea why I'm watching this, most work I've done on my guitars was to solder a loose ground wire, but I've watched almost every video on this channel and it's absolutely mesmerizing... Truly an art. Keep up the good work man!!
Me, too. I subscribe to 30+ channels for everything from favorite bands, to rig rundowns, to luthier work, etc.; and Ted’s videos are always the most satisfying. Great stuff.
I thought that too, but was wondering if that's attributable more to the difference in angle that he's holding the guitar at relative to the microphone. Especially given the fact that he said he didn't hear much of a change.
I thought each string was sounding a little more distinct/ individual when he switched to the plate. Nice sounding guit-box. Must play much better than before.
My new guitar had some sort of glue on the fretboard between the nut & 1st fret when I got it. Thanks to your vids, Ted, I just grabbed a new, sharp razor blade and scraped it clean without a hiccup. Not my first time to scrape a fretboard so I wasn't so apprehensive about doing it and not screwing up. Thanks, Ted! 🙏👍
This is one of the most comprehensive and instructional video on neck resetting I've ever seen. And I have seen paid for 'instructional' videos. Excellent sir! Thank you for your generous allotment of your time and knowledge! I truly appreciate it. This is one of my absolute favourite CZcams channels. Hope we can see them for many years to come!
Using the “sealing iron” is genius. Just the right size and much reasonable than anything at specialty luthier supply places. Have placed my order online, for whenever they’re back in stock in Canada! Good video, Ted!
@@jonipaananen9304 good tip, although I had no trouble tracking one down searching for “sealing iron”. The supplier of model RC aircraft stuff turned out to be someone I’d used before, as the site recognised me.
Back in the day, those irons were used to tack down dry mount tissue on the back of photographs before mounting them on illustration board in order to frame them, hence the name "tacking iron".
I've filed the saddle on my 1974 D-28 almost as low as the one in this video and it's obvious that it's due fir a neck reset. I like a medium action but between the 8th and 14th fret it's become noticeably higher. Hard to find someone to trust with this work. You do a great job.
You taught me something in this video about one of my Guild acoustics my family has owned for 47 years. My father gifted me his 1972 Guild D-35. Always read it was Guilds version of the Martin D-18. But you stated the D-18 has back binding, my Guild does not. I was not familiar with the Martin D-16 model My Guild D-35 looks EXACTLY like this D-16. I mean its spitting image. Thanks for this important discovery
Can't thank you enough for being so thorough and patient. And exacting. And knowledgeable. And caring. And loveable. Yes. Loveable! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Thank you, professor Woodford, for another excellent class on advanced luthiery . It was great. However, sometimes it feels a little like cheating, getting so much information relatively free. In any event, I greatly appreciate the efforts you make to educate us. You do a very fine job.
More great stuff, Ted. I really, really enjoy your videos; but I’ve also learned so much from watching them. Along the way, I’ve assembled a pretty good sized kit of luthier tools and done some really nice set up jobs, as well as minor repairs, using the knowledge gained from your videos. Great stuff and very satisfying. Thanks again!
Love the diagram you made ,ted. Martin did some goofy stuff to their builds sometimes, and this was one !! Love your math formula you used also ! Excellent neck reset ! Thanks Ted !
I'm only 10 minutes in & your video is the best & most detailed explanation of a dovetail neck re-set that I've ever seen on YT!!!!!!! Much appreciated & subbed!!!!!!!
What a fantastic instructional video, my friend. You are a born teacher. I on the other hand went to teacher's college about an hour from you and moved to Alberta for my first job, only to find out that I am born to be anything but a teacher. You're awesome.
I neither play nor repair musical instruments, but after a lifetime of precision work, I appreciate the efforts of a master craftsman. I worked part time for Lee Valley for a number of years after retirement, at least until my tool collection was complete.
35 pulls - good to know for .040 in of wood removed. I'm just about ready to fit the neck to my first guitar. I tend to get concerned when I have a conception that something should be done "quick" and doesn't go that way. I'll try to be calm (HA!) when I do my pulls after watching your video. Thanks for this.
Great video, loved it. I hope my work is as professional as yours some day. I just finished a 000-28 kit and you answered a question I had while reading Dick Boak's instructions written during the period of this long one way truss rod. He states the initial neck set must be done before the fingerboard is glued on but he didnt say why. I can imagine how happy the workers were when the two way came and they didnt have to mess with this at final setting and neck glue ups. The two way also doesn't require a shim to be added so that's less work too.
Tsd---as a joirneyman nkuthier/repairman, I still have so much respect for the detailed and so true professional work that you do--in front Of a world wide audience, One of my heroes no BS. You set a goal and hard standard for us ti emulate. It is hard work, but at the same time an art. Few of us will work to equal your example. What a gift to give. Thank you.
I definitely hear a difference between no plate saver & plate saver. With the plate saver, the guitar sounded brighter. Very nice neck reset Ted. You do fine work & are a good teacher of Lutherie.
I watch all your videos, thanks Ted. I regret I didn't chose that type of skill teaching...I'm a teacher but English and in France... I own a 000-15M and I don't know who would do a job like you do if I ever needed it (started late so...). Amazing craft. 🎶🎶🎶
Informative video, thanks. 11:00 - That neck pocket, with the sound bound interconnected, looks like a nightmare to work on. When I first learnt neck resetting (25 years ago now), I was taught by an old European Luthier (so Spanish/Classical constructions). He always said the heel cap (that slab of, generally, rosewood at the base of the heel) was the designed method/way in to the neck joint (for resetting etc). As well as removing some of the back binding. He would doggedly figure a method that worked around that (rather than applying steam into the guitar). He found it a faster and more 'invisible/less intrusive technique. I would love to have seen him scratching his head over this Martin neck joint ;) He'd probably scowl at a heel cap that was decoration ..over being put there as a 'secret door' for the Luthier :)
Some guitar shops that have a luthier or technician on their payroll, will do setups themselves on the more valuable instruments that they have in their shops. I did this job for a while and the guitars just sell much easier, if they feel and play better. Martin guitars usually have a relatively high action (2,5 mm - 3,0 mm or even more, e-E on 12th), so it's totally possible that some work has been done when the guitar was still "brand new",...some of the instruments hang there for years and nobody will buy them. However,...If I would have to remove basically the whole saddle to achieve a playable action, I would consider it a faulty guitar, send it back to the distribuierter and just request a new one. Nice job btw.
Thank you for giving some measurements in mm. Watching it in Europe, I sometimes have a problem understanding if "action of 1/1000inch" is good or not. Thanks for all of your knowledge you give for free 😉 I've learned a lot from you!
Another great video! I also think the bridge saver makes a slightly brighter tone, but either way it’s a nice Martin. I have a Seagull rustic (Canadian!!) and that’s probably the best guitar I will ever own as a cowboy chord strummer...thanks the great info!
An exraordinarily elegant exposition of the dangers of neck resets generally and this particular configuration especially. As an amateur, I'll probably never see this in life but there's so much to be learnt about the pitfalls involved. When you don't have much experience, things throw you easily. I restored a 1939 Harmony and ended up cutting the fingerboard at the body joint because I couldn't get a spatula through past the 13th fret, Reason - the neck had lifted so much the top of the dovetail was impinging beneath the fingerboard, but ABOVE the soundboard. I should have tried a razor saw and cut the protruding dovetail top. You do't know what you don't know, etc.
At 5:15 - the “neck reset formula.” I KNEW there had to be a geometric way to calculate how much to remove from the heel - this was exactly what I was looking for!
Among all the (rather comedic) levels of shit I'm going through right now, this channel just centres me and chills me out. I can't really express how helpful that's been, I'm not even remotely interested in woodworking or luthiering.
Being a guitar repairman myself, I cannot emphasize enough how much does it mean to me to hear "I have to psysch myself up for this" from a master of your level!
The only thing that I worry about is not being a guitar repairman and attempting a neck reset with my carpentry tools fresh out of the truck claw hammer chisels chalk line you know a standard guitar repair tools
@@arlenmargolin1650 A real pro would use a pneumatic hammer, and oxy-acetylene torch to provide heat.
@@qua7771Based guitar repair
@@qua7771 Thor neck reset
I learn so much in every video👍. As a bonus @ 18:56 that I should "use a bone saw to remove the skull to access the brain". I tried using a potato peeler and it was taking forever.
A fret saw won't work.
He’s the Bob Ross of guitar repair......and I mean that as a compliment. I think I’ve watched every video. I’ve learned so much.....and I’m a drummer!
How would anyone take a comparison to Bob Ross as an insult?
happy little Martins
Gary - You and me both! Hooked drummers.
Love this channel!
LoL, a drummer gathering here ? Add me to the count, hah :) Something very addictive with these videos .. Maybe because he is so confident and knowing his thing .. this shows. Loving this channel!
We should start a Facebook group... Drummers who are fans of twoodfrd
I have no idea why I'm watching this, most work I've done on my guitars was to solder a loose ground wire, but I've watched almost every video on this channel and it's absolutely mesmerizing... Truly an art. Keep up the good work man!!
That's more work than I've done on one but since watching like every video on this channel I wanna more haha
I could watch twoody everyday...but I'll take what I can get
Me, too. I subscribe to 30+ channels for everything from favorite bands, to rig rundowns, to luthier work, etc.; and Ted’s videos are always the most satisfying. Great stuff.
@@bldallas Me too. I love watching Ted, he is so careful, skilled, and informative.
Sometimes I do! I'll just rewatch videos I've already seen and sometimes find one I haven't watched yet.
@@PhilosopherThom same here
I was so bored on a Saturday! then this happened, thank you
Clicked 'like' before I even watched it. Not many channels I do that.
To my ear it seemed a bit brighter with the plate.
Me too. I had my back turned and that turned me right around as in, what just changed!
I thought that too, but was wondering if that's attributable more to the difference in angle that he's holding the guitar at relative to the microphone. Especially given the fact that he said he didn't hear much of a change.
Same here.
I heard that brightness, but it also seemed that the D and G string mids came through better. But, I wear hearing aids.
I thought each string was sounding a little more distinct/ individual when he switched to the plate. Nice sounding guit-box. Must play much better than before.
Amazing video. the mathematics alone of the exercise is mind-boggling!
Love the way you explain the formula using three different measurement units!!
Don't peek behind the Great Oz's curtain, Toto. LOL
My new guitar had some sort of glue on the fretboard between the nut & 1st fret when I got it. Thanks to your vids, Ted, I just grabbed a new, sharp razor blade and scraped it clean without a hiccup. Not my first time to scrape a fretboard so I wasn't so apprehensive about doing it and not screwing up. Thanks, Ted! 🙏👍
Thanks for posting this. My elderly Yamaha L5 is undergoing a neck reset at the moment, now I can appreciate the amount of work involved. Cheers
I’m constantly amazed at your wealth of knowledge and experience.
Well done! Nice relaxed right hand on the strumming! Martin player for 50+ years!!
Another 23 minutes of my life well spent. Thanks for sharing.
Your videos are an absolute joy to watch.
The skill, attention to detail and craftsmanship is beyond measure.
Brilliant. Just brilliant. I love to watch a real craftsman at work.
I always learn from watching your vids. Thank you
That is a really stellar fingerboard.
Love watching you work. “Don’t you agree?” 😁
This is one of the most comprehensive and instructional video on neck resetting I've ever seen. And I have seen paid for 'instructional' videos. Excellent sir! Thank you for your generous allotment of your time and knowledge! I truly appreciate it. This is one of my absolute favourite CZcams channels. Hope we can see them for many years to come!
"The patient today..." Ha! That was awesome, Ted!
Thank you for another great video!
Woodford. Ted Woodford. 🔫OO-18.😂
@@waybackplayback1347 I corrected the mistake, thank you. I feel embarrassed because I love these videos so much!
Using the “sealing iron” is genius. Just the right size and much reasonable than anything at specialty luthier supply places. Have placed my order online, for whenever they’re back in stock in Canada! Good video, Ted!
When building balsa RC planes, we call that a covering iron. If you search for that, you might have more places to order from.
@@jonipaananen9304 good tip, although I had no trouble tracking one down searching for “sealing iron”. The supplier of model RC aircraft stuff turned out to be someone I’d used before, as the site recognised me.
Back in the day, those irons were used to tack down dry mount tissue on the back of photographs before mounting them on illustration board in order to frame them, hence the name "tacking iron".
I've filed the saddle on my 1974 D-28 almost as low as the one in this video and it's obvious that it's due fir a neck reset. I like a medium action but between the 8th and 14th fret it's become noticeably higher. Hard to find someone to trust with this work. You do a great job.
"high quality mozarella" ... nice language and in every detail a perfect instruction. Thank you!
Excellent work, your videos are always a pleasure to view.
I get a kind of zen thing watching these.
Old saying from my government job. "If it ain't broke, fix it till it is."
Or, "If it ain't broke, make it better!"
Or what my internet friend with the vidjeos. AvE would say Cant fix it. Fuck it. into the ¨art bin" it goes.
Nice!
Wonderful work, excellent narrative and most enjoyable to watch. Thank you
Awesome as Always !!!
Thank You so much for all of your videos and tips tricks and advice !!!
It is all truly appreciated !!!!
Best neck reset video I have ever watched. Thanks for sharing
Love that Lee Valley Tools catalog.
Made my Saturday afternoon to see a new video. Cheers from Northern Utah.
I have been watching several of your videos and you sir do some very nice work. Meticulous and detailed. Very impressed.
You taught me something in this video about one of my Guild acoustics my family has owned for 47 years. My father gifted me his 1972 Guild D-35. Always read it was Guilds version of the Martin D-18. But you stated the D-18 has back binding, my Guild does not. I was not familiar with the Martin D-16 model
My Guild D-35 looks EXACTLY like this D-16. I mean its spitting image. Thanks for this important discovery
It is really fun listening while converting all the measurements into millimeters. You are a master.
Nice job, watching a guy that knows what he is doing is pleasing, and explaining the process in detail along the way.
Can't thank you enough for being so thorough and patient. And exacting. And knowledgeable. And caring. And loveable. Yes. Loveable! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
You're a genius sir, your vids both give me knowledge and make me anxious of my babies lol . Thankyou
What a fantastic video, thank you for taking the time to do this!!!
Thank you, professor Woodford, for another excellent class on advanced luthiery . It was great.
However, sometimes it feels a little like cheating, getting so much information relatively free.
In any event, I greatly appreciate the efforts you make to educate us. You do a very fine job.
More great stuff, Ted. I really, really enjoy your videos; but I’ve also learned so much from watching them. Along the way, I’ve assembled a pretty good sized kit of luthier tools and done some really nice set up jobs, as well as minor repairs, using the knowledge gained from your videos. Great stuff and very satisfying. Thanks again!
Great work Tom, it's pretty obvious that you love what you do, you care for every single instrument as if it was your own! Keep up the good work!!
Nice work. Loved this tutorial.
Canadians are blessed to have a luthier like you.
Love the diagram you made ,ted. Martin did some goofy stuff to their builds sometimes, and this was one !! Love your math formula you used also ! Excellent neck reset ! Thanks Ted !
This is a really well done guitar video. 10/10
Awesome work!
Thank you very much for all your videos
I'm only 10 minutes in & your video is the best & most detailed explanation of a dovetail neck re-set that I've ever seen on YT!!!!!!! Much appreciated & subbed!!!!!!!
Thanks for explaining your process and not just doing it. Great video
What a fantastic instructional video, my friend. You are a born teacher. I on the other hand went to teacher's college about an hour from you and moved to Alberta for my first job, only to find out that I am born to be anything but a teacher. You're awesome.
Such a great video. I'll be doing my first reset soon and this was super helpful for understanding all the steps. Thanks!!
Yeah, when that happened , I shoulda known we were gonna end up with the trumplupigus.
Thank you so much. Love your playing...
You are the true meaning of a craftsman
I neither play nor repair musical instruments, but after a lifetime of precision work, I appreciate the efforts of a master craftsman. I worked part time for Lee Valley for a number of years after retirement, at least until my tool collection was complete.
35 pulls - good to know for .040 in of wood removed. I'm just about ready to fit the neck to my first guitar. I tend to get concerned when I have a conception that something should be done "quick" and doesn't go that way. I'll try to be calm (HA!) when I do my pulls after watching your video. Thanks for this.
Go slow. You can always take more off. It's hard to put back.
It sounds brighter with the 'plate-mate' in
Experience and expertise...can't beat 'em. One lucky owner.
Great video, loved it. I hope my work is as professional as yours some day. I just finished a 000-28 kit and you answered a question I had while reading Dick Boak's instructions written during the period of this long one way truss rod. He states the initial neck set must be done before the fingerboard is glued on but he didnt say why. I can imagine how happy the workers were when the two way came and they didnt have to mess with this at final setting and neck glue ups. The two way also doesn't require a shim to be added so that's less work too.
Such clean work
That was a tiny chisel, so cute.
Yes, your videos are theraputic and it is satisfying to se see a master work. Thanks! And don't take my rants too seriously...
Great info, always a pleasure, thanks T.
Quite a treasure trove of luthier information. 🤟
Beautiful work :)
Great job again
Tsd---as a joirneyman nkuthier/repairman, I still have so much respect for the detailed and so true professional work that you do--in front Of a world wide audience, One of my heroes no BS. You set a goal and hard standard for us ti emulate. It is hard work, but at the same time an art. Few of us will work to equal your example. What a gift to give. Thank you.
the most satisfying luthier to watch on youtube. OMG
Artist, Luthier King. Nice work!!
Great video, especially how Ted explains things.
18:55 "we use a bone saw to cut off the scull, to access the brain". What in the world are you watching?
I definitely hear a difference between no plate saver & plate saver. With the plate saver, the guitar sounded brighter. Very nice neck reset Ted. You do fine work & are a good teacher of Lutherie.
Saw a video from Martin and the neck dove tail is cut fit and numbered very early.
Great video.
Best catchphrase I’ve heard yet.
I watch all your videos, thanks Ted. I regret I didn't chose that type of skill teaching...I'm a teacher but English and in France...
I own a 000-15M and I don't know who would do a job like you do if I ever needed it (started late so...). Amazing craft. 🎶🎶🎶
Very nice job again!
You are an excellent repair person
Very nice video!
You are an absolute master!
Nice job! Thanks for sharing.
Great as always thank you
Great channel. I am original owner ‘77 HD28 and the original frets have no indents anywhere. Sad, tells me I need to play more 🥳🤟 Cheers from SoCal.
Best video yet
Informative video, thanks.
11:00 - That neck pocket, with the sound bound interconnected, looks like a nightmare to work on.
When I first learnt neck resetting (25 years ago now), I was taught by an old European Luthier (so Spanish/Classical constructions). He always said the heel cap (that slab of, generally, rosewood at the base of the heel) was the designed method/way in to the neck joint (for resetting etc). As well as removing some of the back binding. He would doggedly figure a method that worked around that (rather than applying steam into the guitar). He found it a faster and more 'invisible/less intrusive technique.
I would love to have seen him scratching his head over this Martin neck joint ;)
He'd probably scowl at a heel cap that was decoration ..over being put there as a 'secret door' for the Luthier :)
Some guitar shops that have a luthier or technician on their payroll, will do setups themselves on the more valuable instruments that they have in their shops. I did this job for a while and the guitars just sell much easier, if they feel and play better. Martin guitars usually have a relatively high action (2,5 mm - 3,0 mm or even more, e-E on 12th), so it's totally possible that some work has been done when the guitar was still "brand new",...some of the instruments hang there for years and nobody will buy them. However,...If I would have to remove basically the whole saddle to achieve a playable action, I would consider it a faulty guitar, send it back to the distribuierter and just request a new one. Nice job btw.
I've no interest in fixing acoustic guitars but I'm addicted to these videos
Thank you for giving some measurements in mm. Watching it in Europe, I sometimes have a problem understanding if "action of 1/1000inch" is good or not. Thanks for all of your knowledge you give for free 😉 I've learned a lot from you!
Always fun to watch.
Sounds brighter with the plate mate to me. Great vid.
Awesome Job
Another great video! I also think the bridge saver makes a slightly brighter tone, but either way it’s a nice Martin. I have a Seagull rustic (Canadian!!) and that’s probably the best guitar I will ever own as a cowboy chord strummer...thanks the great info!
An exraordinarily elegant exposition of the dangers of neck resets generally and this particular configuration especially. As an amateur, I'll probably never see this in life but there's so much to be learnt about the pitfalls involved. When you don't have much experience, things throw you easily. I restored a 1939 Harmony and ended up cutting the fingerboard at the body joint because I couldn't get a spatula through past the 13th fret, Reason - the neck had lifted so much the top of the dovetail was impinging beneath the fingerboard, but ABOVE the soundboard. I should have tried a razor saw and cut the protruding dovetail top. You do't know what you don't know, etc.
I love to watch neck resets
Thanks for posting this video. Very interesting. These are neat guitars. The bridges are Brazilian Rosewood
Thank you - another great job.
Love a good Martin video!
I've got a very early 80s Sigma DR28 that has more saddle than that bad boy. That is crazy.
I do love a good Martin!
Fascinating.
At 5:15 - the “neck reset formula.” I KNEW there had to be a geometric way to calculate how much to remove from the heel - this was exactly what I was looking for!