You must enjoy his repartee with himself in his usual supercilious and condescending tour de force. Don't think twice... often the idiot he's lambasting may be yourself; perhaps not you as you're just too shrewd (lol). Slam Elvis for repetition and leave out Hey Jude; that sort of thing...
Because in an electric, sustain is easy- on an acoustic where there is no amplification, every bit of the vibration counts. Adjustable bridges andswappable necks make deadzones of sound.
@@jdsd744 I fully accept your point. However, I have a 1975 Yamaha FG300 that has a fully adjustable bridge and it's beautiful. I've often wondered why there aren't more options like that for acoustics.
@@jdsd744 They say they, but then acoustic guitars with adjustable bridges and swappable necks actually sound just fine, and they do exist so... Not really lol.
For cheaper, factory-produced guitars that may be a viable option. However, for more decently priced, handcrafted, and solid wood acoustic guitars, every nuance within how the energy is transferred from string into the wood is important. Changing the contact point for the string's vibration from genuine bone to a metal will have a substantial impact on the overall tone of the instrument. Solid bone saddles have still reigned supreme over other innovations throughout the decades simply due to an objectively better quality of sound, and the nature of how it works means that making adjustable saddles is not a flexible option without compromising the overall tone of the instrument. This is why it's important for a good luthier to be able to provide accurate saddle compensation and height to the best of their ability, and I think players will benefit from allowing experienced techs to do this kind of work for them.
From Clambake to Hunter S. Thompson - that was quite an intro - well done! I never really thought about the chorus lyrics to Clambake like that before. Very insightful - really opens up the song to endless reinterpretations.
The '60s Fender "acoustic guitars" are SHIT, OKAY ? A friend had a Kingsman w/ a pickup (from the factory). It's acoustic sound was horrible. It's plugged-in sound was atrocious. However. Fender DID offer a really nice acoustic in the GA 43S in the '90s. Those are now gone (I can't believe Fender actually made the GA, I think they farmed them out). I'm just stating my opinion from my contact w/ these guitars.
Wildwoods have always loomed large in my mind because the first Fender catalogue I got was in 1968 and there were a lot of Wildwood guitars in there. I always liked the look of the Coronados done this way.
As the world rages insanely around us, our master luthier, Ted Woodford of Hamilton, Ontario, demonstrates how you navigate a problem to achieve sweeter music. You don’t have to wrap it around a support pole. A little patience, a little finesse, a little creative thinking, and you’re done. And if you can’t fix it, learn to use it and help it find its own “acoustic space”. Thanks Ted.
I enjoy your videos because you are very professional, honest and trustworthy on your work. No stupid jokes, not trying to be “funny”, nor inserting stupid or flashy images. Your voice is pleasant to the ears and easy to understand. In fact, since english is not my main language, I use you to get a lesson with your pronunciation and correct vocabulary. Hope you read this. You help more than teaching how to fix a guitar…please do not change. My respects.
About that buzz on the Martin, I would set a sine-wave generator to the frequency that activates the resonance and have that play on a headphone speaker. Stick and move that little speaker around the different sections of the guitar to make the buzz happen, might have to modulate amplitude of the signal. I'd also use a stethoscope. I use this approach to pinpoint nuisance resonnance issues on speakers
I would have replaced that Wildwood saddle if I were the owner. A traditional acoustic saddle or a top loading electric saddle with a similar to stock wood base would be a dramatic improvement. That original saddle is what’s pictured next to the word “clusterfuck” in Webster’s Dictionary.
@@juubilo1509 Nope. If you want a better instrument, buy a better instrument. But don't hack up a piece of history because you can't appreciate it as it is. That guitar will be around long after you are gone.
@@andybaldman If everybody would have kept their instruments all original we would never have had all the different setups, modifications and improvements we have today. No humbuckers without covers, no coilsplits, no alternative wirings for strats, no Eddy van Halen, nothing but boring stock factory guitars. If you buy the instrument, it's yours and you can mod the crap out of it if ya like, no snob or purist will ever prevent that from happening. If you want a nice clean factory guitar, go to a shop and buy one but don't ever go telling anybody what they can or cannot do to their axe. if you want to modify it, rip out it's guts and have fun, it's a piece of wood with a couple of strings on it, no big deal really.
@@dokterzorro Eddie Van Halen wasn't modding vintage instruments that are no longer produced. He was building them out of new parts. Therein lies the difference, and your point is meaningless.
How many folks here have ever experienced a real New England style clambake? Growing up on the shores of Long Island Sound, my folks hosted one almost every year for a decade and a half. Us kids dug a big pit in the sand, and collected several garbage cans full of floating seaweed (the kind with the bubblewrap like air sacs on it). Build a hot fire, tossing a bunch of large hot rocks into the pit to heat them up, and when it burns down to coals you alternate layers of seaweed with layers of food ---- lobsters, crabs, long neck "steamer" clams, corn on the cob, potatoes ---- , then cover with a tarp and a layer of sand and let the food steam in the pit for three to four hours. The seafood aroma when you uncover the pit is like nothing you have ever experienced.
*Only for fans over 18 years old* girl in perfect BODY G BUNNYGIRLSS.SITE ❤️ cup milk god & perfect erotic body constriction god Toro face transcendent beautiful sister like a famous model tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤️💌💘
On the D28 how about using some tubing held to one ear the way mechanics used to use for vacuum leaks. Might at least be able to isolate the buzz. Had to throw it out there. Thanks for always posting amazing videos
I'm so glad that I never bought one of these back in the 60s. When I was building and repairing guitars I thought I had a lot of patience, but you definitely have more than me LOL!
Back in the early 70's I had a fevered dream that I would teach myself to be a Luthier. Just remember, the Internet was also a fevered dream at the time and to find resources I went to the library. I spent so much money that I could not afford, purchasing this and that, to build guitars. Bit by bit I started to do this and that eventually ended up with squat. It is 50 years later and all I have now from that time is 2 Luthiers clamps. I love those clamps as they have served me well and after 50 years still work perfectly.
Ted, you did not fail my friend The cheap sound you hear is exactly what the players on Hullabaloo, Hootanny, and Addy Bobkins (real name Bob Atkins), heard in these entertainment shows in the 1960s we used to watch after school). The Wildwood was played in these shows for awhile. The hollow metal bar kept humming after the sustain. Drove them crazy.
I think my life may be complete, it`s finally stopped raining here in the UK, the sun is out and Ted is quoting Hunter Thompson on this beautiful Sunday morning maaan. Hehe...cheers Ted.
Don't know if you'll read this but you're one of a few channels I've been watching for the last year or so and really make me feel inspired (and impressed with your skill) about my recent choice to pursue luthiery. There's a certain soothing zen about the way you present your content that really captures exactly what has drawn me in about the profession- an almost meditative process that selects for patience in the work and a kind of casual ingenuity that characterizes humble, respectable craftsmanship.
When "they" fixed Willie's guitar, Trigger, they were expressly asked NOT to fix the signature buzzing because it's part of the notes for certain songs (I'm sure diehard Willie fans would know which songs and the notes in them, but I'm only into "Momma's Don't Let Yer Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" I know it's a sin... but, after all, it's not like he's Jimmie Rodgers!). Maybe the owner of this one will grow fond of the (almost unheard) buzz. Thanks for the vid!
Man I just can't tell you how much I enjoy your videos. They are fascinating. I love guitars. I really love listening to you talk about them and seeing the magic that you do. I'm getting a tshirt....
Roger Rossmeisl was instrumental in the development and production of Fender's acoustic guitars. Information can be found by searching "History of Fender's Acoustic Guitars."
Ted, you have the patience of Job. I was definitely feeling your pain on these two birds. That six saddle bridge should be nailed to the forehead of its designer !! Anyway, nice work.
That was a super enjoyable video. I made it from start to finish, and I kind of feel like watching it again. It was so intimate and subdued and cool. You played great guitar in the end of the video, and the guitar sound great. Tell the client he needs to fix the sound with his hands while playing it, like you did.
Your a mad man ! Im pretty sure you have super human patience beyond your years . Sometimes I want to jump through the screen and junk the guitar myself BUT once again your love for the craft shines through!
Thanks for all the effort and time you Put into to these videos. Been a fan for a while now, I really enjoy them. Hope you and yours are doing well! Take care friend.
I recently did my first re-fret on a similar guitar, an E-Ros “model 612 raven” a 12 string a possibly ply body with a bolt-on neck, a zero fret and an aluminium height adjustable bridge, as well the bridge was riveted down! A very interesting acoustic to work on
Beautiful, 'ol broomstick Fender. I've got an Indian Rosewood King from the mid 60's. It feels like a Strat neck on a drednought. It's a great guitar. Another Roger Rossmeisl design. Rossmeisl was responsible for the design of the legendary Rickenbacker 300 series guitars (German Carve) and the 4000/4001 series of basses. He even taught Semie Mosley (Mosrite) a thing or two before heading to Fender. His contributions at Fender included a number of acoustics, the electric Coronado, and the Telecaster thinline. He moved back to Germany in the early 70's and died in 1979.
*Only for fans over 18 years old* girl in perfect BODY G BUNNYGIRLSS.SITE ❤️ cup milk god & perfect erotic body constriction god Toro face transcendent beautiful sister like a famous model tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤️💌💘
In 1967 I worked in a music store in Tampa, Fl. We had one. The colors were awesome. I sold it. A gentleman came in and wanted to play it. I took it out of the display and let him play it. He left and came back a while later and bought it.
What were Fender thinking?! Ello!..just wanted to say a big thank you. I love your channel! Its quite staggering just how much Ive benefited from watching your work. I have learned so much..from guitar history to some really very clever work-arounds and amazing techniques that have improved my skills immeasurably. Plus...I find your channel a haven of piece and sanity in a mad world that I increasingly do not recognize.Thank you so much! :o) xx
I played one of these in the 60's. My teacher had his studio in a music store and the store had one for sale. This is by far the heaviest acoustic guitar I've ever played. Thanks for the video.
What a lovely quote out of one of my all time ever favourite movie! And a good lenght outro to enjoy- doesn´t get any better. As always I very much enjoyed this and have a vage memory of that wildwood verneer- it was seemingly popular in Europe for making expensive, one of a kind furniture, I´ve seen pictures and was stunned at the time- sooo far out and pretty. Sadly nothing of that seems to have survived... Please keep on that longer outro, it´s strangly rewarding hearing the guitars You revived actually jump and sing.
I’v had a handyman business for the last ten years and I get all kinds of crazy things asked of me to repair. I HATE when I can’t fix something. I loathe it! I get it man.
This one is strange and crazy and cool and wow! Somehow I got the urge to copy that and make something similar on my own. Thanks for sharing! Your work is great as always! Regards, Etna.
Fender had so many awesome successes with amps. Numerous models of their amps are all time classics. They had, of course immense success with a couple solidbody guitar models, and two of the greatest basses ever. But their acoustics were always out of their wheelhouse.
I used to have a very nice Fender 12 string about 30 years ago. Spruce with rosewood back and sides. That was a lovely guitar. But yeah they are mostly terrible
My family owned a timber import company in England back then, and I remember my father showing me a sample piece of veneer that looked like that. The company bought some, but years later it was still unsold because English cabinetmakers would not touch it with a bargepole for some reason. I remember it smelled nice.
LOL! I love the Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas/H.S.T. quote you snuck in there & made your own. Excellent job, as usual, sir! 😎 _Buy the ticket, take the ride._ ✊
As usually…Great Job Ted! Your videos are the perfect mix of intelligence, sarcasm and skill. Now that I know the chorus to “Clambake” I can live a more enriched life. I completely felt your frustration having to assemble and restring the guitar 9 times. I was also the guy in the back of your audience chanting, “Make a NEW bridge!” I hope You heard me. Lastly, I watched this video in my Forrest Green Woodford headstock re-capitation services tee shirt. I know…I’m the envy of ALL viewers! Thank you so much for the great commentary and work!
I’m repairing a vintage cheap guitar from the same era which has an adjustable aluminum saddle, with such a positive bow that made the frets loose when straightened!!! This video came in order!!!! I was already debating if I should make a bone sale to it but you just prove it’s the right path!!! Thank you!
Wow.. the grain lines you put in on that bridge plate looked beautiful. Very nice. If that were my guitar, I would have just had you put a new bridge and bone saddle in, a regular rosewood bridge without the adjustable stuff.
I spent 18 hours in bed due to illness binge watching your channel. I enjoy everything about your videos, from the informative lectures to your vocabulary and sense of humor. I’d taken a year off of hobby luthiery to repair my house. I got started in the 80s doing left handed conversions for myself. Since the advent of CNC machines it’s much easier to purchase LH guitars, but now I have enough guitars that I need a small shop to maintain my collection.
Gee Whiz, last time I remember seeing one of these was at the local Shakey's Pizza in the late 60s early 70s. One if their live music performers had a Fender Wildwood he used to accompany himeself. You're right, the colors were quite vibrant from what I recall. Almost Neon.
One of my students bought a Blueridge BR60 which developed a sympathetic buzz a year later. It was tough to track down but turned out to be one of the tuners had failed and was singing its swan song. When I held the tuner, the buzz went away. It was an open gear tuner and looked good but I changed it out and the guitar, and my student, was happy again.
I always loved Fender acoustics with the electric-style headstocks. My friends uncle had one from the 80s, I want to say it was called a Balboa, but I'm not too sure now, I was a teenager back then.
For reasons that don't need to be explained, your commentary is priceless.
@@agnez9711 what the fuck lmao
“Penetration being paramount…wild”
You must enjoy his repartee with himself in his usual supercilious and condescending tour de force. Don't think twice... often the idiot he's lambasting may be yourself; perhaps not you as you're just too shrewd (lol). Slam Elvis for repetition and leave out Hey Jude; that sort of thing...
“Big metal Rod. Must be part of the fantasy”. 😂
Anyone who can quote Hunter S. Thompson while repairing guitars is OK in my book!
@@danielktdoran beat me to it.🤣👏🏼
And he came sliding in sideways!
I always wondered why fully adjutable bridges were never brought to acoustics as standard
Because in an electric, sustain is easy- on an acoustic where there is no amplification, every bit of the vibration counts. Adjustable bridges andswappable necks make deadzones of sound.
@@jdsd744 I fully accept your point. However, I have a 1975 Yamaha FG300 that has a fully adjustable bridge and it's beautiful. I've often wondered why there aren't more options like that for acoustics.
@@jdsd744 They say they, but then acoustic guitars with adjustable bridges and swappable necks actually sound just fine, and they do exist so... Not really lol.
For cheaper, factory-produced guitars that may be a viable option. However, for more decently priced, handcrafted, and solid wood acoustic guitars, every nuance within how the energy is transferred from string into the wood is important. Changing the contact point for the string's vibration from genuine bone to a metal will have a substantial impact on the overall tone of the instrument. Solid bone saddles have still reigned supreme over other innovations throughout the decades simply due to an objectively better quality of sound, and the nature of how it works means that making adjustable saddles is not a flexible option without compromising the overall tone of the instrument. This is why it's important for a good luthier to be able to provide accurate saddle compensation and height to the best of their ability, and I think players will benefit from allowing experienced techs to do this kind of work for them.
@@miko1975guitar Maybe you don't. Maybe some people do. Drop this collective "we" thinking. It smells of Communism.
From Clambake to Hunter S. Thompson - that was quite an intro - well done! I never really thought about the chorus lyrics to Clambake like that before. Very insightful - really opens up the song to endless reinterpretations.
I would offer that "Rock-a-hula" makes "Clambake" sound like Mozart.....Poor Elvis.
I blame Colonel Tom.
The '60s Fender "acoustic guitars" are SHIT, OKAY ? A friend had a Kingsman w/ a pickup (from the factory). It's acoustic sound was horrible. It's plugged-in sound was atrocious. However. Fender DID offer a really nice acoustic in the GA 43S in the '90s. Those are now gone (I can't believe Fender actually made the GA, I think they farmed them out). I'm just stating my opinion from my contact w/ these guitars.
Fender should forever abandon any thoughts of making acoustic guitars.
Wildwoods have always loomed large in my mind because the first Fender catalogue I got was in 1968 and there were a lot of Wildwood guitars in there. I always liked the look of the Coronados done this way.
I had that catalogue as well!
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As the world rages insanely around us, our master luthier, Ted Woodford of Hamilton, Ontario, demonstrates how you navigate a problem to achieve sweeter music. You don’t have to wrap it around a support pole. A little patience, a little finesse, a little creative thinking, and you’re done. And if you can’t fix it, learn to use it and help it find its own “acoustic space”. Thanks Ted.
The "I had to laugh to keep from crying" line got a chuckle from me. I love this guys humor it's so entertaining to watch these videos
I enjoy your videos because you are very professional, honest and trustworthy on your work. No stupid jokes, not trying to be “funny”, nor inserting stupid or flashy images. Your voice is pleasant to the ears and easy to understand. In fact, since english is not my main language, I use you to get a lesson with your pronunciation and correct vocabulary. Hope you read this. You help more than teaching how to fix a guitar…please do not change. My respects.
Ain’t uncle Ford Canadian?
@@roadshowautosports Yep.
About that buzz on the Martin, I would set a sine-wave generator to the frequency that activates the resonance and have that play on a headphone speaker. Stick and move that little speaker around the different sections of the guitar to make the buzz happen, might have to modulate amplitude of the signal. I'd also use a stethoscope. I use this approach to pinpoint nuisance resonnance issues on speakers
What?
@@kevindonohue8918 😂
A tuning fork might also work for the job
I would have replaced that Wildwood saddle if I were the owner. A traditional acoustic saddle or a top loading electric saddle with a similar to stock wood base would be a dramatic improvement.
That original saddle is what’s pictured next to the word “clusterfuck” in Webster’s Dictionary.
Hah, I'd drill a Floyd Rose on there and have some fun with it. Can't get any worse than this.
Always keep things original on anything vintage.
@@juubilo1509 Nope. If you want a better instrument, buy a better instrument. But don't hack up a piece of history because you can't appreciate it as it is. That guitar will be around long after you are gone.
@@andybaldman
If everybody would have kept their instruments all original we would never have had all the different setups, modifications and improvements we have today. No humbuckers without covers, no coilsplits, no alternative wirings for strats, no Eddy van Halen, nothing but boring stock factory guitars. If you buy the instrument, it's yours and you can mod the crap out of it if ya like, no snob or purist will ever prevent that from happening. If you want a nice clean factory guitar, go to a shop and buy one but don't ever go telling anybody what they can or cannot do to their axe. if you want to modify it, rip out it's guts and have fun, it's a piece of wood with a couple of strings on it, no big deal really.
@@dokterzorro Eddie Van Halen wasn't modding vintage instruments that are no longer produced. He was building them out of new parts. Therein lies the difference, and your point is meaningless.
The lesson that I learned from this is run the other way!
How many folks here have ever experienced a real New England style clambake? Growing up on the shores of Long Island Sound, my folks hosted one almost every year for a decade and a half. Us kids dug a big pit in the sand, and collected several garbage cans full of floating seaweed (the kind with the bubblewrap like air sacs on it). Build a hot fire, tossing a bunch of large hot rocks into the pit to heat them up, and when it burns down to coals you alternate layers of seaweed with layers of food ---- lobsters, crabs, long neck "steamer" clams, corn on the cob, potatoes ---- , then cover with a tarp and a layer of sand and let the food steam in the pit for three to four hours. The seafood aroma when you uncover the pit is like nothing you have ever experienced.
Nice Hunter S Thompson reference!
:)
Cheers!
"Penetration is important". Love it.
Putting dye in the trees is such an awesome idea.
Whats old is new again as of late, I'd love to see more of this brought back today.
*Only for fans over 18 years old* girl in perfect BODY G BUNNYGIRLSS.SITE ❤️ cup milk god & perfect erotic body constriction god Toro face transcendent beautiful sister like a famous model
tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that
is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
💗❤️💌💘
It is common now to dye woods under pressure while being stabilized.
One can also use a sinker log, I would imagine.
I'm waiting for them to put dye in babies, to make human/alien hybrids. Green would be the first choice, obviously. We could call them WildDude.
@@Ndlanding If you let women at that, they will all be pink and purple.
I never get a chance these watch these live so I always have to wait till I get home but I give him a like automatically
Same, first thing I do
For a collector this is great, probably worth a couple nickels. Wall hanger, much to be desired as a player.
You definitely have mega patience to do what you just did. That was awesome to watch and hear the final result. Good stuff.
On the D28 how about using some tubing held to one ear the way mechanics used to use for vacuum leaks. Might at least be able to isolate the buzz. Had to throw it out there. Thanks for always posting amazing videos
You did not fail. That guitar gave up the ghost the day it was made into a lefty. I base this on absolutely nothing.
Unless its something
I'm so glad that I never bought one of these back in the 60s. When I was building and repairing guitars I thought I had a lot of patience, but you definitely have more than me LOL!
Back in the early 70's I had a fevered dream that I would teach myself to be a Luthier. Just remember, the Internet was also a fevered dream at the time and to find resources I went to the library. I spent so much money that I could not afford, purchasing this and that, to build guitars. Bit by bit I started to do this and that eventually ended up with squat. It is 50 years later and all I have now from that time is 2 Luthiers clamps. I love those clamps as they have served me well and after 50 years still work perfectly.
Ted, you did not fail my friend The cheap sound you hear is exactly what the players on Hullabaloo, Hootanny, and Addy Bobkins (real name Bob Atkins), heard in these entertainment shows in the 1960s we used to watch after school).
The Wildwood was played in these shows for awhile. The hollow metal bar kept humming after the sustain. Drove them crazy.
While I always learn something new from a luthier perspective I really enjoy the history lessons!
This went exactly as badly as I thought it would.
I think my life may be complete, it`s finally stopped raining here in the UK, the sun is out and Ted is quoting Hunter Thompson on this beautiful Sunday morning maaan. Hehe...cheers Ted.
Don't know if you'll read this but you're one of a few channels I've been watching for the last year or so and really make me feel inspired (and impressed with your skill) about my recent choice to pursue luthiery. There's a certain soothing zen about the way you present your content that really captures exactly what has drawn me in about the profession- an almost meditative process that selects for patience in the work and a kind of casual ingenuity that characterizes humble, respectable craftsmanship.
When "they" fixed Willie's guitar, Trigger, they were expressly asked NOT to fix the signature buzzing because it's part of the notes for certain songs (I'm sure diehard Willie fans would know which songs and the notes in them, but I'm only into "Momma's Don't Let Yer Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" I know it's a sin... but, after all, it's not like he's Jimmie Rodgers!).
Maybe the owner of this one will grow fond of the (almost unheard) buzz.
Thanks for the vid!
StewMac has a video on this
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Haha that is ridiculous
I play for the "buzz".
It’s such a joy to see and hear you working man. Thank you.
Love your style, your sense of humour. Don’t ever change. :) and thank you
Man I just can't tell you how much I enjoy your videos. They are fascinating. I love guitars. I really love listening to you talk about them and seeing the magic that you do. I'm getting a tshirt....
Love this channel. So relaxing
Roger Rossmeisl was instrumental in the development and production of Fender's acoustic guitars. Information can be found by searching "History of Fender's Acoustic Guitars."
Once again I am in awe of the master. That Fender actually doesn't sound that bad. Not for long I'm sure with those issues.
You sir, have more patience than me. I would have put in a brass strip where you put the rosewood plug and installed adjustable height saddles.
Yup, that is a Wild one for sure.
Amazing Detective/Diagnostics work, thank you for sharing.
Love your videos, today was my first day as a repair tech at guitar center and i can't be happier. Thanks for the entertainment and knowledge.
Ted, you have the patience of Job. I was definitely feeling your pain on these two birds.
That six saddle bridge should be nailed to the forehead of its designer !! Anyway, nice work.
That was a super enjoyable video. I made it from start to finish, and I kind of feel like watching it again. It was so intimate and subdued and cool. You played great guitar in the end of the video, and the guitar sound great. Tell the client he needs to fix the sound with his hands while playing it, like you did.
Your a mad man ! Im pretty sure you have super human patience beyond your years . Sometimes I want to jump through the screen and junk the guitar myself BUT once again your love for the craft shines through!
Dude, been watching years but the H.S Thompson quote got me. Love your work, videos and mind. Thank you for having us along.
Wow, iv been watching you for a little while now. Your vidieos are a highlight for me. And you are a true master at what you do.
GREAT sound at the end, with you strumming chords which evoked images of early Dylan. Well made video!
I remember the buzz on "Ooh La La" ...it was Woody on lead acoustic !
Fascinating! Thanks for introducing me to this oddity.
Content is relaxing and stimulating. I can tell a lot of work goes into to video much like the work done on the guitars. That said, I want more.
Sounded great! Interesting vid, thanks.
Thanks for all the effort and time you
Put into to these videos. Been a fan for a while now, I really enjoy them. Hope you and yours are doing well! Take care friend.
Massive respect for carrying on with those two nightmare jobs! I guess you cant win them all but you did your damndest.
I recently did my first re-fret on a similar guitar, an E-Ros “model 612 raven” a 12 string a possibly ply body with a bolt-on neck, a zero fret and an aluminium height adjustable bridge, as well the bridge was riveted down! A very interesting acoustic to work on
Beautiful, 'ol broomstick Fender.
I've got an Indian Rosewood King from the mid 60's. It feels like a Strat neck on a drednought. It's a great guitar. Another Roger Rossmeisl design. Rossmeisl was responsible for the design of the legendary Rickenbacker 300 series guitars (German Carve) and the 4000/4001 series of basses. He even taught Semie Mosley (Mosrite) a thing or two before heading to Fender. His contributions at Fender included a number of acoustics, the electric Coronado, and the Telecaster thinline. He moved back to Germany in the early 70's and died in 1979.
I admire your tenacity with that Fender, I would have proclaimed it a wall-hanger long ago... Always, your channel inspires. Keep it up.
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You did an excellent job. That was a near impossible task with all of those variables.
In 1967 I worked in a music store in Tampa, Fl. We had one. The colors were awesome. I sold it. A gentleman came in and wanted to play it. I took it out of the display and let him play it. He left and came back a while later and bought it.
Incredible! Thanks for this incredible video. I even like that bit about the buzz in the Martin that couldn’t be fixed.
What were Fender thinking?! Ello!..just wanted to say a big thank you. I love your channel! Its quite staggering just how much Ive benefited from watching your work. I have learned so much..from guitar history to some really very clever work-arounds and amazing techniques that have improved my skills immeasurably. Plus...I find your channel a haven of piece and sanity in a mad world that I increasingly do not recognize.Thank you so much! :o) xx
I played one of these in the 60's. My teacher had his studio in a music store and the store had one for sale. This is by far the heaviest acoustic guitar I've ever played. Thanks for the video.
What a lovely quote out of one of my all time ever favourite movie!
And a good lenght outro to enjoy- doesn´t get any better.
As always I very much enjoyed this and have a vage memory of that wildwood verneer- it was seemingly popular in Europe for making expensive, one of a kind furniture, I´ve seen pictures and was stunned at the time- sooo far out and pretty.
Sadly nothing of that seems to have survived... Please keep on that longer outro, it´s strangly rewarding hearing the guitars You revived actually jump and sing.
Good ear on that Faces tune. I never heard that until now. And as always, your workmanship along with your commentary is outstanding!
I’v had a handyman business for the last ten years and I get all kinds of crazy things asked of me to repair. I HATE when I can’t fix something. I loathe it! I get it man.
This one is strange and crazy and cool and wow! Somehow I got the urge to copy that and make something similar on my own.
Thanks for sharing! Your work is great as always!
Regards,
Etna.
I'm about 10 videos in and I have to say, man you impress the crap out of me. It's very hard to do that. It takes a lot. Excellent work sir!!
It don't sound as bad as I expected it to. Go on Ted, you love it really!
Can't lie love the way it sounds
SOUND GREAT.....LOVE IT
It actually doesn’t sound too bad! Great job.
Fender had so many awesome successes with amps. Numerous models of their amps are all time classics. They had, of course immense success with a couple solidbody guitar models, and two of the greatest basses ever. But their acoustics were always out of their wheelhouse.
I used to have a very nice Fender 12 string about 30 years ago. Spruce with rosewood back and sides. That was a lovely guitar. But yeah they are mostly terrible
This dude’s videos played while I slept and I awoke with an appreciation for guitars!
Impressive the work you've done
My family owned a timber import company in England back then, and I remember my father showing me a sample piece of veneer that looked like that. The company bought some, but years later it was still unsold because English cabinetmakers would not touch it with a bargepole for some reason. I remember it smelled nice.
LOL! I love the Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas/H.S.T. quote you snuck in there & made your own. Excellent job, as usual, sir! 😎
_Buy the ticket, take the ride._ ✊
World of war and I’m watching my friend Ted make a masterpiece perfect again! Great job Ted!
When I'm about to have a "clambake" I sing that song. It sets the mood for a good time
It's always a great evening when we got a new upload!!!
Man, I feel your pain on these two especially the fender.
Sounds like a hybrid resonator - I like it!
Utterly interesting, you just made my day 😊
Sounds pretty cool.
A Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas allusion!!! You are awesome dude. F-ing awesome.
As usually…Great Job Ted!
Your videos are the perfect mix of intelligence, sarcasm and skill. Now that I know the chorus to “Clambake” I can live a more enriched life. I completely felt your frustration having to assemble and restring the guitar 9 times. I was also the guy in the back of your audience chanting, “Make a NEW bridge!” I hope You heard me.
Lastly, I watched this video in my Forrest Green Woodford headstock re-capitation services tee shirt. I know…I’m the envy of ALL viewers!
Thank you so much for the great commentary and work!
I’m repairing a vintage cheap guitar from the same era which has an adjustable aluminum saddle, with such a positive bow that made the frets loose when straightened!!! This video came in order!!!!
I was already debating if I should make a bone sale to it but you just prove it’s the right path!!!
Thank you!
Amazing camo job.
Your acerbic sense of humour cracks me up!
Sorry for your frustration but honestly one of the funniest commentaries I’ve heard in some time. Keep smilin’
Man!! Thanks for sharing us on repairing some frustrating suitars.
Wow.. the grain lines you put in on that bridge plate looked beautiful. Very nice. If that were my guitar, I would have just had you put a new bridge and bone saddle in, a regular rosewood bridge without the adjustable stuff.
always informative and dryly comical - thx
I spent 18 hours in bed due to illness binge watching your channel.
I enjoy everything about your videos, from the informative lectures to your vocabulary and sense of humor.
I’d taken a year off of hobby luthiery
to repair my house. I got started in the 80s doing left handed conversions for myself.
Since the advent of CNC machines it’s much easier to purchase LH guitars, but now I have enough guitars that I need a small shop to maintain my collection.
NOW I WANT a Wildwood (a real wild one) to take to the clambake. Anything 60s Fender is a quest I'm in for.
great work !!
Gee Whiz, last time I remember seeing one of these was at the local Shakey's Pizza in the late 60s early 70s. One if their live music performers had a Fender Wildwood he used to accompany himeself. You're right, the colors were quite vibrant from what I recall. Almost Neon.
😲gasp, you are human. Those little buzz's can be quite prickly.... Love your content. Kindest from New Zealand
One of my students bought a Blueridge BR60 which developed a sympathetic buzz a year later. It was tough to track down but turned out to be one of the tuners had failed and was singing its swan song. When I held the tuner, the buzz went away. It was an open gear tuner and looked good but I changed it out and the guitar, and my student, was happy again.
never seen these before. the wood is really wild. and that tail piece... my god.
I always loved Fender acoustics with the electric-style headstocks. My friends uncle had one from the 80s, I want to say it was called a Balboa, but I'm not too sure now, I was a teenager back then.
Very surprised to hear the tone after your repair work was completed isn't so terrible! Good video!
Hunter Thompson monologue = best video everrrrr! 😁
sounds good!
That's wild man!
Great episode on multiple counts.