Gibson Les Paul Custom Vintage Guitar Repair/Restoration
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- čas přidán 7. 03. 2024
- Gibson Les Paul Custom Vintage Guitar made in 1987 on my Luthier Workbench. This amazing Guitar has a massiv problem.
After the inspection I have noticed that every Fret on this Instrument is loose. The original frets of this guitar were replaced 2 years ago and at first glance everything seems to be fine but there is a lot of fret buzzing going on over the entire ebony fingerboard. The owner who got this beautiful Instrument from his Father in 1991, who in turn bought this guitar new in 1987, asked me to take care about this heavy played Instrument. I decided not to make a new Fret Job, instead I have taken an unusual path..... This is a quite tricky and time consuming repair and in this Video you can follow the whole process. I will also explain and show a couple of "Luthier Hacks" in this Video. So if you are interested in my Luthier Craftsmanship stay tuned and enjoy the Video. I love doing stuff like that - if you are interested in more of my Luthier life Projects, please feel free to check out my other extended Workshop Videos on this channel.
Enjoy watching and sharing.
Best Regards Nik
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You are welcome. Cheers Nik
This video should be on the asmr channels...very relaxing to watch this talented guitar magicians work.
Thanks a lot for your positive Feedback Stewart. Best Regards Nik
Hi Nik, awesome video, as always. Thank you.
Thank you so much Mate. Best Regards Nik
That was a well loved and well played guitar.🤘🎸
Yes that's correct. Such an amazing Instrument. Thanks for your Feedback. Best Regards Nik
So to repair it you just flow a high viscocity glue into every fret and clamp it down with a correct radius block, let it dry, remove excess glue, check if it needs to be leveled, if yes you level, crown it, polish the frets, clean up and oil the ebony board, check if the nut grooves need to be touched up (usually yes). That thing is loved and looks awesome, beat up black customs look so awesome!
Thanks for your Feedback. Yes a Custom is always a beauty. If you wanna see the whole process check out the full Video that will be released on this Friday. Best Regards Nik
@@petrekguitars am I close in guessing what you did? I will certainly check it out
We will see🙂 Cheers Nik@@ilmisxx2
@@petrekguitarsso I was kind of spot-on, wasn't I? 😅
Yes Mate you were absolutely correct 👍Thanks for watching.Best Regards Nik@@ilmisxx2
Just found your channel. You do some great work, bringing these great guitars back to life. 👍
Thank you so much for saying this. You are welcome. Enjoy the other Video👍🕺🏻Best Regards Nik
danke für die schlaflose nacht. habe alle clips die nacht durchgeschaut! grüße aus dem proberaum, jb
Hey Jan, das freut mich sehr. Danke Dir und herzliche Grüß Nik
Excellent. That guitar has seen some action, it looks amazing. Thanks from the UK :)
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Yes that’s a Stage Horse 👍Best Regards Nik
Absolutely gorgeous guitar! great job!
Thank you so much for your kins words. Best Regards Nik
You are a genuine artiste, sir....
Thank you so much for saying this James🙏✨You are welcome. Best Regards Nik
Looks just like my first guitar, the whole neighbourhood borrowed it, I didn't see it for about ten years 🤣 Look forward to seeing more of this one. Cheers.
Tanks a lot for sharing the Story of your Guitar🙂 and thanks a lot for watching my content. Best Regards Nik
So that's your excuse for not practicing eh??😂
That's correct👍 Best Regards Nik@@garycastronova7939
I stopped pretending I was Slash, brought an Ibanez and pretended to be Joe Satriani instead 🤣
And does it work out🙂@@ricp123
Great work!! The old girl still has life in her!
Thanks a lot for wqwtchiung and your positive comment. Best Regards Nik
All ready for "Proud Mary" and "Bad Moon Rising"
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Thanks for your Feedback. Best Regards Nik
Veo mucha pasión en su trabajo, me encantan sus videos y estoy aprendiendo mucho, gracias por compartir de su talento! 🎸
Muchas Gracias.... You are welcome. Best Regards Nik
I love this! ... I've found the work time on thin CA glue to be really unpredictable. And those frets are so incredibly loose. I think I would have just re-fretted it. But you obviously made that work. always impressive.
Thank you so much for your Feedback Zack. You are absolutely correct new Frets will be also a good solution. But my Custom has spend a lot of money on the refret just 2 years ago and after noticing that there is no fret wear I decided to make it this way. Best Regards Nik
Fantastic guitar video, wonder repair job on this old blackie, I subscribed for sure! I wish you talked as you worked on it as you have a great voiceover voice. I agree with the ASMR comment someone else made haha. Looking forward to more! Thanks!
Thank you so much for watching and for your kind words Mate. Yes that's me who make the Voice over ....thanks for the compliment. You are welcome. There is a lot of Repair Stuff coming up. Stay Tuned and enjoy the Videos. Best Regards Nik
que satisfacción ver cómo les devuelves la vida, vi todo el video buen trabajo
Muchas Gracias 🙏🕺🏻👍Cheers Nik
Nicely done! These can’t be a huge pain with those lifting frets and wicking some of that glue in but always nice to get it back to playing order! Cheers 😊
Thanks a lot for watching and for your kind words Stewart. Best Regards Nik
Schönes Video ❤
Hätte gern auch so eine schöne Klampfe 😮
Vielen herzlichen Dank. Ja der Besitzer kann sich freuen:-😊BG Nik
Killer repair on the Gibson frets
Thank you so much for your positive feedback. Best Regards Nik
Nice fix
Thanks a lot Steve👍Best Regards Nik
It’d be cool to see you fix that neck pickup ring! Always wondered how to do that.
Thanks a lot for your Feedback. This is a quite good Idea for a Video. I did some shorts about repairing Humbucker Frames. Feel free to scroll in my Short .... Best Regards Nik
@@petrekguitars thanks 👍
The guitar is gnarly!
Thanks a lot for your comment. Yes it's amazing. Best Regards Nik
Great video
Thanks a lot for your comment. Cheers Nik
This is beyond epic
Thank you so much for saying that. Best Regards Nik
Awesome look 😊😊
Thanks a lot 🙏🕺🏻👍Cheers Nik
Dude that patina on the guitar ❤❤
Yes this are decade’s of Club Gigs …Best Regards Nik
Its smart to use wood pieces as an indicator to the glue 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks a lot for watching and for your feedback Samy. Best Regards Nik
Great video, as always. And this time with my favourite guitar ever! Is this really a 1987 Les Paul? The PU says 1979.
Thanks for the videos!
Thanks a lot for your positive Feedback. You are correct the Bridge Pickup is made in 1979 ....I assume that he way changed back inn the Days because everything else including the serial Nummer is 1987. And the first owner bought it in 1987. Best Regards Nik
Exelente!!!!! No tengo más palabras
Muchas Gracias. Cheers Nik
Handsome guy, Beautiful technic. lol
Thank you so much Tom👍🕺🏻Best Regards Nik
How would one go about making blocks with different radii to use when clamping frets? I enjoy your videos and especially like some of your hand-made tools. Best wishes.
Thank you so much for your positive Feedback and for watching my Videos. Best Regards Nik
Excellent just subscribed 😊
Thanks a lot John👍You are welcome. Best Regards Nik
that is a beautiful guitar. only type of les paul I'd contemplate getting
Thanks a lot for your comment. Yes they are amazing. Best Regards Nik
Man thats a beautiful giutar! i have the Epiphone custom verison and its awesone too. i put in Gibson pickups !
Hey Joe, thanks for your positive feedback. Yes that is a real beauty… Yoz Epiphone is also a nice one. Good upgrad👍 Best Regards Nik
Stewmac has nice needle-end pipettes for the thin superglue. I believe that they will be a great help here. nice job! I belive what happened here is that wood sharnk due to low humiditily and lack of maintenance and fret tangs let go....
Thanks a lot for your Feedback and for sharing your opinion. Best Regards Nik
Superb!!
Thanks a lot. Best Regards Nik
Nice guitar
Yes It’s amazing. Thanks for your comment. Best Regards Nik
Great work. well, shot video. Thanks for sharing. Sub.
Thank you sir much for your kind word. You are welcome. Best Regards Nik
Those frets were like railway sleepers, mahoosive!
Yes quite flexible🙂 Thanks for your feedback. Best Regards Nik
Damn! a real life Murphy lab 😮
Yes.... Thanks for watching and your feedback. Best Regards Nik
The frets look really not worn so yes, no need to refret (what you answered below..) - btw; on the bay you can find many shops for clinical supplies, who sell equipment which is past its BB Date - so essentially not steril any more.. - I use 0.4mm Syringe needles for these glue jobs...; they fit on most glue bottles and when used carefully, the glue basically runs into the spaces on its own.. - again wonderful work Nik - Greetings to you and my Hometown; Markus
Thanks a lot for watching and for sharing your way to do this job. Yes that sound like a good way to handle the glue I feel pretty comfortable doing it with the Knife...You are welcome. Best Regards Nik
Man I love a custom love🥰
Thanks a lot for your comment. Best Regards Nik
how many tries to get that box of strings to stand up like that? Looks cool - worth the time! Great video by the way - thank you for creating it.
Thanks a lot for your positive comment. Actually it was tree times 😉You are welcome. Feel free to check out my new Fender Jaguar repair video…. Best Regards Nik
epic ending 🔥
Thanks a lot Mate. Cheers Nik
Vintage or not, there's no way in heck I would resist fixing that pickup ring! It's driving me nuts.
Thanks for your Feedback. Yes I can understand that... Best Regards Nik
Rcranky64 just forgot to say : Please 😅 Thanks for this video 👌🙏
Thanks for watching and your interest in my Luthier Craftsmanship. Best Regards Nik
He is really handsome to be honest, he obviously did an excelent job too
Thank you so much for your positive Feedback Fredo. Best Regards Nik
Hello, what causes the frets to loosen? thanks......
Hey Jim, this can have several reasons. The Fretslots were to sloppy and if so the repair guy didn’t glue the Frets in. Or what I assume is that frets were glued in and by polishing with a power tool the glue get soft and the frets get loose and cause this problem. Best Regards Nik
Thanks, I try to avoid Stewmac as much as I can they are very expensive, I thought that you found some other cheaper sourse, anyway thanks.
No Sorry, but I have this wise for decades it will last forever… Best Regards Nik
1987 that has never been taken care of. I have a 1956 strat that in perfect condition.
Thanks for your Feedback 👍This is surely a amazing Instrument. Best Regards Nik
Why you didnt glue the broken frame of the neck pick up?
Thanks for your question. My Custom just asked me to take care of the Fret Problem. Best Regards Nik
quel beau métier.!
Merci 🙏🕺🏻
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that the bridge pickup was swapped out at some point, seeing as it is 8 years older than the guitar, and there is no way they had 8 Y/O pickups laying around. It does sound good, like any great rock n roll machine should.
Thanks a lot for your Feedback. Yes you are correct ....In the 80´s Gibson used the Bill Lawrence Pickups you can point them because there were "waxed" or better fill with black epoxy. Like on the Neck Pickup. But if the Pickup was damaged there is no way to repair it. So I assume that this was the case and someone installed the 1979 Gibson Pickup in the Bridge position. Best Regards Nik
Where did you buy this green vise?
If you are in the Us you can buy it at @stewmac. Best Regards Nik
Why didn't you wipe off the excess glue before clamping?
Thanks for your question. Yes you can wipe it of but if you clamp the Radius Jig down it will produce some squeeze out... And I have to remove this anyway... I apply the wax to provide too much glue sticking on the Fretboard. Best Regards Nik
What causes this? Were the new frets made using a wrong radius?
Thanks for your question. This can have different causes. I assume that the fret slots were to wide or if the guy who made this glued them in an then by polishing the Frets with a power tool overheat the glue so that it gets loosen and don't hold the fret in there position. A not 100% prebend on the frets would not cause this issue... Best Regards Nik
Wow, I thought my 87 was a little rough. This one was abused. 😮
Oh yes this was played a lot. Cheers Nik
An '87? My god, what did he do, store it outdoors? Question: why didn't you repair the broken neck pickup surround?
Thanks for your Feedback. It´s simply played nearly every Weekend on Gigs over all the years... Best Regards Nik
I have Desert Burst LP Gibson w special mirror old dimarzio pickups
Thanks for sharing. This is surely a great Instrument. Best Regards Nik
I don’t see any issue with this guitar? Looks like a regular Murphy Lab Les Paul?
Thanks for you Feedback 😉🕺🏻👍Best Regards Nik
He must keep that guitar on the porch 😂. Slash has been looking guitars that have been on tour
Thanks for your information… But I don’t think that the owner would sell this beauty 😉Best Regards Nik
Bendmaster amp ?
BERNDMASTER handbuild Amp🙂
This should be a ASMR video
Thanks for watching and for your Feedback Gary. Best Regards Nik
@@petrekguitars welcome
Best Regards @@garymiddleton658
I hope those are SS frets, the NY XL's will tear them frets up real quick!
Thanks for your Feedback.Really I didn't know that.I love the Sound of this Strings. Best Regards Nik
i really thought you'll gonna leave it to feedback 😅
Thanks for your "Feedback"🙂 Cheers Nik
Lovely job, sir. I have a question - what pedal is that and who makes it : Revolustortion? Can’t find it on Reverb or in Google search…
Ike
Thanks a lot for your positive Feedback Ike. These Pedals are made by an amazing Dude and technician. You can't find them on these platforms because he makes just a few of them. Carsten is a genius....Feel free to Contact him...
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Best Regards Nik
when start the paintjob?
I don’t think this is necessary 😉👍Best Regards Nik
@@petrekguitars it must be for the way it shine that black color.....
Ah it´s more like satin than shiny🙂Cheers Nik@@sebastjanhannsel443
@@Zer0basscovers Thanks for your feedback. Best Regards Nik
''@@Zer0basscovers beautiful??? yellow and broken.... this guitar loks way better with a new shiny laca....
Do you take any guitar for repair or does it have to be special ?
Hey John, I repair any kind of Guitar there is no preference... Best Regards Nik
Bella/Linda.💰💰💰💰💰💰🌡️
Thanks for your feedback but I don’t really understand the massage 💁🏻♂️ Best Regards Nik
If you have to re glue down basically every fret, why not just refret the whole board and do it right with a proper fretboard sand, refret, level, and polish? Its a vintage guitar, yet its been refretted already at least once because it has no binding nibs. Seems to me the amount of work being done in this video vs having a total refret done is a no brainer. The ebony board and inlays would be sanded, and you have new frets with plenty of life to them that were crowned, leveled and polished. There could very well be an issue with the last refret as well seeing how many of these frets have lifted. The slots could have been cut too wide hence the lifting, or poor choice of glue used "maybe no glue at all" during the last refret. But how does one know without removing the frets? Im not knocking the work being done, but just saying to avoid future issues, a full re-fret would seem to address any concerns about who did the last refret/why so many frets lifted.
Thanks for your feedback and for sharing your opinion. Yes you are totally correct. Normally I would do exactly what you recommend. But in this case the owner asked me to fix this issue with less amount of work because the Gutar was refreted 2 years ago and the frets are like new...but there were all loosen. So I decided to chose this way...Best Regards Nik
最高！🎉
Thanks a lot. Best Regards Nik
Auw i have one just like that, a '78
This is surely a great Instrument... Best Regards Nik
It is :) Its getting resonant as a vintage custom could be by now@@petrekguitars
I can imagine that sound 🙂Cheers Nik@@tone9930
The others a fine.... What does it mean?
Thanks for your question... I have checked the Nut slots and all are fine just the slot for the E string was to low... Best Regards Nik
@@petrekguitars I'm curious about that low e string slot. I'm guessing that it wasn't so low it would be a problem.
Thanks for your question. Before the repair it was to low but after the repair and after leveling the Frets it was become fine🙂 Best Regards Nik@@bucko5427
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Thanks a lot. Cheers Nik
Sorry. I would refret. Just dabbing superglue under the frets isn't (in my opinion) enough.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. Actually this would be the normal way to solve this problem. But a refret is quite expensive and the owner asked me to keep the costs low because he already payed a lot go money for the fret job...Sop that's why I did it this way. Best Regards Nik
Fixing frets with super glue gives me anxiety! I think all luthiers should do a physics and engineering course before fixing a guitar. I see many solutions that might work, but are far from being ideal!
Thanks for sharing your opinion. In this case the ideal Repair would be changing the Frets... But my customer asked for a Low Price solution because the Frets were replaced just a few month ago and actually have no wear... So I decided to make it this way.. And don't worry I have graduated as a Luthier nearly 30 years ago:-) Best Regards Nik
Don't get me wrong. It just gives anxiety because, as you said, its not the perfect solution. Coming from an architecture background, anything that doesn't stand on its own bye it self, gives me anxiety😂@@petrekguitars
@@pedrolourenco2707 Thanks for your comment Pedro. Don't worry everything is fine appreciate your Feedback ate the end the customer make the decision what is affordable for him.. Best Regards Nik
@@pedrolourenco2707 It's pretty common to use fish or super glue to help to seat frets these days even with new frets. PRS does it with their US-made models.
Why is it so beautiful?
Thanks for your comment. Best Regards Nik
Maybe try narrating in your lanuguage? We can use the many translate options to have text we all can read? Just my thought
Thanks a lot for your Feedback Chris. I did my first couple of Videos in German but I like challenging myself in doing them on English🙂 Best Regards Nik
So you're just gluing the frets to the fingerboard?
I'd hate to be the next guy to refret it.
That fingerboard will get torn apart.
Thanks for your feedback. My Customer spend a lot of money on a other guy who has refret this guitar and he asked me to make a low budget repair. Normally I would recommend a refret but this is quite expensive. If you heat the frets up you can easily remove them again. Best Regards Nik
It just hurts to watch you didnt use a soft surface to handle the poor guitar :(
Thanks for you Feedback. That's what I did I have a cork and Leather Surface. Best Regards Nik
No masking tape on vintage instruments. Proceeds to use masking tape on the neck and pickup lol. Just kidding around, nice work obviously.
Thank you so much for watching and your positive feedback Eric. Best Regards Nik
Why do LP owners mash down the stopbar like that?
Thanks for your question. To apply more pressure on the ABR Bridge. This adds more Tone and Sustain. Best Regards Nik
@@petrekguitars The strings were contacting the bridge ring and bending over it. Not good.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Thanks for your feedback. The Customer prefer this setup and I it’s not a issue for him 👍Best Regards Nik
It’s not scraping on wood it’s on a leather pad !
Thanks a lot for your comment. Yes it’s leather and a cork pad. Best Regards Nik
That guitar is a biohazard.
Thanks for watching and your Feedback. Cheers Nik
Great job. Thank you for not using an electric screwdriver.
Thanks a lot for your Feedback and for your support. Best Regards Nik
You should have been an actor 😂
Thanks for your Feedback but I think I am more a Craftsman :-) Best Regards Nik
@@petrekguitars that you are
Cheer Nik@@martynreed835
Why don’t you just re-fret it?
Thanks for your question. Because the Instrument was refreted 2 years ago and the Fret are still like new. The owner asked me for a solution not to spend once again a lot of money for a Refret. This is very expensive if you have binding on the Fingerboard. So I decided to make it this way... Best Regards Nik
Awesome. You are clearly a guitar god…
@@marciemenefee7116 Thanks for your Feedback....I am just a craftsman🙂 Best Regards Nik
87? I thought 67, the way it's aged, etc
Yes me to... this Instrument looks much older than it is... Best Regards Nik
♍️📐⚡️🤘🕊️
Thanks a lot Manuel. Best Regards Nik
Put a towel down or something stop scraping the body against that wood table
Thanks a lot for watching and your advice. Best Regards Nik
@@petrekguitars was a great video though thank you for posting it. I guess the body is beat up anyway being vintage doesn’t really really matter. Thanks
Thanks a lot for your Feedback Mate. Feel free to check out my other Videos. You are welcome. Best Regards Nik@@rcranky64
Towel down?? Ha, it’s how you relic guitars!!
You got me🙂 Best Regards Nik@@JTMP12
What happened to that guitar? That is not normal aging! 🤔
Thanks for your question Chris. This Guitar was bought new in 1987 and the owner give this Instrument in 1991 to his son who played it since the nearly 3 Days a week on stage ( and still do) as his main Instrument. This is absolutely authentic nothing done on it tho make it looks older....In these Days we see a Gibson Murphy aged or a Fender Custom Shop Relic and we are taught to believe that it is authentic..... but keep in mind this is always some kind of a copy of the real Stuff....and this Custom is a very good example for this.
I have just released a Fender Jaguar repair Video and this is also a beaten up stage warrior....Feel free to check out the video. Best Regards Nik
@@petrekguitars Interesting. I was given my LP Custom brand new in 1985 by my father as a present (funny parallel) and it doesn't nearly look as beaten up as this one and it also didn't just sit in the case all the years. I guess it is a question of priorities how much you take care of your instrument. I don't like when my instruments look like as if they fell from a truck, no matter how old they are. Patina and neglect are two totally different things. I don't get why people are so obsessed with how much abused an instrument can look like, while still remaining functional. Imagine people would do the same to their cars or their apartment furniture. I would never buy a Murphy lab guitar and also would never buy this Les Paul, if it would be for sale. Fortunately there is no accounting for taste and each to his own. 🙂
@@criscainemusic You are totally correct Chris. I also like to treat my stuff as good as possible doesn't matter what... Thanks for sharing your story with your LP this isn surly a great Instrument. Best Regards Nik
You don't have to polish by hand if you don't spend 20 seconds on each fret with a Dremel wheel. It takes me about 30 seconds total to polish frets on my guitars.
I've never had glue heat up and come loose but I don't leave the thing there for 20 seconds at a time to get hot, either.
Don't use a Dremel wheel and they won't get that hot. I use a 4 or 5 inch (100-125mm) polishing pad and they're never hot. Ever.
Thanks for your Feedback. My experience is that overheating the Frets by polishing them is a very common issue. Thanks for watching my content. Best Regards Nik
So you're just going to glue them high? Nope. I'd never take my guitar to you after watching 7 minutes of this.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your opinion. Best Regards Nik
if you didn't liked his work why bother come back here and make a lot of bad comments on his vids? If u didn't liked go make one your self. Don't be an ass. @J.C...
Thanks a lot Pedro for sharing your opinion. You are welcome. Best Regards Nik@@pedro.x5150
@@petrekguitars great work mate!
Thanks a lot for saying that. Best Regards Nik@@pedro.x5150
Give used strings to musicians don´t cut them
Thanks for your feedback. That's a good idea but I collect them in my Metall Box and bring them to the recycling center. Most of them are really worn out... Best Regards Nik
i dont want ur old grody strings bro
@@chrismacro2012 Thanks for your Feedback...🙂Best Regards Nik
Narwhal clamps
Thanks for your feedback. Theses are Klemmsia Clamps. Best Regards Nik
Dry for a couple of hours?? IT'S SUPER GLUE! It dries in 60 seconds 🤦
Thanks for sharing your experience but I wanna be sure that it’s really dry… Best Regards Nik
That is not PATINA it is filthily GRIME I would not have that on my bench! how much extra do you charge you customers for the
song and dance production!!?? It is a shame that YOU TUBE has turned guitar repair into a theatrical exercise...
Professional repairers like Twoofrd just gives us the guts of the work!
Thanks for watching and for sharing your opinion. Best Regards Nik
I dont like your style sir😂
Sorry for that 😉Best Regards Nik
Gross!
Vielen herzlichen Dank. BG Nik
Спасибо за видео было очень интересно посмотреть ,сам я из Россия. Лайк и подписка.
Thank you so much for your kind words and for watching my Video. Best Regards Nik