Headstocks, Cracks and Setups
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Disclaimer: Woodworking machinery is inherently dangerous. The techniques shown are being performed by an experienced woodworker aware of the risks involved. I won't be held responsible if you remove a finger or two through imitation.
Best quote: "You're paying for the fun experience of assembling an Epiphone." So true!
Some of those kits aren't worthy of even being called that.
Seinfeld quote - "Not that there's anything wrong with that"
@@JC-11111 That is true, but the skill level is what counts.
Prob more like a Glary (sp?). Most low-end kits are absolute junk. Good kids’ projects that’s about it.
Personally I have a soft spot for some Epiphones. I have a Gibson SG and an Epi SG, the Epiphone is the nicer instrument to play. Maybe because the Gibson lives in it's case and the Epiphone lives beside my desk so I'm used to it - but it's a well made guitar that plays really well.
To touch back on your last video, where you mention that you're "not even the best in your area," well you're unique here in this massive CZcams community in that you provide some wonderful advice, wisdom, and all in all, you are pretty gosh darn good at your job, even if you're modest about it.
I know it's a lot of work, but I hope you never get burnt out on making these videos.
AMEN !!!!
@@russcorbett3923 And how!!!
I can’t imagine Ted NOT being the best in his area. I’d add “Most Humble” as well! Great work, thanks for the videos.
Hamilton is rife with luthiers though. Like way more than St. Catharines, and denser than Toronto.
@@stevenfolino405 seriously. Then it makes you wonder, if there actually are people better than him, then just how good are *they?* 👌
If it ain’t broke, don’t break it... truer words were never spoken.
I laughed out loud on that one!!
Many customers don't understand that they're not payinng for that hour or more of work but all the years of experience and the network of other luthiers you know whom you can call on for help and all the tools and equipment that you've collected over the years.
"Tree is like a bundle of straws"
xylem up and phloem down...
Why I recall this from my highschool biology class, I have no idea why...
I think I understand what Ted is saying here - I'm a qualified mechanic who used to tell people at social gatherings what I did for a living. But the following conversations would often go like......"I did this to my car and now it doesn't run well, can you tell me what I did wrong and how I can fix it.....and tell me that for free.....right now".
Or the old......."no I'm not a mechanic but I once held a spanner for my uncle and so now I know as much as you and I'll tell you that you are wrong about stuff I know nothing about anyway".
Sheesh really people. Have the objectivity to recognize your own level of (in)competence and respect others people's years of training, experience and skill.
Same. I work construction I’ve bid jobs told the costumer what I planed on doing. Then got a call to fix their attempt.
Just had a similar experience with a friend of mine. I used to work on his cars, and my own, and have 15 years of experience doing it. Was my side job for years. Lately I've been too busy with the guitar work and haven't had the time to fix some issues on my old Celica. This guy offered to work on it, and I reluctantly agreed after explaining to him in exquisite detail everything I knew about the issue and everything I tried. All of this info would have been incredibly useful to anybody who really knows their stuff. I told him what I know it isn't, but he insisted it was several unrelated issues. I figured I'd let him try some of his ideas as it couldn't hurt. Ultimately, all I wanted was the misfire to be fixed and the motor mount fixed. I made that very clear.
Long story short, I get my car back, and he did all kinds of things I didn't need or want done (some of which I did appreciate being done), lost a hood pin, lost the boots to my spark plug socket, cut a hole in my oil pan (which now leaks like hell), rattle-canned the whole car without proper prepping, and to top it all off, he didn't even fix the only two things I wanted done. He insists it's spark plug fouling, and does so with the certainty of a master mechanic, when I know that isn't the issue. He knows some things about cars for sure, but the point is, some people think they know way, WAY more than they do because they've tinkered in their garage. And when they present themselves as knowledgeable and confident, it can cause serious disasters. You can't play expert and think it makes you one. But way too many people think it does.
Hey! I'm from 1955 also on my original motor! (Not belt, though...)
Chapeau sir, chapeau
No belt? How do you build up your pants? Suspenders?
I really appreciate when you point out things like the headstock being canted in the jig. No one would have known if you said nothing. It tells me you appreciate us too by noting errors.
As a doctor, I really loved the "history taking" and the careful diagnosis you showed before setting up that Gibson!
Thank you for your great content! I really appreciated your demonstration regarding end-grain wood as well.
To hear someone speak who is clearly a master at their craft and not have it come across as smug or pretentious is quite refreshing. Thanks, Ted. Your level of workmanship is respected and your videos are greatly appreciated. ✌🏻
You are sooo right! As a guy with 20 years experience as a mechanic I have seen so many people aggravated because I wouldn’t teach them how to fix their car. If my guitar broke I would be paying you to fix it. Not because you have the tools, but because you’ve got the knowledge and skills that I can’t buy.
I echo the comments below, "you are pretty gosh darn good at your job, even if you're modest about it.
I know it's a lot of work, but I hope you never get burnt out on making these videos" thank you for taking the time.
You learn any craft through experience, and you learn faster if you make mistakes that need fixing.
Trust me on this, folks. I've made minor glitches through bone-headed blunders. The gamut.
Of course, I'm still learning because I continue to make mistakes. I think they're getting smaller and fewer, but...I just keep at it. I note that I'm thinking things through more thoroughly nowadays.
Crafting in any medium takes a lot of practice. Thank God for channels like this one! Kudos.
I love how this guy has mastered the art of not giving a fuck and being as honest as possible lmao
My Pop has an early '63 Gibson SJ. Finish is heat cracked from a house fire it survived but there has never been any cracks in the wood itself. It has the perfect size neck (small) for his hands. He spent 20 years trying to replace it after he let a friend borrow it and he end up in Prison. He finally got it it back from his buddy's sister when she cleaned out the storage locker it has sat in since he went away. It still sounds better than anything he's bought in the ensuing decades.
Excellent analogy with the auto mechanic. Over the last 10 years as a mechanic, I have lost count of the “I tried this” repairs.
Beautiful work as usual. Someone showed me how to “ball-size” loose-fitting tuner bushings by pushing a precision ball bearing through the bushing using a drill press as an arbor press and a dowel rod in the chuck to push the ball. It only opens the hole a few thousandths of an inch but it’s enough to make a secure press-fit in the hole. I’ve used the same few ball bearings for years.
I have the same table saw! She is 70 years old, precise miter, with a machinist quality, perfectly flat cast iron surface providing relentless performance. Thanks for posting your expertise!
That boy gots the blues in him and it’s got to git out !
I know. He is quite exquisite whenever he plays those things. I've been pushing for a music video ... 5 different guitars, 5 different genres
Mama, let that boy Boogy Woogy!
This is why your channel is the best, Ted. You don't guess at what you're doing and if you do, you're pretty sure about your techniques so it comes off the right way. Not as if you're questioning your decision, like some other channels on CZcams.
A woodworkers skill is directly proportional to his or her ability to make a mistake look like what they intended to do.
love the Lightin' Hopkins reference at the end. My favorite of his era.
This is the first time I have seen you really break it down into baby steps... You are good at it! I don't do kits, but rather I find wrecks to restore from pawn shops and yard sales. At first, this was little hard to watch for someone with 40 odd years of woodworking (not lutherie) experience, but I am glad I did. I learned a lot about spaulting and spindle sanding uses for a small shop. Best fun ever. Keep them coming
LOL.... My skills are in motor mechanics - I'm on the VERY beginning of learning anything I can about woodworking and luthier skills. I'd love to do some X-bracing and repairs so I bought a few 50's + 60's Harmony and Kays to start on. I love watching the luthier vids from Ted and others - it's just so supportive and inspiring.
Priceless closing graphic..."if it ain't broke, don't break it". You've outdone youself (which is saying something!...lol)
Thx for your continuing education of and contribution to the masses.
Everyone says it but it's true, you are so good at this. Not just your masterwork in the shop but in narrating repairs in a way that is both insightful and funny. You have the balance between education and humor down cold. Thanks as always Ted - a real treat.
Spot on. I'm on my 6th build in 45 yrs. In another 45yrs I might get quite good at it....
Blessings.Ta.
Love the visual analogue of the endgrain using straws.
You have a small area to work in but I learn more from you than anyone else on YT.
Hey, I was watching one of Adam Savage's Tested videos and during the episode he said that he watches your videos. I dont know if someone has told you that already, but anyway its pretty cool.
Which episode?
@@rogerjohnexperience I forget the the name of it. The video is about him getting a new wood working workbench and hes skyping with the maker of the bench and thanking him. The video came out within the last month.
I don't play guitar or any instrument for that matter but I subscribed to your channel because I am thrilled to see someone with your talent and skill plying your trade for us all to enjoy. There are not many left in this world of mechanically mass produced throw away goods. Thank you.
Amazing exposé on the basics of joinery and carpentry (my dear late father was a cabinet maker.) Sounds very familiar.
He could have bought another kit guitar neck for about 50 bucks, but it would not be what you created. Nice Job! Nice repair on that Gibson, I thought for a minute you were going to play part of the soundtrack from The Good, Bad and the Ugly.
That piece of spalted has some beautiful tiger striping even without any finish i could just barely catch it. Thats gonna look beautiful.
This headstock repair is the best I ever seen
2 videos in one week!
You're are spoiling of man!
Your description of woodworking; "finding an elegant way of joining end grain to end grain" was poignant and also hilarious.
Hi Ted. Just wanted to say how much I enjoy watching your channel. You've replaced watching TV for me. Thank you - I know how much work goes into making these videos.
I don't fix guitars but I learn a lot from your channel. Thanks.
You are amazingly tolerant of amateurs. Another great job by you.
I really appreciate your attention to detail, and even though you are among the most careful people I've seen, mistakes can and do happen. But you challenge me to greater meticulousness!
Japanese carpentry and joinery originated from Ancient Chinese woodworking and Architecture design about 1 millennium ago. In fact the characters used in the Japanese language are derived from ancient Chinese characters with their meaning altered.
The history of the Asian region is very rich and old
Wonderful, simple example of end grain using the straws sir !
Well spoken about your craft and knowledge. Spending time to give free advice and instructions to everyone asking would be nuts. CZcams is full of free tutorials, honestly people should use the time they ask from you to study it themselves. It's all here... Tutorial for everything.
Ted, love your videos & have learned alot about repairs.! I have been trying to rehab guitars & an occasional banjo for others less fortunate or looking for a used instrument. Love the Gibson lg-0 - I have a 1958 with everything original on it , but really don't want to screw it up doing the setup myself. Doesn't need a neck reset or anything major ,just a fret dressing & lower the saddle a little, which I have done some. Mine is a lot darker & has a non- adjustable bridge & a black pickguard. Payed 35 bucks in the mid 70's for it .! What a bargain, and one I wouldn't sell at all. ! Thanks for sharing your great Luther skills ,Ted !!
So as not to damage the original saddle, make a new one. Keep the original in an envelope, in the case.
If you screw up the remake, do it again and again and again.... until you get it right.
BTDT. It's not easy but Live and Learn.
Genius. Absolutely love your videos. I can honestly say that I'd rather watch these than most of the stuff TV. Great!
the blues at the end was great
LOVE videos like this one where you demonstrate how to fix a messup & go the extra mile for the client.
That end grain demonstration was fantastic. I’ve never really understood it all that well but that was super helpful
Even the stmac kits have there issues , thanks for the video!
Favorite CZcams channel by far. I learned at least 6 things from this video.
I really would love to see the finished guitar.
The headstock looked amazing after you were done with it.
I am not a luthier. I cannot even play the guitar. Yet I find your videos some of the most enjoyable viewing on the net. You show some guitar that has tragic and catastrophic damage. I have absolutely no idea where one would begin to attempt a repair. So then the rest of the video is like watching an old episode of Mission Impossible (the TV show, not the junk movies) In the TV show the goal of the MI team was to get in, do the mission and get out without leaving a trace that they had been there. You are like that, except with guitars. Your commentary is conversational, as if I was sitting on a stool watching you work. There are far too many "look at me!" blowhards an the net. They should take a lesson from you. Keep putting out great videos, eh!
I have watched every video in your library you are the smartest man I have ever seen . You know so much about guitars it is absolutely absolutely mind-blowin
There's a shop in the SF bay area called Keith Holland Guitars, they build their own guitars but they also personally assemble and fully set up Chinese kit guitars for prices comparable to Chinese made guitars.
Void has been filled with this channel. Thanks!
I am working on a kit guitar from the fretwire and I decided when I got it "I am going to make this thing into a metal machine" so I bought some Seymour Duncan mayhem distortions, CTS pots and all the good stuff, hipshot locking tuners (need to get a better bridge and tail piece and nut). This is my first time and it brought me into the world of luthiery. After been working on it for a while, I have gotten wood for a neck, and I am modding my squire strat and I am re radiusing the fretboard of that!
The spalted Maple looks gorgeous. What a save!
I’ve never found spalted maple to be pretty. I do like birdseye and flamed and roasted though.
One of the best bits of advice I got from my Grandfather.... " Know what you don't know.."
I have worked with wood all my life. I learned a lot from my father. I understand the materials, the plans, the equipment but my confidence level isn't high enough to go at it alone. I was just about ready to work with a local luthier who offers classes and guidance when covid hit. Now I am just waiting to see how the pandemic goes. I learned lute in college and ultimately that is what I want to build but I am going to start with an acoustic.
Very useful! I have a junker of an old 60s Japanese semi-acoustic 12-string that I'm restoring, and a previous owner hacked off the top of the head, presumably to alleviate neck dive. Some great tips there!
“I'm so fabulous, you guys can never do this, you suck, I fucking rock"
In EVERY video
wow that spalted headstock looks fantastic..
Excellent work with the spalted maple. I recently finished up a dovetail jewelry box made from spalted birch and walnut (my first time using spalted wood) and you are 100% right regarding the difficulty in achieving a good finish. I put about a dozen coats of lacquer on with a good amount of sanding every 3-4 coats and the damn thing still looks like the surface of the moon. Infuriating!
Thanks for yet another priceless lesson in how to do things the right way.
Perfect Saturday
Gotta love that line , if it ain't broke don't break it .
I love that light flame peeking through the spalted maple
Hello again,
Love your tutorials, very interesting, well spoken, your explanations to all of this is very easy to understand as well. So thank you, you mentioned auto mechanics as an analogy ( a good one I might add ) I happen to be an auto mechanic and have had situations just as you mentioned and I couldn't agree more. Sometimes it's just better turning a job down because you'll now have two problems to contend with. The original issue which is most probably still broken and now fixing whatever the putz just destroyed lol!
Love it....
4 hours on the headstock repair ................... WOW, you are super talented and super fast.
Great result on that headstock, and thanks for the tip on end grain joints!!
Hey, I have that same Homecraft saw/joiner, still works fine
Congratulations on 50,000 subscribers!!
This headstock is art. Super craftsmanship 🎶🎶🎶
Straws! I use that as an analogical description all the time.
Excellent video. Keep up the good work.
Sipiant Rot.. great band name.. (sorry for my spelling)
hi, "the wood turning me", the funny line from today's video, thank you very much indeed, for your master classes, from a humble, honest, PRO. take care.
Mark and Melvin Lindquist were the son and father who first brought attention to spalted woods.
Excellent vid once again, lull me back to sleep at 3 a.m. I felt my pulse drop further when you picked the strings. So smooth
I'm not going to stop requesting a music video because you always tease us waiting more - 5 guitars 5 genres. And I'm buying.
On the head stock "repair" the whole time i was looking at the tuner peg layout and wondering how that would work ??? Respectively the A and B pegs positions looked to close to the center line?
That Gibson is a stunner . Simple clean lines and in great condition . Loved the vid
Your vids are so pleasing to watch.
I work with wood because I’m a carpenter but it’s a much different animal.
Yet another great set of repairs. That acoustic had a great tone, nice playing as well. I really enjoy your videos I'm glad I discovered your channel from here in the UK.
Don’t forget TALENT as well as experience , some people are just REALLY good at the things that they do
You know the ones
They make it look so easy that people think it IS EASY when in fact its not
Those are the ones who become MASTERS and make beautiful things that endure
Learned a ton, as per usual. Really appreciate the time you take to make these, friend. Never miss an episode. ☺️👍🏻
Bonus content! Thank you kind sir! 👍🏼
This is so relaxing listening to your voice and it's wonderful to watch how much effort, knowledge and love you invest in such projects.
An most of the work you do is without high tech machinery just by the magic of your handy 👍
The work done on the kit guitar was amazing. Good job!
My two favorite isms- Aim small, miss small and Zeros count, especially when they come after a decimal point.
The best explanation of end grain gluing difficulty Hats Off Sir ! This spalted wood is beautiful The result is gorgeous; Is it possible to just Oil finish it ? I've seen some builders using this type of finish
I used to work at Dingwall guitars when I was a teenager and they always used stabilized spalted maple.
Nick Offerman references are always appreciated
Ted, the next time you repair a Gibson, I really wish you’d give Northwest Passage a vocal go. Your voice sounds like you could do it well. I mean, no one can do Stan, but you sound like you could get as close as anyone not named Rogers.
I can’t even imagine where this man’s skill level will be in ten years!
That was a very interesting and informative video. You did a lovely job with that headstock. Could one possibly push towards "normalization" of the spalted maple's hardness by soaking superglue into the top layer prior to sanding?
GluBoost is made for this!
I love your work and calm slower Canadian speech but I hate spalted Maple. Good explanation of how it forms. ( Terry from Oz).
If you could ever find a way to sing some Stan Rogers I would love to hear it, I know CZcams copyright can be rough. Was watching your videos for a while and I have been trying to put my finger on who your voice reminds me of.
The only solution I have found to working spalted or burled wood is to 'stabilise' it under vacuum, bake it and then get on with it.
Lovely work, as always
Aw, I really wanted to see that headstock finished!😉😘