I played a 1958 Guild T100 “slim Jim” for a lot of years. It confused a lot of people who knew these guitars because it had two matching pickups. I guess most were built with one. I bought it in a flea market in Springerville Az (near John Wayne’s ranch) back in the mid ‘80’s. It was in kinda rough shape, a blond finish with the lacquer flaking off and shrinking binding but it played pretty good and sounded nice. I finally let it go to a repair person who had bugged me about it for a long time. It was getting rougher and I knew he would do a good job of reviving it.
@@camilo1455 - No, I changed jobs and don’t work with Danny anymore. Last time I saw it was maybe 2010. I should try to get up with him sometime and see if he finished it.
I started watching this channel because I liked seeing beat up guitars getting fixed. I didn’t realize how much guitar history I was learning along the way. Really nice way to learn.
You can tell the difference between an alligator or crocodile clip, depending on if they’re gonna see you in a while or see you later. 😀 Those switches sometimes get flaky. Happened in my ‘73 Rickenbacker bass.
@@JohnKorvell, My father, who disapproved of my choice of smoking material, once referred to the hemostats on my workbench as "surgical roachclips". Back in the Seventies, some of us would wear a necklace with an alligator clip on it, or put the gator clip on our keychain. As for my dad, his choice of smoking material, although legal and used by millions, was a contributing factor to his early demise.
Raven Moon, you have reminded me of a Richard Thompson song: "crocodiles do it much better/ they're much more humane and forgiving/their victims are dead, in a minute it's said, while yours have to carry on living......"
To add to the Bluesbird story- In the late '70s I took in a repair from another store 3 states away a late '50s Bluesbird that somebody had removed the neck by sawing through the tenon, which was missing. I carved a new oversized one, glued and screwed it to the end of the neck and shaped it to fit the mortise. It was a crapshoot repair that worked because I left a note in the case with my contact info saying he should contact me if it ever failed, never heard from him. It was a full hollowbody, Les Paul size and shape and had a pair of De Armond Dynasonic pickups and sounded absolutely killer. Pretty sure Keith Richards played one like it in the early days.
There was a music store in Boulder Colorado that had one that looked identical to the one you are repairing in this video years ago. It was beautiful. I knew it was something special and wish I could have scrapped together the money to buy it. Thank you for showing us your fine work and bringing back some good memories!
Yeah, he's converted enough guitars I'm surprised he hasn't become a switch player. Although he is getting better at playing upside down so there's that.
I love Guilds - seems I have one or two all my life. Tragic American guitar maker story - kinda like a slow dying Epiphone. I feel your pain with people who leave no slack in the wire length. Great job.
I got all 4 wisdom teeth pulled a few days ago and all I can do is watch twdfoord videos!! I’m gonna milk this as long as I can and watch your whole series! Big fan of the electric guitar videos!
Oh I just loved this one. I have a 96' bird. It's a tobacco burst. I had to open mine up last night. The little screw that holds the pickup to the adjustment screws platform had come loose. luckily it was stuck magnetically to the bottom of the pickup. Anyway, I am able to see at 16:15 how it should be installed. I actually managed to put it back the wrong way. Thanks for the video. I would have never known otherwise. Bluesbird's are wonderful, well made guitars. I can believe they were completed in the Custom shop.
I prefer acoustic guitars repair more to be honest. But broken Gibson heastocks are my favorit twoodford content! Probably because they always look broken beyond reapairable, but Ted manage to save the day, and you cant even tell it was ever broken after he is done ;)
Anyone else over here from the John Michael Godier Sleep Club? Love both these channels! During the day I’m awake and watching, but right before bed, I might make it through two episodes and then it’s lights out. Polishing, Polishing, Polishing, zzzzzz. ❤
Man! Gorgeous Lyon and Healy replacement bridge. Good on ya. You must have one very prolific left handed patron or attract an improbable number of lefties.
The way you create very subtle opposing forces and tensions with organic materials is, to me a wondrous thing, like building a road bridge out of asparagus.
My 2014 made in Korea Gretsch 5420T had that same switch in it. It was one of only 2 weak points in the 5420. I replaced it with a Switchcraft 3 way switch. The other weak point was massive treble rolloff with any volume level below full output. I put a Fender-style treble bleed on the master volume, and a 1 nF capacitor between input and output on the other 2 volume controls. Now it is a reliable guitar that works great at all volume levels.
I highly recommend buying some actual aluminium heatsink clips. I have a couple that I've filed down for tight spaces. I use it on the braid of shielded wire like this to avoid the exact situation you discovered. Also Ted, an Edsyn Soldapullt will be a very good addition to your electronics tools. And finally, seriously, try using blue tack to hold parts and wires as you solder them. I have been working with point to point wiring for decades, and still use it daily.
Finally had a chance to check this one out. Wonderful review and repair of the newer Bluesbird issue. Thanks! I've got a 1973 (yes, they did make some through 1973) in natural mahogany finish. The neck is still great, and while the body is larger than a Les Paul, the neck is slimmer than Gibson, which is good for my hands. It's been a real workhorse for me.
Not to pile onto the multimeter comments. But a 1/4 inch plug with a pair of wires you can connect to a meter is a killer quick and dirty way to diagnose stuff like this. Perfect for telling if you have a grounding short or an open
I had the opportunity to to pick 1 of 2 Guild Bluesbird guitars at the Guid Factory in Westerly, Rhode Island. I had a tour of the factory and it was so enjoyable. So sorry I sold that guitar.
It's your channel. You can do whatever you want on it. You can't please everyone. They'll always find something to bitch about lol. You do phenomenal work, by the way!
That Bluesbird wiring was a little bit maddening to watch. 😂 As nice as the idea of preserving all the original wiring is, sometimes it's worth fully remodeling for the sake of making it *actually better* (subjective of course, but IMO "functional" IS better). Fun and informative watch, keep up the great work.
How about the fact that the guy murdered it with the soldering iron, then left it all there. Then tried to make it look all nice with all that nonsense. Why not just fix the burns? It makes no sense that they'd spend that, time on the harness but not to fix their mistakes.
Nice bridge on the parlor. About your comment on the type of saddle insert: the drop-in saddle is - you would have found out by now - actually historically accurate on Lyon&Healys/Washburns of this vintage (not the slanted position, of course).
@@goodun2974 Nothing's 'unallowable', it's just that the pronunciation in England never uses the French silent L variant that ended up in the US. The OED is kinda throwing you guys a bone here and it's always listed as the final option ;)
@@Blitterbug , perhaps you'd prefer the term "valid"? Both pronunciations are valid, says the OED. Didn't that dictionary compilation have its genesis in England? Anyway, perhaps here in the States we are closer to France historically because France both played a part in our Revolutionary War against England and contributed some of the concepts that ended up in our Constitution. Regardless, it's "sodder" to us! Words tend to become simplified in pronunciation, if not necessary in spelling, over decades and centuries. English people spell favour, flavour, colour, behaviour, and humour with a u, and we don't; they also spell and pronounce aluminium as a 5 syllable word, and we say it in 4 syllables. Vive la difference'! Wouldn't it be a drag if we were all the same?
@@goodun2974 I've only the compact version of the OED and indeed it is 100% of English origin, unless they now do a US version? Sadly the real deal online is paywalled. Of course it's a valid pronunciation - for the US. But you may not be aware that literally no-one in England (or Wales, N.Ireland & Scotland) uses the French-derived version. All other UK dictionaries I can find list your version of the word 2nd, with the word US in brackets. Anyhow I am only having a bit of fun here, After all.
@@Blitterbug , the Aussies also usually pronounce the L in solder. Of course, there are British word pronunciations with silent letters, subtle being a good example; I've never heard it pronounced sub-tul, not by anyone from anywhere!
I've got a 99' in a cherry burst like this with an absolutely killer top. The pickups are insane. Its my fave guitar lately... theyre far better ma d e than what they're inspired by.
I got a chance to test drive a couple of those 1999's - early 2000's Guild Bluesbirds and I still occasionally find myself wanting one. The prices on the used market and a bit on the dear side, but still cheaper than a Gibson Les Paul of approximate vintage and definitely easier on the shoulder as well. Another fine video Ted, thanks!
as a aviation electronics (avionics) guy, your "mil-spec" comment cut deeply :) however i quite see your point. i will keep future guitar techs in mind going forward.
Thank you. Most of all work done in electronics is deducted reasoning and made to drive techs to madness and drugs to forget the last job that kept you from going home to eat dinner, play with kids, (if you have them) or your wife, (if you have one of them also) or doing drugs followed by more of those things or the gun for one of those days you never thought this can't be happening to me! Day's
Great job Ted! Not telling you how to suck eggs, I hope, but you could use an audio probe plugged into an amp, which is a guitar lead with an end snipped off, the earth wire clipped to the ground on the guitar, and the hot wire connected to a pointy probe thingy. Then you touch the points in order to see where the break is. You can also use continuity mode on your multimeter to test if the switch works. Having the component in the circuit muddies things slightly, but it can help.
gotta love when ppl solder pickups with almost 0 slack on the wires and then CABLE TIE them... I had a local luthier do that on one of my guitar and when I sent it to him I even said I was thinkig about swapping the bridge pick up so it'd be great if he could cater for that.... he didn't in conclusion....
One can track down a wiring short to a pot or switch on a guitar quickly if aware of wiring style by touching hot side of circuit starting from output jack BACKWARDS thru pots, then to switch, etc. and listen at noise through the amp. Loud buzz if + side has continuity and no sound at or past short point. Used this trick to speedily locate shorts without unneeded removal to test with VOM or continuity test or ohms test.
I own the same guitar...even finish. The toggle switch had problems from new. I was going to replace toggle switch, but the thickness of the GUILD won't accept standard as it is too thick. I think I finally just cleaned, added some tension to the contacts and it's mostly ok today. The switch, itself, is the most likely problem, and was in my case.
Yeaaaa, ive been Mister Mil Spec on car wiring projects and then had to try to undo it later. If youre going to go that route you need to be really sure youre never going to have to undo it, cause it aint coming apart.
I’ve owned a bunch of different 90’s Guilds (Bluesbird, too) except for the ‘11 D55 I own now. Every bit as good with consistent quality of any of the US made guitars
I knew someone had been into that switch during the intro. The washer was so crooked on the front side it was driving me nuts. Then the outro I see that it's crooked the other way. Hahahaha... I think I'm ocd.
It’s usually the switch. Always on an epi or Gibson. I haven’t seen what the outcome is yet. Interested….. The contacts normally corrode or need bending slightly. Bit of 1500 grit wet and dry on contacts then cleaner fixes it. All the guitars I’ve had have had this issue once in there life. Loving the video
@@pallecla I feel this one time he might of over thinked the problem. I would say tho we don’t see many electrics in his videos so maybe its a new problem for Ted. Man is still amazing at his job all being said
Hey Tim! You could probably trace out problems like this with a test lead and save changing out as many parts - if you solder (your choice of pronunciation) a couple feet of wire to a 1/4” jack with a clip lead for ground and a bare end or meter probe, you can plug that into an amp and use it to see where you get signal and where you don’t before disassembling anything. Love the videos, educational dry humor is my jam.
@@GertvanderDoes Yeah, that works for continuity checks but for me it's easier/faster to do initial diagnosis by ear and probe. It also gives you different information.
@@theonetruestickman true. But in this case it would have saved replacing a pot, fast. Love these videos. TWoodford, Rosa guitar works and Ben Crowe have spent me loads of time.
Just a suggestion, if you're replacing wires in a narrow cavity, there's no need to use a cable tie, solder the replacement wire to the end of the old wire and pull the new wire through as you pull the old wire out, cutting off an inch of wire afterwards is a lot less frustrating!
Or pull a thin string through the channel when you pull out the old wire; waxed, or Teflon, dental floss works well as a pullstring for small wires. In the telecommunications industry we used to use a thin waxed cotton twine for this sort of thing, and it was surprisingly strong.
*Translation; it is very expensive and the owner does not want to be the one that touched it. You give them documentation! It looks like a hidden ferrite to eliminate any potential DC in the output. *When I was 17 and had just started playing, I was afraid to adjust the clawed spring bracket, was ready to pay for it to be adjusted after I failed, and the older technician suggested I try again.* That guitar body was made of construction plywood! lol It doesn't need papers, it was my psychotic ultra famous ex-gf's guitar first.
“ well that’s interesting” is always an oh boy for me!
“Alligator, or crocodile clip depending on the hemisphere” absolutely killed me, your dry humor is the best
Dry humour but no dry solder joints.
And then there's Florida, which has *both* crocodiles and alligators. The crocodiles are rare and endangered, while the gators are common.
In Brazil the alligator is called a "jacare" which sounds even more exotic.
Or a roach clip, depending on the side of the tracks.
@@gatoenfuego8734 different
I love opening CZcams and a new video from Ted being the first suggestion!
That's a good looking top on that Bluesbird 👌
"Gargantuan proportions" I always think of Leslie West.
Thank you, Ted 👍🏻 Your videos help me understand my guitars!
I played a 1958 Guild T100 “slim Jim” for a lot of years. It confused a lot of people who knew these guitars because it had two matching pickups. I guess most were built with one. I bought it in a flea market in Springerville Az (near John Wayne’s ranch) back in the mid ‘80’s. It was in kinda rough shape, a blond finish with the lacquer flaking off and shrinking binding but it played pretty good and sounded nice. I finally let it go to a repair person who had bugged me about it for a long time. It was getting rougher and I knew he would do a good job of reviving it.
Have you seen it lately? Or since?
@@camilo1455 - No, I changed jobs and don’t work with Danny anymore. Last time I saw it was maybe 2010. I should try to get up with him sometime and see if he finished it.
I own a 1959 T-100. Single pickup. It's fantastic.
I started watching this channel because I liked seeing beat up guitars getting fixed. I didn’t realize how much guitar history I was learning along the way. Really nice way to learn.
You can tell the difference between an alligator or crocodile clip, depending on if they’re gonna see you in a while or see you later. 😀
Those switches sometimes get flaky. Happened in my ‘73 Rickenbacker bass.
The first repair on every guitar seems to be the jack and the switch.
Back in the late 60s, we called em roach clips. But I digress........
@@JohnKorvell, My father, who disapproved of my choice of smoking material, once referred to the hemostats on my workbench as "surgical roachclips". Back in the Seventies, some of us would wear a necklace with an alligator clip on it, or put the gator clip on our keychain. As for my dad, his choice of smoking material, although legal and used by millions, was a contributing factor to his early demise.
Raven Moon, you have reminded me of a Richard Thompson song: "crocodiles do it much better/ they're much more humane and forgiving/their victims are dead, in a minute it's said, while yours have to carry on living......"
I often just listen to you while working on amps for customers then go back and watch again.
2 interesting repairs. Thanks Ted. Kudos on being able to to play the lefty acoustic righty.
beeping continuity tester on a multimeter is your friend....give it a whirl.
To add to the Bluesbird story- In the late '70s I took in a repair from another store 3 states away a late '50s Bluesbird that somebody had removed the neck by sawing through the tenon, which was missing. I carved a new oversized one, glued and screwed it to the end of the neck and shaped it to fit the mortise. It was a crapshoot repair that worked because I left a note in the case with my contact info saying he should contact me if it ever failed, never heard from him. It was a full hollowbody, Les Paul size and shape and had a pair of De Armond Dynasonic pickups and sounded absolutely killer. Pretty sure Keith Richards played one like it in the early days.
I had A Bluesbird just like this one. Built in Westerly, RI.
Really nice guitar.
There was a music store in Boulder Colorado that had one that looked identical to the one you are repairing in this video years ago. It was beautiful. I knew it was something special and wish I could have scrapped together the money to buy it. Thank you for showing us your fine work and bringing back some good memories!
Man, how many guitars has that left handed player had repaired by you? What a customer!
Heh.
Yeah, he's converted enough guitars I'm surprised he hasn't become a switch player. Although he is getting better at playing upside down so there's that.
I love Guilds - seems I have one or two all my life. Tragic American guitar maker story - kinda like a slow dying Epiphone. I feel your pain with people who leave no slack in the wire length. Great job.
Bluesbirds are incredible guitars
I had one just like that.
I sold in when i was "downsized."
I got all 4 wisdom teeth pulled a few days ago and all I can do is watch twdfoord videos!! I’m gonna milk this as long as I can and watch your whole series! Big fan of the electric guitar videos!
Fantastic job ted.. very nice guitar too, It was very well made by the look of it...
Oh I just loved this one. I have a 96' bird. It's a tobacco burst. I had to open mine up last night. The little screw that holds the pickup to the adjustment screws platform had come loose. luckily it was stuck magnetically to the bottom of the pickup. Anyway, I am able to see at 16:15 how it should be installed. I actually managed to put it back the wrong way. Thanks for the video. I would have never known otherwise.
Bluesbird's are wonderful, well made guitars. I can believe they were completed in the Custom shop.
Electric guitar videos are my favorite ones!
I prefer acoustic guitars repair more to be honest. But broken Gibson heastocks are my favorit twoodford content! Probably because they always look broken beyond reapairable, but Ted manage to save the day, and you cant even tell it was ever broken after he is done ;)
Me too man! Acoustic guitars are amazing but electric guitars are just so cool the way they are designed and the history. Very magical
Teddy, having seen this picky repair I am convinced you can cure anything. I have this pain in my shoulders . . . 😅
Anyone else over here from the John Michael Godier Sleep Club? Love both these channels!
During the day I’m awake and watching, but right before bed, I might make it through two episodes and then it’s lights out.
Polishing, Polishing, Polishing, zzzzzz. ❤
Highlight of the week!
Man! Gorgeous Lyon and Healy replacement bridge. Good on ya. You must have one very prolific left handed patron or attract an improbable number of lefties.
Great to see some more in he moment shots, love to see those raw reactions!
I own 2 of these from 1997. Westerly made. Lovely guitars
That right there is why I NEVER use steel wool on my guitars. NEVER.
Buddy Guy had one of those that was fitted with EMGs of all things although his was a Nightingale model which had F holes
Pretty and functional. We like that.
I always pick up a tip (or two) in your videos- Thank you!
Thanks. Perfect end to my Sunday scrolling. 👍🌟🙏💚🎸
The way you create very subtle opposing forces and tensions with organic materials is, to me a wondrous thing, like building a road bridge out of asparagus.
My 2014 made in Korea Gretsch 5420T had that same switch in it. It was one of only 2 weak points in the 5420. I replaced it with a Switchcraft 3 way switch. The other weak point was massive treble rolloff with any volume level below full output. I put a Fender-style treble bleed on the master volume, and a 1 nF capacitor between input and output on the other 2 volume controls. Now it is a reliable guitar that works great at all volume levels.
Thank you dearly for finishing the Lyon & Healy. It made me squealy. Too.
Loved the wiring Ted functional always works
I have been waiting for a guild electric video! I have a 70’s S100 that has the same issue with the serial number. Love it!
I highly recommend buying some actual aluminium heatsink clips. I have a couple that I've filed down for tight spaces. I use it on the braid of shielded wire like this to avoid the exact situation you discovered. Also Ted, an Edsyn Soldapullt will be a very good addition to your electronics tools. And finally, seriously, try using blue tack to hold parts and wires as you solder them. I have been working with point to point wiring for decades, and still use it daily.
Yep, I noticed the wire moving while the solder was cooling, a sure way to get a cold solder joint.
doggone beautiful
So good to see you using a heat gun on the heartshrink...it grinds my gears seeing people using a soldering iron or worse, a lighter.
Finally had a chance to check this one out. Wonderful review and repair of the newer Bluesbird issue. Thanks!
I've got a 1973 (yes, they did make some through 1973) in natural mahogany finish. The neck is still great, and while the body is larger than a Les Paul, the neck is slimmer than Gibson, which is good for my hands. It's been a real workhorse for me.
Love your work, Ted.
Splendid stuff 👌
Another great video, and the follow-up to completion is a must!!!
Not to pile onto the multimeter comments. But a 1/4 inch plug with a pair of wires you can connect to a meter is a killer quick and dirty way to diagnose stuff like this. Perfect for telling if you have a grounding short or an open
💐🥇🏆
Great video as always
Another great video Ted!
I had the opportunity to to pick 1 of 2 Guild Bluesbird guitars at the Guid Factory in Westerly, Rhode Island. I had a tour of the factory and it was so enjoyable. So sorry I sold that guitar.
It's your channel. You can do whatever you want on it. You can't please everyone. They'll always find something to bitch about lol. You do phenomenal work, by the way!
Wow! You fixed it ! Yay….electronics are a mystery to me….oooooooOOOOOOOoooo
Pretty good job playing upside down Ted😊
Great job 👏
Excellent Left hand playing! Good job. thanks for the video.
I owned one of these guitars back in the 90s. Nice guitar for sure :-)
Nice jobs on both of those sir. Beautiful looking and sounding electric guitar as well.
That Bluesbird wiring was a little bit maddening to watch. 😂 As nice as the idea of preserving all the original wiring is, sometimes it's worth fully remodeling for the sake of making it *actually better* (subjective of course, but IMO "functional" IS better). Fun and informative watch, keep up the great work.
How about the fact that the guy murdered it with the soldering iron, then left it all there. Then tried to make it look all nice with all that nonsense. Why not just fix the burns? It makes no sense that they'd spend that, time on the harness but not to fix their mistakes.
Nice bridge on the parlor. About your comment on the type of saddle insert: the drop-in saddle is - you would have found out by now - actually historically accurate on Lyon&Healys/Washburns of this vintage (not the slanted position, of course).
Love old Guilds/Better than new lovely parlor guitar!
Wow. Nice work.
Aha I love this channel
Especially electric guitar videos
Thats a really nice guitar. I love natural flamed maple with pronounced grain lines.
Mmmm.... I want one of those Guilds!
Thanks for finishing the bridge and video.. :)
Sweet & Neat!!!
I have 2 1974 black m-75 bluesbirds which is my favorite guitar of all time... it looks like you missed those in this video...
I have one identical to this. A 1997 model. I love it.
I never think of it as a Les Paul. It’s so different from my (5) Les Pauls.
5? 😳
that electronics job was beautiful
Nice Bridge 👍🏼
My guy busted out a System of the Down sounding lick on that old Washburn.
Ted makes me happy every time he says the Latin (English) 'solder'. Go Canada! Edit: And then he said crocodile clip! Top man.
According to the Oxford English dictionary, both sodder and soul-der are allowable pronunciations. ["Valid" would be a better term].
@@goodun2974 Nothing's 'unallowable', it's just that the pronunciation in England never uses the French silent L variant that ended up in the US. The OED is kinda throwing you guys a bone here and it's always listed as the final option ;)
@@Blitterbug , perhaps you'd prefer the term "valid"? Both pronunciations are valid, says the OED. Didn't that dictionary compilation have its genesis in England? Anyway, perhaps here in the States we are closer to France historically because France both played a part in our Revolutionary War against England and contributed some of the concepts that ended up in our Constitution. Regardless, it's "sodder" to us! Words tend to become simplified in pronunciation, if not necessary in spelling, over decades and centuries. English people spell favour, flavour, colour, behaviour, and humour with a u, and we don't; they also spell and pronounce aluminium as a 5 syllable word, and we say it in 4 syllables. Vive la difference'! Wouldn't it be a drag if we were all the same?
@@goodun2974 I've only the compact version of the OED and indeed it is 100% of English origin, unless they now do a US version? Sadly the real deal online is paywalled. Of course it's a valid pronunciation - for the US. But you may not be aware that literally no-one in England (or Wales, N.Ireland & Scotland) uses the French-derived version. All other UK dictionaries I can find list your version of the word 2nd, with the word US in brackets. Anyhow I am only having a bit of fun here, After all.
@@Blitterbug , the Aussies also usually pronounce the L in solder. Of course, there are British word pronunciations with silent letters, subtle being a good example; I've never heard it pronounced sub-tul, not by anyone from anywhere!
I've got a 99' in a cherry burst like this with an absolutely killer top. The pickups are insane. Its my fave guitar lately... theyre far better ma d e than what they're inspired by.
I got a chance to test drive a couple of those 1999's - early 2000's Guild Bluesbirds and I still occasionally find myself wanting one. The prices on the used market and a bit on the dear side, but still cheaper than a Gibson Les Paul of approximate vintage and definitely easier on the shoulder as well. Another fine video Ted, thanks!
Thanks from Lebanon :)
as a aviation electronics (avionics) guy, your "mil-spec" comment cut deeply :) however i quite see your point. i will keep future guitar techs in mind going forward.
Thank you. Most of all work done in electronics is deducted reasoning and made to drive techs to madness and drugs to forget the last job that kept you from going home to eat dinner, play with kids, (if you have them) or your wife, (if you have one of them also) or doing drugs followed by more of those things or the gun for one of those days you never thought this can't be happening to me! Day's
Great job Ted! Not telling you how to suck eggs, I hope, but you could use an audio probe plugged into an amp, which is a guitar lead with an end snipped off, the earth wire clipped to the ground on the guitar, and the hot wire connected to a pointy probe thingy. Then you touch the points in order to see where the break is.
You can also use continuity mode on your multimeter to test if the switch works. Having the component in the circuit muddies things slightly, but it can help.
love me a pure tone jack, all my guitars get that upgrade
Very nice work
gotta love when ppl solder pickups with almost 0 slack on the wires and then CABLE TIE them... I had a local luthier do that on one of my guitar and when I sent it to him I even said I was thinkig about swapping the bridge pick up so it'd be great if he could cater for that.... he didn't in conclusion....
Nice lick at the end!
One can track down a wiring short to a pot or switch on a guitar quickly if aware of wiring style by touching hot side of circuit starting from output jack BACKWARDS thru pots, then to switch, etc. and listen at noise through the amp. Loud buzz if + side has continuity and no sound at or past short point. Used this trick to speedily locate shorts without unneeded removal to test with VOM or continuity test or ohms test.
I own the same guitar...even finish. The toggle switch had problems from new.
I was going to replace toggle switch, but the thickness of the GUILD won't accept standard as it is too thick. I think I finally just cleaned, added some tension to the contacts and it's mostly ok today. The switch, itself, is the most likely problem, and was in my case.
Yeaaaa, ive been Mister Mil Spec on car wiring projects and then had to try to undo it later. If youre going to go that route you need to be really sure youre never going to have to undo it, cause it aint coming apart.
I’ve owned a bunch of different 90’s Guilds (Bluesbird, too) except for the ‘11 D55 I own now.
Every bit as good with consistent quality of any of the US made guitars
Thanks for taking the time Ted.
I knew someone had been into that switch during the intro. The washer was so crooked on the front side it was driving me nuts. Then the outro I see that it's crooked the other way. Hahahaha... I think I'm ocd.
It’s usually the switch. Always on an epi or Gibson. I haven’t seen what the outcome is yet. Interested…..
The contacts normally corrode or need bending slightly. Bit of 1500 grit wet and dry on contacts then cleaner fixes it. All the guitars I’ve had have had this issue once in there life.
Loving the video
Having worked on guitars for more than 25 years, I can say that a problem like this is 99% of the time, the switch.
@@pallecla I feel this one time he might of over thinked the problem. I would say tho we don’t see many electrics in his videos so maybe its a new problem for Ted. Man is still amazing at his job all being said
@@paulbateman81 Yup
Thumbs up for the lefty demo.
“Oh, that’s interesting...”. Suddenly hundreds of luthiery nerds are on the edge of their seats.....
BTW Ted, just an FYI, I had to resubscribe as CZcams unsubscribed me at some point.
Another mystery is solved. Stay safe, and we'll see you next week.
When wiring looks so painful to rework, it might be worth to check with a multimeter first both the wires and the switch for open and shorts.
Hey Tim! You could probably trace out problems like this with a test lead and save changing out as many parts - if you solder (your choice of pronunciation) a couple feet of wire to a 1/4” jack with a clip lead for ground and a bare end or meter probe, you can plug that into an amp and use it to see where you get signal and where you don’t before disassembling anything.
Love the videos, educational dry humor is my jam.
Or a multimeter.
@@GertvanderDoes Yeah, that works for continuity checks but for me it's easier/faster to do initial diagnosis by ear and probe. It also gives you different information.
@@theonetruestickman true. But in this case it would have saved replacing a pot, fast. Love these videos. TWoodford, Rosa guitar works and Ben Crowe have spent me loads of time.
Just a suggestion, if you're replacing wires in a narrow cavity, there's no need to use a cable tie, solder the replacement wire to the end of the old wire and pull the new wire through as you pull the old wire out, cutting off an inch of wire afterwards is a lot less frustrating!
Or pull a thin string through the channel when you pull out the old wire; waxed, or Teflon, dental floss works well as a pullstring for small wires. In the telecommunications industry we used to use a thin waxed cotton twine for this sort of thing, and it was surprisingly strong.
Ted posted... time to head back to the salt mine.... : )
Guild make great underrated guitars.I own two
*Translation; it is very expensive and the owner does not want to be the one that touched it. You give them documentation!
It looks like a hidden ferrite to eliminate any potential DC in the output.
*When I was 17 and had just started playing, I was afraid to adjust the clawed spring bracket, was ready to pay for it to be adjusted after I failed, and the older technician suggested I try again.* That guitar body was made of construction plywood! lol
It doesn't need papers, it was my psychotic ultra famous ex-gf's guitar first.
Mmmm, prices of USA made Guild Bluebirds just went up.