Ted pays his respects to we Brits by pronouncing "de-solder".....lovely ! What astounds me is that he opines that he's not the best of luthiers.....how humble is this bloke ?
"Sodder...or soulder..." is something of a meme on this channel. I wouldn't be surprised if some viewers have incorporated it into their drinking games.
There are a lot of good luthiers out there. Some are not so good, but the good ones are out there. You don't need to ship your axe to Canada to get this quality of work done. Ted's awesome, but he's not alone. The others just don't make videos like this. I think Ted's gift is being an awesome luthier while also being very good at sharing how this kind of work is done. And he makes everyone who watches his videos feel good!😊
My father-in-law was a WWII vet and guitarist with a big band that played swing and jazz mostly from the '30s & '40s. He had an L-5 that was gorgeous. He played with that band until he was well into his 80s before he finally couldn't schlep the thing plus an amp around anymore and retired. IIRC I think he told me his was a '68. My wife seems to remember it being a '68 as well.
I find myself watching many of your repair videos over again. This is one of them. Such stellar work, such patience,such knowledge, such wonderful delivery of the experience. I’ve heard you say that you’re not found of praise. But you Sir are awesome…!!!
Watched you enough to say, "If I were and an Angel with a harp to repair... you'd be my guy!" Don't get a big head... you're cool. and I'm 70." But seriously Ted, amazing work and empathic decisions for the care of the L5. Dude!!! I actually pray for you. Consider that brother! Your are the right stuff to preserve he quality of Communion. That's a true believers post.
Ted, I can't thank you enough for these videos. I do a bit of my own guitar repair, and for friends, but I'm no luthier. Somehow, and I don't really know why, I find your videos incredibly relaxing. Your work is inspiring, your history informing and entertaining, and you voice soothing. I really look forward to and enjoy your videos. They are a positive contribution to my life. Thank you, really, thank you.
Hey hey ... I am no luthier but like to keep my guitars played and loved. Really like your tubes Ted.. I am a UK stressed complex needs teacher and one of your you tubes and a cup of good English tea before I set off to work really works!
I cannot get over the thrill of your craftmanship. pure eye candy. I would like to share some pictures of the restaurations I did myself. I am pretty fond of Stratocasters restaurations and embellishments. Is there a possibilty to share those with you?
I have an L-5CES ('68, as I recall) that's cosmetically worn out. I paid like $400 for it in the early 80s and it was 'the guitar immediately available' for a lot of years. It has a bunch of wear. I do not plan on having it repaired. It plays fine. It's just worn and flakey. I no longer play it often. It is more a testament to time.
The part you refer to is named the string spoiler, made by Vibramate. Just to clarify. Vibramate manufactures a range of Bigsby adapters allowing no drill installations.
I appreciate that you even put a video out with all of that going on - we do appreciate it with a watch and thumbs up. The guitar does look pretty sexy and sounds pretty good too. Great work Ted!
They don't make em like you anymore Ted ! I wish we had just 1 Luthier like you anywhere near me .Happy thanks giving to you and your family and thanks for showing us what and how you do what you do
Nice to see you putting it straight from the butcher that abused it before. I'm currently working on a Hondo L5 Fatboy which I know isn't a mark on a Gibson but I must say for a guitar that's nearly 40 years old it's pretty solid & well crafted. Great work Ted ❤
So seeing this, and having thought recent thoughts about archtops and hollowbodies, where are the Gretsches? Don't remember them ever coming up, and don't hear much about them anymore, but at one point in time they were, like, real cool weren't they? I used to fawn over them watching old recordings of 80's rockabilly revival stuff and they've been on my list of "some day, hopefully" guitars, but they seem all but lost to the discussion nowadays.
oh man... them staple p90's though, I do wonder if they will be on the Reverb? The L5's are skookum fo sho, not really my playing style but a very special guitar, If you get the chance Johan Segeborn pushes one through a full marshal stack... epic to say the least.
Nice guitar and repair. I'd suggest Flat Wound Strings for that real Jazz tone. I use D'Addario Chromes ECG25 (12-52) on my old ES-175, and they sound quite good. I tried Wound strings on it, and all the Jazzy tone went away, negating much of the reason for having a Jazz Archtop.
Don’t apologize for your playing, I love what you do to expose us to the sound. And truth be told wish I could play like you. I watch every video and love every minute of dialog and find myself nodding in agreement. Many thanks for sharing your time, knowledge, and work with us.
Thank You Ted! I had the same lacquer problem on a 1972 L-5 S! Cherry Sunburst, solid flamed Maple, and gold plated Low Impedance Pickups. I'm a Doyle Low impedance luthier (huge smile). With mostly LUCK I was able to match the cherry Red Sunburst over a cigarette burn in the upper bout, but the Lacquer was just weird, and wouldn't cure. 6 months later it was hard enough to polish, and looks great..from a galloping Horse. After the color tinting into a french Laquer Stew Mac Lacquer clear gloss and made the mistake of Not testing it on scrap first. I think that Gibson used a different formulation in their finishes. For me it was a very expensive mistake for not TESTING the Lacquer on scrap before spraying a rare $7K L-5 S with gold plated LP Low Impedance Pickups.
What a beautiful guitar and excellent repair work as always. I used your dental floss method to fish the pots, switch,and output jack in my 2 latest builds of the Gibson Birdland guitars. Needless to say it worked very nice, it was much easier than I thought it would be. I love these old Gibson Archtops, They are a lot of fun to play, and the tones are just fantastic.Thank you for sharing your talent and skills. Please keep them coming, I can hardly wait for the newest post every week, your channel is my favorite out of all of youtube land. Peace to you and all the viewers out there.
I can't begin to tell you Ted how much I've learned from you over the years. I appreciate your insight and knowledge as well as your technical sharing.
Ah, the things guitar owners get up to! Humbuckers without polepiece screws. Mmm, okay. 😸 I do hope the owner is happy. Fantastic work, as always. Thanks!
Excellent video Mr. Woodford! Much thanks for many pieces of your work. The main being the cutting of the pickguard. For I am putting together a StewMac mini-T kit and putting a blue mother of toilet material and mulling over the best way to cut it to shape, all that for a grandniece, with the guitar itself in pink. A beautiful job on the L5! Thanks so much!
Such a beautiful guitar Ted. Well done on another guitar rescue. I don’t understand how people can ruin something that valuable and butcher it with non original parts, especially the original tailpiece
I would suggest soliciting repairs on a Dimebag Darrell Explorer that you can blast through a Marshall stack at the construction crews next door, but they love that sort of thing and would be asking you to play it during their lunch breaks 💀
I love that guitar, but those black knobs are offensive. [ WTF?! ] OK...a bit of comments click baiting. Personally, I think that a set of gold top hat knobs with the silver inserts would look very classy, indeed. Those black ones are so...proletariat. The gold ones would better suit the upper class royalty of the guitar. Well, I'm being a bit facetious here, but that is one gorgeous instrument. The gold plating was sanded off because - drunkenness? Insanity? Ignorance? Possession of an evil paranormal entity? It kind of boggles the mind, doesn't it? I actually winced when I saw that scoured tailpiece. Horrors! Great video, as usual. I am now going back in time to see any of Ted's videos that I might have missed.
*MAJOR* sympathy on the destruction noise next door... I had to move 5 years ago, and from the day I moved into the place I moved into, there has been condestruction all around me. even the lock down didn't bring peace, because deconstruction was considered essential...
Admittedly, I’d be the guy doing this in reverse. I’d rather had it with the staple pickups lol. Btw is he selling them and the risers? I just swapped out the filtertron humbuckers out of one of my Gretsch guitars for TV Jones T90s and I love it now. Had to make custom risers and pretty do what you had to fix here lol.
Crazy guitar, I HAVE seen a Super 400 that had staples in both positions. That particular instrument sounded great but perhaps an anomaly. I have several in the shop. We put one in the bridge position on a Les Paul Deluxe that we switched to P90's and it just sounded strident. We put a regular P90 with the staple in the neck position where it generally belongs. I love your content by the way!
Wonderful restoration of a wonderful guitar. While the Staple pick bears a resemblance to a P90 it is a fundamentally different pickup as you found. Closer in sound and build to a Dynasonic.
I know they likely picked those Duncans for their sound, but if they'd just got the 'ear-less' versions they could have 'notched out' the corners of the 'bucker openings to fit them. Sure, you'd need to glue a couple of blocks to the back for the P-90s' mounting screws, but that's easy enough and then you don't even need spacers! 😁 You'd also want to hide the 'buckers' mounting holes to make it look nice, but a little doweling and some touch up lacquer would hide those pretty well, being so close to the pickups and also black. If they'd done that, swapping back to the PAFs would have been a simple 1 hour job (ten minutes of which would be waiting for the soldering iron to heat up, lol)!
Exquisite guitar, exquisite craftsmanship (of course...) but (not questioning the owner's choice) all in all I liked the P90's better....and black is my fave finish too. Thanks Ted!
I liked it the way it was. Staple P90s are so lovely and rare. It may have been bright for jazz, but it would have been a very classy country guitar. Nice work, but it's just like everything else now.
Ted, What can I say....that was incredible ! I'm not a Gibson guy because they make better furniture than guitars ! This one was so special...fixed by the right guy !!! I would love to see a Vintage Fender Mustang !
If guitars could choose their own luthier, they'd be queuing up for this guy
Oh behave 😂
I dearly wish I could hire him to refret my ‘55 Junior and my beloved ‘77 Les Paul Deluxe.
I would have him record every word in the current version thesaurus.
"The luthier you want and your guitar needs!" has a nice ring to it. Should look great on a business card lol.
Yea he’s really great
Every time you upload a new video my day gets a lot better
Ted pays his respects to we Brits by pronouncing "de-solder".....lovely ! What astounds me is that he opines that he's not the best of luthiers.....how humble is this bloke ?
"Sodder...or soulder..." is something of a meme on this channel. I wouldn't be surprised if some viewers have incorporated it into their drinking games.
@Street-shitter-2 Your story sounds apocryphal. Could you get your mate to chime in here and corroborate this claim?
There are a lot of good luthiers out there. Some are not so good, but the good ones are out there. You don't need to ship your axe to Canada to get this quality of work done. Ted's awesome, but he's not alone. The others just don't make videos like this. I think Ted's gift is being an awesome luthier while also being very good at sharing how this kind of work is done. And he makes everyone who watches his videos feel good!😊
My father-in-law was a WWII vet and guitarist with a big band that played swing and jazz mostly from the '30s & '40s. He had an L-5 that was gorgeous. He played with that band until he was well into his 80s before he finally couldn't schlep the thing plus an amp around anymore and retired. IIRC I think he told me his was a '68. My wife seems to remember it being a '68 as well.
Be a good boy and show initiative you might get it
@@stormengine3261 Hanging around family to get their stuff later
Ted always gives 110%. What a champ.
From Jazz to Rockabilly then back to Jazz again, that Instrument needs to be heard.
1:14 I always wondered why the '54- '57 Les Paul Customs didn't have a "staple" pickup in the bridge position...
I find myself watching many of your repair videos over again.
This is one of them.
Such stellar work, such patience,such knowledge, such wonderful delivery of the experience.
I’ve heard you say that you’re not found of praise.
But you Sir are awesome…!!!
Thanks for your nocturnal sacrifice to bring our weekly fix. 🙏
Love your work man! Inspiring to see a serious craftsman like yourself document your work. This guitar really deserved the PAF restoration.
Beautiful guitar, beautiful work! 👍🏼👍🏼
"The lacquer's getting harder"
"And Leon's getting laaaaarrrrrrrger!"
Airplane!
Classic movie that maybe only 2% of the world's population remembers now.
Absolutely rad work!
Watched you enough to say, "If I were and an Angel with a harp to repair... you'd be my guy!" Don't get a big head... you're cool. and I'm 70." But seriously Ted, amazing work and empathic decisions for the care of the L5. Dude!!! I actually pray for you. Consider that brother! Your are the right stuff to preserve he quality of Communion. That's a true believers post.
Ted, I can't thank you enough for these videos. I do a bit of my own guitar repair, and for friends, but I'm no luthier. Somehow, and I don't really know why, I find your videos incredibly relaxing. Your work is inspiring, your history informing and entertaining, and you voice soothing. I really look forward to and enjoy your videos. They are a positive contribution to my life. Thank you, really, thank you.
It's Ted.. 🙂
Hey hey ... I am no luthier but like to keep my guitars played and loved. Really like your tubes Ted.. I am a UK stressed complex needs teacher and one of your you tubes and a cup of good English tea before I set off to work really works!
I cannot get over the thrill of your craftmanship. pure eye candy. I would like to share some pictures of the restaurations I did myself. I am pretty fond of Stratocasters restaurations and embellishments. Is there a possibilty to share those with you?
I love P90s, but those PAFs really suit the guitar much better. Nice work.
It looks nice with gold pickups, and especially with the pickguard notched to fit around the pickup rings rather than over them.
Just fantastic! Thank you.
I have an L-5CES ('68, as I recall) that's cosmetically worn out. I paid like $400 for it in the early 80s and it was 'the guitar immediately available' for a lot of years. It has a bunch of wear.
I do not plan on having it repaired. It plays fine. It's just worn and flakey. I no longer play it often. It is more a testament to time.
The part you refer to is named the string spoiler, made by Vibramate. Just to clarify. Vibramate manufactures a range of Bigsby adapters allowing no drill installations.
I can watch these videos for hours. This is my Xanax. Sooooo calming and zen.
Beautiful guitar. I would have liked to see it stock. As always, great job. Thank you!
another successful surgery! excellent work on a magnificent guitar. very well done.
Excellent work Ted, you are the master!
That’s a beauty. Great video! Thanks.
I appreciate that you even put a video out with all of that going on - we do appreciate it with a watch and thumbs up. The guitar does look pretty sexy and sounds pretty good too. Great work Ted!
They don't make em like you anymore Ted ! I wish we had just 1 Luthier like you anywhere near me .Happy thanks giving to you and your family and thanks for showing us what and how you do what you do
I love the big boxes! My go-to electric is an Aria Pro II FA70 (L5CES clone). Had to wait a few days for my moment of Ted zen, but it was worth it!
I absolutely love your attention to detail.
She's a big, beautiful girl. You did a great job, as usual.
WooHoo!! Thanks for sharing Ted.
Thanks, Uncle Ted. Sounded worlds better after your work.
It sounds awesome thanks for sharing and Gods blessing to you and all your family
A work of art, and a beautiful guitar all rolled up in one instrument. You never cease to amaze.
Nice to see you putting it straight from the butcher that abused it before. I'm currently working on a Hondo L5 Fatboy which I know isn't a mark on a Gibson but I must say for a guitar that's nearly 40 years old it's pretty solid & well crafted. Great work Ted ❤
Well done young man. Well done indeed...
I love to watch fine craftmanship in real time.
So seeing this, and having thought recent thoughts about archtops and hollowbodies, where are the Gretsches? Don't remember them ever coming up, and don't hear much about them anymore, but at one point in time they were, like, real cool weren't they? I used to fawn over them watching old recordings of 80's rockabilly revival stuff and they've been on my list of "some day, hopefully" guitars, but they seem all but lost to the discussion nowadays.
As always, beautiful work.
Very nice to see a job done properly. Best wishes from England.
100% agree on the pick guard. That would drive me nuts. Beautiful work as always.
Love the Jazz improv at the end 👍.
oh man... them staple p90's though, I do wonder if they will be on the Reverb? The L5's are skookum fo sho, not really my playing style but a very special guitar, If you get the chance Johan Segeborn pushes one through a full marshal stack... epic to say the least.
Nice guitar and repair. I'd suggest Flat Wound Strings for that real Jazz tone. I use D'Addario Chromes ECG25 (12-52) on my old ES-175, and they sound quite good. I tried Wound strings on it, and all the Jazzy tone went away, negating much of the reason for having a Jazz Archtop.
I am excited to see you on Psionic Audio soon!! I can’t get enough of Lyle. It’s going to be fun.
Always so neat jobs and very inventive finding the right solution for every problem.
Beautiful!!!!
Don’t apologize for your playing, I love what you do to expose us to the sound. And truth be told wish I could play like you.
I watch every video and love every minute of dialog and find myself nodding in agreement.
Many thanks for sharing your time, knowledge, and work with us.
Beautiful guitar and amazing work!
Still thankful for the algorithm that matched with the channel which significantly drops my blood pressure. Thanks, Ted.
Thank You Ted! I had the same lacquer problem on a 1972 L-5 S! Cherry Sunburst, solid flamed Maple, and gold plated Low Impedance Pickups. I'm a Doyle Low impedance luthier (huge smile). With mostly LUCK I was able to match the cherry Red Sunburst over a cigarette burn in the upper bout, but the Lacquer was just weird, and wouldn't cure. 6 months later it was hard enough to polish, and looks great..from a galloping Horse. After the color tinting into a french Laquer Stew Mac Lacquer clear gloss and made the mistake of Not testing it on scrap first. I think that Gibson used a different formulation in their finishes. For me it was a very expensive mistake for not TESTING the Lacquer on scrap before spraying a rare $7K L-5 S with gold plated LP Low Impedance Pickups.
Going from wincing at the beginning of this video to absolute awe. Ted, you’re awesome
Been Jonesing for a wdfrd video. Thanks, Ted!
very cool. It looks great..thank you.
Sounds waaay better with the new pickups. And, as always, an amazing job.
Heracie! A collectors guitar in the hands of a player!
*Heresy ;)
😂 I'm neither religious nor an englisch speaker, always glad to learn!
@@adrianguggisberg3656 of course brother! Your spelling is cool too :)
👍🍀🎸
Even Ted is getting bored of just saying “polishing polishing polishing”. And I’m from Poland. You can always Polish.
What a beautiful guitar and excellent repair work as always. I used your dental floss method to fish the pots, switch,and output jack in my 2 latest builds of the Gibson Birdland guitars. Needless to say it worked very nice, it was much easier than I thought it would be. I love these old Gibson Archtops, They are a lot of fun to play, and the tones are just fantastic.Thank you for sharing your talent and skills. Please keep them coming, I can hardly wait for the newest post every week, your channel is my favorite out of all of youtube land. Peace to you and all the viewers out there.
Ted, your insanely brilliant. Beautiful.
Gorgeous guitar and work, kinda makes me wish you zoomed out so we can see it in all its glory all the way from headstock to Bigsby
I can't begin to tell you Ted how much I've learned from you over the years.
I appreciate your insight and knowledge as well as your technical sharing.
A beautiful repair job, to undo the sheer *butchery* that was inflicted on this guitar! NICE job, mate!
Ah, the things guitar owners get up to! Humbuckers without polepiece screws. Mmm, okay. 😸 I do hope the owner is happy.
Fantastic work, as always. Thanks!
The pole screws were on the underside of the pickups.
See 6:49
Beautiful guitar.
Early Thanksgiving treat🎉Happy Thanksgiving Twoodford
Excellent video Mr. Woodford! Much thanks for many pieces of your work. The main being the cutting of the pickguard. For I am putting together a StewMac mini-T kit and putting a blue mother of toilet material and mulling over the best way to cut it to shape, all that for a grandniece, with the guitar itself in pink. A beautiful job on the L5! Thanks so much!
Sounds like your grandniece's guitar is going to be a beauty.
Hope everything goes well. 😁✌🖖
Such a beautiful guitar Ted. Well done on another guitar rescue. I don’t understand how people can ruin something that valuable and butcher it with non original parts, especially the original tailpiece
Thanks for another enjoyable video, great to see a wonderful guitar getting a nice touch up like this!
I've never seen your 'tuning clamp' What a great gadget!
Gorgeous guitar... nice work ...as always.
Thanks for sharing
Love your work, like always. But this is the first one I've seen where I thought to myself, "I would have left it alone" IF I was the owner 😉
Insane skills. Thanks for sharing!
Man that is a lot of work to both repair the guitar and produce the video. Kudos for all the hard work to create this for us budding luthiers!
I would suggest soliciting repairs on a Dimebag Darrell Explorer that you can blast through a Marshall stack at the construction crews next door, but they love that sort of thing and would be asking you to play it during their lunch breaks 💀
You mean a Dimebag ML? :P
Sure, vash 🙄
I love that guitar, but those black knobs are offensive. [ WTF?! ] OK...a bit of comments click baiting.
Personally, I think that a set of gold top hat knobs with the silver inserts would look very classy, indeed.
Those black ones are so...proletariat. The gold ones would better suit the upper class royalty of the guitar.
Well, I'm being a bit facetious here, but that is one gorgeous instrument. The gold plating was sanded off because - drunkenness? Insanity? Ignorance? Possession of an evil paranormal entity?
It kind of boggles the mind, doesn't it? I actually winced when I saw that scoured tailpiece. Horrors!
Great video, as usual. I am now going back in time to see any of Ted's videos that I might have missed.
I love the stylized design at the end of the headstock!
*MAJOR* sympathy on the destruction noise next door...
I had to move 5 years ago, and from the day I moved into the place I moved into,
there has been condestruction all around me.
even the lock down didn't bring peace, because deconstruction was considered essential...
Gorgeous guitar. Wow! Great work as always!
love the work and the narrative, thank you Ted
Gorgeous! Such elegance! No wonder that is a flagship model! Thank you for getting through the neighbors remodel and making this happen!
Admittedly, I’d be the guy doing this in reverse. I’d rather had it with the staple pickups lol. Btw is he selling them and the risers? I just swapped out the filtertron humbuckers out of one of my Gretsch guitars for TV Jones T90s and I love it now. Had to make custom risers and pretty do what you had to fix here lol.
I have a T90 in my Epiphone Sheraton, they are exceptional pickups. They seem to be almost unheard of though.
@@MrDblStop yes I love them for sure. I’ve not seen too many
Crazy guitar, I HAVE seen a Super 400 that had staples in both positions.
That particular instrument sounded great but perhaps an anomaly. I have several in the shop. We put one in the bridge position on a Les Paul Deluxe that we switched to P90's and it just sounded strident.
We put a regular P90 with the staple in the neck position where it generally belongs.
I love your content by the way!
Wonderful restoration of a wonderful guitar. While the Staple pick bears a resemblance to a P90 it is a fundamentally different pickup as you found. Closer in sound and build to a Dynasonic.
Love the show man. Guitar lover and fellow Canadian, keep up the great work!!!
Couple of nice Lifeson chords towards the end there!
these are the ones that make it worth it
I know they likely picked those Duncans for their sound, but if they'd just got the 'ear-less' versions they could have 'notched out' the corners of the 'bucker openings to fit them. Sure, you'd need to glue a couple of blocks to the back for the P-90s' mounting screws, but that's easy enough and then you don't even need spacers! 😁 You'd also want to hide the 'buckers' mounting holes to make it look nice, but a little doweling and some touch up lacquer would hide those pretty well, being so close to the pickups and also black.
If they'd done that, swapping back to the PAFs would have been a simple 1 hour job (ten minutes of which would be waiting for the soldering iron to heat up, lol)!
Great job.
Happy Thanksgiving Friend...
The headless guitarist is back, I was starting to wonder where he had got to. Sounds gorgeous.
Awsome video thumbs up. I truly hope you & your family have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Exquisite guitar, exquisite craftsmanship (of course...) but (not questioning the owner's choice) all in all I liked the P90's better....and black is my fave finish too. Thanks Ted!
Happy early thanksgiving ted ive learned a lot from you over the past year im thankful to have you around! 😊
Thanksgiving in Canada is first or second Monday in October!
I liked it the way it was. Staple P90s are so lovely and rare. It may have been bright for jazz, but it would have been a very classy country guitar. Nice work, but it's just like everything else now.
Same. I don't know why people can't leave well enough alone.
@@eric_in_florida Did you two miss the first 30 seconds of the video?
That guitar was on the Toronto used market for a long time, I thought about buying it, but the modifications and the price changed my mind.
Thank you Ted for putting out these videos, we do appreciate the time and effort in making sure there's a weekly video. You truly are a treasure.
Much better now. Nice work as usual
My fender mustang rattled quite a bit when I first got it. A set of graphtec saddles tamed the issue.
The staple pup sound reminds me of an ES 135 i once had. I fell for the looks but the sound was so thin. It were P 100 s I sold it.
I’m a fan of that wide fb binding look with the outside strings practically on the edge.
Ted, What can I say....that was incredible ! I'm not a Gibson guy because they make better furniture than guitars ! This one was so special...fixed by the right guy !!! I would love to see a Vintage Fender Mustang !