I think one of the reasons the funny stuff/skits work is that they don't feel shoehorned in, so I'd rather see something like this, especially given the unorthodox nature of these guitars, where you solve some nerve-wracking issues without feeling like you have to funny it up or else. That said, I'd be bummed if you dropped the hilarious/weird/stoney stuff altogether. Anyway, we got some footage of the pup and some stunning skyscape b-roll, so I say it's all good.
Liked the video, do what you like to do man. Being who you are in the moment is the one of the reasons I enjoy watching (I also learn a few things too). I found a cheap Oahu acoustic slide guitar I am thinking about trying out a Spanish Conversion on. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
I've just got out from over a week in the hospital, and watching this video was the perfect way to follow along to, and let myself recover from a great deal of getting poked with needles, and getting scanned by many ominous looking machines.
I like the memes, but I still loved this video. I think the important part is to not force it, if silliness doesn't come out, it doesn't, and other times, silliness abound. Just like life and guitar repair.
I like whatever you end up presenting. I think the important thing is that when you are your authentic self, grumpy or silly, we can relate. Follow your weird ol’ heart. The mental health stuff is great. Thanks for sharing.
You make some absolutely excellent videos. There's nothing else like it on youtube. The closest I can think is tim sway. I absolutely love seeing all the new projects you come up with and I am strapped in for the ride.
Keep up the funny stuff - & more dog!! I really enjoy your laid back style - taking us for walks in the woods and down to the beach. I don't get out much these days (you neither want nor need details!) so living vicariously through others really helps. Oh yes and the guitar stuff is ok too!! LOL!
Joining the chorus of do what you want to do in the videos you want to make. Keep it fun for you and do what you can to avoid burnout. In this video, I liked the trial an error, and seeing a bit of your frustration. I had no idea that there was a relationship between light bracing and the stability of tuning and action.
Great job, sir. Even though these instruments are very imperfect (which is a given, since they started life as stepping stones on somebody's hopefully successful path), you still treated them with the respect they may not fully deserve.
I like the spectrum of potential guitar content. And for some reason I seem to like the woes of canadian not-a-luthierie, since I watch both you and Dave’s World of Fun Stuff. He doesn’t skit, but that’s ok. Glad the guitars were not Gooched, as it were. Cheers!
"No funny skits"? I thought you were doing a spot-on Tom Woodford impression throughout! You even nailed the whole "being Canadian" thing he's got going on. Not everybody can do that! ❤
Ted! (Or "Uncle Ted" as he often calls himself) But otherwise I totally agree! I only started coming here on Ted's recommendation and can't stay away now!!
We watch because you’re a fun and talented guy Levon, we’re here for your sense of humour and approach! I’d watch some stuffy Stewmac tutorial if I need to buckle down and learn some stuff. Keep on expressing yourself any way you want.
Love your videos; entertaining and informative with plenty of struggle then redemption. I like the "ging" (whatever that means) as much as the repair and the B-roll adds a nice location aesthetic.
Extremely good topic told from experience well done, I've seen everything from P/L-400 flooring glue to Brad nails ! sometimes it turns into a "Historical revival" again great work !
@@Notaluthier yep I gathered that, I just thought you could put a small saddle over the brace and glue the brace and the saddle to the sound board, the saddle providing extra support and gluing surface.
It does not matter. Skits or not, I am here for whatever contents. As for the "subjects". I am a physician in practice for 39/40 years. Imagine how I feel (or felt) with patients like yours... Today I had one thankfully very coperative, but after more than 300,000 patients, I think I've had enough. I am 65 and it is time to retire, counting on social security. Cheers and Peace.
I agree with the others in saying whatever you want to do is fine. Your sense of humor comes through even if you're not doing comedy... And that sense is good enough that when you do comedy, it's not cringe-inducing. 😉So all NaL content is good NaL content. ❤
I almost cherry picked it when I went to see it, just picking out the most obviously figured pieces, but ended up negotiating for the whole lot and am SO glad I did. Even the plain looking stuff is amazing once you plane it dowb
think a good test for the different glues is to glue an overlap of two planks (can use different types of wood like maple and mahogany) clamp one end horizontally in a vice and hang a weight off the other end using the arm to aply pulling force on the lapjoint , either leave it "hanging" for an x period using a timelapse camera or increase the weight in stages (think the long therm test would be more realistic to stringtension on a glued joint ) even more realistic ? : get a electric guitarneck do the same overlappend gluejoint but put a basic bridge on the other end and string actual strings on it and set it aside in a spot with varying temperatures ( in a window?)
Another great adventure - something I've always wondered as someone who really wants to get into Lutherie but hasn't yet - everyone's early work is going to be a little shoddy so how do you practice or without necessarily building a crop of junk instruments, or waste good wood? OR do you just barrel through and try and put the past behind you, leave it as some else's (Levon's) problem?
Hahahha, honestly I’m a dive into the deep end kind of person…I use the premium shit and hope not to eff it up. My very first neck reset was on a BRW Washburn…only about a $1500 guitar… but yeah…in repairs…you gotta learn to fix the guitars you actually like or you’re going to end up with a revolving door on uninspiring modern shit. But yeah in building…I think builders kind of have to hide/give away a lot of their work initially. Painful but true. I’m not ever trying to make normal instruments…so it’s hard to eff up.
How hard was it to fill up the finger-sized gap in the neck pocket? I feel sorry for the guy who ordered it, looks like that boutique luthier was fed up with the guitar mid-build
"Boutique" comes from the French and means "any small shop". Yes that means it will be, at the very best, a limited run but at the worst a one off experiment. It sounds very swish and may be trendy if you're looking for a pullover that nobody else has but could be very risky if you're looking for a guitar. You could get lucky, ask anyone who owns a Stradivari but for every success story there are probably a thousand disasters. "Boutique" also usually means expensive.
Levon sells cartoon balloons in town. I'll bet nobody ever said that to you before....... Yeah I'm original like that. I love that skits, but just do you buddy- it's all fun to watch.
@@NotaluthierI kinda guessed that…how cool…lovely part of the world indeed…!!! Greetings from the Motor City Detroit MI USA from an almost 40 year Guitar repair guy…😎
I think the 'regular dreadnought' is more of a concert/OM. You... aren't putting shims under the fingerboard extensions to contradict the fall away? In other news, I somehow skipped Wolfville, made it all the way around the coast and am now camping out in Bridgewater.
I like a little fallaway, and these are a touch extreme, but I fully anticipate continual movement in these guitars, so fallaway can become a ski jump pretty quick on guitars like this
Ugh... I play 10 different tunings on a Jagmaster (Strat trem). Setting up a floating vibrato for that is so much work... I outright refuse to break strings!
Can I ask advice for the order of operations and I don't mean F.O.I.L.? Last week I bought a 60's Harmony Stella H-940. It was super cheap but in bad shape and I figured I could make this my first substantial acoustic repair and possible neck reset as well. I have build several electrics and done other repairs and installed new frets a few times.There were loose braces and cracks in multiple places so I just took off the back which was easy. I have reglued all of the braces, fixed the sound hole crack and top warp, added a brace on each side of sound hole to add rigidity to the top as this birch top is super thin, fixed the large side crack, reinforced the cracks with cleats and she is feeling pretty solid. The neck is pretty darn straight but when I put a straight edge on the fretboard it lines up 1/8" below the bridge top. It had no tuners, nut or bridge saddle but they will be here tomorrow. I am also going to put a new set of frets on after I resurface the fretboard because it has started to slightly cup so that the center is slightly dipping in. 1. where do I start after I get the frets and fret board done. I assume put the back on and then decide how much I need to take off the heel then remove the neck. 2. Should I try to cut the nut and saddle and put strings on to see what I have? I fear that the top could dip but I get I could always not glue the neck and worse case keep tweaking it until it plays right before reglueing it on.
Yes. Sound like everything you’ve done so far is spot on. It does sound like you probably need to do a neck reset. And indeed, don’t choose a new angle until you have the back back on, because that can definitely impact neck angle. In fact, if you took the projection measurement with the back off, it may improve upon reassembly.
Bring back the memes! When you feel like it, of course. Also, you're just going to off-handedly mention the 1860s Sloped-shoulder and not even show it? You tease, you.
@@Notaluthier I got the L and S on tap. I guess I can only S once... I think my fave Gibson amp was the GA-40? It had a PPI tone circuit, which I though was genius. 6V circuit, so 6V6s and 6SN7 type preamp tubes. But yours, it looks like a little Gibson Thor, which was aaaaalmost my first amp. Rock on, Levon!
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I like skits and memes and I like no skits and memes. I will be here to watch no matter what. Thanks for the entertainment and education.
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Hear, hear!
Do whatever you feel man!
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Your dry sense of humour is enough, dude. The memes and cutaways were just gilding the lily.
This video is a metaphor for my life…. Every time I glue it back together it just comes unglued. Thank you for your great pieces of art
Yep I instantly identified with Cinderellas bad seamstress blues- all I got had come undone...
I think one of the reasons the funny stuff/skits work is that they don't feel shoehorned in, so I'd rather see something like this, especially given the unorthodox nature of these guitars, where you solve some nerve-wracking issues without feeling like you have to funny it up or else. That said, I'd be bummed if you dropped the hilarious/weird/stoney stuff altogether. Anyway, we got some footage of the pup and some stunning skyscape b-roll, so I say it's all good.
Leave no fretted instrument behind.....and smile while you're doing it. That's why I love this channel.
I'd have thrown them in the sea and told the owner they'd been stolen by elves
I’m old. I’ll watch til I can no longer see… then I will listen! Love your work. 😊❤
Liked the video, do what you like to do man. Being who you are in the moment is the one of the reasons I enjoy watching (I also learn a few things too). I found a cheap Oahu acoustic slide guitar I am thinking about trying out a Spanish Conversion on. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Oooh! Good luck!
I've just got out from over a week in the hospital, and watching this video was the perfect way to follow along to, and let myself recover from a great deal of getting poked with needles, and getting scanned by many ominous looking machines.
Oooof! Sorry to hear it
I like the memes, but I still loved this video. I think the important part is to not force it, if silliness doesn't come out, it doesn't, and other times, silliness abound. Just like life and guitar repair.
Very sweet little dog.
It's always good to see Lord Buggington in your videos. It gives some relief from the intense brow knitting and life challenging repairs. 😉
Genuinely considering starting him his own channel 🐕
love
I like whatever you end up presenting. I think the important thing is that when you are your authentic self, grumpy or silly, we can relate.
Follow your weird ol’ heart.
The mental health stuff is great. Thanks for sharing.
I like the funny schhhhhguff!
You make some absolutely excellent videos. There's nothing else like it on youtube. The closest I can think is tim sway. I absolutely love seeing all the new projects you come up with and I am strapped in for the ride.
Thank you!
Keep up the funny stuff - & more dog!! I really enjoy your laid back style - taking us for walks in the woods and down to the beach. I don't get out much these days (you neither want nor need details!) so living vicariously through others really helps.
Oh yes and the guitar stuff is ok too!! LOL!
I like what you’re puttin down, whether it’s straightforward or goofy shite. You do you, boo - I’ll keep watching.
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Joining the chorus of do what you want to do in the videos you want to make. Keep it fun for you and do what you can to avoid burnout. In this video, I liked the trial an error, and seeing a bit of your frustration. I had no idea that there was a relationship between light bracing and the stability of tuning and action.
Thanks
Great stuff!!!
I’m here for whatever the ride is. Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks
Just stay real to yourself! Love the vids 🫶
Thanks
Thanks. Ibeen lookin for that cord run. Finaly got it.
The mortise is the hole and the tenon is the thing that goes in the hole.
Great job, sir. Even though these instruments are very imperfect (which is a given, since they started life as stepping stones on somebody's hopefully successful path), you still treated them with the respect they may not fully deserve.
Great repair work. Look forward to the next one!
Thanks!
My favorite RUclips channel ❤️
I like the spectrum of potential guitar content. And for some reason I seem to like the woes of canadian not-a-luthierie, since I watch both you and Dave’s World of Fun Stuff. He doesn’t skit, but that’s ok. Glad the guitars were not Gooched, as it were. Cheers!
"No funny skits"? I thought you were doing a spot-on Tom Woodford impression throughout! You even nailed the whole "being Canadian" thing he's got going on. Not everybody can do that! ❤
Ted! (Or "Uncle Ted" as he often calls himself) But otherwise I totally agree! I only started coming here on Ted's recommendation and can't stay away now!!
“Left it under tension over night” sounds like a stones songs
We watch because you’re a fun and talented guy Levon, we’re here for your sense of humour and approach!
I’d watch some stuffy Stewmac tutorial if I need to buckle down and learn some stuff.
Keep on expressing yourself any way you want.
Thanks!
Love your videos; entertaining and informative with plenty of struggle then redemption. I like the "ging" (whatever that means) as much as the repair and the B-roll adds a nice location aesthetic.
I see the Formica Lil’ Freak back there, just quietly laughing at all those troublesome fancy guitars.
Extremely good topic told from experience well done, I've seen everything from P/L-400 flooring glue to Brad nails ! sometimes it turns into a "Historical revival" again great work !
🥂
Put a saddle block over the thin brace at the mid separation point.
It’s separating from the soundboard, not from itself. Honestly I believe it needs to be shimmed under the brace at this point
@@Notaluthier yep I gathered that, I just thought you could put a small saddle over the brace and glue the brace and the saddle to the sound board, the saddle providing extra support and gluing surface.
It does not matter. Skits or not, I am here for whatever contents. As for the "subjects". I am a physician in practice for 39/40 years. Imagine how I feel (or felt) with patients like yours... Today I had one thankfully very coperative, but after more than 300,000 patients, I think I've had enough. I am 65 and it is time to retire, counting on social security. Cheers and Peace.
i can't believe you flexed your koa. how unrefined!!!!!
You seem like a pretty awesome guy. Do what ever you want man! I like what you do if that is worth anything.
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Man, those things are bad! I’m proud to say- I pulled out the first guitar I built, back in 99, and it’s rock solid. (Whew 😂)
15:11 _"I don't want to talk about it."_ 🤣
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Oh hey, I'm in this video
"The tenon goes into the mortis."
Your choice skits or not I'm still good watch and stay subscribed, thank you
Appreciate that!
I like the funny stuff...
Mortice is the female part of the joint and tenon the male!
I agree with the others in saying whatever you want to do is fine. Your sense of humor comes through even if you're not doing comedy... And that sense is good enough that when you do comedy, it's not cringe-inducing. 😉So all NaL content is good NaL content. ❤
Oh how frustrating!
What did you use to keep the brace from separating? Great video!
The third round of glueup.
Held it. For now.
@@Notaluthiersurely a build prob with wrong bracing angle to board - not your glue up.
@@DaHill1998 definitely something permanently wrong with the geometry
I love your schtick! But don’t force it if you’re not feeling it. Just do you.
Somewhat jealous of your Koa stash flex,it’s so expensive now!
I almost cherry picked it when I went to see it, just picking out the most obviously figured pieces, but ended up negotiating for the whole lot and am SO glad I did. Even the plain looking stuff is amazing once you plane it dowb
@@Notaluthier wise investment for sure!
🎉
think a good test for the different glues is to glue an overlap of two planks (can use different types of wood like maple and mahogany) clamp one end horizontally in a vice and hang a weight off the other end using the arm to aply pulling force on the lapjoint , either leave it "hanging" for an x period using a timelapse camera or increase the weight in stages (think the long therm test would be more realistic to stringtension on a glued joint )
even more realistic ? : get a electric guitarneck do the same overlappend gluejoint but put a basic bridge on the other end and string actual strings on it and set it aside in a spot with varying temperatures ( in a window?)
Great ideas! I had considered gluing bracing to a soundboard and swinging a weight towards them…obviously some more planning required!
i like both .. your videos are refreshing with or without the monkey business.
Thank you
You do you, we'll just sit here and watch...and judge...and comment..and ell and ess.
Eff yess. Thx
Another great adventure - something I've always wondered as someone who really wants to get into Lutherie but hasn't yet - everyone's early work is going to be a little shoddy so how do you practice or without necessarily building a crop of junk instruments, or waste good wood? OR do you just barrel through and try and put the past behind you, leave it as some else's (Levon's) problem?
Hahahha, honestly I’m a dive into the deep end kind of person…I use the premium shit and hope not to eff it up. My very first neck reset was on a BRW Washburn…only about a $1500 guitar… but yeah…in repairs…you gotta learn to fix the guitars you actually like or you’re going to end up with a revolving door on uninspiring modern shit.
But yeah in building…I think builders kind of have to hide/give away a lot of their work initially. Painful but true. I’m not ever trying to make normal instruments…so it’s hard to eff up.
I wanted to respond to your end note. I think you should keep the weird bits. It’s part of your emerging brand. Be yourself.
Definitely will continue being weird in varying degrees ✌️
Half way through the job I would have called the police or the Women's guild or the asylum, or, or...... You have the patience of a Saint, sir.
How hard was it to fill up the finger-sized gap in the neck pocket? I feel sorry for the guy who ordered it, looks like that boutique luthier was fed up with the guitar mid-build
My Struggle.
Yep. We all make crap in the beginning.
And, even destroy... SOME guitars axe-you-ally worth a penny or two,
Now.
🥺
Much learning
Many victims.
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"Boutique" comes from the French and means "any small shop". Yes that means it will be, at the very best, a limited run but at the worst a one off experiment. It sounds very swish and may be trendy if you're looking for a pullover that nobody else has but could be very risky if you're looking for a guitar. You could get lucky, ask anyone who owns a Stradivari but for every success story there are probably a thousand disasters. "Boutique" also usually means expensive.
Levon sells cartoon balloons in town. I'll bet nobody ever said that to you before....... Yeah I'm original like that. I love that skits, but just do you buddy- it's all fun to watch.
Everyone always says “likes his money” so you did indeed hit me with a New one!
Yellowjello57 read my mind 🎉
Very cool and nice work indeed…!!!
What part of the world are you in…?
Vancouver Island, Canada
@@NotaluthierI kinda guessed that…how cool…lovely part of the world indeed…!!!
Greetings from the Motor City Detroit MI USA from an almost 40 year Guitar repair guy…😎
@@stewsim you must’ve come across a fair amount of Decars in Illinois?
@@Notaluthier Actually, I’ve never seen one until your video…
I think the 'regular dreadnought' is more of a concert/OM.
You... aren't putting shims under the fingerboard extensions to contradict the fall away?
In other news, I somehow skipped Wolfville, made it all the way around the coast and am now camping out in Bridgewater.
I like a little fallaway, and these are a touch extreme, but I fully anticipate continual movement in these guitars, so fallaway can become a ski jump pretty quick on guitars like this
Also I’m bad at “modern” guitar sizes…idk what any of them are.
@@Notaluthier I am REALLY not a luthier. LuEEther? All I can tell you is, after Mr Ted Woodford, your videos make make week.
Ugh... I play 10 different tunings on a Jagmaster (Strat trem). Setting up a floating vibrato for that is so much work... I outright refuse to break strings!
Maybe time to get some Gibson robot tuners 🙈
skit, no skits, they all wind up being the same good vids in the end. you do you.
I appreciate that, thanks!
How about guitars with broken headstocks, does that repair make them as strong as before the break?
That’s what people say! I’ve done a few broken headstock repairs…they are all different depending on the style of break and the type of repair.
Can I ask advice for the order of operations and I don't mean F.O.I.L.? Last week I bought a 60's Harmony Stella H-940. It was super cheap but in bad shape and I figured I could make this my first substantial acoustic repair and possible neck reset as well. I have build several electrics and done other repairs and installed new frets a few times.There were loose braces and cracks in multiple places so I just took off the back which was easy. I have reglued all of the braces, fixed the sound hole crack and top warp, added a brace on each side of sound hole to add rigidity to the top as this birch top is super thin, fixed the large side crack, reinforced the cracks with cleats and she is feeling pretty solid. The neck is pretty darn straight but when I put a straight edge on the fretboard it lines up 1/8" below the bridge top. It had no tuners, nut or bridge saddle but they will be here tomorrow. I am also going to put a new set of frets on after I resurface the fretboard because it has started to slightly cup so that the center is slightly dipping in.
1. where do I start after I get the frets and fret board done. I assume put the back on and then decide how much I need to take off the heel then remove the neck.
2. Should I try to cut the nut and saddle and put strings on to see what I have? I fear that the top could dip but I get I could always not glue the neck and worse case keep tweaking it until it plays right before reglueing it on.
Yes. Sound like everything you’ve done so far is spot on. It does sound like you probably
need to do a neck reset. And indeed, don’t choose a new angle until you have the back back on, because that can definitely impact neck angle. In fact, if you took the projection measurement with the back off, it may improve upon reassembly.
Bring back the memes! When you feel like it, of course. Also, you're just going to off-handedly mention the 1860s Sloped-shoulder and not even show it? You tease, you.
They’ll be back! I’m sure. The guitar is a gem! It should be done in two weeks…I hope
Emoji game is solid
You misspelt trust rod.
You can never truss a luthier.
I blame autocorrect
my 1970's hondo II D-28 clone isnt even a clone ITS AN IMPOSTER!! the neck is held on with dowels and its making the neck reset a real bastard to do
Yikes!
I have one, guess it’s staying as it is then.
But you are not a luthiier and you are also learning as you go. Carry on
Why you gotta rub your koa riches in our faces man?
You must not have worked on an Ovation, yet.
I did a reset on one not long ago! Luckily it predated the epoxied on neck
...let's pretend I am helping your numbers with my third comment...
What is that Gibson amp?
Damnit. Fourth comment: you're always funny. Skits or not. Funniest was the founf hex key.
I want to say GA-6? Early 50s. I want to do a video about it someday. And please FEED MY ALGO, HE HUNGRY!
@@Notaluthier I got the L and S on tap. I guess I can only S once...
I think my fave Gibson amp was the GA-40? It had a PPI tone circuit, which I though was genius. 6V circuit, so 6V6s and 6SN7 type preamp tubes. But yours, it looks like a little Gibson Thor, which was aaaaalmost my first amp. Rock on, Levon!
Theirs a lot of good info in these videos and other videos, Gifs, and memes are distracting.
I liked this episode as much as any other, but I would probably stop watching eventually if you didn't have any humor.
I’m old. I’ll watch til I can no longer see… then I will listen! Love your work. 😊❤