I've been lulled to sleep so well by the past few episodes that I have no perception of which stage of repair these are at. Gonna have to go re watch from the start to follow along, brb
Mr Woodford - do you have any comment on the Riversong guitar revolutionary construction?- I saw a video - I am not Mr. Riversong. I watch everything you do so if you comment I will see/hear it. Thank you
I've used the width of the nostril on 1800's US 3 cent pieces my whole life as a standard of measurement. It makes it easier for non-luthiers to understand what you are trying to explain to them. 😄
Did you all notice how Ted resolved the thickness of his cleat material by a simple flex in his hands. We know they are hands of experience, but it was really cool to see. Thank you Ted.
One thing I have done to "Age" plastic is to brew some very strong coffee and set a drop on it and let it set up a bit. It might be a bit harder to do with it inset in the wood, but it does work.
Pretty common unit of measurement HAHA! Love it! I typically use the the width of the spear-head on a Octavius-Cesar Augustus Denarius 27B.C. -14 A.D. More people can relate...
Having played my 68 Gibson J45 for 50+ years I've learned more about woodworking in your channel than I ever expected. She's garaged (in the hard case) when not being played, but I'm paying closer attention to humidity etc than I ever did. Thanks
Just wanted to let you know I very much appreciate your content. I am not a luthier or guitar tech and never plan to be, but watching your thought processes and craftsmanship approach to repair work has been utterly captivating.
Same...I find his videos really relaxing. It's cool to learn so much about guitars, but I mainly watch because it's enjoyable to watch a very knowledgeable person do his craft. Also, he seems like a good guy to have a beer with.
Your alcohol based touch up marker technique to "limit its visual impact" is much like the retouching of dust spots from old darkroom photographic prints in pre-digital days. Our aim was to break up the line so a viewer's eyes weren't drawn to the line. A skilled retoucher, much like you are with your markers, would render these dust spots/lines virtually invisible by mimicking the grain pattern of the print.
Such a great channel to watch! Between your dry humor, incredible patience and absolute expertise I can’t get enough and am bummed every time an episode ends. I’ve learned so much over the past 3 yrs…polishing, polishing, polishing!! 🤣
In Luthery school in Quebec, they had us fill the guitars with sheets and rags before we sanded them with the orbital sander. For about 2 weeks every semester, there were about 20 students coming to the end of their build, producing an almost continuous howling from hell. The poor technicians had to endure that for most of the day. The sheets helped a little to dampen the sound. But not much.
good points about the drawbacks of the through-saddle, another one of which is that the trench is usually much shallower than a modern saddle slot, increasing problems with a tall saddle getting broken forward from string pressure as for dislodging the hide/fish glue holding the saddle in, i watched a vid of an upright bass luthier removing a (hide-glued) fingerboard with _alcohol_ ! he would constantly wick it into the joint while slowly working it apart with the pallet knife, and after like 1/2 hour the whole fingerboard popped off clean, all with no water. he said the alcohol "dried out" the hide glue, which i don't understand at all
Any time I think I might just have the patience to take on a job like one of these guitars I watch one of Ted's videos to remind myself that I would end up being one of those repair people who takes his work to the proper repair people. No one wants to be the "person who did some work on this before and just look at what they did to this guitar".
Great comment on cleats. The internal photo entirely supports what you say. Who knows what gunk is in that crack and whether it cana ll be got out. That glue joint needs all the help it can get. Good Eric Idle call, too. I recall he has a slight Welsh lilt in this sketch, which you catch - 'point-ED stiick' or some such.
While I'll never be able to afford here in Australia the type of guitars I see on this program, I am still able to apply much of what I learn to my cheap instruments. The way this guy teaches is excellent, his voice is pleasant (unlike many Americans, who sound like they're on an "infomercial" channel), but above all I appreciate his dry sense of humour !
Your comments about power sanding the guitar being super loud remind me of when I built a wood kayak. Sanding the assembled kayak angered the neighbors five houses down. The kayak is essentially a huge guitar at that point - no bulkheads were installed. Even with earplugs, there's no avoiding the noise! I eventually had to switch to hand sanding to keep the HOA from getting nasty with us!
You know....some channels I watch I can put off for later...or even... :gasp: skip altogether. The second I see your video that has dropped, I gotta stop everything and watch. This is a fun series. Im invested in these elder guitars like you wouldnt believe.....❤
I've really enjoyed this little series, thanks for spelling out what is no doubt to you some pretty basic stuff. Real pleasure, thanks for the entertainment.
Queen Victoria's Nostril on an obscure coin is my new favorite unit of measure. My cat always poses with whatever I am working on or new boxes coming in, so he has become my standard unit of comparison. Problem is, he is a very large cat, so putting him next to a guitar makes it look ukulele sized sometimes.
Well, I have really enjoyed watching your videos. I think I’ve watched them all by now. There’s something satisfying about watching someone pull apart a guitar and put it back together again better than it ever was. Being a musician for 46 years it’s good to know that there are people out there that can fix the crazy things that we (and time) do to them. So keep breaking stuff and putting it back together. Thanks for the education too. 👍
Just wanted to let you know that your metric to imperial to decimal conversion game is on point. Thanks for taking us along for another great video. God Bless.
The touch-up marker and finger smearing for coloring in scratches is something I actually used this week to hide some scratches on my matte black ikea furniture! Worked like a charm! Though I did use a black Staedtler document marker since that is what I had on hand.
Does Liberty's Nostril change with Temperature and Humidity? In Canada, is a nickel only worth 3 Cents? Where does the White go when the Snow Melts? Why are Blackberries Red when They are Green? Questions for You Tube's most scholarly Luthier! It's Solder! Thank You Ted, Respect!
Good things take time! Love the vids! I want it all now, but love the updates. I’m learning so much. My wife now quotes me hypothetically quoting you about “dialing it in.” Excellence is its own reward! Much, much thanks!
I'm a bass player in Australia (both, but upright in a Django band so your into is cool too), but I love watching your videos simply because of how clearly professional you are compared to 98% of the "luthiers" on you tube. You are obviously well regarded and love your work (bar sanding, but I'm yet to hear of a human that does). Keep up the great content.
I'm with you on chemical paint strippers, they really do a number on plastic binding. Sanding is also difficult, but if you're out of options, just go real slow. Looking forward to the finished guitar, I'll bet it'll be well received by your customer, they're mighty lucky to have you doing the work. One false move and it could get dicey. Impressive demonstration of instrument repair, thanks for sharing.
I’d send that log home with a winter and summer saddle, instructions and a rough swap time frame. Or I suppose the player could exercise their own judgment when to make the swaps. Thankfully I don’t have these issues since my house was HVAC’d with our northern climate in mind. Edit: Quality work as always and the commentary enlightening.
I appreciate ya sharing your craft every time. I was a work in the shop at home kid making cabinets and furniture. The fine details so good thank ya always.
its a testament to the community youve built that this video has 3k likes and literally no dislikes. I have truly never seen that many likes with 0 dislikes before anywhere.
I just wanted to say thanks for posting these. I’m only brave enough to work on my own guitars, but every time I think something will take 30 minutes it turns into 1.5 days! Ha.
Jeezus bud you are playing a blinder here. I appreciate you sharing with us thanks. I don't understand why I get nervous at times watching your show. Hope your health is improving. 🏴👍👍👍🥃Respect to you mate.
Finally! I don't have to convert SI units to my preferred 1865 coin references. Thanks for helping me understand without having to jump through your metric and imperial hoops. How many mercury dime ear widths is the action on that? I prefer 1 and 13/16 ears
It was refinished back when it was maybe 15-20 years old, and just 'an old guitar', they likely had no idea they would become sought after. The important thing is now a luthier can re-do it properly.
I`ve had pretty good results with using water colors like you had as a kid for hiding patches and then painting on grain lines with a small quality brush with a sharp tip. Practicing on the same piece of wood you cut your patches from helps a lot.
I've seen Ian Hates Guitars do this. I wasn't aware of watercolours though, do you use them on bare wood? I've just replaced some tuners on a modern Gretsch with open back Grovers and filled the old screw holes. I did the painting on the grain lines method on the stained fills. I'm really pleased with the results.
@@MrDblStop It`s been a while since I did it. I might have done it on top of sanding sealer after it was sanded with 400 grit. I did it on a `56 Telecaster where I plugged a hacked pickup cavity. Then I did the usual blond translucent finish. Applying water color on bare wood you don`t have much control over how the open grain absorbs the color. This was my painting process on open-grain wood: 1) After the body was finish-sanded, 2 wash coats of sanding sealer, let dry thoroughly for a day. 2) Dap brand joint compound tinted to a medium brown (chocolate pudding-ish using metallic dyes, brown and a little black) applied as a grain filler. Dap compound is much finer-grained than other brands, it`s cheap, dries fast, easy to dry sand with 400 grit. 3) Maybe 6 coats of sanding sealer, 1/2 hour between coats. Let dry for a day, then lightly wet-sand with 400, just enough to cut the gloss to allow solvent to escape. Let dry for a few more days, then wet-sand with 400 to flatten the surface. Be VERY careful to not sand to bare wood. I would sand under the pickguard area first to get a feel for what I could get away with. It was at this point I touched up the patch with water colors. 4) At this point I sprayed the blond lacquer. 5) Spray 3 double coats of clear. A double coat is one coat sprayed immediately over another. Again, 1/2 hour between coats. 6) Let dry a day and lightly wet-sand to cut the gloss. Wait a few more days and then 3 more double coats. Wet sand to cut the gloss. Wait at least a week, two is better, and do your final sanding with 600. I never used anything finer than 600 because lacquer buffs so easily. I once waited a month to buff a guitar and it went like a dream, easiest buff I ever did. I showed the Tele to some vintage dealers at the Philly Guitar Show, they were very impressed. No biggie, I painted my first car at 16 in 1966 and my first guitar in `73. Do anything long enough and you get the hang of it eventually. One more tip: never, EVER hang a guitar in the sun to hurry the drying. Bubbles, hundreds and hundreds of tiny bubbles in the paint. Cue the Dean Martin song.....
I just love your channel - I'm one of the ones that found you through Adam Savage, but you've become one of my go-to creative channels to play in one monitor while I'm working in another, and I'll occasionally go back through your back catalog and replay my favorites. Just out of curiosity, how many long-term jobs do you usually have going on in your shop at a time, and how do you store them and keep track of them so they don't get in the way of your short-term jobs yet at the same time make sure they keep progressing? I look at some of the epoxy-and-wood RUclipsrs and a lot of them (especially the ones that seem to make it their full-time job) seem to have their main epoxy pour table taken up by one project for a week at a time, which would make it difficult to work on more than one or two pieces at once. I don't know how big your shop is; you seem to have two benches where you can work on a guitar and having one or both of them tied up for a long period of time would radically limit how much you could do.
A Pro Finish job is Something I have only done 1 time. A 71 Fender P bass that had Orange reflector Paint on body and neck when I bought it for about 200.00 U.S. After doing a Pro job on Touch up clear on the Neck. And Gloss Black lacquer on the Body. I sold it . For about 200.00. Years Later at A newly opened Detroit Guitar Center. I saw it listed For 1500.00 I could tell It was the same because I left 1 near impossible to see speck of its former state. I consider Your Videos a way of getting Luthier School Education I never had time or money for. I learned from books and talking to local luthiers for direction.Your videos Let Me more clearly see What I have done Right or wrong And How to do better.
Love thee bare wood look on the double pick guard guitar when you were putting on the shellac. I know you're going to sunburst it but damn that looks nice. Watching you do repairs feels like my youth watching Bob Ross on TV. Look forward to your videos every week even if they're just Gibson neck breaks lol.
I've been lulled to sleep so well by the past few episodes that I have no perception of which stage of repair these are at. Gonna have to go re watch from the start to follow along, brb
Why you falling asleep? 😢
@@rootvalue cause its insanely relaxing
Mr Woodford - do you have any comment on the Riversong guitar revolutionary construction?- I saw a video - I am not Mr. Riversong. I watch everything you do so if you comment I will see/hear it. Thank you
same here😂
His voice is somewhat mesmerizing.
"Don't make promises, make an effort." Take your time on your videos, Big Guy, we're almost as patient as you are.
I've used the width of the nostril on 1800's US 3 cent pieces my whole life as a standard of measurement. It makes it easier for non-luthiers to understand what you are trying to explain to them. 😄
Sadly google's conversion tables dont recognize it.
Fresh fruit defense is one of my favorite Python sketches. Never could get my school to implement the training though🤷♂️
What if he's got a pointed stick?
@@alejandrohualdez5550 Shut up!
And what about Liberty's Nostril?
@@markdoyle9642 ‘which is a pretty common measurement’ 😂
🤣🤣I was just coming here to see if anyone had got the Python reference!! Glad to it's still alive and well. 😁😁
Did you all notice how Ted resolved the thickness of his cleat material by a simple flex in his hands. We know they are hands of experience, but it was really cool to see. Thank you Ted.
One thing I have done to "Age" plastic is to brew some very strong coffee and set a drop on it and let it set up a bit.
It might be a bit harder to do with it inset in the wood, but it does work.
What I love about niche channels is finding people equally interested in questions like, “How’s Ted doing on those Martins?”
Pretty common unit of measurement HAHA! Love it! I typically use the the width of the spear-head on a Octavius-Cesar Augustus Denarius 27B.C. -14 A.D. More people can relate...
Having played my 68 Gibson J45 for 50+ years I've learned more about woodworking in your channel than I ever expected. She's garaged (in the hard case) when not being played, but I'm paying closer attention to humidity etc than I ever did. Thanks
And what about Liberty's Nostril? (Huge Smile)
@@markdoyle9642: She should get a Navage. 🤣🤣🤣😁✌🖖
I stuff acoustic guitars with shirts and rags to reduce the noise from sanding or other noisey work.
Just wanted to let you know I very much appreciate your content. I am not a luthier or guitar tech and never plan to be, but watching your thought processes and craftsmanship approach to repair work has been utterly captivating.
Same...I find his videos really relaxing. It's cool to learn so much about guitars, but I mainly watch because it's enjoyable to watch a very knowledgeable person do his craft. Also, he seems like a good guy to have a beer with.
I think my favorite thing about you is that you're so unpretentious and genuine
So cool , and you showing cleat making and why is fabulous really . The info on the curing of fish glue as well as huge glue is well taken .🇨🇦🏅🏅🏅🏅
Your alcohol based touch up marker technique to "limit its visual impact" is much like the retouching of dust spots from old darkroom photographic prints in pre-digital days. Our aim was to break up the line so a viewer's eyes weren't drawn to the line. A skilled retoucher, much like you are with your markers, would render these dust spots/lines virtually invisible by mimicking the grain pattern of the print.
Such a great channel to watch! Between your dry humor, incredible patience and absolute expertise I can’t get enough and am bummed every time an episode ends. I’ve learned so much over the past 3 yrs…polishing, polishing, polishing!! 🤣
...my FAVORITE RUclips channel! Never miss an episode. Thank You!
I really appreciate your using multiple units of measurements in your videos, including millimeters and ... noses on coins. 😂
Man I'm with Michael Card on this one... "There is a joy in the journey!" Thank you, Ted!!
In Luthery school in Quebec, they had us fill the guitars with sheets and rags before we sanded them with the orbital sander. For about 2 weeks every semester, there were about 20 students coming to the end of their build, producing an almost continuous howling from hell. The poor technicians had to endure that for most of the day. The sheets helped a little to dampen the sound. But not much.
This series is as good as "Who shot JR". Can't wait for Part 5!
Talk about a CLIFFHANGER 😆
Had never thought about it but of course working with power tools on an acoustic resonating chamber would be an unusually loud job!
This is the only channel on any form of media that I follow and never miss any. I just realised that.
good points about the drawbacks of the through-saddle, another one of which is that the trench is usually much shallower than a modern saddle slot, increasing problems with a tall saddle getting broken forward from string pressure
as for dislodging the hide/fish glue holding the saddle in, i watched a vid of an upright bass luthier removing a (hide-glued) fingerboard with _alcohol_ ! he would constantly wick it into the joint while slowly working it apart with the pallet knife, and after like 1/2 hour the whole fingerboard popped off clean, all with no water.
he said the alcohol "dried out" the hide glue, which i don't understand at all
Thank you Ted for my weekly dose of `feel good factor`
It`s a joy to watch you at work.
Keep safe.👍
Any time I think I might just have the patience to take on a job like one of these guitars I watch one of Ted's videos to remind myself that I would end up being one of those repair people who takes his work to the proper repair people. No one wants to be the "person who did some work on this before and just look at what they did to this guitar".
Great comment on cleats. The internal photo entirely supports what you say. Who knows what gunk is in that crack and whether it cana ll be got out. That glue joint needs all the help it can get. Good Eric Idle call, too. I recall he has a slight Welsh lilt in this sketch, which you catch - 'point-ED stiick' or some such.
Speaking as a Welshman, Eric Idle cracks me up in this sketch!
Lots of labor involved in this to make these babies playable.
Thanks for sharing and letting us follow your story, Mr. Woodford.
"It's so old it doesn't even smell." I'm that old but I still smell : (
teehee
While I'll never be able to afford here in Australia the type of guitars I see on this program, I am still able to apply much of what I learn to my cheap instruments. The way this guy teaches is excellent, his voice is pleasant (unlike many Americans, who sound like they're on an "infomercial" channel), but above all I appreciate his dry sense of humour !
Your comments about power sanding the guitar being super loud remind me of when I built a wood kayak. Sanding the assembled kayak angered the neighbors five houses down. The kayak is essentially a huge guitar at that point - no bulkheads were installed. Even with earplugs, there's no avoiding the noise! I eventually had to switch to hand sanding to keep the HOA from getting nasty with us!
Would've thought Ted (and you) could have just stuffed the cavity with foam, or towels, or whatever to kill the resonance.
You know....some channels I watch I can put off for later...or even... :gasp: skip altogether. The second I see your video that has dropped, I gotta stop everything and watch. This is a fun series. Im invested in these elder guitars like you wouldnt believe.....❤
Nice work
I've really enjoyed this little series, thanks for spelling out what is no doubt to you some pretty basic stuff. Real pleasure, thanks for the entertainment.
Queen Victoria's Nostril on an obscure coin is my new favorite unit of measure. My cat always poses with whatever I am working on or new boxes coming in, so he has become my standard unit of comparison. Problem is, he is a very large cat, so putting him next to a guitar makes it look ukulele sized sometimes.
You could use your cat's whisker as a unit of measurement. Then you would know how many whiskers there are in a Queen Victoria's Nostril.
@@jamesn5595 if I used the length of his whiskers, they're a good 4+ inches long
Well, I have really enjoyed watching your videos. I think I’ve watched them all by now. There’s something satisfying about watching someone pull apart a guitar and put it back together again better than it ever was. Being a musician for 46 years it’s good to know that there are people out there that can fix the crazy things that we (and time) do to them. So keep breaking stuff and putting it back together. Thanks for the education too. 👍
I love Python. Thanks.
Never stop making your videos. I learn so much from watching and listening.
I am *loving* this series! Thanks for bringing us along!
Just wanted to let you know that your metric to imperial to decimal conversion game is on point. Thanks for taking us along for another great video. God Bless.
I'm hooked to this channel. Its the gift that keeps on giving. Cant wait to see the sunbursts process.
Thanks for a new video.
I see the advantages of the pointéd stick!
The touch-up marker and finger smearing for coloring in scratches is something I actually used this week to hide some scratches on my matte black ikea furniture! Worked like a charm! Though I did use a black Staedtler document marker since that is what I had on hand.
Whatever gets the job done!
I love how similar Ted's touch-up technique is to Adam's weathering. "I put paint on, I pull it off - I lift things up and put them down!"
thankyou
64thsof an Inch, Millimeters or...Liberty's Nostril...[]...Classic. I want a Ted-Shirt with Solder or "Sold- Her" and Liberty's Nostril! RESPECT!
Does Liberty's Nostril change with Temperature and Humidity?
In Canada, is a nickel only worth 3 Cents?
Where does the White go when the Snow Melts?
Why are Blackberries Red when They are Green?
Questions for You Tube's most scholarly Luthier!
It's Solder! Thank You Ted, Respect!
I love watching you work, it’s an inspiration. What I’ve learned is take the time it takes to do things properly. It pays dividends. Thanks.
Great video as always, really looking forward to the next one!
Thanks for letting us into the shop, Ted.
3:00 mark. "Naphtha. Don't light your guitar on fire." But if you do get it on video, that would be cool. ;-)
Next time I take a guitar to my tech for setup, I’m gonna request action height in terms of Liberty’s nostrils 😂
Good things take time! Love the vids! I want it all now, but love the updates. I’m learning so much. My wife now quotes me hypothetically quoting you about “dialing it in.” Excellence is its own reward! Much, much thanks!
Possible solution when power sanding finished body - stuff towels/rags into the body to absorb the sound
fiberglas or rock wool insulation works a treat on metal cans, I'd suppose it would work here too.
@@markbernier8434 suppose it would but I wouldn't use it as I personally loathe working with the nasty itchy stuff
I'm a bass player in Australia (both, but upright in a Django band so your into is cool too), but I love watching your videos simply because of how clearly professional you are compared to 98% of the "luthiers" on you tube. You are obviously well regarded and love your work (bar sanding, but I'm yet to hear of a human that does). Keep up the great content.
Project Goatsee said what I meant better than I.
Now I am happy.
this has been a very fun series so far, thank you!
"It's so old that it doesn't even smell"... as an old person, I did have a chuckle...
"Wood moves, and guitars are made of wood" --- Ted 2023
Gahhh! The suspense is killing me! 😅 Quite the project.. Can't wait to see the final results! 👍
Thanks for making!
“Liberty Nostril” sounds like a unit of measurement that would have been invented just after 9/11. Like “Freedom Fries”.
I'm with you on chemical paint strippers, they really do a number on plastic binding. Sanding is also difficult, but if you're out of options, just go real slow. Looking forward to the finished guitar, I'll bet it'll be well received by your customer, they're mighty lucky to have you doing the work. One false move and it could get dicey. Impressive demonstration of instrument repair, thanks for sharing.
I’d send that log home with a winter and summer saddle, instructions and a rough swap time frame. Or I suppose the player could exercise their own judgment when to make the swaps. Thankfully I don’t have these issues since my house was HVAC’d with our northern climate in mind. Edit: Quality work as always and the commentary enlightening.
Coin nostrils as a common unit of measurement. I made a note of that, but I have questions ...
I appreciate ya sharing your craft every time. I was a work in the shop at home kid making cabinets and furniture. The fine details so good thank ya always.
Yep. No rush. We’re enjoying every step along the way. ❤
Refinish looking good. 90% of a good finish is in the prep.
Noooooo! I can’t wait that long😢.guess I’ll go watch old videos. Nice job Ted.
its a testament to the community youve built that this video has 3k likes and literally no dislikes. I have truly never seen that many likes with 0 dislikes before anywhere.
I just wanted to say thanks for posting these. I’m only brave enough to work on my own guitars, but every time I think something will take 30 minutes it turns into 1.5 days! Ha.
Jeezus bud you are playing a blinder here. I appreciate you sharing with us thanks. I don't understand why I get nervous at times watching your show. Hope your health is improving. 🏴👍👍👍🥃Respect to you mate.
OH,my, you got your hands full kid,lol
Thanks
What happens if you use Liberty's Nostril at a Luthier's Convention (Huge Smile). Respect!
Appreciated the MP reference. :)
Finally! I don't have to convert SI units to my preferred 1865 coin references. Thanks for helping me understand without having to jump through your metric and imperial hoops.
How many mercury dime ear widths is the action on that? I prefer 1 and 13/16 ears
Such a great series, really interesting and amazing to hear all the details and history.
Love the Python references…! Good man!
It was refinished back when it was maybe 15-20 years old, and just 'an old guitar', they likely had no idea they would become sought after. The important thing is now a luthier can re-do it properly.
Shame Ted's wife didn't record the whale song he was making while sanding.
What a journey this series turned out to be! Can't wait for these to reach the "polishing, polishing, polishing..." phase!
Its always entertaining and fun to watch. Keep it up! I always learn something from your videos!!
Enjoying this mini series.
"...sounded like the mating call of a pod of whales..." That made my day :D
👍
I`ve had pretty good results with using water colors like you had as a kid for hiding patches and then painting on grain lines with a small quality brush with a sharp tip. Practicing on the same piece of wood you cut your patches from helps a lot.
I've seen Ian Hates Guitars do this. I wasn't aware of watercolours though, do you use them on bare wood? I've just replaced some tuners on a modern Gretsch with open back Grovers and filled the old screw holes. I did the painting on the grain lines method on the stained fills. I'm really pleased with the results.
@@MrDblStop It`s been a while since I did it. I might have done it on top of sanding sealer after it was sanded with 400 grit. I did it on a `56 Telecaster where I plugged a hacked pickup cavity. Then I did the usual blond translucent finish. Applying water color on bare wood you don`t have much control over how the open grain absorbs the color. This was my painting process on open-grain wood:
1) After the body was finish-sanded, 2 wash coats of sanding sealer, let dry thoroughly for a day.
2) Dap brand joint compound tinted to a medium brown (chocolate pudding-ish using metallic dyes, brown and a little black) applied as a grain filler. Dap compound is much finer-grained than other brands, it`s cheap, dries fast, easy to dry sand with 400 grit.
3) Maybe 6 coats of sanding sealer, 1/2 hour between coats. Let dry for a day, then lightly wet-sand with 400, just enough to cut the gloss to allow solvent to escape. Let dry for a few more days, then wet-sand with 400 to flatten the surface. Be VERY careful to not sand to bare wood. I would sand under the pickguard area first to get a feel for what I could get away with. It was at this point I touched up the patch with water colors.
4) At this point I sprayed the blond lacquer.
5) Spray 3 double coats of clear. A double coat is one coat sprayed immediately over another. Again, 1/2 hour between coats.
6) Let dry a day and lightly wet-sand to cut the gloss. Wait a few more days and then 3 more double coats. Wet sand to cut the gloss. Wait at least a week, two is better, and do your final sanding with 600. I never used anything finer than 600 because lacquer buffs so easily. I once waited a month to buff a guitar and it went like a dream, easiest buff I ever did.
I showed the Tele to some vintage dealers at the Philly Guitar Show, they were very impressed. No biggie, I painted my first car at 16 in 1966 and my first guitar in `73. Do anything long enough and you get the hang of it eventually. One more tip: never, EVER hang a guitar in the sun to hurry the drying. Bubbles, hundreds and hundreds of tiny bubbles in the paint. Cue the Dean Martin song.....
I just love your channel - I'm one of the ones that found you through Adam Savage, but you've become one of my go-to creative channels to play in one monitor while I'm working in another, and I'll occasionally go back through your back catalog and replay my favorites.
Just out of curiosity, how many long-term jobs do you usually have going on in your shop at a time, and how do you store them and keep track of them so they don't get in the way of your short-term jobs yet at the same time make sure they keep progressing? I look at some of the epoxy-and-wood RUclipsrs and a lot of them (especially the ones that seem to make it their full-time job) seem to have their main epoxy pour table taken up by one project for a week at a time, which would make it difficult to work on more than one or two pieces at once. I don't know how big your shop is; you seem to have two benches where you can work on a guitar and having one or both of them tied up for a long period of time would radically limit how much you could do.
Loving the deep dive, multi video approach for these guitars
Thank you brother 😊
A Pro Finish job is Something I have only done 1 time. A 71 Fender P bass that had Orange reflector Paint on body and neck when I bought it for about 200.00 U.S. After doing a Pro job on Touch up clear on the Neck. And Gloss Black lacquer on the Body. I sold it . For about 200.00. Years Later at A newly opened Detroit Guitar Center. I saw it listed For 1500.00 I could tell It was the same because I left 1 near impossible to see speck of its former state. I consider Your Videos a way of getting Luthier School Education I never had time or money for. I learned from books and talking to local luthiers for direction.Your videos Let Me more clearly see What I have done Right or wrong And How to do better.
Thank you.
This top looks better than new, great work 🎵
I'm 100% with you on shorts, keep going!
Can’t wait for the next video!!
"2:57 ,...dont light yer guitar on fire",...
why NOT all the greats do !!!!!!! ! ! !
Mike
Awesome stuff
Man, you got the touch!
Well said Mr Tinned Peach!
Love thee bare wood look on the double pick guard guitar when you were putting on the shellac. I know you're going to sunburst it but damn that looks nice.
Watching you do repairs feels like my youth watching Bob Ross on TV. Look forward to your videos every week even if they're just Gibson neck breaks lol.