As an ecologist, your comment about the bugs was hilarious. You are such a well spoken and knowledgeable person. Thank you for staying true to yourself. Some try too hard on RUclips and I love that you do not conform to that.
Hello Ted. Long time watcher, First time commenter… I’m a retired Finish carpenter/acoustic guitarist/ bassist…30 miles S. of Detroit. LOVE all your techniques/videos. you’ve made me a more patient, precise, carpenter… “Take your time, it’s not a Race”… Looking forward to each new episode. Carry on.
As someone who does very small repair jobs for a friends and fellow musicians from time to time. Your level of skill and craftsmanship is unworldly! Thanks for sharing!
As I've said before, this series has been a true masterclass of workmanship. It should be posted as a playlist for people to binge watch and learn. Thank you for this.
At the music store where I used to work someone brought in a 1940’s banner head Gibson in pieces, in a bag. It took months but the luthier resurrected it!
Outstanding! As a kid when leaving the electric scene to folk traded fender mustang for j-45 cherry burst in 1967-68? If memory serves well. Later was told it was a factory 2nd due to the number 2 placed just under the serial number stamped into back of head stock. Oh well got nicked trading with a notorious dealing rock shop. After getting into the Peter Paul & Mary scene not having money for a slot head Martin. Decided to remove the finish off the guitar. Dad said he used broken pieces of window glass when refinishing gun stocks. Obtained the shards and the finish came off in micro thin curls. Used some conventional finish remover on neck and headstock. Never put that clunky pick guard back on. The idea back then was everything natural. Treated the wood with lemon oil. Where ever I played always was complemented on the tonal qualities of the guitar. Sadly 25 yrs laterI gave it away as I was playing bags pipes it was never used.
Man that southern jumbo… holy the breadth of sound that comes out is so… all encompassing. It really was, imo, the best of the three. Excellent and inspiring work, as always!
Holy cow, both of those guitars turned out gorgeous; really cool, too. You basically did the opposite of relicing, by massively improving their appearance, playability, structural stability, etc, while still leaving enough of the mojo that comes with a nearly 70 year old well played instrument. As always Ted, your master level craftsmanship simply blows me away. Great job!!!
These guitars remind me of my grandpa's band, the North Country Ramblers. They were well known in the upstate NY area (headquartered in Watertown), and they were Grandpa Jones' backup band on tour. That Southern Jumbo sounds very modern. (I swear I hear Hotel California coming outta that thing.) The J-45 sounds like it has more projection for a time when the guitar had to compete with brass. Thanks so much for the series Ted!
@@dooleyfussle8634 I don't know, but I hope so! I have never heard them, and it's my dearest wish to find a recording of them! They were Elliot Sweet (my grandfather), his brother "Major", and any other brothers who were available, plus the hired hands. I know from family that they had a radio show every weekday from 4:30 - 5:00 PM in the Watertown area, but that radio station has changed ownership numerous times, and the original recordings were presumed lost. If you have heard them anywhere, please let me know. (A reply comment is fine.) The Minnesota branch of the family would be super-grateful! I'm gonna look up NCPR and String Fever right now! 🙂 Edit: I just looked up NCPR and sent them an inquiry by email. Wouldn't it be awesome if they could connect me with Grandpa's music? Thanks for the lead!
Getting behind my '64 J-45 is just the same. It is modified. But only to increase vibrational transmission. Lots of play wear, little damage and it she rings until you'd think she can actually sing. Dad did me a real solid when he bought it for my 9th birthday. Wonderfully balanced decisions in you work keeps me coming back for content. Yes, I still play my Gibson in public, but mostly in the parlor nowadays. Thanks Ted!
The most important musical thing from 1946 I can think of is the benefit concert for Isaac Woodard in NYC. Woodard was a black US G.I. who immediately upon being discharged from fighting in the Pacific got into a nonviolent argument with a bus driver in South Carolina . He was brutally attacked by police and blinded. Billie Holiday, Woodie Guthrie and Joe Lewis played at the benefit. Of course this didn't make the charts but ~36,000 people showed up and it was a big early spark of postwar civil rights activism. Woody Guthrie's song "The Blinding of Isaac Woodard", written with the help of Woodard himself is likely the most notable historical song of the year. You can find a great PBS documentary about Woodard online to watch for free. Guthrie said this about his song: "this one I made up so's you wouldn't be forgetting what happened to this famous Negro soldier less than three hours after he got his Honorable Discharge down in Atlanta.... I sung this Isaac Woodard song in the Lewisohn Stadium one night for more than 36,000 people, and I got the loudest applause I've ever got in my whole life. This song is a long song, but most of the action is told in Isaac's own words. I made this ballad up because we'll need lots of songs like this one before we win our fight for racial equality in our big free United States." Thanks as always for a great video Ted, on the slim chance of your reading this haha. Lyrics to Guthrie's song and his comments on it: web.archive.org/web/20050114003432/members.fortunecity.com/folkfred/blind.html Documentary: www.pbs.org/video/the-blinding-of-isaac-woodard-knf0hq/ A long and very detailed account of what happened to Woodard: lithub.com/an-account-of-the-blinding-of-sgt-isaac-woodard-by-the-police-officer-lynwood-shull/?single=true
Ted, I hope you see this. I just want to say that you are very intelligent whether guitar related or not. You are very intelligent and it is very refreshing. Thanks for just being, you. Much love from Oklahoma! ❤️™️
Your work is impeccable. They sound better than the new ones IMO. I also find that after a craftsman such as yourself works on them, they sound much better. No big deal, but I was hoping that where the knobs were would have come out better. They came out great compared to what mine would have looked like. I was just hoping you had a trick up your sleeve for it, so I could do it in the future. Thanks for the video.
Plenty of now-renowned vintage guitar/musical-instrument amplifiers had specific accordion inputs right up into the early 1960s; Magnatone, Ampeg, Sano, some Gibson amps IIRC, and rarer ones like Flot-A-Tone. Many guitarists have found that the accordion input often had more gain than the guitar input and so you can guess which input they prefer! What nobody seems to know anymore is exactly how they would pick up the accordion signal and put it into an amp. Some kind of internal multi- microphone system? A magnetic pickup would be unlikely to do anything whatsoever on an accordion....
A really wonderful series , fantastic to see the sympathetic restoration of these beautiful instruments , thank you so much , all the best wishes to you 🌈🌸🎸🎵👍💞
Accordions were popular all the way into the 60’s. My first guitar teacher was an accordion player first, guitar player second. The Beetles changed things. The EJ1 Fujigen Gakki that I found in the dumpster recently had an Imperial label on it. From the Imperial Accordion Company of Chicago, IL! Looks like it was made in 1963, right at the start of the British Invasion. 😊 Nice job on those two Gibsons. That old thing sounds wonderful. Nothing wrong with new guitars. The good ones get sorted out, and in fifty years they’ll be classics too.
As an ecologist, your comment about the bugs was hilarious. You are such a well spoken and knowledgeable person. Thank you for staying true to yourself. Some try too hard on RUclips and I love that you do not conform to that.
I hope the owner sat through this series and saw the time and skill that went into making these playable again.
Outstanding work.
That “yep”, elicited quite a guffaw from me.
Another excellent series of videos displaying your talent as a luthier, historian, and woodworker.. thanks.
Hank Williams came along in 1947 and changed those dreary charts forever.
Arthur Smith recorded "Guitar Boogie" in 1945! And his guitar really boogies! 😁
Man you have good timing, I almost had to go do something productive...yay procrastination!
Gotta say, these sing right through the camera mic. Great work, great series!
lol 14:01. "yup". i was waiting to hear the "polishing.... polishing... polishing..." haha
Thankyou for taking the time to lift my depression.
@GVT
I don't need no doctor
ruclips.net/video/0lxyRjzXvxo/видео.html
«Yep» haha loved that
Hello Ted.
Long time watcher,
First time commenter…
I’m a retired Finish carpenter/acoustic guitarist/
bassist…30 miles S. of Detroit.
LOVE all your techniques/videos. you’ve made me a more patient, precise, carpenter…
“Take your time, it’s not a Race”…
Looking forward to each new episode. Carry on.
That J45 sounds incredible.
Thank you for sharing.
One word. Awesome !
Both are great but the SJ really has it all!!! Beautiful work!!!
"Frankly- most of you would just gag when you heard the estimate"
Classic Twoodfrd
A very satisfying conclusion to this video series.
As someone who does very small repair jobs for a friends and fellow musicians from time to time. Your level of skill and craftsmanship is unworldly! Thanks for sharing!
As I've said before, this series has been a true masterclass of workmanship. It should be posted as a playlist for people to binge watch and learn. Thank you for this.
At the music store where I used to work someone brought in a 1940’s banner head Gibson in pieces, in a bag. It took months but the luthier resurrected it!
I never get the really old ones like that to work on. This series rocked. Great work.
Those are some ridiculously good sounding instruments. Wow!
how to: start off a new week, enjoy a twoodfrd Monday matinée.
Greetings from the sunny climes of Basle, Switzerland
Outstanding! As a kid when leaving the electric scene to folk traded fender mustang for j-45 cherry burst in 1967-68? If memory serves well. Later was told it was a factory 2nd due to the number 2 placed just under the serial number stamped into back of head stock. Oh well got nicked trading with a notorious dealing rock shop. After getting into the Peter Paul & Mary scene not having money for a slot head Martin. Decided to remove the finish off the guitar. Dad said he used broken pieces of window glass when refinishing gun stocks. Obtained the shards and the finish came off in micro thin curls. Used some conventional finish remover on neck and headstock. Never put that clunky pick guard back on. The idea back then was everything natural. Treated the wood with lemon oil. Where ever I played always was complemented on the tonal qualities of the guitar. Sadly 25 yrs laterI gave it away as I was playing bags pipes it was never used.
Man that southern jumbo… holy the breadth of sound that comes out is so… all encompassing. It really was, imo, the best of the three. Excellent and inspiring work, as always!
The sound from both those Gibsons is amazing! Another great revival. Thanks Ted.
Stay safe and we'll see you next week.
Ted, you are a master luthier. This whole series has been a real treat.
Holy cow, both of those guitars turned out gorgeous; really cool, too. You basically did the opposite of relicing, by massively improving their appearance, playability, structural stability, etc, while still leaving enough of the mojo that comes with a nearly 70 year old well played instrument. As always Ted, your master level craftsmanship simply blows me away. Great job!!!
That was SO satisfying.
The southern jumbo sure had the presence of a Martin Dreadnought
I like that balloon idea. I am going to have to try that. Thanks.
They sound incredible, intonation is unbelievable for 80 year old guitars. Brilliant job!!
Good Job Ted!! And I ditto everyone else's positive comments.
These guitars remind me of my grandpa's band, the North Country Ramblers. They were well known in the upstate NY area (headquartered in Watertown), and they were Grandpa Jones' backup band on tour. That Southern Jumbo sounds very modern. (I swear I hear Hotel California coming outta that thing.) The J-45 sounds like it has more projection for a time when the guitar had to compete with brass.
Thanks so much for the series Ted!
Have I heard them on String Fever on NCPR?
@@dooleyfussle8634 I don't know, but I hope so! I have never heard them, and it's my dearest wish to find a recording of them! They were Elliot Sweet (my grandfather), his brother "Major", and any other brothers who were available, plus the hired hands. I know from family that they had a radio show every weekday from 4:30 - 5:00 PM in the Watertown area, but that radio station has changed ownership numerous times, and the original recordings were presumed lost.
If you have heard them anywhere, please let me know. (A reply comment is fine.) The Minnesota branch of the family would be super-grateful! I'm gonna look up NCPR and String Fever right now! 🙂
Edit:
I just looked up NCPR and sent them an inquiry by email. Wouldn't it be awesome if they could connect me with Grandpa's music? Thanks for the lead!
Bugs caught in clear coat?
"Welcome to Jurassic Box!"
Man oh man! Thank you from Rochester!
Great narratives!
Brilliant. I've loved this journey. Thanks for taking the time to share these amazing restorations with us 👏👏👏
Thank you for taking us along on these projects.
14.02 Love "Yep" as shorthand for "polishing polishing..." wonderful, hypnotic work as always.
That J 45 just Booms.
“Munched” is such a great word - I feel like I heard it often a time ago and it feels regional. Thanks for bringing it back 😂
Good job!
enjoyed this so much
Thanks!
Operation Magic Carpet was underway at that time. So many troops packed into whatever ship they could get to carry them home.
Very nice sound on the Southern Jumbo.
Getting behind my '64 J-45 is just the same. It is modified. But only to increase vibrational transmission. Lots of play wear, little damage and it she rings until you'd think she can actually sing. Dad did me a real solid when he bought it for my 9th birthday. Wonderfully balanced decisions in you work keeps me coming back for content. Yes, I still play my Gibson in public, but mostly in the parlor nowadays. Thanks Ted!
Nice work bringing these old Gibsons back to life.
Another stellar vid, and I appreciate the closure on this series!!!
That Jumbo just sounds so old and mellow. Great work.
Thank you.
Coffee and a brandy and twdfrd...perfect Sunday evening...wish I had something to polish.
Absolutely amazing. The minor chords on that southern jumbo sounded almost creepy good
I knew it 😊 It‘s getting close to midnight here in Germany but waited for the video. Nice to end the week and start the new one 🥳
A visual account of craftsman like prowess is incomplete without the requisite " polishing, polishing, polishing"...
Beautiful old Gibsons after you were finished with them, Ted. I was almost in tears with the sound of them... just beautiful.
You have admirable skills. It’s a pleasure to watch you work.
Amazing.
Thank you for bringing us along
I must say that I've enjoyed the journey these old girls have had. So educational and inspiring.
The SJ turned out amazingly well as did the J45 both was great lessons thank you
Beautiful work, thank you for sharing your craft.
The most important musical thing from 1946 I can think of is the benefit concert for Isaac Woodard in NYC. Woodard was a black US G.I. who immediately upon being discharged from fighting in the Pacific got into a nonviolent argument with a bus driver in South Carolina . He was brutally attacked by police and blinded.
Billie Holiday, Woodie Guthrie and Joe Lewis played at the benefit. Of course this didn't make the charts but ~36,000 people showed up and it was a big early spark of postwar civil rights activism. Woody Guthrie's song "The Blinding of Isaac Woodard", written with the help of Woodard himself is likely the most notable historical song of the year. You can find a great PBS documentary about Woodard online to watch for free.
Guthrie said this about his song: "this one I made up so's you wouldn't be forgetting what happened to this famous Negro soldier less than three hours after he got his Honorable Discharge down in Atlanta.... I sung this Isaac Woodard song in the Lewisohn Stadium one night for more than 36,000 people, and I got the loudest applause I've ever got in my whole life. This song is a long song, but most of the action is told in Isaac's own words. I made this ballad up because we'll need lots of songs like this one before we win our fight for racial equality in our big free United States."
Thanks as always for a great video Ted, on the slim chance of your reading this haha.
Lyrics to Guthrie's song and his comments on it:
web.archive.org/web/20050114003432/members.fortunecity.com/folkfred/blind.html
Documentary:
www.pbs.org/video/the-blinding-of-isaac-woodard-knf0hq/
A long and very detailed account of what happened to Woodard:
lithub.com/an-account-of-the-blinding-of-sgt-isaac-woodard-by-the-police-officer-lynwood-shull/?single=true
As an American history buff, this is a new story I have learned! Thanks for sharing. I will check out these links !! 😊
Thanks , jeez those gibs sound great.
Finales! Finally! Sad to see it end. But "How can I miss you if you won't go away!"
Really enjoyed this series. Thanks for taking the all the time to share it with us, as you always do. I look forward to your videos every week.
They both have a voice that can now be heard, without your gift as a master luthier they would remain silent, fantastic series. I wish you well.
The Southern Jumbo has amazing balance, and, what a low E! Nice work, as always, Ted.
Ted, I hope you see this. I just want to say that you are very intelligent whether guitar related or not. You are very intelligent and it is very refreshing. Thanks for just being, you. Much love from Oklahoma! ❤️™️
Your work is impeccable. They sound better than the new ones IMO. I also find that after a craftsman such as yourself works on them, they sound much better. No big deal, but I was hoping that where the knobs were would have come out better. They came out great compared to what mine would have looked like. I was just hoping you had a trick up your sleeve for it, so I could do it in the future. Thanks for the video.
Bravo!
Damn. That was an amazing trek. Thanks for sharing this.
Amazing work! Well done!!
Very nice, thanks
A wonderful repair trip,thankyou,
Very nice.
Love the sound of those Gibbeys
Plenty of now-renowned vintage guitar/musical-instrument amplifiers had specific accordion inputs right up into the early 1960s; Magnatone, Ampeg, Sano, some Gibson amps IIRC, and rarer ones like Flot-A-Tone. Many guitarists have found that the accordion input often had more gain than the guitar input and so you can guess which input they prefer! What nobody seems to know anymore is exactly how they would pick up the accordion signal and put it into an amp. Some kind of internal multi- microphone system? A magnetic pickup would be unlikely to do anything whatsoever on an accordion....
You can put a magnetic pickup on metal reeds. No idea if thats what they did.
Thank you for a beautiful documentary!
nice job
What an awesome series! Thanks so much.
A really wonderful series , fantastic to see the sympathetic restoration of these beautiful instruments , thank you so much , all the best wishes to you 🌈🌸🎸🎵👍💞
Someone commented about you being a luthier and historian. That seems spot on and one of the reasons I enjoy the videos.
The amount of time and skill needed in these two restorations is quite intense. Thanks for showing us just what it takes to accomplish this.
Excellent series. It's so cool to see those well loved relics restored to viability.
Watching this man work keeps me sane and centered. Very calming and I look up to master craftsmen.
Wow, they sound great!
Dayum! 15 thou of wear on the board!
Accordions were popular all the way into the 60’s. My first guitar teacher was an accordion player first, guitar player second. The Beetles changed things. The EJ1 Fujigen Gakki that I found in the dumpster recently had an Imperial label on it. From the Imperial Accordion Company of Chicago, IL! Looks like it was made in 1963, right at the start of the British Invasion. 😊 Nice job on those two Gibsons. That old thing sounds wonderful. Nothing wrong with new guitars. The good ones get sorted out, and in fifty years they’ll be classics too.
well worth your time and my time
Love what you have done.
Love the J45, like the SJ
Absolutely top notch!! Loved this
series!!!!
I watched these videos with special interest, as an owner of two vintage Gibsons. You worked near-miracles on these guitars. Exceptional work!
That was a lot of work.
They both sound good! Thanks again for a great video
Bravo! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼