A dear friend of mine passed away Thursday. He lived in Hamilton and loved music, and I would share your videos with him. Watching this video today helped me, so thank you so very much. Here is to a healthy, happy, and joyful New Year
My friend passed away this year the day before my birthday…. I’ve learned that all we can do is to further their dreams that didn’t come to fruition. We do this for them, because the only way out from the grief is to push through. I wish you a wonderful new year, hope the best for you and cheers!!!!
I do not play, don't own a guitar, but your videos are quietly soothing and educational at a time when the rest of the world seems to be shouting. Thank you for teaching and entertaining us when it would be so much easier for you to do your work without us looking over your shoulder.
Before I watch your last video of 2022, let me thank you for your channel and your knowledge and ability and willingness to share. It seems your videos always come around when I need them, yes you bring folks something really good. I love guitars, especially acoustics and I love seeing the variety in your videos. I also appreciate your low key approach and your in depth explanations. Thanks again and here’s wishing you and yours the best that 2023 can bring. Happy New Year!!! 🎉 Peace on Earth. ✌🏼
Thank you Ted for another great year of quality content (also highly addictive) you created on this channel. I enjoyed watching all the videos and looking forward to watch you at work in 2023. Happy New Year to you and all the twoofrd gang!
I think the New Year is one of the better, more honest holidays. Christmas Day isn't the birthday of Jesus, if he ever existed, and Easter is another massive leap of faith. Here in Australia we celebrate the Queen's birthday, not on her actual birthday though. The various states go their own way to establish a day, all of which are months away from her actual birthday.
@@deaddoll1361 , for me, perhaps the only reason to quietly "celebrate" New Years, maybe with a nice meal at home, is that Christmas is over and done with! I have really come to dread the Christmas season, which now seems to begin well before Thanksgiving. I hate the commercialism, the crowded stores and stressed out shoppers, the absent-minded drivers (it has been a record-setting year statistically for fatal car crashes and pedestrians being hit and killed) the forced cheer, the ever-more extravagant decking out of homes with garish lights, and the bad music. Have we advanced so little as a species that we need to go to such lengths just to dispel the winter blahs? Have millions of us got a case of SADD, seasonal affective depressive disorder brought on by shorter days and/or cooler weather? Commercialism is not the answer for that. I'm glad to see it go away for the next ten months or so! (Granted, your experience at this time of year, your summer down below the equator, might be different).
*Tonight I will clamp and heat a neck to straighten it, but I also grabbed one of my ratty brand-x Les Paul hollowbodies due for work, and the BODY warped from sitting near the heater duct!* 😭😭😭 Between the F-holes and the pickups. Soon I will bridge something inside of it, heat it and slowly return it to health. *I have a ton of repairs and major instrument work in general you've inspired me to get busy on.*
13:15 Here comes the new saddle slot. Being sure to remind ourselves that this is going to be a lefty guitar, it needs to slant in the right direction for it to work properly.
Hello my friend! I'm an HVAC service technician & after a long day of fixing HVAC hack work it restores my faith that not all repairmen are butchers. Keep up the good work!! IDK why, haha, but I get the feeling that you couldn't/wouldn't do hack work even if a customer wanted you too. 🤷♂️
Long time watcher here. I don't comment often. Anyway ... I enjoy watching your videos. I don't own a guitar nor have I ever played one, but I am a fan of rock and guitars and guitar players AND guitar repairmen. Thanks for your good work.
Thanks for your wisdom Ted! Recently acquired a Taiwan made FG-150 red label, had some significant bow though, well over a mm of relief. Grabbed some wood blocks a 1x2 and a clamp, stuck a reptile tank heat pad against the frets and put it in a back bow for a couple days. Took the heat away and after another day resting unclamped it to find it took on a much much straighter form. Fixed up the plate the truss rod nut was bearing against and she’s holding a playable action, though revealed some less than perfectly levelled frets haha. Wouldn’t have had the confidence without seeing it done here a few times. Cheers and all the best for ‘23!
I often wonder if the ending clips feature musical styles associated with the owner or just what Ted feels like playing to show off the guitar's unique tonal structure.
Happy New Year, Ted! Thanks for another year of fascinating, challenging and just plain fun repair videos. All the very best for 2023 - and better health for you and yours! Cheers from across the pond in Liverpool, UK!
What a unique sound that guitar has! I really enjoyed the piece you played at the end as well. I wish I could put it in an endless loop and meditate by it. Ommmm...........
Just finished working on my '67 Goya 12 string. Several small things, like crack repair, new nut, sanding down a dished fret board. It is louder and much easier to play. Purchased for about $100 US, and I probably would have paid at least a few hundred, had I charged myself for time and material. Now I have a very playable, nice sounding guitar. Much what I did, I learned watching these vids. Thanks, Ted!
Thank You Ted, as always you add heart strings to the guitars you repair that always brings a smile. Great Work, Great sound, great song. Happy new year!
Happy New Year from west coast BC Yeah, inflation is killing us out here as well. After watching so many of your videos I think you'd be worth the extra cost!
That is an unbelievably good-sounding guitar. I reckon that bringing and example like this up to modern standards, while expensive and more than the price of a new guitar, that it's still worth the money, because new guitars often don't sound this good until they have a number of years on them. If it were me, I'd also pay you to fully upgrade it with a truss rod, and a radiused fretboard.
It’s interesting how, as far as I know, levin never used x bracing on their guitars, even when they did their larger jumbo inspired models, here in Sweden levin guitars are everywhere but it’s usually guitars that’s been put in a closet for 50 years so playability is hit and miss
Im from Iceland and my great grandmother spent all her confirmation money on a guitar exactly like this. It was played to death and then put in a closet for 50 years. When i got it i could stick my hand between the strings and the fretboard the action was insane. Are these guitars supposed to have steel strings? The bridges look like classical bridges but the tuners are definitely steel string. I can do every repair to it except a neck reset, what should i do?
Ciggy, my two goliaths (Goya badged T18 and GG163) are both x-braced. Arnar, the bridge is for steel. You’ll even see some Gibson and Harmony guitars with that style of bridge. When it comes to resetting the neck of your Grandmother’s guitar, you have to decide between the risk and the reward. If it’s important enough of a memento then save and wait to get it done properly. Or if it is not that precious, you can use a very small kerf saw to cut the heel from the body, leaving the fingerboard attached, then pull sandpaper through the gap (equally on both sides of the heel) to remove wood in a way that causes the heel/neck to angle back, bringing the string height down. This would be something you would check the progress on repeatedly. Once you have a good neck angle, glue and bolt that heel back to the body.
Upgrade my D-28 with a broken headset for about 25 years finally got the nerve up to change the neck out you taught me how to do it local guitar shop offered me a job😅 thank you
Happy new year to one of the best canucks out there. Thanks for everything you do a d wishing you and your family a wonderful new year, filled with Kong Fu resets and action
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A dear friend of mine passed away Thursday. He lived in Hamilton and loved music, and I would share your videos with him. Watching this video today helped me, so thank you so very much. Here is to a healthy, happy, and joyful New Year
I'm sorry for your loss..
@@DavidMorley Thank you
Sorry for your loss...
My friend passed away this year the day before my birthday…. I’ve learned that all we can do is to further their dreams that didn’t come to fruition. We do this for them, because the only way out from the grief is to push through. I wish you a wonderful new year, hope the best for you and cheers!!!!
My condolences.
I do not play, don't own a guitar, but your videos are quietly soothing and educational at a time when the rest of the world seems to be shouting. Thank you for teaching and entertaining us when it would be so much easier for you to do your work without us looking over your shoulder.
I never get tired of this stuff...TY
The bridge is original. Happy new year!
A "Gumby" head stock!!!
For anyone curious, Levin sounds more like Leveen. Almost nailed Göteborg (Gothenburg) though. Have a happy new one!
The sinister side! Hahaha!
Received my Woodford t-shirt yesterday in Perth, Western Australia. Thanks for your entertaining content.
Before I watch your last video of 2022, let me thank you for your channel and your knowledge and ability and willingness to share. It seems your videos always come around when I need them, yes you bring folks something really good. I love guitars, especially acoustics and I love seeing the variety in your videos. I also appreciate your low key approach and your in depth explanations. Thanks again and here’s wishing you and yours the best that 2023 can bring. Happy New Year!!! 🎉 Peace on Earth. ✌🏼
Loved it and it sounded fantastic ! 👏
As usual another amazing video.
ahhhh twoodfrd … the bob ross of guitar repair! ❤
Quite a unique sound to it, IMO
With that chunk of 2x4, I'm reminded of the one memorable line from Crocodile Dundee 2. "That's not a cleat. This is a cleat!"
I’m always impressed you can play the lefties. As always, thanks for playing them for us Ted.
When you convert enough of them you get pretty good.
Or go crazy.
Or both.
Another great video
Beautiful work ❤❤
A very characterful sound in the end I thought. Well worth repairing. All the best for 2023.
All the best in 2023!
Thank you Ted for another great year of quality content (also highly addictive) you created on this channel. I enjoyed watching all the videos and looking forward to watch you at work in 2023. Happy New Year to you and all the twoofrd gang!
New Year's Eve, one of the most pointless holidays ever in my opinion, just became a little more interesting. Thank you Ted!
I think the New Year is one of the better, more honest holidays. Christmas Day isn't the birthday of Jesus, if he ever existed, and Easter is another massive leap of faith. Here in Australia we celebrate the Queen's birthday, not on her actual birthday though. The various states go their own way to establish a day, all of which are months away from her actual birthday.
@@deaddoll1361 , for me, perhaps the only reason to quietly "celebrate" New Years, maybe with a nice meal at home, is that Christmas is over and done with! I have really come to dread the Christmas season, which now seems to begin well before Thanksgiving. I hate the commercialism, the crowded stores and stressed out shoppers, the absent-minded drivers (it has been a record-setting year statistically for fatal car crashes and pedestrians being hit and killed) the forced cheer, the ever-more extravagant decking out of homes with garish lights, and the bad music. Have we advanced so little as a species that we need to go to such lengths just to dispel the winter blahs? Have millions of us got a case of SADD, seasonal affective depressive disorder brought on by shorter days and/or cooler weather? Commercialism is not the answer for that. I'm glad to see it go away for the next ten months or so! (Granted, your experience at this time of year, your summer down below the equator, might be different).
Ba hum bug
@@goodun2974 👏👏👏👏
Couldn't agree more.
@@deaddoll1361 you are a dead doll,,,and a bit of a downer,,,wouldn't trade my happy life for a hint of yours
*Tonight I will clamp and heat a neck to straighten it, but I also grabbed one of my ratty brand-x Les Paul hollowbodies due for work, and the BODY warped from sitting near the heater duct!* 😭😭😭
Between the F-holes and the pickups.
Soon I will bridge something inside of it, heat it and slowly return it to health.
*I have a ton of repairs and major instrument work in general you've inspired me to get busy on.*
Happy New Year to you too sir.
Happy new year, Ted.
Good health to you in 2023.
13:15 Here comes the new saddle slot. Being sure to remind ourselves that this is going to be a lefty guitar, it needs to slant in the right direction for it to work properly.
Hello my friend! I'm an HVAC service technician & after a long day of fixing HVAC hack work it restores my faith that not all repairmen are butchers. Keep up the good work!! IDK why, haha, but I get the feeling that you couldn't/wouldn't do hack work even if a customer wanted you too. 🤷♂️
Did he just say "with the pointy stick"?
You're a treasure, sir.
Excellent... interesting, informative, great skills, and entertaining. 😀
Long time watcher here. I don't comment often. Anyway ... I enjoy watching your videos. I don't own a guitar nor have I ever played one, but I am a fan of rock and guitars and guitar players AND guitar repairmen. Thanks for your good work.
I love your videos. You’re so soft-spoken and knowledgeable. Very therapeutic. I wish you had more time to put out more.
Nice work Ted........Thanks for the humor...makes the job go easier for sure! These old guitars are without a doubt worth saving
What's the name of the intro music?
love these vintage guitars and yea I would spend to have it playable. You do really fine work thank you taking the time to let us watch.
Watching a new Ted Woodford video is a great way to start my new year.
Best Wishes to Ted, and all the Gang!
I can pretty much say you’re my favourite online luthier. A very intelligent craftsman.
Excellent craftsmanship.
Wow. That guitar has some Really nice tone.
Beautiful work
Splendid as usual 👌
Thanks for your wisdom Ted! Recently acquired a Taiwan made FG-150 red label, had some significant bow though, well over a mm of relief. Grabbed some wood blocks a 1x2 and a clamp, stuck a reptile tank heat pad against the frets and put it in a back bow for a couple days. Took the heat away and after another day resting unclamped it to find it took on a much much straighter form. Fixed up the plate the truss rod nut was bearing against and she’s holding a playable action, though revealed some less than perfectly levelled frets haha. Wouldn’t have had the confidence without seeing it done here a few times. Cheers and all the best for ‘23!
I thoroughly enjoy every one of your videos, thanks.
Happy new year Ted : )
Mad props for the somewhat authentic pronunciation of Göteborg.
The headstock reminds me of First Act's "Gumby" headstock.
I often wonder if the ending clips feature musical styles associated with the owner or just what Ted feels like playing to show off the guitar's unique tonal structure.
Thanks Ted, I always smile and say “ooh good!” when one of your videos appears … Happy New Year to you! 😊
The headstock shape is vaguely Supro/National-ish.
Exactly!
Love what ya do brother 😊
blessings to you, TWoody....see you, or your work, next year!
Happy New Year, Ted!
Thanks for another year of fascinating, challenging and just plain fun repair videos.
All the very best for 2023 - and better health for you and yours!
Cheers from across the pond in Liverpool, UK!
Didn’t Django Reinhardt get photographed playing a Levin archtop at some point? Happy 2023 to you and yours! Thank you!
I was hoping for a video today, thank you! Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year! Thanks for sharing.
The instrument has a very pleasing and balanced tone. Especially lovely in dadgad. I’m sure the the customer will be pleased.
Really appreciate you putting this out NYE. Thankful for you and the time you spend sharing your knowledge and passion!
Great job on an interesting guitar. Thanks.
Dang that is one sweet sounding guitar, very good repair
Python reference received.
I like the lighter color of the fretboard
As a lefty that learnt to play on a upside down righty..I'll copy the sentiments of the Swedish luthiers....also Happy new year everyone!!
" A funny way to put the neck on."
Sounds like a comedy about Frankenstein.
Happy New Year!
Another win! Thanks for posting, I love seeing how you work through these unusual situations.
Never miss a video thanks for all the great shows HNY 2023!
I believe the icy giant Ted is referring to is really himself.
What a unique sound that guitar has! I really enjoyed the piece you played at the end as well. I wish I could put it in an endless loop and meditate by it. Ommmm...........
Thanks again Ted. Happy New Year!!
A great repairman can fix anything.
One could have limbo danced under the strings as it was... well, I couldn't, but someone vaguely flexible might.
Today is a good day with a new video from you!
You have come a long way. Well done.
I just realized. You are in all actuality, a guitar surgeon. Lmao
If it’s flipped over, wouldn’t it be DAGDAD?
Thanks Ted! Most of the good I got from RUclips this year was from watching your videos.
Just finished working on my '67 Goya 12 string. Several small things, like crack repair, new nut, sanding down a dished fret board. It is louder and much easier to play. Purchased for about $100 US, and I probably would have paid at least a few hundred, had I charged myself for time and material. Now I have a very playable, nice sounding guitar.
Much what I did, I learned watching these vids. Thanks, Ted!
Awesome way to end the year with 1 last repair video feom our favorite luthier...Hope you have a great start to 2023 sir!!!!!!
Thank You Ted, as always you add heart strings to the guitars you repair that always brings a smile. Great Work, Great sound, great song. Happy new year!
All the BEST in 2023 TED. Not going to have to improve much to BEAT 2022. lol
Happy New Year from west coast BC
Yeah, inflation is killing us out here as well. After watching so many of your videos I think you'd be worth the extra cost!
$700 to $900 CAD is $517.53 - $665.37 US, which is a nice discount!
That is an unbelievably good-sounding guitar. I reckon that bringing and example like this up to modern standards, while expensive and more than the price of a new guitar, that it's still worth the money, because new guitars often don't sound this good until they have a number of years on them.
If it were me, I'd also pay you to fully upgrade it with a truss rod, and a radiused fretboard.
Happy New year,
from down under
It’s interesting how, as far as I know, levin never used x bracing on their guitars, even when they did their larger jumbo inspired models, here in Sweden levin guitars are everywhere but it’s usually guitars that’s been put in a closet for 50 years so playability is hit and miss
Im from Iceland and my great grandmother spent all her confirmation money on a guitar exactly like this. It was played to death and then put in a closet for 50 years.
When i got it i could stick my hand between the strings and the fretboard the action was insane. Are these guitars supposed to have steel strings? The bridges look like classical bridges but the tuners are definitely steel string.
I can do every repair to it except a neck reset, what should i do?
Ciggy, my two goliaths (Goya badged T18 and GG163) are both x-braced. Arnar, the bridge is for steel. You’ll even see some Gibson and Harmony guitars with that style of bridge. When it comes to resetting the neck of your Grandmother’s guitar, you have to decide between the risk and the reward. If it’s important enough of a memento then save and wait to get it done properly. Or if it is not that precious, you can use a very small kerf saw to cut the heel from the body, leaving the fingerboard attached, then pull sandpaper through the gap (equally on both sides of the heel) to remove wood in a way that causes the heel/neck to angle back, bringing the string height down. This would be something you would check the progress on repeatedly. Once you have a good neck angle, glue and bolt that heel back to the body.
Upgrade my D-28 with a broken headset for about 25 years finally got the nerve up to change the neck out you taught me how to do it local guitar shop offered me a job😅 thank you
Happy New Year, and yes, raise your prices. You’re worth it!
I am left handed. Back in the day I had a few right handed turned upside down. I have to say I never missed having those side dot markers.
Great Job! Sounds excellent too!
A Happy and Safe New Year to you all!
Interesting guitar repair for sure! Happy New Year to all of you! :)
Jeez, I'm not so sure you could get a guitar that looks or sounds as good as that one for under $1000!
Happy new year to one of the best canucks out there. Thanks for everything you do a d wishing you and your family a wonderful new year, filled with Kong Fu resets and action
Thanks for the hours of entertainment! Happy New Year!
All the very best to you and yous in 23,and thanks for all your graft and sharing in 22👍👍👍👍👍🥃Respect to you mate.
Seeing yet another lefty conversion I wonder how large a collection the owner has. It must be unique. Have a Happy and prosperous New Year.
Thank you for the education and entertainment. I wish you and your family good health and all the best in the New Year.
Ted, thanks again for another greatly anticipated episode!
Does anybody else feel really special being part of his gang?
You are not a luthier! You are a magician!
to enjoy watching your work, your skills & your playing. Thx
Lol gotta love the tone 2x4