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. ✌🏼
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 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).
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!
*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, 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!
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. 🤷♂️
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!
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!
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.
As an optometrist we refer to the right eye as OD (ocular dexter) and the left ad OS (ocular sinister). Great to hear sinister used in the guitar world.😂Thanks for all the entertaining and informative content. Excellent work my friend.
Happy New year. Really enjoy your videos. Was just in Tugaske Sk. Picking up some wood and mentioned to Dave Freeman ho much I enjoy your vids. The guitar sounds great!
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!
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
You might not get it yet Ted. I’ve watched every video and it’s not as much the instrument (although learning about new brands and the backstory is very entertaining). It’s your skill, craftsmanship, knowledge, presentation and dogged determination to do your best work that I enjoy so much.
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...........
Your videos make me really miss woodworking. Not having a garage is no fun. But it all so made me really glad I don't work on acoustic guitars. Not sure I have the patience haha!
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
Incredible time consuming work. Your videos are awesome. I would have walked away from this. A teaching moment thats worth a fortune. Thank you for the detailed explanation and camera work.
I may be a little bit of a hack when it comes to lutherie but I recognize the work of a fine craftsman when I see it. Thanks for all your effort in making these entertaining and instructive videos. Happy New Year!
Sometimes love outweighs cost. I have an Ediphone LP that just simply feels right. If the neck ever broke, I would spend the money to fix it. It is just worth it to me. I truly enjoy your videos, the craftsmanship is just amazing. Thank you for sharing your talent.
I always get a bit excited when I see a new video from you. Cheers and Happy New Year from Alberta! Much love to you and your family, from a long-time fan who has watched all your videos multiple times.
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 to you I was willing to tackle a headstock break on a cheap LP-style guitar over my holiday break. Plus it was basically worthless so no pressure. Your willingness to share and your brilliant way with teaching gave me some confidence to at least try. Glued back on, splines added, cracks filled and a few other things. It's currently waiting for the clearcoat to cure and I'll start getting that level sanded and buffed. While it is light-years away from the quality of your work, I'm quite happy with the result for my first go. (Fingers crossed the repair holds)
Great video as usual, Ted. If you're ever looking for unsolicited video ideas, I'd love to get a "shop tour" video that explores your setup. I believe your main setup is in the basement, with some tooling out in the shed - I'm curious what you consider essential and how your bench is arranged, how you store scraps/material, and other fodder like that. Anyway, happy new year!
As always your content is awesome! I play guitar but right now I have slowed down due to medical issues. I have a cheapy old Fender C60 acoustic that has issues. I plan to add bracing to level out the front of the guitar, and the neck angle is a little extreme so I may attempt to repair this as well. I would never have tried this, and just put the guitar in the trash, but watching your videos has made me think I should give the bracing upgrade and the neck repair a try because if I screw it up it was going to end up in the trash, and if I succeed it will make a nice piece for my 13 year old grand son to play, and learn to play on when he visits. I have a small collection of guitars mostly solid body electrics and old Fender acoustic might keep the dings and marks to a minimum on my collection. Thank you for producing these great to watch, relaxing, and education videos. I hope you had a great Christmas, and a happy new year.
Happy New Year Ted ! Another great repair video. Having never seen a Levin if something like that came in here I now (having looked over your shoulder) would not be quite as terrified of it 😂 You make it all look so much easier than it actually is.
I am still working on a binge of watching your videos. Thank you so much for doing whatcha do! I really wish someone in Canada would donate a decent Fender Champ tube combo as a test amp for you. Or maybe a Traynor, eh. Best wishes for 2023.
Happy New Year! Looks like you've got a left handed customer, as for how that goes, I'll save it for later to compliment your playing upside down & back to front, the way I had to learn on a righty...))
Happy New Year Ted! Thanks for all the enjoyable content. I've never played a guitar, and my woodworking skills and ambitions are hack level at best, but I've found myself coming back to your stuff over and over. Oh, and your left handed customer has a lot of interesting guitars...
A great repair. A very Happy New Year to you, Ted. BTW, anyone who has an instrument they really care about will be willing to pay your new rate, in order to have you work on it.
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.
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. ✌🏼
Received my Woodford t-shirt yesterday in Perth, Western Australia. Thanks for your entertaining content.
Im in perth too
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.
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 never get tired of this stuff...TY
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
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!
*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.*
Excellent craftsmanship.
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!
Did he just say "with the pointy stick"?
You're a treasure, sir.
Watching a new Ted Woodford video is a great way to start my new year.
Best Wishes to Ted, and all the Gang!
A very characterful sound in the end I thought. Well worth repairing. All the best for 2023.
Nice work Ted........Thanks for the humor...makes the job go easier for sure! These old guitars are without a doubt worth saving
I was hoping for a video today, thank you! Happy New Year!!
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. 🤷♂️
Loved it and it sounded fantastic ! 👏
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!
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!
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!
blessings to you, TWoody....see you, or your work, next year!
Thanks Ted, I always smile and say “ooh good!” when one of your videos appears … Happy New Year to you! 😊
Wow. That guitar has some Really nice tone.
The bridge is original. Happy new year!
Beautiful work ❤❤
I thoroughly enjoy every one of your videos, thanks.
As usual another amazing video.
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.
The sinister side! Hahaha!
Great job on an interesting guitar. Thanks.
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.
I can pretty much say you’re my favourite online luthier. A very intelligent craftsman.
As an optometrist we refer to the right eye as OD (ocular dexter) and the left ad OS (ocular sinister). Great to hear sinister used in the guitar world.😂Thanks for all the entertaining and informative content. Excellent work my friend.
Another win! Thanks for posting, I love seeing how you work through these unusual situations.
The instrument has a very pleasing and balanced tone. Especially lovely in dadgad. I’m sure the the customer will be pleased.
Excellent... interesting, informative, great skills, and entertaining. 😀
Really appreciate you putting this out NYE. Thankful for you and the time you spend sharing your knowledge and passion!
For anyone curious, Levin sounds more like Leveen. Almost nailed Göteborg (Gothenburg) though. Have a happy new one!
Happy New year. Really enjoy your videos. Was just in Tugaske Sk. Picking up some wood and mentioned to Dave Freeman ho much I enjoy your vids. The guitar sounds great!
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 to you too sir.
Thanks for the hours of entertainment! Happy New Year!
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
You might not get it yet Ted. I’ve watched every video and it’s not as much the instrument (although learning about new brands and the backstory is very entertaining). It’s your skill, craftsmanship, knowledge, presentation and dogged determination to do your best work that I enjoy so much.
Never miss a video thanks for all the great shows HNY 2023!
Happy new year, Ted.
Good health to you in 2023.
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...........
All the very best to you and yous in 23,and thanks for all your graft and sharing in 22👍👍👍👍👍🥃Respect to you mate.
Your videos make me really miss woodworking. Not having a garage is no fun. But it all so made me really glad I don't work on acoustic guitars. Not sure I have the patience haha!
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
Incredible time consuming work. Your videos are awesome. I would have walked away from this. A teaching moment thats worth a fortune. Thank you for the detailed explanation and camera work.
Splendid as usual 👌
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.
ahhhh twoodfrd … the bob ross of guitar repair! ❤
Awesome way to end the year with 1 last repair video feom our favorite luthier...Hope you have a great start to 2023 sir!!!!!!
I may be a little bit of a hack when it comes to lutherie but I recognize the work of a fine craftsman when I see it.
Thanks for all your effort in making these entertaining and instructive videos. Happy New Year!
Thanks Ted! Most of the good I got from RUclips this year was from watching your videos.
Happy new year to the northern king of string repair....wishing you success in all your ethical endeavors!
Sometimes love outweighs cost. I have an Ediphone LP that just simply feels right. If the neck ever broke, I would spend the money to fix it. It is just worth it to me. I truly enjoy your videos, the craftsmanship is just amazing. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Happy New Year! Thanks for all your knowledge and entertainment. ♫
Happy New Year! Thanks for sharing.
Have a great 2023. Thanks for all the great vids this year.
I always get a bit excited when I see a new video from you. Cheers and Happy New Year from Alberta! Much love to you and your family, from a long-time fan who has watched all your videos multiple times.
nice work as always .And happy new year to you Ted from everybody here (a.k.a. Me) at Sailors Grave Tattoo in Woodstock Illinois. see you next year !
Happy New Year Ted.
Thanks for the entertainment, and education.
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.
Thank you for the education and entertainment. I wish you and your family good health and all the best in the New Year.
Thanks Ted. Happy New Year.
Another wonderful vid....you managed to polish off another year.Happy New Year.
to enjoy watching your work, your skills & your playing. Thx
@15:14 - amazing use of the Latin 🤣
So happy to see this pop up today!!! I’ve been checking every day for about a week, Ted. Hope you’re having an awesome holiday season!
Love what ya do brother 😊
Happy New Year Ted.
Thanks to you I was willing to tackle a headstock break on a cheap LP-style guitar over my holiday break.
Plus it was basically worthless so no pressure.
Your willingness to share and your brilliant way with teaching gave me some confidence to at least try.
Glued back on, splines added, cracks filled and a few other things.
It's currently waiting for the clearcoat to cure and I'll start getting that level sanded and buffed.
While it is light-years away from the quality of your work, I'm quite happy with the result for my first go. (Fingers crossed the repair holds)
You have come a long way. Well done.
Dang that is one sweet sounding guitar, very good repair
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!"
Great video as usual, Ted.
If you're ever looking for unsolicited video ideas, I'd love to get a "shop tour" video that explores your setup. I believe your main setup is in the basement, with some tooling out in the shed - I'm curious what you consider essential and how your bench is arranged, how you store scraps/material, and other fodder like that.
Anyway, happy new year!
Great work once again!
Happy New Year
You might have something with that upside-down & backwards in that tuning! That sounded so sweet...imolol
As always your content is awesome! I play guitar but right now I have slowed down due to medical issues. I have a cheapy old Fender C60 acoustic that has issues. I plan to add bracing to level out the front of the guitar, and the neck angle is a little extreme so I may attempt to repair this as well. I would never have tried this, and just put the guitar in the trash, but watching your videos has made me think I should give the bracing upgrade and the neck repair a try because if I screw it up it was going to end up in the trash, and if I succeed it will make a nice piece for my 13 year old grand son to play, and learn to play on when he visits. I have a small collection of guitars mostly solid body electrics and old Fender acoustic might keep the dings and marks to a minimum on my collection. Thank you for producing these great to watch, relaxing, and education videos. I hope you had a great Christmas, and a happy new year.
Blessing to have a new video :)
Thank you for the information :)
Happiest new year's
Ted, thanks again for another greatly anticipated episode!
Happy New Year Ted ! Another great repair video. Having never seen a Levin if something like that came in here I now (having looked over your shoulder) would not be quite as terrified of it 😂 You make it all look so much easier than it actually is.
Great Job! Sounds excellent too!
Nice video, great explanations regarding the physical construction of the instrument. I subscribed.
I am still working on a binge of watching your videos. Thank you so much for doing whatcha do!
I really wish someone in Canada would donate a decent Fender Champ tube combo as a test amp for you. Or maybe a Traynor, eh.
Best wishes for 2023.
Happy new Year. Another great video. Thank you.
Happy New Year! Looks like you've got a left handed customer, as for how that goes, I'll save it for later to compliment your playing upside down & back to front, the way I had to learn on a righty...))
Happy New Year Ted! Thanks for all the enjoyable content. I've never played a guitar, and my woodworking skills and ambitions are hack level at best, but I've found myself coming back to your stuff over and over. Oh, and your left handed customer has a lot of interesting guitars...
This is one of the most interesting repair jobs I have seen you do. Very educational! Have a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!!!
Interesting guitar repair for sure! Happy New Year to all of you! :)
Thanks again Ted. Happy New Year!!
You do most awesome work... thanks for your videos and... Happy New Year :)
Once again, amazing work! Happy New Year and I wish you all the best in 2023
Happy New Year! Thanks for all the quality videos and sharing your knowledge.
That's high-quality kiln-dried 2x4! 🤣 Happy New Year!🎉
A 50 dollar piece ...
A great repair. A very Happy New Year to you, Ted. BTW, anyone who has an instrument they really care about will be willing to pay your new rate, in order to have you work on it.
Happy New Year. Thanks so much for all the fantastic videos through 2022. I'm looking forward to what 2023 has to offer. Cheers.