He's mentioned Ted's videos quite frequently. Sometimes he'll even be wearing a Woodford hat. 2 of my favorite people crossing over like that makes me very happy.
My father can attest to the compress-ability of poplar. Had a tree rot and fall down in our yard, well over 3 ft. diameter base. When it came time for splitting into firewood, the Korean War Marine vet's ax would simply bounce off the piece. All compression, zero penetration. When it did split, it held together with a wet stringiness that would put a celery stalk to shame. Most pungent rotting smell, like a dead wild boar. Could be smelt a mile away.
I was in my garage working on fitting the neck on my second guitar build and I was doing my sandpaper pulls. As I was working on it, I thought, Tom never talks about the little hump you get in the middle of the bottom of the heal. I used the pull method to smooth it out, but I was not sure if I was doing it right. 2 hours later, I watch this and learn that, yes, that is the right way to take care of that. I learn something new in every video. Great content! I really appreciate that you take the time to educate your viewers every week. I know it is a lot of work. Just want you to know I appreciate it.
That was an interesting one, for sure, and it ended up sounding good. I love that you do your best to get the end result as good as possible, even if the instrument itself was never expected to be up to that standard. It's got character.
Please buy such a guitar yourself, when you get the chance. Now you know what it takes to repair the weak spots. Finding cheap material inside a neck, it always surprises me. Why don't they spend a tiny bit more money, while building? It is such a shame, when the rest of instrument is pretty okay. Who really wants a sound muffler quality neck, or one that gets the bends when it starts raining?
Fine video as always, Ted! "Mother of Toilet Seat" eh?? Never heard that term before!! LOL!! 😊 I found that description TOTALLY & HUMOROUSLY, COINCIDENTAL! LOL!! I say that, because your telling this, has brought back memories to the fact that the toilet seat in the first house I remember living in, had the EXACT SAME appearance as that pickguard! LOL!! The house I'm speaking of, was located near Portage, Pa; and was owned by my paternal grandparents. We moved into it, in April 1968; (which was 4 months before I turned 2 yrs. old), & I haven't much memories of that house though, until nearly 2 years or so later. Anyway, my grandparents had moved out of that house, around Sept. of 1962, and at first, rented it to two newlyweds, (a fellow named: Don and his new bride), whose families were both neighbors then, and still were, during my time there. Anyway, by the time I came to remember that ol' seat, it had begun flaking, and was becoming rough to sit on! 😄 I recall around 1973, my Grandma came to stay with us for a week or so, while my mother had surgery, and was recuperating in the hospital, in Danville, Pa. I can still recall a bit, about the 1st time my Grandma exited our Bathroom, after using it. She just ranted, and ranted on! Not only about the condition of that seat, but about what she called: "that HORRID color!!" LOL!! I recall her saying that - that particular seat, must've been the one that Don put on, after he'd notified her that a new one was needed, at some point while they lived there, and she had given him permission to replace it himself, after he'd offered to do so: "But why in the wide world on earth, did he have to choose a such a HORRID color and pattern like that one!!" Oh my!! Thanks for churning up those silly memories for me!! Just remembering my late, Grandma ranting on like that, even with her clean language, (as she was a devout christian), along with your "mother of toilet seat" phrase; has totally had me laughing my but off!! 🤣🤣🤣 Best Wishes & Highest Regards Always, & Will be looking forward to more future videos, of your fine luthiery work soon!! Ron H. Abilene, TX. USA.
oh you can say it. why try to be woke correct. craftsmanship. thats the right word. used for centurys. nobodys been offended until now. craftspersonship is just dumb
I find your encyclopedic knowledge of the back stories of the instruments captivating. The repairs are gutsy! I would never have the confidence to tear into vintage instruments to make the repairs you do.
It is becoming increasingly evident, that the works under taken in your videos are a bonus to your prefaced introductions Ted, and are appreciated greatly .
Thank you for another excellent video. Nice work, very thoughtful. Appreciate how you make your concerns manifest, like the MoTS not reacting well to heat, or the poplar neck compressing. They’re useful caveats and provide a lot of insight into the right things to think about when engaging in repair.
The gauze like material underneath the celluloid pieces on the fretboard is called super or crash and it came into widespread use in the manufacturing of books. You can see a super / crash layer in the spine just outside folded and sewn page signatures and just inside the cover boards. It is generally hidden from view by endsheets. You may be able to obtain some from a place that manufactures case bound or hard bound books or from their suppliers. Just found your channel and I find it very relaxing. I had spinal spinal cancer surgery in Jan. '22 and it left me bedridden and I have not even seen my garage or shed since then so it's nice to kind of just coast along with you and learn things looking over your shoulder. Thanks a bunch.
This was a good one! I like that you know where to draw the line on how much effort to put into these. I was in a similar line of work, and you'd see some people get totally screwed by other guys who convince them to go all out and repair something that was never very good to begin with. Anyways, excellent work on a cool little guitar!
I always enjoy the convoluted stories of instrument history. For some reason I like and own older instruments along with their complex problems, but you got me with "it's got to be as fun as it sounds. Something tells me it would be a bowl of fun."
Wow, that is an interesting one there. A novelty with character. Honestly, I usually don't care much for the old Regals, this one is the exception. No truss rod and only .013 relief, only 2 braces and one is being used for the bridge pad, it is in unbelievable great shape. Yes I like it, and the right person did the repair, Great Job!
Your videos are fantastic not only for entertainment value, but from a historical perspective you give us a look inside the processes by which these companies made their instruments. Things like the maple veneer sandwiched Masonite fretboard, and using linen as a sort of binder for the celluloid inlays is invaluable for furute historians and conservators! Between you and Baumgartner Restoration here on RUclips I have developed a deep respect and fascination with conservation and repair.
If all you did was show the repair your videos would still be compulsive viewing but these glimpses into the history of guitar building add so much. Thank you.
I have a mint 1930's round neck Ohau jumbo with an arched back. The back braces look like they came off the hull of a battleship. It's actually a great axe. Never seen another with an arched back before. They put the bridge literally in the wrong place, so I made a custom compensated saddle out of Water buffalo horn that actually overhangs the back of the bridge but it rest both in the slot and on the bridge face so it doesn't fracture. Plays and feels like a new guitar with a few caveats.
How beautitul these binding decorations are. And these plants remind me of a mandolin from Sicilia, there is a mandolin workshop, in the very south of Italy, that has done great decorations, similar to this guitar.
I was not expecting that tone in the end. I know it's a camera mic with its own compression mimicking the sustain, but there were a lot of lovely overtones present. And what right-handed person can just play something like that on a lefty??? As a beginning guitar teacher I find it instructive to occasionally play a lefty to remember what it was like to be a beginner.
That little pickin number was haunting. That Regal sounds like every guitar I heard played by everyone that played guitar in Junior High School! Sounds like a way-back machine,
When you first showed the overview of the guitar, I wondered what the fret markers reminded me of. It was on the tip of my tongue and you said “space invaders”…. I nearly shot my drink out of my nose, that’s it for sure. Lol. Great work as always.
$15 in 1930 is about $266 in today's money. That's actually more expensive than many modern entry level guitars, including Fenders, Epiphones and Yamahas.
Yeah, but they just pump out guitars on CNC machines now, so you end up with a reasonably decent quality baseline for the price. How much time could they possibly afford to take on a guitar like this and turn a profit, considering the tools available? Quality control had to have been practically nonexistent.
@@brianrockwell1805 My point was more that $15 was not 'throw away' money in 1930. It was worth enough in the day to put in some decent labor - wages were typically between 15 and 50 cents an hour. Plus, there's still a trade off between something made entirely by machine vs something made by human hands and eyes.
@@brianrockwell1805 Note also that I mentioned entry level 'name brand' guitars at around $250 today, but you can actually buy bottom tier guitars for less than $50. That would have been like $3 in 1930, and I doubt they could have built anything for that much with hand labor.
@@brianrockwell1805 I think the quality of cheap guitars has gotten worse not better. The CNC machine can only take you so far. Today's cheapest guitars are worse than those of yesteryear. Back then they did not manufacture pure garbage like they do today. There was a red line that no one would cross. It is the $300 to $600 dollar guitars that have seen major improvement, not the very bottom end. That segment has gotten worse.
It's these "ugly ducklings" that are my favourites to see restored. I learned to play guitar on a Harmony archtop with a very pronounced V shape neck, probably a cheapie from the early to mid 1960s. Still regret selling it to get a modern archtop with pickups, as having played a few guitars since the old Harmony was actually pretty great.
Oh I get that. I just think about playing it. That white board.... I don't know. I think the offset white and black might be easy to accommodate but it's still so distracting. It's very yuck from a visual POV.
I have a 1951 Regal small body w/ mahogany back and sides and a spruce ladder braced top it is a cannon. It could pryuse a neck reset but with a gigantic 1/2” bone saddle (more saddle,more tone). it works.
Very interesting guitar and neck reset. This must have been barely a break even between cost to repair and value of instrument. Owner must have really loved this guitar. Nice work, thanks for the video!
Gday mate, you probably don't want to hear this but. . Watching your videos gave me enough knowledge therefore confidence to fix my own 🎸. It is an ibonez rg270dx, I had it in a stand but kicked the whole lot over (again), it landed back down headstock first. There was a v crack emanating at the back of the locking nut screw area going down either side and through the neck stopping 1-1/2" down just at the underside of the fingerboard. You could pivot the headstock a cm back and forth bending the fingerboard😖. It has the wizard 2 neck. Didn't have access to hide glue so used polyurethane glue😐, wrapped it with surgical tubing then clamped it for 2 days. I have been feeling sick about the loss for about 3 plus years, not any more! It plays better than it used to, it would buzz when played on d in some places in the neck but no longer does this. I'm now thinking there was an existing crack from a previous fall and I finished it off knocking it over again. Still holds 11's at tune, going back to 10's. 👍on ya mate.
The philosophical debate is interesting. A few of my instruments are worth very little on the used market but they mean a lot to me. I’d pour a well over their market value to rescue a couple of them.
Hey Ted! Howdy! Always a toss up on these kinds of repairs. I see you are getting close to 100K subscribers! Congrats! I tell all my friends(2) about your channel! Sorry I don’t get around much anymore. Have had a couple of these guys and they really are hard to play. But it seems even though they were inexpensive at the time, the wood they used was better than what’s being used today. Love from NW Colorado. Thanxz
Wow this was one interesting fretboard and guitar in general. When you removed the 14th fret area... id never seen anything like this before. Some serious skill needed to work on something like this, id have been so paranoid of breaking the fretboard work removing the neck ! wowza. Nice job ! :-)
That's not the open C I know, which has the third on top. Sounds real nice though. Reminds me of this English fingerpicker Dave Evans, who I think played some weird guitars. One of those guys that made records for Kicking Mule in the 70's. Loved that company!
Great video. Nice playing. Have to say that guitar had a really cool sound. Kinda sounds like the blues. Which makes so much sense. Ted, thanks. I learn something every video. Not a repair guy, just an old metal head that loves guitars. Between you and Jerry Rosa I’ve learned enough to make a nut, reseat a bridge and shape the saddle. Ended up repairing a beater acoustic for my son which he still plays.
I saw a Regal 4 string banjo with an all wood body and rim complete with wooden case shaped like a tiny coffin at a yard sale a few years ago. Didn't inspect it to closely. The wanted $100 for it and didn't know the year or model. I was scared to pull the trigger. It was semi fancy for a banjo I guess. Would that Regal be the same company ya think??? I know where it is if someone thinks it's a priceless gem. And just a side note,....the hardware was EXTREMELY old looking patina'd HEAVILY.
Ted- generally speaking, should the neck be straightened before doing a complete but light fret dressing?... Assuming everything is fine and just a touchup is needed.
When I realized that Ted's shop is approximately 20 minutes from my house by car, my first thought was "are any of my guitars broken in an interesting enough way?" I have a seagull 12 string with a bridge that was badly glued back on...maybe that would be interesting enough to get fixed by Ted.
Interesting is a kind reference to the sound of this guitar. I don't know about the rest of your life, but in regards to stringed instruments, you seem to be an extremely patient person.
Great video on subject, when is it like flushing down into that pearl-oid encrusted throne hard earned cash. Must have had sentimental value to customer. You, aVe and Randy Bachman are my top 3 Canadian shows/channels, always leave a Thumbs Up, Thanks.
Heh, literally this week I picked up a 60's East German Musima parlour guitar and it has the same fretboard issue. I was hoping there could be something I could do without pulling the frets and sanding back the neck but it looks like the pliers are coming out...:D Great vid as always Ted.
It's a bit of selection bias. There's a lefty collector / player that has had Ted go through a ton of instruments. Some of which are cool guitars, worthy of videos. He's also converted some righties to lefties. Those are interesting jobs too. So it looks like he really does a lot of lefties. I think that lefty jobs just are more interesting for Ted.
Within seconds of seeing the decorations on that guitar, my brain went right to the song "Billy the Kid", sung by Ry Cooder: "Fair Mexican maidens, play guitars and sing/ songs about Billy, the boy bandit king...."
I just watched an Adam Savage video about clamps and he mentioned you about the clamps you use repairing guitars.
Can you post a link? xx
Link please?
ruclips.net/video/kBoNZjWsrOY/видео.html
I think I did that right. It’s the link to the Adam Savage video about clamps where he mentions Ted
He's mentioned Ted's videos quite frequently. Sometimes he'll even be wearing a Woodford hat.
2 of my favorite people crossing over like that makes me very happy.
@@briansavage932 You inspired me to buy a tee! Thanks
I don't know much about guitars but I do know I like this channel.
I LOVE the aesthetic of these old Regals. The more MOTS and decals and perfling, the better! And they usually sound pretty good too.
I can picture a very happy kid finding this guitar under the Christmas tree circa 1930. And his brother got the Red Ryder BB gun!
VERY happy, this was relatively fancy... simpler models were around 1/3rd the price!
My father can attest to the compress-ability of poplar. Had a tree rot and fall down in our yard, well over 3 ft. diameter base. When it came time for splitting into firewood, the Korean War Marine vet's ax would simply bounce off the piece. All compression, zero penetration. When it did split, it held together with a wet stringiness that would put a celery stalk to shame. Most pungent rotting smell, like a dead wild boar. Could be smelt a mile away.
Your videos make Sunday nights in UK a joy. Thank you.
Mother of Toilet Seat is also a commonly used term in the accordion fettling world
I was in my garage working on fitting the neck on my second guitar build and I was doing my sandpaper pulls. As I was working on it, I thought, Tom never talks about the little hump you get in the middle of the bottom of the heal. I used the pull method to smooth it out, but I was not sure if I was doing it right. 2 hours later, I watch this and learn that, yes, that is the right way to take care of that. I learn something new in every video. Great content! I really appreciate that you take the time to educate your viewers every week. I know it is a lot of work. Just want you to know I appreciate it.
Who is Tom?
@@ars3nal181 I think he means Tim 😉
@@ars3nal181 Tom Wiidfird, obviously
@@never0101 🤣😂😅
I'm guessing you picked up "Tom" from one of Adam Savage's plugs? Anyway, *Ted* has addressed sandpaper pulls at the heel button a couple times.
👍 when I was 8yrs. old my parents bought me a Ludwig drum kit with" Black Mother of Toilet Seat" just like Ringo Starr's, thanx for the memories.
That was an interesting one, for sure, and it ended up sounding good. I love that you do your best to get the end result as good as possible, even if the instrument itself was never expected to be up to that standard. It's got character.
Please buy such a guitar yourself, when you get the chance. Now you know what it takes to repair the weak spots. Finding cheap material inside a neck, it always surprises me. Why don't they spend a tiny bit more money, while building? It is such a shame, when the rest of instrument is pretty okay. Who really wants a sound muffler quality neck, or one that gets the bends when it starts raining?
SALLY O’MALLEY 😂😂😂 Ted never stop sprinkling in those reference gems
That's actually a really nice-sounding guitar! Impressed with your upside-down playing too.
Fine video as always, Ted!
"Mother of Toilet Seat" eh?? Never heard that term before!! LOL!! 😊
I found that description TOTALLY & HUMOROUSLY, COINCIDENTAL! LOL!!
I say that, because your telling this, has brought back memories to the fact that the toilet seat in the first house I remember living in, had the EXACT SAME appearance as that pickguard! LOL!!
The house I'm speaking of, was located near Portage, Pa; and was owned by my paternal grandparents.
We moved into it, in April 1968; (which was 4 months before I turned 2 yrs. old), & I haven't much memories of that house though, until nearly 2 years or so later.
Anyway, my grandparents had moved out of that house, around Sept. of 1962, and at first, rented it to two newlyweds, (a fellow named: Don and his new bride), whose families were both neighbors then, and still were, during my time there.
Anyway, by the time I came to remember that ol' seat, it had begun flaking, and was becoming rough to sit on! 😄
I recall around 1973, my Grandma came to stay with us for a week or so, while my mother had surgery, and was recuperating in the hospital, in Danville, Pa.
I can still recall a bit, about the 1st time my Grandma exited our Bathroom, after using it. She just ranted, and ranted on!
Not only about the condition of that seat, but about what she called: "that HORRID color!!" LOL!!
I recall her saying that - that particular seat, must've been the one that Don put on, after he'd notified her that a new one was needed, at some point while they lived there, and she had given him permission to replace it himself, after he'd offered to do so: "But why in the wide world on earth, did he have to choose a such a HORRID color and pattern like that one!!"
Oh my!! Thanks for churning up those silly memories for me!!
Just remembering my late, Grandma ranting on like that, even with her clean language, (as she was a devout christian), along with your "mother of toilet seat" phrase; has totally had me laughing my but off!! 🤣🤣🤣
Best Wishes & Highest Regards Always, & Will be looking forward to more future videos, of your fine luthiery work soon!!
Ron H.
Abilene, TX. USA.
Very nice work. Experience and craftspersonship cannot be bought. What a great sounding guitar: :)
oh you can say it. why try to be woke correct. craftsmanship. thats the right word. used for centurys. nobodys been offended until now. craftspersonship is just dumb
I find your encyclopedic knowledge of the back stories of the instruments captivating. The repairs are gutsy! I would never have the confidence to tear into vintage instruments to make the repairs you do.
Excellent as always, and your commentary is incisive, insightful, informative. Thanks!
It sounds a lot better than I thought it would. Nice job focusing the work on the essentials in what could have been a real minefield!
It is becoming increasingly evident, that the works under taken in your videos are a bonus to your prefaced introductions Ted, and are appreciated greatly .
Both the techniques and the history are really useful, and the sardonic sense of humor just adds to the appeal. Thanks much.
The more you showed of that guitar the more surprised I was that you even bothered to put it back together !
Thank you for another excellent video.
Nice work, very thoughtful.
Appreciate how you make your concerns manifest, like the MoTS not reacting well to heat, or the poplar neck compressing. They’re useful caveats and provide a lot of insight into the right things to think about when engaging in repair.
The gauze like material underneath the celluloid pieces on the fretboard is called super or crash and it came into widespread use in the manufacturing of books. You can see a super / crash layer in the spine just outside folded and sewn page signatures and just inside the cover boards. It is generally hidden from view by endsheets. You may be able to obtain some from a place that manufactures case bound or hard bound books or from their suppliers.
Just found your channel and I find it very relaxing. I had spinal spinal cancer surgery in Jan. '22 and it left me bedridden and I have not even seen my garage or shed since then so it's nice to kind of just coast along with you and learn things looking over your shoulder. Thanks a bunch.
This was a good one! I like that you know where to draw the line on how much effort to put into these. I was in a similar line of work, and you'd see some people get totally screwed by other guys who convince them to go all out and repair something that was never very good to begin with.
Anyways, excellent work on a cool little guitar!
I always enjoy the convoluted stories of instrument history. For some reason I like and own older instruments along with their complex problems, but you got me with "it's got to be as fun as it sounds. Something tells me it would be a bowl of fun."
Personally I love all the little artistic details on this guitar! Very unique!
Wow, that is an interesting one there. A novelty with character. Honestly, I usually don't care much for the old Regals, this one is the exception. No truss rod and only .013 relief, only 2 braces and one is being used for the bridge pad, it is in unbelievable great shape. Yes I like it, and the right person did the repair, Great Job!
Always appreciative of your history lessons. And of course your craftsmanship.
Beautiful guitar, great care from you! Sounds great!
Your videos are fantastic not only for entertainment value, but from a historical perspective you give us a look inside the processes by which these companies made their instruments. Things like the maple veneer sandwiched Masonite fretboard, and using linen as a sort of binder for the celluloid inlays is invaluable for furute historians and conservators!
Between you and Baumgartner Restoration here on RUclips I have developed a deep respect and fascination with conservation and repair.
If all you did was show the repair your videos would still be compulsive viewing but these glimpses into the history of guitar building add so much. Thank you.
I have a mint 1930's round neck Ohau jumbo with an arched back. The back braces look like they came off the hull of a battleship. It's actually a great axe. Never seen another with an arched back before. They put the bridge literally in the wrong place, so I made a custom compensated saddle out of Water buffalo horn that actually overhangs the back of the bridge but it rest both in the slot and on the bridge face so it doesn't fracture. Plays and feels like a new guitar with a few caveats.
Wall hanger or kindling can't imagine anyone wanting to play something like this
Your breadth of knowledge never ceases to impress me. Just another example of your passion for your craft. Kudos.
How beautitul these binding decorations are. And these plants remind me of a mandolin from Sicilia, there is a mandolin workshop, in the very south of Italy, that has done great decorations, similar to this guitar.
Working on that sure seems like a spooky project. Looks like it would make a great wall hanger. Fun to watch you work.
Good to see a person that loves and appreciates older guitars. Lucky to have Ted to restore them.
I enjoyed the vídeo and liked the guitar. Your knowledge and skills never seize to amaze me. Thank you.
CEASE to....
The Tuning is basically Open D but down a step
I was not expecting that tone in the end. I know it's a camera mic with its own compression mimicking the sustain, but there were a lot of lovely overtones present. And what right-handed person can just play something like that on a lefty??? As a beginning guitar teacher I find it instructive to occasionally play a lefty to remember what it was like to be a beginner.
another well-done video. thank you!
Superbly judged work to create such a distinctive and satisfying sound.
That little pickin number was haunting. That Regal sounds like every guitar I heard played by everyone that played guitar in Junior High School! Sounds like a way-back machine,
wish I lived in Canada. What a funny little Regal. Beautiful work, as usual. Cheers
Ted, how a 92 yo celuloid on the fretboard show A LOT less signs of decay than the stuff made up to the 70's?
I have a Regal resonator guitar. Thanks for the history lesson. 🙂
When you first showed the overview of the guitar, I wondered what the fret markers reminded me of. It was on the tip of my tongue and you said “space invaders”…. I nearly shot my drink out of my nose, that’s it for sure. Lol. Great work as always.
$15 in 1930 is about $266 in today's money. That's actually more expensive than many modern entry level guitars, including Fenders, Epiphones and Yamahas.
Yeah, but they just pump out guitars on CNC machines now, so you end up with a reasonably decent quality baseline for the price. How much time could they possibly afford to take on a guitar like this and turn a profit, considering the tools available? Quality control had to have been practically nonexistent.
@@brianrockwell1805 My point was more that $15 was not 'throw away' money in 1930. It was worth enough in the day to put in some decent labor - wages were typically between 15 and 50 cents an hour. Plus, there's still a trade off between something made entirely by machine vs something made by human hands and eyes.
@@brianrockwell1805 Note also that I mentioned entry level 'name brand' guitars at around $250 today, but you can actually buy bottom tier guitars for less than $50. That would have been like $3 in 1930, and I doubt they could have built anything for that much with hand labor.
@@brianrockwell1805 I think the quality of cheap guitars has gotten worse not better. The CNC machine can only take you so far. Today's cheapest guitars are worse than those of yesteryear. Back then they did not manufacture pure garbage like they do today. There was a red line that no one would cross. It is the $300 to $600 dollar guitars that have seen major improvement, not the very bottom end. That segment has gotten worse.
My first guitar was a Les Paul style Regal. Way back in 1984.
I love the mother of toilet seat reference. My grandparents had a pearloid toilet seat. Lol
I think everybody's grandparents had a pearloidtoilet seat at one point or another.
It's these "ugly ducklings" that are my favourites to see restored. I learned to play guitar on a Harmony archtop with a very pronounced V shape neck, probably a cheapie from the early to mid 1960s. Still regret selling it to get a modern archtop with pickups, as having played a few guitars since the old Harmony was actually pretty great.
Oh I get that. I just think about playing it. That white board.... I don't know. I think the offset white and black might be easy to accommodate but it's still so distracting. It's very yuck from a visual POV.
Your riff at the end droned like a dulcimer. A very old-time folky sound.
I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of sustain it possessed.
“The fret positions are… optimistic” 😂
I was shocked to hear this Regal sound amazing…you are so very talented . Great fun here , always amazing .🇨🇦😊Alberta Dave
It has a really nice tone to it.
Sounds great! Well worth the time and effort good job
I have a 1951 Regal small body w/ mahogany back and sides and a spruce ladder braced top it is a cannon. It could pryuse a neck reset but with a gigantic 1/2” bone saddle (more saddle,more tone). it works.
Very interesting guitar and neck reset. This must have been barely a break even between cost to repair and value of instrument. Owner must have really loved this guitar. Nice work, thanks for the video!
LOL, I have one of those. It was my grandfathers and is still sitting. I can't decide what to do with it. Needs a lot of work.
Gday mate, you probably don't want to hear this but. .
Watching your videos gave me enough knowledge therefore confidence to fix my own 🎸.
It is an ibonez rg270dx, I had it in a stand but kicked the whole lot over (again), it landed back down headstock first. There was a v crack emanating at the back of the locking nut screw area going down either side and through the neck stopping 1-1/2" down just at the underside of the fingerboard. You could pivot the headstock a cm back and forth bending the fingerboard😖. It has the wizard 2 neck.
Didn't have access to hide glue so used polyurethane glue😐, wrapped it with surgical tubing then clamped it for 2 days. I have been feeling sick about the loss for about 3 plus years, not any more! It plays better than it used to, it would buzz when played on d in some places in the neck but no longer does this. I'm now thinking there was an existing crack from a previous fall and I finished it off knocking it over again.
Still holds 11's at tune, going back to 10's.
👍on ya mate.
Very cool repair, it sounds surprisingly good with that setup!
Great work as always, thanks for another great video
Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!
The philosophical debate is interesting. A few of my instruments are worth very little on the used market but they mean a lot to me. I’d pour a well over their market value to rescue a couple of them.
Hey Ted! Howdy! Always a toss up on these kinds of repairs. I see you are getting close to 100K subscribers! Congrats! I tell all my friends(2) about your channel! Sorry I don’t get around much anymore. Have had a couple of these guys and they really are hard to play. But it seems even though they were inexpensive at the time, the wood they used was better than what’s being used today. Love from NW Colorado. Thanxz
Sounds actualy even better than I expected.
Wow this was one interesting fretboard and guitar in general. When you removed the 14th fret area... id never seen anything like this before. Some serious skill needed to work on something like this, id have been so paranoid of breaking the fretboard work removing the neck ! wowza. Nice job ! :-)
That actually sounds really lovely and unique, so much so I would definitely consider sorting out the bridge
Mad skills, tooling genius.
Look at that fret board. That would make me crazy lol.
Interesting how many details were added to a $15 guitar. Perhaps the decorations and not the instrument were what sold it to novices then?
Ted you got the lefty sounding new again!
It actually sounds a lot better than I expected. Nice one!
That's not the open C I know, which has the third on top. Sounds real nice though. Reminds me of this English fingerpicker Dave Evans, who I think played some weird guitars. One of those guys that made records for Kicking Mule in the 70's. Loved that company!
Wow! A great history lesson as well as cool craftsmanship. Thank you! Best Regards/Wishes!
Great video. Nice playing. Have to say that guitar had a really cool sound. Kinda sounds like the blues. Which makes so much sense.
Ted, thanks. I learn something every video. Not a repair guy, just an old metal head that loves guitars. Between you and Jerry Rosa I’ve learned enough to make a nut, reseat a bridge and shape the saddle. Ended up repairing a beater acoustic for my son which he still plays.
Thoroughgoing treat as usual-thanks! And nice work on the rightie plays leftie challenge 😎
Musical art worth documenting! Thanks for the video!
I saw a Regal 4 string banjo with an all wood body and rim complete with wooden case shaped like a tiny coffin at a yard sale a few years ago. Didn't inspect it to closely. The wanted $100 for it and didn't know the year or model. I was scared to pull the trigger. It was semi fancy for a banjo I guess. Would that Regal be the same company ya think??? I know where it is if someone thinks it's a priceless gem. And just a side note,....the hardware was EXTREMELY old looking patina'd HEAVILY.
Fixing enough lefties to learn to play like Jimi Hendrix is a milestone achievement.
Very nice job you did. And this guitar sounds surprisingly amazing for what it is!! Lovely.
Ted- generally speaking, should the neck be straightened before doing a complete but light fret dressing?... Assuming everything is fine and just a touchup is needed.
Trigger is a classical guitar and they do have a convex radius
When I realized that Ted's shop is approximately 20 minutes from my house by car, my first thought was "are any of my guitars broken in an interesting enough way?"
I have a seagull 12 string with a bridge that was badly glued back on...maybe that would be interesting enough to get fixed by Ted.
Fantastic video.
Interesting is a kind reference to the sound of this guitar. I don't know about the rest of your life, but in regards to stringed instruments, you seem to be an extremely patient person.
Well, that certainly doesn't look like a Buick
After all was said and done , the sound wasn't too shabby.
Uncooperative species? If that ain't the pot calling the kettle black -- a poplar
Great video on subject, when is it like flushing down into that pearl-oid encrusted throne hard earned cash. Must have had sentimental value to customer. You, aVe and Randy Bachman are my top 3 Canadian shows/channels, always leave a Thumbs Up, Thanks.
Heh, literally this week I picked up a 60's East German Musima parlour guitar and it has the same fretboard issue. I was hoping there could be something I could do without pulling the frets and sanding back the neck but it looks like the pliers are coming out...:D
Great vid as always Ted.
Love the intro music, is that you playing and what is the name of the tune ?
Never seen a guitar like that, thanks for this!
You seem to have a surprising number of lefty clients.
It's a bit of selection bias. There's a lefty collector / player that has had Ted go through a ton of instruments. Some of which are cool guitars, worthy of videos.
He's also converted some righties to lefties. Those are interesting jobs too.
So it looks like he really does a lot of lefties. I think that lefty jobs just are more interesting for Ted.
Within seconds of seeing the decorations on that guitar, my brain went right to the song "Billy the Kid", sung by Ry Cooder: "Fair Mexican maidens, play guitars and sing/ songs about Billy, the boy bandit king...."
it remeinded me of something marty robbins would play. Love Ry Cooder too!
@@johnsonactivity , " out in the West Texas town of El Paso/ I fell in love with a Mexican girl...."
Nice, I’ve got a Regal with the full MOTS fretboard.
Actually sound nice very mellow
Very nice~. keep ‘em coming Mr. Luthier,
keep ‘em coming
Sounds great actually!
I like the sound for sure.