I saw Leon Redbone perform, back in the late 90's if I recall the era correctly. He was the opening act for Joe Walsh. Leon plus an accompany guitarist. Wonderful show he gave. Music and a side of comedy.
I always look forward to Mondays to watch Ted at work and listen to his comments and quotes. Yes, in my part of the world it is not Sundays but Mondays.
When I was 14 years old, this very model guitar was lent to me by a neighbor. I must have put hundreds of hours on it before returning it to her several years later. That would have been about ‘66. I remember that the guitar was a delight on your left hand. Better than anything else at the time. Thank you for bringing back very pleasant memories.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017Folk music back then. I somehow got several copies of SingOut. Also, Simon and Garfunkel before the movie The Graduate came out. Nobody else seemed to know who Simon and Garfunkel were back then.
that Euripides joke was great, truly. thats what makes your content a cut above the rest. oh and your a master craftsman that has alot to do with it too
Ted....I don't know if you'll read this but I really hope you do. I'm a guitarist but not a luthier or a carpenter and I'm generally terrible at DIY. Computers is where my skillset lies. But I bought a new Gibson LP in November and my hanger has blistered the headstock. Not a huge amount, probably about 3mm under the ears. Having been a subscriber to your channel for years, I decided to attempt the fix myself. I drop filled with superglue as you've shown us. I put tape around a razor and levelled the superglue. And then I sanded all the way up from 400 to 12,000 grit. I can tell its not perfect but I'm the only one who can. You taught me that. You gave me the confidence. Thank you!
I stumbled across this channel by complete happenstance. But I gotta say, man; I seriously enjoy your content. Your sense of humor is fantastic, your videography is great, your historical knowledge of these instruments is wonderful, and your work is incredible. I tackle repairs and set ups on my own instruments and those of my friends all the time (many of which I am wholly unqualified to be attempting, ask my 55 Les Paul Jr about it), but I am nowhere near the pro you are. Keep up the good work, and for God's sake keep filming it and sharing it!
@@stewsim oh I see. I'm curious about how your guitars are doing, like when was the last time you did a set up, if the saddle has been lowered and what the action is. It's amazing that a guitar from '57 is still comfortable to play with
Hey, you could poke your eye out with that cuy-away! 😊 I was curious, what will you do with the neck reset when it starts getting paper thin. Do you start with shims before doing all the sanding?
Leon Redbone, what a cool, stylish character, as well as a great singer and guitarist. Check out “the Sheik of Araby”! Thanks for another fascinating video, Ted.
Leon tuned his CF-100 2 tones down. He often would introduced a song as being in ' the People's key of B flat ', but then he would play in what appeared to be the key of C. I thought it was just a joke until one day I tried to play along with him. Indeed, he was in B flat.
Weird how we may never have heard of him had his parents not been forcefully displaced by the illegitimate state of "israel" in 1948. Prior to their forced racist exile, they resided in Jerusalem. They were Armenian by origin.
Multiple projects in the same video is a good way to budget your time on said projects. You have to let things dry, so working 2-3 projects in between each other makes for more icing on the cake! I have to make myself be patient until next week, since I’m not doing the repair or the video production! Thanxz p.s. ……I’m glad the holidays are over so I can get back to what’s really important, me getting to watch you work!
Gibson would have to remove the fingerboard in order to re-top the guitar as you described. Then they could taper the fingerboard to achieve desired action. Basically creating a ramp either inclined or declined. Seems it would be easier in certain cases to remove the fingerboard and make a wedge to put under the entire board change the angle and deal with the cosmetic issues than to remove the neck and have irreparable cosmetic issues. I did it on a Spanish foot guitar.
Premonition/ Prediction/ Purgatory Euripidophones...I have two Epiphone, Gibson with this neck joint Worthy of a Greek Tragedy Very Frustrating. Respect Ted, Thank you.
I've watched many, many of your repairs. I don't think I've ever seen an "Oh merde!" moment as this one. It will be fascinating to see how you bail this out (I never doubt the master, by the way).
My wife and I were Leon Redbone fans and back in the 90s we saw him in concert in San Luis Obispo. To say he was quirky is a slight understatement. At one point he pulled out a revolver and fired off a shot.
The best I have seen so far. Glad there are still some great tradesmen around. Everyone with a piece of sandpaper in hand call themselves a Luthier these days. This guy must have some background.
Ditto......I was doing some preliminary excavation to locate a breech in the pipe that feeds fresh water from our near by spring house to the main house......but here I am🥴🎶🍻
Went to the church Put my hat on the seat. lady sat on it said it sho is sweet. I said diddy wa diddy. Yeah Diddy wa diddy. Can anybody tell me what ditty was diddy means? I've always loved Leon redbone. When I first saw that guitar you had there. I said to myself, man that guitar looks familiar but I can't place where I've seen that model before. Now I can.
A "master luthier" shaved down the soundhole side of the bridge, on a flattop guitar of mine, to lower the action (YIKES!!!) and for some reason -- afterward -- the intonation along the low E string was so sharp I was unable to play the guitar! Do any of you guys know what could have happened here? Unless this guy altered the saddle or nut, and didn't tell me -- this makes no sense. to me.
Just heard that Martin play that you rebuilt for Alfie. Ted you do great work and I wish you were my neighbor I would give you a few projects and you could tell me more about my guitars. I was a steel worker all my adult life over 40 years hard labor and if you want to know what it was like watch the movie Running Man with Arnold the Bodybuilder staring in it the first few scenes show him chained up to a blast furnace that throws 2700 degrees Fahrenheit that’s very hot, iron melts at that temperature and the weight of the parts to rebuild a iron blast furnace weight about 300-500 pounds each, you got to be a strong Ladd to make 6 million tons of iron each year for 40 years and keep the furnace flowing but I did it and my back went out! Now my heart is giving me problems after the doctor prescribed statins to breakup the plaque built up and the plaque broke free and plugged up my heart muscle and I had a minor attack but I lived and now my heart is call a widow maker but I’m divorced so I guess I’m just waiting to die. Well don’t take any statins because they will make high blood pressure worse and move that plaque into your heart muscle and you die. The only way out of my situation is a stent but after a stent is put into you heart arteries they grow closed in about two years killing you 80% of the time in two years. I pray about this old heart and I stopped taking statins after two weeks and now I’m on beta blockers only God knows what they will do to my body after long term use. Hope you’re doing better than me! Thanks
I’m not asking Ted (peace be upon him) to dumb it down for me or saying his explanation was lacking, but I don’t quite understand what happened… how did the factory put a new top on in such a way as to lock the dovetail like this? I remember ages ago Ted (peace be upon him) had a neck reset that almost seemed like a luthiery riddle, but this one seems different. Thanks for another great video, I’ll watch it again more carefully. :-)
Whoa! So, when they replaced the top, they didn't even pop off the fretboard, let alone the neck? That's crazy. I guess they were gambling that they wouldn't ever get that guitar back again for a re-set, or maybe they just figured they'd eat the top then, too?
I know exactly who Leon Redbone was. I saw him, live; back in the late 70's I think it was. He was a very unique and odd sort of individual. I have 3 of his albums that I listen to, frequently.
Crazy fascinating. I can't imagine that such "warranty repairs" are even a thing anymore. Just chuck the defective guitar in the recycle bin and send the owner a new replacement, courtesy of the "extended warranty" add-on at the time of purchase?
Maybe there‘s also the possibility that it was just one or two employees that - for whatever reason - had decided to build em like that. That would explain the scarceness of it. Maybe a guy had figured it might safe him some time and would not really be found out until 50 or 60 years later :)
That slotted saddle. That's what I do when I do a setup. many guitar making companies don't slot the bridge and by not slotted, the strings angle from saddle to bridge pin hole isn't much. I bought those cheap diamond nut files that you should never use to cut a slot in a nut. Increase that string ramp your guitar will be better than ever
How the hell is it that Gibson is one of the foremost brands? 9 out of 10 of them seem to be half assed built and or corrected. I think the hype is in the name...not the quality.
Bonnie Raitt said he was the best singer/ guitar player of out time and I concur. Nobody else is even close. it was as if somebody put Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Hank Williams, and Robert Johnson in a blender. An insane amount of talent in one individual.
Thanks for another great video. I love my '56 CF-100e. Another cool/weird distinguishing feature between the 100 and the 100e is that Gibson actually cut the soundhole of the CF100e closer to the bridge compared to the CF100 to give a bit more room for the P90 at the bottom of the neck.
I have a harley benton cheepo acoustic that needed a neck reset out of the box.. i got it to play but i did shave the bridge a ton.. i plan on doing those ramps next time i restring... and maybe taking the neck off.. but i kinda like that plicky sound... but i play banjo so i would wouldn't i
that was a good example of why my thermo reset proceeding did come around...releasing the instrument to the customer the next day in the majority of the cases.
Anyone who remembers the 80s ought to remember Leon Redbone. I wouldn't say he was big then in the commercial sense (although if you saw him in nothing else you might have seen him in a Budweiser commercial) but you almost certainly heard him play at some point. But you never would have found out anything else about him. I haven't thought about him in years. Thanks for the reminder! I just had a great time looking up some old clips of him playing.
This is the only channel that I will put down anything I was doing and watch.
I could quit any time.
It's great
Yup!!
Same here
Me too!
Euripides these trousers you mend these trousers.
I saw Leon Redbone perform, back in the late 90's if I recall the era correctly. He was the opening act for Joe Walsh. Leon plus an accompany guitarist. Wonderful show he gave. Music and a side of comedy.
I always look forward to Mondays to watch Ted at work and listen to his comments and quotes. Yes, in my part of the world it is not Sundays but Mondays.
Same here, as soon as I get home from work I'm straight on the computer to watch Ted 👍
Nothing quite like 20+ minutes on a Sunday with Ted, a guitar and The Classics.
When I was 14 years old, this very model guitar was lent to me by a neighbor. I must have put hundreds of hours on it before returning it to her several years later. That would have been about ‘66. I remember that the guitar was a delight on your left hand. Better than anything else at the time. Thank you for bringing back very pleasant memories.
What kind of music did you first learn to play?
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017Folk music back then. I somehow got several copies of SingOut. Also, Simon and Garfunkel before the movie The Graduate came out. Nobody else seemed to know who Simon and Garfunkel were back then.
that Euripides joke was great, truly. thats what makes your content a cut above the rest. oh and your a master craftsman that has alot to do with it too
Ted is eloquent and illustrious. 😊
If I had to guess, he reads it in the Greek.
LOL😁
If you get any letters of complaint about that joke, I suggest Euripides letters up.
10:00, I'll bet the injected water somehow activated some glue!
Florentine cutaway, or 0.5 of an SG
Truly a master luthier job well done thank you for this video keep them coming
Leon Redbone is something else, i find him refreshing :)
I'm 90% sure the stuff at 20:44 is just Cheeto dust.
Ted....I don't know if you'll read this but I really hope you do.
I'm a guitarist but not a luthier or a carpenter and I'm generally terrible at DIY. Computers is where my skillset lies.
But I bought a new Gibson LP in November and my hanger has blistered the headstock. Not a huge amount, probably about 3mm under the ears. Having been a subscriber to your channel for years, I decided to attempt the fix myself.
I drop filled with superglue as you've shown us. I put tape around a razor and levelled the superglue. And then I sanded all the way up from 400 to 12,000 grit. I can tell its not perfect but I'm the only one who can.
You taught me that. You gave me the confidence. Thank you!
I stumbled across this channel by complete happenstance. But I gotta say, man; I seriously enjoy your content. Your sense of humor is fantastic, your videography is great, your historical knowledge of these instruments is wonderful, and your work is incredible. I tackle repairs and set ups on my own instruments and those of my friends all the time (many of which I am wholly unqualified to be attempting, ask my 55 Les Paul Jr about it), but I am nowhere near the pro you are. Keep up the good work, and for God's sake keep filming it and sharing it!
The fact that I never hear “like, comment, subscribe” makes me feel all the more obligated to do so
I don't do it out of obligation , whether guy asks to remind you or not , if its worth it he gets it
@@bobsaturday4273 thanks for sharing?
Also check out Mose Scarlett a contemporary of Leon Redbone, a friend and some say the "original" who died on the same day as Leon. Canadian eh.
What a nightmare…!!!
I’ve owned 2 CF-100E’s, a ‘57 and a ‘94.
Both were fabulous instruments…!!!
Glad that I never had to do a neck reset on them…!
Just wait, the time will come
I’ll likely never get another one.
My guitar buying days are pretty much over with…😕
@@stewsim oh I see. I'm curious about how your guitars are doing, like when was the last time you did a set up, if the saddle has been lowered and what the action is. It's amazing that a guitar from '57 is still comfortable to play with
Another Master Class presentation from a Master on RUclips University.
it's allll gone Pete Tong...
I have NEVER heard a guitar repair person ( even a great one ) quote Euripides .
Hey, you could poke your eye out with that cuy-away! 😊 I was curious, what will you do with the neck reset when it starts getting paper thin. Do you start with shims before doing all the sanding?
It looks like there's a very rusty nut and bolt in that dovetail, but no corresponding hole through to the guitar body. What's its purpose?
That's the end of the truss rod
@@ian-c.01 Thanks. In the video, it looked to be much lower down, but yes, that'll be it!
I hope my spotty Internet connection holds up under these über windy conditions
greetings from storm Isha battered Sheffield
J Mascis plays this, the electric one. He has a couple.
Fun Fact: Leon Redbone also played Leon the Snowman in the movie Elf
Leon Redbone, what a cool, stylish character, as well as a great singer and guitarist. Check out “the Sheik of Araby”! Thanks for another fascinating video, Ted.
I was so excited to see LR on SNL back in the ‘70’s(?) I loved that somene was playing those old tunes, like “Champaigne Charlie” :)
Leon tuned his CF-100 2 tones down. He often would introduced a song as being in ' the People's key of B flat ', but then he would play in what appeared to be the key of C. I thought it was just a joke until one day I tried to play along with him. Indeed, he was in B flat.
I became a fan of his back in the mid-'70s, while I was in the Navy.
Leon Redbone was born in Nicosia in Cyprus. Who knew? I thought he was born in like some American music mecca.
Weird how we may never have heard of him had his parents not been forcefully displaced by the illegitimate state of "israel" in 1948. Prior to their forced racist exile, they resided in Jerusalem. They were Armenian by origin.
@@nobodynoone2500 Amazing how things work out sometimes.
I've got a 1956 CF-100e, great little guitar.
Some serious guitar-chaeology here
Jackson Browne is pictured playing this model on a number of occasions. But he use many, many acoustics.
Multiple projects in the same video is a good way to budget your time on said projects. You have to let things dry, so working 2-3 projects in between each other makes for more icing on the cake! I have to make myself be patient until next week, since I’m not doing the repair or the video production! Thanxz p.s. ……I’m glad the holidays are over so I can get back to what’s really important, me getting to watch you work!
Omg soundboard over dovetail. Nasty.
Gibson would have to remove the fingerboard in order to re-top the guitar as you described. Then they could taper the fingerboard to achieve desired action. Basically creating a ramp either inclined or declined. Seems it would be easier in certain cases to remove the fingerboard and make a wedge to put under the entire board change the angle and deal with the cosmetic issues than to remove the neck and have irreparable cosmetic issues. I did it on a Spanish foot guitar.
It Looked like that rear block had a crack through the middle
One of the very few guitar repair people that references Euripides....!
Hello from Germany
J Mascis also plays these guitars
I saw Leon on Saturday night live way back, he was awesome!
No comment.
🤣
I saw Leon on SNL when I was a kid and absolutely loved him. A character for sure.
8:21 “Vanilla scented cuz I’m fancy!” 😂
I always enjoy your vids, Ted.
😎👊🎸
Mark Stutman is awesome. Nice shout-out. Looks like the heat probes got glued to the side of the pocket because the angle was the same.
Thanks for documenting your work on this channel.
I heard Leon Redbone twice, once while he was touring with Tom Waits. Leon was great.
Tom was great also. I feel lucky to have seen both of them in concert.
We saw Leon Redbone live in a very cozy venue. It was like he was in your living room.
Premonition/ Prediction/ Purgatory Euripidophones...I have two Epiphone, Gibson with this neck joint Worthy of a Greek Tragedy Very Frustrating. Respect Ted, Thank you.
I've watched many, many of your repairs. I don't think I've ever seen an "Oh merde!" moment as this one. It will be fascinating to see how you bail this out (I never doubt the master, by the way).
Around 82 the Late Great Leon Redbone did a Budweiser TV commercial. Great Video, as usual.
Wonderful colour work Ted! Julian Baumgartner, the art conservator, would be proud I’m sure!
Ted, I always love hearing the dry humor,
of your, oh so apropos, comments and quotes. 😁🖖✌
I once almost bought an early J-160 at a store in Eugene. No Pickup from Kalamazoo. Sounded just like your J100. Ladder Braced
My wife and I were Leon Redbone fans and back in the 90s we saw him in concert in San Luis Obispo. To say he was quirky is a slight understatement. At one point he pulled out a revolver and fired off a shot.
Like, like, *LIKE!* Thanks, Ted!
Saw Leon Redbone a couple of times in the 80’s in Seattle; he was so good, so silly, such a great showman.
Hello, from London!
Great video as always !!
Leon Redbone was so popular at one time that he appears on an old episode of 'Saturday Night Live', playing 'Shine on Harvest Moon' and one other.
A true craftsman…..great work Ted, thanks for taking us with you!
The best I have seen so far. Glad there are still some great tradesmen around. Everyone with a piece of sandpaper in hand call themselves a Luthier these days. This guy must have some background.
Leon Redbone lived right near where I grew up. He was always in character. Kind of like Ninja from Die Antwoord but way less felonious.
Referring to guitars by model number is nerd catnip
Ditto......I was doing some preliminary excavation to locate a breech in the pipe that feeds fresh water from our near by spring house to the main house......but here I am🥴🎶🍻
Hey there gang!
Went to the church Put my hat on the seat. lady sat on it said it sho is sweet. I said diddy wa diddy. Yeah Diddy wa diddy. Can anybody tell me what ditty was diddy means?
I've always loved Leon redbone. When I first saw that guitar you had there. I said to myself, man that guitar looks familiar but I can't place where I've seen that model before. Now I can.
A "master luthier" shaved down the soundhole side of the bridge, on a flattop guitar of mine, to lower the action (YIKES!!!) and for some reason -- afterward -- the intonation along the low E string was so sharp I was unable to play the guitar! Do any of you guys know what could have happened here? Unless this guy altered the saddle or nut, and didn't tell me -- this makes no sense. to me.
Great to see you back at it, Ted. Every Sunday, I look forward to your new video. Thanks.
Love Leon Redbone's music!!!
Just heard that Martin play that you rebuilt for Alfie. Ted you do great work and I wish you were my neighbor I would give you a few projects and you could tell me more about my guitars. I was a steel worker all my adult life over 40 years hard labor and if you want to know what it was like watch the movie Running Man with Arnold the Bodybuilder staring in it the first few scenes show him chained up to a blast furnace that throws 2700 degrees Fahrenheit that’s very hot, iron melts at that temperature and the weight of the parts to rebuild a iron blast furnace weight about 300-500 pounds each, you got to be a strong Ladd to make 6 million tons of iron each year for 40 years and keep the furnace flowing but I did it and my back went out! Now my heart is giving me problems after the doctor prescribed statins to breakup the plaque built up and the plaque broke free and plugged up my heart muscle and I had a minor attack but I lived and now my heart is call a widow maker but I’m divorced so I guess I’m just waiting to die. Well don’t take any statins because they will make high blood pressure worse and move that plaque into your heart muscle and you die. The only way out of my situation is a stent but after a stent is put into you heart arteries they grow closed in about two years killing you 80% of the time in two years. I pray about this old heart and I stopped taking statins after two weeks and now I’m on beta blockers only God knows what they will do to my body after long term use. Hope you’re doing better than me! Thanks
I’m not asking Ted (peace be upon him) to dumb it down for me or saying his explanation was lacking, but I don’t quite understand what happened… how did the factory put a new top on in such a way as to lock the dovetail like this? I remember ages ago Ted (peace be upon him) had a neck reset that almost seemed like a luthiery riddle, but this one seems different. Thanks for another great video, I’ll watch it again more carefully. :-)
that's is good action?? My J45 has much lower action.....and I wanted to lower it a smidge more.
I like the multi problem/task multi parters. it's real life!
Whoa! So, when they replaced the top, they didn't even pop off the fretboard, let alone the neck? That's crazy. I guess they were gambling that they wouldn't ever get that guitar back again for a re-set, or maybe they just figured they'd eat the top then, too?
"It's scented 'cause I'm fancy"😅
My mum had one of those... except, hers had a more white mother of pearl neck. It got stolen.
I know exactly who Leon Redbone was. I saw him, live; back in the late 70's I think it was. He was a very unique and odd sort of individual. I have 3 of his albums that I listen to, frequently.
Wrong info on the Kluson tuners. "Double line" Klusons show up about 1964. Either this guitar is later or the gears were replaced.
Ted has the best guitar luthier repair on youtube.
Crazy fascinating. I can't imagine that such "warranty repairs" are even a thing anymore. Just chuck the defective guitar in the recycle bin and send the owner a new replacement, courtesy of the "extended warranty" add-on at the time of purchase?
Maybe there‘s also the possibility that it was just one or two employees that - for whatever reason - had decided to build em like that. That would explain the scarceness of it. Maybe a guy had figured it might safe him some time and would not really be found out until 50 or 60 years later :)
That slotted saddle. That's what I do when I do a setup. many guitar making companies don't slot the bridge and by not slotted, the strings angle from saddle to bridge pin hole isn't much. I bought those cheap diamond nut files that you should never use to cut a slot in a nut. Increase that string ramp your guitar will be better than ever
To increase the ramp, do you cut a slot ahead of the pin ?
He does that a lot on this channel.
High quality mahogany so dense that when steam is added, have wood expands more than usual,
How the hell is it that Gibson is one of the foremost brands? 9 out of 10 of them seem to be half assed built and or corrected. I think the hype is in the name...not the quality.
Bob Dylan was a huge fan of Leon Redbone back in the days. There will be no one like him ever again.
Been to many music concerts. No one entertained me as much as Leon did (NYC's Beacon Theatre c.1980). What a showman!!!
Bonnie Raitt said he was the best singer/ guitar player of out time and I concur. Nobody else is even close. it was as if somebody put Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Hank Williams, and Robert Johnson in a blender. An insane amount of talent in one individual.
My ⅞warmoth build has some funky neck stuff like this...
*looks like the grand canyon could fit between the string and the fretboard*
"The action is perfect"
At least the LG2 had X bracing, unless my memory has failed me (again).
Thanks for another great video. I love my '56 CF-100e. Another cool/weird distinguishing feature between the 100 and the 100e is that Gibson actually cut the soundhole of the CF100e closer to the bridge compared to the CF100 to give a bit more room for the P90 at the bottom of the neck.
Looks like my 1987 Fender cutaway.
Like Tom Waits
I have a harley benton cheepo acoustic that needed a neck reset out of the box.. i got it to play but i did shave the bridge a ton.. i plan on doing those ramps next time i restring... and maybe taking the neck off.. but i kinda like that plicky sound... but i play banjo so i would wouldn't i
Go on reverb and found these are pricey - and not even as good condition as this beautiful example.
Sure, sanding dust. 😂
that was a good example of why my thermo reset proceeding did come around...releasing the instrument to the customer the next day in the majority of the cases.
Not a repair for the 'kitchen table' tech. This is serious technique. Well done, dear host.
Personally, I just dump a few dozen glued up cleats into the sound hole then shake the guitar around until one lands on the crack.
Instead of perfect oval shape for the plug would be cool to do wood grain shape to make it easier to hide. I dunno anything though.
very interresting
Anyone who remembers the 80s ought to remember Leon Redbone. I wouldn't say he was big then in the commercial sense (although if you saw him in nothing else you might have seen him in a Budweiser commercial) but you almost certainly heard him play at some point. But you never would have found out anything else about him.
I haven't thought about him in years. Thanks for the reminder! I just had a great time looking up some old clips of him playing.