Abandoned Antique Guitar Restoration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2022
- Coming up is the restoration of an 18th Century guitar that was found abandoned on the sidewalk of a street. Let's dive into the process of repairing and transforming a broken and disfigured guitar into its former glory!
Just for clarification, obviously the opening scene is a reenactment. This guitar was found many years before by a customer on the side of the exact street in the opening scene and has been in storage till the restoration of this video. Hope you enjoyed!
This guitar is a 20th century instrument I believe. The design is meant to evoke a different era, but based on its size and construction, it is not from the 1700's
Modern guitar is indeed a late invention, but not the word. A guitar in the 18th century would have been a cittern (a type of lute), with typically 10 strings tuned to C E GG cc ee gg.
This should be first of acoustic guitar design.
Would be great if you changed the title to the accurate date as described below by @twoodfrd. Feels very click-baity, and as many users note, one look at the guitar makes it easy to dismiss it as an 18th-century model.
What's the name of that song the last part u played beautifully🤧❤❤❤❤❤
A German Wandervogel guitar from 1900- 1930. A lot of them were lute-shaped, trying to evoke historical sentiment.
My thoughts exactly. 18th century? NO WAY... A bit of clickbait, or at least someone who doesn't know historical nomenclature works. With its metal frets, geared tuners, and oak-leaf rosette design it's early 20th century in my opinion.
I watch your channel regularly. I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall in your shop as you watched this to gauge your reaction!
I really hope someone puts one in for repair to your shop-a real one that is.
I love to see you do a reaction video to these types of restoration! You have an amazing channel btw!!
Yes, it's certainly not 18th century and I think even 1900 is a bit too early. They did have guitars with slotted heads and geared tuners back then but they were quite rare. How about mid 1920s and onwards?
But did you look closely at the tuners at 11:39? A prewar German guitar would almost certainly have had D.R.G.M tuners with small round buttons. They may be later replacements of course but similar guitars were made in other central European countries too, Czhechoslovakia and Austria in particular, and in the East Block countries they kept making guitars in this style well after ww ii. Thre frets at 6:07 seem also seem to be a little bit on the heavy side for a pre-war German although it's not totally out of style and again, they may be later replacements.
Btw, those lute-shaped guitars were more than sentimental nostalgia. The Germans never stopped making them so they are part of an unbroken tradition going all the way back to medieval times.
I thought this was going to be one of those awful restoration videos that make you cringe. This exceeded my expectations. Thank you for the care you put into this restoration
I was thinking the exact same thing and your comment gave me the hope to continue the video and I was not disappointed 👍🏻
I think the only cringe here was the staging of the guitar on the street.
it was still fairly cringe-worthy
You have to cringe when he uses Bottled hide glue. Fish Glue is just as easy to use and has a shelf life of 10 years . Bottled hide glue is like chewing gum when you try to remove it .
I cringed plenty. I am a mere sax player, but I enjoy watching videos of guitar repair and restoration by luthiers. Lots of them. Well, maybe it was not worth much. 🤔
Artisans like you are precious for saving and handing down artistic jewels like this to posterity. Bravo, we Italians love those who love art and music.
I really love how you brought back this old guitar without losing it's history
me too it was a nice guitar
@@EchoOrDelta They put Nylon strings on it because this Guitar was actually built for gut strings.
I love the gentle way the restoration was performed. Many masters don’t understand the meaning of the word and redo the object entirely, making it look like new. But the true meaning of this procedure is to preserve history as cautiously as possible. Great job
he funked the frets up. Now they are shorter than intended and all need replacing now. He ruined what was perfectly fine.
Apart from a cowbell, I can't play a musical instrument to save my soul, but to see something like this and to be able to bring back something so beautiful, visually, just as much as the sound that it gives, truly is a beautiful thing to see. Glad to see if this was able to be saved! It was the first time that I saw any of your videos, so this was quite a pleasure! Thank you!
Don't despair. The world needs MORE COWBELL!
Absolutely amazing workmanship. I am glad to see the this type of work being continued, the patience the luthier has is amazing! It warms my heart to see an instrument brought back instead of being discarded, and its awesome this art is still alive and well!
I love how this is narrated. Rinds me of instructional videos from my youth.
I enjoyed this video very much. 👍
That was fabulous to watch! Thank you for restoring life and beauty.
The narration takes me back to all those public information videos we were forced to watch in school, it si downright painful!
Glad to see that beautiful guitar saced, though!
Watching you do your art relaxes me as I watch. I greatly appreciate and respect your craft. Thank you very much for sharing it with us. William
Yeah! So I want to see a well working restorer bring things to its best again! Thank you! Just right before I had to watch one who did it so bad! I couldn't watch it to end. I once restored an old lute guitar which was made in 1903 to 1905. I took bone glue I cooked on my own and I but a long rope to bring the pieces together. Within a month it became my favorite instrument for all the years arthrosis let me play it. Some times I do it for some 20 minutes but then pain stops me for about up to 6 weeks.
So finally I bought a keyboard I now learn to play - it's music I need and I try to get different tones. I once played a recorder, an ocarina, an alt-saxophone, some drums, from an irish drum to an african voice-drum, over bagpipes and pipes without, a shawm (shalm, Schalmei in German), a ukulele, guitarlele, electric cuitar, my concert guitar as lead guitar, played by me , using notes, not just accords, was my favorite instrument ever. I couldn't sell it, hope my son will use it later on. Sometimes for some days he lents it from me to „have some notes“ as he says. I listen to his melodies: he's got a perfect pitch. Really. My lute guitar is fine now and although you can see its age you say its an old lady. I love it. It took about 6 months to read all books about restoring a guitar. Then I phoned to a restorator and talked about bone glue. He was delighted.
I filmed my restoration and let him watch. I sadly delated after. I was a clown to do so! I know. But the old lady sings in my arms finally. All the best. Be blessed! Ilove music! Thanks for your video!❤
Another great restoration video. Love seeing these instrument's brought back and in working order.
I wonder what stories this great Grand-Mother could tell us ! I just love restorations like this one . Merci !
Gorgeous looking guitar
Beautiful sound. The abandoned guitar comes alive again.
Very nice job! The brass saddle isn't doing it any favours tho.
I'll share a tip for addressing cracks 7:00 Put a generous bead of glue, then use a small suction cup, like you might find on a window ornament, to push it in.
Warming the glue helps. Have plenty of wet and dry rags ready to clean all the excess, and gently clamp across. Thanks for sharing the video and cheers from Vancouver.
Now that's what a well-loved but lost and forgotten guitar looks like.
No examination of the braces inside a guitar with cracks in the top. Unthinkable!
The great care you put into this restoration of this old acoustic guitar is testament to your skill. I realise this video is a reenactment that you mentioned and pinned, but all the same it is a magnificent demonstration depicting your great care, skill and patience. Thank you so much for this from Wendi in the UK. 🌻
Masters of what?... This guy is a butcher
This was a half assed restoration job, I realize it can seem well done to the untrained eye, but this was not a good job.
@@TaiganTundrawill you elaborate on why that is?
My deceased friend Don Drews, a luthier, helped me to appreciate the skill needed to rebuild, upgrade, or set up correctly, stringed instruments. Thank you for this video. I hope the precious art is never lost.
Very nice. Not over restored and looks great.
You saved a life. 💖
Spectacular restoration !!!!!!!!!!
I love my guitar from 1950 it’s cool to think about how old it is and how much different it would have been made compared to new ones
Beautiful work, lovely guitar.
This guitar is from the 1700s? With metal frets, geared tuners, and an oakleaf motif in the rosette? Not a chance; it's early 20th century German Wandervogel period as far as I can tell.
Still, nice restoration, especially with the cracks.
Yes I have a badly damaged Gaetano Guadagnini guitar to restore. It's dated 1826. The one in this video is early twentieth Century
Played at 2x speed. Great video and the song at the end ❤lovely playing
Excelent job! I'm very happy with every instrument that's saved!
Greetz from Germany :)
Beautiful guitar!
An amazing video. It is always good to watch a Master Craftsman at his work. Thank you.
Sounds like bright honey. Such a perfect pitch it made my speaker vibrate more so than any other video.
That is stunning work.
Wow I watch a lot of "restoration" videos and in many cases the end results are worse than the starting point! Amazing job well done! And the tone was so much better than expected too!
素敵なギターに蘇りましたね。👍😀
ナイロン弦の響きが優しくて心地良いです。🍀✨
ありがとうございました。😀🍀
Selmer Maccaferri Django model guitar is the answer to avoid the top cracks caused by the tension of the strings , i mean , if you want to avoid the tension of the strings cracks the top of the guitar , you should put a tailpiece to compensate the tension of the strings . Greetings from Mexico and sorry for my bad english!!
I understood the meaning very well. My Spanish would be worse than your English. And I agree.
One person's garbage is another person's treasure. Wonderful.
That was meant to be.
Great work on the guitar..
Guitar master
The little guitar lives again, GREAT JOB GUYS! Now it's happy!!
What a beautiful work of art. Such an excellent restoration
Perfect work 🎸🤗❣
Truly amazing!
Nice work and sound!!!!
Beautiful Job Beautiful Guitar 👌
An interesting story, and what an inimitable timbre the guitar has!
do us a favor ... it is an old guitar with new classical type strings and not the original steel strings. Just shut up with fancy words like 'timbre' that real guitarists don't use.
You will shut up someone else's mouth. Yes, it was impossible to put metal strings on such a fragile old guitar, which have a stronger tension, unlike nylon. But no one has yet canceled the timbre of a musical instrument, as well as sustain. People value timbre and spend money, often a lot of money, to purchase a guitar with an excellent sound timbre, and the external effects and unsightliness in some ways of the instrument take a back seat. The sound, that is, the timbre, is valued.@@DougHinVA
Letting aside the great work, kudos for your work on the sharpness of your tools... (I especially love the puukko, by the way)... I am a guitarist myself, and I can always appreciate an instrument being given the love and respect it deserves... Good choice on the nylon strings (Part of the tension problem that originally caused the cracks on the top IMHO) it will settle the vibration and sonority of the top in a couple of weeks. Let her take her own time. Great work, man! Cheers!
I realy can't belive that you fond it in the street. It is too much luck to be real. Good job!
It's so beautiful restored process. I love it
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What a very worthwhile thing to do, well done, Stewart, south west Australia.
It would have been interesting to run a snake camera down the hole to see the inside.
Also, I have serious doubts that this is a guitar from the 1700s, if it is then it definitely wasn't found on a random trash pile on the street.
Same here
I clicked and for a minute waited for the dude who did a ''restoration'' on an ''old fender''. Wiping off the fake painted ''rust'' and dirt that he has previously put on it.
A beautiful restoration
Finally a channel that actually knows and cares about the restoration, it’s amazing my gosh
Outstanding and patient
Excellent work.
Good job, fantastic.👌
It should probably be abandoned 1800's guitar, not 18th century guitar. They never had guitars in this shape in 1700's, rather mandoline or lute.
Yes, they did have guitars of that shape then. They were smaller and with fewer strings than today, but the guitar is this video is a fake. Also, 18th century guitars had gut frets, not metal.
Look up baroque guitars and I think you'll change your mind on the shape of them.
This has got to be one of the realest restorations I've seen. You did a fantastic job preserving the patina, maybe a tiny bit to good, but hey, I'm not the luthier.
I had the privilege of playing one very similar after a gig/private party the decorative rosette was partially missing but it played and sounded so sweet. I tried to buy it from the couple who threw the party but they said it was his wifes grandfathers & wouldn't part with it.
Made me cry
Quite a very nice looking Parlor guitar might be a great choice to resurrect it back to playable guitar. Love the sound hole rosette done in wood and a beautiful bridge. I’d be proud to place it on my living room wall an play it when my hands feel easier to move my playing days are few now tried surgery with disastrous consequences.
I'm glad this Acoustic Guitar finally works
Es emocionante ver el paso a paso de la restauración de tan lindo instrumento. Good Job !!!
what a great work...thank you
Nice work Mr !
Its a pretty old girl and as a few have mentioned circa 1900, sounds pretty much like a cheap kids uke, but great work just the same, always learning something from you, thank you. I personally would have put on some super-light bronze/silicone strings just to see if you'd get a bit more clean sound out of it, just a thought:) Tis a beauty wall-hanger if nothing else.
it has such a sweet sound
Well done. He is beautiful ❤
I liked it so much. You didnt sanding, painting, renewing. Just fixed broken ones. Left it as original. This is what I understand "restoration"
Great narration!
What a beautiful guitar. it deserved a second chance in life.
Its been so long since I have heard lagrima in a while. Cool interpretation and restoration
This is genuine, unlike 99% of restauration videos on youtube
Except it's about 200 years newer than presented.
I'm a big fan of making things over and keeping them useable. Some years ago my brother and I refurbished our deceased father's guitar. It was just an ancient Sears Silvertone hollow body but today it has its original visual brilliance and lives in a handsome purple-felt lined case.
I doubt it's very usable. Beautiful wall-hanger though.
Glad you were able to do that with your dads old instrument. Silvertones werent great off the shelf but could be made to have pretty good action. I'm sure it means a lot to you.
Goodness me, that thing is beautiful.
really enjoyed watching this.
this deserves millions of views
This is not a restoration. Its polishing up a wall hanger.
😂
Very interesting, the main schools of restoration are repair (consolidation) which maintain the historical aspect, age and recomposition (anastylosis) which aim at restoring the function, in this case of the instrument. Here the luthier takes a back seat.
@Cush The luthier took a back seat, I said... maybe keeping metal strings, maybe some work on the action. These guitars were not so good, I think - I mean the sound.
Beautiful! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Esse entende de restauração. Perfeito 👏👏👏
Sweet fellows. What a fabulous prize.
That’s a beautiful guitar 🎸
Many commenters should have read the first comment by the video creator: this was a reenactment. So they had to use another sad old guitar to reenact the repair. They were not trying to deceive us.
I enjoyed the video, because it reminds me of the good feeling I've gotten when doing repairs on some old folk instruments, that I've given it new life in a way. It's a work of love regardless if the instrument sounds awesome or just hangs on the wall.
Excelente! Parabéns desde aqui do Brasil 🇧🇷.
For those of you who care, look up guitars by luthiers like Genaro Fabricatore and lambert if you want to see what guitars in the 18th century actually looked like. These are mid 19th century at the oldest
Looking very new.
I love the soundhole cover. Beautiful instrument
Nicely done.😊 Cool re-enactment.👍
very nice work
Beautiful work!
Reborn.. Amazing
Реставрация проведена не полностью. Колки следовало заменить или хотя бы смазать. По бокам верхняя крышка отклеивалась, там дырки. Заменить бы ещё верхний и нижний порожек, чтобы гитара не дребезжала. А старый лак следовало снять и перекрасить инструмент заново (слой лака, клея и краски влияет на звук)
Masters Of Craft
I noticed you put Nylon Strings on this Acoustic cause these old Acoustic Guitars from the 18th Century were Originally built for Gut Strings (nowadays it's Nylon) & if someone used Steel strings on it for super long, it would've collapsed. You might get away w/ using Thomastik KR116 strings. Some Guitars from that time had a Tailpiece which could allow you to use Steel strings cause the Tailpiece relieves tension from the Top.
best guess made in Europe possibly Germany around 1910, the ornate sound hole is probably why the repairer is suggesting 18th century. Nice repair job, i think others would probably have removed the top and hide glued from the interior.
Great work, fantastic sound!
Really? That's why rhe strings were buzzing while he was playing? 🤔
A romantic guitar.
💕Good Job❣️Wonderful❣️
Don’t know why,but I love these old things.
milfs
I still have one of the first Cremona guitars. Also it still retains its original frieze