Replacing Gibson Hummingbird Pickguard | DON'T use Furniture Polish on your Guitar!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Welcome to Crimson Guitars th-cam.com/users/CrimsonC.... In this video Ben is replacing the pickguard on this stunning Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitar. This is a customers guitar, and unfortunately, furniture polish was used in the past to clean this instrument, this caused some problems with the finish, but also caused the original pickguard to start peeling away.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:08 A de-laminated pickguard - Do Not Use Furniture Polish to Clean Your Guitar!
0:53 Using a Proxxon Hot Air Gun
2:52 Cleaning the top with Crimson Fretboard and Finish Cleaner
3:58 The new pickguard going on - much more tricky than one would think.
7:32 And a demo
8:00 Conclusion
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All my thoughts dear Ben Hope you'll recover quickly !
During the 80s I played in a band with a guitarist who sprayed his entire guitar (body, neck, fretboard, strings, pickups- everything! with Pledge furniture polish before and after every time he played it. Every other guitarist who saw him do this was horrified and warned him not to do this, but he ignored the advice. I don't know how long the guitar lasted as the band split up, but I would guess not long.
I have been doing exactly the same and all my mates do to this day from way back in the 70,s. My Gibsons and Fenders are as good as they were back then, I have a friend who is a chemist and it would be good to see him debunk this as his knowledge is very good around industrial chemicals and how they react with other chemicals and substances, he plays guitar too, and yes he uses pledge, and he has no issue using it on his 1960,s Les Paul, furniture polish is the go to cleaner for guitars and always has been since I've known, what's in it that makes it fine for french polish and not a guitar???
Greatly appreciated the masking tape "hinges" to lay down the new pickguard in exactly the right spot. A much better idea than I would have come up with.
I did slightly cringe at the use of a heat gun on fully tensioned strings, but no "Pops!" So I guess that's a judicious hand at work.
Please keep them coming.
I have a 1970 Yamaha FG300 which has a very similar pickguard, I think made from celluloid, it had warped at the bottom and lifted up by an inch, but was really stiff unlike that one. For years it got force glued down , then lifted again , repeat.... in the end I softened it by soaking it in very hot near boiling water, and bending back flat with rubber gloves, until it was pretty flat, then clamping under a load of weight on a flat surface while it cooled. It worked and has stayed flat on the guitar for years now.
The other option I read about was to heat it up in the oven, but risk it catching fire at pretty low temps!
I hope you feel better soon, Ben
Very nice and the playing was very enjoyable.
I do love the sound that comes out of a Gibson Hummingbird
Hope you are feeling better today, Ben :(
Hope you’re feeling better today Ben
Beautiful design with the hummingbird. Feel better soon.
I have a 2014 Gibson Hummingbird which I brought new and the pickguard was in the case, not mounted onto the guitar, which I found was standard Gibson practice to allow you the choice of mounting it or not.
It has/had the adhesive already applied, and a peel away backing that you just took off and then mounted the pickguard onto the guitar.....basically this adhesive does not stand the test of time [Especially if you live in a warm climate], and the pickguard will start to peel away from the guitar = PITA.
I suspect this is the same situation with the guitar in the video, and yes, the bloody things NEVER line up with the sound hole either.
Checked on another humming bird guitar the pick guard is the same place as the one you replaced, hope your feeling better
Nice sounding guitar nothing real fancy to look at but really the sound and pliability is what should be the most important things when it comes right down to it correct.
Same thing has happened to my SJ200 and I've only ever used genuine Gibson polish. The genuine pick guard on it doesn't fit the sound hole either.
A good friend and very nice multi-instrumentalist closed her eyes and bought a Hummingbird a few years ago. A dream guitar, but almost out of reach on a very strict single mum household budget. But she says the guitar sounds fantastic when she’s gigging with her americana/folk hobby band. I will tell her about the nitro finish being a bit on the fragile side.
i know that reaction, i ve had it a few times, luckily, it will go soon. nice guitar good job. Worse reaction I had was with septrum, a type of antibiotics. That one nearly killed me
Beautiful guitar! It looks even better with no a pickguard at all.
Agreed
I agree too, much better.
Probably sounds better as well, at least mine did. Playing finger-picking style, there was no need for the protection.
But then again. The scratches you get gives personality to the guitar without a pick guard. It shows your dedication to set guitar. Imo it ads that oomph @@joanarling
@@user-yp1gs8vz2l True enough. However, mine picked up its own scars over years of travelling (amongst other transports: motorcycles :) ).
Excellent job - beautiful guitar. And it looks like the Gibson Hummingbird had a slotted bridge pin job done. Made the guitar sound even better is my guess.
Thank you very much!
That guitar sounds lovely
Good idea with the tape hinges - but should use blue painters tape.. Also, should not use heat to remove pickguard because it weakens glue for the bracing underneath. 🙂
I have a Hummingbird I bought new in 2003. The pickguard is not coming loose, but the artwork on the pickguard is 80% worn off. Mine looks like a thinner and harder tortoise shell material than the one in this video, I'd like to replace it but don't know where to get a 2003 Hummingbird pickguard.
get well soon Ben!
I would like to know which hummingbird pickguard you replace with? I have a genius Gibson humming bird but I cannot find a proper replacement for it. Thank you.
Why didnt you reattatch the one you removed? Thanks for your time doing the video.
quincke edema? I had that two or three times. Woke up and looked like Rocky. Never found out where it came from.
I have one of these Hummingbirds and even without using any cleaning products the pickguard began peeling off and I had to repair it. The adhesive Gibson use on these pickguards just sucks and the material being weirdly rubbery just wants to roll up
Mineral spirits easily remove most adhesives like that and is safe to use on nitrocellulose finishes. Also, you can probably reuse that pickguard after heating and clamping it between two flat surfaces, then use some 3M 468MP transfer adhesive.
I left a comment just today.. above.. I was asking why they couldn't re-glue the original pickguard since it fit better.
Looks better without that tone killer glued on
I love these Gibson's, and you did a fantastic job even with the radius not matching. Josh should do all your demos. It's my favourite TH-cam game "what cover is this?" Thanks Bun/Josh I had the time of my life 🤣🥰 good riddance to the pledge polish
Whenever I've had to remove a pickguard from an acoustic, I've always used naphtha. I wouldn't want to risk heating up the finish too much. Obviously, you're much more familiar with using a heat gun than I am, I just don't trust myself with it.
lol I used to use Lemon Pledge to clean rosewood fretboards while restringing. My 2018 J45 is one of many Gibson acoustics of this era with delaminating pickguard. Its a common problem. Don't keep it in its case either as nitro offgassing eats cellulite.
Where was new pickguard purchased ?
I have a Gibson hummingbird and i would like to change the pickguard,but i know Gibson don't sello It,where i can buy It?
Stay safe, get well soon.
Get well buddy. 👊
Same thing happened to my j45..I never use furniture polish on it
I'm interested as to why you did not put the one that came off, back on???
That's my question as well. Why didn't you reattatch the existing guard you removed?
You don’t need tools to pull bridge pins.
Just push the string down slightly into the hole. The ball end will come free from the end of the pin and the pin will easily lift out. No chance of damaging the pin or marring the surface of the bridge unless you have steel fingertips.
Dead right mate - I've used that method for 50 years - never needed a special tool lol.
Get well and don't get sick.
Consider using a hairdryer which will do the job but less chance to damage the finish
Let me get this right. Gibson sent a replacement part for a feature part of their guitar, and the sizes are different? Isn’t the Hummingbird guitar one size?
I think there was a missed opportunity here. It would have been nice to hear a sound test of that guitar both before then after the old pickguard was removed to hear the tone without a giant chunk of plastic glued to the sound board.
At Gibson we put the “y” in quality.
Gibson and Epiphone have lifetime guarantee on all their parts, even on their 100 quid models. It's quite nice.
Why couldn't you clean and reinstall the original scratch plate.?
Great video. I have the same problem with my Gibson Hummingbird.
I can't seem to find a new pickguard like the one you installed. They don't sell them in the US.
I just ordered one from Amazon. Probably a reproduction (for $20.00)
@@lestergeez4349 Yeah I have one of those too.
They're different from the original.
Nice
gibson is sending me a replacement explorer pickguard right now lol thats a coincidence
I hate nitro lacquer with every fiber of my being. I build and finish guitars and I can't imagine a worst finish to use.
I use 2k Urethane instead.
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Did you get into a fight?
ben be careful it looked like u was using your fingers against the soft wood so hard u could imprint it with your nails, when u was scrubbing it
The shape of the reaction looks to me like it was the cream they used to keep the tat moist and protected from infection caused that.
On a side note has anyone else noticed the uptick in Stew Mac ads during crimson videos? Also has anyone else seen the Driftwood Guitar ad as well?
Ben are you okay? have you been near some toxic wood dust?
Adverse reaction to his tattoo touch up
@@PaulCooksStuff good reason not to tattoo
Don't put furniture polish on your head!
Who else believes most acoustics look far better without the pick guard? If you do need one, how about a clear one, which some guitars use? I play fingerstyle, and hence often remove them for aesthetic reasons, and any tech can replace it if you are selling.
I use windows cleaner for my guitars 😬
you look quite ill on this vid Ben, are you OK?
Point of no return 😂
What are you having an allergic reaction to Ben ?
I'd just use a hair dryer on low heat
He should confiscate that guitar and give it to someone that has enough common sense not to use future polish on a Hummingbird. Will people ever learn!
Ben, what happened to your head? Looks like a massive allergic reaction
Also don’t use nail polish remover
At first I thought Ben was wearing eye liner and I thought....."oh no, please don't say it's so".
To say I was relieved at the end of the video when I saw that it was just inflammation is this year's understatement......phew.
I really hope this is just a joke that isn't funny. If you're genuinely "relieved" that Ben is physically ill and suffering rather than simply wearing eyeliner, then you have some serious judgement issues.
The "flubber" pickguards that Gibson uses now REFUSE to stay down. Take one off and it will roll into a cylinder after a couple of weeks.Am surprised there hasn't been a class- action lawsuit from angry Hummingbird and J-200 owners.
Get slurping the anti-histamine. 😱
and steroids too!
Get better soon!
Dude put the Cam down and go to the doctor
Tattoo swelling? 😮
All the best luthiers have Chinese eyes.
Ben, your face from the eyes up is swollen; your tattooist needs to be a little more gentle.
Was a bad reaction from numbing cream.. my first time trying it since the tattooist was so gleeful at how much pain I was going to be in 😆 shows me..
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars You should remind him that being gleeful at your customers pain isn't a good long term business strategy... also alcohol works, just don't try rubbing it in 🙂
typical shoddy gibson crap - the pickguard falls off and the replacement doesn't fit - rubbish
Make a big point of leaving the strings on at the beginning when they were in the way and then removing the strings at the end anyway. And then when the new one is installed it still isn't lined up with the sound hole. I can't watch your videos.
I’ll take the two builds a week over this format any day. There’s a million repair channels on TH-cam, and none that do what Ben does like Ben. Do Ben stuff!
Absolutely