$50 Vintage Acoustic Guitar...Let's Polish this TURD and Hear It Speak
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- I got this little Harmony Sears & Roebuck parlor sized acoustic guitar at an antique mall in Indiana recently. It had a few issues, including a marked lack of manners, but nothing we can't handle. I'll show you a few of the methods I use to clean and polish vintage guitars and the best method for cutting nut slots. We'll also see how well an Scotch Brite scouring pad works on polishing guitar frets and sanding/buffing guitar finishes.
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Damn 3m explosives cost too much. I took this one to the bathtub first. I still dont have the dust out of the insides. But man in the end this is a good guitar! Mine has no trussrod. Here let me give my md.# 319.12071000 classical tuners with the atom8cspinner.
At 11:43 - I get great results from using Sheila Shine on guitar hardware.
Yes, the 3M stuff is expensive, but it lasts FOREVER. I've had that same bottle for about 7 or 8 years and it's still 1/3 full.
@@GuitarNoize111 That's too bad. I haven't had that issue with this set yet. I used to use DRs back about 10 years ago. I liked them back then.
great tip on filing the nut !!!!! Thanks wow ...sounds very good !!! Good job !!
I honestly like the tone, sounds better than I expected.
He did a great job setting it up.
Sears was the Best catalogue when I was a kid! It had women's lingerie, Guitars and car stuff! Thanks for sharing brother!
My tribute to the Sears catalog: th-cam.com/video/9xtQlDJpAOk/w-d-xo.html
We where poor, all we had was Monkey Wards catalogs. LOL
@@Curtislow2 Wards catalog was good wank material too. :P
Jerking off over bra pics. Hey...beggars cant be choosers! ;)
@@triplesevensix291 They always had some very nice, sheer negligees as well.
5:11 What, no wire brush? amateur.
Truly peaceful playing at the end. Making Monday feel the way it should. Thanks Brother.
Very nice of you to say, Bill. Thanks. The playing went on for about another 10 minutes, so I had to cut it down. :D
Nice vid, man! Once when I was guitar tech for Willie Nelson, Willie asked me to fix those pesky little flaking finish chips on his guitar. In my haste to come up with a solution (okay, I was just starting out), I tried an angle grinder with a twisted wire wheel on it. Well, I must say...it did the job admirably and Willie was really pleased with my results. No more flaking finish, and as a side benefit - a real convenient access point for storage. He told me he would put sandwich bags full of guitar picks inside. So.....you never know how your innovations will pay off!
Hahahahah
Damn I thought you were being partial about the sound of these. You weren’t kidding! Sounds amazing😳
The benefits of not being a snob. ;)
My unsuccessful rock and roll career all started with Sears silvertone stuff.
Lots of careers started the same way. Harmony produced more guitars than probably all other makers combined for a number of years in the 40s, 50s and 60s.
The rich kid down the street his father bought him one of the first vox Super beetles. All five of us used to plug into that thing at the same time.
Guitar Ocd My unsuccessful career is still underway with much more money invested, don’t feel bad.
Good luck.
And yer still rockin!!
Brad, 3M makes a really good “Polishing Compound” for your vintage finishes. It’s about a 1/4 of the abrasive ness of rubbing compound. It’s designed for automotive finishes to remove fine swirl marks in the clear coat after using their fine cut compound. It would be perfect for very shallow/fine scratches on a “good” guitar. But, still test first, as it is designed for modern automotive finishes. And, after that, they make a Polishing wax (liquid) designed to reflect the light in any micro fine scratches still left. If both used properly, you will have a high gloss “piano” finish. Note: this assumes your scratches are very minor and you have a fair amount of clear finish to start with. On this guitar, the rubbing compound was a good choice. You could enhance it with these other two 3M products. I was suggesting these products for guitars in much better shape finish wise.
Damn dude, that was some of the SICKEST guitar playing I have seen! Amazing little find and restore. I gotta admit, at the beginning I had low expectations. But you blew me away
I don't see how that's a Turd! Looks like you fixed up a real nice relic to me!
Yeah man, these are sweet little honeys when set up properly. The fixed bridge ones are even tighter sounding.
Old Harmonys are cool old guitars for the most part. Seen more than a few that weren't in great shape but the ones I have seen that were... definitely worth sorting through a pile of 'em to find "the one"
I thought the same and snagged it immediately
This might be the best instructional video I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. The playing at it’s finish was not only beautiful, but tied the entire thing together in a fashion I’m simply not accustomed to In TH-cam videos. Really impressive. Thank you.
NICE! That end jam was super cool and the guitar sounded great. Nice work! :D
Thanks for the tip on setting up the nut !
Makes it almost impossible to cut too far down.
The feeler gauge tip, for cutting nut grooves was great! Thank you from the UK.
My brother and I had plastic Sears guitar toys in the early 70's! They actually said Sears on the headstock!
You made that thing sound just like Al Dimelio!
LOL!
Al DiMeola
Wow, that was so much better than i thought it would be, really nice tone for an old stick
Great video.. I consider this type of video to be "vintage guitologist"
But is it “authentic” guitologist? I mean, is he “coming after us” with his finding and fixing of these guitars? Is his “buffing” the “real deal”?
@@fossilmatic huh??
@@contrabandjoe7974: Methinks "fossil" is taking the piss out of that awful Gibson "play authentic" video for a guess😉
That was fun. Thanks for the tip on cutting the nut slots. That will come in handy for me for sure!
Good find, it cleaned up nicely, good playing by the way, that was nice to listen to ......
Beautiful instrumental
I was the only kid I knew that had a Stella. After reading these comments, there were a lot of us who had these. Wonder how many guitar careers were launched with this guitar. Thank you Brad for sharing your resurrection of this little jewel. Thanxz
I have an old Harmony very similar to yours and absolutely the quality is surprising. Plus it plays and sounds excellent. In fact, I have found quite a few stellar budget guitars at garage sales or even Goodwill over the years, usually for next to nothing, and some of these good fiddles are so awesome that I will never get rid of them. For example, I have an old early 90's Hohner HR SP1 that I play every single day while my low end Martin sits and collects dust. BTW, thanks for putting out a lot of videos this past week, I was having withdrawals and needed some The Guitologist content as the fix.
That my friend that was $50:00 well spent and there is something about the tone that I really enjoy!!!
Damn Brad, I'm impressed with your playing as well as the restoration tips, Bravo!
Learn something new every time I watch your videos.
It sounds beautiful man I love that little section you did with the high part it sounds great keep up the good work man
I grew up in southern Indiana, glad to know you can still find stuff like that, thanks for posting,you've made me homesick though !!
Very informative Brad, that thing sounds sweet!!! pickin grinnin and winnin
Rescued another one...good job!. I learned about the 3m buffing compounds from Dan Erlewines guitar hospital tapes back in the stone age (80's). 😀👍
Great job resurrecting l that old guitar sounds really good really interesting content I love hearing your playing. You’re a very good guitarist as well as an excellent technician.
I had the same guitar, but mine was a Stella.
Monad333 Mine was a Stella. My Dad smoked Raleigh cigs and saved enough coupons to order the guitar from the Raleigh catalogue, like S&H green stamps. He played it for 2 weeks and I got it after he found out I had broke the high E string sneaking it behind his back. The first song I figured out was Johnny Be Good! That's how I started. I was 12. Thanxz
Sounds awesome, really bold clear and full rounded tone, I would love me one of those.
Beautiful playing Brad
I still have my Kay G-101 (fixed bridge), It has dings and scratches and a slightly bent D tuning key, but it still sings. It was always near at hand at the end of the couch and now it hangs within arms reach of my gaming chair. My grandfather gave it to me in either 69 or 70 when i was 6 or 7 years old, so it has seen some miles. Thanks for the cleaning tips....it needs it.
I have 5 of these sitting in my shop waiting to become that one. 3 student models and 2 standards. I was going to turn them into a table but now I'm thinking of going ahead and restoring them as far as I can go with them. Thanks!
Some of your best playing, I've heard, on a $50 guitar. Great content!
Excellent advice on the nut filing, very cool. The guitar sounds nice too. Cheers!
SWEET! Good work, good video and some great sound at the end. Always something good to learn and think about. Thanks, man.
I received my grandfather's Silvertone f-hole typr guitar when my dad passed away. My uncle bought it for my Pepaw at Sears in the early 60's. It needed cleaning and some new strings and a setup. It's easy to play, and it's tone is 100 times better than for instance an Ibanez artist hollow body (no electronics), obv. I love this guitar and i play it all the time and it always reminds me of my grandfather. Great video? Takes me back...
Sounds really warm and well balanced the bass are amazingly mellow
When I was a kid, I saved my babysitting money and bought a $20 Global from, I think, Montgomery Wards. People told me it would fold over on itself. It never did. I was a bit embarrassed to show it to a friend of my parents' who really knew guitars, but he didn't make fun of it at all. In fact, he complimented me on the good care I took of it, and the tone that came out of my little guitar. He offered me $50 for it, but I wouldn't sell. LOL
You n unka Doug, my favorite ones, glad you’ve kept your sense of humor! Gonna try to make the Dallas show this fall, would like to meet you if you’re there!
I do enjoy it when you make videos about musical instruments.
Never thought of a scourer pad to brighten up the frets, cheers for that tip bro. Sounds nice now you have waved your magic wand over it.
Great find...great fix....great playin'.....
Love it, always good to see you keep these old axes sharp
Brad, that nut cutting trick is a time saver!! Thank you for that tip!!
This is why I subscribed. This kinda video. Awesome. Thank you.
Wow, what a great tone out of that guitar. Nice job man. It sounds great.
Your playing at the end was excellent. Had to click back for a few replays. I loved the sound of that guitar.
Thanks, Tom. Yeah, you can get lost in the natural reverb. The tailpiece I think is what does it. It transfers the sympathetic vibrations of strings over to other strings and makes harmonics ring out, simulating a spring reverb effect.
This should be called, "From Turd To Shred". Nicely done man! That lesson about nut height and grooves was great.
Cool project! Great playing at the end! Thanks!
Great content -- I like the balanced sound you're getting out of that littler guitar!
Did my first (and second) neck reset on a 12 string Sears and Roebuck. Learned a lot and got it right the second time.
That one sounds great!
My very first guitar! Looks to be the same exact model except mine was more of a reddish sunburst. Got it in June 1972 for my 9th birthday!
I remember seeing that sears label. Iv had guitars years ago and didn't know what it stood for. Thanks for the information....I was young and had my parents to take me up to a music store in town to change the strings and tune it up. There was no tuners back then so I got a pitch pipe. Had a old guy down the road give me some lessons on the front porch on the different cords. I was off and running.
Well done Brad, just the right kind of resto on a guitar that's done a million miles & it looks all the better for it & sounds really nice too😊
Bet it would record nice , very distinctive mid range bark...also open tuned to G or D. Love the distinctive sound of the less expensive acoustics..
Eat your heart out Gibson. This guitar is genuinely AUTHENTIC! I got a feeling Mr. Agnesi would just not get why this instrument is as AUTHENTIC as it gets. Nice one Brad.
Wow.....in your able hands that little jewel "rings like a bell" (to quote Chuck Berry).
Thanks Doug. I appreciate that.
Beautifully played and recorded Brad. Amazing tone, it's the beginners guitar I would have loved. Mine was horribly cheap plywood. Bridge was miles out of position, (some frets too). I screwed a brass strip to the front edge of the bridge to help intonate it. Filed the brass down lower to improve the action. Still a total dog to play, struggled with that for about eighteen months, dragged it into school in London 1970 and played it during breaktimes, country blues tunes learned from.a Stephan Grossman LP and tab book. Made a lot of musical friends still in touch with most.
I love those vintage parlor guitar's, I got a stella harmony from a thrift store that i put nylon strings on and it sounds great
Great job! Superb playing and nice sound
They all deserve to be brought back to life...a fine job, Sir!
That was a joy to watch. I kept going "I hope he does a bit more to it" and then you would! :)
Brad,
Exceptonal video.
Great instructions on repairing it. Then, a wonderful demo on its happy parlor voice.
I am a Chicagoan so I am on the lookout for a Made in Chicago guitar like this one.
I subscribed. Wonderfully well done video.
Brad, success. Today, I found this exact same guitar at auction. I won and paid $53.77 plus tax.
Unlike your example, my guitar has a pick guard. Our guitars are 36 inches long. Mine comes with a case.
Supposedly, the guitar was "in the family" untouched for 40 years. It needs a setup and then I'll own a playable piece of Chicago history: An Atomic logo Chicago Harmony.
I just picked up a 1960's Sears/Roebuck Silvertone 319.1209000 s1209 for $20 at a thrift store! I'm so excited to string it up. Thanks for the video!
Nice playing at te end Brad, guitar looks awesome
I just picked on exactly like this except it had been disassembled. Missing one tuner gear and the bridge. A little wood reapair near one of the supports on the back and a little polishing and this will be good as new. Thanks for doing this viedeo
Very nice job Brad. I had a Harmony acoustic in the mid 60’s It was very nice. I kept it until 1971 when I bought a Deluxe Ovation I’m sorry now that I gave it away to an Air Force buddy who wanted to learn to play.
This video is Aces. Always great content on this channel!
I'm glad you made this video. the sovereign model is one that is special
Nice one Brad. Lovely noodling at the end too.
Love these kind of video's, Makes me wanna restore more guitars!
Man that sounds sweet !!! And great tip on nut slot height
Thanks alot! Grrr, I did what you asked to support your channel. I stood at the corner of 4th and Main at rush hour nude screaming "long live the guitarologist" ...now I need bail money. Thanks for another great video!!!
Without video, didn’t happen. ;)
Brad, you really played the $_it out of that SR! I heard you say you were "pretty good player back in the day" but wow, you still have some chops! Nice tone and looks like a loved relic to me. Thanks for your videos.
Wow, that is one of the better sounding guitars I believe I have ever heard, Beautiful tone, Wow !!!!
I think I just saw one of these at a Goodwill store. I'm going back in the morning and see. i remember that distinctive SR on the headsock
That sounds spectacular. I was not expecting that.
Nice work! Both during and after setup.
Brad, great playing at the end of the video, loved it.
Got the same one free on the side of the road. Loved it.
Nothing better than seeing an old closet relic given a new life!
Top job Brad and as usual nice playing
Holding up a Bic lighter on the demo. beautiful! Nice job Brad! Saving discarded stringed instruments is a worthy thing to do in such a difficult and pretentious market.
Amazing sound ,and very nice playing !
I have a Silvertone 319 , and I play it allot. I like the fret polish idea. Thanks !,,
Damn! Great job! I thought it was a piece of junk but at the end when you played it was great!
Loved the playing at the end.
Love the old sears and harmony stuff. Just picked up a 1966 Gibson GA 45 rvt Saturn in sorta rough shape. Was going to pass on it but it has the original foot switch and loaded with all rca tubes, the 6l6'gc's are grey plates. From the looks of it its never been opened up or re capped, guess we'll see when i crack it open. Thanks for the vids Brad, happy Columbus Day.
The guitar sounds amazing. And you play so good man.
To shine up some of my older or used knives I like to actually use car headlight polish, it takes a little more time I find but I love the end result
The magic is in you, Brad. Make of it what you will.
Does that mean I also have AIDS? :)
@@TheGuitologist hahaha and a million $$ contract??
That turned out really well. Also, lovely Spanish style playing at the end of the video
That little guitar sounds good. My dad used to have some old guitars made almost like that. The names I remember was Kent, Silvertone, Harmony and Audition...a few others. My brother started playing on a Harmony acoustic it was like the old faithful to him. lol.
very nice tone , great job ! great sounding instrument
Very nice guitar work at the end.