Hi all - these are my instruments. Ted's made a wonderful job and I can easily hear the difference. In the Baritone-8, most of the benefit is in the treble. I've made some measurements. In my normal playing position, it goes roughly like +4 dB for the B1 to +7 dB for the B3. This is 2.5x and 5x louder. These may be quite small effects for someone with normal hearing but it allowed me to play an unplugged gig with confidence yesterday. Finally - a warm thank you to all for your good wishes regarding my hearing. One can live in hope.
@@silkysmoof5697 There's a finite amount of energy in the guitar so if you're taking some out of the sound port, you'll have less available for the primary sound hole. The real question is whether it's noticeable. I can't really answer this - I can't play with my head in front of the instrument. 😉 Nevertheless, the amount of energy coming out of the port is quite small - by intention it is weakly coupled - so I really doubt it's an audible change. On reflection, it may be that getting better feedback from the instrument allows the performer to play with greater confidence. Again - I've no way to test this.
I was diagnosed 7 years ago with benign tremors that have been getting slowly worse, and now I am not able to play professionally any longer. I salute you for doing anything you can to continue playing.
Hope you still have your hearing. I would imagine you could place your face on the side of the guitar while playing and get some vibrations through your jawbone. I think Beethoven did that? What is your condition? I have been developing worsening tinnitus and I do worry about hearing loss.
I was told when I was starting in business that "a good mechanic, makes his own tools", you exemplify that with you jig making ability. Wonderful work. Prayers and positive energy to the gentleman with the hearing issues, wishing you the best.
Stephen Stills suffers from similar hearing loss. Keep playing as long as you can! Great instructional video! Thanks! hearingmojo.com/rock-roll-icon-stephen-stills-talks-about-his-lifelong-hearing-loss/
I find that watching an accomplished and inventive craftsman at work is every bit as interesting, engrossing and evern educational as watching any news or nature documentary. Your laminated side support and your cut-out jig were great ideas that only come from an inventive and experienced mind. I plan to watch your other videos and I'm sure I'll find them just as interesting. Thanks for sharing!
as a luthier i find this at least somewhat true. tho knowing we would probably spend 2 weeks sourcing materials bc our customers insist they only want lightbulbs that were blown during a full moon
I wanted to learn luthiery a few years ago after I finished my diploma and I learned about guitar making for an article writing assignment. My parents shot me down and said it is a useless skill and I won't be able to find work. Watching this channel makes me happy. The repair jobs you do is amazing and interesting to watch!
If you're an adult and can get your freedom, I'm thinking this may be an apprenticeship type deal. But you'll have to still live in the meantime. I wonder if @twoodfrd can offer any input unless you asked him already
Thank you, your videos are inspiring. I tackle small set up jobs on my own instruments but I am in awe of a true craftsman like yourself. Unfortunately there are some "instructional" videos out there that are posted by incompetent fools that give wrong information and could mess up any viewers guitars if their advice is followed. Your work is exceptional and a privilege to watch and learn from....again...thank you!
I have a similar problem to that of your customer having lost one ear completely and most of the other. I cant hear an acoustic guitar now but still enjoy playing guitar using amplification and headphones. Hope this helps your customer. Thanks for another great video.
Wow...just wow... Major props to this guy for pressing on and “working with” his condition. In all honesty, I’m not sure I’d have the strength. Music and hearing is just too important for me. If given that ultimate sensual “Sophie’s choice”, I might choose blindness, to be honest. A “quiet” world would just be too painful. Again, this guy is an absolute soldier...
If hearing could be quantified in coins, I would give that customer of yours some of my hearing coins. Damn near made me cry. Sorry Brother. Thanks for the work you do, it means a lot. especially to someone like him
I kind of wish more guitars had side ports. I played a Gibson a few weeks ago that had one and it was such a joy to hear that extra direct tone. And yeah- no more of the guitar dance to get picks out!
Always wanted one of those Taylor baritone 8 string guitars - and that one looked and sounded really lovely - and you had to cut a big hole in the side of it; OMG! Good job you’re amazing at what you do and that customer came to you, and not someone who’d butcher it instead! Really impressed with your approach, but I think I’ll leave my Taylor with just it’s original single sound hole if it’s all the same thanks 😉
So sorry for the man who is loosing his hearing. It must be heartbreaking for anyone to be affected like that, especially a musician. Great job in doing your bit to help him out. Another tremendous video and very informative. Does anyone know the name of the magnets or where, in the UK, I could get some?
Wow! Thats quite a challenge making the ports and the fixtures to fit. I'm sure it does something. I know Taylor puts the port up in the top right cutaway me thinks. Different locations would make different sounds. Thanks again for sharing this.
I have an Ibanez that I took bad electronics out if ...after playing it with a hole in the top or side whatever.... I will never put them back it has opened up the sounds of it ...its absolutely amazing now
I bought a filthy old pawnshop Sigma guitar with a stab wound for $30 once. It must have belonged to a homeless bum or something because this thing had obviously lived outside. It had dried leaves inside the soundhole. Also, the upper bout had been pierced apparently with a screwdriver-like weapon (lucky there was a Band-Aid on it). Anyway, the hole looked awful so I cleaned off the Band-Aid goo and using blue painter's tape I just traced a clean circle big enough to enclose the entire perimeter of the stab wound. It was in a location where I could use my router and rout out the circle. That left a nice clean perfect circle. Sanded her up, put a little stain around the edge to hide the raw wood, and, boom....good to go. It actually sounded pretty cool when you played it. You could really hear every sound you were making, including pick scrapes, etc.
I love your vids.so much knowledge.and I enjoy your playing after a job well done. idea for Next video try cutting a side port in a an electric solidbody let's start a revolution!
The effect of a side port is to basically create a channel for more air to enter and leave the box more readily as the top vibrates. The location isn't as important as the size. Since the soundboard shape and dimensions are the same before and after, you won't get much difference in tone....but overall volume and trebles might change slightly (for better or worse....this is similar to "tuned ports" in speaker cabinets). Martin made a "large soundhole version" of their drednaught guitar to achieve a similar result. Apparently a famous guitarist wore his away and liked the sound...and attributed it to that.
Great work. Your experience shows in how much you anticipate what the problems are going to be before they happen. If I didn't know better (and I suppose I don't), I might guess you had two identical guitars for each video; one which you **** up on the first try (like I probably would) and then another on which you get it right. I just subscribed, so I guess I'll be treated to more the same soon.
Do you lose any tone from your guitar when you do this ? If not I might just do this to one of my guitars,my only fear is losing some low end,I wish you did a before and after sound test for us to hear,excellent job as usual your one of the best luthiers here on TH-cam.
If you like the way a guitar sounds currently, don't cut holes in it. Differences in bass response won't be picked up by a mic in my shop situation. Also remember, the sound you hear from your guitar is not what your audience hears except in a recording situation. In which case you could simply adjust the e.q.
Forgive my ignorance of the finer points of how sound travels, but could you increase the volume of the side port by covering the sound hole, and / or by inserting planks to direct the sound upward?
I think this could help, you might be able to essentially 'tune' the ports to the most desired resonant frequencies, much like is done with ports on speakers. For those, Thiele-Small parameter equations are used to calculate the ideal port size based on desired frequency response and enclosure size. I would put some cardboard over the holes and play around with it a while - maybe even put a mic and a frequency meter on it to see if there are some measurable sweet spots.
@@scottr939 excellent points. The resonant frequency of the air chamber in a guitar is affected quite a lot by the size of the port - you can tune the Helmholtz resonance by changing the soundhole dimensions, for instance. Adding a port lowers the frequency by a significant amount.
Same here, slowly loosing my hearing and did about the same thing to my classical guitar. It really improved a lot for me. But I have to admit that my work wasn't as good as you did!
I wonder if the standard soundhole was plugged up, if that would direct more of the airflow and sound out of the auxiliary soundhole? As usual, fantastic video demonstration!
It would. It's easy enough to find out. I have a Yamaha that came with a block off for the soundhole. One of those feedback reducers... But it COMPLETELY blocks the hole tight. If you do that.... It's gotta go somewhere!
I think it would have really made a difference if you put some kind of rubber garment inside it also would have gave you a better sound, sort of replicating a tube speaker box
@@HBSuccess Sure there are many, but no thourogh and correct ones, at least none that I've seen. And what I'm suggesting is a complete setup. Everything from setting radius at the bridge, neck straightness, cutting the nut and other tips and tricks. It's a lot to ask for but maybe a downloadable video we can pay for :)
I have the exactsame problem, but have an EQ right where you have the sound hole. Would it still be viable to do this on the 'opposite' slope, so to speak? It would point the hole directly at my worst ear.
What's the patch on the back of the bridge? Or was that an optical illusion. Also I have menieres disease so distorted and losing my hearing. I feel for your customer I'm probably a year away from having to give up playing after 40+years
An idea that Taylor could do well to take note of for some of their guitars. Side ports give you a much better idea of your actual sound as heard by those to whom you are playing.
Looks professional, wish the player good health. At the end he needs to enjoy the guitar so, no sacred things I think.( Can you add metric measures for us non imperial guys?... )
Can you not be lazy and simply go on-line and use one of many imperial to metric converters? Or, learn imperial measurements - I never complain about people who use metric only, I've learned to work in both systems.
I build all my nylons guitars ( are they classical ?) With soundport. Not every frequencie is clearly more present but i will never listen to a nylon strings guirar the same way . Soundport is way to go for me.
Thank-You for this. If you can think it, it's probably possible. Sucks for your client. There are super high-quality hearing aids available now. All I have left are my ears. Reminds me of Beethoven.
Why mess with a sound ports when you can easily use headphones with an external processor? If his hearing is going bad, much of the great tone of the guitar is lost anyway. But your mod is a nice job.
yes, the effect on classical guitar sound intensity for player is substantially more prominent, lots more vibration of less rigid top? I just use a 1-1/2" hole cut saw centered on the upper bout, but i use painters tape protection prior to drilling and keep on untill sanding is finished. I adjust soundport position so as not to interfere with existing struts, bracing and electronics. larger holes do not seem to provide additional benefit, smaller holes are of inconsequential benefit.
I hope the deaf customer finds a cure. My brother has two cochlear implants. He told me the newer cochlear implants have Bluetooth capability. That may be an option for your customer.
Good job, next time try a good quality Hole saw (The one they use for installing door locks), it's fast accurate and you don't need to make any jigs for the job.
unprotected ears with sustained loud soundwaves passed 20 minutes is cause for irreversible damage to the highest range of everyone's sense of hearing. And you can chip away at it for as long as it takes to go completely deaf.
that is the cause of most hearing loss, which most if not all who live in an industrialized society have suffered (especially those who don't protect their hearing), but it is not the only thing that can cause hearing loss. beethoven suffered permanent hearing loss due to some disease or defect. medications can cause hearing loss (some r blood pressure or heart medications), probably by weakening the "hairs" in the cochlea, making them more susceptible to permanent damage from loud enough sound.
also, 20 mins is not required for permanent hearing loss. any loud impact noise (hammering something, driving a golf ball can b as loud as a 22 pistol) can cause hearing loss. it also depends on the person. there r rare individuals who r not as susceptible to high decibel sound as most people.
Put a hole in a perfectly good guitar...awww. With time you can feel the vibrations on your chest while playing a dreadnaught that transfer into tones. Not being able to enjoy all the tones would be extremely difficult.
Ultimately it's an instrument and any modification that improves it's facility for music is a good one. I was hesitant to do this but I'm very pleased with the result.
@@danielgoodman3578 Yep - Ted modified my Ramirez and both of my Taylors. It made a huge difference & I'm very pleased with the quality of Ted's work and the result.
In my view, “hacking” is an inappropriate term to describe work done with care and respect for the instrument - especially when it’s done to meet a serious need on the part of the musician. Well done, say I.
Hi all - these are my instruments. Ted's made a wonderful job and I can easily hear the difference. In the Baritone-8, most of the benefit is in the treble. I've made some measurements. In my normal playing position, it goes roughly like +4 dB for the B1 to +7 dB for the B3. This is 2.5x and 5x louder. These may be quite small effects for someone with normal hearing but it allowed me to play an unplugged gig with confidence yesterday.
Finally - a warm thank you to all for your good wishes regarding my hearing. One can live in hope.
too much cowbell?
@@woodbox665 dick
@@silkysmoof5697 There's a finite amount of energy in the guitar so if you're taking some out of the sound port, you'll have less available for the primary sound hole. The real question is whether it's noticeable. I can't really answer this - I can't play with my head in front of the instrument. 😉 Nevertheless, the amount of energy coming out of the port is quite small - by intention it is weakly coupled - so I really doubt it's an audible change.
On reflection, it may be that getting better feedback from the instrument allows the performer to play with greater confidence. Again - I've no way to test this.
I was diagnosed 7 years ago with benign tremors that have been getting slowly worse, and now I am not able to play professionally any longer. I salute you for doing anything you can to continue playing.
Hope you still have your hearing. I would imagine you could place your face on the side of the guitar while playing and get some vibrations through your jawbone. I think Beethoven did that? What is your condition? I have been developing worsening tinnitus and I do worry about hearing loss.
I can't say enough as someone in the industry, your work is absolutely fantastic. I have gleaned so many ideas from your videos. Thank you. Cheers!
I was told when I was starting in business that "a good mechanic, makes his own tools", you exemplify that with you jig making ability. Wonderful work. Prayers and positive energy to the gentleman with the hearing issues, wishing you the best.
So sorry for the person who is losing your hearing god bless you sir
Stephen Stills suffers from similar hearing loss. Keep playing as long as you can! Great instructional video! Thanks!
hearingmojo.com/rock-roll-icon-stephen-stills-talks-about-his-lifelong-hearing-loss/
i heard that and it broke my heart.
Possible a condition called Meniere's disease.
I’m watching this now and hoping they still have their hearing.
I find that watching an accomplished and inventive craftsman at work is every bit as interesting, engrossing and evern educational as watching any news or nature documentary. Your laminated side support and your cut-out jig were great ideas that only come from an inventive and experienced mind.
I plan to watch your other videos and I'm sure I'll find them just as interesting. Thanks for sharing!
4:15 How many luthiers does it take it to screw in a light bulb? Only one, but he has to build a jig first.
Stupid
Mathews Triax no you
Matt Agnew but only if he previously has a jig making jig
You missed the first step...before anything, he must take time to criticize the last person to screw it in
as a luthier i find this at least somewhat true. tho knowing we would probably spend 2 weeks sourcing materials bc our customers insist they only want lightbulbs that were blown during a full moon
I wanted to learn luthiery a few years ago after I finished my diploma and I learned about guitar making for an article writing assignment. My parents shot me down and said it is a useless skill and I won't be able to find work. Watching this channel makes me happy. The repair jobs you do is amazing and interesting to watch!
Jason it’s your life son not your parents choose your own path
If you're an adult and can get your freedom, I'm thinking this may be an apprenticeship type deal. But you'll have to still live in the meantime. I wonder if @twoodfrd can offer any input unless you asked him already
Thank you, your videos are inspiring. I tackle small set up jobs on my own instruments but I am in awe of a true craftsman like yourself.
Unfortunately there are some "instructional" videos out there that are posted by incompetent fools that give wrong information and could mess up any viewers guitars if their advice is followed.
Your work is exceptional and a privilege to watch and learn from....again...thank you!
Really enjoy your creativity and jig making expertise. Can’t seem to get enough of your vids. Thanks for sharing them.
I have a similar problem to that of your customer having lost one ear completely and most of the other. I cant hear an acoustic guitar now but still enjoy playing guitar using amplification and headphones. Hope this helps your customer. Thanks for another great video.
Ted Awesome modification, and always some good playing. Thanks for sharing
Although I will never do anything remotely close to this it is amazingly fun to watch an artist .
Wow...just wow...
Major props to this guy for pressing on and “working with” his condition. In all honesty, I’m not sure I’d have the strength. Music and hearing is just too important for me. If given that ultimate sensual “Sophie’s choice”, I might choose blindness, to be honest. A “quiet” world would just be too painful. Again, this guy is an absolute soldier...
Your job is fantastic man. I feel so sorry bout the guy loosing his earing, hope a miracle to occurs
Another fascinating and informative job. Never saw an 8-string before; that was an education in itself! Thanks mate.
i play almost exclusively 8 strings but not with 2 doubled up like this one; i have a low B and E above the standard 6
If hearing could be quantified in coins, I would give that customer of yours some of my hearing coins.
Damn near made me cry. Sorry Brother.
Thanks for the work you do, it means a lot. especially to someone like him
I kind of wish more guitars had side ports. I played a Gibson a few weeks ago that had one and it was such a joy to hear that extra direct tone. And yeah- no more of the guitar dance to get picks out!
Always wanted one of those Taylor baritone 8 string guitars - and that one looked and sounded really lovely - and you had to cut a big hole in the side of it; OMG! Good job you’re amazing at what you do and that customer came to you, and not someone who’d butcher it instead! Really impressed with your approach, but I think I’ll leave my Taylor with just it’s original single sound hole if it’s all the same thanks 😉
So sorry for the man who is loosing his hearing. It must be heartbreaking for anyone to be affected like that, especially a musician.
Great job in doing your bit to help him out. Another tremendous video and very informative.
Does anyone know the name of the magnets or where, in the UK, I could get some?
I feel for that poor man. I can't imagine getting that diagnosis. Excellent work.
Wow! Thats quite a challenge making the ports and the fixtures to fit. I'm sure it does something. I know Taylor puts the port up in the top right cutaway me thinks. Different locations would make different sounds. Thanks again for sharing this.
How awful to loose your hearing 😢thanks for a great video and work technique 👏👏👏👍😉
...(lose) ...
I have an Ibanez that I took bad electronics out if ...after playing it with a hole in the top or side whatever.... I will never put them back it has opened up the sounds of it ...its absolutely amazing now
I can't get enough of your videos, I love how you explain everything ! Keep up the great job !
I bought a filthy old pawnshop Sigma guitar with a stab wound for $30 once. It must have belonged to a homeless bum or something because this thing had obviously lived outside. It had dried leaves inside the soundhole. Also, the upper bout had been pierced apparently with a screwdriver-like weapon (lucky there was a Band-Aid on it).
Anyway, the hole looked awful so I cleaned off the Band-Aid goo and using blue painter's tape I just traced a clean circle big enough to enclose the entire perimeter of the stab wound. It was in a location where I could use my router and rout out the circle. That left a nice clean perfect circle. Sanded her up, put a little stain around the edge to hide the raw wood, and, boom....good to go. It actually sounded pretty cool when you played it. You could really hear every sound you were making, including pick scrapes, etc.
Really nice work. Maybe mount a shop vac in the sound hole in the future. Love the jig you made. Keep up the great work.
I love your vids.so much knowledge.and I enjoy your playing after a job well done. idea for Next video try cutting a side port in a an electric solidbody let's start a revolution!
The effect of a side port is to basically create a channel for more air to enter and leave the box more readily as the top vibrates. The location isn't as important as the size. Since the soundboard shape and dimensions are the same before and after, you won't get much difference in tone....but overall volume and trebles might change slightly (for better or worse....this is similar to "tuned ports" in speaker cabinets). Martin made a "large soundhole version" of their drednaught guitar to achieve a similar result. Apparently a famous guitarist wore his away and liked the sound...and attributed it to that.
Always interesting and I love your no-frills video production.
Always enjoy your videos!!
I hope the customer gets many more years of enjoyment out of their guitars.
Outstanding work ,as always
Nice job. I like the steps you take to achieve success.
Great work. Your experience shows in how much you anticipate what the problems are going to be before they happen. If I didn't know better (and I suppose I don't), I might guess you had two identical guitars for each video; one which you **** up on the first try (like I probably would) and then another on which you get it right. I just subscribed, so I guess I'll be treated to more the same soon.
Beautiful job. Seriously.
Do you lose any tone from your guitar when you do this ? If not I might just do this to one of my guitars,my only fear is losing some low end,I wish you did a before and after sound test for us to hear,excellent job as usual your one of the best luthiers here on TH-cam.
If you like the way a guitar sounds currently, don't cut holes in it. Differences in bass response won't be picked up by a mic in my shop situation. Also remember, the sound you hear from your guitar is not what your audience hears except in a recording situation. In which case you could simply adjust the e.q.
Another good one...great jig. Any chance you will be doing a series on a guitar build any time soon?
Nicely done.
An 8 string baritone? That sounds like fun to play. Wish I had one of those
Great modification and nice job for this player who certainly deserve it more than anyone. I wish him that the doctors are wrong
Hola,hay alguna diferencia en el sonido si el agujero es grande o si es pequeño?
Forgive my ignorance of the finer points of how sound travels, but could you increase the volume of the side port by covering the sound hole, and / or by inserting planks to direct the sound upward?
I think this could help, you might be able to essentially 'tune' the ports to the most desired resonant frequencies, much like is done with ports on speakers. For those, Thiele-Small parameter equations are used to calculate the ideal port size based on desired frequency response and enclosure size. I would put some cardboard over the holes and play around with it a while - maybe even put a mic and a frequency meter on it to see if there are some measurable sweet spots.
@@scottr939 excellent points. The resonant frequency of the air chamber in a guitar is affected quite a lot by the size of the port - you can tune the Helmholtz resonance by changing the soundhole dimensions, for instance. Adding a port lowers the frequency by a significant amount.
@@twoodfrd I would expect adding a port to raise the frequency.
What if you blocked off the hole on the front?
Same here, slowly loosing my hearing and did about the same thing to my classical guitar. It really improved a lot for me. But I have to admit that my work wasn't as good as you did!
What a brave luthier!
I wonder if the standard soundhole was plugged up, if that would direct more of the airflow and sound out of the auxiliary soundhole?
As usual, fantastic video demonstration!
It would. It's easy enough to find out. I have a Yamaha that came with a block off for the soundhole. One of those feedback reducers... But it COMPLETELY blocks the hole tight.
If you do that....
It's gotta go somewhere!
I think it would have really made a difference if you put some kind of rubber garment inside it also would have gave you a better sound, sort of replicating a tube speaker box
I wish I lived nearer to you Tom, I have so many jobs you could do!!!
Great video as always!
I know it's asking too much, but how about a complete electric guitar setup video? Not many (if any) good ones on youtube.
There are literally thousands. And he just did one a week or two ago.
@@HBSuccess Sure there are many, but no thourogh and correct ones, at least none that I've seen. And what I'm suggesting is a complete setup. Everything from setting radius at the bridge, neck straightness, cutting the nut and other tips and tricks. It's a lot to ask for but maybe a downloadable video we can pay for :)
Wow the job actually be do properly
Great work. Quick Question... Why shellac instead of urethane?
I have the exactsame problem, but have an EQ right where you have the sound hole. Would it still be viable to do this on the 'opposite' slope, so to speak? It would point the hole directly at my worst ear.
Apart from obrounds and ovals. A true elipse is one of the most beautiful shapes that nature has to offer. It does not take much deviation to ruin it
Thanks for the video. What happened with the internal side support strut that was removed?
It ended up as tiny little shavings, which I promptly threw away.
Thank you for another fantastic video!
That came out really great.
Quick question, why not use polyurethane instead of shellac?
It looked great what you did I’m just wondering
Speed. I only had two days, and I can get enough on to build a polish.
Who would guess that a guy in a "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" smock could be such an artist and perfectionist. WOWZERS!!
Thought you would have put a shop vac hose in there while routing to keep it clean. Great job as usual!
Very cool
Nice job there
What is that stuck under the bridge?
Where on the classical guitar was the sound port located ?
Thank you.
What's the patch on the back of the bridge? Or was that an optical illusion.
Also I have menieres disease so distorted and losing my hearing. I feel for your customer I'm probably a year away from having to give up playing after 40+years
An idea that Taylor could do well to take note of for some of their guitars. Side ports give you a much better idea of your actual sound as heard by those to whom you are playing.
Looks professional, wish the player good health. At the end he needs to enjoy the guitar so, no sacred things I think.( Can you add metric measures for us non imperial guys?... )
Can you not be lazy and simply go on-line and use one of many imperial to metric converters? Or, learn imperial measurements - I never complain about people who use metric only, I've learned to work in both systems.
You might suggest to your customer that he look at a Tonewood Amp, to increase the volume of his guitar, as he loses his hearing.
@1.25 and following, a lot of adhesive or some kind of schmoo on the bottom and right hand side of the bridge. Can't be from the factory?
No - that's just polish that I missed last time I cleaned it. :D
@@brucedickson6019 Oh stupid me. I'd have picked up on that if I ever polished my guitars.
Wow 😮 I love 💕 to have one done on my guitar too I wonder how much is it
You could drop Ted a note - his website has his contact details.
Baratone 8 string?
I build all my nylons guitars ( are they classical ?) With soundport. Not every frequencie is clearly more present but i will never listen to a nylon strings guirar the same way . Soundport is way to go for me.
You forgot to bind the side port , just saying .Sometimes you can hear the difference , but seeing inside is worth it .
What kind of shellac mix are you using?
Two pound cut, dewaxed blonde.
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Feels sorry for the man. If iťs get too bad he can always buy a les paul and 100w marshall and enjoy the full fudging blast for some time.
Thank-You for this. If you can think it, it's probably possible. Sucks for your client. There are super high-quality hearing aids available now. All I have left are my ears. Reminds me of Beethoven.
Yes, I was thinking Beethoven. He used to lay his head on the piano to 'hear' the vibrations.
Why mess with a sound ports when you can easily use headphones with an external processor? If his hearing is going bad, much of the great tone of the guitar is lost anyway. But your mod is a nice job.
yes, the effect on classical guitar sound intensity for player is substantially more prominent, lots more vibration of less rigid top? I just use a 1-1/2" hole cut saw centered on the upper bout, but i use painters tape protection prior to drilling and keep on untill sanding is finished. I adjust soundport position so as not to interfere with existing struts, bracing and electronics. larger holes do not seem to provide additional benefit, smaller holes are of inconsequential benefit.
good
I include side ports because they look great and provide easy access , but unfortunately ( usually) only a dog can hear the difference .
Losing your hearing has to suck so much. God bless man
Ok, what the heck is an 8 string baritone?
I couldn't see the extra two strings
This is not repair this is destruction👍👍👍👍
Not your guitar and you're not going deaf
I hope the deaf customer finds a cure. My brother has two cochlear implants. He told me the newer cochlear implants have Bluetooth capability. That may be an option for your customer.
Using a laser would minimize the dust
Good job, next time try a good quality Hole saw (The one they use for installing door locks), it's fast accurate and you don't need to make any jigs for the job.
And I thought cutting side ports was just some trivial a drill and whiting knife could deal with under 10 mins...
Only a dog can hear it , but for internal access nothing bets it .
Headphones have been available for quite sometime.
Those probably made him loose his hearing?
I'd have thought simply wearing headphones would've solved the problem and been a lot less hassle...
Zia
what is the disease that's causing his permanent hearing loss? that's devastating.
unprotected ears with sustained loud soundwaves passed 20 minutes is cause for irreversible damage to the highest range of everyone's sense of hearing. And you can chip away at it for as long as it takes to go completely deaf.
that is the cause of most hearing loss, which most if not all who live in an industrialized society have suffered (especially those who don't protect their hearing), but it is not the only thing that can cause hearing loss. beethoven suffered permanent hearing loss due to some disease or defect. medications can cause hearing loss (some r blood pressure or heart medications), probably by weakening the "hairs" in the cochlea, making them more susceptible to permanent damage from loud enough sound.
also, 20 mins is not required for permanent hearing loss. any loud impact noise (hammering something, driving a golf ball can b as loud as a 22 pistol) can cause hearing loss. it also depends on the person. there r rare individuals who r not as susceptible to high decibel sound as most people.
@@mjt11860 i believe infections were rampant in Beethoven's era as antibiotics were as yet unknown.
HUH???????
Put a hole in a perfectly good guitar...awww. With time you can feel the vibrations on your chest while playing a dreadnaught that transfer into tones. Not being able to enjoy all the tones would be extremely difficult.
Ultimately it's an instrument and any modification that improves it's facility for music is a good one. I was hesitant to do this but I'm very pleased with the result.
@@brucedickson6019 Artisan level work as usual.
@@brucedickson6019 are you the customer for the guitars modified to have side ports in this video?
@@danielgoodman3578 Yep - Ted modified my Ramirez and both of my Taylors. It made a huge difference & I'm very pleased with the quality of Ted's work and the result.
Bruce Dickson : It may be worth fitting a feedback buster to the sound-hole to help direct more volume out of the side port.
How did he start out working on a Taylor and then go to a Ramirez? Then he goes back to the Taylor...oops!
... He explained quite clearly in the first few seconds that he was doing this for the customer's guitars, plural.
There is no such thing as an un-treatable condition. Stop listening to doctors.
Cutting holes in guitars is the opposite of guitar repair. Guitar hacking 101.
In my view, “hacking” is an inappropriate term to describe work done with care and respect for the instrument - especially when it’s done to meet a serious need on the part of the musician. Well done, say I.
Ok boomer
Hey since your already at it.. why dont we just run it over with the car? Would that be loud enough?