And now we turn our attention to Canadian luthiers, a rare but sturdy specie. As the temperature falls and furnaces light the humidity falls and cracks appear. If you listen quietly you can hear their cry, "cracks! cracks!". It sounds like a distress cry but it happens every year and is a natural part of the Canadian life cycle...
I, like many others love to watch your work. What impresses me the most is your extensive knowledge base on how to repair these instruments, the hand-made tools you use for the repairs and your knowledge of the builders and histories of the instruments. It is enjoyable to learn not only about the builders, but their histories and how they got into the building business. It really makes the repairs more interesting and informative.
Your suction cup crack filling, reminds me of an idea, I’ve been toying with. Have you ever tried to drill a hole into the tip of a suction cup? My thought is you could then put their index finger over the hole, when you push it down, then let off on the hole when you pull it free, without any actual suction action. It would then push glue into a crack without sucking it back out. Just a thought.
That would work, however just lifting the edge of the suction cup with you finger(nail) achieves the same goal. In most cases you don't have a perfect seal anyways so it's enough to push down more forcefully and go slow for the upwards movement.
@@alnicospeaker that’s if you have finger nails 🥴. I’ve got some bigger suction cups, like 1.5” diameter, and they have about a 3/8” diameter tip (I.e., the nipple part). So I’m going to drill a 1/8” hole straight down thru the nipple and then it will be super easy to cover when I use, then release when I pick it up. Now I “need” another guitar to prove it out on. After that, I’ll patent, brand, fabricate, sell millions and be filthy rich!!!!!!
After Hurricane Katrina, there were a lot of flooded instruments. A luthier told me that instruments that slowly dried over 2 years under very controlled conditions fared much better than instruments that dried in the open air. Amps were just a loss.
My dad rests his pinky finger on the soundboard while he picks. Dug a hole right through the finish. It was his favourite instrument until it got damaged.
Another excellent video! You have more straight info in ten seconds then most guitar videos have in twenty minutes. Thank you for speaking on mahogany, you hit every single point I wanted to make, and I was practically cheering! Well done!
What a treat to see a mandolin on the bench. Really great job rescuing that F style. Collings and subsequent Tom Ellis Mandolins are world class. Thanks for the reminder about humidity.
I’ve been to the Collings factory several times. The tour is fantastic! Great group of people and very knowledgeable. Being in the mandolin room watching the craftsmanship is amazing.
The sides on that Martin are paper thin. I've never seen that kind of movement. I do love the tone of an all mahogany acoustic also! I think that the Collings is definitely a common sense thing over knowing the properties of different wood species. My heart sank when I saw the damage and witnessed the description of what happened. Professional work and content, as always! Take care.
I did a quick Reverb search for them and I was sticker shocked. I would have to keep it in a safe and probably never play it. I'm more of a Loar range of player on my budget 😂. A $1000 is a threshold for guitars and other instruments. Because I only play in a garage band . And my Squier CV 50s Telecaster is good enough for that crowd. 😂
The first time I heard someone say key crack was Frank Ford at his shop in Palo Alto. It's called Gryphon Stringed Instruments, and they have a first class repair shop and sell some beautiful guitars.
I hear the cracks a-comin', crackin 'round the bend And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck in my basement workshop, and time keeps draggin' on But those guitars keeps a-crackin' on down to my workshop ...
A few comments: over the past 15 years I have owned several Collings 00 guitars including all mahogany, koa/spruce, and rosewood/spruce. In every case, they were lights out in quality, design, construction, and sound. IMHO nothing can touch a Collings. As for the Martin guitar, it seems to me that Martin’s QC program would verify the thickness of the wood at the bend areas. Not doing this dimensional inspection is shortsighted and invites failure due to fatigue and/or brittle failure do to external loads or residual stress inherent in the manufacturing process. The end result, reduction in value and expensive repairs. Thank you for another good video.
Love the start up guitar ! 😊🇨🇦 Hard to believe how much I have learned here ! I mean you are absolutely a genius , when in comes to guitar, mandolins, violins and the properties of glues , wood . You even know their makers history ! Brilliant ! 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦❤️
Wow I didnt even know Collings made mandos, but having played a few of their guitars, I'm really glad you were able to save this one...what a beauty, and sounds even better!
I have a 2004ish Martin MC-16 GTE that I stupidly let dry out about 10 years ago. The damage, and the repair, was very similar to the Martin here. Except I had even larger cracks around the Fishman controls. That was an expensive and well-learned lesson.
Interesting about the side cracks, flatter areas. That’s why you’re the expert 😊 Winter is coming, my skin cracked can’t be fixed with clamps and glue 😢 Nice job, as always Ted.
You are very relaxing to watch! - You must have heard this before. It may be that you perform wonderful handiwork and I have spent all of my life forced to use my brain as a theoretical scientist. Thank you!
i have a old Martin D-28 shade top that i use Martin Tony Rice signature strings on and i absolutely love them. they have a beautiful tone. and as for the humidity problems with the Collings, Tony Rice's 1935 D-28 that belinged to Clarence White was left in a hurricane and subsequent flood when Tony lived in Florida and he said that the guitar almost exploded. luckily he was able to get it fixed.. Cheers
5:34 Nope. Those minimal little dots of squeeze-out indicate that you didn't really get enough glue into the whole crack. You need to reach inside and flex the cracked area outward to open the outside of the crack while you massage in the glue. it will probably hold, due to the added bracing, but the actual crack is not really glued very well.
Love your videos. Word of warning, however, about the use of linseed oil. Make sure to submerge any rags in water and dispose of them outdoors to prevent spontaneous combustion which can lead to a shop or house fire.
I only found Teds channel a few months ago. I finished catching up on all the vids today. Does that officially mean I've completed my apprenticeship and can now reset necks on 1940s Martins? 😅
@@harlanbarnhart4656 I'm ok with tweaking and setting up the electrics I have, nothing valuable. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing anything but the basics to an acoustic.
I had an old Abraham Prescott 4/4 contrabass come across my bench. The back of that bass had had so many cracks cleated inside of it, it looked like a scale model of a shake roof inside. The last Prescott I worked on was a church bass. Those are very weird instruments. It's kind of a half scale bass and the body is more the size of a cello only with a really long peg on it. Churches didn't have the money for a full 4/4 bass, hence the diminutive size of the "church bass". I love everything about fixing bowed basses except for their size and how much shop space they consume.
You would make a good 'hand' model. George Costanza would be proud. Just some minor humor. I really enjoy your videos and knowledge. Thank you for your weekly posts. Very educational.
You'd think that with all the search engine technology we live with everyday, that the owner of that mandolin would've taken a second an searched "How to safely re-humidify your valuable mandolin" instead of just sticking it in a steam bath in his bathroom. Oh, well, you live, you learn (and pay Ted to fix it).
You have to know that's a concern before you even think to look up a how-to. Someone who knows nothing about woodworking or high-end instruments who has heard the instrument needs to be humidified will probably just humidify the instrument like anything else because they don't know they have to do it in a special way. I think you've got to think like someone who knows nothing to understand how this happens. I bet he feels terrible too. I feel for the guy. He didn't know he was lacking critical information.
Hi Ted - do yourself a favor and get an automotive valve lapping tool. It is a wooden handle with a suction cup at each end. It is a very inexpensive tool that will make suction cupping glue infinitely easier.
I don’t care much for the looks of all-mahogany guitars, but their tone is a different story. A couple of decades back a 1940s vintage Martin 00-17 served as my introduction to the all-mahogany configuration. I passed on buying that guitar due to its looks. Kind of a shame as that guitar was selling for a song. It was a decision that I would question more than once afterwards. But ever since that 00-17, I tend to hold all-mahogany guitars in high regard.
@@satanaz It is! (It’s mine 😊) It’s not a huge voice, but it’s super balanced and clean sounding. I love it. And henceforth I will avoid playing it with my keys in my pocket 🙄😬😓
Excellent as always! I have a Martin D-15 and can confirm: they are indeed very lightly built. I’ve had to repair a couple of identical side cracks. The Dreadnaught has inside side-supports though. I added an extra one in the weakest area.
I am confident that you have forgotten more than I will ever know. I'm an old man looking backward and I thought I knew a thing or two... nope. You, Sir, are a master.
I really thought you were kidding when you began talking about the hot water in the shower of the bathroom, I’m pretty darn surprised someone would actually do this and especially on an expensive instrument as this particular one… I’m pretty sure this person won’t be trying to do that again lol!
There is absolutely no substitute for a well controlled environment in your house/shop. We maintain 46-52% humidity that is generally at 50% with a 68-70d temperature. I have zero issues with any of my instruments owned, repaired or built. Stability is key almost regardless of where the norm is, almost.
Sounds like a Martin! I love Martin guitars! My Micromesh is starting to flake off it's backing on my 1500 grit piece. I really wish I could repair the crack in the top of my dads bass fiddle.
I am surprised that you haven't come up with some kind of handles on your suction cups. Also, Bob Brownell, in his book about gunsmithing said something about getting glue into the bottom of a cracked stock. He suggested masking everything off, applying glue, and blowing it in with compressed air. He said the glue would get all the way to the bottom of a blind crack.
I started playing the nickel strings on my acoustics fairly early into my playing career - I have particularly corrosive hand oils, the nickel strings don’t corrode nearly as quickly, and I also happen to enjoy the sound
Same here. I touch polished tool steels and in 30 minutes fingerprints appear. Of course this has its advantages, my armpits do not support odor making germs. I bleach greens and some blacks just by wearing them and washing them many times over the course of a year, the color change becomes dramatic.
@ my aprons pockets are entirely full of cotton cloths, I am constantly reaching into their and wiping off fingerprints, if I don’t they will burn in if Im unlucky that day - bass tuners haunt me, like giant corrosive fingerprint magnets staring right back at you
I’ve got a 1979 Norman S-30, solid spruce top, solid mahogany sides and back. The only top problem was the seam between the matched bookends tried opening up right south of the bridge. A luthier got it over twenty years ago, and it’s been no problem since. That said, it’s only out of the case when it’s being played, and from Canadian Thanksgiving till Easter I use clay humidifiers in the case, soaking them weekly. I always tell students and beginning guitarists that instruments should never be left on a stand, where they’re subject to quick temperature changes and being accidentally knocked over.
Electric cables should be detached while the guitar is on a stand, so WHEN, not if, someone hooks their foot on the cable, it doesn't whack the guitar into the floor.
Lovely video Ted. You can join our band on mando anytime (we're in England btw, where my heart lies). It's so damp here we rarely worry about cracked instruments. Always look forward to your Sunday videos. 👍
15:09 I play double bass, and while I’m sure thing are very different, that kind of sagging at the F hole doesn’t surprise me. It’s a common thing to see on many string instruments, especially larger ones like celli and bassi, even violas.
The impression I got was that while the son told him the story, it was the dad/owner that did the dead. Could be wrong of course, sounds like something a dumb teenager would do.
As a heathen metric user, I found it interesting that Ted referred to 'one hundred thousandths of an inch' instead of simply calling it 1/10th. Old habits die hard I guess. Thanks for another great video, Ted.
I've been enjoying the Martin monel strings on my old D-28 copy. (Also I'm lazy about changing strings). Pretty different from my lifetime of phosphor bronze.
My step father was a carpenter/joiner, he really knew his stuff. A real tradesman, like yourself. He got me onto a mix of 50/50 linseed oil and turpentine, to oil fret boards. He was not keen on a 'lemon oil' treatment, he said that was for furniture.
There has to be a better way to re-melt the detached lacquer on the sides, possibly spraying on retarder only? Or soak with acetone from the inside of the guitar.
I have a DC-15e and never seen a OOO15CE. What I don't understand was the OOO17 and D-17 was to help to make a cheaper acoustic during the depression era and today there are 15s, 17s today, but what the difference between the two models. They're still mahogany guitars and have a glorious tone and both are mahogany so what's the difference?
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Thank you for reviving my dad's mandolin, Ted!
I watched the video with him today and he was very happy to see it brought back to life
You are cracking me up with that side-splitting humor!
👏👏👏👏
Dad joke 😂
@@shroompicn-shrooman I am not a father, but I do have a dry sense of humor. ...I'll quit it now.
@melodicdreamer72 🤣
@@melodicdreamer72 🥁
And now we turn our attention to Canadian luthiers, a rare but sturdy specie. As the temperature falls and furnaces light the humidity falls and cracks appear. If you listen quietly you can hear their cry, "cracks! cracks!". It sounds like a distress cry but it happens every year and is a natural part of the Canadian life cycle...
They may sound like cries of woe and sympathy, but listen carefully and you will understand they are cries of joy from a bountiful dollar harvest.
Hinterland’s Who’s Who!
@@bboomer7th Cue the flute
I, like many others love to watch your work. What impresses me the most is your extensive knowledge base on how to repair these instruments, the hand-made tools you use for the repairs and your knowledge of the builders and histories of the instruments. It is enjoyable to learn not only about the builders, but their histories and how they got into the building business. It really makes the repairs more interesting and informative.
Ted, the knowledge that you have and the ability you have to speak that knowledge is far beyond the average person. Thank you!
Your suction cup crack filling, reminds me of an idea, I’ve been toying with. Have you ever tried to drill a hole into the tip of a suction cup? My thought is you could then put their index finger over the hole, when you push it down, then let off on the hole when you pull it free, without any actual suction action. It would then push glue into a crack without sucking it back out. Just a thought.
That would work, however just lifting the edge of the suction cup with you finger(nail) achieves the same goal. In most cases you don't have a perfect seal anyways so it's enough to push down more forcefully and go slow for the upwards movement.
I thought of pressurizing with a hand held mini vac that I use for bleeding brakes
@@alnicospeaker that’s if you have finger nails 🥴. I’ve got some bigger suction cups, like 1.5” diameter, and they have about a 3/8” diameter tip (I.e., the nipple part). So I’m going to drill a 1/8” hole straight down thru the nipple and then it will be super easy to cover when I use, then release when I pick it up.
Now I “need” another guitar to prove it out on. After that, I’ll patent, brand, fabricate, sell millions and be filthy rich!!!!!!
After Hurricane Katrina, there were a lot of flooded instruments. A luthier told me that instruments that slowly dried over 2 years under very controlled conditions fared much better than instruments that dried in the open air. Amps were just a loss.
Something that has been wet for 2 years in Louisiana would definitely have some mold growing on it!
I've experienced cracks on the side of my ~2009 Martin 0015M this was very informative thank you
someone has played the heck outta that mandolin.
My dad rests his pinky finger on the soundboard while he picks. Dug a hole right through the finish. It was his favourite instrument until it got damaged.
Another excellent video! You have more straight info in ten seconds then most guitar videos have in twenty minutes. Thank you for speaking on mahogany, you hit every single point I wanted to make, and I was practically cheering! Well done!
What a treat to see a mandolin on the bench. Really great job rescuing that F style. Collings and subsequent Tom Ellis Mandolins are world class. Thanks for the reminder about humidity.
I’ve been to the Collings factory several times. The tour is fantastic! Great group of people and very knowledgeable. Being in the mandolin room watching the craftsmanship is amazing.
The sides on that Martin are paper thin. I've never seen that kind of movement. I do love the tone of an all mahogany acoustic also! I think that the Collings is definitely a common sense thing over knowing the properties of different wood species. My heart sank when I saw the damage and witnessed the description of what happened. Professional work and content, as always! Take care.
That Collings is heartbreaking.
I did a quick Reverb search for them and I was sticker shocked. I would have to keep it in a safe and probably never play it. I'm more of a Loar range of player on my budget 😂. A $1000 is a threshold for guitars and other instruments. Because I only play in a garage band . And my Squier CV 50s Telecaster is good enough for that crowd. 😂
The first time I heard someone say key crack was Frank Ford at his shop in Palo Alto. It's called Gryphon Stringed Instruments, and they have a first class repair shop and sell some beautiful guitars.
Did not know that about the side bouts of mahogany guitars thanks and another weekend of impressive repairs
True Artistry as always Ted , I like to see instruments that are well played , tells the tale of many great nights !
I hear the cracks a-comin', crackin 'round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in my basement workshop, and time keeps draggin' on
But those guitars keeps a-crackin' on down to my workshop
...
A few comments: over the past 15 years I have owned several Collings 00 guitars including all mahogany, koa/spruce, and rosewood/spruce. In every case, they were lights out in quality, design, construction, and sound. IMHO nothing can touch a Collings. As for the Martin guitar, it seems to me that Martin’s QC program would verify the thickness of the wood at the bend areas. Not doing this dimensional inspection is shortsighted and invites failure due to fatigue and/or brittle failure do to external loads or residual stress inherent in the manufacturing process. The end result, reduction in value and expensive repairs.
Thank you for another good video.
No offense to the owner of the mandolin. But this made me want to call the musical equivalent of child protective services.
Ok Karen.
Yeah. Wash your hands people 😂
Love the start up guitar ! 😊🇨🇦
Hard to believe how much I have learned here !
I mean you are absolutely a genius , when in comes to guitar, mandolins, violins and the properties of glues , wood . You even know their makers history ! Brilliant ! 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦❤️
Wow I didnt even know Collings made mandos, but having played a few of their guitars, I'm really glad you were able to save this one...what a beauty, and sounds even better!
I have a 2004ish Martin MC-16 GTE that I stupidly let dry out about 10 years ago. The damage, and the repair, was very similar to the Martin here. Except I had even larger cracks around the Fishman controls. That was an expensive and well-learned lesson.
Twofrd, man you surprised me again with the Collings repair! You did a FAB job!
Every time you release a video it reminds me I'm slacking on my guitar practice. 🤣🤣🤣
I wanted to play the mandolin, but never did. I guess I missed my Colling.
Tossing unshelled peanuts in your direction for that bad pun ...
@@CothranMikeit’s not a bad pun at all
@@rootvaluenope. Nailed it.
Word play is the most polarizing type of humor...
What a shame! You might have been Taylor-made for it.
Interesting about the side cracks, flatter areas. That’s why you’re the expert 😊 Winter is coming, my skin cracked can’t be fixed with clamps and glue 😢
Nice job, as always Ted.
You are very relaxing to watch! - You must have heard this before. It may be that you perform wonderful handiwork and I have spent all of my life forced to use my brain as a theoretical scientist. Thank you!
i have a old Martin D-28 shade top that i use Martin Tony Rice signature strings on and i absolutely love them. they have a beautiful tone. and as for the humidity problems with the Collings, Tony Rice's 1935 D-28 that belinged to Clarence White was left in a hurricane and subsequent flood when Tony lived in Florida and he said that the guitar almost exploded. luckily he was able to get it fixed.. Cheers
Great way to start the day. You are the tops (and sides).
Beautiful work on that Collings.
Well done and Merry Christmas to you and yours!.....PEACE...Bill
Thanks Ted that was a good one👍
Love the start up guitar ! 😊🇨🇦
5:34 Nope. Those minimal little dots of squeeze-out indicate that you didn't really get enough glue into the whole crack. You need to reach inside and flex the cracked area outward to open the outside of the crack while you massage in the glue. it will probably hold, due to the added bracing, but the actual crack is not really glued very well.
Excellent and informative. You do have some wonderful teaching skills.
Love your videos. Word of warning, however, about the use of linseed oil. Make sure to submerge any rags in water and dispose of them outdoors to prevent spontaneous combustion which can lead to a shop or house fire.
I only found Teds channel a few months ago. I finished catching up on all the vids today.
Does that officially mean I've completed my apprenticeship and can now reset necks on 1940s Martins? 😅
Go for it.
😂@@JiveDadson
Yes but watch out for 1970's Made in Japans 😁
Know how you feel, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing... So far I have limited my applied skills to trash picked guitars...
@@harlanbarnhart4656 I'm ok with tweaking and setting up the electrics I have, nothing valuable. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing anything but the basics to an acoustic.
For anyone wondering, the Collings mandolins much like this one, the MF-5, I believe, fetch anywhere from 6500$ to 15000$ a piece on reverb.
The pickguard on my Martin did the same. When the point got to the sound hole I took it off, cleaned up nicely with Zippo.
Ah, that mando sounds lovely. Beautiful work as always, Ted.
That poor mandolin! 😿
Thank you, Ted. Always enjoyable!!!
I had an old Abraham Prescott 4/4 contrabass come across my bench. The back of that bass had had so many cracks cleated inside of it, it looked like a scale model of a shake roof inside. The last Prescott I worked on was a church bass. Those are very weird instruments. It's kind of a half scale bass and the body is more the size of a cello only with a really long peg on it. Churches didn't have the money for a full 4/4 bass, hence the diminutive size of the "church bass". I love everything about fixing bowed basses except for their size and how much shop space they consume.
I’ve seen some disturbing videos, but the mando story and video hits harder than I was prepared for.
That's my dad's mando. He was so upset he put it in its case and didn't touch it for 2 years.
@@SeeMick1 I truly sympathize. In the end, it sounds great, plays well and is kind of metal now. 🤘
You would make a good 'hand' model. George Costanza would be proud. Just some minor humor. I really enjoy your videos and knowledge. Thank you for your weekly posts. Very educational.
You'd think that with all the search engine technology we live with everyday, that the owner of that mandolin would've taken a second an searched "How to safely re-humidify your valuable mandolin" instead of just sticking it in a steam bath in his bathroom. Oh, well, you live, you learn (and pay Ted to fix it).
You have to know that's a concern before you even think to look up a how-to. Someone who knows nothing about woodworking or high-end instruments who has heard the instrument needs to be humidified will probably just humidify the instrument like anything else because they don't know they have to do it in a special way. I think you've got to think like someone who knows nothing to understand how this happens. I bet he feels terrible too. I feel for the guy. He didn't know he was lacking critical information.
Hi Ted - do yourself a favor and get an automotive valve lapping tool. It is a wooden handle with a suction cup at each end. It is a very inexpensive tool that will make suction cupping glue infinitely easier.
that mahogany guitar is soooo gorgeous!!!
I don’t care much for the looks of all-mahogany guitars, but their tone is a different story. A couple of decades back a 1940s vintage Martin 00-17 served as my introduction to the all-mahogany configuration. I passed on buying that guitar due to its looks. Kind of a shame as that guitar was selling for a song. It was a decision that I would question more than once afterwards. But ever since that 00-17, I tend to hold all-mahogany guitars in high regard.
@@satanaz It is! (It’s mine 😊) It’s not a huge voice, but it’s super balanced and clean sounding. I love it. And henceforth I will avoid playing it with my keys in my pocket 🙄😬😓
Excellent as always! I have a Martin D-15 and can confirm: they are indeed very lightly built. I’ve had to repair a couple of identical side cracks. The Dreadnaught has inside side-supports though. I added an extra one in the weakest area.
Thanks Ted! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🎵🎵
I am confident that you have forgotten more than I will ever know. I'm an old man looking backward and I thought I knew a thing or two... nope. You, Sir, are a master.
I really thought you were kidding when you began talking about the hot water in the shower of the bathroom, I’m pretty darn surprised someone would actually do this and especially on an expensive instrument as this particular one…
I’m pretty sure this person won’t be trying to do that again lol!
Love the Martin O mahogany guitars, the D's not so much. Great job "nourishing" that wood, Mr. Woodford.
Wonderful mandolin. Thank you.
Thank you.
That mando...my eye…it can't stop twitching.
For the morbidly curious like me they're anywhere from $6000-$12000USD depending on the model.....Ouch.
There is absolutely no substitute for a well controlled environment in your house/shop. We maintain 46-52% humidity that is generally at 50% with a 68-70d temperature. I have zero issues with any of my instruments owned, repaired or built. Stability is key almost regardless of where the norm is, almost.
Just fantastic. Thanks for the videos.
Sounds like a Martin! I love Martin guitars! My Micromesh is starting to flake off it's backing on my 1500 grit piece. I really wish I could repair the crack in the top of my dads bass fiddle.
Thanks for posting Ted
I am surprised that you haven't come up with some kind of handles on your suction cups.
Also, Bob Brownell, in his book about gunsmithing said something about getting glue into the bottom of a cracked stock. He suggested masking everything off, applying glue, and blowing it in with compressed air. He said the glue would get all the way to the bottom of a blind crack.
I considered using compressed air to get glue 8n the crack in the neck on my Les Paul but I ended up using a suction cup like Ted does lol.
Always enjoy your videos 👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
I started playing the nickel strings on my acoustics fairly early into my playing career - I have particularly corrosive hand oils, the nickel strings don’t corrode nearly as quickly, and I also happen to enjoy the sound
Same here. I touch polished tool steels and in 30 minutes fingerprints appear. Of course this has its advantages, my armpits do not support odor making germs. I bleach greens and some blacks just by wearing them and washing them many times over the course of a year, the color change becomes dramatic.
@ my aprons pockets are entirely full of cotton cloths, I am constantly reaching into their and wiping off fingerprints, if I don’t they will burn in if Im unlucky that day - bass tuners haunt me, like giant corrosive fingerprint magnets staring right back at you
@ if you have the ability, I might try looking at paste wax for your tools, does wonders for polished surfaces and really helps prevent rust
I’ve got a 1979 Norman S-30, solid spruce top, solid mahogany sides and back. The only top problem was the seam between the matched bookends tried opening up right south of the bridge. A luthier got it over twenty years ago, and it’s been no problem since. That said, it’s only out of the case when it’s being played, and from Canadian Thanksgiving till Easter I use clay humidifiers in the case, soaking them weekly. I always tell students and beginning guitarists that instruments should never be left on a stand, where they’re subject to quick temperature changes and being accidentally knocked over.
Electric cables should be detached while the guitar is on a stand, so WHEN, not if, someone hooks their foot on the cable, it doesn't whack the guitar into the floor.
The thinness of those Martin sides when you pressed with a finger 😮😵💫.
Ted Woodford or Bust
Lovely video Ted. You can join our band on mando anytime (we're in England btw, where my heart lies). It's so damp here we rarely worry about cracked instruments. Always look forward to your Sunday videos. 👍
Thanks Ted
15:09 I play double bass, and while I’m sure thing are very different, that kind of sagging at the F hole doesn’t surprise me. It’s a common thing to see on many string instruments, especially larger ones like celli and bassi, even violas.
Thank you Ted 👍👍👍🎸🪕🎻🎥🎬❤🔥
You crack me up! I enjoy the nontraditional instrument videos. Not that I don’t enjoy the guitars as well! 😆
I shrieked when you got to "as one does" - one does NOT!
The guitar has a very interesting tone to it.
That Collings is really deep bodied. Like a silvertone.
Dat famous Martin quality, doe! You pay extra for the thin sides! 😂
That's a fine Mandolin.
I winced so hard at the story of what happened to that mandolin that my dog started barking. Oof.
That was beautiful
Merry Christmas
Nice pick
Beautiful chord at 9:59 after you say you sure like them 😊
I think it has the 9th and 13th
Well done that Man
lovely video
"Son, your belongings are on the lawn. Have a good life."😅
The impression I got was that while the son told him the story, it was the dad/owner that did the dead. Could be wrong of course, sounds like something a dumb teenager would do.
@@wingracer1614 Yup, my dad did it to his own mando. You'd have to know him to know why doing something like that would have seemed like a good idea.
As a heathen metric user, I found it interesting that Ted referred to 'one hundred thousandths of an inch' instead of simply calling it 1/10th. Old habits die hard I guess. Thanks for another great video, Ted.
Latent Tension…now there’s a band name.
Theraputic.. thanks xo
I've been enjoying the Martin monel strings on my old D-28 copy. (Also I'm lazy about changing strings). Pretty different from my lifetime of phosphor bronze.
Got the 000-15M. Thanks Ted for the mahogany info!
That Martin sounded nice
I looked up that Collings. 🤯
Even tho David was not in Shrek, somehow mentaly he was there.
My step father was a carpenter/joiner, he really knew his stuff. A real tradesman, like yourself. He got me onto a mix of 50/50 linseed oil and turpentine, to oil fret boards. He was not keen on a 'lemon oil' treatment, he said that was for furniture.
I saw one recently and the sides where unbelievably thin, maybe the same guy sanded it
MF-5 @ $7000 US
That's used...
There has to be a better way to re-melt the detached lacquer on the sides, possibly spraying on retarder only? Or soak with acetone from the inside of the guitar.
$8,500 dollar mistake on the mandolin.
I have a DC-15e and never seen a OOO15CE. What I don't understand was the OOO17 and D-17 was to help to make a cheaper acoustic during the depression era and today there are 15s, 17s today, but what the difference between the two models. They're still mahogany guitars and have a glorious tone and both are mahogany so what's the difference?