I’ve been enjoying Kym’s playing for 20 years here in Austin ... from the early days of the Greencards at Mother Egan’s to his last amazing show here with Warren Hood. Thanks for all of it Kym! It’s a really wonderful surprise to see you two passionate people working together.
It's a good thing in the end. being as he can play the instruments very well. that he should also know how to work on them. that's always been my advice to people that play all kinds of instruments. especially wooden instruments because wood is a living thing. so working on one instrument can be completely different than working on another. and being able to work on your instruments. will allow you to have a closer relationship with them.
What a coincidence, I'm an Australian that makes mandolins. I listened to four of Kym's CDs yesterday. Looking forward to seeing you down here at home.
Australia, I would love to go there. All the strange animals and such I think is too cool. It's like a world time forgot. Well Kym, good luck to ya, I hope life treats you right. Another great video Jerry!
Really great episode as usual. Nice work on those repairs. Also, those were very nice instruments played by someone who knows what he’s doing. I’m glad I tuned in. And, yes, I have raised ducks. “Runs like a duck’s butt” is not an expression I’ve heard before but having raised ducks, I know exactly what you mean.
I consider myself a Luther I want to work on my own guitars And maybe not quite to the extent that you are Mr. Rosa But Hey if you're looking for help lol L good luck with that 1 Love your show have learned so much
Very enjoyable video! It was really fun to watch you mentor Kim in some basic luthier skills and equally fun listening to him play the instruments! You’re both good musicians!
Hey, Jerry. Just a thought off the top of my head, but could you take a metal tube just big enough to slip over the CA glue tube, bend that to shape, then use it to hold the plastic tube in the desired shape?
Awesome video Jerry and Rosa crew! Kym is an amazing mandolin player. One of my favourite songs he plays is called “after the victory” that he plays on a Collings a style Mandolin. Anyhoo….take care!
I got to stand right in front of Kym during the railbird festival in kentucky last year. He never missed a lick and played smooth and clean the whole show. One of the finest pickers I've seen!
Tom and I always use a wooden block to push through any wood on our table or band saws. I good friend of ours has a shorter finger due to having not used a wooden block back in the day while using his table saw. The guy is still a very good musician though.
Far be it from me to make a suggestion to the master, (which I would never presume to do if it involved an instrument repair!), but I was thinking that, if you replaced the front plywood panel of the vacuum box on your thickness sander with clear plexiglass, it would make it easier to see what you're doing when sculpting the edges of new bridges or other things. Just a thought. As always, LOVE your vids and your work.
If you want a very thin flexible tube, buy or use an old thermocouple used in furnaces, hot water tanks etc. Cut one end off with a dremel abrasive disc. The other end go carefully around the outside to leave the wire attached. Then you can pull the wires out. Now you have a tube you can bend and shape any way you want. Bonus is that the red straws from spray cans can get pushed inside and adapt to different spray cans. I used mine for bee spray, them buggers got way back in behind foam insulation and couldn't get to them. I could shove that copper tube back in like a hypodermic and blast them.
I have an old Kay that my Dad bought me when I was 14 Im 80 now an Ive learned enough from you to do a neck reset and fix cracks that have occured over time and it is playable agan instead of just hanging on the wall as an ornament Thank you so much Melvin Norfleet
Austin is a blue carbuncle on the lovely red hide of Texas. I moved out of there over 20 years ago. Still in Texas, of course, but I really dislike socialism, in any of it's forms. I'm now in the Hill Country.
Aussie F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo was in Austin for a race. He bought a new Stetson and was pretending to be a Texan. In an interview he was asked to do his best Texas accent. He said, "G'day mate" with a decent Texas drawl, but the interviewer said "That's not quite right." Daniel said, "Oh, oh, ok.....how's this..... _howdy mate."_ I never laughed so hard in my life.
Back in the day, like sometime between Jan 1971 and Nov 1974, I was stationed aboard the USS Coral Sea. During that time, one of the Asst. Communication Officers had an instrument similar to the bazooki (?) Kym has there. I went to the Comm Office one day and he was playing it off of some sheet music. What he was playing was what sounded like an Italian tune, and I thought then, it had a very unique and pleasurable sound to it. Wonderful playing Kym; on all the instruments!
Since your video on bridge replacement Tom has been running around the house and readjusting bridges and saddles on instruments. WARNING he is attacking all saddles or bridges that are in need. Replacing any nuts, nope we have been eating any nuts in the house not glued down! Sorry I couldn't help myself!
Bridge removal is so hit and miss some pop off without any problems them others are so so difficult and the worry is always the finish and nitro is so so easy to burn! Especially when I used a travel clothes iron back in the day.
He is really a good player. They are pretty hot on forcing everyone vaccines in Australia and putting people in concentration camps. I would not go back there if I was him.
Regular videos, vlogs and now teaching videos? Yes please. This was a great video, a little different and really interesting! Going to move in to teaching Jerry? Cant wait to see more videos like this!
Love that instrument sound sounds like an open tuning very nice playing. Why do all your students or people you train wear bandanas,LOLL! Great video and he seems to learn quickly..
Have you ever thought about putting a clear viewing window on your thickness planer? I think that could be a useful alteration. Take the guess work feel out of it when scalloping the end of bridges. If you want I would send you a piece of lexan big enough to replace the front cover of the dust collector. If you like... I know you been using it that way since you built it. Just an offer.
@@RosaStringWorksYep static can be an issue. But come on now... I have no doubt you could take a wiper motor from a 72 vw bug and make a automatic squeegee. But no doubt you have the feel thing down to an art. I guess you are right there is no need to tinker with it. As you like to say... What was I thinking. 😄
Oh,,,cool an Austrakoabazooki!...at least he had a headband; seems to be a prerequisite to being an apprentice?
Looks and sounds like an Irish bouzouki to me. But what do I know...
I’ve been enjoying Kym’s playing for 20 years here in Austin ... from the early days of the Greencards at Mother Egan’s to his last amazing show here with Warren Hood. Thanks for all of it Kym! It’s a really wonderful surprise to see you two passionate people working together.
Anyone old enough to remember the movie Young Frankenstein? Hump? What Hump? LOL!
It's a good thing in the end. being as he can play the instruments very well. that he should also know how to work on them. that's always been my advice to people that play all kinds of instruments. especially wooden instruments because wood is a living thing. so working on one instrument can be completely different than working on another. and being able to work on your instruments. will allow you to have a closer relationship with them.
That playing was kinda Italian and country at the same time..
Wow what a fun video, thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to the next video
What a coincidence, I'm an Australian that makes mandolins. I listened to four of Kym's CDs yesterday.
Looking forward to seeing you down here at home.
Fantastic video jerry . Wow that guy sure can play 👍
Australia, I would love to go there. All the strange animals and such I think is too cool. It's like a world time forgot. Well Kym, good luck to ya, I hope life treats you right. Another great video Jerry!
I'm wanting to get into luthiery work as I own three guitars
Good ta see a Kym! Well played!
tape a wire to to the flexible plastic tubes it will hold the shape you want.
Really great episode as usual. Nice work on those repairs. Also, those were very nice instruments played by someone who knows what he’s doing. I’m glad I tuned in.
And, yes, I have raised ducks. “Runs like a duck’s butt” is not an expression I’ve heard before but having raised ducks, I know exactly what you mean.
I consider myself a Luther I want to work on my own guitars And maybe not quite to the extent that you are Mr. Rosa But Hey if you're looking for help lol L good luck with that 1 Love your show have learned so much
Nice mini concert ! Great video ..Thanks .
Very impressive! So nice that you let him play.
Very enjoyable video! It was really fun to watch you mentor Kim in some basic luthier skills and equally fun listening to him play the instruments! You’re both good musicians!
If Jerry is a 2.5 I'm about a .7 😬
Sometimes if you need to bend a plastic nozzle and need it to hold a shape you can tape a then piece of wire to the side of it.
you can use a straightened out paperclip to wind round a flexi spout and bend round to over 90 degrees up to 3/8" or 10 mm radius.
I think those (your glue applicator) are called pipettes.
Wow good ....and he can play to.
Wow how fun was that! Safe trip.
Hey, Jerry. Just a thought off the top of my head, but could you take a metal tube just big enough to slip over the CA glue tube, bend that to shape, then use it to hold the plastic tube in the desired shape?
I would almost call that a baritone mandolin, very sweet sound. Good on ya mate! Safe travels back down under.
My first thought was that it was a mandolin until Jerry said it was a Bazouki. Definitely a different sound to a mandolin.
I know it's a buzouki, I said "almost" because of the resemblance
Not much difference between an Irish bouzouki and an octave mandolin. Scale lengths can overlap depending on the maker.
It's a mandozuki!
Awesome video Jerry and Rosa crew! Kym is an amazing mandolin player. One of my favourite songs he plays is called “after the victory” that he plays on a Collings a style Mandolin. Anyhoo….take care!
I got to stand right in front of Kym during the railbird festival in kentucky last year. He never missed a lick and played smooth and clean the whole show. One of the finest pickers I've seen!
WOW!!!. Keep on smiling.
Very fine musician that was really entertaining dear Jerry, Glad that you share so nicely your craft
🤘🏼very cool instrument..
Wondering what Molly Tuttle or Billy Strings would do with it ??
Welcome Kym! That's some mighty fine pickin ya got goin on there!
Jerry, I believe you have another fast learner on your hands!
Tom and I always use a wooden block to push through any wood on our table or band saws. I good friend of ours has a shorter finger due to having not used a wooden block back in the day while using his table saw. The guy is still a very good musician though.
Very good playing. I wonder who he has played with. And he is learning from the best with you Jerry.
He is the mandolinist for the group The greencards.
Mandolin looks great
That IS an interesting instrument.. Best wishes for the return to down-under.
Fearless luthiery!
Call it a g guitar baster
He plays it more like a mando cello than a traditional Greek style. A talented player.
Beautiful sound
Greatly inspiring for Kim! And us out there!!🎶🎶🎶
All I can say is WOW !
hope his head gets better
Beautiful music, When you hang up the luthier tools you could introduce musicians like Kym.
Far be it from me to make a suggestion to the master, (which I would never presume to do if it involved an instrument repair!), but I was thinking that, if you replaced the front plywood panel of the vacuum box on your thickness sander with clear plexiglass, it would make it easier to see what you're doing when sculpting the edges of new bridges or other things. Just a thought. As always, LOVE your vids and your work.
Awesome pickin Kym! You have a true God given talent my friend.
What a treat!!!
I always put an undersized hole at the high and low string once I have the blank thickness before I do any carving.
I think trading lessons with Kym might have been a good deal, Jerry. That man can play. Really nice video.
Very nice!!
Excellent teaching technique. Thanks for sharing!
If you want a very thin flexible tube, buy or use an old thermocouple used in furnaces, hot water tanks etc. Cut one end off with a dremel abrasive disc. The other end go carefully around the outside to leave the wire attached. Then you can pull the wires out. Now you have a tube you can bend and shape any way you want. Bonus is that the red straws from spray cans can get pushed inside and adapt to different spray cans. I used mine for bee spray, them buggers got way back in behind foam insulation and couldn't get to them. I could shove that copper tube back in like a hypodermic and blast them.
I have an old Kay that my Dad bought me when I was 14 Im 80 now an Ive learned enough from you to do a neck reset and fix cracks that have occured over time and it is playable agan instead of just hanging on the wall as an ornament Thank you so much Melvin Norfleet
Hi Jerry, couldn´t you ask your granddaughter with surely smaller hands, to go inside the body with her hand and do the glueing ?
Really like this episode. Amazing pickin.'
Austin is a blue carbuncle on the lovely red hide of Texas. I moved out of there over 20 years ago.
Still in Texas, of course, but I really dislike socialism, in any of it's forms. I'm now in the Hill Country.
Why did you run him off? To Australia, for goodness sake 😂
Kym used the band saw and still had all his fingers and thumbs attached when he was done. Good Job!!
Wow
Kym is a highly regarded player in Australia, as was his father. good to see he is coming home.
clap clap .well played . thanks for sharing jerry .
Aussie F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo was in Austin for a race. He bought a new Stetson and was pretending to be a Texan. In an interview he was asked to do his best Texas accent. He said, "G'day mate" with a decent Texas drawl, but the interviewer said "That's not quite right."
Daniel said, "Oh, oh, ok.....how's this..... _howdy mate."_
I never laughed so hard in my life.
Rap the flexible tube with wire in bend it to shape and then you can get those hard to reach places with the CA glue
Back in the day, like sometime between Jan 1971 and Nov 1974, I was stationed aboard the USS Coral Sea. During that time, one of the Asst. Communication Officers had an instrument similar to the bazooki (?) Kym has there. I went to the Comm Office one day and he was playing it off of some sheet music. What he was playing was what sounded like an Italian tune, and I thought then, it had a very unique and pleasurable sound to it. Wonderful playing Kym; on all the instruments!
If you get the bridge to hot ? Will it not release the glue on the braces ?...
Wen you glu put a little water on the Wood befor just a little wed tale a træt you will see
Since your video on bridge replacement Tom has been running around the house and readjusting bridges and saddles on instruments. WARNING he is attacking all saddles or bridges that are in need. Replacing any nuts, nope we have been eating any nuts in the house not glued down! Sorry I couldn't help myself!
Thought he was gonna break out into the kildare fancy or something for a minute there.
WOW what a player
Well played! Enjoyed that! Thanks for all you do Jerry.
That instrument and the player sound great….
All I can say is amazingly awesome!
Deported? lol
Maybe he lost The Greencards?
Man you don’t need to do luthery if you can pick like that
Sounds great Jerry. Love the sound.
Mate you've managed to miss the last two years of madness in Oz. Well done. :)
As always I enjoyed your video Jerry. And Kym's music was a real treat!
Wow, dude is amazing, thanks Jerry!!
great playing Kym. made my 1st guitar neck blank tonight Jerry on my way lol
WOW!!! That sounded fantastic
I thought a bazouki had 10 strings.
Another great teaching video along with some great pickin."
Thanks Jerry.
WOW Kim, rocks. I sure hope you got him to sit in with you band. What a great talent he has. He is in good hands learning from you Jerry.
Just too good!
Bridge removal is so hit and miss some pop off without any problems them others are so so difficult and the worry is always the finish and nitro is so so easy to burn! Especially when I used a travel clothes iron back in the day.
Pipette, is what I’ve known them to be.
He is really a good player. They are pretty hot on forcing everyone vaccines in Australia and putting people in concentration camps. I would not go back there if I was him.
Just get vaccinated, end of problem. The life you save may even be your own.
Regular videos, vlogs and now teaching videos? Yes please. This was a great video, a little different and really interesting! Going to move in to teaching Jerry? Cant wait to see more videos like this!
Love that instrument sound sounds like an open tuning very nice playing. Why do all your students or people you train wear bandanas,LOLL! Great video and he seems to learn quickly..
Have you ever thought about putting a clear viewing window on your thickness planer? I think that could be a useful alteration. Take the guess work feel out of it when scalloping the end of bridges. If you want I would send you a piece of lexan big enough to replace the front cover of the dust collector. If you like... I know you been using it that way since you built it. Just an offer.
I understand your meaning but anything plastic causes sawdust to stick to it statically and trust me you can't see through it in less than a heartbeat
@@RosaStringWorksYep static can be an issue. But come on now... I have no doubt you could take a wiper motor from a 72 vw bug and make a automatic squeegee. But no doubt you have the feel thing down to an art. I guess you are right there is no need to tinker with it. As you like to say... What was I thinking. 😄
That was an awesome video Jerry. Waiting on the next installment. Thanks for the content
A plastic pipette can be useful I like the bended end. Beautiful instruments! Nicely played! super glue can be a beast.
great player He gets a cool tone out of it
Jerry you should really get him to be an apprentice for you !!!! Kym could not only learn the trade but also entertain your audience.
Tape a piece of wire to the CA glue plastic tube so that it will stay bent. Beautiful playing!
Good stuff both of you! Looking forward to part 2.
If you had me as an aprentice, I would never leave the shop.
Ok… i want one…
Awesome!!
A real treat. Thanks.