I like your philosophy of not treating cheap instruments as disposable. We really need to make that idea more mainstream before we run out of quality materials.
Hearing "The Streets of Laredo" on this guitar at the end PROVES to me that you are in tune with the higher vibrations of the universe! Thank you for bringing balance to the Force...
Frank Maynard (1853-1926) claimed to be the author of the earliest Western adaptation of the song “The Cowboy's Lament,” also known as “The Streets of Laredo.” The tune originated as a late-eighteenth-century Irish ballad about a dying soldier who regretted his unruly ways. It's a nice tune, and keeping with the tradition of Scotch/Irish folk tunes being adopted by American settlers. The American 'hard R' basically comes from the Scotch/Irish immigrants.
I live in New Jersey with a brain injury and for me on yut something such as this I'm glad that you are expert on the guitar and you have taught me so much watching you again feel my brain getting no more and gain back to who I really a thank yo5. Ted
And like that, this guitar sounds and plays better than it ever did. Even when it was new. Truly well thought out and skillfully performed repairs. I am positive the owner will be pleased beyond words.
Well you certainly didn’t offend me - In fact I was really very pleasantly surprised by the sound of the instrument after you finished. Really lovely, though strange in it’s thin tone, so much so that it sounds very little like a guitar and it almost has a lute like twang, as though it had gut strings! Brilliant. Well done. It pleases me greatly that someone of your prodigious talent is not prepared to turn their noses up at a repair like this, and yes of course I know you’ve got to make a living and all that but you are truly honourable in that you still treat this instrument with the care and respect that it deserves (according to the needs and value that it’s owner places on it - Good for you (and really interesting too) 👍
Wowwwww what a trip, my first guitar! Our neighbours had moved and left a very worn one of these behind for me fifty five years ago. I had forgotten, thank you for this reminder. 👍🏻
Fantastic...the best is when the end comes & you play your work. So so amazing. Likely the best Cowboy tune you could play and then a key chain. I have the same designed Lone Ranger ,Harmony 1952 and I have reset neck and adding internal braces and a DeArmond mag pickup. . Poplar neck is Martin V and hope it plays as well as this 1939. There has to be hundreds out there. Cheers Alberta Dave
Of all the guitarry things I watch on TH-cam I get most excited when I see a little blue dot against twoodfrd! That was a neat little guitar and sounded great. As you say plenty available online...
The person who Hollywood chose to make The Lone Ranger was, in fact actually a black man! Furthermore he was a Texas Ranger. So props to the O.G. Lone Ranger. He deserves the honor and respect. Thank you.
Wow. One of your best I've enjoyed watching. I can't help but ask can you give us more of your playing. IMO it's very real, like Willie Nelson , down to earth and from the heart. Big fan.
I was a kid in the 50's. The lone ranger era on the brand new invention TV. The era of wagon wheel lamps, couch arms, cap guns, guitars the whole shinola. Yo did this cheapo axe a favor for sure. What good is bone stock for a collector guitar If the first real player that picks it up and tries to work the fucker says it sucks blue green ass? You did a wonderful job. I see the fret slots were sawed too deep, and probably straight, making them extra deep in the middle. A trick i learned on les paul special 2's with massively deep fret slots causing them to change intonation just by playing a chord with a good grip, would cause the deep fret slot curfing neck to bend out of tune. I popped a hole in the deep fret slot on the bottom of the neck, and filled the slots with water thing super glue. To make the glue penetrate to the deepest center of the flat sawn fret slot, i used the core of a guitar string to force, and wick the glue into the slot. The result on these special 2's was a sweet stiff neck that kept its shape no matter the death grip oc the player...me. lol later, i realized the damned body wouldnt lap at all, i traced around a p-bass body 1" smaller all the way around for the pattern, and routed a body out of wheat straw and resin. This material is a wood fire door core, the big heavy kind like in hospitals, with a certified 45 minute burn through rating. IM SERIOUS, THE STUFF HAS GREAT TONE! The stop tail piece and bridge i threaded straight into the core using super glue as i went. A guy in a basement can pull off some amazing shit if hes patient and thinks thinks through. Also, when laquered to smithereens with nitrocelulose laquer, the wheat straw ended up looking like a huge deep metal flake. Lol oh, and i made sure the NF/PP45 MINUTE BURN THROUGH RATING stamp shows just beneath the bridge. Wish i knew how to poat a pick here.
"Celluloid Rot"...perfect...a killer punk rock band name. "We're back in the saddle again"...yeah, we were all waiting for that line...you get 7.38 points for your delivery, alone. // I would perform with this ol' darlin', too...proudly...six-strings, a'blazin'. Lastly, anyone who goes through their entire life without offending someone has purtnear wasted their Earthian years...it's who, how, and when you offend that's critical...you done did choosed right. Another great post.
Nice save on a cool old guitar! I like how you adjusted the neck angle without completely removing the neck. I have an old acoustic I'm restoring and I'll keep that technique in mind if the guitar needs it. Thanks for the video!👍😎🎸🎶
Very nice. More sprang than I was expecting with a plywood construction. I remember learning to sing Streets of Laredo a lifetime ago in primary school, very melancholy.
I really would love to have a Lone Ranger/Hopalong Cassidy/Roy Rogers guitar. They're cute and kitschy but really shine when somebody like you spruces them up.
Excellent job! You’ve made the old guitar that would probably have just hung on a wall into a playable musical instrument . It’s still not a great sounding guitar but it does have a lot of character, sometimes it’s nice to sound a bit different.
I don't know what you mean by "Not a high end guitar". This is the highest quality guitar I've even seen in my entire life. It must've cost thousands of dollars when it was new. I have it on good authority that this may very well be the highest quality acoustic guitar ever made in the history of the planet.
A professional technique is " Whatever the professional decides to do " If you are getting paid you are the professional. If the customer wants you to paint it green and carve moon unit into the head stock go for it.
FYI @@michaelgarrow3239 jour·ney·man /ˈjərnēmən/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. a worker or sports player who is reliable but not outstanding. "a solid journeyman professional" 2. HISTORICAL a trained worker who is employed by someone else. "a journeyman carpenter"
@@zdcyclops1lickley190 - 🤣 That wasn’t me. That was the little voice in your head pronouncing journeyman. I am writing… First time one of you pedantic fu^ks pointed out I spelt correctly but didn’t say it rite… 🤡 Yes, a journey- man could go anywhere and get a job in his trade. You didn’t have to be Leonardo da Vinci to be a journeyman mason but you have to work to a certain standard all day every day. Something you are obviously not familiar with. You probably have a lot of participation trophies…
Always enjoy your videos...never offensive to me, and although that guitar is cheaply made, you made it playable. Felt like I was out on the prairie when you played. Truly admire your work!
I'm not offended either. Really appreciate your videos. The naysayers and gratuitous thumbs down must get tedious. Reminds me of Stephen Fry on the subject of people who are easily 'offended' and compelled to express that. "So f***ing what?"
I have the exact same guitar with the same issues. I bought it (with case) for $75.00 at the Saint John Flea Market some years ago and it is still waiting to get repaired. The guitar is made from single ply veneer - not plywood. They used this thick veneer on a lot of low end guitars back in the day and being rotary cut birch they dried like potato chips - never stayed flat. I've worked on a few old guitars with the same construction. You are right - they have a neat sound. On the neck reset - have you ever tried slipping the heel block? I've done a number of them and it can be easily done without actually changing the neck construction - particularly if the guitar has no binding on the back. Really enjoy your videos.
I love those old POS guitars. I used to have a really really old Stella that I set up with 11 gauge strings with an unwound G and low action. I cut a slot across the floating bridge and put a piece of fretwire in it. That thing was a rocker! I could play all my rock n roll riffs on it and it really cut through when playing with other acoustics. I wound up selling it for 80 bucks. : (
@@PinetopJackson I've owned quite a few of them. I have always wondered what company made them. They always seem to be of the same design but with different company logos; Harmony, Stella, Regal, Silvertone, etc. I always thought they were made by Kay but I could be wrong. The particular one I posted about was the best of the lot. It had a brown/black sunburst finish and a black bakelite pickguard cut into that (batwing?) country western style. Someone had reset the neck crookedly and the tailpiece was offset about 1/2 an inch. Nice and jangly on the chords and obnoxiously tinny on the solos. I have a few cassette tape recordings of jam sessions with friends and that old Stella just cuts through compared to the other two dreadnoughts that just sounded like one flavor of mush in the crappy recordings.
@@tiki_trash that's awesome! I used to have a bunch of old cassette tapes of jams and original songs, but over the years and moves we've made they have been lost :( Since you still have yours, you should totally upload them for prosperity, and to share the sound of those old American guitars with the world...you could just hit record on your phone and play on your tape player! But here's a video talking about my first guitar, I'd love to hear your thoughts, does this one look like one you used to own? th-cam.com/video/cFlFCHJyAJ4/w-d-xo.html
@@PinetopJackson Yeah, that looks like the pickguard and it had the same tailpiece. Just about everything else was different, though. That one was much nicer than the one I was talking about and much newer (?). Hmmm... uploading tapes? That's an idea. The particular tapes I was talking about are really just crap, but I do have some old practice tapes of a punk/folk/comedy band I was in that are pretty funny. Those recordings actually have that particular guitar on it. Unfortunately the tape player that I recorded it on ran a little slow so the playback is stupidly fast. Thanks for the idea. I'll check with the singer/songwriter dude and see if he has some better recordings. Disclaimer: I am not a professional guitar player but it's been my hobby since I was a kid. I was a luthier's apprentice, when I was a kid, for a few months until I scratched the top on a customer's guitar. I don't play much anymore but I've learned a few things through the years (I'm 55) and I do amp repairs for friends and friends of friends, once in a while, if it looks like something I can figure out.
Ha! I love the sounds that a lot of these ultra-cheap old things can make. Mine has alternating white stripes (painted, naturally) as fret markers, and absolutely no radius to anything. It feels like it's negative radius! Like swinging two bats in the on deck circle, playing that thing for a few minutes will make even a 12-string feel like a Les Paul with .008's.
Wasn't offended in the least Lol. A guitar that someone is willing to play, no matter what, is a guitar worth putting into playing status ! Awesome job and great attitude !
Far from being offended, I am inspired instead. Nice job, affect and persona included. Gonna go through your entire yt library eventually. Thanks for making my day.
I just picked up one of these for $5 Canadian, that’s about three fiddy of your FreedomBucks. There’s no seperation but a big warp under the floating bridge - so much that the action is low and buzzes. Someone stuck a penny under the bridge to add action but it wasn’t enough. I might add a dime... Should it have nylon strings?
The graphics might be more like a block print that a stencil, but either way, its fun in its own way. I assume the way you sawed up the neck as far as the fretboard that there was no trussrod.
I was waiting with baited breath to see if that amazing tubby bass sound would survive the new soundboard braces, but couldn't tell by the superb sounding rendition of Laredo you played at the end. I wonder how the overall tone fared after the 're-voicing'? All in all a fabulous little guitar, I'd love to have one of those! The closest thing I currently have in my stable is the little 00 Waterloo WL-K with the stenciled/hand-painted desert scene on the front, though of course it's in a way different league, but captures the same kitsch spirit of the 30s. BTW, this is the first time I've actually seen the 'Kung-Fu' neck reset method; very clever and effective! :)
Correction: 'bated' breath, as in abated, or paused. Not a mouth full of worms. I only say that because I'm a pedantic A-hole, and former English teacher. Carry on...
I like your philosophy of not treating cheap instruments as disposable. We really need to make that idea more mainstream before we run out of quality materials.
What's better? A dingy damaged wall hanger or a playable instrument. Instruments were built to be played not looked at. Well done.
Hearing "The Streets of Laredo" on this guitar at the end PROVES to me that you are in tune with the higher vibrations of the universe! Thank you for bringing balance to the Force...
Do you have your outfit?
Frank Maynard (1853-1926) claimed to be the author of the earliest Western adaptation of the song “The Cowboy's Lament,” also known as “The Streets of Laredo.” The tune originated as a late-eighteenth-century Irish ballad about a dying soldier who regretted his unruly ways.
It's a nice tune, and keeping with the tradition of Scotch/Irish folk tunes being adopted by American settlers. The American 'hard R' basically comes from the Scotch/Irish immigrants.
Great job. That little guitar sounds surprisingly good
I live in New Jersey with a brain injury and for me on yut something such as this I'm glad that you are expert on the guitar and you have taught me so much watching you again feel my brain getting no more and gain back to who I really a thank yo5. Ted
keep on getting better - Ted's good for what ails all of us!
Man! That little guy had a sweet "parlor" tone once you were done. Bravo!
I absolutely love your sense of humor, and I think it’s so cool that you are doing this fix!
Really nice episode! Cheap guitars need love, too. ;-)
Your talent in so many genres is as impressive as your lutherie, I said it before but I like your channel, my hats off to ya!
The perfect "send-off" song. Nice job.
You way of rebracing without taking the back off is excellent. Learned a lot, thank you!
And like that, this guitar sounds and plays better than it ever did. Even when it was new. Truly well thought out and skillfully performed repairs. I am positive the owner will be pleased beyond words.
Well you certainly didn’t offend me - In fact I was really very pleasantly surprised by the sound of the instrument after you finished. Really lovely, though strange in it’s thin tone, so much so that it sounds very little like a guitar and it almost has a lute like twang, as though it had gut strings! Brilliant. Well done. It pleases me greatly that someone of your prodigious talent is not prepared to turn their noses up at a repair like this, and yes of course I know you’ve got to make a living and all that but you are truly honourable in that you still treat this instrument with the care and respect that it deserves (according to the needs and value that it’s owner places on it - Good for you (and really interesting too) 👍
Wowwwww what a trip, my first guitar! Our neighbours had moved and left a very worn one of these behind for me fifty five years ago.
I had forgotten, thank you for this reminder. 👍🏻
Awesome man, bet you wish you still had it!
One of my favourite songs "Streets of Laredo" thanks for a fascinating video.
I've seen this a couple of times and I'm Amazed at how good it sounds. Great Job!
Fantastic...the best is when the end comes & you play your work. So so amazing. Likely the best Cowboy tune you could play and then a key chain.
I have the same designed Lone Ranger ,Harmony 1952 and I have reset neck and adding internal braces and a DeArmond mag pickup. . Poplar neck is Martin V and hope it plays as well as this 1939. There has to be hundreds out there. Cheers Alberta Dave
I lover your honesty about working on everything I have seen. I just started playing again after about 20 years off.
You had me at "let's see if we can offend all of them". Love it! Keep up the great work.
Of all the guitarry things I watch on TH-cam I get most excited when I see a little blue dot against twoodfrd!
That was a neat little guitar and sounded great. As you say plenty available online...
That thing sounds great😂👍🏻. Loved that programme as a child!
The person who Hollywood chose to make The Lone Ranger was, in fact actually a black man! Furthermore he was a Texas Ranger. So props to the O.G. Lone Ranger. He deserves the honor and respect. Thank you.
I'm of the group that thinks its your guitar, do what you like, I'll watch, enjoy and be glad you did it.
Wow. One of your best I've enjoyed watching. I can't help but ask can you give us more of your playing. IMO it's very real, like Willie Nelson , down to earth and from the heart. Big fan.
I was a kid in the 50's. The lone ranger era on the brand new invention TV. The era of wagon wheel lamps, couch arms, cap guns, guitars the whole shinola. Yo did this cheapo axe a favor for sure. What good is bone stock for a collector guitar If the first real player that picks it up and tries to work the fucker says it sucks blue green ass? You did a wonderful job. I see the fret slots were sawed too deep, and probably straight, making them extra deep in the middle. A trick i learned on les paul special 2's with massively deep fret slots causing them to change intonation just by playing a chord with a good grip, would cause the deep fret slot curfing neck to bend out of tune. I popped a hole in the deep fret slot on the bottom of the neck, and filled the slots with water thing super glue. To make the glue penetrate to the deepest center of the flat sawn fret slot, i used the core of a guitar string to force, and wick the glue into the slot. The result on these special 2's was a sweet stiff neck that kept its shape no matter the death grip oc the player...me. lol later, i realized the damned body wouldnt lap at all, i traced around a p-bass body 1" smaller all the way around for the pattern, and routed a body out of wheat straw and resin. This material is a wood fire door core, the big heavy kind like in hospitals, with a certified 45 minute burn through rating. IM SERIOUS, THE STUFF HAS GREAT TONE! The stop tail piece and bridge i threaded straight into the core using super glue as i went. A guy in a basement can pull off some amazing shit if hes patient and thinks thinks through. Also, when laquered to smithereens with nitrocelulose laquer, the wheat straw ended up looking like a huge deep metal flake. Lol oh, and i made sure the NF/PP45 MINUTE BURN THROUGH RATING stamp shows just beneath the bridge. Wish i knew how to poat a pick here.
In an age of people being offended by everything, thank you for offending them. The perfect fix for that instrument.
I'm not offended! I'm grateful you have the channel and share your repairers. I'm going back to your previous videos to see all of them! Thanxz
Con el arreglo mejoró el sonido! Gran trabajo men!
Anyone who plays The Streets of Lorado has my respect.
"Celluloid Rot"...perfect...a killer punk rock band name. "We're back in the saddle again"...yeah, we were all waiting for that line...you get 7.38 points for your delivery, alone. // I would perform with this ol' darlin', too...proudly...six-strings, a'blazin'. Lastly, anyone who goes through their entire life without offending someone has purtnear wasted their Earthian years...it's who, how, and when you offend that's critical...you done did choosed right. Another great post.
"Celluloid Rot" is an excellent band name!!
I don't mind offending people, I just hate to do it accidentally.
Another great video. I'm glad to see your channel growing. Your content speaks for itself.
"Some obnoxious kid probably got both"..... Such great low key humor!
Your opener on this video was absolutely awesome. Well said sir. And great video.
I love the sound of those old plywood guitars :)
I love this way of doing a neck reset! I had no idea.
Nice save on a cool old guitar! I like how you adjusted the neck angle without completely removing the neck. I have an old acoustic I'm restoring and I'll keep that technique in mind if the guitar needs it. Thanks for the video!👍😎🎸🎶
Very nice. More sprang than I was expecting with a plywood construction. I remember learning to sing Streets of Laredo a lifetime ago in primary school, very melancholy.
I really would love to have a Lone Ranger/Hopalong Cassidy/Roy Rogers guitar. They're cute and kitschy but really shine when somebody like you spruces them up.
I love that you fixed this up. If I was able to do this kind of work, I would want to work exclusively work on guitars like this. Thank you!
Really nicely done video and the guitar has a beautiful tone. Thank you.
My first guitar was a Lone Ranger guitar, Christmas 1963.
Lolol the fair use bit is the type of stuff that really makes you stand out and its also why i love this channel.
Always well thought out and superbly executed! Sounds surprisingly good.
Excellent job! You’ve made the old guitar that would probably have just hung on a wall into a playable musical instrument . It’s still not a great sounding guitar but it does have a lot of character, sometimes it’s nice to sound a bit different.
Great video. I love knowing the actual value of what you're working on.
That bass tone is sweet!
I don't know what you mean by "Not a high end guitar". This is the highest quality guitar I've even seen in my entire life. It must've cost thousands of dollars when it was new. I have it on good authority that this may very well be the highest quality acoustic guitar ever made in the history of the planet.
A professional technique is " Whatever the professional decides to do " If you are getting paid you are the professional. If the customer wants you to paint it green and carve moon unit into the head stock go for it.
Professional is one thing. Journeyman is another…
FYI
@@michaelgarrow3239 jour·ney·man
/ˈjərnēmən/
Learn to pronounce
noun
1.
a worker or sports player who is reliable but not outstanding.
"a solid journeyman professional"
2.
HISTORICAL
a trained worker who is employed by someone else.
"a journeyman carpenter"
@@zdcyclops1lickley190 - 🤣
That wasn’t me. That was the little voice in your head pronouncing journeyman.
I am writing…
First time one of you pedantic fu^ks pointed out I spelt correctly but didn’t say it rite…
🤡
Yes, a journey- man could go anywhere and get a job in his trade. You didn’t have to be Leonardo da Vinci to be a journeyman mason but you have to work to a certain standard all day every day. Something you are obviously not familiar with.
You probably have a lot of participation trophies…
That was a lovely melody at the end.
Wow it sounds like night and day, first it started out sounding like a stand up bass now it sounds like a prewar parlor guitar,, nice job ted
Always enjoy your videos...never offensive to me, and although that guitar is cheaply made, you made it playable. Felt like I was out on the prairie when you played. Truly admire your work!
I love your attitude towards things and especially people. Makes me smile. Keep up the good work.. Great choice of song for the final demo.🌝
Great job and resuscitation of an old instrument it sounds actually damn good
Whoa! Ted got serious “Streets of Laredo” skills!
Dude, i love you... i wish you had been my brother, seriously. Such a cool dude. thanks for going out of your way 2 show us what you do.
streets of laredo, my old man's favorite song. nice! sounds great too.
Great work, as always. Loved the "I'm a Dying Cowboy"...Great job Sir!!
I'm not offended either. Really appreciate your videos. The naysayers and gratuitous thumbs down must get tedious. Reminds me of Stephen Fry on the subject of people who are easily 'offended' and compelled to express that. "So f***ing what?"
That old guitar sounds pretty darn good to me! Also enjoyed "Streets of Laredo".
I have the exact same guitar with the same issues. I bought it (with case) for $75.00 at the Saint John Flea Market some years ago and it is still waiting to get repaired. The guitar is made from single ply veneer - not plywood. They used this thick veneer on a lot of low end guitars back in the day and being rotary cut birch they dried like potato chips - never stayed flat. I've worked on a few old guitars with the same construction. You are right - they have a neat sound. On the neck reset - have you ever tried slipping the heel block? I've done a number of them and it can be easily done without actually changing the neck construction - particularly if the guitar has no binding on the back. Really enjoy your videos.
Awesome opportunity to keep something in a preserved condition. What ever it takes to make it last!
That really woke up the voice. Very nice
Looks and sounds really nice.. great job..
That definitely has THAT sound. Like all those old Memphis blues recordings.
Thank you for a great video, and for ensuring that the guitar lives on.....
Superb! And a very unique sounding instrument too!
I really loved the intro/disclaimer/challenge!
Thanks for sharing! I love watching your videos.
Really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I love those old POS guitars. I used to have a really really old Stella that I set up with 11 gauge strings with an unwound G and low action. I cut a slot across the floating bridge and put a piece of fretwire in it. That thing was a rocker! I could play all my rock n roll riffs on it and it really cut through when playing with other acoustics. I wound up selling it for 80 bucks. : (
A Harmony Stella was my first guitar...wish I still had it! I've owned a couple others since. "2nd-tier vintage" guitars, I love em!
@@PinetopJackson I've owned quite a few of them. I have always wondered what company made them. They always seem to be of the same design but with different company logos; Harmony, Stella, Regal, Silvertone, etc. I always thought they were made by Kay but I could be wrong. The particular one I posted about was the best of the lot. It had a brown/black sunburst finish and a black bakelite pickguard cut into that (batwing?) country western style. Someone had reset the neck crookedly and the tailpiece was offset about 1/2 an inch. Nice and jangly on the chords and obnoxiously tinny on the solos. I have a few cassette tape recordings of jam sessions with friends and that old Stella just cuts through compared to the other two dreadnoughts that just sounded like one flavor of mush in the crappy recordings.
@@tiki_trash that's awesome! I used to have a bunch of old cassette tapes of jams and original songs, but over the years and moves we've made they have been lost :(
Since you still have yours, you should totally upload them for prosperity, and to share the sound of those old American guitars with the world...you could just hit record on your phone and play on your tape player!
But here's a video talking about my first guitar, I'd love to hear your thoughts, does this one look like one you used to own? th-cam.com/video/cFlFCHJyAJ4/w-d-xo.html
@@PinetopJackson Yeah, that looks like the pickguard and it had the same tailpiece. Just about everything else was different, though. That one was much nicer than the one I was talking about and much newer (?). Hmmm... uploading tapes? That's an idea. The particular tapes I was talking about are really just crap, but I do have some old practice tapes of a punk/folk/comedy band I was in that are pretty funny. Those recordings actually have that particular guitar on it. Unfortunately the tape player that I recorded it on ran a little slow so the playback is stupidly fast. Thanks for the idea. I'll check with the singer/songwriter dude and see if he has some better recordings. Disclaimer: I am not a professional guitar player but it's been my hobby since I was a kid. I was a luthier's apprentice, when I was a kid, for a few months until I scratched the top on a customer's guitar. I don't play much anymore but I've learned a few things through the years (I'm 55) and I do amp repairs for friends and friends of friends, once in a while, if it looks like something I can figure out.
@@PinetopJackson A tip for those old straight saddle floating bridges: intonate the A and B string not the the high and low Es.
Ha! I love the sounds that a lot of these ultra-cheap old things can make. Mine has alternating white stripes (painted, naturally) as fret markers, and absolutely no radius to anything. It feels like it's negative radius! Like swinging two bats in the on deck circle, playing that thing for a few minutes will make even a 12-string feel like a Les Paul with .008's.
This episode of your show helps me the most because Kung fu neck resets fixes old cheap wall hanger acoustic guitars.
The old critter's actually got a pretty neat tone.
Sounds great at the end, congrats Awesome job!
sounds like lightin hopkins... priceless guitar...
I thought the neck reset approach was really clever. I will remember that trick. Nice little tune you played at the end too.
Wasn't offended in the least Lol. A guitar that someone is willing to play, no matter what, is a guitar worth putting into playing status ! Awesome job and great attitude !
Reminds me of the buck owens guitar that pat smear played on unplugged. Practically a toy guitar turned into a serious playing guitar.
Hey, you do whatever you want. I love your work!
And further more the exact tune to demonstrate this classic piece!
sounds surprisly good to me..good job mate
Awesome post - repair rendition, Kemosabe!
Very nice presentation. You are quite articulate and explaining these things. When are you going to show your face.?
Far from being offended, I am inspired instead. Nice job, affect and persona included. Gonna go through your entire yt library eventually. Thanks for making my day.
Hell yeah! Got hooked on the first second by the “I think we can offend three groups of people at once” comment! You did it again! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You do a good job and ignore the comments that try to in flick painful cheap talk.
When I saw the nut and tailpiece break angle I didn't expect much. It's got some mojo tone
Sounds great!
It sounds great. Thank you for sharing
So funny, the second you started playing it I thought Nick Drake... Great minds think alike. :-)
That guitar sounds surprisingly good for what it is
I just picked up one of these for $5 Canadian, that’s about three fiddy of your FreedomBucks. There’s no seperation but a big warp under the floating bridge - so much that the action is low and buzzes. Someone stuck a penny under the bridge to add action but it wasn’t enough. I might add a dime...
Should it have nylon strings?
That guitar sounds much better great job again sir please I would love to see you work on some basses please
I love your vids...great job
I noticed that you didn't add any sound hole reinforcing braces when you replaced the ladder braces, and was wondering why.
The graphics might be more like a block print that a stencil, but either way, its fun in its own way.
I assume the way you sawed up the neck as far as the fretboard that there was no trussrod.
I was waiting with baited breath to see if that amazing tubby bass sound would survive the new soundboard braces, but couldn't tell by the superb sounding rendition of Laredo you played at the end. I wonder how the overall tone fared after the 're-voicing'?
All in all a fabulous little guitar, I'd love to have one of those! The closest thing I currently have in my stable is the little 00 Waterloo WL-K with the stenciled/hand-painted desert scene on the front, though of course it's in a way different league, but captures the same kitsch spirit of the 30s.
BTW, this is the first time I've actually seen the 'Kung-Fu' neck reset method; very clever and effective! :)
Correction: 'bated' breath, as in abated, or paused. Not a mouth full of worms.
I only say that because I'm a pedantic A-hole, and former English teacher. Carry on...
Hi Yo Silver Guitar. . . . I was always a Hi Ho Silver kid, but to each his own.
Are you referencing Snow White? Because it’s absolutely Hi-Yo Silver.
Yay! Been waiting for another installment from a great luthier....hope yer Mom is OK.
The tailpiece, bridge, and frets look like the ones on my old Stella.
“I didn’t take off the fingerboard for this one... “
Guitar: ( oh yeah? I have other ideas..) ‘ping!’
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