I have been a guitartist for nearly 40 years. I can play, but NOT fix'em like you do. God Bless you for your Time and Talents. A humble Master and Professional Gardener Bernie De Lonay from "It's Not Work, It's Fun."🇺🇲🐦⚘️
I barely can believe my own eyes and what they've just witnessed. I've never seen a restoration work like this. And I watch a lot of restoration channels in here. I mean A LOT. Astonishing talent and final results. Your channel randomly jumped on me but I'm really glad that happened. I'm a new subscriber from this very moment. Congratulations.
How did you do that? Did you cut off the neck and truss rod? You are an amazing craftsman! It looks like you can repair any guitar break or fix anything on a guitar.
Love you skill and your videos. How much do you charge for a refret job on a Maple fretboard on a Ibanez RG Series 565 guitar? Just for reference. ❤❤❤❤ Your Work.
I am so glad we got to see you save this guitar, but wow, whoever was responsible for blowing this up that bad is a criminal. You pretty much had to build an entirely new guitar from a shattered hulk. Wow. Your skill and creative problem solving are off the charts. And you have the best logo. I shared this with my guitar playing buddies and they all thought it was the most insane thing they'd seen.
0:42 masking tape pulled the finish off? 😢 Painters tape is often better than masking tape. Drafting tape also works great (on finished surfaces)(bonus, colorful choices) without being as likely to make additional work by damaging it.
you should bend the string before cutting it to avoid the core sliping and ruining the string, at least on roundcore ( don't think it applied to hexcore)
Hint for people using Japanese pull saws. Someone obviously didn’t tell her the saw ONLY cuts on the pull stroke. She’s making it a lot harder than it needs to be. In fact I’m disabled and really struggle with western style push saws but a good sharp Japanese pull saw I can cut through any wood like butter. I didn’t notice until 2nd view which edge she was using but one side is for cutting with the grain and the other is for cross-cut and of course she is using the cross-cut saw to rip-cut. I’m not doing this as a “HAHA, FEMALE WOODWORKER” misogynistic crap but just as a helpful FYI post. I only know because I MADE THE VERY SAME MISTAKE when I started out. It makes the cut way harder to do and that should be the very clue that something is wrong (especially in hard woods). Japanese saws should cut easily and straight and WILL NOT BOW if used right. Look up how to use a Ryoba saw (no not Ryobi power saw lol) and it will show you what I mean. Usually the rip cut is above the logo and the cross-cut is below the logo (it is for all my saws that is). Using the cross-cut with the grain makes the saw behave as if it is blunt as hell. You shout be using the coarse side with the grain, slide with no pressure forward and only then cut on the pull stroke (hence why they are called pull saws). I have to say that I love Japanese saws so sorry if I’m preaching a bit. I also seem to remember someone telling me that trying to cut on the push actually blunts the saw… but don’t quote me on that because I cannot find where I was told that. Still, even using the saw wrong you did a great patch.
Oh yeah and if you have trouble getting your saw stuck in the cut, get a candle and with the end of it draw zig-zag lines on the saw blade. It acts as a lubricant (and I got that bit of advice off my brother-in-law… thanks Barrie). Works a treat on the thin kerf of a Japanese saw.
Hello from Virginia, USA. I'm a retired guitar technician of over 45 years experience. I know good work when I see it. This series of 2 videos impressed me. First class work. I'm especially impressed with the way you dealt with the "finger notches" in the neck. Beautiful!
I'm Attempting my 1st partial fret replacement on my 30 yr old Takamine. I'm sKeert as #ELL, the fret wires came out well and I'm prepping the new wire and slots now. This has given me super confidence. I've done mega repairs (to submarines in a shipyard) but watching you fearlessly going in after this wreck is soooo motivational. nice work, thnx, BTW~ you have some great tooling and really put it and the handwork to the test... amazing! ... nikki fr florida
Absolutely incredible work as always but that's why I love this channel what you can do is next level and I gotta show support for fellow techs. I hope one day to be on your level though
