You sir, are awesome ! There are those of us that learn something every time we watch you work- thanks for what you do, I’m sure it greatly slows you down making these videos -thank you
"If you say its easy, you dont know what your talking about". That was the quote of the day for me ! Love it. :-) Great job as always, i envy your patience so so much. Thanks as always for the great videos. :-)
Titebond original is like a weld. A carpenter on a jobsite spit an oak banister ( on purpose as a demonstration ) gluded ,clamped overnight. Tried to split next day .it took a different crack path. Repeated & following day again .he couldn't get it to split at same crack. . Titebond original is an amazing wood glue for shure!!!
Something quite good about these videos. Even though I conventionally have zero attention span, I can just sit and watch these for hours quite happily :).
I googled "tuners turn the wrong direction" and found a post saying "if your tuners turn the wrong direction, . . you have a set of tuners for a left handed guitar". PS: Your step-by-step commentary for each action and your smooth self deprecating humor is brilliant. {';'}
I get emotional when you take a piece of history that is destined to be wall decor, patch it up, and make it sing again beautifully to an old song that you also sing beautifully. Thanks, Jerry.
"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do," and no man does what he's gotta do better than Jerry. Excellent repair job. The signature sound is still there as is the volume, at least from my end. Good to go for another hundred years.
Thanks for being an honest man Jerry. Very few left in the world of repair services of any kind. And then to actually show it is even better. I think this is why I ended up going under in the heating and cooling business after 10 years. Because I kept doing more work than what I quoted and never got paid enough. But that's my issue and I had a great time while I was in business. Continued success to you and as long as you're honest I think you will enjoy it and will never have a guilty conscience. Thanks for your videos!
The way you fixed those cracks next to the braces is nothing short of amazing! Absolutely top notch craftsmanship on the whole restoration. Thanks for showing us and explaining everything.
This is a tough watch. At the beginning I thought "I don't like the look of that crack on the face" and when the damage was revealed I was exhausted from anxiety. "I knew it...no, don't take it apart...". I'll watch part two later.
Mr rosa I am a luthier here in Indiana and about a year ago afellow I know brought his up-right base to me to have the neck reset and also he wanted the fingerboard replaced. I happened across a video from a place that was demonstrating how to use that alcohol trick so I tried it and it worked like a dream. I thought it was going to be a real pain but once I got it started just a little I walked all around that fingerboard dribbling small drops in the crack and you could hear it snap crakling and popping and all of a sudden that fingerboard just fell right off in my hand and it came off clean as a whietle too. I used a real flat bladed knife I made myself to open just a real small seperation dripped a little alcohol in it and it went from there.
you did an awesome job! I think that when the back must be removed.. it must be removed. It's like having a life-saving surgery: it will leave a scar, but it will save your life.
I gave up on all the other glues a long time ago. Titebond works. Titebond is repairable. Done. You had me on the edge with that back repair. my last back removal I tried to clean up with a damp cloth , walked away a few minutes and came back and it split in about 5 places. Very thin back so no way to get it back together. had to make a new one.
While it's nice when you can manage the repair just through the sound hole... I secretly love it when you have to open up these old girls. Just seeing the old wood and construction is neat. Now, someone accidentally sit on your V-Class Taylor, so we can see the insides of one of those babies.
Hey Jerry, just discovered your channel the other day, been binge-watching ever since. It's a shame this one gave you so much grief, but if I were the customer, I would heap you with praise for doing such a thorough job. Sounds great, looks a lot better, and thanks to your efforts, this instrument might just last another century! One of my favorite parts is the song after the successful repair. Keep up the good work, I am a new fan!
As always, a pleasure to watch a skilled craftsman at work. Like you said, sometimes you just have to make an ill patient iller to make them better. Great stuff.
Jerry, another thoughtful and skillful repair on a wonderful axe... and the follow up with TB BLUES was just as charming as could be. Please keep up the GRAND WORK you share on these videos. You’re truly a wonderful craftsman and clearly a marvelous guy. Thank you sir, do very much.
Looking online I think this guitar maybe is from 1926 or earlier. What your customer has now is a "new" and superior quality vintage guitar. Like you've said so many times it looks like a well cared for vintage instrument. Amazing job. thanks for the entertainment.
Another amazing case study seminar at the "Rosa Luthiers' Academy" Thank you Professor Rosa for caring to explain every detail of what you do. This makes your videos fascinating!
You are a master surgeon on these poor sick string instruments and you never give up. It's just a new challenge for you. I think I have learned more from just watching you make these repairs than I have from any one else. And I love how you end each repair, by actually playing the instrument, btw you have pretty good vocals.
This has been an exciting two video repair. I sat stuck today with my earphones on, while my wife watched sports, ski that is. And I'm sure that the Gibson resurrection was more fascinating. Thank you Jerry.👍
I learned that trick from my grandfather who was a joiner. He apprenticed in a shipyard in Glasgow Scotland and worked on some incredible yachts in the 1920s.
I loved it all especially the song. I remember listening to Jimmie on a tinny 78 Victrola on Aunt Disys back porch. On a side note, her husband was no lie an engineer. The tracks passed the backyard and he would pull on the whistle as he rolled by and again when he reached the river trestle. This was the fifties and yes they still used steam up until sometime in the early sixties. It was near Emporium PA,. a small town called Sinnamahoning. Jimmie really was the father of country music a favorite song to many including yours truly was - Waiting for a Train All around the water tank waiting for a train A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain I walked up to a brakeman gave him a line of talk He said if you've got money boy I'll see that you don't walk I haven't got a nickel not a penny can I show Get off get off you railroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door He put me off in Texas a state I dearly love The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars up above Nobody seems to want me or to lend me a helping hand I'm on my way from Frisco going back to Dixie Land Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain I'm a thousand miles away from home waiting for a train. I could never figure how he got on that train when the brakeman slammed that door and then hr somehow put him off in texas how that works I don't know. The yodeling came easy for me we lived in the mountains when I sang it people would yell out "sing it again"...
"Tighter than A Bull's Butt at Fly Time..." That was a New 1 on Me-I was Laughing pretty Hard, so had to Pause the Vid! Outstanding Work-As Always-Thanks Jerry! : )
Just watched this series today. I thought I had seen all of your repair videos but this came up and I'm glad I watched them. Just a couple of points to mention. This seems like it would have been a good candidate for the saw blade. Too bad the alcohol didn't work with the hide glue. I just want to say when you have a project that is difficult they make the best videos even more so when it is a 100 year old guitar. Hope to find more episodes from your vast archive that I haven't seen yet.
Slowly going through your catalog… Love your work.. This particular one hits home as I live in Lochsloy, Wa just a short 10 miles from where you had noted this Gibson L1 was found in Snohomish, Wa
Another excellent job...I would've been so tempted to touch up the front with some black then buff it out after maybe even some touch up lacquering... But I notice wear marks mysteriously disappeared over time and the black returned, particularly around the sound hole...well done.
I really think it sounds better after the braces went in. They gave it more sustain. Thanks for another enjoyable video. I like working on stuff and when I watch you work on stuff its like I got to help kinda. My dad had a Jimmy Rodgers remake by Merle Haggard Album. I will never forget it. Waiting for a train always comes to mind.
Merle was a great great singer. Met him one time he was really kind to me. Spent about an hour talking to me while we ate dinner together. My band opened for him in Arnold Missouri.
I enjoy how your videos are so clear and detailed. Everything you do in a repair is clear and intelligent. And as one crusty old fart to another, I enjoy you being a crusty old fart
International Luthiers Supply! I loved looking through their catalogs & ordering fiddle parts! I was upset when they closed down. Anyway, another fantastic repair & video!
Rosa String Works; The 'eggshell' finish to which you refer is known in Europe (BTW I'm from Sheffield, UK) as 'cracquelure'. A French term, it is one way of authenticating old paintings and as you probably know is caused by the shrinkage of varnish over time. In the art world it is highly valued.
I'm actually really glad your videos aren't more "polished" and "produced." I don't feel like that would be authentic, and your authenticity is what I enjoy most about this channel. (And I'm not making a Gibson pun. :P) Still, your folksy charm and the straight-forward presentation are what make this channel special. Well, those things and the great work that you do, of course.
Hi Jerry, that is a really lovely old guitar. You've done a wonderful sympathetic restoration, as you said, a very difficult job. Well done AGAIN. Sounds superb!
In France we generally use ethanol as opposed to isopropyl. Ethanol is the stuff you drink. My experience with isopropyl is that it'll dissolve some greasy deposits but it doesn't do much else. In the Pacific Northwest, where I hail from, We used to go out to the Indian Reservation and buy what was called "Everclear" which which is basically pure grain alcohol. And, no, we weren't taking backs off of guitars, we were actually drinking this stuff. The point is, you might try to find some good ole moonshine. If it doesn't work at least you'll have something to drown your sorrows with.
Lovely old Gibson acoustic. Sounds really good, I liked the tone of the last one you fixed they always sound somewhat like a cross between an arch-top and a flat-top to me. The job turned out to be a lot bigger than expected but as usual your skill and patience resulted in a first class repair that will allow future generations to enjoy a nice old instrument.
