Silly luthiure...thought he was teaching guitar repair when he winds up a therapist 😅 Yeah, you and me both (and I'm sure many others) came here for information, got some and more, and found a touch stone for a reality check. Sorry for the pressure, Ted, but we have come to look up to you for sensibility. And you just wanted to fix guitars🎸 Heavy weighs the crown... Keep on!
Tab Benoit's main guitar, pretty much his only guitar, is a battered Tele Thinline. That guitar got its relicing the old-fashioned way: by earning it! Tab is a high-energy player and gets a great tone from it.
@@tetedur377 Our host, Ted, is a gentleman and a scholar. His command of the Queen's English is legendary. For him, a word like 'plethora' is merely in the 2nd tier, within very easy reach.
It isn't change we fear so much; we fear rust more, because rust never sleeps! Truthfully, we should fear oxygen because oxygen tries so hard to combine with *everything*, usually changing it for the worse!
@@dannoall8427, subbing a Torx for a hex (Allen) wrench will only be safe if the screws are easy to turn and not half-frozen or corroded; otherwise you end up with a badly stripped, chewed up screw that's hard to remove. Newbies and mechanically unskilled DIY guitar owners should proceed with caution, or better yet, buy the right tool. In my working career as an audio equipment repair tech, the type of badly stripped-out screw heads I'd encounter most frequently was invariably small hex-head screws.
That Tele is a peach! Btw, I do a tiny little repair work on the side, mostly for friends, and I"ve learned a great deal from your videos. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for everything I've learned from you. I really do appreciate it.
I’ve just subscribed. I’ve been binge-watching through several videos. This is very quality content. I also very much enjoy the narration of the “hows and whys” that go into the various repairs.
Whew, I was kind of scared at first when you said the strat was worked on by someone else but the client didn't like it.... I had a strat with the same exact year and specs leave my bench a week ago. But, I seriously doubt he could have sent it out to Canada from the states in a week.... or could he?😮 Then I saw the nut and my worries abated. Not my work💀
All the little tips, like sanding the underside of the nut using the radius of the board... this is what I'm here for. Seems so obvious once you see it done. Great work, as always.
I got to use one of those early '80s Stratocaster Elite models for a few weeks, I liked it, I thought it was the future but they never advanced on them and stopped selling them after a couple of years. You could get some nice tones out of those electronics, it was basically an EQ pedal on the guitar.
Was that the one with the push-button on/off pickup switches? I remember they did that for a short time in the early 80s. I was a teenager. I thought it was cool.
The neck looks kind of weird however: the fingerboard lacquer looks kind of rough, like an orange peel, frim certain angles, and the wood seems to have fine longitudinal cracks or splits with dirt in them. I prefer the Tele, although ideally I prefer a rosewood fingerboard.
Recently come across your channel and for anyone interested in repairing guitars back to life sympathetically its a godsend. Hopefully you realise thejoy you're bringing to all us frustrated luthier's showingcare and attention can sirt out any problems.
for the pre-slotted nut, could you not have continued sanding the bottom against the fretboard to get the string height lower? I would think that would take less time than deepening the slots and reshaping the top. though I'm probably missing some reason why that wouldn't work.
I've done the same; I've even tried to blow the dust off of the screen when I rewatched one of my own RU-vid videos! I don't know if that's better or worse than trying to blow off somebody else's dust......( I posted a video about using "scratch brushes" and abrasive erasers for cleaning contacts and terminals, switches and controls, cleaning circuit boards before soldering, and so on; whenever I see somebody struggle to solder a ground wire to the back of a potentiometer, I want to yell at them "why didn't you polish it with an eraser or scratch brush first?").
I’ve never seen a comment saying some was bored or sick of anything TW does, ever. It’s your rolling discussion a lot of us come for…. and lively vocabulary
You should think about the StewMac deal Ted. Nobody's here gonna call You any names for that, and You really deserve some bonus, for all the hard work You're putting into the guitars and the videos. You're the closest thing to a comfort TV we have 😉
I completely agree about accepting sponsorships or partnerships. I tell any company, wanting me to review a product, to send it to me with the only promise, on my part, will be to make a video on it. That way I can be completely honest about the item I'm reviewing.
"I don't like the idea of making sponsored content".. You're a real one, Ted. As much as I do like stew mac and other companies products, I'm happy to know we all are able to watch your genuine work unadulterated by sponsored content. .
I've long held a theory that the quality of Ted's playing when he demonstrates a guitar is directly related to his opinion of that guitar. He played the Mint-green Tele very well indeed! 😉
This probably sounds strange, but I think there are objects that resonate very well with us as individuals. There are a handful of guitars that I've picked up over the years that just seem to sing in my hands and bring out the best in me, and others that are just an instrument, lifeless and bland. Odds are it's just chemicals in our brain, but there is something interesting in thinking it might be a bit more mystical. Another thing that I experienced this with was a skateboard I had when I was a teenager, like 35 years ago. For some reason, I felt like I could land every trick on that deck. A friend borrowed it for a few minutes, misjudged a concrete curb and sent the skateboard into a busy road, where a passing car snapped the tail off. To this very day, I feel the pain of that loss.
As someone who managed inventory and did deliverys for a plumbing supply company i can confirm American Standard is indeed a plumbing parts manufacturer. I never thought id hear someone else make that connection much less a Canadian lol.
Funny have been working on a set up on a Suhr Classic S today... Decked bridge made for a buzzy play... Lil floating now on bridge and polishing, polishing, polishing... Lol
Sorry to hear about the loss of your friend, Ted. Those are a nice pair of Fenders, especially that thin line tele. From it's sound, I can see why you liked it right off. Not much for green guitars, but that one I would take home.
Ted, I've found when the slot is not so tight to hold that pre-made nut that the player just has to have, a tiny dot of clear silicone bottom center will hold the nut in and steady even under those SRV bends but come out easily when it needs to! Just had one in the shop that was slathered in CA glue when it was installed! What fun! LOL! Chiseling, chiseling, chiseling!
Hey, thank you for documenting these. Not only are your videos informative, they're interesting. As a guitar player that doesn't get to play as much as I'd like to - I love learning about guitar repair from you. I've used several of your techniques and have repaired several friends guitars/basses. Nothing too crazy. Even when I can't play, I have your videos going on in the background sometimes. Thanks!
You're not our stooge, Ted... you don't have to say "polishing, polishing, polishing" if you don't want. It was just a single glimmer of the humor you would sprinkle into your videos that made them shine.
Polishing, polishing, polishing is like "No soup for you" from Seinfeld or "How you doin?" from Friends. You'd think it was odd if it they didn't say those lines when they get to that scene in the show. Not everyone gets a catch phrase, but I'm sure everyone who has one also feels like it gets old. But there's a reason we still watch re-runs, because we as the audience love it.
I love a maple fretboard on a Fender. And unusually, a Richlite fretboard on a Gibson is nice too. I wonder what a Fender would be like with Richlite? I love Telecasters over a Stratocaster, but maybe I just have not found one I like. I bought the cheapest Ibanez recently, a Strat style guitar, and I really like that one! Another Strat style guitar I have is a 1970 Guyatone LG-23R with an electronic rhythm machine built in. That guitar plays extremely well and sound mmm ok, but the cheesy rhythm machine just adds the right degree of weird to make it awesome. I have played a Squire over the years and really enjoy it. It belong to my niece, I don't think she knows how great that guitar is! Nuts are very hard to shape, and I am glad for this video. Thank you.
Nice. Have professionally used Wera for obscure hex sizes too (0.9 mm), in a completely different context (x-ray spectrometers from American company Amptek). They did the job.
TW, my man, I've had a stressful day and just I sat down in front of my computer, ready to relax and here you have a new video. This and a cold beer. Thanks for making these videos and your excellent work. Best Wishes.
12:00 I often fit tusq and other pre-slotted nut blanks. The trick is actually work the under side. I use an ibanez nut slot file (9 thou wide, 85mm long) and rest it in the slot at one end and the 2nd fret at the other. Then you can gauge by sight, how much to remove from the bottom. If it is a radius like this, then I use a radius gauge and pencil to mark the nut. (Be aware that the radius of the nut channel doesn't always match the fretboard!) Often you will need to remove more from one side than the other. With practise, you can get the slots down so they are only just too high and then only do minimal slot filing, and no reshaping of the top at all.
That StewMac fret rocker/leveler tool is ingenious! It’s on my shopping list, I have a few high spots needing attention. Also: I felt a wave of relief when he wiped those pencil marks off of the Strat neck; seeing those there was bugging the hell out of me, I really don’t know why 😑.
I got my first strat in the 1980s. It had a locking nut that operated on a lever. It also had lace sensor pickups, I believe. The finish was white pearly. Strange guitar, but it did work and sound good enough.
