I'm gonna join the choir, and say, You and Ted are two of the best channels about gear repair there are. The best mix of smooth radio voice with actual solid repair skills is hard to find elsewhere.
That T Woodford video came up on my feed last night, I was interested watching him fix a guitar that was birthed the same year I was! ;D I'm an old, retired Navy Electronics Tech. Love watching you fix a lot of the same kind of problems that I did!
Guitar player here. I can’t stop watching these videos. How anybody can look at that and know it like the back their hand is beyond impressive. But I’m just a dopey guitar player. Thank Christ for guys like you to fix our beloved gear. Cheers 🥃
Same. If I had to take a guess, I’d say most viewers are guitar players that are curious about what goes on inside these magic boxes of elegant circuitry and the skilled craftsmanship that goes into not only keeping them alive, but coaxing out the absolute best sound possible!
Ted seems very honest and open with the vids, reworks included, but he seems to remember what he's shown before so we don't watch hours of nuts being cuts or frets being polished over and over, and his commentaries are great
agree about the cap discharges. Once you give in to the safety gestapo, they go on to tell you more and more about what you should do. It's a losing game.
Working in the kitchen or did you decorate the workshop? I won’t tune out even if you add 10 minutes of safety tips and you have the No1 amp repair channel (period). IMHO I do watch Woodford, watched the same vid this morning over my coffee.
Yeah, epoxy for a serviceable joint is a big no-no. Many others do it and the guitars end up in my shop with predictable results. I do use epoxy for shattered headstocks as this is not a joint that needs to come apart through the lifetime of the guitar, and hot hide glue does not fill the voids which are often missing in the worse breaks.
@@BradsGuitarGarage I have been repairing electronic equipment for over 30 years and when I see guys like my friend Bobby do these repairs, to me it is such a skill and an art to do that kind of work…
I don’t have time to write a chapter on it, but know there is a difference between silver solder and silver bearing solder. The latter can be good if you have the right proportions.
@@PsionicAudio Thanks for the info. I've noticed this stuff needs a higher heat to flow right. Kind of a nuisance actually. Will save it for when I've run out of the better solder.😉😎 Thanks again 😎👍❤🖖
Tack-soldering a wire to the tiny bit of exposed component lead of a resistor is a sloppy thing to do; if the factory is gonna rework boards by adding flying leads you'd think they would at least drill a hole through the board so that they can solder the wire to the foil side. Sheesh.....
If the video are viewed as chapters in a book we are past the first 10 chapters about safety protocol and it to the middle of the book . about 385 C me thinks.
Do you have any opinion on TAD 6L6WGC vs Sovtek 5881s? A friend of mine has a jcm 900 dual reverb that blew a fuse due to negative bias failure that " killed" a couple of tubes. I cant find a sovtek 5881 quad anywhere...
