This is the only channel that I will put down anything I was doing and watch.

Nothing quite like 20+ minutes on a Sunday with Ted, a guitar and The Classics.

I always look forward to Mondays to watch Ted at work and listen to his comments and quotes. Yes, in my part of the world it is not Sundays but Mondays.

I saw Leon Redbone perform, back in the late 90's if I recall the era correctly. He was the opening act for Joe Walsh. Leon plus an accompany guitarist. Wonderful show he gave. Music and a side of comedy.

We saw Leon Redbone live in a very cozy venue. It was like he was in your living room.

I saw Leon on SNL when I was a kid and absolutely loved him. A character for sure.

When I was 14 years old, this very model guitar was lent to me by a neighbor. I must have put hundreds of hours on it before returning it to her several years later. That would have been about ‘66. I remember that the guitar was a delight on your left hand. Better than anything else at the time. Thank you for bringing back very pleasant memories.

Another Master Class presentation from a Master on KZfaq University.

that Euripides joke was great, truly. thats what makes your content a cut above the rest. oh and your a master craftsman that has alot to do with it too

I saw Leon on Saturday night live way back, he was awesome!

Around 82 the Late Great Leon Redbone did a Budweiser TV commercial. Great Video, as usual.

Mark Stutman is awesome. Nice shout-out. Looks like the heat probes got glued to the side of the pocket because the angle was the same.

I've got a 1956 CF-100e, great little guitar.

What a nightmare…!!! I’ve owned 2 CF-100E’s, a ‘57 and a ‘94. Both were fabulous instruments…!!! Glad that I never had to do a neck reset on them…!

Anyone who remembers the 80s ought to remember Leon Redbone. I wouldn't say he was big then in the commercial sense (although if you saw him in nothing else you might have seen him in a Budweiser commercial) but you almost certainly heard him play at some point. But you never would have found out anything else about him. I haven't thought about him in years. Thanks for the reminder! I just had a great time looking up some old clips of him playing.

Jackson Browne is pictured playing this model on a number of occasions. But he use many, many acoustics.

I heard Leon Redbone twice, once while he was touring with Tom Waits. Leon was great.

Ted has the best guitar luthier repair on youtube.

Multiple projects in the same video is a good way to budget your time on said projects. You have to let things dry, so working 2-3 projects in between each other makes for more icing on the cake! I have to make myself be patient until next week, since I’m not doing the repair or the video production! Thanxz p.s. ……I’m glad the holidays are over so I can get back to what’s really important, me getting to watch you work!

Fun Fact: Leon Redbone also played Leon the Snowman in the movie Elf

Saw Leon Redbone a couple of times in the 80’s in Seattle; he was so good, so silly, such a great showman.

The fact that I never hear “like, comment, subscribe” makes me feel all the more obligated to do so

Surgical precision with that scraper!

Hello from Germany

Love the color of the binding at that age

Euripides these trousers you mend these trousers.

Thanks for documenting your work on this channel.

Hello, from London!

A true craftsman…..great work Ted, thanks for taking us with you!

I appreciate what ever you show us.

Always worth it! Thanks, Ted.

Thank you for another great video. That top over is why I leave the old Gibsons for guys like you! 😊

Bob Dylan was a huge fan of Leon Redbone back in the days. There will be no one like him ever again.

unmissable thank you ted

Thanks for another great video. I love my '56 CF-100e. Another cool/weird distinguishing feature between the 100 and the 100e is that Gibson actually cut the soundhole of the CF100e closer to the bridge compared to the CF100 to give a bit more room for the P90 at the bottom of the neck.

My freshman year at Vanderbilt in 1975/76. Wondering around the student center with some friends, someone suggested we go kill a few minutes with the concert in the small stage area. It was Leon Redbone, on stage by himself, performing all those great rags, and tinpan alley hits. My buddies & I were fascinated, two of us guitarist, and never exposed to much of that music, we dropped our plans and stayed to the end. We lost a great one when he passed.

From the model making world, there's several options for heated blades. Essentially scalpel holders with heated blades, adjustable and not, depending on which you find. Excellent for removing tamper seals and probably for slicing through the lacquer on something like this, i imagine.

One of the very few guitar repair people that references Euripides....!

8:21 “Vanilla scented cuz I’m fancy!” 😂 I always enjoy your vids, Ted. 😎👊🎸

Like, like, *LIKE!* Thanks, Ted!

Great to see you back at it, Ted. Every Sunday, I look forward to your new video. Thanks.

Well done a scary job. You’re so calm and confident !

greetings from storm Isha battered Sheffield

Ditto......I was doing some preliminary excavation to locate a breech in the pipe that feeds fresh water from our near by spring house to the main house......but here I am🥴🎶🍻

Love Leon Redbone's music!!!

Really interesting stuff on the Gibson! Thanks.

Haven’t watched in a year since I got hitched Sipping and binging tonight fellas

I stumbled across this channel by complete happenstance. But I gotta say, man; I seriously enjoy your content. Your sense of humor is fantastic, your videography is great, your historical knowledge of these instruments is wonderful, and your work is incredible. I tackle repairs and set ups on my own instruments and those of my friends all the time (many of which I am wholly unqualified to be attempting, ask my 55 Les Paul Jr about it), but I am nowhere near the pro you are. Keep up the good work, and for God's sake keep filming it and sharing it!

Not a repair for the 'kitchen table' tech. This is serious technique. Well done, dear host.

Wonderful colour work Ted! Julian Baumgartner, the art conservator, would be proud I’m sure!

Thank you Ted 👍👍👍🎸❤‍🔥

One of my dram guitars. I think it’s beautiful, but really it’s for the late great Leon Redbone as you mentioned. Loved him since I was a kid and got a copy of “on the tracks”. If anyone don’t know him I envy their getting to him for the first time. It’s really that special. There’s some great old b&w footage on KZfaq to check out.

J Mascis plays this, the electric one. He has a couple.

Following your videos illustrating the repair of more than one guitar is like reading a good book with multiple plots.

❤❤❤ Thanks Ted

Some serious guitar-chaeology here

Yes, Leon Redbone was quite unique and definitely worth looking up for anyone who hasn't heard of him, or heard him sing and play. I discovered his "Double Time" album in a Toronto record store back in the 1980s (it came out in 1977), when I was in my 20s. Redbone's family came to North America in the 1960s and lived for a time in Toronto, making his love and mastery of early 20th century American jazz, "Tin Pan Alley", and blues standards all the more remarkable. He was one of those artists who could make every cover his own (there are only a few artists who can do that, Eva Cassidy being one, although a completely different type of performer). His version of Crazy Blues is still one of my favourite songs of all time (along with his My Melancholy Baby and Winin' Boy Blues :). Great channel, thank you.

My wife and I were Leon Redbone fans and back in the 90s we saw him in concert in San Luis Obispo. To say he was quirky is a slight understatement. At one point he pulled out a revolver and fired off a shot.

I have a 2016 CF-100e and it's a keeper. Comfortable to play and sounds great.

thanks for the videos and great words!

J Mascis also plays these guitars

I know exactly who Leon Redbone was. I saw him, live; back in the late 70's I think it was. He was a very unique and odd sort of individual. I have 3 of his albums that I listen to, frequently.

nice work…great video…thank you!

I like the multi problem/task multi parters. it's real life!

Gibson would have to remove the fingerboard in order to re-top the guitar as you described. Then they could taper the fingerboard to achieve desired action. Basically creating a ramp either inclined or declined. Seems it would be easier in certain cases to remove the fingerboard and make a wedge to put under the entire board change the angle and deal with the cosmetic issues than to remove the neck and have irreparable cosmetic issues. I did it on a Spanish foot guitar.

Thanks for your videos. I've learned so much about woodworking by watching you work. Also, I've learned that I'll never own a set-neck guitar. Only bolt-on necks for me. :^)

What an insight into the history of guitar building ! 😀🤘

Hi Great video..The amount of knowledge and history you provide facinates me,,,so many luthiers ?? have no idea of those facts Thanks Dave

outstanding work

Great video as always !!

I have NEVER heard a guitar repair person ( even a great one ) quote Euripides .

Best way to start the week

Impressive work on the 330

👍 right at the probes stuck part because I knew Ted would have a solution and lesson for this humble viewer. Many 👍👍👍 for you Obi Wan

Gosh I wish you were available for my neck reset. Awesome videos man.

Very interesting & knowledgeable guy

Ted....I don't know if you'll read this but I really hope you do. I'm a guitarist but not a luthier or a carpenter and I'm generally terrible at DIY. Computers is where my skillset lies. But I bought a new Gibson LP in November and my hanger has blistered the headstock. Not a huge amount, probably about 3mm under the ears. Having been a subscriber to your channel for years, I decided to attempt the fix myself. I drop filled with superglue as you've shown us. I put tape around a razor and levelled the superglue. And then I sanded all the way up from 400 to 12,000 grit. I can tell its not perfect but I'm the only one who can. You taught me that. You gave me the confidence. Thank you!

I'm a lifelong bassist and sometime guitar player that has a basic knowledge of maintenance that enjoys watching an artisan.I just wanted to say man, you're good!

That went from scary to oh my god very quickly, you really need the utmost confidence in your abilities when you discover issues like that ! Having said that I have a lot of confidence in your ability to put that right again but that's one sneaky trick they played there !

Amazing work

I've watched many, many of your repairs. I don't think I've ever seen an "Oh merde!" moment as this one. It will be fascinating to see how you bail this out (I never doubt the master, by the way).

Wow. Your airbrushing is so beautiful!

Love the content! The Irony of starting my very first guitar repair and Twoford popung up with a new video is not losylt on me. Lol

Very cool guitar. I remember seeing Leon Redbone at the Riverboat coffee house in old Yorkville in Toronto in the early to mid 70's. Quite the unique experience. You could almost hear the scratches in the old 78's when he sang. Felt like you had traveled back in time. It was as much a history lesson as a musical experience. He stayed in character the whole time.

Also check out Mose Scarlett a contemporary of Leon Redbone, a friend and some say the "original" who died on the same day as Leon. Canadian eh.

I saw Leon Redbone at the '82 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tenn. He put on a really good show.

I love the big horn

My dad is a masterful woodworker and actually built an amazing acoustic....all said to say I have enough basic background to be blown away and scared to death of a job like this dayum.

I'm 90% sure the stuff at 20:44 is just Cheeto dust.

Fascinating stuff!

Every job is an adventure! Glad it's your adventure, not mine. Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

Leon Redbone, what a cool, stylish character, as well as a great singer and guitarist. Check out “the Sheik of Araby”! Thanks for another fascinating video, Ted.

very interresting

I hope my spotty Internet connection holds up under these über windy conditions

Your a remarkable Luther! Keep up the great work.

"It's scented 'cause I'm fancy"😅

Thanks for the shout out to Leon.

Ted you've just got to put "Penetration is Paramount" on to some sort of merch.

Florentine cutaway, or 0.5 of an SG

That is amazing!