14:05 In violin repair, this is called the "mouse". They are usually put back in the instrument, for luck. (No joke)... Thanks for another great video!

That guitar has been very extensively modded. Replacement fingerboard and binding; refinished (this is redder than an original); not originally a 2 pickup guitar (the switch on a real ES 175D is on the upper bout); tailpiece doesn't look quite like a real Gibson TP; knobs look wrong; replacement bridge; added strap button on the neck heel. Plus the stuff that Ted highlighted (at least one non-Gibson pickup; refret). Definitely an oddball. There's a story there.

I look forward every week for your video,Its almost sad when they are over. I enjoy the way you explain the history and repair methods you use.Thanks for sharing your knowledge and content.

Ted’s videos are always a real treat to watch and to learn from. 👍👍

Hi, use a heat gun and put aright angle bend in your electronic can cleaner nozzle . I have several of these nozzle that I have formed with a heat gun in various shapes so I can get cleaner and lubricant in hard to reach places. I keep them in a draw and pull them out when I need them. Thought this might help. Also I have found using forceps helps with maneuvering in these tight spaces along with string(which you are using) I have a variety of forceps sizes Ricky from IBM, Ret

Aquarium tubing works great for fishing pots.

I was a Power Quality specialist for 30 years, and have designed a number of clean rooms. Anyway just trust me, dust of conductive. How conducive is dependant on what the dust is made up of. In a house 60 to 90% of dust is made up of human skin and other organic compounds, if your in a place such as a fire station it could be Diesel soot. Even in a concrete warehouse the dust is conducive. Actually very conducive. I was involved in the design of a back up system that was designed to backed up a system that controlled a Nuclear Power system. My company was responsible for the UPS, Gen Set and transfer switch. The batteries were to be supplied by the end user. Unfortunately they ordered and received those batteries before everything else was ready. There were redesign after redesign and finally, after a full year, the UPS was ready for commissioning and the system failed. Turns out the end user let the batteries rest directly on the concrete floor. The dust was conducive enough that after a year all the power in the batteries was completely drained. Enough so, that even using pulse chargers the batteries would not hold a charge. Did I mentioned the batteries were worth 2 million.

It's the end of the weekend when Ted brings us along for the ride... back to the salt mines!!!

2 weeks short of my 65th birthday, I learned "Carapaces"... I've tried to learn 1 thing every day of my life, so I'm done for today. Cheers from N. Carolina

Suffering through Bipolar II and you help keep me centered and excited for life. Can't wait to start an apprenticeship someday :) Thank you for documenting your work and taking the time out

I just figured this out. I watch this show the same way I watch Bob Ross. No, I'm never going to do this type of work, but can appreciate an artist doing their thing and explaining it. He even has his own repeated call outs. Instead of "happy little trees" , here we have "penetration is paramount".

A 12 string guitar player spends half his life tuning the guitar...and the other half playing it out of tune...Pete Seeger.

One pre-Snark trick to tuning a 12 string is first tune the regular 6 strings, then tune the octave and unison pairs to the previously tuned regular set.

That 175 appears to have a fretboard replacement. It *looks* like ebony. It's not from an L-5 because it doesn't have the point at the bottom of the fretboard. It's not from an L-7, which is rosewood, and both of those are 25.5" scale guitars. Might be from a Les Paul custom with the double edge binding. Or, it's a non-Gibson fretboard.

"It also smells pretty heavily of **basement**." VERY evocative :D "Most metal tailpiece ever. Thirty years ahead of its time!" Looks like a Starfleet Commander's insignia from some alternate Star Trek timeline.

Thank the Lord. You’ve rounded off my weekend perfectly by uploading this. Much appreciated Ted. Cheers from London, England.

You nailed it Ted. Hung on my wall for at least 20 years.

Un vrai plaisir de vous écouter et de vous voir travailler 🙂

Thanks! Needed this 21 minutes of Zen! 👍🏼

Man that 12 string sounded loud, even through the video, very nice!

Hi Ted, I appreciate the effort to demo each guitar with appropriate genre, just another nice little touch that makes your vids sweet.

instead of a drinking straw, try a piece of silicone air line from an aquarium. Fits perfectly over the knurl of a pot, and really holds on when you are pulling the pots through the holes.

I once owned a 63 ES 175D sunburst with humburkers and it was in really good condition which I purchased in 2016 for 1200.00. I sold it for 2000 in 2017 and I regret it. Thanks for your time and the great videos. Play on!

Carapace; the exoskeleton or shell of an insect. The vocabulary!😂

Ted that 12 string sounds fcking beautiful man. It's so 'Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup'.

Gotta love that Guild 12-string!

love the gentle jazz riffs in the fade out

I agree with some other comments. The neck on the 175 is not a standard for this model ie: block inlays a double neck binding.

Aww I was looking forward to see the Les Paul Jr. finished. But the 175 is a cool guitar. And it sounds great.

i just found woodford a few weeks ago,, on a train. my guitar has never sounded so good. i spend a lot of time on a train. thank you matey, all the way from glasgow.

I had that model 12 string. It was ok. Part of the Westerly Collection, made in China, based off of the guitars made from 1967-2001 in Westerly RI. But I replaced it with THREE vintage actual Westerly RI made Guilds. A 1973 D40, 1980 D25 and 1990 D2512 (the 12 string model used by Tom Petty). As a born and raised Rhode Island musician, its great to have guitars that were built here.

that es is probably converted from single pickup version in 1970's the switch is wherever the owner wanted it.

Not cat hair Ted, it’s from my beagle.

Someone needs to sample Ted twisting that pot and saying 'Dirrrty' and use it on a dance tune.

These videos are so therapeutic. They are too few and, far between. I wish there was more of you to go around. Cheers from Kentucky.!

I can’t believe I’m trying to tell Mr Woodford anything, but… I always use fish tank tubing to hold pots into a hollow guitar because it seems to work better than string.

This really changed the way I looked at Guilds

My guess would be that it's the pickup itself. I've had the exact same experience with P-90s where the coil windings were "self-tapping" through a short in the coil wire. Great video, as always!

Steve Howe was the reason I bought a ES-175 I love it! It's also cool that it's left handed. Not too many of them around.

thhe fretard on the 175 should be a special order or a replacement they have split parallelogram inlay and single white binding from factory

Sold my 12 string 40 plus years ago . Dam! Now I need another 12 string! 😱

Tasty couple of jazz licks there Ted

I just started working part time doing guitar repairs... and I attribute it to falling asleep to your videos almost every night lol.

I appreciate your full examination of the guitar prior to making any repairs or changes.... Some just focus on the immediate problem and not the entire instrument. Well done!

I wonder if the guitar was custom ordered. I've never seen a ES175D with multi bound ebony fretboard with MOP inlays. I know Gibson offered the ES175D with rosewood fingerboard with the split parallelogram inlays. The other oddity is the toggle switch on the lower horn. Standard position would be the upper bought. Still a cool guitar from the history of Gibson.

Could be a replaced finger board or Custom order ...looking at the holes for the neck pickup and the switch position, they look like an add on, they do not look Factory drilled

GORGEOUS GIBSON!!!

Sweet sounding guitars, they might complement each other perfectly, especially when the Gibson bridge pickup gets sorted out.

The Gibson is beautiful. I’d never leave her in the basement.. (that sounder stranger than I’d hoped..)

Ted, your skill and patience is inspiring. I have no love for hollow or semi hollow electric guitars without a control cavity access from the back. The one reason I do not own one.

"Tone-ball"... ...aaaand I'm dead!

Thanks Ted for your videos on Sunday's. It makes my weekend perfect and gave me a lot of knowledge about guitar repair. You get always my thumbs up. Please keep on doing this good guitar jobs. Greetings from Germany. Eugen

is it possible that the bridge pickup was added to it later? The switch location is wrong for later 175's and does not have the poker chip. Again, just a guess that someone added the bridge pickup and switch later.

The sweet warmth and woodyness of that front pickup is all that matters 😂.

Lovely video! Thank you Ted

this is one of my fave channels on the youtubes thanks its great for running scales and arps on the acoustic having said that, i enjoyed the 12 string playing, we had an impromptu virtual jam session good work \m/

pre-emptive congrats on 100k subs!

Know that you are appreciated Ted

Dude, you're a jazz guy! Fabulous! Thank you for another great video. I always always always learn something from you.

Enjoyed the show bud thanks for taking the time to share. 👍👍🥃Respect to you mate.

You are a versatile man, Ted. Builder, repairer and quite a player. I always enjoy your videos. I am an amateur builder myself and I am always impressed by your skills.

your videos are always refreshing compared to so many people on the platform. i appreciate how to the point you are and how much information you can bestow without it feeling too fast paced or overwhelming.

John Fogerty had a ES-175 with humbuckers. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

Wow! Amazing rejuvenation, definitely worth the cost - easy for me to say. Cheers.

100k subs coming up , congratulations in anticipation!

I know you've said in the past that humidifiers don't work. But as someone that installed a properly sized whole house one last summer. They do work, my house has bean 50% -+5% sins I installed it. And that is in a 130 year old house with old windows just a few hours north of you. Anyway, I wanted to thank you for these videos. They gave me the confidence to do more advanced work (making new nuts, custom bridge intonation etc) for my partner's growing and collection.

I can certainly hear what you were talking about with the neck pickup being the jazzy one.

Finally…and maybe I missed an episode, after watching your wonderful videos for years, an Authentic ES-175. I almost bought one, but went with a Heritage Eagle. Quickly figured out I wasn’t a jazz player, but Ren at Hertiage couldn’t have been better. End result is I enjoy and appreciate your work. Thank you.

That 175 has a new fret board, the originals were parallelograms.

Great show great job 👏 😊

Always find it hilarious to hear people in other countries talk about what they consider to be "over humidified". 70% humidity is low for any time of year, over here in Scotland.

I picked up on some of those anomalies, too. I have a '51 175, and I tried to learn a lot about them before buying. Mine is a single P-90, tall knobs, Klusons, old style tailpiece. Never had any repairs except for new frets and nut (by Gibson). and no extra strap button added! Still solid but plenty of graceful even wear by probably a sit down player. It sounds great! Ted amazing, great work and the most articulate luthier out there!

The ES 175 in the video has an L5 Ebony fingerboard and multi layer binding fitted instead of the usual rosewood fingerboard with single layer binding and the usual ES 175 double parallelogram inlays - ( perhaps a special order made for original customer from Gibson Factory ? )

To me that is the best of the 175s. I love p-90s and those wider frets are a good thing in my opinion too. I’d love that puppy!

Heh. Tone ball. Love it.

Thanks for playing them for us Ted.

Those machinist's rules are absolutely perfect for measuring action on guitars. The idea sprang to mind a few weeks ago so I ordered myself one and it's a must-have tool, IMO. Looks like I probably got the idea from here. Good to know 👌The fact that those can come marked in 64ths or mm with a decimal conversion table on the back makes them that much more useful.

Love the "smell of basement" note... Interesting guitar overall.

That 12 string is really bright, and the craftsmanship leaves a lot to be desired. The Gibson has certainly been refretted.

The Florentine Electrics is a good name for a band. 😁

If I am correct, Gibson also made a three quarter size 175 style guitar and they are very rare now. Love the Gibson ES175 but the best is the fabulous short scale Brydland. AUD$15,000 and up in Australia. Love your work mate.

Unusual example with the toggle in that position and a non-ES175 fretboard...

A joy to watch

The pickup selector switch is on the lower bought, like the 1954 version I found, but the 1953,1955, and 1956 versions I found all have the pickup selector on the upper bought, as do humbucker versions from 1957 on........?

Cool way to bring a 12 back to newness

Beautiful playing on the 175 sounded really nice

Looks like the exact model Guild 12 that I own.

Favorite of Steve Howe of Yes

Hey Ted, get one of those "pot cleaning caps" from Stew-Mac. It allows you to spray the cleaner into the pot (around the shaft), without having to remove the pot from the body first. Might be a time and frustration saver on a hollow body guitar. Don't think it fits on metric pot, though.

Nice jazz stylings.

Another thing to add to a list of ES175's prog rock achievements is Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult.

Love the Eye-of-Sauron pickguard at 4:00!

The bridge pickup on the Gibson might not be shorted out. Someone working on the guitar might have put the magnets back in wrong, because they are supposed to have like poles facing. When you take out a P-90 the magnets want to jump right out because the like poles are opposed. If someone put the magnets in the easy way, with the poles in opposition, you’ll get a little detectable output but nothing like what you get when the magnets are correctly placed.

What you call a tone ball, the Navy call's a ghost terd!

This comment doesn't have to do with this video. I am a long time fan of your exceptional repair skills and I just recently re-watched one of your many Les Paul neck repairs. I believe this one was from February 2022. I was just struck again by how awesome of a skilled/ (gifted) Luthier you actually are !! You are the type of Luthier who if it was at all any way possible for me to apprentice under you , I would literally do whatever I could to be able to do that !! I'm not just blowing smoke ...I truly believe you are that talented and that as much as I Love playing guitars and also building and working on them, I believe it would be an Honor to apprentice under someone as gifted & talented, such as yourself. Just thought I would share that w/ you. Sincerely, Jeff Krainer ~

Yeah, 12-strings are a pain, but MAN do they sound lovely! Nice work, Ted!! As always.

I have that Guild 12 string, I love it.

It's a shame a valuable guitar like the ES 175 has been neglected like that. I guess at least the owner brought it in so that's good. Sweet sounding guitar.

Nice Gibby. Plays cool.

the Joe Pas style ending just made it !