Thanks for tuning one of ours up! Also a bit of advice any Daylighter with serial number less than a 100 (4449-xxx) will have a reverse acting truss rod

"And just because you like your action super low, doesnt mean the entire world needs to follow your guidelines." 2:55 Thanks! This spirit should be taught in elementary school. The world would be a better place.

"Let's not have anymore of that. OK" You totally rock! Thank you for your videos.

I said before your attention to detail is beyond what watched this for the 2nd time. You are so deserving, but, too humble. As I have also said before, your attention to detail is superior. It goes along with the pride you take in the totality of your effort.

I'm glad you replaced the Lucky 18 that gives the Kauer the Mojo! You have one of the most reassuring calming no BS voices I have heard. The voice of a very good teacher.

I'm no Luthier, but even as an occasional player, I learn so much of use from every one of your videos, let alone how entertaining it is to watch a master at work. Thank yo - you've solved several problems I've had, so far.

I'm glad you addressed the fact that different players like different action for their playing style. Love the videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!

"It looks ugly, I just build them quick an fast" shows what I know. Here I was admiring the workmanship of it thinking about how satisfying it would be to have such a specialized tool. I guess ugly/good/bad is all relative.

This was excellent. I think people are reacting to two of your personal traits. You communicate in an exceptional fashion: pacing, diction, syntax, word choice and videography are all excellent making these videos instructive and interesting. And then you’ve got that Stan Rogers resonance in your voice that is simply enchanting. I keep waiting for you to render your version of Northwest Passage. Regardless, thanks for another excellent video. The Learning Channel should check you out.

Hi from down under. An Allen key with tape around it can work for bridge post adjustment. If you seat the straight end in level with the slot, the bent end acts like a lever , think bicycle crank and pedal ... our Australian 50c piece is also effective because of it’s shape and width. Keep the vids coming ...

I really enjoy watching your videos. I especially like seeing somewhat obscure guitars as opposed to the usual Gibson and Fender repair.

I setup my own guitars. Started doing that after all the techs in my area “forgot” I liked high action on my guitars. They always seem to think they know better than me. I can adjust the action on my guitars as low as they can now, and have done lots of setups for friends who like it that way, but my own guitars still have a nice meat to the action, so I can bury my fingers in there good. My guitar, my setup!

Wow this is the guy behind the curtain. This is truly Mr. Wizard, the Wizard of Guitars. I am SO impressed with his knowledge, but even more than that is his work ethic. Such an honorable and honest young man. I take great satisfaction watching a young man with skills, honor, honesty, and a work ethic that is truly impressive. Thank you for your videos but more than that thank you for being you and not budging from your convictions!

Amazingly calm dissertation of this difficult work. Not a luthier but have used similar techniques in furniture building, it can very frustrating and yes, practice is the key. Thank you for sharing.

Your videos are so good sir! I Really enjoy them. I’m not knocking anyone or other youtubers but As you know, there is a lot of content on KZfaq from other youtubers and although a lot of it is good, a lot of it isn’t so good and well, I can’t quite define how or why exactly yours is so great, other than the obvious of how intelligent, well spoken, knowledgeable and skilled you are. But there is more, you bring something quite unique to the table. You don’t give too much information and you don’t give too little. You’re not showing off your knowledge and skill, you’re sharing it and that’s great. There is more but I don’t wanna go on and on with a long list. Anyway. Seriously though, I’m not trying to brown nose ya. I just wanted to say you’re the man! Man. Keep it up!

your videos are so calming i love them. thank you!!

Many excellent tips, thanks much. I especially like the distinction between stiffness and strength around 13 minutes and the use of the heeled neck block. Thumbs up to crush a troll.

This was so interesting to see the wood bend in this way, Here in NC USA, I have seen some Blue Ridge Mountain violin makers soak the wood in a warm bath overnight, then placed in a jig to bend the wood into it's shape, then slowly drying while in the mold, however they are cutting the trees to make the instruments, and have plenty of wood on hand, time as well,,,, Thank you

AWESOME video with Amazing information !!!! Thank You !!! Slowly but surely , I'm needing to learn how to work on and repair all of my own things because the butcher/mangle shops that are available , I'd never use which is why alot if people never fix or throw away their things .

I used to do the same thing with the large screwdriver as you. THEN I bought the jacketed tool that Stew-Mac sells and let me tell you I will never use a screwdriver again. Go check it out. You do top level work, you need this tool. I have no affiliation with them other than I buy their stuff from time to time. Peace and Good Luthery. :)

I think you're the most underrated repair person online. Amazing tips and awesome attention to detail!

Most slotted screws have a straight cited swat, and most straight blade or flat blade screwdriver are actually tapered, with a slight V shape. Although someone probably makes screw drivers that have a true flat straight blade, You can easily grind and file your own screwdrivers to fit The screw heads snugly and transfer the force down into the slot. The bent or folded playing card or business card is a neat trick.

Great advice on luthiers. I have a few in my town who think they are luthiers and are terrible (LOL), but we do have a couple that are top notch. Great videos!

We need more videos of you building guitars, true master of the craft.

It is so nice to see a real luthier work, someone who doesn't piss and moan about having to repair instruments. I'm glad you enjoy your work, because I certainly do.

Ship a small box to Thailand.... put in it some of your awesomeness, patience, ability and last some of your candor.... thank you! We may be kin as I don't suffer fools well either... look up the conversion as you are sitting in front of the largest encyclopedia ever made... I love that!

Great info, I just started building ukuleles last year, I made a bending form just like you have But I didnt know about turning the blanket back on before you remove the wood to put into the form. Thats excellent info for me. Thank you again & God Bless..

I like your side it's a very informative and detailed and you don't try to hide nothing thank you very much I'll continue watching

Another very interesting vid. Thanks for sharing your skills and advice, much appreciated.

Q&A for future video post: “workshop setup” tool storage, cabinet and drawer organizers, workbench sizes and dust collection systems . Thanks!

i really enjoy watching people repair guitars and it helps me under stand repairs better . thanks

Your a genuine honest about shipping costs being high.

Very interesting and inspiring, on a larger scale, I have used some drain pipe plugged at both ends with towels and a steam paint stripper providing the heat/water...this was working on a Thames river barge and bending much bigger pieces.

I’m so pleased to see that, finally, a guitar manufacturer is taking the age-old truss rod heat dissipation issue seriously...

Ted, you mentioned luthiers are getting away from using side bending forms, due to the phasing out of incandescent light bulbs. That need not be the case, Appliance heating elements can be used, in place of light bulbs, and, unlike light bulbs, are made to survive the heat they produce. Add a digital heat controller w/relay (inexpensive on Ebay) and you have precise and "walk away" control of your bender. Sorry if I posted this twice. I thought I already posted it, but couldn't find it.

For brittle woods I thickness two pieces to .045 in. then bend and laminate to get a stiff and sturdy part. I do not trust a super thin side, even though they can support the top and back. They are too easily damaged by blows to the side which are difficult to repair. Great video as usual.

Your video's are entertaining and educational. Thank you for doing them.

I love the craftsmanship

Nothing better than watching his beautiful work and in such a relaxing setting and delivery! Love it ASMR LUTHERIE

Absolutely fantastic. I broke every side I ever attempted on a heated pipe. Too anxious. Eventually learned to boil rosewood (Irving Sloane style) and bend on my heated mold. Now that you mention it, my use of internal light bulbs would present a problem for the heating. Gibson has the hydraulic ram for assisting with pressure in the cutaway

Love your videos very to the point. Plus you do very good work.

Thanks for the informative videos. I like the simple clamps you made for holding the sides in the form.

when i made my first acustic (ukulele) i made it with flame maple sides. and my bending iron? metal rod suspended between 2 blocks with candel below it. and i did it. took me hours, but i got the sides bent by hand on a candle :)

Your honest shipping comment is the cure to shipping a guitar to Canada for repair. As for me the risk of international laws adding additional fees or the possibility of not being able to getvmy baby back would ruin my day for sure.

Very nice, always. It is true that besides being a very skilled professional, you’d easily be a great teacher. Great atitude.

I know a slide player who actually had a new nut put on his guitar to "float" the strings above the fretboard. The action is literally level across the board from nut to bridge. It's low enough that you can still fret a note if you really want to, but you wouldn't want to try barre chords on it.

You, Sir are a true lover, of the sound of Vibrating Wood!

I would LOVE to have a guitar made by you!! I find your videos very educational and fun to watch. Keep 'em coming!!!

Made a lot of potato chips building F-5's before the good old heat blanket! Thanks for the show.

Can you please describe in your upcoming Q&A session how you made those clamps you used at the end? Been wanting to make some 6" deep clamps for bridge reglues (as a test. Yes, I know steel/aluminum/etc., work better). Thanks, and thanks for the great videos!!!

I am really enjoying your videos, very helpful. Thank you.

I was one of those that couldn't quite get the feel of bending on an iron. Took multiple sides until I also thinned the wood more and pushed gently. Eventually I decided I liked boiling the rosewood for 3 hours and bending on a heated mold with light bulbs inside. Especially for the cutaways. Start there with the tightest bend and working to the waist and then finally the lower bout, easier as it was not as plastic anymore. I watched the Gibson video on their cutaway mold, they have hydraulic clamping, less dexterity required.

Even your molds look great!

A pet peeve of mine as well... I've always just used a nickle to adjust tune-o-matic tailpiece studs

Show us a video on Fret Sprout. Especially how to remove fret sprout on a bound fretboard! Enjoy your posts! Keep it up!!

That Kauer is a beauty

Many of us Gen X'ers grew surrounded by both imperial and metric measurements and learned to live with both.

Oh man, your comment about damaging screw heads with the wrong size driver... preach it brother! One of my pet peeves too.

Another good one and I wouldn't expect anything else from you! thanks again!

Really dig the channel.

Another great video! Thanks for showing us!

Superb wood and video work. Such a pleasure to watch.

That's a very nice looking guitar!

I like my action a little on the high side too. I play pretty aggressively, lots of strumming. To each his own.

Fantastic thank you

Finding a luthier , with the proper approach to restoration or repairs is a hit and miss for . I have a friend that is recommending a guita builder in Kamloops BC , they build Riversong guitars. Of course he has no You tube site that demonstrates his skill set ...this video you just did...covered , a number of miles of repairs, building and design... now that is very open and you know what you get when someone sends you a guitar.. I have to make a call to UPS to get a shipping cost to Hamilton...cheers Alberta Dave

Great video

Awesome work , thank you so much for all the wonderful info ! 😊👍💖

Still great!

Remember to bend your binding. Words to live by.

Another excellent video! Thanks!

Thanks again for a great video. Thank you

Great stuff. Thanks so very much. Metric conversion requests ? Laziness. Just plain too lazy to look it up.

NICE diy clamps!

Update on your 1 min remark Rosewood and Cites... it is being removed! YEA!!!!! - Thanks for the videos

Absolutely amazing......

Very cool video, thanks so much!!!

Set Ups & Side Bending......a good song title about Luthiers! Challenge set guys 😂

My uncle Joe is the only person as handy as you are and uncle Joe could figure out how to do anything if he set his mind to it and you got it that ability to do work others never can

Can't see in the comments, but guitars are generally (finally) exempted from CITED since September 2019. Great video as always. Is there a point to a ventilated truss rod cover. It's always Righty tighty leftly loosey as you look at it, even if the rod adjusts from inside the guitar. for anyone who is interested.

EXC pt concerning the front neck block. I use ply block on my ukes, and a wider /deeper block as found in the fleta gtrs.. 0n CL For future ss gtrs I will definitely use the spanish style head block. I have 2 M. dunn gtrs circa 72and 73.a maccaferi and a jumbo 12 string . they both use the spanish style head block, no neck resets yet !!

Never suffocate a truss rod. Speaking g of action, I get hassled constantly by friends... when I used to see friends, because I love high action. I want my Strat to play like my Yamaha FG-441s. I even wish I could afford customized electric with string spaces that match my acoustic.

PS, I personally think that Canadian square Robertson screws would probably work best of all for any and all guitar Applications. Modern designers and engineers would probably prefer to use torx screws, However, I don't much like the prospect of having to clean years of accumulated Skin cells, finger grease, food residue, crusty corrosion and schmutz of unknown origin from the head of a Torx screw before attempting to remove it!

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What are the best lutherie books available? I've seen so many for sale and don't know which ones are relevant or accurate. I am particularly in need of information on neck geometry for set neck guitars, but also am looking for info on all facets of instrument making such as grain direction, side bending, or lacquer spraying. I work off intuition and videos like yours, analyzing different methods of repair and construction, but would like comprehensive information that i can reference and learn from.

I think, when people ask for metric (world standard) system, it's not because they wanna mimic your work, I think that they just watch your stuff for entertainment, for fun, but would like to understand the sizes and proportions, and not be lost. When you say the action is 4/64" or something like this, most of us, from outside the US, have no idea how much or how little it is. Just a thought thou.

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Martin don't put a fretboard dot on the 3rd fret of there guitars so if I bought a Martin is it a big job to have a luthier put a perl dot on the 3rd fret? Really enjoy your videos,your work is so tidy and professional and you seem to really enjoy what you do.

Great work as always. Could you do us a favor Show the finish product. Like a movie Beginning, Middle, end. Its very helpful thanks

I am curious to know if you ever see Japanese guitars, or guitars made elsewhere but with Asian-sourced hardware, that have JIS, Japanese Industrial Standard screw heads which don't mate well with a standard Phillips screwdriver? How about Pozi-Drive, do any European made guitars use Pozi-Drive screws? By the way, That strap button you are installing seems to have a very loose interface between the screw head and the screwdriver.

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Here in the states we use what I’ve heard described as “Freedom Fractions” rather than ‘that subversive metric system’. 😉 Jokes aside and with no intent to offend anyone, have we come to the point in our viewing in which we require Ted to give us exact conversions of the measurements he makes during his luthery work? In all of the various units of measure? I like to have as much detail as possible found within a video, but I’d like to think my own pride would preclude me from asking for these. If I didn’t know where to go to download a conversion table or calculator, or didn’t have the technical acumen to acquire such a thing, I’d be frankly amazed at my ability to find and watch a KZfaq video. But… your mileage may vary. (Miles be they statute or perhaps nautical, Kilometers, etc.)

Not for nothing but if my Martin needed a larger job like a neck reset or a new bridge etc... I'd most probably pay the extra $200.00 dollars to ship it over to you. Sure, there's plenty of luthiers out there however have you watched some of them on KZfaq? LOL 😆

Being that you mentioned questions and rosewood, I was wondering if you could tell me if the new affinity squire strats with Pau Ferro fretboard are less durable than rosewood in your opinion as someone wooking with wood. I know I can find opinions of salespeople online, but I want an honest opinion.

I really really like your videos! They are so informative! Keep that good work up! I also have a question about a guitar who's neck need a repair... It is an old Framus 5/18 "favorite" 1959. It has a badly bow towards the top because some idiot strung steelstrings on it. I wanted to know, if there's a chance of repair how you do those jobs? I much appreciate your answer 🙌 Greets from Germany 😊

I decide what the action should be for every guitarist in the world

Hey man, I hope I'm not too late for the q&a. How do you go about repairing a twisted neck. I have a classical guitar with a slight twist so the top e string doesn't stay in tune as I move along the board. I've been looking through your videos but haven't found anything on twisted necks. Thanks for your work. You have an amazing temperament for this

Awesome videos! Fellow Ontarian here, I own a mid 90s Washburn by Oscar Schmidt acoustic that the bridge has started to come off the top. Do I need to peel it all off to top and re-glue it or just get glue in the gap and clamp in place?

I was quite surprised at a couple of things on the Kauer guitar. The nut slot for the forth string was not well formed and the build up of lacquer in the truss rod aperture was very untidy for a $3.5k guitar.

Question for your Q&A video: I am looking to buy a new classical guitar (say 1-3k in price - I currently play a Takamine EAN60C). I would love to get some advice on how to find a guitar I will really love. I can go online and order a guitar that theoretically seems to fit the need (say, a Taylor 514ce-N), but I might be very disappointed given expectations and what I'm used to. Or, I can go haunt all the local shops, but inventory for many of these places is really limited, especially on the higher end. What do you suggest? Thanks. Cheers.