When we needed it most he restored Harmony in our lives.

Adam Savage referenced you on one of his one day builds. It was the refurbish of some type of mini piano.

That two tone bridge is gorgeous. I thought it was broken when the video started.

Man, after your description of how it sounded, I wasn't expecting to hear what I did. That sounded beautiful.

Your content is not solely for guitar repairs, for me it's therapy, a money can't buy experience. I wish you the best in everything you need. Cheers from the land Down Under !

Oh hey there gang

The choice of woods for the fretboard, bridge and neck make this an extraordinarily pretty and unique guitar.

My ear heard 46 and my eye was seeing 48 :) Very enjoyable to watch as always

“Don’t ask for dimensions - get a guitar and figure it out for yourself” - love it!

I like the fact that the customer wanted this old Harmony to be done right even though it doesn't make sense given the dollar value of the guitar. That's called loving your guitar. People do it with cars and such all the time.

That "weird little modal thing" sounds just lovely! I enjoy listening to these old Harmony guitars - they have their own distinctive sound.

Great to see you go into so much detail about that bridge routing jig of yours. I'm fixing up a 1972 Aria, clearly inspired by the Gibson Hummingbird. I'm using your bent B string method to intonate the new saddle. just quietly watching your vids has given me loads of lutiery and repair tips and I'm very grateful for that - and for the entertainment

I think the date stamp says "S48" not "S46" but you might already know that and accidentally said 46. Or it really is a 46 and it looks like 48. Excellent video btw as always!

People need to understand that this is your job. We viewers see entertainment. You are working. Indeed, the casket shop I worked at, shut down for everyone's vacation at the same time.

The Honduran mohogany on this one is remarkably beautiful.

Fantastic!!!! what a unusual looking but beautiful sounding guitar!!! twoodfrd you are genius!!!!

That guitar sounds as lovely as it looks! That mahogany is beautiful 😍. Someone has taken very special care with it all these years and could not have given it to a better luthier for repairs and changes! Loved this video ❤️❤️

Love your, "I'm not going to show every ______ job" thing. Personally I don't set my alarm for the latest vid from you, I simply am pleased with seeing a new one available. Stick to your guns. Great work.

Love the old Harmonys! Nice work!!

The fact that you happened to have a piece of perfect match sap-/heart wood ebony lying around made me smile. Thanks for another great video!

Ahhh, here we are again. What a treat.

I found when using very long thin drill bits (2 or 3mm), it helps to slide a brass or ally tube up the drill bit. This helps stop it bending and can also protect nearby body material from the spinning drill bit.

Very unusual having sapwood and heartwood running along the fingerboard like that and also on the bridge, that makes it a pretty unique instrument ! Finding a piece of rosewood in your stash with similar colours so you can make a matching insert for the bridge is astonishing and shows what kind of a craftsman you really are ! It really blew me away to see the matching insert fitted in the bridge, if you didn't know that it had been done you'd never notice it !

I really appreciate your insights into things. Your videos are informative and very pleasant to watch. Thanks for the stupendous effort!

"Don't ask for dimensions. Get a guitar and figure it out for yourself. Do the work." Best quote I've heard in a while. That is a cool jig though. I love learning about and working on my guitars. But I don't think I would want that to be my job. Thank you for the work that you do and for sharing some of it with us.

Sweet. I do like that fret board. thanks for showing

I have to say...I grew up as a carpenters kid, but I didn't know how to use a chisel until I saw your vids. As usual, awesome work!

Always a pleasure watching your vids. Thank you for sharing your work.

Almost seems like a special build, maybe for the employee themself or for someone in the company. It looks really neat.

Cool fretboard and bridge matching! Harmony are underrated guitars in my opinion

Man, I love watching these videos. I’m a self employed carpenter but I wish I did this for a living. There’s a big difference between carpentry and luthier work. Even tho we both work with wood. I do finish carpentry as well but this is a different animal. I typically do my own guitar work and have even done some refinish work on my guitars but good luthier work is something I view with a very deep appreciation. Thanks for sharing your great work.

"...so that fret 130 looks as good as fret number 1." That's about as good quality life advice as you can get.

Thanks, Ted, for the detailed explanation of your saddle routing jig. That gives me enough info to “do the work” and make my own. FYI-I always get a little sentimental whenever you work on a Harmony guitar. A guy in my very first band started building his chops on a Harmony Bobcat played through a Montgomery Ward Airline amp. Great times.

Actually seems to sound very deep and nice. great fix as usual love the way you try to keep the bi-color of the bridge it looks nice

I like the simple beauty of the guitar. I saw a video of someone polishing frets with a small buffing pad on a Dremel - Smart. 😎

I have a self-built 12string from 1967. The neck is mahogany with an integral fingerboard. The wood was chosen with a slight back-bow and when strung up it is virtually flat without any reinforcement

Among Canadian tradesmen "figure it out" is a sign you're asking too many questions

Thanks for the part about first and second part of the year. I have been having this debate with people for a long time. I have a later H165 (1958). Guitar materials are the same, but it bottom bout on mine is flatter on the end, and it has the “Steel Reinforced Neck”. As cheap as these guitars were new, they have some interesting material choices, like the once piece sound boards and backs (not book-matched like today’s guitars, or other guitars of the same era).

Wonderful opening music! Now all that's needed is a Stéphane Grappelli accompaniment.

A Half Sapwood Half Heartwood Fretboard & Bridge, that's quite a neat design.

He will never read this, but thank you for explaining the core elements of what I need to do to fix my classical guitar that has crappy intonation! Will I ever do it? Not sure, but now I know how to build the jig!

You got to smile , when everyone starts correcting you for what they think is a mistake you make…From the opening music to the end test play , That’s what puts a smile on my face. You don’t see this kind of repair of guitars …anywhere but here.! Further more, I have yet to see a bad video.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💌😊

I always look forward to late Saturday afternoons.

Thanks Ted. I really appreciate you playing them for us.

Really like the sound on the bass end of the scale with this one.

beautiful old guitar. Thank you for the great video.

What a beautiful guitar, great work

I love the sound of this guitar. There's something about the sound that speaks to me on an almost visceral level.

Those older guitars just sound sweeter.

Honduran mahogany and even cuban mahogany is still somewhat available today. But are getting quite expensive especially the old growth verity. When you get your hands on some it is obvious why our ancestors loved it so much.

Really nice work as always and playing a strung left-handed guitar right-handed sounding beautiful at the end

Sounded pretty good to me.

i like the two color fingerboard... it DOES sound "bluesy"... nicely done!

Great sound after you repair..love this lerthanded guitar because i'm a lefty too..

My Saturday night by the radio. Thank you!

Sometimes I get a really good dose of why did I even do that... Coming from the memories of all the various Harmony and Silvertone guitars I've passed over or just wasn't educated enough on their history. Had some pretty nice Kay's before I probably should have kept and just played when the mood hit.

Would love to hear more about the g string intonation trick in a future video! Thanks!

Great Video. I love how You just have odd scraps of woods that can pretty much cover most jobs

Cocaine and rhinestones is really good. Season 2 was absolutely worth the wait.

Have a harmony with a similar fretboard. It's used as a barbeque guitar. Traded a bucket of used horseshoes for it. Had to fix some cracks and reset the neck.

How in the heck? You kinda' sound like John Redbourn on that lefty! These are the best documentaries on You-Tube.

I thought that podcast was abandoned, so glad there’s new episodes!

I love watching you work! I am a guitarist, i had my framus panthera at a luthier for a refret and a new nut, but he just glued a piece of wood under the old nut (frets are higher) and it was sloppy, brought it to another luthier for a new nut, spacing was all over the place, can i send you my guitar from austria? :D

Just going to put this out there: who is giving a Woodford video a thumbs down? It makes no sense.

Ah, yeah. Got that Harmony jingle jangle! You have the best recording microphone (at least it sounds that way on my tiny tab speakers!).

Wood wizard, thanks for teaching us! Keep up the great work!

Awesome work as always!!

Guitar sounds great

WOW, Made 2 years before I was born and seems to be holding up a lot better then I am. :) Thanks for the Vids!

that is a great sounding guitar!

I'm fond of your videos. Very interesting and also it seems that being a craftsman lifts spirit. Very good philosophy in life from my point of you. Thanks for everything.

I use yellow food coloring and a que-tip to mimic aged binding. works pretty well.

Thank you really great information as always

Well, don’t care what anyone says, I reckon that’s $800 CAD well spent if you end up with a guitar with as much charm as that sounding so lovely 🙌

nice to see the conversion i am left user in a lot of thing and is nice t osee a proper way to convert

i used to use Honduran Mahogany to build bookcases and furniture in high school almost 50 years ago. A beautiful wood to work with and I still have one bookcase and two pieces of furniture I built out of that wood. All finished with 'Deft' which I understand was responsible for the loss of a few brain cells along the way. Who knew ???

Thank God for that. I've just got in from work and a new video pops up. Cheers

Another fine lesson

It's a beauty 🎶🎶🎶

As always, an unbelievable job that leaves me in awe! Don't know if I spelled that right but you're pretty amazing and I love watching your videos! I think you're much better than you really realize!

Love your channel! Do you advise customers that the cost of repairs may exceed the value of the instrument? Sentimental value, of course, is priceless.

I have the same pen, Tom. Good show!

Fantastic once again. great skills!

nice job as usual

I look forward all week for your broadcast.

Love the sound! Great job once again, lucky owner!

I think that the unique two-tone wood on this guitar makes it more valuable. It sure makes it interesting.

Until you pointed out the dual colored bridge I thought it had a huge chunk broken out of it and was wondering why you weren’t mentioning it. Old eyes I suppose. Very interesting fret board and bridge.

The bane of mastery, the inherit monotony

Thank you for catering to the left hand community.

I was just going out to spray clear nitro on a mid-60s Harmony archtop I've had for decades. It had been sitting outside and I bought it for like $35. Now I'm older and smarter (than when I took a run at it the first time), I think I stand a fair chance of turning it into something fun and playable. It has a steel-reinforced poplar neck with a lovely little backbow to it. I think it'll be fine.

I'm in the middle of a neckset on a 1950 Silvertone H621 (made by Harmony?), and I was surprised to see that it has a rectangular steel bar in its neck.

Great as always! Questions on cutting a new saddle slot (possibly fodder for a future video): It looks like you are doing it parallel to a flat edge of the bridge. But I would think it is common to need to slant the saddle a bit for better intonation. So my 2 part question is a) how to set up your jig for a slant and b) how to determine the proper slant (or even if you need one) before you cut? I've even seen some acoustics where the saddle is split so there are 2 (or more) saddle slots to accommodate even more intonation control. As an added bonus .... why on earth has no one invented a saddle/bridge system for acoustics that allow accurate intonation adjustments (like electrics)?

sounds like a keeper.

Could it be possible the neck back bow was induced deliberately or otherwise by the re-fret by forcing oversized tangs into narrow slots?

Thanks so much! I got and old Harmony on the bench that has been beaten to an inch of its life 😁

dude. watch your titles! i was in suspense all the time waiting for something to go wrong :D nice work!

I know your a fan of fish glue and I recently used it on a refret that has been hanging around (I'm very amateur and this is for my own use) and I was a bit surprised to see a clamping time of 12 hours...is that the norm for fish glue? Do you rely on the fret tang to provide the clamping when you use it on frets? I used my fretboard radius block light clamped in place overnight-seemed to work fine. Your vids got me going on some projects that hung up....enjoy watching you work.

if you look you can find a Fender Elite strat or tele with a half n half neck like this in the ebony species, honestly the knot will bring strength in that area, so it's all good, what it does for vibrations dunno? curious what the numbers are stamped on it tho? beautiful guitar tho, no jokes, that wood and the patina is fabulous, bet its the only one in existence like this unless they did a run of em like fenner did with the elites? props to the owner, SCORE! beautiful great sounding guitar and fantastic repair set up work..

I like a lot these essential guitars, without rosettes and bindings.