You should have way more subscribers. I can’t play a guitar nor repair one but your craftsmanship is so good that I watch all of your videos just to learn how a master works. Thank you for making these videos.

Watching your videos is like being in a classroom with the best teacher ever! There’s not one thing you do to an instrument that you just say “I did this” but, instead, you always use “I DO THIS BECAUSE…” to give the full meaning of your actions and a complete sharing of your knowledge and experience with your classmates! You’re awesome! Thank you!

Point of interest: the bridge-pin puller you're using here was 'invented' by one of my guitar repair customers, here in Dundee. He got the idea while working on the railways. Inspired by the shape of one of the tunnels, he made a wooden cube with same profile of cut-out to fit over the top of his bridge pins. Its straight pull operation made pin removal a doddle. I suggested he contact Jim Dunlop - the rest is history. I have several and use them pretty much every day in the course of my work.

We need a twoodfrd logo emblazoned "Polishing-Polishing-Polishing" polishing cloth!! The one over and one or two under self locking method has been a favorite of mine for years!

Love your work Ted, and Dave's. I have learned so much from both of you.

So grateful for the metric conversions!

Ben at Crimson Guitars recommended your page, so here i am.

I'm here because Psychology in Seattle recommended you, and I am very grateful. Love what you're doing!

The "backstage" Martin repair story about avoiding a neck reset is very interesting...Thanks Ted 🎶🎶🎶.

Sounds wonderful !

Lovely sounding guitar and you did great work on it. Saved it really, well done Ted.

You do great work.

It is absolutely fantastic watching you both work on guitars and talk about them. Thank you so much!

Always such a pleasure to watch (and listen!) thank you so much for posting!

Seeing you uploading a new video is always a delight, your videos always bring great comfort 💜.

That's interesting what you said about it better being sharp than flat. I recently had a thought that given the choice between sharp and flat, flat would be better because you can bend up to pitch, whereas once you're sharp you can't manipulate the string in anyway to affect a flatward change.

Ted you're the best! Really appreciate the insight

another one saved. ty for your work.

Glad to know all of this. Mine is a 1980(?) Sigma, basically a licensed D-18 and one of the earlier models to have a truss rod. I have it tuned down a step with extra-lights, but the neck reset is on the horizon.

You gave that guitar just what it needed and you did it great. Another lovely video, thank you!!!

You've got great points. Your guitar history knowledge is fantastic. I always enjoy.

That Martin sure sounded great 👍 Nice work as always sir

Thanks for the video, so relaxing and enjoyable.

I would find this sort of work so frustrating, but I find watching it so relaxing

very interesting watching an expert at work

Another excellent repair job. I own a couple of 70s Martin's that play great with a little TLC from a knowledgeable luthier.

Ted, you are both Scholar and Master. Thank You, Respect.

Thank you Ted for providing metric equivalents whenever you cite "x" sixty fourths of an inch string heights etc. I am sure there must be a reason for North America and Canada clinging to ye olde imperial units but it certainly passeth my understanding. Please keep up the great work.

Love the title of this vid. Had to let you know its descriptive and your videos never disappoint.

Dave's channel is where I had heard about *this* one, some time ago! Good of you to give him a nod! 😀👍

really nice sounding instrument

That guitar has a beautiful voice!

I am so happy that you acknowledged Dave's work in developing the heater. Well, of course you would. Thank you.

Nice work

"Learn too live with it." Awesome advice. Thanks.

Nice work.

Glad to see such a prestigious channel unafraid to use ideas from another, and giving due credit 👍. I recognized it instantly in the thumbnail. 🔥

Great job

Really well explained what happens and needs to happen!! I have an old 12-string ('76 Ibanez Concord with maple neck ánd fretboard) that's a bit too hard to play, and insights like yours help! Thanks for sharing 🙂

you are the Uncle Doug of guitar repair,,,, a huge compliment to you sir !!!

One of your best “play after repair“ performances

Love this man

What a beauty

Awesome brother!

Other super video Ted. Thank you

Thanks for playing them for us Ted.

I have a 1970’s Fylde Orsino which has no adjustable truss rod. It has a metal “I” beam bonded into the neck and so far so good. The neck is dead straight and no reset is necessary. It spent 10 years in Europe in a low humidity environment but the rest in the UK with much higher humidity. It still plays and sounds great. Shows that it is possible to get this right. Love the videos.

very nice

Great to hear dave given a shout out, feels like a crossover episode xD

That is a beautiful piece of rosewood on that fingerboard😍

Nice refreshing overview vid! I’m passing this link to my brother. Not a serous player, but has a love and appreciation of guitars. True story: On his daughter’s wedding day the hired guitarist (acoustic) was a No-show. A friend of his dauber attending the wedding could play a guitar and filled the void. He did a good job. I guess so good, my brother’s wife gave the kid my brothers Martin D-18 as payment/gift. My brother now has an ex-wife. I reiterate, true story! Love, love, love your content! Now that I’m caught up with all of it, Sunday mornings with TW are part of my relaxation ritual. Yuh!

The best method I have seen for heat bending a neck clamped the body of the guitar to the bench, then the top highest tuners had strings run through them, and were anchored below the neck to the bench. The repairman tightened the tuners until he had the bow he wanted, placed his iron on it, and got it good and hot. After he let it cool, it was absolutely perfect.

Man, I wish you were my neighbor! Great craftsmanship!

Anyone else stall watching Ted's new video of the week? I resist watching the Saturday evening release so that I can enjoy it with my Sunday morning coffee. 😎🤘🎶☕

Hi Ted. I noticed your reflection in the tuning key. I never realized that you talk with your hands so much. It's pretty cool that even after all of these videos, you still get animated about the subject you're talking about.

Love it

Love my Taylor. A shim and she is perfect again. In my case, it came very flat. I think it was flat. I had to remove the only shim, and it was pretty thick, that put the nut closer to the saddle. it is 1/10" thick. It came that far off new. I was pissed because I had to go through a lot to get to that point where the intonation is almost perfect everywhere on the fret board. I was very surprised at how good it is. But over all very happy with what I ended up with. She is special. And it was a great learning experience, and I gained a lot of knowledge making it work and setting the action with the other shim location. I had to lengthen the canal the fretboard sat in on the body and because of that I can only assume the bridge was put in the wrong location. I also puta bone nut and saddle on it with some Ebony pins and it sounds amazing. It sounds best with 13's but I can't play it as good with those. So I use 12's. It still sounds amazing and warm with 12's. And it will last longer before it needs another neck tweak. I played a Brazilian back and sides Taylor and mine almost sounds as good as that one. Only at a 1/4 of the price. I almost bought that thing but just couldn't justify spending 5k when I already have one that sounds amazing and will last longer because the back and sides are laminated. It's been through some low humidity, 20ish and no damage to the top thus far. If it does get some cracks over the years to come, I won't be nearly as heartbroken as I would be if it is a 4k guitar. But I just bought a 3k Soldano amp. Go figure.

Thanks for the shout out. would be great to connect in person some time

Mamma's little baby loves shortening, shortening. Mamma's little baby loves shortening neck...

Very creative string winding technique can be seen between 3:30 and 4:30.

Freaked me out you did with an early video! Thought today was Sunday, and had to go back to work tomorrow 😂 Love the videos!

Sounds damn good to me.

Enjoyed your video mate thanks, specially like the way you explain pros & cons where a dunderhead like me can understand. 👍🥃Respect to you bud.

TED, GREAT VIDEO, TELL EVERYBODY HELLO, SEE YOU NEXT TIME...

And adjustable trust rod has nothing to do with the neck reset. Jim G. Filled the square tube in the neck with liquid carbon fiber when he reset my "76 HD28 with terrific results.

Gosh yeah, that thing where instruments owners hear such, to them, remarkable differences yet at the same time mostly don't have any ability to describe them. I had that years ago when I'd built an sold a 'box' to be able to drive two amps and switch, balance etc. between the two. That done, as in I delivered to him and showed him how it worked, he had me listen to the two same year hot rod deluxes and wanted me to hear the profound differences between the two... I just could not hear a difference. Interestingly years before I'd had the opposite and had to figure out what it was. I'd had a totally bad, which it wasn't so lets say cheap instead, music player, cassettes back then, and I suspended a speaker in mid air down below it, same again cheap whatever but the music was brilliant. What the actual difference was was that I was in an absolutely great place, it was a workshop and I was doing exactly want I wanted to do and had everything I needed to do it. I even knew the music getting to my ears was tinny and stark but my mind was, overall, in such a good place, it completely filled in all the gaps. Sum total these days is pretty much all work, but especially commissioned, is therapy... so pick your patients well.

Great show (as usual); I just wanted to comment that your observation that humans can tolerate slightly sharp guitar intonation much more than flatness is also known to be very true for the pitch of a singing human voice!

I've used the neck press many times to good effect but you are sure correct in that ya never know what you're going to get. Actually I was a little surprised to see you using it. Many feel that they're guitar voodoo.

Just ordered a nifty sticker and shirt from our friend Ted. Dammit Ted, take my money. I would schedule you for a repair on my Stella BUT the gas to drove the few hours to Hamilton would cost more than the repair right now lol

Sometimes considering one’s self a “traditionalist “ only proves one to be one’s own worst enemy. I’m speaking of the use of truss rods in acoustic guitars. The very guitars that need them the most. After years of struggling with all the troubles associated with changes in the action requiring saddle compensation, different saddles for different string sets, messing with the frets or shaving fingerboards that came about merely by using different strings, I blasphemed and bought a classical guitar with a truss rod. I don’t even want a guitar without one now. I can use any string set of any tension I want now. With a ten minute adjustment and a days rest , my guitar plays nearly the same throughout the range of string options. If the rod changes the tone at all, it probably adds a little sustain.

The voice on the Martin reminds me that older guitars just sound better than brand new ones.

Love my Martin... a 16 though. I had been looking for an acoustic that was bright enough to cut through the ether yet rich enough o fill the room. I was at my local "big box" music store and someone was playing that Martin. I knew I had to buy it. I loved the idea of an18 but to my unprofessional ear I couldnt tell a huge diffence between the two and the price was a bit less on the D-16... and Thats what I got.. or so I thought. The price tag said it was a D-16. What I paid for was a D-16... But when I get it home, turns out it was a Special 16...a Limited Edition Excusive Martin for the big box music store I bought it from. So it left a sour taste in my mouth when I found out that I was sold a guitar that wasn't what they said it was... just looking at the guitar, there were only two clues it was different. and I didnt know enough to look. Anywy, it turns out, what I got was in my opinion, better than the D-16. But thats a story for another day. Bleh... I carried away. All I wanted to say, I love my Martin.

Finger placement affects intonation. If a fret is sharp placing your finger on top of the fret decreases the amount the string is streched. You can also mute the string by having the pad of your finger extend past the fret

The problem with 70s Martin is they used square tubed truss rods including using improper glue. That’s the reason those necks began having relief issues. Martin used T bar truss rods before this which was much more stable and required little to no glue. Moving to the square tube was a cost cutting measure. Another thing which I’m sure this luthier knows but sounded kind of confusing to me - let’s be clear, neck relief and needing a neck reset are not in anyway related. Common solutions for fixing relief for a non adjustable truss rod is to do a fret compression. Basically installing new frets with larger tangs in order to lift the fretboard. Neck resets are needed due to string tension (over time) causing body distortion - which can include the guitar having a belly and the body slightly warping.

Sounded s little CLAP

Our lord at it again

Appreciated the 1970s Martin history and no longer regret the two D-28s I owned and that I could never keep 'in tune'. It wasn't me after all. I've been a happy Takamine player ever since. (Plus Taylor and Breedlove in recent years.) For those not sure how to pronounce the name, it's tah-kah-mee-nay.

bought one of your stickers to put on my guitar case. bigger than i expected lol

Those darn strings... they "embed themselves in our corneas" way too much!! Or fingers!! Ouch!! Great repair job. Sometimes less is more and you don't want to go too far above and beyond because then you can never get back to the original.

it is a shame others in your field doesn't have your abilities by far

In the late 70's and 80's neck resets were unknown especially in the UK. The guitar shop I worked for used to plane the fingerboard and then re-fret it to improve the action on Martins, which I believe was common practise at that time. Ruined the guitar and gave it an unsightly wedge shaped fingerboard, oh, that and shaving down the bridge 😩

My 84 D35 is in getting some love. Moved to a dryer climate so it needs some attention.

I bought the same tuner :)

I generally get short-lived results from heating a neck. Never lasts throughout the seasons here in the Northeast. Best of luck with that 18.

You must have liked it because that's the fanciest picking you've shown us. Made it sound real good.

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There are more people who CLAIM to be able to hear things others can't, and many of them exist in the home stereo "audiophile" community, but until they can hear it repeatedly in double blind tests, their claims means nothing.

Hey Ted, if your band ever comes to Musiki's in Kingston, I'll be there...

You heat bend your necks with shims and a fancy electrical dodad. Dave props a neck up between two blocks and clamps into a back bow fit for sherwood forest. That's not a dig. I've had to resort to that to straighten an underseasoned squier neck.

From ´78? That thing is practically mint!

Wouldn't the excessive string height throw off the 12th fret note? Never mind, I see that lowering the action did improve intonation! I've always wondered about how effective heating the fingerboard is versus say heating the entire neck 😳

from the look of it, the owner of that guitar could use a lesson on how to put strings on

Don't know if this has been answered before, but is there a reason you don't use a Dremel with a soft buffing attachment for the fret polishing? I've seen others do this - even without taping the fretboard. Is there a reason you prefer doing this manually? Great vid as always, sir!! You are blessing to us here!! 😍

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So I have a question, based on your experience, with the guitar restrung and the neck under tension, how long can you expect the heat-straightened neck to remain stable? This video was just like all your others, fantastic! Thank you.

Sir! Thanks for all your videos! Love to see excellent workmanship. Wonder, how long will this "reset" last with doing just The heating and camping. Recomend softer strings for The future? I can se that The Bill is going to be quite different from a neckreset but a neckreset would not correct a bowing neck, I guess. So The third alternativ would be to put in a trussrod. Is that doable at all?? Anders, sweden

hey there gang.... best gang ever

a tip from the guy Mike Z who let me copy his Aria heat press..flip the guitar so the heater is at the bottom for better results

Have you made any videos of your own personal guitars? Surely you have a collection of some sort?

The more I watch this channel the more I find wrong with my guitars