Im impressed with the quality of work you put into every job no matter how large or small . I do hope your customers appreciate your work .

I didn't knew that Washburn was existing that long already. Thank you.

I used to do these kind of splinter repairs as a high end finish carpenter on expensive cabinets. It will never be perfect but most people will never notice those types of repairs if these repairs are finished well. You do great work!

I'm not a guitar repairman, so this "easy" job looked like a terrifying nightmare to me! What amazing results!!!

I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for your time.

Wow Man!!!!!!!! You Inspire me Daily.

I thoroughly enjoy watching how you chisel and scrape away the unwanted wood and glue, and bring everything back to beautiful! Impressive for sure. This old Washburn is looking and sounding great. Thanks for posting.

Great job on a great old guitar! The song made me smile. My Italian Dad used to sing that to my Irish Mom, whose name was Rose.

Two minutes into your video and I know I'm going to enjoy it Jerry. This is gonna be a good one. Thank you

Wow, pretty amazing!

thank you Sir. i love my family roots. i come from hillbilly's and outlaws, music has always been with me. as i stepped away from a troubled past, i thought my connection with the good parts of my family were gone. you give me hope that the respect, not the lies i was told as a child, will return to the ugliness of this world. we all make mistakes and you showed me that we can repair them if we try

you are an artist what a privilege to work on that must have been for you great work thanks for shearing

Nice job.....hope you have more old ones like this again...Keep the videos a coming..

Sounds good. Made a nice old guitar. God bless.

What an awesome guitar... Thanks for share it Jerry. Greetings from Germany

You exceeded your self there gerry what a lovely old guitar it will last another 100 years thanks to you you are a very talented Luthier and love what you do

Nice work again Jerry your customer should be completely happy, happy, happy.

Mr. Rosa, you do not disappoint! I admire the way you can evaluate an instrument; with damage that would strike fear into most repair guys, and you're like"Ahhh, piece of cake". Nothing ever phases you. Thanks for sharing your expertise, and more importantly... Your time. Until we speak again, my friend....

Five minutes in, my kinda video. →Just finished watching. The guitar and the case are so cool. Great restoration again. Thanks for sharing, Jerry.

Great job on a great old guitar. special thanks for the song at the end. my father sang that to my mother a million times and brought back sweet memories. Her name was Rosemary

Jerry you've done it again impeccable workmanship and a great video on top you have a great night my friend until the next video take care buddy

An hour long Rosa restoration. This was a highlight of the weekend! Great work on the old Washburn, Jerry.

Thanks for this tour through an old guitars resurrection. I see and try to learn every bit of the way. This was a very well spent Sunday night.

nice job on the very old guitar, love seeing your work and thanks for sharing your work.

That's a real beauty Jerry I enjoyed watching you repair it.

That neck repair was a good demonstration of how good titebond is. Glued in those small bits of wood and in a few hours they were stuff well enough to be hammering and chiseling them, nice. Also a lovely guitar beautifully repaired.

Jerry you are master luthier great job fixing that old beauty

Great video, lovely old guitar, can't wait to see the case restored as well

I love watching your videos. I run them all night on many occasions. Thank you. 🔈🔉🔊

who the heck gives this video a thumbs down,they must want hip hop music from that beautiful guitar

Nice craftsmanship. I especially like the home made clamps made from threaded rod, and wing nuts. I look forward to learning more. Thank-you

THAT WAS A FIVE STAR VIDEO.....THE WORK YOU DID RESTORING THAT BEAUTIFUL OLD INSTRUMENT WAS SECOND TO NONE , AND THE WAY IT SOUNDED AFTERWARDS WAS EVEN BETTER....I HOPE YOU GET MORE INSTRUMENTS LIKE THAT ONE...THAT WAS PURE JOY TO WATCH....

Beautiful work!

And it's a nice sounding little guitar!

Mr Rosa. Really enjoyed this episode watching you repair this sweet old 1800's period Washburn parlor guitar. It turned out geat! sounds real good too!

Another great video Jerry, outstanding work as always! CHeers, John

Really enjoyed watching you restore this beauty.

I love those old parlour guitars💕. Great job, as usual😎

I can barely tell the difference of the color of that binding. Another awesome job Jerry. You are an awesome wood worker!!!

Great job Grandpa 👍👏👏👏You have wonderful grandchildren to give you such a fantastic shirt!

Wow that’s amazing man! Really great work.

I really appreciate the invention of the adjustable truss rod after watching this video. A great job turning this back into a playable instrument that some one can enjoy for many years to come. Bravo!

you are amazing , if i ever need one of mine fixed , you will be the first contact . thanks for sharing !!!

Jerry your quite an interesting fellow I love your videos. Very inspiring keep up the good work.

Simply amazing job Jerry.

That was made the year my granddad was. He'd take a bit more than skillful scraping and a bit of shellac to get him looking and working as well as that instrument. It's a joy to watch this channel.

Wow you really bought that back to life for future generations to enjoy. Well done mate and thanks for an hour of great viewing. 👍

Beuatiful job, Jerry.

that's an old beauty

My five year old daughter was watching with me, and said "That's a good show". LOL Great work as always, Jerry.

Got almost the same Washburn that had the full neck reset with carbon fibre rods and some cracks and binding fixed. It’s the guitar non guitar players like the sound of the best. 1899. I got the Washburn book and it helped date it accurately. If you haven’t got it I’ll gladly help get the exact year on this if the customer wants it. All the best and great work. It’s really inspiring what you do. 👌🏻

Awesome vid Jerry. There is something very therapeutic about your vids.

Mr. Rosa , AGAIN.. You are AMAZING. !!!!!

this was a very special segment. The workmanship to restore it was amazing. It's amazing that a 125 year old guitar can be brought back to life with a couple clamps and hand chisles. Congrats on a great job. I'll know where to send my Martin is 100 years.

Excellent work restoring the past and nice performance🤠🤗🤗🌹

Stunning!

That carbon paper dovetail checking method is a fantastic idea, whoever thought that one up was a genius.

Beautiful sounding instrument. Great job getting it in shape for the next 1 1/4 century.

I'm qualified to do this sort of thing, taught by John Bailey, a British guitar maker. I didn't keep it up though - not enough money in it and none of it easy money. But I can tell you, this is the real deal and I think the cherry on the cake is when he sings a song on it. Hats off. In the time it took to watch this, I changed strings on my acoustic, tuned it and played a few tunes of my own. It's a lot less worry.

Wow...ole my....great sound for 2 3 hundred year old guitar ...collector item for sure thank for sharing the video of that ole girl good day an God bless you an your family

I absolutely love your videos of restoring such beautiful instruments and making them playable for (hopefully) another 100 years. I have been binge watching your videos and learning so much from them. Thank you for sharing your craft.

You should take a bow, not many men like you left with skills that are at your level. Thanks for the videos.

Thank you so much for what you do. I really enjoyed watching this one brought back to life.

It was a very satisfying video to watch. Well done!

Awesome resto Jerry you saved another one!Cheers

she is a very nice guitar ,love what you did to it to get her back especially the neck joint

Wow! Looks like a million bucks! I can’t wait to see the case video!

What an excellent job and excellent tutorial 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Thank you for sharing your knowledge for the generations to come. Master of Masters!!!

Fantastic job restoring the Washburn! Thanks for sharing with us.

Beautiful job as always, Jerry! I worked on a similar old Brazilian Rosewood Parlor Guitar. It had a crack in the side with a thin gouge along the crack like that. I filled it with some ebony dust and super glue, and even rubbed some in the crack itself. It came out perfect. Looked like a dark streak in the wood. Twas shellacked, so it was easy to fix the finish. Polished the shellac with some pumice powder.

Amazing! I enjoy watching these.

Great job Jerry! And that thing has a real nice sound too!

Total respect mate .. staining and matching finishes is an absolute art form ✅✅

Really enjoyed your repair work on this old washburn guitar as Ive done many such repairs and enjoy your ingenuity thanks for sharing.

Jerry your are truly a craftsman. You know, you really do make it look easy but you're not fooling me. Thank you for sharing such great content and hats off to the owner of the guitar to be inspired with confidence that the parlor guitar was worth of restoring...after all if he didn't think you could do it likely wouldn't have done it.

I found this same 1890 Washburn parlor guitar in the family attic in 1964 and played Peter, Paul and Mary songs on it. It was in very good condition. I gave it to a luthier in Buffalo in hopes it would.be preserved.

Love your work and commentary. It is wonderful bringing these tired old instruments back to life. Thanks.

What a sweet old instrument! A fine restoration too. I enjoyed watching. Thanks for the video!

Love your videos Jerry. This was a special one

Jerry, 4 years ago (2019) you were at 20k subs. Today (Mar 2023) you’re at 90k! Congrats on growing to 90k subscribers who apparently understand what good video is! Thanks for keepin’ on keeping on!

Amazing to watch you work sir

Excellent work as always sir. I enjoyed watching the process of bringing that old guitar back to life.

Beautiful work as ever, another one brought back to life.

Got one of the limited run of the 125th anniversary editions by Washburn. Lovely to see one of the originals come back to life! Thanks

i like the way you work my dad always said that if you do something right the first time you wont have to do it again.

I sure do love this channel. Great job.

Those old Washburn parlor guitars are great players,you did a great job my friend

I have a martin from that era that looks so similar. Despite missing a few inches of a side panel it is incredibly sweet sounding and resonant. Great little instruments.

I love old instruments. I built a a 00 28 Martin kit set and set the neck with carbon paper, my friend and your Randy turned me onto Settings the neck with carbon paper and it’s the only way to do it properly the neck turned out perfect. Love your show. Keep up doing old guitars with new ones like this.Again Great Job Jerry

Love watching you fix instruments, I watch your videos more than any others. Best regards from your neighbour to the north 🇨🇦

You have a great sense of the character of the instruments you work on, and the skills to make the repairs fit into that character without disturbing it, yet making the repaired instrument look so much better than the way it looked when it first came in.

Jerry I thought I was time traveling when I saw July 2019 ;-) that’s a nice old guitar, and a beautiful job repairing it... amazing.

By what seems to be overwhelming coincidence, I have almost the exact guitar and I have it in pieces so that I can repair it. Branded inside is "1897 Style". It has 4 abalone position markers, each different, the identical binding to the one you repaired and an abalone rosette at each end of the bridge. The fretboard was (And remains) cracked, as on yours, from the sound hole to the 12th fret. Little tiny crack. Couple small cracks in the body, nothing too bad. Had to pull the fretboard off. The neck/body joint is solid but the action had gotten too high to be playable. The neck itself had warped over the years and I had to plane it to get it flat again and I'm still working on it. Fretboard might go back on tomorrow. I'm told by experts online that obtaining the correct date is almost impossible. They said mine was built between 1898 and 1902 and I wouldn't be at all surprised if yours is the same style and age. They tell me that there were three levels (Prices). The price apparently was dependent upon trim with all having the same basic wooden components. The one in the video looks like the lower end, mine is the middle and the top level had abalone binding a la Martin D45. I own half a dozen acoustic guitars, including a 43 year old Martin but the Washburn is my daily player, or will be once she's back in one piece. The wide fretboard is essential (I have fingers that look like bratwursts) and she plays like a dream when in top condition. Makes a LOT of noise for a tiny body. It's both a pleasure and an honor to watch you work. I never miss an episode of Rosa's School for Aspiring Luthiers. You, Sir, ROCK. And also bluegrass, if that can be a verb. Cheers!

Nice......wouldn't mind owning that one too. Great job restoring it!

Really like that little guitar!!!! He has common sense and does great work.

Very nice work! You are very talented. Thanks for the great video..

I really enjoyed watching a true craftsman at work.

Really great job Jerry! It amazes me how close you get colors with your color blindness. Sure you can see the patch in that side crack, but I don't think someone without color blindness could do a match any better. Color matching on wood is really hard, I know. Love that old case too. Any collector would be proud to own this guitar now. Glad your still well and able to do this work. Nothing makes me happier than to see an old instrument put back into service. Thanks for sharing. I have a bone to pick with KZfaq about this kind of video. Why in the world don't they have an option for two thumbs up?

Love it. One was at a local shop near me up here in MN. I couldn't believe how V-shaped the neck was. It was very pronounced.

The « pièce de résistance » is the main dish in a full menu… Quite an old-fashioned notion, so it fits with the guitar.