Ted is a Master Luthier that makes me want to watch him even when I don't own or play a stringed instrument.

"See, nothing but those tone producing screws." Hey, at least they were different lengths: Long, for the Bassus Maximus, and short, for the Treble Angelicus...obviously. Ted, and his videos are as good as KZfaq gets...and quite a bit more, actually.

I really like the sound of that. Quite breathy and open. The tip on grain direction in a narrow space was a real cognitive nugget. Worth the price of admission.

Here for my Saturday night treat

This classical project seemed more like a rescue than a repair. Thanks as always for sharing your work with us.

The history intro is always interesting, a great tribute to such an amazing instrument! I get more attached each to my Martin. Had a classical when I graduated high school. Thanks Ted! 🎶🎶🎶

I just came across this.. I have played guitar.. 50 years.. Your observation is to be revered.. Thank you...

8:29 I love, how "this side up" points downwards :)

I would really like you to do a video on chisel maintenance.

I have a Jose Ramirez Guitar (Model 4E) that I purchased in 2000. As it ages its sound is remarkable even though it is not the professional model. I will never part with it until death do us part. Now that I have "reached" 82, my hearing is as electrically enhanced as any Guitars you have worked on and I still get goosebumps to play it when it is perfectly in tune.

After purchasing a telecaster truss nut tool from stew mac, I realized there is another option at almost no cost. When you purchase a gallon of paint at the hardware store, you sometimes are given a small tool to open the paint can. It is like a flathead screwdriver that is bent very close to the tip. No need to loosen or remove the neck for truss rod adjustments.

just two more things: 1) i feel relief when you post your videos and 2) i managed to restore an antique wood thingy in my parents' home using a technique i've learned from you, so thanks for that too. my guitars are doing fine for the time being, but i almost... no, nevermind.

Your channel is fascinating and pleasingly meditative. I have been playing guitar for 45 years, but know woefully little about how they are constructed and maintained. Thanks to you, that is changing. Your array of skills is astounding and your ability to clearly explain it all is admirable. Thank you for providing valuable education and great entertainment!

It's good to see that you used a full contact shim in the neck pocket not a little piece of cardboard or plastic like most repairmen. Full neck to body contact is important.

In the movie, A Hard Day's Night" Beatles" George" is seen using a Ramirez" acoustic guitar On the song and I love her" Elite guitar, for an elite Guitarist.

Man I loved that Tele having a p-90 in the neck position! Every time I see one with a humbucker there I think dang a p-90 would compliment a standard Tele bridge pickup. Also I like the saddles that have threads on the bottom instead of the top. That way the screw doesn’t need to be so tall.

Ted, since Philips screws and screwdrivers were *designed to cam out from too much torque or insufficient downward pressure*, and the intonation-adjusting screwheads of the Tele bridge are already pointing downwards, you'd be better off avoiding chewed screws by using a sufficiently long screwdriver so that the handle of the driver protrudes past the body of the guitar, minimalizing the offset-angle mismatch between screw and driver.

Man, that acoustic is something. It almost feels like there's certain harmonics ringing out clearer than others causing slightly whistly windy noises? Very strange.

Pickguard holes not lining up is something I experienced recently. Last week I swapped in a loaded pickguard that came from a Mexican Strat onto my Squier Affinity Strat, foolish me was too excited to play it to even think about checking if the holes lined up before soldering in all the wires. Exactly zero holes lined up, had to plug and redrill all of them with the still connected pickguard flopping around in the way all that time. Came out looking cleaner than it originally did, and the new pickups and electronics are an order of magnitude better than the old ones.

4:07 My Parents went to Spain, & all they brought me was this Guitar. From doing some research, the Label probably used to say that.

I really look forward, to your video's popping up on my feed Ted. Always informative, love your thought processes, and strangely soothing too. Polishing, polishing, polishing. That's your next T-shirt😀

8:12 Maybe it's the painkillers talking but that felt good in my soul.

I enjoyed this video more than anything I have seen in several weeks! It is always neat to dive into the historical value of these instruments.

The "Ramirez" has built-in reverb! 😎🤘

Polishing, polishing, polishing.

You should twist the leads together on fender pick ups like that with the two separate, non shielded leads. It cancels out any noise picked up along the length of the leads (noise picked up on the hot lead ends up out of phase with the noise picked up on the ground side).

Love the sound of the acoustic!

An Unconstrained sounding Classical/Flamenco Hybrid Guitar, very cool.

I like watching these things with subtitles on. Interesting to read about the devalued placenta.

I really enjoy your videos, the narrative is always great. Polishing, polishing.....polishing.

Another great job! Thanks for the videos.

Thank you, Ted. Your site is at the top of my favorites. I look forward to every video.

I don't know how you don't have 500,000+ subscribers. Hope you get there. I'd trust you with my acoustic more than any luthier I'm acquainted with. Infinite amount of knowledge and skill.

Your talent and entertaining commentary keep me watching every video you do. I just ordered a t shirt can't wait to get it I do my own work on my 20+ guitars and learn so much from your channel, thank you.

I love this show. Calm direct information without bs. Awesome!

Thanks for sharing your amazing amount to talent in your field. I could watch your videos all day. Very relaxing

Great stuff as always, Ted. I love the history you provide, and your versatility as a guitarist always astounds me.

The final look on the Tele is gorgeous!

I have never seen bridge beats. Thank you for showing us those. I like the piece you played on the classical guitar. It was fun.

Amazing work, and the depth of knowledge is astounding. And, p-a-t-I-e-n-t !! Great video 👍🏿

I discovered your KZfaq channel recently and find your work outstanding. Very professional and entertaining.

Nice custom! Neck pickup is dandy with good tone. Bridge too. Nice setup!

" Polishing, polishing - -- - - - - - -polishing"

It's wild! When you were playing, it was as if there was reverb added, because the top just rang every kittle vibration out so loudly. I don't think I've ever heard that before. Interesting.

Great work Ted! I love bound bodies on Teles, also. Don’t really need another guitar, but now I have the itch to find a nice bound body and start building one.

A great explanation and educational listen. Thank you.

What a great episode Ted! You never cease to amaze me with your extensive and vast amounts of both knowledge and skill. I always enjoy your playing as well, you're just an all around great guy. 🍻 Cheers brother

“Mahoganeshque” is my new favorite word.

Sounds like the first guitar would work in a Ennio Morricone spaghetti western soundtrack.

excellent work as always dude, and greetings from the UK :-)

Great work as always. 🙏👏👏👏

You can get an ashtray bridge with the sides ground off, I put one on my Tele and I absolutely love playing my tele now. I used to enjoy it but now I love it. Way more comfortable to play now. I got it on Amazon. It came with nice brass compensated saddles.

Nice guitar playing there on that first one Ted. cool guitars. nice work as always.

You rock. Your playing is great.

I like how you made those set jigs for positioning of the new pickup and the filing for the string barrels.

love your videos, I don't even work on guitars but for some reason I watch this more than anything on KZfaq. I do play guitar and i might try and set my on stuff up some day with all the knowledge you share with everyone

Watching a master is very calming. Watching a master who is very intelligent and has interesting anecdotes, adds great entertainment to the the calming experience. I love this channel.

For installing vintage style tele neck pups, I made a plug with two guide holes that drops into the pickguard. Two taps with a punch and perfect every time

repairing a similar guitar the same way could not believe this came up. subbed. thanks a lot.

Love to watch your content It’s my Sunday morning thing Thanks

Great stuff as usual Ted. Regarding the"crappy amp", the best $ 99. (US) I ever spent was on an Orange brand 5 watt. Excellent work on both guitars.

Damn I love how sharp your chisels always are

Every guitar you play at the end of your videos sound very happy, happy that they’ve got a new lease on life. Bravissimo, Ted!

I spent a chunk of my day working on a Squire Jaguar bass I picked up to do some improvements to. The fretboard and frets were NASTY dirty. While I was polishing the frets, I found myself saying out loud "polishing... polishing..." I also referred to one of your old videos on how to rebuild the nut slots with sanding dust and super glue. It's not as good as a Ted job, but it did the trick!

As usual, these videos are interesting and informative. Another early 60s custom tele player is the great Ann Arbor/Detroit based Scott Morgan- Rationals, Sonic's Rendezvous Band. Hydromatics etc.

Oh god I love a sharp chisel. So pleasing

Very nice-as always

Dude you are a wizard. Excellent workmanship!

Good work, as usual. As brilliant as Leo Fender was, I wish he had thought of making truss rod adjustments and neck pickup height adjustments possible without taking parts off first. I have several vintage-spec Fenders made like that one. They're beautiful guitars, but I dread setting them up.

I liked the silent begining Held some drama that way IMHO I alwsys enjoy your narration Entertsinment and useful info!

Quality work as always Ted

There’s no reason why you should necessarily care but just an fyi. On almost any single action heel adjust truss rod you can unscrew that adjustment screw/nut thing and replace it with a spoked wheel for about $5 usd (stewmac or eBay). You’d have to put a little access hole in pickguard above the neck pickup but then you’d end up with an easily adjustable vintage style truss rod! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Love watching all of your videos, you have some very good knowledge & skill Keep me coming

I like the way you roll, sharp dude... 😎

Wow! You made that Tele look infinitely better!

I was always told the addition of fiber makes you more regular rather than the removal of fiber 9:04

Polishing, Polishing, Polishing Always gets me! Cheers man!

I see you are using the esteemed and traditional "invisible pick" technique on the Ramirez. Colour me impressed. Great video! I missed the jaunty theme tune though..

I bet Ted is happy when a customer just wants the strings changed.

I think your assumption that the "Ramirez" was built in Valencia is spot on. The back and sides on it look like nogal which was to go-to on cheaper guitars back then. Somewhere around the 50's or 60's the go-to got switched to mahogany over there.

The Ramirez sounded so accurate in its intonation, which I did not expect after your comment. Sounds amazing.

Your multimeter can measure the resistance between your hands (internal body resistance), making that measurement part of your overall measurement which introduces error.

I love a double bound Tele with brass compensated saddles. Black with a black three ply pickguard.

Ted, you're mine and many others' hero. This guitar in particular hearkens back to Andy Summers of The Police and that wonderfully unique sound of his. I've always been sorry that The Police split up. They were an oasis of creativity in a somewhat dismal period of rock history. Great sound, great vocals (Sting) and great originality.

I *love* Telecasters, and Andy Summers is one of my favourite guitarists, too! His is pretty cool of course, but my favourite has always been the 'Deluxe' with two wide-range humbuckers and the 'big' Strat headstock, which I'd always liked a lot more than the smaller version 😊

My favorite rotund Canadian type luthier

That old weird nylon string sounded perfect…. I mean PERFECT…. Like an old spaghetti western perfect….. i was waiting for clint eastwood to appear…

high point of the week end. Thank you.

Keep em coming, from a Big Fan. Tennessee

Ty for sharing the thoughts as you work, little details are critical imho

It’s beautiful Jerry, keep it the way it is. You’re the best

Hey, I watch ALL your videos. I’m not a luthier. Just a player who does wood working. I saved up for a long time and got my dream guitar. Gibson custom Les Paul 1960 vos. It came in poor condition, lots of issues, one thing I noticed was where the binding meets the mahogany there is a ridge. Almost as if the binding channel was cut to deep. This one was bad so I sent it back. I just got a new one. It’s beautiful, probably the nicest top I’ve ever seen in person. On the top of the neck, there is a slight ridge where the binding meets the neck, slight, and on the B string I can turn the kluson tuner a little less than a quarter turn before the it tensions the string, like a weird spot where you can turn back and forth and nothing happen. Last is, the action was high. Lots of relief in neck so I tightened it a smidge and lowered the bridge. The action is better but I have a little buzz. My question is, what are your first impression of these issues? All things that can be fixed? Or send it back for the second time?

Thanks for playing them for us Ted.

What happened to the beautiful intro music?

TLC-62B - Telecaster 1962 Bound mebbe. I had one of these back in he '90s in Candy Apple Red. I miss it.

Steve Marriot played a very battered sunburst bound Telecaster with a custom made pick up at the neck to great effect and Clapton had one with a Stratocaster neck on it. You can see him playing it in the footage from the Blind Faith concert in Hyde Park. Really lovely looking with the binding and the sunburst.

Nice flamenco' playing!

I miss the polka dot towel rest!

I have these Gotoh InTunes barrels on mine too, they are definitely worth every cent, even though they are like 30 bucks!

I put the same Gotoh compensated saddles on my Tokai Tele copy .... also replaced tuners with Gotoh ones, much improved.