Wow! What a tonal improvement with a proper bridge!

Timed to perfection. Bedtime in London, England. Thanks 🙏🏻

Thank you for 24 minutes of sanity. It's appreciated more than you know.

I replaced the plastic bridge on my dad’s 60’s Epiphone Caballero, never looked back. Great posting as always, thanks for sharing.

The humility and sense of humor you have is amazing! The skills are acceptable as well. Thank You!!!

The difference in sound between the plastic bridge and the wood was night and day! 🤯 you’re doing the Lord’s work sir

This man should charge more for his work than marke but I'll bet he doesn't. If you watch his videos you will see many examples of him doing something extra that wasn't contracted for because he, "Can't let it go home like that". That is an indicator of a craftsman who is more concerned about his customer's happiness than his bottom line. Ted - you have arrived. Your reputation has been made - unless you somehow tuin it. Your humility is refreshing, your skills are top notch, your dedication to excellence shows plainly. And you are a natural teacher. Your life is open to you.

Your patience never ceases to amaze me. As someone who has none, it's a quality I truly admire. I love watching you work.

Boy that hummingbird sounds good. Great job. It’s so nice to watch an actual craftsman at work.

That Hummingbird was quite an instrument. Beautiful.

Thanks master Ted. The last thing I expected to see on the underside of the plastic bridge, was that it is not solid. Being hollow must really suck the information from the strings. Yikes.

Thank you for your videos.

Cool and informative video as always!!! I’ve done several of those LG plastique bridge swaps. It’s amazing how much better they sound and play!!!

Definitely a huge difference with the new wooden bridge, fantastic workmanship as always too. Each week I look forward to your feeds, far better than what’s on TV these days ahah!

Great work on two great sounding guitars. The wood bridge really is a very noticeable improvement over the old plastic bridge!

Awesome work Ted ! ❤

Great video. Thank you for the effort it takes to show us your work.

Your idea to give us an audio sample of plastic bridge vs rosewood bridge was not surprising in sound but much appreciated. non the less.

Been watching your back catalogue- if that’s what we call them, lol, . You’re such a talented craftsman. I truly admire your depth of knowledge,, yes I see it that way. Keep up the good work! I truly appreciate you…

Excellent video once again Ted. Really love your content, and consummate skill.

Wow, even on my phone I could hear the mid tones come alive with the new bridge. I will have to watch this one c few more times Thanks.

This video transports me to a place where I am removed from the crazy world outside and can enjoy a feeling of finite concentration and beauty in bringing things together to make a masterpiece.

So Beautiful. Wonderful Job!!!

Nice! A friend of mine has a Hummingbird he got because it was his dream guitar. Guess what broke off within a month? Hint: it rhymes with "bread lock".

I hit the like button before I even watch. That’s how confident I am in Ted’s work.

Greatest luthier channel on KZfaq

Love your channel and the Craftsmanship is amazing

The rosewood bridge replacing the plastic bridge seems to give the guitar a whole new lease of life. It's a much more full sound, compared to the trebley sound the plastic bridge gave

Gack! That deck dive is terrifying.

your name was being praised on crimson guitars today. your work spans the pond.

Every time you repair and play these beauties it brings tears to my eyes. I just love guitars so much and I have an affinity with old Gibsons, either acoustic or electric. I'm so happy you're around to share the experience of bringing back the injured instruments, love your channel.

9:20: I had an instructor who used to say “‘hopefully’ is not a professional word”, but I have a feeling that you follow through on your “hopefully’s “ close to 100% of the time.

Great sound with the new bridge. The Hummingbird is amazing! Just beautiful. Appreciate your skills! Thanks, Ted! 🎶🎶🎶

I enjoy your videos very much.

As usual, beautiful work.

Rosewood bridge definitely brings out the sounds the smaller Gibson!! Great video!!

Thanks for sharing. Love your channel.

I love your channel, Ted.

Gonna like before I watch as they always great videos 😄 And it was interesting as always. Do you ever play someone’s guitar you’ve fixed and think wow that sounds amazing ?

Great video. Very interesting insights into how and why each task is required. Those old Gibsons sound great too. I would dearly love a late 60's Hummingbird.

Every time I watch one of these videos I get Long Distance Runaround stuck in my head because the opening tune reminds me of it...

Love the sound of those oldies

I've owned several Larivée guitars, including my forever guitar, a 2010 D-09BZ. One thing I've noticed is that the spruce used for the tops is of consistently high quality. That Hummingbird really came to life with the new bridge and neck reset!

This was a lovely surprise for my Monday evening

Another one in the can. Well done

Always a great inspiration.

The difference in the LG with the wooden bridge is huge!

Hey man thanks for making us content. 🙏 we appreciate you.

Love watching these videos. It's like New Yankee Workshop for guitars... and in Canada!

Both great sounding guitars. I like the hummingbird of the two, and Yes the SG sounded better with the wooded bridge

Definitely sounds better with a wood bridge, making full contact on the top, deeper woodier sound. Or at least that’s the way my 71 year old ears hear it.

I have a 70s Japanese Ibanez Concord Hummingbird with a lifting bridge you’ve reminded me to try to fix. The guitar cost $100 Australian, so a learning experience.

Great work as always

Dramatic improvement from the plastic bridge to the new Rosewood one!

It's like watching a magic show! ;)

Another fine job! I appreciate your efforts in saving these old beauties. Remember everyone, we are only custodians of our instruments. If not for yourself, take care of your instruments for the next custodian.

When my 68 J-45 needs a tune-up I'm packing it in the car and driving up to Toronto... great vid

Replacing the plastic bridge with rosewood made that Gibson sound so much better.

9500 hours! Almost an expert!

Man, I wish you were here when I had my wife's 60s Grammer guitar " repaired"

Wonderful video as always! I have a 60s Hummingbird that I inherited from my grandfather that has the plastic bridge. I wish I could get it to you so you could replace it.

Wow a LG-1. My dad showed me my first chords in 1973 on that guitar (I was 10). It had a small body and was considered a student model. I also remember my dad playing with his friends and that little guitar struggling to get through. Smaller body = less volume.

My favorite Canadian 👍

The tone difference between the two bridges is very profound! Why in the world was plastic ever used? Love your channel, man. I'm a player, not a luthier but I appreciate your skills!! I wish I had the patience and equipment to do what you do.

"I'm told if you do this for 10,000 hours you can become an expert" priceless comment((-:

As always Ted you are killing it !

I had a Terada Dove T100 in my teens, lovely guitar and compared really well with the real thing.

I could certainly tell the difference between the plastic bridge verses the rosewood. The plastic one actually sounded.. plasticy? I know that's not a word but,yeah had that sound to it for sure.

Nice they sound so much better

I was a Larrivee dealer, all of the parlors did this or worse. They were inexpensive guitars at the time 500-1000. We didn't want to repair so we just sold them as repair specials for half off. Always wondered why they all did that.

Very nice video! Well worth the wait!

Had to hold my breath on some of that surgery, whew, gutsy!!

I just reglued a Larrivee bridge the other day and found the same lip, looks like they routed the finish where the bridge went and cut into the wood, I’m surprised the glue held at all considering the gap that’s be under there. Pretty sloppy work if you ask me!

Thanks for posting! Great work, as always.

Nice work

Bridge made a big difference in the sound!

I inherited my Martin D28 from my Uncle Tom. I think his was bought in 72 maybe 73. We live in a elevation of 800 feet from the pacific ocean is 5 miles away. We have nice instruments here. Nice climate here.

Thanks for the lesson Ted.

*I have seen $1000+ acoustics with the strings half an inch off the fretboard.* Aside from changing the damn things, sometimes the stock just needs rasped! I did a really old, really nice Cort acoustic like that and I could shred on it after about 8 months of learning on my own. *It was as low as my stratocaster which was insane for the 90s flood of foreign and dumbed down American instruments.*

I recently completely reworked an lg1. Sweet sounding guitar.

I'm enjoying watching your un-uptight guitar repair vids. Over the years I've had plenty of neck resets done on vintage Martins and Gibsons. I'm curious if you ever tried the cheapy neck reset where you loosen the back from the neck block and sides around the heel? It could be perfected for old inexpensive Asian guitars that have necks not conducive to removal. I've heard some repair guys won't touch old Guilds for this reason. Perhaps this method would be faster/cheaper for lower end guitars.

Awesome video again. I did not know about the plastic bridges on the 60's Gibson guitars. And I understand that not all of them were plastic. Thank goodness my 65 Epiphone Texan FT79n has a rosewood bridge and if memory serves me, I think it's even Brazilian rosewood. Anyways, great video. I love the work you do and if I could, I would have you work on my Texan.

I looked for it yesterday, was very sad. Now! Happy.

I assumed the plastic bridge was fully filled and was horrified when you showed the other side. That's just shady, even for the 60s! 😅

Many thanks. Great work

Can't imagine they thought they'd get sufficient energy transfer with just the outline of that plastic bridge touching the body.

Great stuff!👍

Like night and day with the LG 👍

Thank you!

GREAT JOB, GREAT VIDEO, NEXT TIME...

they really sound good to me.

Side stories yes!

Ladder braced LG-1 & the bird is X braced. The Cyclovac vacuum formed bridge. plate. The LG-2 is actually X braced.

Hey Ted, awesome videos! I have a question about what you discussed about grain direction for bridges. I was taught rift sawn for bridges instead of perfectly quartersawn is preferred to help prevent cracks along the saddle or bridge pins. You prefer perfectly quartered wood?

Big sounds.

My gibson AJ lasted 5 years before it cracked to shit in the Midwest. That lasted 30 years in an unheated cottage? Why can't I find a guitar that can handle Chicago weather.

Belly pointed to the headstock looks too weird!

Great job as usual.

Love your videos, Ted. I know it probably hinders your progress when working on guitars with having to deal with cameras, etc. I hope you make it back in YT monetization.

Polishing, polishing, polishing ...I just thought I'd throw that in.