Wow. Extremely enjoyable. My favorite video so far! Thanks Ted.

You make us local guitar repair people look like hacks ;-) Kudos Sir!

With regards the curing of the color, I guess it would be due to tint, "white" does not absorb as much as say red, red paint is all colors absorbed apart from red, which is why we see it as red.. We see the lack of the rest of the spectrum? I doubt that is the technical PHD level reason.. but just a fun comment!!!

Loads of info here. Well done Ted! Thanks

Please don’t get political!

A master at work

Groovy licks on the arch top demo sounds!

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The amount of skill this man uses is insane. He probably put more work into this guitar than they did at the factory.

I sometimes wonder if twoodford would tune my guitar better than I can Top flight

Honestly cannot you believe that you give this knowledge away for free on the internet.

"Self-adhesive sandpaper" -- doesn't make sense.

Genuine question Ted….Why go from f-holes to a sound hole? Why is it preferred to make that big change from the original f-holes?

This bass looks like something you'd get off Temu

AWESOME !!!!!!!

that tracer jig is brilliant! the dual function of the rubber band blew my mind. Made my day.

Super video dude. Thank you for sharing. Really great!

Awesome video. This is fascinating.

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simply amazing !

See, I would have done it different....just kidding! Fascinating as usual, Ted!

I very much appreciate the explanations and the train of though you are sharing it really helps with understanding and making good decisions on other projects that use similar principles too. Thank you for sharing !

I keep coming back to this just to hear the story of hard bitten special forces man Harley Benton! 😂 Bravo sir, bravo!

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but I usually hear some noise/hiss coming from my right speaker on your vids. The mind adapts, but once you go into voice over mode it stops.

Awesome rebuild.

I get sent occasionally to seminars at my regular job. Many of them repeat, but one of the presenters said one time "I know you've probably all heard this unless it's your first time, but listen again and see if you can pick up just one more nugget of information" Every time I watch your videos, I get another like 5 or 6 nuggets of info. I watch probably greater than 80% of what you post and learn something every time. Question.... the chasing grain lines with the top... and maybe the bracing as well.... do you feel like this is done primarily for structural integrity and longevity of the finished product? And what sort of impact, if any, do you think it has to sound quality in the end? My thinking is... in a factory setting... was this taught and practiced by every day people on the factory floor? Or did they get the fit they needed and move on? I ask this because I have done a fair job duplicating the pickups of a 1961 strat I had access to. In attempting to replicate what would have originally been done, I impart a measured degree of "carelessness" to the process. Much the same as I suspect some of the people would have done while sitting around at a workstation, chatting with the person next to them to pass the time to get through yet another day of production. Of course... I expect Martin in general took a greater amount of care than Fender overall in their process control at the factory. I'm just curious if all of these things we do these days is overkill. And at the end of the day... those really great old guitars were all built by someone working to pay the bills and doing the job just "good enough" and going home for the day. And we spend so much time these days learning and implementing a lot of fine details that may or may not have ever been paid attention to by the factory workers putting the "golden era" guitars together. Not that it's a bad idea to practice good building habits and practices in general. I just wonder if all the trouble we go through is worth it in the end, haha I say this because I kind of changed my mindset on the last Strat I built, I took a much more light hearted approach and didn't stress about tiny details, and did a sort of "pass/fail" test in the same manner a factory worker would. Pass? Okay.... next step.... and that thing is by far the best Strat copy I've ever made. I think Fender in general had a certain "nonchalance" in the processes in those days and working it in to the building process seems to have created a more accurate copy haha it was no different than assembling a chair for them I think haha Martin probably had a little more put together operation, being a more aged company in the 1930s than Fender was in the 1960s, and I think acoustics require a bit more attention to detail to get right. Can't wait to see the conclusion of this project. Enjoyed all 45 minutes.

Fascinating, Captain. With your usual caveat about people getting offended about repairs to instruments that don't belong to them - I remembered a Robert Smith interview where a guitar shop refused to sell him a White Falcon because he'd mentioned he was going to spray it black!

I LOVE these big projects. Thank you so much Ted

It is an absolute pleasure watching you work.

Another awesome video Ted! I replaced a top on an acoustic a few years ago, just to see if I could do it. It was a junker, but it turned out so good that I wish I had had started with a better donor. Can't wait to see the next episode!! Thanks for the amazing videos

Nice. Awaiting part 2

I love the idea of it being a *duty* to preserve & re-use the original timber in situ.

So you're saying that if I search for a 1935 model, I could get a quality prewar archtop *without* crappy bar frets for reasonably cheap? Interesting...

Oh no! beautiful F holes replaced by ugly circle. :( Customer what have you done

You can tell they did not dust the neck for prints, and the body for Prints. They just talk about it like it's a big story

I so appreciate your videos! Watching someone with both knowledge and skill is quite rare on KZbin.

Very instructive video. Thanks.

Awesome stuff.

To pull the pins, loosen the strings and reach inside to push the pin UP.

Excellent project. Thanks for sharing.

22:00 My 1971 Ramirez has over 950 growth rings from centerline to edge of lower bout. Now that's a slow-growing piece of Western Red Cedar!

What an absolute freakin' treat! Cheers Ted, very much appreciated!

Really, and I mean REALLY like this video!! In the Netherlands we say about you: AMBACHTSMAN!!

Can anyone remember the video where he sprays contact cleaner in some pots and after the grunge comes out, he says, "gross" in a matter of fact way? I love that one.

1.2% offended. You know that 43.7% of statistics are made up on the spot?

Ted, you are WAT TO COOL,,,great googly moogly

Starting at the beginning of the video library and working forward

Sweet suzuki.

Greetings from Sweden, Stockholm luthier school! I like your top gluing jigg. I joined my first top and back here at school with sandpaper stuck to a big jointer planer table and pulled it against the fence. We have a light box to check the fit in and it was a perfect. With out that perfect flat surface I thick your shoting board solution is prefered. I’ll try your method on the next guitar build!