624 RSW Making A Relatively Old VINTAGE Short Neck Mandolin Playable Again!

[@Stringsonabudget]

Jerry I just love your channel. I watch repairs videos daily. Thank you. I have several yt channels. I know the work put in. Thank you

[@RandySchartiger]

haha thanks for the mention brother! I watch these videos on the big screen usually and can't comment from there but wanted to make sure I do when mentioned. thank you sir! and great work as always! red wing at the end I do believe! :D

[@jthonn]

You are the Mandolin man. Another one of your thousands of repairs. Great job as always, I wish I lived closer to you. If I ever, probably not, but if I do end up anywhere near you, you will see me. Thanks Jerry for all you do.

[@svemee]

Didn’t know A-style mandolins ever had a back brace. Looks like it had been retopped with f-holes at some point in time. Therefore the short neck. Great you got it playable again.

[@zapa1pnt]

Re-topping would not shorten the neck.

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

​​@@zapa1pntbut it would give a short neck mandolin f holes

[@johnthomas2255]

Excellent repair Jerry , I hope the customer appreciates it

[@NickRatnieks]

My Gibson made 1940 Kalamazoo Oriole mandolin has that headstock which is thinner at the top edge, so it may have been something that Gibson did at that time. Those old Kluson tuners from that era are notorious for buttons shrinking and crumbling. Stew Mac sells replacement buttons to replace the old ones as they fall off. Nice work, Jerry! That headstock logo and the much later tailpiece and cover rather than the "cloud " type suggest that work may have been done to the mandolin back at Gibson at some point but not a re-carved top as you state.

[@davestambaugh7282]

Look for a factory order number somewhere. It will be in pencil or chalk somewhere inside. Spans guide to Gibson has lists of FONs from the Gibson company records.

[@jimpage601]

That Young Jerry guy does good work. If he's still around, he could be your new apprentice.

[@jefferp]

😂😂😂 Great idea!

[@cheeksoffire]

Hey Jerry, where can I get all the cool RSW shirts you wear?

[@nellayema2455]

Nice one! My dad had a 1930's A style with f-holes similar to that one. He owned it from the age of 12. He was born in 1928. He let me play it as a kid. He sold it sometime in the 80's.

[@Nine_Violets.]

Lovely wood

[@iridge1]

If you ever run into that type of brace problem, you could take your blade that you bent , put some glue on the bent portion and slide it under the brace, just a suggestion. Love your many videos, you are the best Jerry.

[@robertmcfetridge3480]

It's funny to see the old Ryobi cordless again . When the batteries died on mine I switched to a Milwaukee M12 which is much better.

[@costrio]

It looks to me as if the mandolin was dropped on it's tail piece (hence replacement thereof) resulting in the cracks on the back. It might then have fallen over damaging the neck, then and/or also knocking the bracing of the back loose too, perhaps? Interesting discovery and repairs on this one, IMO. I like the clamping through the soundhole strategy.

[@jeffgrier8488]

Another great video from the vault, thanks Jerry!

[@yoheff988]

I would let those new tuners (just the plastic part) in a coffee (Black) bin over night, in the morning they will look vintage like. For the neck crack, I would drop one drop of CA glue in (middle of crack) one spot, if it disappear immediately it's a wood crack if not it's a finish crack and it means nothing.

[@keithalexander7189]

Great video- how do you choose where to file the string grooves on the saddle?

[@TKevinBlanc]

What does "cut the top down" mean?

[@mortensen1961]

I think he meant that, at some point, someone had disassembled the mandolin to carve the top thinner.

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

It looks like a mahogany back? The A40'S had mahogany backs, the A50's maple. The A40's had plywood backs though so I'd put my money on an A00. The problem is, Gibson sometimes switched materials with stuff on hand just to fill orders.

[@fletcherdale4371]

Excellent content as usual... Please bring back the Bluegrass instrumentals during the time lapse

[@zapa1pnt]

Glue syringe or brush. It's six of one, halfassed the other. 🤣🤣

[@MrFlint51]

I suggest that you take the needle OFF the syringe when sucking up glue.

[@richardpaulhall]

What does "cutting the top down" even mean?

[@richardpaulhall]

Ah, I should have waited, "cutting the top down" meant recarving the top.

[@amezcuaist]

Fish Glue. Now`s your chance to demonstrate.

[@smolville]

Why don't you invent a mandolin with a place to store extra strings. If you tape them to the head, you can't see the rose.

[@mattdoliver1984]

I just clicked like and turned it to 666 🤦🏻‍♂️ Wish me luck

[@that_thing_I_do]

I commend the editing choices in this video as I would call it a barometer video. If you don't know how to plug up old screw holes with toothpicks, then you shouldn't be trying to do your own repairs

[@euhdink4501]

You should have used hide glue for the backbrace 🙂🙂🙂

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

I loved this project. As far as that hairline neck crack, all you can do is what you did. You looked it over very closely and no movement seen, no opening visible. So just finish up, string it up, and wait and see. Customer needs to keep a close eye on it. Wait and see - if it grows or shows any more of a problem, work on it then. It MAY explode at some point and not develop slowly. Replacement is sometimes necessary. That'd be a shame in a vintage mando like this. And I love your demos on mandolins! I just wish you could play the guitar better. I don't like to see you play open G, C, and D chords and call it good. They have to play well all the way up to the body, and with string bends, even on acoustics. Just sayin.