A very regal Regal.

[@andrewpartington7274]

Not a good weekend without Ted!

[@ahf5471]

It’s not a weekend without Ted.

[@TZerot0]

Friggen eh!

[@slo5283]

! Well it is disappointing when a week gets skipped, but i just watch another for the 4th-5th time ;)

[@garywhitt98]

Woodford fan here. Thanks Ted.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

Thats in exceptional condition for nearly a century old - amazing!

[@jarm7726]

What nice saturday morning surprize🎉

[@OtherWorldExplorers]

You know it's pretty amazing. The guitar repairs sre Itself enough to draw me to the channel. But what keeps me around is the historical information you research (assumed). Thank you very much for doing the research. And I'm not sure how much this you know off the top of your head but boy you make it seem like it's lived experience. 😊

[@dwebster50]

Your research off manufacture is a very nice addition to your repair. Like no one adds this & quite frankly , that adds very much to the video . Folks this channel is the best ! I just wish you were in Alberta🇨🇦🥰🎼

[@markxl]

What a lovely sounding little guitar.

[@edwardpetersen4309]

I too have found India Ink to be the ideal ebony dye. Folks have brought me their instruments with brown streaks or discolored spots in their ebony (or other wood) fretboards and India Ink does a perfect job of making it uniform. Personally, I like streaked ebony, but to each his own.

[@jasoncockwell8077]

It's important to remember you're working on a left-handed Guitar! That made me chuckle. Great video of a beautiful Guitar. Fond regards from The Emerald Isle..

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

I love this Acoustic Guitar

[@patm5086]

Good god that guitar sounds good.

[@JxH]

8:18 Instinctive visual reaction: 'Hey, you put the dots on the wrong side !!' LOL... ;-) !!!!!!!

[@goodun2974]

I was thinking the same thing myself!

[@accelerateddragon]

Man, I thought I knew something about guitar history. You have excellent narration and research skills. I'm catching up and watching all of videos having recently discovered your channel. Very skillful, no Dunning-Kruger effect, no sensationalism, just great info passed on in a dignified manner. Thank you.

[@markvonwisco7369]

What a cool little guitar! The pickguard really does fit with the overall aesthetic of the instrument.

[@rayclark9643]

Playing a left handed guitar right handed is a "noteworthy" achievement Ted!😊

[@Blueshirt38]

Hell yeah it is. I'm right handed and can barely play a right handed guitar right handed.

[@cannedheat2264]

@@Blueshirt38 so you play left handed? I’m a lefty and I mostly play right handed. That feeling you have with your dominant hand fretting is hard to explain.

[@rayclark9643]

@@cannedheat2264 No afraid not...I do a lot of things ambidextrous, but guitar isn't one of them😊

[@Blueshirt38]

@@cannedheat2264 No I'm right handed, just not very good at guitar.

[@henryvanweeren7233]

The fact that this craftsmanship is done in my city almost makes me cry. It's like you should be restoring these treasures in some exotic European city. Thank you so much for your presentations!

[@tasteapiana]

The sound out of that at the end is awesome. Imagine if Randy Rhodes had lived and had that sound to do anything beyond yet in the vein of Diary of a madman... yes! I love it when little guitars punch above their weight with a compressed attack, makes a performance seem huge.

[@jamesunderhill1603]

WOOHOO! Birthday treat, thanks Ted. 👌

[@phil36135]

Thanks Ted,This was a nice surprise. That is a sweet little guitar.

[@boldlygo3469]

Every time I watch a guitar channel of any kind, I think about buying a guitar. But I already have enough things collecting dust. Nevertheless, I love guitars and guitar players. Thanks for another informative and entertaining video.

[@jipes]

Beautiful sound so much clarity and I love the bass delicate and profound

[@seanj3667]

I've been watching Ted here for a couple years, and have gotten the guts to try some of my own small repairs. My biggest fix so far has been fixing a broken headstock for my nephews SG which has held up for over a year. Today, I bought a huge challenge... a 1983 Rickenbacker 4003 for $750. It is as bad as you thing. No pickups, bridge, tuners, nut. No idea whether tone or volume pots are good but they do turn and are intact. One truss rod missing the other needs to be replaced. Some of the binding on the neck is missing. The finish is a mess. I'm excited to try to get this poor fella playing again.

[@Hemifan4266]

As a lefty, I always appreciate Ted working on lefty conversions or actual lefty guitars.

[@frankwebster9110]

Definitely worth the share. Thanks !

[@pascalgalipeau1796]

I own one exactly like this one! 😊

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

Everytime you mention a parlor guitar, my mind subconciously drifts to that room in the Beverley Hillbillies' mansion... ("I'm out bah the Cee-ment Pond, Granny!")

[@American_Jeeper]

Watching you work, Ted, is an absolute joy. I can honestly say that, unlike another luthier in Tennessee whom I watch just for the sake of seeing his next "hold my beer" moment, I've never once cringed or wondered "what the hell is he thinking", when I watch your videos. Everything you do is methodical and well-thought out. Even though I'm in Idaho, I really wish I could send you my 2018 Les Paul Tribute for a proper setup, because you've set a bar to which no luthier can come close.

[@tds3681-d3q]

Being left handed I appreciate that you "remember" you are working on a left hand guitar 🤣

[@danielktdoranie]

Being left handed is a choice. God hates lefties.

[@Iam_Dunn]

What a little beauty! ❤ from James Bay! :)

[@briansimpson8116]

That pickguard is the Mike Tyson of pickguards. Beautiful guitar.

[@mattt023]

Thanks for sharing, as always- really cool to have an in-depth look at these

[@nickmcconnell1291]

Wow that guitar would be perfect to play the score from the original movie Romeo and Juliet! It sounds like the stringed instruments from that time period.

[@kevinhill1848]

Ted, you have made a good weekend into a fabulous weekend. Thank you for taking the time to post. Keep safe 👍

[@gregorysmith5375]

Do anyone else feel like Ted is the "Bob Ross" of guitar repair videos 😊

[@misterarthur]

Only in his soothing temperament. Bob Ross's paintings on the other hand...

[@red58impala]

I'm really digging that pickguard. Thanks for the video.

[@robnic52]

Great design and a beautiful, balanced tone. The bass is surprisingly deep and rich. Great workmanship and content as always. Thanks for sharing Ted. 👍

[@mushroomsamba82]

Love the old off-brand guitars

[@jeromestevenfaigin6059]

My Uncle told me that Fender bought Harmony because of the Regal name for the dobro. So they rename the Harmony Sovereign to the Regal Sovereign since the 1970s. I have the Harmony Sovereign of 1963 and I have a OM style Regal which I was looking to fixing it. It needs bracing due to the lack of bracing where it counts. Also, I'm working on a FG-180 red label Yamaha, Which has nothing to do with the Regal except I got those guitars at the same time as a low bidder and got them from a low bid on Ebay around 2002. They both have excellent tone and I'm looking forward to getting them done. Do some recordings with the 2 of them and resale them. Since I have my Uncle's instruments when he passed away in 2017 and other high end acoustic guitars I'm happy with them and I'm quiet content with what I have at home. I would like to sell a Martin D-15CE. All mahogany, no binding dreadnought cut away, (one of a kind) guitar with a wonderful tone, but not a loud guitar and my Uncle's is a dreadnought D28 and it's tone and volume is excellent except after watching several of your shows, I'm positive the neck and bridge is getting to the place where a reset will happen someday. His Luthier (at the time) did shave the bridge down, so if it changes more then I'll deal with that later. Right now the Martin is wonderful and sounds great and I have 2 other guitars that I own that are even better. When it comes to acoustic steel string guitars I'm set. Maybe that's why my wife said build electric guitars. Cheers!

[@localcrew]

That herringbone pattern was LIT!

[@damnperrys1]

WOWOWOW! Gorgeous!

[@davidfowler5971]

It may be my imagination but the sound seems extremely "live" and responsive, presumably in part due to it's light weight. A truly lovely piece.

[@costasarantidis4499]

Go Jays! Thanks Ted, you're doing a good thing!

[@corporalrich]

Brilliant work!

[@JohnSmith-gu6ii]

Beautiful guitar when i saw "regal" though, i thought Buick made guitars Jk. flawless work as always. 😊

[@telecasterbear]

Diggin the Blue Jays shirt.

[@p_mouse8676]

Ironic that they don't do these fancy shaped pickguards anymore, since the vast majority is done by CNC machines these days. Meaning you can give it almost any fancy shape you want :)

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

As I have mentioned in the past, I have one of those old Regal parlor guitars that belonged to my grandpa, the headstock is broken off at the slots and someone tried to putty and screw it together. Shame.

[@allancopland1768]

Lovely. I WANT one.

[@pierheadjump]

⚓️ Thanks Ted 🌈

[@jadeowenhamblyn4405]

I really liked what you played at the end!

[@Benbenbenbenbenbenbenbenben]

My goodness that sound...

[@hokehinson5987]

Wow! Your right...regalist.

[@ErickvdK]

Yay! Ted time again!😊

[@stevenedwards4470]

Could the neck have been rebound? Or is it maybe the lights. The neck binding looks so clean.

[@protoplasmic-v9m]

Most of the time the cheaper fre tboard material on Harmony's (and Regal) is pearwood. Sometimes "roasted" I guess but also the black alcohol dye seems to contribute to the destruction of the structural integrity of the wood.

[@Blueshirt38]

I'm not sure that it was an alcohol dye. I think the much older method of darkening wood was actually done by oxidizing it with an acid, or some other sort of chemical dying process.

[@protoplasmic-v9m]

Agreed. @@Blueshirt38

[@FODTony]

love it!

[@CathodeULT]

As someone that has a collection and specializes in working on left handed guitars I can say I've never forgot that I'm working on a left handed guitar. Now right handed guitars... that's another matter. Ever string and set up a Floyd the wrong way?? Sheeesh!!

[@MsRmaclaren]

You know, as an ambidextrous(my left has more dexterity) musician (I've been playing stringed instruments for over 60 years), I have never wanted a left conversion. I've always thought since my left has the most dexterity it was natural to use it to run the strings and my sorta useless right was more gifted at strumming, running a bow, tapping or finger picking. I've asked countless musicians why, as a right hander wouldn't you want to use that one to find the notes and chords? All I get are shrugs and I dunno. Maybe your viewers can weigh in with opinions?

[@petestack]

As a natural right-hander who plays guitar, bass and uke left-handed because he's missing one left-hand finger, playing the 'wrong way' round seems so logical to me now the 'right way' just feels weird. *But* I do play mostly with my fingers and think the normal use of the dominant hand as rhythm hand on stringed instruments probably stems from the use of a tool (e.g. plectrum or bow) to sound the strings, on which note I can play with a plectrum but don't feel comfortable with fancy flat-picking and find even the thought of a bow in my non-dominant hand quite disconcerting!

[@keestoft250]

Even as a left handed kid 40 years ago it seemed alien to even hold a guitar right handed, so I went down the road less traveled of finding playable lefties! My dominant hand seemed to have a more direct line to my creative brain, especially playing rhythm. The dominant hand is the steering wheel whilst the fretboard hand is all the foot pedals maybe 🤔

[@billdyke9745]

Shame that lefty didn't learn to play like Elizabeth Cotton, he has a fine collection. Hey, Ted manages to do it on left handed guitars... 👍

[@In_MT]

Regaltastic

[@milt7348]

Stay safe and we'll see you next week.

[@312diag]

the pickguard had the opposite effect on me. it's a lump or some weird boot... doesn't surprise that it only lasted one model year. oh well, just my 2 cents.

[@Sammywhat]

Hey Ted, I noticed a disproportionate amount of your repairs are of left-handed guitars. Are they all from the same client? There aren't that many of us out there! Great share! Thank you kindly!!

[@steveh1273]

How did you eliminate the sitar buzz? Was it the nut or saddle?

[@Jakfilm]

Regalicious.

[@bradstock]

Bravo, entertainment!

[@JackdeDuCoeur]

Nice work

[@outerbanks854]

I have a Victoria that looks a bit like this...

[@jasonhemmerlin6139]

Did I sleep thru Saturday? Is it Sunday already? What’s happening, why is Ted posting a new video today? I’m so lost, I’m so confused! Cool little guitar.

[@amandahugankiss4110]

Well hey there, Ted.

[@mccypr]

Thanks! 😎

[@ssrattus]

Thanks Ted!

[@R.Nashoba]

Awesome

[@kingsettle9145]

astounding

[@mellowvids9637]

Lovely !

[@Sam-Ku-West]

I used to have one just like that. Unfortunately, it was stolen. It was a great guitar.

[@soundguyjimmy]

Hopefully I can get my Sunday dose of Ted

[@hotboxpinecone36]

Yippie!

[@beenaplumber8379]

7:03 - How sharp is that knife? It's hard for me to imagine shaping ebony with a knife like that. He must spend hours each day sharpening something or other.

[@joelfildes5544]

There is a brewery in Manchester uk called Holts,they make THE cheapest beer on the planet,it’s not great either.They had a Lager called Regal…which is Lager backwards…and it tasted like it !

[@patm5086]

Hi Ted, have you ever built a guitar? My guitar guy is in port saint lucie, florida,Bob Peterson is his name.

[@sprite_6911]

I have not found a single hate comment on here. Love this little community here ❤️

[@tweezy513]

Cool pickguard

[@nickafiedguitarstechandrep9617]

Side dot king 😅

[@doctoribanez]

I was hoping you were going to turn it back into being right handed. Idk why lol

[@stainless641]

Really like this!

[@kkupsky6321]

Best gang ever…

[@johnrathbun2943]

Can you play Jimmy?😊

[@alexbostelle287]

Did you consider flipping the pic guard over and putting on the other side? I own a rosewood back and side Wienman guitar ( Philly around the 20s) has the same astounding sustain.

[@Les3201]

Nice job. Is the guitar x-braced? I know a few of the higher-end Regals were….but I think its pretty rare.

[@scottreynolds4252]

Thanks for taking the time to post on vacation getaway?

[@WutipongWongsakuldej]

May they reach Regalia.

[@dalgguitars]

fun, thanks!

[@2009numan]

strange seeing you play a left handed guitar, right handedly at the end of the video

[@maestromecanico597]

I dunno. Right-to-left conversion without moving the pickguard?

[@peterjames2580]

What were the back and sides made from?

[@paulmitchell5349]

Who makes that knife you use at 7.06 please ?

[@thePonker]

What strings are on this one ? Is it fair to say its ladder braced?

[@vangogh7127]

a bit suspicious about all the left hand guitars on here

[@davidfrischknecht8261]

If it's a left-handed guitar, why doesn't it have a left-handed pickguard? The pickguard is of no use as it exists right now.

[@alnicospeaker]

It started right handed of course! And because you a) don't want to remove the existing original guard, only to reveal raw wood and b) you don't want to weigh down the top of a highly resonant acoustic guitar by adding another large pickguard on the "lefty" side.