Gibson L50 Back Repair

[@bulldrumm]

Humbling. Thank you.

[@headbanger45o]

So grateful that you've taken the time to share these repairs, these techniques are gold to young luthiers like myself

[@driveway_mechanic]

You are an amazing craftsman. It’s a pleasure to listen to an intelligent man.

[@konosukeadachi371]

I appreciate that you talk through your process. Some guys just show videos with music on or total silence. You are great!

[@punk1nbuddy]

The fishing line and tuning peg technique is brilliant. Thank you for sharing. I love clever ways of solving seemingly impossible challenges.

[@Da5idc]

Your obvious and my obvious are worlds apart - I am in awe of your craftsmanship

[@justanothernobodysopiniono7811]

Stratavias umpteen different owners stand up to orchestra playing conditions 300 years old with thousands of playing hours on them and still kicking. Gibson L50 90 years old and needs a major overhaul. Antonio was some fiddle builder. Nice restoration job really admire your skill and dedication

[@grene1955]

I would have thought it would be impossible to repair that crack. You are amazing!

[@hydorah]

Goodness me that crack was horrific! Well done. That fishing line / guitar tuner system that you came up with is ingenious in the extreme!

[@harlanbarnhart4656]

Glad the algorithm turned this up for me.

[@chipper442]

I don’t envy you at all.......I highly respect you and your talent though. You are a very brave man, I admire your confidence when you work on these older, and or expensive guitars. I also appreciate the fact that you think all of them are worthy of the help they need, even the low end instruments. I will also say, there are very few channels where I don’t skip the ads, yours is one of them. Thank you for the uploads. C442

[@Scodiddly]

Genius trick with the fishing line and the little "winch" made from a tuner.

[@JoshuaC923]

Wow the amount of patience and skill

[@honkytonkinson9787]

My grandparents had a Kalamazoo guitar that looked just like this, minus the pup; was probably made in the 1940s as it was purchased used for $12 in 1952 I learned to play guitar on it when I was a teenager and yearned for the day that it might be gifted to me. One of my cousins, much younger, had already grabbed it before I arrived for my grandfather’s funeral. I try to make myself feel better with the thought that it would have cost more than I could afford to sort it out enough to be a player but it’s been a rough go

[@Sungodv]

love watching and re-watching....just wish there was more.

[@corndog2835]

Using fishing line and a home made clamping device using a tuner is genius!

[@alext9067]

I like the trapeze arrangement. Seems less problematic than a glued on bridge. Great job.

[@gregvondare]

Cool blues riff at the end. If it plays, you're done!

[@punk1nbuddy]

Gregory Von Dare I loved that too. Wanted to try to learn it!

[@edwardlouisbernays2469]

OMG! I came to Toronto in 2000 with a Austin, Texas Bought Gibson MK-53 Acoustic, I was living Rough, and I now understand why my Gibson kindof fell apart after a year or so.

[@grumpyg9350]

Holy cow........I wish I had a friend like you to bounce stuff off of. I bet you are a pretty good sounding board, for anything mechanical.

[@gibletto]

Watching this video: "Ah it's pretty bad, gonna be some compromises here..." Five mins later: "I was led to believe there was some compromises here?"

[@robmeier1895]

I love this guitar with the P90

[@johnpick8336]

Martin Barre of Jethro Tull plays one of these in an interview video and the sound is astonishing !

[@elliottmelan3457]

Just love watching your videos you have so many great ideas. And your a good guitarist as well!

[@robertrosenfield405]

Great job! I was guessing how you would do this, and you said no to back removal, to prevent the sides from splaying. But the addition of a sliver in the crack is too cool. Too far apart to clamp together, it would have cracked again maybe somewhere else from stress.

[@davidaraujo927]

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing!

[@Starliner428]

Nice work! Like the fishing line jig.

[@eitanmuir]

Incredible job. Love your videos!

[@janviljoen7001]

Neatly done.

[@michaelkeegan9115]

The changing humidity caused the guitar to 'dry out' and change shape and dimension. This will probably always be the way. What would your view be on the many methods of re-hydrating guitar wood. It would make sense to undo the effects of the dryer climate, but is it only putting off the inevitable?? Thanks very much for the great video.

[@christianpusey2791]

Nice job👌👏 I love your work.👍✊💜🙏

[@nellayema2455]

That thing sounds great!

[@wyattsdad8561]

So awesome. I wish I was a luthier

[@perihelion7798]

Off topic: LOVE your shirt...I have about a dozen in that same post-apocalyptic style. Wife, however, is not happy, as I regularly turn perfectly good shirts into that genre.

[@stanrogers5613]

I'm pretty sure what you're referring to is a Lee Valley canvas apron rather than a shirt as such. (Lee Valley is kind of the go-to place in Canada for decent woodworking hand tools, and home of the Veritas brand.)

[@perihelion7798]

@@stanrogers5613 Could be, indeed. Didn't see the complete attire. My t-shirt comment about myself is still true, however.

[@michaelstreets7816]

Very impressed. Thanks for posting this video.

[@stevesoldwedel]

With the bead trick, would it be feasible to instead use a small neodymium magnet with a hole in the center, and then be able to use a magnet on the outside of the guitar, per usual? What gave me that idea is that I'm usually mechanically pretty sound, but I'm not divining how the bead applies pressure to the inside face of the cleat. I can at least discern how two magnets would.

[@kylekoonce]

Why round cleats instead of the regular diamond shape?

[@js312raf]

Interesting how much is the fretboard raised above the top. My '36 Black Special #4 (a black L50) isn't raised at all. Made finding a magnetic pickup that would fit very difficult.

[@jordanlake471]

The fretboard is raised like that of a cello or something.

[@johnpick8336]

Those p90's scream in this model !

[@markbernier8434]

Thanks for the button trick. I can use that.

[@jf542]

the best luthier

[@TheQakman]

Shrinkage !!! Ohhh Elaine , do you know about shrinkage ?

[@ShadowoftheDude]

Maybe you know something I don’t, but I wouldn’t recommend using alcohol markers to stain wood, the dyes used in them are extremely fugitive, they will fade in a year even without UV exposure.

[@jabeavers]

Is it worthwhile to drill a small hole at the end of the crack(s) to stop them from propagating? Or does that not work on wood?

[@robmeier1895]

Actually not a stupid question at all

[@briansparks8256]

It's almost like they wanted to change the L50 into an early ES-125

[@rustyaxelrod]

I have a Trutone (Western Auto) branded guitar that looks exactly like that one. It belonged to my Dad and I believe he had it when I was born in 1961. I made a few videos of a neck reset I did on it last year as AngryRedBanjo (no spaces) if you would care to see how much it resembles this guitar.

[@JCTrucks410]

you're a genius

[@ahf5471]

Amazing

[@eladeflow]

Looking at the grain orientation of the first cleat you placed at 6:48, wouldn't it be optimal to place the spruce grain perpendicular to the crack?

[@wayneg296]

👍👍😎

[@daveg5183]

👍

[@dariocarafa3788]

WOW!!!!

[@that_thing_I_do]

Does anyone ever compliment your playing? If not, let me be the first.

[@jackhill436]

Wish you would show more of the work you are doing and stop jumping around half of your videos are you talking about the guitar the info is cool but would rather see more of your work

[@andylane8815]

OK, I get it. I got laughed out of 2 place's and then the stab in the heart. Just kidding, you gage the advice and I get it now. Never buy a guitar without seeing it. The now, 400 dollar mistake. Could have bought the hollow body 335 by now.... There's no such thing as a 1200 dollar looking 200 dollar guitar. It will cost and you may never get a good guitar or you'll be laughed at a lot.

[@Дмитрий_Асанов-Бессонов]

Это не ремонт, а варварство