This is my Guitar!! I can't say enough good things about how the Guitar plays and sounds but more importantly Ted graciously took the time to repair the Guitar and completely understood why it was so important to me. Dad would have loved this, thank you so much Ted.

I think the humble Ted is a better guitarist than he gives himself credit for ....anyone else think so ?

Hey Ted, I used to be the shop production manager for PBC Guitar Technology in Pa.  We built the Ibanez USA RG Series guitars and bass with our “Tension Free neck “ patented by one of our owners David Bunker.
If you ever run across one of either of those and have any questions, let me know! Or if you run into a Ken Smith bass, I also worked there.
Thanks so much for your expertise and effort on the videos.

Why do I love that little guitar tuner clamp so much?

if that said gibson on the headstock, everybody would be saying how sweet it sounded. it sounded really nice, great work too.

The store I worked at in the 60's-80's sold some of the earliest Ibanez imports. We bought them through JM Sahlein Distributors of San Francisco who distributed musical instruments and accessories. (Jack Steinberg was our representative. RIP) They later lost the Ibanez arrangement but took on Yamaha. The early guitars were electrics and were very crudely made. The basses has necks like baseball bats  but they sounded decent. I believe that our cost in the instruments was around $30.00 in 1964.

Wow! I kind of like that loud hollerin' sound!

i love how you toggle between thousandths, 64ths, and millimeters, all within the same sentence .. .

Exquisite installment but too too short!! Congrats on reaching the first 100k subscribers

This guitar sounds great!
I think it would fit perfect for “House of the rising sun”.

I have to give all the credit to Mr. Ted.  Over lockdown I learned to repair and build guitars.  And almost all of my skills are from watching his channel.  I’ve built several electrics, modified ALL of my electrics successfully, and repaired a cracked acoustic by inlaying wood into the sound board and back.  My two finest were an electric that I built as a gift for a Christian heavy metal band, and a cheap electric twelve 12 that was given to me by a guy who didn’t have time.  I fully restored/upgrade it and gave it back to him (he didn’t intend for me to give it back but was overjoyed that I finished his abandoned project.). His thoughts were that I made it into a unique great playing guitar that one couldn’t even buy for ten times the list price of a couple hundred USD.  And I told him that Mr. Ted is where I learned.

It’s worth clarifying that there was no actual court case. Gibson sent a cease & desist letter and Hoshino-Gakki complied, stopped using the “open book” headstock design, and began to manufacture their own original designs.

Hello from Belgium !  Quel plaisir de vous regarder travailler et de vous écouter.  Merci beaucoup :-)

I love Ted's indepth analysis of the different eras and techniques of guitar building - keep on going !

Yes!! my favorite weekly installment....

Ahhh this will make a fine addition to my Saturday.  Thank you sir!

100K 🙌 congratulations!

100K congrats!🙌🙌

Thank you for another historical insight. The guitar actually sounds pretty awesome, at least via Youtube.

Your finishing of the cleats is just one more shining example of elegance of your work. Most luthiers wouldn't have taken the time to dress the edges you took the time to make them aesteticly pleasing as well as functional. Well done sir