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you have to breathe to talk, wish more cops said that....or maybe he's just doing a G. Floyd impersonation

Wow, I never knew that Seagull guitars were so well built. Don’t see them much down here (nj), but once again I learned something new. Thanks 🙏

I have a Seagull acoustic, Natural Expressions, with extra wide nut (1.8"). That matches my Godin Multiac nylon. And I have a La Patrie classical made by Godin (2" nut). Also the Seagull Merlin 3-string "strummable dulcimer". Love them all. The one thing missing from the Seagull guitar is a pick guard. Not a big issue since I tend to not use a pick a lot but sometimes I like to.

Very smart very patient explained better than anyone for a mentor I choose you 10 out of 10 times exelent job. Is perfect ok?

Several times I've come close to buying a Seagull but that headstock bugs me too much.

Nice work, and great sounding guitars!

Happy Canada Day!

This is not the solution I would have gone with. I would have inlayed some tritium vials. I have done it to over a dozen guitars, and it works great. Since tritium doesn't need charged like glow in the dark paint, you don't have to worry about it. They will need to be replaced every decade or so, but glow paint won't last even half that time, so it isn't a problem.

I bought a Segul S6 folk with the ceder top and no pick guard from cash converters back in high school. It has Been coast to coast in Canada with me and shows the play wear. probably the best $80 buck ive ever spent.

This is an older video I know but I am commenting on the steam neck reset. I have an old 72 Fg 160 nippon gakki Yamaha I bought a few years back it sounds fantastic, very loud and cuts through all other acoustics ive heard even 3000 euro martins and Taylor's maybe not as refined but great in sessions, its just louder than all of them. I get looks from people with my cheap old battered Yamaha. I watched the Australian Luthier who i learned it off, I forget his name. My Yamaha needed a neck reset but was not willing to attempt myself or pay 300 or more. I really got a great result, I clamped down the neck and steamed it every 4 or 5 days for 4 weeks. It hasn't really sprung back either. I got the action down to 2.5 mm at the 12th which is reasonable compared to 4 now before this I had already sanded the saddle down to a minimum and some off the bridge The only thing is to not steam it too much in the one go just for maybe 30 secs at a time until the area of the soundboard around the area where fretboard meets the soundboard the feels warm outside to touch. If you steam it too much the laquer begins to melt 😂. Also an after effect of the steaming was a slight paleness on either side of the fret board on the soundboard leading onto the soundboard from the stretching of the wood. Maybe if i was more careful this would not have happened. But now Im so happy with the setup after the steaming I would do it again. The guitar plays and sounds fantastic now. The steaming is supposed to be even more effective on solid wood guitar's, those old Fg Yamaha s are mostly all laminate. Its definitely worth the try just to see what happens! great video man. There is merit in it and I suppose if you do some experimentation and warn people of side effects its worth a try. From Ireland..

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You say "I've changed my mind, guitars don't need as much relief as people say," but what I hear is "I've gotten so skilled that I can setup with less relief." I think that's time and experience more than absolute truth. I can do a setup on my own guitars, but I'm sure I'd need a bit more relief.

what picks are you using? Are those punched delrin?

I realize I need info about the fret wear. If there are such dimples/grooves and if you recrown them, it takes metal off the frets, doesn't it? I know, I'm a bit duh...but I thought they'd need to be replaced when they have grooves like that...🤔 Thanks for any reply!

That 2nd guitar looks like it belongs to a flamenco player. He really should have added clear pick guards to his soundboard before adding that guitar to his rotation.

After using a crowning file for a few projects, I’m going back to my safe edge flat file for fret crowning; I can see exactly where I am and where I need to remove more or less material to maintain the shape.

"A flock of Seagulls" drew a genuine out-loud snort of laughter from me.

Do NOT google seagulling.

My first guitar was a Kay.Electric through neck with a twisted neck frets made from putty, and it cost me a hundred and fifty u k pounds piece of s

I owned either a Seagull or Art & Luthier back in the mid 1990s and I remember it was a lovely instrument but was really neck heavy.

Plenty similarities with Yamaha guitars, build like a tank, oversized saddle groove, great for beginners and seasoned musicians.

" Seagull, you fly, across the horizon into the early morning sun/ Nobody tells you where you are going, nobody knows where you're from......" Bad Company

Liking the Korg TM-60 tuner Ted uses ... it has everything ya want and nothing ya dont ...simple but accurate ... love that approach !

Love these videos I have tried for at least 25 years to play guitar and let me tell you I just can't do it I've been playing smoke on the water iron man and the intro to stairway the whole time but I can enjoy watching guitars get fixed that much I've got down

All the Seagull/Godin stuff is shockingly inexpensive for what it is. North American made guitars for the price of something out of China.

Well done grasshopper.......

Not that it matters but they have the ugliest headstock of any guitar made

"fairly aggressive strum-er" Godzilla? 😇 I have a Seagull and love it. Thanks Ted.

Wow Ted, is it something I been smoking, or did you just ramp up everything about this video, by like 300%? The history part on the brands, the in-depth pedagogic level on a multitude of foundation topics, e g fret dressing/recrowning, relief/intonation/setup, saddle/pin/nut, and surface touch-ups (and possibly more). It's like a super beginner-friendly and a masterclass at once. And, you made both those beauties friggin sing at the end! The proverbial hat's off, brother! Also - please consider letting the gang in, if there is something more serious going on, than a very early midlife crisis. Although I can offer little more than my prayers, I would more than happy to try to help out.

Hi Ted, thank you as usual, for my nice Sunday treat, no funny line today. I've noticed, that when you measure the string height, you do not press the first fret? so in this case 6/64 and 5/64, pressed at the first fret would be 5/64 and 4/64?, just for reference, as an example, if you ever you present one with 4/64 and 3/64, pressed would be 3/64 and 2/64. Cheers.

I have had bridge pins get pulled out during re-stringing. Next time I will know what to do!

Noticed Kim Deal of The Breeders was playing a Seagull S6 dreadnought at Glastonbury this weekend.

Excellent advice on sanding the bridge pin. Also, I have curled the ball end into a large "C" so the ball would ride up the slot on the pin. Your solution is smarter. It eliminates the problem without having to teach the customer anything new. Again, bravo. Keep on!

Having shown that you CAN do a good job at a spline repair on a broken headstock, it's doubly inexcusable that you've used JB Weld and Epoxy and Carbon Fiber to repair OTHERS. Those are all SINS in the eyes of all good instrument repairmen.

Weird, I thought these were from I Ran

Thank you.

Trigger! 🤣🤣

Question please what is ideal height strings to sound board I've not really payed attention to that

Damn good job your math and fumulas way better than my cowboy ways

Because of my timezone I'm asleep on initial upload but this is my Monday morning "go to" when having my wake up coffee 👍

I really wish I could get you to work on my Simon & Patrick and my brother's old Alvarez. I've already messed up the S&P by putting in a bridge doctor off-center, and it didn't help anyway. The Alvarez needs a whole new bridge because it uses individual saddles that Alvarez doesn't make anymore, and it has big holes in the sides where my brother took out the electronics it came with. It would be a great candidate for putting in a Hyvibe but I don't have the workshop or tge money to have someone else do it.

Thanks for the comment about intonation, "...it's playing sharp which means we should move the bridge back to lengthen the strings...". I've had a bear of a time getting the intonation right on my Firefly strat. I eventually gave up on it and was just playing it as-is. The G, B, and high-E were fine but I could not get the low-E, A, and D to intonate. For some reason that comment you made clicked in my brain. 5 minutes later and the guitar I have have been playing for 8 months is now perfectly intonated! Now gonna have to run downstairs and check my Squier Tele cause I'm sure I was having the same issue with it.

vintage Ted!

Love my seagull "s6 original". It sounds great and it's basically indestructible. Got it from guitar center in the 2000s I think

I needed this, thanks Ted.

Wait... Do you play left handed guitars *better* than you play right?

Thank you Ted 👍🎸❤‍🔥

I bought a Seagull in the late 80's. Sounded great until about mid-1994. That's when the scarf joint at the headstock let go. Then it became wall art after I bashed it against my radiator 7 or 8 times. Will never buy another one.

Speaking of soft cedar tops...ever taken a good close look at Monte Montgomery's 1987 Yairi DY62C? You can find a few good pics online. I saw him and that guitar last year in Tulsa, OK. I can't believe it's still holding together after all the miles he's put on it - not to mention the "string rips" he used to employ at the end of the shows from time to time.

Ted, what's going on with your fingertips? Usually, it seems, they show a bit more wear and tear.