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Ginger from the Wildhearts plays one! So they can play good old punk rock

Ted, I have found through trial and error the best was to age-look bindings knobs and tuning pegs, virtually all white plastics etc. is to use the food grade spice Turmeric in a solution of mild alcohol and water and sometimes just rubbing it dry on certain porous types of plastics does the trick very well!

I always learn something from you Ted. A bass player I played with in my favourite band ( early 80s) had a Hagstrom Bass- sounded great. Also I remember Elvis borrowing that red Hagstrom with the black headstock from one of his backing guitarists- very memprable and attractive guitar. That string height @ 12/64 is 4.7625 mm - WOW! But you patiently work your magic on it. That Martin looked ready for the tip but you seem to have revived it. Goooodness knows what row caused such cracking.

Poor 00 Martin 😢...at first I thought it was 000. (I got the 000-15M). Thanks Ted for sharing your passion. I look forward to each week's episode!

I appreciate your free content and look forward to the next video!

Hello Ted! I bought a Hagsrtom 8 string bass in 1967 and I loved it (took the octave strings off). Two other bassists I met had them too (minus the octave strings). It was a great bass, very comfortable neck (shorter scale than Fender). I loved that bass. Played it in the U.S. Navy band attached to the USS FDR. Thank you for sharing this, I love watching you!

That Hagstrom has very similar construction to my old Aria. Although mine is still playable. Thanks for the video, Ted! 👍

I have one of of the current model Hagstrom Viking Deluxe 12-string guitars, made in China, which I bought new in early 2017 so I'm guessing it was built around 2015/2016. It has the same ES-335 shaped body in cherry red but with a set-neck and full centre-block construction and the same Sydney Harbour Bridge sized truss rod mechanism. Interestingly, it also has the same wrong looking angled back bridge humbucker as the one Ted is working on, so maybe Hagstrom had a theory about pickup placement at odds with everyone else

No buzzing because high action and no frets to speak of.

8:50 love the martin x-15's

Ah yes, Hagstrom and Mahogany, one of the best TV shows of the '70s (probably)

I have a 1967 Hagstrom classical guitar. I only had to replace the tuners and lower the nut slots to get it working great. I recently put gut strings on it and it sounds better than ever. It’s one of my favorite guitars.

I have one of the Martins. I really like it, but as I tend to play with different tunings I find it's a real string breaker when retuning, which is annoying.

I love me some mahogany acoustic!

I know that older Hagstroms used to have a T-rail bar instead of a truss rod. When did that change?

Hagstrom - perhaps heavier strings?

Hi Ted, just wondered if you could file some metal off the bottom of the bridge on the Hagstrom to improve the action and get some adjustment back?

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“Pay attention 0015” 👍

Great job and guitar, if I were the owner, I would’ve got refret with taller frets.

Hahahaaa, your narration is spectacular 😁

It puzzles me why Elvis chose a Swedish made plywood guitar over all the Gibsons and Epiphones on that occasion.

Love that design with no binding..

They still make guitares under that name. The Super viking looks amazing.

I will live without a vid next week. Still haven't caught up on the old ones since subscribing. Do learn from them, though.

So - lesson is: Don't buy a Hagstrom.

A little more history trivia on Hagström. They were the official importer of Fender in Sweden in early 60’s. IIRC, that business started in 62. They imported the guitars without cases and provided them with Swedish produced cases made with blonde/brown tolex, brown leather ends, Yellow lining and that had different hardware compared to US cases of that time. I have a 62 Jazzmaster with a Hag-case from that era.

This is one of the only channels which gets a like before the first minute of watching a video. Thank you Ted for the great videos!

Enjoy a week of no (less?) video editing!

It did have that mellow sound when Elvis played it too.( 68 special)

I love these non-Gibson semihollows (Hags and the myriad MIJ ones) but they’re so darn fragile, I’ve never owned one that wasn’t right at the edge of playability. If someone of Ted’s abilities are challenged by these, I don’t feel so bad about not being able to keep mine from being wall hangers. 👍🏼

Fantastic vid thank you for being so descriptive amazing job on the guitar

The 15-series Martins are fantastic instruments and killer values. If I could only keep one of my pair of Martin 000’s, I’d let the 000-28MD go and keep the 000-15SM.

My experience with modern Martins is that they're ALL very high actions. CUstomers bring in 6 month old models with almost 4mm actions and there is nowhere near enough saddle there to drop it to reasonable.

Come for the guitar repair, stay for the specialized manicuring techniques. 😂 Keep on!

I frikken jealous that i don’t know how to do this type of work. Yeah I can set up my acoustics, because i bit the bullet and bought real nut files by Hosco, feeler gauges, fret end files from StuMac, and some other luthier tools and I am a carpenter by trade but i don’t have this type of training. Love watching it tho. And learning. I must say that buying real nut files was one of the best set of tools that I’ve purchased. I have at least 10 different guitars and I’ve set them all up to how I wanted them. My point is, don’t fiddle with needle files or welding tip cleaning files to set up your string action. They take hella long to use and it’s never perfect. Buy good files. You’ll thank yourself.

I use Canopy glue to glue on the clear plastic canopies on my RC airplanes. It’s very amazing how strong that stuff is. It’ll glue plastic to Monocoat, the shiny smooth covering for the airplanes wings and fuselage

See ya when you get back, Ted.

My dad left a bunch of little tiny screws and nuts in jars and tins, they got spilled and are everywhere now. Gotcha.

You could do a Bob Ross episode. Polishing polishing the happy little frets.

I like that finger style right out of the Doc Watson play book. It’s a pretty unique sound in how it’s kind of limiting in the intricacies of what you can play. It really makes you get creative with your choices in fingerings to make the same sounds as 3 finger picking.

Thank You.

If all else fails, you could put a tall nut on it and call it a Slide Special

We can tell you enjoyed the Martin by the exuberant playing.

But Ted we're friends, you've just never met me! What's parasocial?

Ha ha giggles. Shits and giggles?

I wonder if the bulk of the problems with the breakages in those Hagstroms is largely down to the neck bolts and the pattern of them. There's three and the single one is quite close to the edge too. I would guess that this is allowing too much stress which both makes it easier to crack that neck block but alos pushes way too much stress onto the area in front of the pickup. I wonder if there were four bolts and the front two were pushed a way back this would remedy things.

Unfortunately that announcement likely won't stop every question. You do you ted, we'll see you in two weeks.

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