Walnut & Ebony Guitar Build | Ep.1 Neck & Body

Walnut and Ebony woods for guitar building. For this build series I wanted to make a solid body guitar of my original design using walnut, ebony and a pearl black double binding. This guitar will be one of my Guitar Show Italy 2023 guitars. This video covers making the guitar body and neck from scratch. I'm calling this design the Tornelli Journeyman and will be making a number of these over the next few months for the Italy Guitar Show in 2023, they will all feature beautiful woods and top quality hardware.

All of the guitars I build on the channel are for sale and I make the videos for youtube so that customers can see their guitar being build from scratch. My guitars may look Gibson inspired but the feel is very much like a Fender guitar because that is the feel I love and am familiar with. My guitars all feature a 25.5 inch scale length, 12 inch radius fretboard and a perfect C shape neck for comfort. They also feature double binding and hand selected wood. If you enjoy the video please join me for more builds as well as some woodworking and guitar building tips and tricks, and thanks to all those of you that have supported me this far!

0:00 Video Intro
0:29 Guitar wood selection
1:26 Carbon rod and Truss rod installation
2:20 Fretboard slotting and neck shaping
3:02 Neck and fretboard dimensions
4:35 Glue fretboard
6:15 Final shaping of fretboard
7:10 A look at some Schaller Tuners
7:46 Fretboard radius and Fret marker install
9:00 Fretting a neck
10:02 Prepping the guitar body wood
10:18 Shaping the guitar body
10:32 Glue guitar top and final shaping
10:52 Some bad news for the other build
13:26 Routing a neck pocket
14:23 Installing guitar binding
16:17 Bridge placement and string through body holes
16:48 Pickup cavity routing
17:10 Control cavity and switch routing
18:07 Neck carving
19:26 Guitar reveal, thoughts and next steps

My Links

Website
If you would like to know more about the guitars I build you can visit my website here: https://www.tornelliguitars.com/

Instagram
I post progress of my guitar builds, things that people may find useful and anything guitar related that entertaining here:
  / tornelli_guitars  

My YouTube partner channel: ‪@SweetTGuitars‬

Where I get my Luthiery supplies:
https://tlcguitargoods.com/en/

What influences me in my guitar building?
I love building guitars and the community that has grown around luthiery. I like to build reimagined versions of classic guitars and give them my own twist. So classics from Fender Guitars and Gibson Guitars tend to be my main inspiration. From the community, I hope to create content similar to Crimson Guitars, BIGDGUITARS and 3x3Custom - Tamar. I have found their content invaluable over the years.

I love building guitars! Join me as I build original design electric guitars and share my guitar building tips and tricks. On this channel you will get full guitar building series and detailed 'How To' videos describing the step by step process for some of the trickiest parts of building guitars.

My guitar builds cover everything from designing, wood choices, shaping guitar necks & bodies, installing truss rods, neck carving, guitar fretting, guitar binding, installing guitar pickups & electronics, guitar set ups, dyeing and colouring, finishing & polishing guitars.

I build original and reimagined versions of classic guitars. Everything I make is for sale and I also like to make videos of my guitar builds to show customers how their instruments are made. Its also a great way of making friends within the guitar building community! I've also entered the Great Guitar build off for 2021 & 2022 as a bit of fun and to help share what I've learned.

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