An in-depth view on how I do things. Enjoy! Website: www.valentiguitars.com Instagram: valenti__guitars Facebook: valentiguitars Email: info@valentiguitars.com
Thanks for sharing your workshop and guitar making process, Luigi! The results speak for itself. In my opinion, the best value-price from any custom shop out there. By including the customer’s input during the build process, you really make your guitars fit the customers needs.
Totally extraordinary. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this video which has helped me learn so much about your "guitars" - God I hate just calling them guitars because its so clear they are so much more than that. I do hope my customers will connect with you - your passion and the immense quality in the way I believe they will. I feel so proud to be working with you and look forward to the future!
Absolutely incredible. I love your passion, skill and willingness to make it truly yours, with EVERY detail done by your hands and mind. A true rarity nowadays. You are an artist. Your guitars are beautiful and sound amazing in the videos I have seen. I am looking forward to you building mine.
Beautiful, Luigi! A great video that really reflects the amount of love you put into each guitar. And of course it’s great that you used my guitar for some of it! 😉 Keep doing what you’re doing. You deserve every success. 🙏
I normally reply within 24hrs. Could you please send it again? I am not seeing any unread message in my inbox, maybe there has been a server clitch? Thank you!
@@Andy-mm5ff i actually did reply to your first request! Could you please check your spam folder? Btw, I have just replied you back, thanks for your patience and for getting back to me!
Love your work and guitars..but: you said "the thicker and the harder the coat the more it will absorb the vibrations of the instrument". This is not true. A soft lacquer (such as nitrocellulose) will absorb the vibrations of the instrument. For example: rubber is soft, metal is hard: which material will give sound and vibrations when you hit it hard with lets say a wooden spoon ? Same for a hard lacquer such as polyurethane or polyester - the harder the finish the better the resonances. An experienced finisher can sand back such a hard coating and buff the guitar until the layer is thinner than a human hair. John Suhr of Suhr Guitars says exactly the same, here (at 6 minutes into the video): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cmJN_ZtP1_4.html
English is not my first language and some things came out not well. You are correct, hard lacquer is better than soft for several reasons. Thick lacquer is not good in any case, because even if the hard component can help in the beginning, after a very small margin becomes decremental as well. What I was referring to was basically a not well put reference to the factory/mass produced instruments which go out with 1.5/2mm of polyester over them. Any of those guitars sounds a lot better after being stripped of all the lacquer and resprayed with a very thin layer. I do use very hard lacquers (just to prove your point) and not nitro, which is a very old and surpassed technology (only good for certain types of jobs). In regards to the sanding: yes, you are also correct, but I prefer spray little, sand little and do other things while I wait for the lacquer to cure and sink rather than spending hours over the sanding table covered by very toxic dust😅.
No, there is not. There is in fact no difference between cnc routed and template/hand routed guitar. The crucial parts are fretwork, finishing, assembly and setup. Btw, did I miss the part where he claims that his guitars are purely handmade?
