The Great Guitar Build Off 2023 (GGBO 2023) Freestyle - The Jester

Full build of an acousitc guitar for this year's Freestyle competition.
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[xdoctorblindx]

I feel sorry for Ben - he has been totally eclipsed by the talent he has unearthed through this competition! Fantastic work!

[pigjubby]

This design is fantastic. I want to use it on an electric top. Thanks for sharing.

[MrPod]

Absolutely gorgeous, the tone is so bright, the work is that of a true luthier. Who would not covet an artwork as lovely as this? Gabriele for the win.

[billmiller]

That arm rest cut is the work of a master!

[ronniejarvis]

This is certainly the most visually striking acoustic guitar I’ve ever seen! Love the jester/mosaic motif

[akfisher]

lots of Lidl clamps! 😊Good value. I use them and am a pro furniture maker. Cool!

[scallydrums]

Another demonstration of your fine woodworking skills. Congratulations.

[toothace]

This is a beautiful instrument!!! I'm not sure what is more impressive... the guitar itself, or that she built it in her living room!

[edhowells]

This is over the top. Be proud young lady.

[abelincoln]

Tone "WOODS", you can say!!! Marvelous build!!!

[Azz-vh]

Very nice work. The way the neck goes on is similar to my Spazzovarius. Resonates well...

[rickstout]

Another masterpiece, start to finish as usual, and never, ever, throw away your cutoffs!

[davedavem]

There are so many genius little techniques and so much problem solving hidden away in this video. They're like Easter eggs! I spotted the salt on the table when you were gluing up the heel of the neck and nearly jumped for joy! I spotted one!

[OLTTWFNMW]

Hi Gabriele, I've been watching your channel for about a year now and I've learned a lot from your channel and from your style and Technics, that Guitar is a work of art as well as a great sounding functioning instrument,
I messaged you before about bridge pins that the extra weight of brass might inhibit the soundboard resonating at it's full potential,
I have tried all materials except the liquid metal pins by a high end guitar brand who I won't name and won't pay the money for them, I have however discovered a way to make any guitar louder and more resonant, I have an Levin LD 60 dreadnought that I purchased last year, it's all flammed maple and was made in Korea so it's a perfect Luthier built instrument that had so much potential, so upon closer inspection and playing in 432hz and 440hz tunings it just didn't respond or resonate properly so I investigated and found the saddle was plastic and it had shims of plastic too and the actual saddle was lifting off the soundboard at each corner so I'm losing tone here too but underneath the soundboard plate was chewed up like the ball ends of the strings had been severely over tightened or the wood was a soft wood that should never have be used, so using my mirror I inspected the whole inside and the made a bone saddle to replace plastic and removed the shims, but then an idea hit me that I could make a possible shims from a wound guitar string are a temporary measure so I could use calipers to measure the precise action height then I thought about the ball end of guitar strings had a hole so I measured it with the back of calipers to 2mm so I ordered 2mm brass sculpture/craft wire and it fit perfectly inside the ball ends so using a mirror I fashioned a shape similar to the saddle on the sound plate underneath on the sound board then kinked the strings as normal put the one by one into the pin holes and the brought the one by one up through the sound hole and looped the ball end over the brass wire in order from low E to high E then carefully took up the slack till the wire was touching the soundboard the pulled all but the E strings taught and held in place with a capo, the I adjusted the wire to sit flush on the sound plate the proceed to tune up both E strings then removed the capo did any final adjustments to the wire since it's now bound In place and then strung up the rest of the strings and BOOM 🤯 Gabriele the rest is History I cannot believe the difference,
Please try this on Guitar you know has more potential and see the difference I was and still am blown away!
As an apprentice Luthier starting college on 28th of August my dream is to make any instrument sound at it's best so those old forgotten gems in attics or garages but this has definitely made everyone of my personal instruments come alive like high Guitars of those big brands that are beyond students and beginners so I thought that it could be used to enhance the sound of any Guitar and that for me is the pinnacle to get the very best out of any instrument!
Thank you so much for all your hard work and time/effort creating these videos as they have helped me more than you'll ever know,
Please try this and I'd Love to hear how it went and what you think 🤔
"One ❤ Love to the World 🌎
From Bonnie Scotland"🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🕊️🍀🌈♾️🙏

[davejive]

Stunningly creative in sight and sound

[bobperu]

A lucky person to be able to play one of your Gems, Gabriele

[karlalton]

If i was a judge you would win hand's down with this one, it's a Awesome looking Guitar lady well done 😁😁👍👍

[kenkelly]

Unbelievable Table top Luthiering . Blown Away

[sutorguitarsbytondewit]

well what can one say, just say nothing and watch in admiration ❤🔥🔥🔥

[daveherres]

Just beautiful, and nice touch with "Blackbird, " at the end.