An OCEAN INSPIRED guitar with a secret ingredient.
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2023
- One of our favourite builds as of late. Hope you enjoy the video! Let us know what you think x
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As a proud self-proclaimed PNW resident/Oregonian, everything about this guitar hits home for me.
I absolutely love redwood as a top. That tiger-striped Myrtle is absolutely out of this world.
The almost minimalist approach really helps all of these beautiful materials harmonize and shine through.
World-class materials for a world-class instrument! Thank you for sharing with us!
Thanks for such a lovely comment
Easily one of the most strikingly beautiful guitars I've seen. Glorious tone.
Thank you!
That’s an elegant solution to the challenge of incorporating sea urchin spines. Subtle but significant, and steered clear of all the tackiness traps awaiting the unwary luthier.
Thank you, I’m glad you appreciate the fine line with these things!
Darn it: you’ve only gone and done it again, Mr Sands! What a magnificent instrument which will rock your client’s world!
We can only hope!
Beautiful creation!
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful work, man.
Cheers dude
Beautiful, good job!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful! What a guitar....Wow
Thanks Jim!
Stunning ! Always love a nosette
Me too!
Guitar looks great. The neck looks like walnut but not black walnut (unless its a very light piece)
Definitely black walnut 💜
@@TomSandsGuitars Thanks for confirming that.
THAT is gorgeous. I have a figured myrtle Fylde Alchemist and am part way through making a semi solid electric sibling using figured myrtle for a carve top It is eye popping in the flesh. The billet that gave me the carve top also provided a drop top so when that goes into another build I will be in myrtle heaven. With an Islay malt for company.
I’m really into Myrtle after this build
I've fallen in love with it ❤
Fancy one for yourself?
Sadly, I cannot afford it. @@TomSandsGuitars
Dude. 😮❤🎉
Sir!
Hi, beautiful guitar and it sounds great from the short clip here. but I'm browsing your website and I can't find the full demo for that guitar.
Website update incoming, but for now there's a link in the video description :)
Beauty. Do you choose when to use a full rosette or is it customer dependent?
Custom Radial Sea Urchin Rosette!
Thanks for the video Tom.
Thank you! I really like the ‘nosette’ aesthetic, keeps things simple. Some customers are into it, others prefer the traditional approach, I don’t mind.
Are you doing your own finishing Tom? That’s a beautiful sheen as usual … and a very good choice peated malt I might add 😊.
Yes I am!
I know it's something incredibly silly, but what caught my eye at first was the little confort cut (not sure if that's the right name even) for the player's arm, but the way the fretboard goes into the sound hole is also a truly brilliant design choice.
Thank you
Beautiful guitar! Custom tuners, buttons, and bridge pins? Those are cool. Who made those?
The tuners were made by Scheller in Germany, the bridge pins were made by a friend of mine, Small Scale CNC
WOW ....great job bro.....fantastic.....the sound hole is even shaped like a wave
Glad you like it!
Beautiful!!!!!
And no rosette! Is there a ring of some kind in the sound-hole?
It’s the nosette! There’s a slim copper ring and some purple veneer
Hey Tom.. Instrument building, right up there with stone masonry and cathedral building. I am deeply jealous! I see you rock a wee bass clef tattoo? if you could craft a bass, what would it look like? Thanks again, and keep on keeping on creating such beautiful things!
I was always deeply inspired by the work of Carl Thompson and Jens Ritter growing up
myrtle b&s are insane!
Sure are!
Why the Huge amount of Gloss "stuff" on it? And on the neck too? It really looks like it's been dipped such is the smoothness of it, how thick is it? How did it sound before the varnishing?
The Tuning pegs and string pegs are beautiful. Surprised that the neck is BLACK Walnut.
It’s called lacquer. It is 0.004” - 0.005” thick. I can assure you it was not dipped. Is a walnut neck really so surprising? Are you a classical player by any chance?
Of course, it is gorgeous, but is the tone balance a bit too bright at the treble? Or is that just my crappy sound system.
I have never heard a myrtle wood (Umbellularia californica ?) used as a tone wood before, and maybe it is just inherently really bright.
I tend to find CZcams compression brightens things up, always best to try a guitar in person
I thought you were going to use the sea urchin spines for the bridge pins! 😂
Great idea!
There are dealer/broker/syndicate-creators that pair Stradivarius violins with promising players. I think Tommy's works merit the same network of support for promising guitarists. Kindly let me know if people agree. I'd ante in under the right circumstances of craftsmanship, integrity, talent and promise.
Love the idea Sean!
Lol during a Zoom meeting with at least 20 folk today had me looking at this until someone parped up “what do you mean by posh materials” and yes the mute function clearly wasn’t on😂
👏👏👏
How does a person go about buying these woods? Are they really old?
Just a case of knowing the right people and spending way too much time on the internet. Quite often they are old stock and have been passed down from luthier to luthier, we have an annoying habit of hoarding.
Tricks of the trade. Really lovely guitars! Do you hold workshop building classes or plan to?
@@ambiencelectronica not at the moment but I do offer a mentoring, check out the website for info!
Is that a Dreadnaught?
No, it’s more like a short scale 00
Can we deep dive in the walnut neck? How does it change things from your more typical hog necks?
Walnut vs mahogany = no discernible difference.
shut up and take my money
That flamed myrtle…. Forgeddaboutit.
Happily!
You can see it´s easy to play. Is the doctor vaccinated?
These little guys are super comfy to pkay
@@TomSandsGuitars Maybe time for a guitarlele, or an 8-string, or a 12-string?