Couldn't Afford a PRS Private Stock, So I Made My Own

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Welcome the full build and demo of this very obviously PRS inspired build! This video includes the entire making of the guitar and a playing demo. Build completed August 12th, 2023
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Instagram: @orbitalguitars
Email: orbitalluthiery@gmail.com
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Body: Sapele
Top: Golden Camphor Burl
Neck Wood: Narra/Amboyna
Fretboard Wood: Malaysian Blackwood
Color/finish: Amber Burst / Lacquer
of Frets: 22
Scale Length: 25.5"
Fretboard Radius: 14"
12th Fret Inlay: Golden Camphor Burl Orbital Guitars Logo
Bridge: Gotoh Tunematic
Nut: Tusq XL
Tuners: Gotoh Locking Tuners
Pickups: Bare Knuckle Special Edition Nantucket Soapbar P90 Set Bone White Bird of Prey Etch
Controls: 1x Volume, 1x Tone, 3-Way Toggle Switch
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Website: orbitalguitars.com
Instagram: @orbitalguitars
Email: orbitalluthiery@gmail.com
Orbital Guitars Discord Server: / discord
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Making the neck
06:36 - Fretboard Inlays
15:57 - Carving the neck
19:17 - Headstock work and side dots
23:07 - Fret work
27:41 - Making the body
38:22 - Making the tailpiece
42:27 - Carving the body
46:17 - Sanding and staining
50:40 - Gluing the neck and tailpiece
52:28 - Applying finish
53:41 - Making the nut
55:43 - Oiling the tailpiece and neck
57:57 - Assembly and finishing touches
1:04:16 - Playing demo

Пікірлер: 90

@OrbitalGuitars Ай бұрын

I have to say, I've been pleasantly surprised by how well this video has been received so far, and I'm glad that people seem to be liking it. I was half expecting a bunch of die-hard PRS fans to get very angry at me for daring to make the comparison.

@stealingtomorrowband Ай бұрын

I say do what you dig!!!! I just started watching this video, but don't let haters get you down..... Just like my old man used to say "opinions are like assholes, everyone has got one"

@JordonBeal Ай бұрын

Die-hard PRS fan here. Love the video!

@jackie.p6891 Ай бұрын

I'm jealous now xD I built one myself as well, and the result is great, but yours looks better. It's really hard to get good looking woods like that in Belgium

@AyanokojiKiyotaka-lh5is Ай бұрын

We love your guitar videos honestly they are one of the best on the market right now man 🔥🔥

@jeffreymoffitt4070 Ай бұрын

My only preference over what you did was I would've filled the grain on the top to get a mirror polish, but the semi gloss looks great too!! How much would you build me one for? Lol

@peachmelba1000 Ай бұрын

Anyone watching this build who has bever built a guitar should know that this guy _goes for it._ It's a testament to his confidence and skill that he approaches the processes as he does. Those small captions where he notes that he's doing something "the hard way" are indeed true. The whole build was very gutsy. Lots of potential for error/scrap. Pretty amazing.

@robertbourke7935 Ай бұрын

Wonderful craftsmanship and your patience and persistence is amazing. Excellent result.

@warpspeed9877 29 күн бұрын

Everything looked great! Only remark i will make is the final lacquer layer. I could see a lot of orange peel. It might be the spray-can. Anyway, you could buff it out for a much smoother final look.

@charliemcgrain 5 күн бұрын

Such a beautiful job, brother, well done!

@hkguitar1984 Ай бұрын

Great work Sir, thank you for sharing this with us.

@magicbeard8464 Ай бұрын

Your works are great! I always watch, thank you for this opportunity. Your player also gives you the opportunity to listen to him, and great respect too!) Create more and make us happy!

@rbattistin 19 күн бұрын

Wow !! Fantastic job !! Congratulations and thanks for sharing !!

@WeBuildStuff Ай бұрын

Love your work. Has been super inspiring and educational for my own projects!

@MrRickytuk Ай бұрын

Great job. It must be so satisfying to sit down and play the guitar you built. Beautiful woods in the hands of a fine craftsman. Bravo sir.

@LivinginLosAngeles-re5yx Ай бұрын

Incredible video. 💯

@Stoobers 9 күн бұрын

Outstanding work!!

@chingletree5397 Ай бұрын

Another absolute triumph, mr Ciminskie! Just the inlay work and binding on the fingerboard counts as a masterpiece, in my book. Damn fine choice of pickups, too. Love me some p90s. Thanks for taking the time to put this video together and letting us enjoy it.

@ADFinlayson Ай бұрын

Lovely work mate

@CMRWoodworks Ай бұрын

Nice build. Looks great!

@CharmCityPaintball 27 күн бұрын

What a beautiful guitar!!!!

@paulallas7665 Ай бұрын

Great handiwork and a beautiful guitar. Absolutely fabulous job overall.

@2bikemikesguitartopics145 Ай бұрын

Freekin awesome one of a kind. Brilliant work

@Shadowsreach1 Ай бұрын

beautiful guitar!

@jimcoppa6946 Ай бұрын

So glad you're back in Action I absolutely love this channel this build was incredible thank you

@ceeque45 Ай бұрын

Incredible build, couldn't believe the workmanship and patience, absolute well done you! 👍🏼

@EddyEE1968 Ай бұрын

Excellent build/craft and verry atractive wood choice i really believe this guitar have much different sounds to offer , played trough a high end tubeamp. Congrats with the outcome! Greetz from Holland.

@ronnie5129 Ай бұрын

Thank You for this Awesome Guitar Build Here.....

@finaljesus 26 күн бұрын

i really enjoyed this video you did an excellent job on this beautiful guitar you are very talened

@philipthomas8440 Ай бұрын

Gorgeous work and stellar sound. PRS has nothing on you!👍🤘🎸

@hayabusa1572 Ай бұрын

deym nice!!!!!! i can only dream of owning one. new sub here from PH🙏

@elliewarren4029 27 күн бұрын

hey, your inlay and fretwork are really good, you made everything look super neat, and the work with that truss rod cover was sweet. I was wondering why you didn't cut and buff the finish on the body though, cause that burl looks really good as is, but it might look better under a smoother finish. your fretwork is also amazing, and I'm actually really impressed by the way you filled the fret ends. all in all, amazing build

@timjbd Ай бұрын

Nice work.

@MASI_forging Ай бұрын

It became a piece of art 👏👏

@Patrick.B223 Ай бұрын

Just found your channel. I am very impressed with your attention to detail. Where did you find the plans for this project? Great job! 👍👏😁

@OrbitalGuitars Ай бұрын

I bought a set of PRS body and neck templates a few years ago, but I don't remember exactly where. Could have been from ebay or Reverb.

@20x20Ghost 24 күн бұрын

im amazed and I must say thats a heck of allot of time and work So nice though love it

@user-wl7rb5ri5m Ай бұрын

Gorgeous. I’ve built several guitars and it kills me to have to drill into it to install the strap buttons. I got the same feeling watching this video. Nice video, too.

@simbadlemarin1815 25 күн бұрын

I can't afford american fenders, which was my reason for getting into guitar building! I have access to really nice CNC at my local Woodworkers Guild and have been working files for PRS and Gibson style carved tops. Have a plan to make a custom 24 sometime in the next year!

@santiagomujica-vh3kx 13 күн бұрын

Awesome, your guitar is better than an original PRS. Happy riffs...

@tadeuszmcmahon6113 Ай бұрын

Incredible job! Only critique would be the lacquer finish. It looks "sticky" or something. Not as smooth as a real PRS or high end guitar. I am not a woodworker or craftsman at all, so I'm far from an expert. Just my $.02. Otherwise it's an incredible job and it obviously plays well!

@steveroberts Ай бұрын

PRS specials, are very special. Your guitars are always very special.

@jonathanpaek8459 Ай бұрын

PRS marketing is very special, let's people think their guitars are better than they actually are

@danpowell5286 29 күн бұрын

Your attention to the neck was astounding! Just one question though, what did you finish the body with?

@DE-GEN-ART Ай бұрын

you are a mad lad with that trim router

@darylfortney8081 14 күн бұрын

Really nice work! I have to say I would be nervous af routing for the abalone inlay after so much work has gone into the rest... one slip and throw it all out

@kitchenbriks3685 5 күн бұрын

The orange peel was killing me

@madeinyorkshire2203 Ай бұрын

Excellent video and great build! What mitre saw and blade do you use to cut the fret slots, please? Thank you

@OrbitalGuitars Ай бұрын

It's just an inexpensive tabletop miter saw, and this blade www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/tools-by-job/tools-for-fretting/fret-slotting-table-saw-blade

@kennethwatson4489 20 күн бұрын

I really beautiful instrument. I hope you are proud if it. You should be.

@raymondjallen 23 күн бұрын

That’s what I do, make my own private stock guitars.

@tedpedraza6660 6 күн бұрын

Tell me about it. Price on a guitar is getting outrageous. I like how you think been wanting to build my own guitars.

@jamiemorgan4146 Ай бұрын

You’re honestly a quality craftsman. You’ve meticulously built this guitar. I applaud your efforts and work. ………… I’m a luthier, I understand that you didn’t have a spray gun to put on the finish. What seriously bothers ,me is all the time sweat and tears, you’ve put into this beautiful guitar, why didn’t you at least buff out the sprayed on finish? You could’ve removed the orange peel from it. It would’ve looked so much better. You could’ve even used Danish oil and give the guitar the finish it deserved. Please don’t think that I’m insulting you. I just cry looking at the finish and all you’ve put into this guitar.

@jojo5544 Ай бұрын

nice build! did you find the golden camphor burl to be on the soft side? looks like you didn't have to do anything to harden or stablize it? thanks

@OrbitalGuitars Ай бұрын

No, the Camphor is hard enough that it doesn't need to be stabilized. It's about as hard as Soft Maple.

@antonrandle4146 Ай бұрын

Great work as always, the guitar looks fab. Two questions though, Where did you get the rounded spade drill bits to do the control knob cavities and secondly, have you considered routing the wiring runs before attaching the top, rather than using the long drill bit method-which always makes me nervous!!?

@OrbitalGuitars Ай бұрын

The rounded spade bit is just a cheap regular spade bit that I rounded the corners off of with a file. And I have pre-routed wiring channels before, but I don't remember now why I didn't do that on this build.

@antonrandle4146 Ай бұрын

@@OrbitalGuitars excellent, Crimson taught you well. Is a 25.4mm diameter bowl cutting router bit just too small for the knobs recess?

@OrbitalGuitars Ай бұрын

@@antonrandle4146 I think that would be a little too small. Besides, I like how much more control I have with a drill press than I would with a router.

@robertr4193 Ай бұрын

Neat fret marker bars. Nice and clean. Is the main body of the neck red cedar or redwood? I just don't understand why most people when putting a top on a guitar body don't rout in the wiring channels before gluing on the top. If the channel was routed in before the top goes on the risk of drilling out the top or back later is avoided completely. The guitar did turn out very nice.

@OrbitalGuitars Ай бұрын

The body is Sapele, and the neck is Narra/Amboyna

@FranciscoGonzalez-uw3cv Ай бұрын

@@OrbitalGuitars Sapele doesn't need grain filler?

@OrbitalGuitars Ай бұрын

@@FranciscoGonzalez-uw3cv Only if you want it to have a glassy smooth finish. Personally, I like when the finish keeps some of the characteristics of the wood grain.

@coolwaterdvr Ай бұрын

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

@wbwillie Ай бұрын

what kind of wood is that neck?

@ebluthier Ай бұрын

Man you should really get a new blade for your bandsaw!

@markbecker8661 23 күн бұрын

Yes, I'll build one too. But first I have to go spend 10 thousand dollars on wood working equipment.

@200shells 5 күн бұрын

Takes more than the equipment. Craftsmanship bro. Pure Craftsmanship! Incredible build.

@timesurfingalien 13 күн бұрын

Why would you ever purchase a guitar!!!. That's awesome 😊

@bohs1984 19 күн бұрын

You need to work on your finishing skills but otherwise an amazing build. You can see the orange peel in the light being reflected while you're playing. Such a nice guitar deserves a quality finish.

@xoxollin Ай бұрын

as a non guitar builder but watcher of guitar build videos on youtube, i must say i was impressed by your woodworking skills and beautiful choice of woods and hardware. however, *in my opinion* the transition from back of body to neck could be more delicate/gradual and the overall rattle-can finish leaves a lot to be desired. as the video progressed, i kept thinking "when are they going to sand out that orange-peel?" and then "wait, are they installing hardware now?" its a shame you put in so much hard work and attention to detail to then leave that funky textured clear-coat as the final finishing ): im sorry for being such a bummer, i loved watching your video and look forward to future builds. i just wish you put as much effort into the finishing process as you did the rest of the build. thats my 2 cents anyways.

@peachmelba1000 Ай бұрын

Here's a frustrating thing I have recently come to see. I've been building guitars for a few years, and until recently, the physical dimensions of parts and hardware didn't really occupy my mind all that much. But now... Truss rods in particular seem stupidly designed. Too many minute differences in size along the entire assembly, such that you can't simply use for example a 1/4" cutter from end to end to make the channel? Why is the barrel .025" wider than three rest of the assembly? Who knows? Why are tuner posts 25/64" when they could just be 3/8"? Why don't tuning machines with extruded bosses instead of screw lobes not come with a drill template for those damnable things? Why are those flush mount neck bolt washers 19/32" when they could just .5"? There are probably more eccentricities to do with parts, and who knows, maybe I just haven't seen everything that's out there. I'm not conspiratorially minded, but am I crazy for thinking this feels a but like gate keeping? By whom I know not, btw. Tell me I'm crazy if you think so lol

@gevnerovaolya Ай бұрын

You need a plop router

@979259 14 күн бұрын

was very disappointed to see that you didn't machine the screws from a block of aluminum. Is this even a custom build??

@979259 14 күн бұрын

just kidding -- this was amazing to watch. Did you work for a builder at some point? How did you learn to do this?

@OrbitalGuitars 14 күн бұрын

@@979259 A combination of watching other build videos, and years of trial and error

@ted9876 Ай бұрын

Great work but dude get a new bandsaw blade. It is supposed to cut thru the wood, not melt it.😮😅

@jamiecairns-ir1lh Ай бұрын

THATS BETTER THAN A PRS GUITAR I BET

@jritechnology Ай бұрын

Why couldn't the builder play the guitar?

@OrbitalGuitars Ай бұрын

Find any of my older videos were I am the one that plays on camera and you'll have your answer.

@jritechnology Ай бұрын

@@OrbitalGuitars Ok sure, but it doesn't make sense to name the video something that hints to you not being able to afford a very expensive guitar, and some other guy ends up playing it rather badly at the end. To each channel their own I suppose....🤣