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The Journey of a Hand Built Guitar
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The Journey of a Hand Built Guitar

2011 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Luthier Joe Yanuziello builds a guitar from raw materials to finished instrument, and the camera stays close on the workshop process: selecting and shaping the wood, cutting the neck, fitting the frets, and the slow accumulation of small decisions that go into a single instrument. Yanuziello talks through his approach as he works, framing the guitar as more than a tool, an object that carries the maker's choices and the eventual player's history with it. The film has no narrator standing outside the process; what you see is the bench, the tools, and the hands doing the work, with Yanuziello's own commentary supplying the context. It is a short, plainly shot piece more interested in craft than biography, following one build from blank materials to a playable finished guitar. Anyone curious about how a handmade instrument actually comes together, rather than what it sounds like once it's done, gets a direct look at the labor involved.