Elli restoration project

Never seen one of these before, but cool looking though, can't wait to see and hear it back in action.

I tried to listen to some clips of similar guitars on you tube but I couldn't find a good video.

here's an Elli Sound, not great quality, but give you an idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvfeocqECs

Like most old guitars, the neck is chunky, so there's lots to play with. I'm going to try planning it down and see where i go from there.

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Had some goodies show up in the post this morning.
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The neck has been pulled apart, planed, sanded and scraped flat and then routed the truss rod channel to depth again. There is about 1mm left at the back behind the channel. I need to plane back the face of the head back flat again now, then start re-assembly.
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can you post a gut shot of the wiring? Looks crazy

Hi mate, quick google search suggests it might be a Gemelli, just might need to brush up on your Italian as the 2nd link is not in English.

http://www.fetishguitars.com/
http://www.fetishguitars.com/gemelli/

Nicosaurus, I'll post pics of the wiring when I get a chance to open her up. Kinda curious myself.

Waz, I've identified the guitar as an Elli-sound by Crucianelli, probably 1964-65.
http://www.fetishguitars.com/crucian...riple-cutaway/

Yep, that's the one however those Italian built axes all have a familiar look and may be different brands from the same manufacturer perhaps? Bit like soap powder where few manufacturers yet an overwhelming amount of choice at the supermarket. One of my high school buddies I started playing with found a Galanti at a garage sale in 1978 or 79 which had all the push button stuff happening too. Punk was in it's heyday and a weird looking and equally thin weird sounding axe became his main guitar. Hardware, particularly tuners were lower end of the quality scale from memory but so was most stuff out of Japan from similar era.

nice work with the neck, this will be very cool