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A Flamenco and some Classicals
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RobF
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A Flamenco and some Classicals
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Hi, I thought I’d post some pictures of some guitars I made over the past year. Only one, the most recent, is a flamenco guitar, but I’m hoping people may be interested in seeing some classicals, too. The first I’ll show is a Padauk Flamenca which was completed a few weeks ago. I’ve been itching to build a Padauk guitar for some time now, mainly due to being inspired by some of the gorgeous Padauk instruments that Andy has built/posted over the years. I drew a new plantilla for this guitar, so I was excited about that. It’s a little smaller than that of the classicals I’ll be showing. With the exception of my first four guitars, which used plantillas designed by my teachers, I’ve always drawn my own. This one is new, but I’m not retiring the older one, which is now on its third iteration. At any rate, enough talk, I’ll just show the guitars. Hope you like them. The Padauk Flamenco:
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Date Feb. 4 2019 20:40:00
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RobF
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RE: A Flamenco and some Classicals (in reply to Andy Culpepper)
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Thanks Andy! Definitely I’ll take some rosette photos and post them :) I do my own, but I have to admit that in the case of the Padauk guitar the diagonal borders along the edges are from Japan. They are a little wider than I would normally do. But the price was too good to pass up and they are very high quality. I have two guitars that I use as benchmarks to compare my builds against. Not because they are necessarily exceptional instruments but more because they are well proven designs and are highly competent at what they do. Then I can compare my builds and note the differences, more bass, louder, softer, tighter, etc....For classical builds I have a 1980 Ramirez 1a and for the flamencos I have a 1988 Felipe V Conde Blanca that has all the hallmarks of an earlier Gravina. Both very nice and both, especially the Conde, are much loved. The Padauk is a little louder and more brilliant than my Conde, but the Conde is stronger in the mids. Maybe the Padauk is what you would call a more lyrical guitar. I think, at least at the moment, the Conde would win out in an unmiked Peña situation with a lot of background noise. But my Conde is at least 30 years old. I used the Brune 1934 Santos flamenco plan from GAL for the bracing and, probably due to the success of the thick topped Hauser classical, for once I decided to try to follow the plan faithfully. To that end I selected a nice stiff top, not the prettiest, but every other quality was great and I thicknessed based on what I understood from the the Santos. It ended up being about 1.8mm on average in the lower bout but it feels more like 2.3mm when pressed, so a good piece of wood. I’ll try to get those rosette picture done tomorrow 👍
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