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Evaluation of six flamenco guitar plans
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josswinn
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RE: Evaluation of six flamenco guita... (in reply to josswinn)
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Echi, Thank you. I would like to have the John Ray plan, too. I have contacted the journal, but had no reply. I'll try again. About the weight, yes, I agree, Gore and Gilet must have used old blancas to be able to state that the target weight is around 1100g. My own preference is very light blancas, so I have tended to focus on that. I reviewed the weight of guitars on Solera Flamanca last year, again focusing on blancas only. The second worksheet on this spreadsheet has the data I found for 55 guitars: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MXm385ck2XGBSs-RQ2goCIQUrNe1-DuOj6pKuhzLn7g/edit?usp=sharing The weight is not always given for those 55 guitars, but the average for 16 guitars between 1953 and 1987 is 1200g. If you say the average is 1400g, then you must be included negras, because I reckon it's just as hard to make a blanca 1400g as it is to make it 1100g! :-) My suggestion on my blog post that 6 plans are better than 1, is not that it's better to mix the design of different makers - I don't really have an opinion on that. I think that the benefit of six plans for people learning to make guitars is that they show you that there's room for variation and individual choice and that the great makers didn't turn out exactly the same specification of guitar each time. Cheers, Joss
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