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New Classical Guitar Build.
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RobF
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RE: New Classical Guitar Build. (in reply to VAHE)
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I think Ricardo pretty well hit the nail on the head and has covered most of the important points. While Ricardo is correct w.r.t. the bracing, I feel I should caution that if you use Torres as your basis you shouldn’t tell anyone. If you do tell them, there is the danger they will look at you like you’re “yesterday’s man”, and you can’t charge as much. Unless, of course, you make some stupid looking oversized rosette covered in chequerboards, shields, meandering patterns and the like, in which case you can call it a bench copy and charge more. If you use one of his more understated rosettes as inspiration people will insist on telling you it’s a Hauser, in which case you might as well call it a Hauser copy and charge more. Any other fan bracing, with the exception of patterns using treble bars, can properly be called Santos, and you can charge more. Treble bars allow you to claim the pattern as your own invention, as long as you also state that all other makers using them don’t really know what they’re doing. In which case you can charge more. But seriously, I have a feeling if you take one of your Negras, use the fan bracing pattern you already have in your shop, the one with closing bars, adjust the bridge design to give it a classical string height at the saddle and adjust the neck angle and fingerboard thickness to get a classical action at the 12th fret you probably will be fine.
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Date Sep. 15 2018 17:58:55
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Richard Jernigan
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Joined: Jan. 20 2004
From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: New Classical Guitar Build. (in reply to RobF)
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quote:
ORIGINAL: RobF Any other fan bracing, with the exception of patterns using treble bars, can properly be called Santos, and you can charge more. Treble bars allow you to claim the pattern as your own invention, as long as you also state that all other makers using them don’t really know what they’re doing. In which case you can charge more. Of course you are joking, but here's what Daniel Friedrich says about Santos bracing: "We see reappear in that country [Spain] an old idea of which I have spoken earlier, which led to asymmetry in the Spanish style, “fan” braced soundboard, an essential part of the sound of the instrument. In 1903, it was the Madrilenian luthier Santos Hernandez who set the middle bar at an angle to enlarge the vibrating part of the soundboard on the side of the bass strings and shorten it on the side of the treble strings (Fig.20). Santos by rnjernigan, on Flickr RNJ
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Date Sep. 15 2018 22:06:32
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