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Posts: 283
Joined: Jul. 10 2007
From: Leigh, Lancashire, UK
Edible flamenco guitar
I thought you might like to see this.
Yesterday was Louis_B’s 13th birthday so his mum decided to make a special cake in the shape of a ‘playable’ flamenco guitar.
Her task was to bake and decorate the cake. My task was to make a neck, bridge and base assembly to enable strings to be tensioned.
We used his Manuel Rodriguez C3F as a template so it’s a rather large cake!
The result: - It didn’t play as well as a more ‘traditional’ flamenco guitar – golpes were VERY messy! - The action was far too high – more like a classical. - The sound was not particularly loud – maybe it needed a sound port? - The icing is thinner than the C3F finish. - Maybe the world’s first 12 hole bridge to be used on a cake? - Much, much tastier than the timber version.
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Posts: 283
Joined: Jul. 10 2007
From: Leigh, Lancashire, UK
RE: Edible flamenco guitar (in reply to at_leo_87)
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is the bridge and neck made out of wood?
The bridge is made from 2 mahogany French window offcuts glued together. I mounted it on a wooden block screwed to the base board so I could tension the strings. Finished with a drop of olive oil
The neck is made out of a piece of pine from an old bed. I built it as accurately as I could so it has a scarf jointed head, ply head veneer from my cajon build, Spanish heel, old tuners from Louis' C3F. Again finished with a drop of olive oil Strings by D'Addario
Cake luthiery at its best and cheapest!!!
Seriously though, I enjoyed fabricating the the neck and bridge so much I'm very tempted to try a real build.
Cool cake!! This will make a nice memory for your son. Maybe you could make him a real real guitar for next year although that will be hard to top the year after.
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