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The 7 string guitar in the video w/ Jason is actually mine. After owning and playing it as my main guitar for about 3 years, I'm starting to feel like the musical possibilites in flamenco are outweighed by the challenges of playing flamenco on a 7 string.

Fact is though, I'm not really a flamenco player. I play Brazilian music - a lot of choro in particular, which is more or less where Yamandu is coming from. But I do practice a lot of flamenco - especially technique.
Here are some specific issues I've found, and I'd bet that when Jason says in the video that he doesn't think a 7 string would work well in flamenco, these might be some of the reasons:

1) rasgueado where you plant your RH thumb on the basses. If you play an E chord, and leave it on the 6th string normally, do you do place it on the 7th string, or keep it on the 6th and let the 7th string press down from above? If you place it on the 7th, it makes hitting the trebles a new experience, as you're 10 - 11mm further away than you'd normally be. If you put it on the 6th, it can feel weird.
2) rumba strumming; you have be be careful of the extra string, which you must now either incorporate into the chord or mute. And based on how you tune the 7th string, it may or may not to work to incorporate, so you frequently have to mute regardless.
3) picado; similar situation to the rasgueado. If you plan a RH thumb on the 6th string (as I do) do you plant on the 7th now? Which again, places you 10-11mm further away from where you'd normally be.
4) the norm for string spacing is to reduce the distance from string to string, so that the final result isn't super wide. And obviously, there are plusses and minus to tighter spacing. For me, tremolo on the 2nd and 3rd string is made more difficult with tighter spacing.
5) Alzapua: if it's hard with 6 strings it sure ain't easier with 7!

These are just a few issues. But if I were a better player, I'd probably be able to make better use of the 7th string in flamenco. I'm thinking that it's best for someone who focuses on the solo/concert repertoire. For example, being able to play a G chord in 7th position, and accessing the high D note on the 1st string/10th fret while being able to include the low G bass note (now available to you on the 7th string) offers cool possibilities.
But accompaniment is trickier I think.

As far as Stephen's instruments, I think he has achieved one thing in particular that is often missing: singing trebles. Many Brazilian made 7 strings have disappointing trebles. Or the basses sound a little sterile. Steven's guitar sounds very open; big trebles, big basses. Very loud. I like it a lot. And it does sound quite flamenco. He made one for a friend of mine that played my guitar and liked it. He ordered a 7 string with cedar/indian. Mine is spruce/black acacia. They sound quite different. His is more classical, but still open and loud sounding.
If the 12 - 19+ month wait works for you, I'd recommend Stephen's 7 strings.

Kenny Hill made me a 7 string based on a Rodriguez design. It was a little mushy sounding I thought. Nice basses. But the trebles bottomed out.
I've also owned 7 strings by Lineu Bravo, Rogerio Dos Santos, Montalvo and Giannini.

I would be curious if other luthiers here would ever build a 7. Anders? Andy?

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Anyway, my feeling is that the best entry point is a crappy $300-400 Giannini guitar. Take some sand paper to the neck and reshallac it and it'll be more playable. Spend a couple months playing it, and if you want to commit to the 7 string lifestyle spend the money to get a great guitar. If for no other reason, it's inherently more difficult to play the 7 string, so small problems with a guitar are amplified. Thus it can be difficult to commit to a $3k (or more) guitar, but it pays big dividends, as dealing with a lesser guitar can really sap one's efforts. That's just my opinion..

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Avi - wow: $1100 US for quality 7 string is very fair. Let us know what you find out!

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McGuire really only plays the 2 Glenn Canin guitars. A cedar/spruce double top blanca and a Spruce top/Brazilian Rosewood negra. He is waiting patiently for the right Stephen Faulk. He also has a 1973 Gerundino, a 1963 Conde, a 1968 Contreras and a really cool Eduardo Ferrer from the 1980's (has no date). He has owned in the past many Montalvo Guitars (something like 8) as well as a Lester Devoe negra and a 1961 Ramirez. He learned to play on a Hirade H8, then another guitar he bought from his classical teacher Enric Madriguera, a 1967 Luis Maravilla that he later traded for a blanca that Pedro Perez built on his porch in Madrid while working for Ramirez. He has also owned a few other guitars by Glenn Canin one of which he gave to his former teacher Pedro Cortes. In the late 1990's he played a Benito Huipe that was very lightly built and fell apart one day. He still misses that guitar despite it being one of the ugliest guitars ever made.

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McGuire really only plays the 2 Glenn Canin guitars. A cedar/spruce double top blanca and a Spruce top/Brazilian Rosewood negra. He is waiting patiently for the right Stephen Faulk. He also has a 1973 Gerundino, a 1963 Conde, a 1968 Contreras and a really cool Eduardo Ferrer from the 1980's (has no date). He has owned in the past many Montalvo Guitars (something like 8) as well as a Lester Devoe negra and a 1961 Ramirez. He learned to play on a Hirade H8, then another guitar he bought from his classical teacher Enric Madriguera, a 1967 Luis Maravilla that he later traded for a blanca that Pedro Perez built on his porch in Madrid while working for Ramirez. He has also owned a few other guitars by Glenn Canin one of which he gave to his former teacher Pedro Cortes. In the late 1990's he played a Benito Huipe that was very lightly built and fell apart one day. He still misses that guitar despite it being one of the ugliest guitars ever made.

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McGuire really only plays the 2 Glenn Canin guitars. A cedar/spruce double top blanca and a Spruce top/Brazilian Rosewood negra. He is waiting patiently for the right Stephen Faulk. He also has a 1973 Gerundino, a 1963 Conde, a 1968 Contreras and a really cool Eduardo Ferrer from the 1980's (has no date). He has owned in the past many Montalvo Guitars (something like 8) as well as a Lester Devoe negra and a 1961 Ramirez. He learned to play on a Hirade H8, then another guitar he bought from his classical teacher Enric Madriguera, a 1967 Luis Maravilla that he later traded for a blanca that Pedro Perez built on his porch in Madrid while working for Ramirez. He has also owned a few other guitars by Glenn Canin one of which he gave to his former teacher Pedro Cortes. In the late 1990's he played a Benito Huipe that was very lightly built and fell apart one day. He still misses that guitar despite it being one of the ugliest guitars ever made.

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Since you know so much about Jason I have a few questions for you. Did Jason get enough sleep last night? What did Jason have for lunch yesterday? What color are Jason's socks? TIA

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Jason is doing a gluten free diet because he found out his daughter is allergic to gluten so the whole family has stopped eating wheat.

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Fred come clean and let people know who you are...
or I will.