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RE: New koa blanca by salvador castillo (in reply to erictjie)
(I double posted)
First of all congratulations with your new guitar. Its a beautifull and well sounding negra.
Why do you keep calling it a blanca. Do you have something against negras???? I dont understand it and your reference to sound doesnt change that (and also, I dont agree with this socalled blanca sound) Blancas are pale wood guitars never mind the sound. Doenst matter if you paint one of my blonde cypress guitars black. It´ll still be a blanca. And your Koa-negra will continue being a negra even though you paint it white. Just like orange colored cypress guitars remain blancas and are not qualified as being oranges. When you are working with a very traditional culture like flamenco, and you do that by calling your guitar a blanca or a negra, you enter a place with a lot of unwritten laws or ethics and esthetics. Doesnt matter if its flamenco or other art forms. So, a negra it is. A beautifull one that sounds very nice and very negra. I would proudly call it a negra if I had built it.
In my ears, the sound is pure negra. The separation of the trebles, which is very bright and clear is typical for negras. You can hear it very clearly in the rasgueados the last 10 - 15 seconds. Cypress guitars have a different modulation of the trebles. Especially when playing them hard. They get a kind of soft distortion that I can only compare with what a valve amplifier does compared to a transistor amp. Thats softer to the ears and is one of the main reasons you dont see or hear many negras being used for accompanying dance.
RE: New koa blanca by salvador castillo (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
Thank you Anders for the info. All this time nobody corrected me and I always assume that as long as it is not rosewood , you call them blanca, since it is lighter colour than rosewood.
RE: New koa negra by salvador castillo (in reply to erictjie)
Eric It was discussed in one of your threads about koa a little while ago. Besides, some rosewoods are paler than Koa. (Palo escrito and Panama rosewood and maybe others)
RE: New koa negra by salvador castillo (in reply to erictjie)
Flamed Koa is amazing to look at. A thin french polish will appear to be an 1/8" deep or deeper in some areas of the flame when viewed close up and at the right angle. Photos just don't do justice to the visual depth. I built a ukulele for my grandson with a flamed koa top .. my daughter took one look at it and said: he's not playing that, it's too pretty .. he's going to take piano lessons first. I agreed with her on the piano lessons as a first step .. and .. at 8 years old my grandson now knows more about music theory and playing music than I will ever know thanks to a dedicated and gifted teacher.
I can assure you that your guitar will be even more beautiful than the photos show when viewed in person.
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