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I recently finished up a cedar/braziian negra with soundports for a good friend here in MA. He is a student of my good buddy and client Juanito Pascual. I delivered the guitar to him the day it was strung up, not something I normally would do but he had been rather patient and the guitar was very alive from the get go. Juanito stopped by his place to check it out and I took a quick impromptu vid of him working her over. At the point of this recording the guitar was about 5 hours old with many 25 minutes worth of playing time on her. I am definitely pleased. Hope everyone likes it
I am reminded of the scene in Back To The Future when Marty hands over the modified skateboard (in the 1950s) to the kid and the kid looks at it in awe.... that is what Juanito is doing to the guitar. Man he can play, and the guitar sounds like it is pretty damn good. Ole!
tom, "a credible guitar"? i would say aaron builds incredible guitars. i have played several of his over the years and have done an a/b "test" against sabicas' barbero (yes that one) as well as an awesome ramirez and arcangel and in my opinion aaron matched up quite nicely with the barbero and arcangel and surpassed the ramirez.
Ruphus, Aaron builds a credible guitar that impresses a lot of people. A collector in Texas who collects his guitars tells me I had better watch out
I know, we have had a couple of interesting talks over past years on the AG forum and Aaron was always good for informing bits on the guitar subject. But in the meantime something seems to have changed as he appears to have decided to ignore my kind inquiry above. That´s life.
I specially like the seperation of the sound and the low sustain, specially when rasueados are played. And that the guitar doesn't sound "muddy" and too classical like so many Cedar Negras out there.
The 'Ole' at the end is pretty awesome. It's a pretty unplanned reaction with a element of surprise to how fantastic the guitar sounds. I imagine for a luthier that must be a pretty amazing feeling, watching a guitar which you've spent a long time building being played/used to make wonderful music.
The guitar sounded immense. Seriously immense.
I could have watched the dude play it for hours, days etc.
I have to say that Aaron builds an esthetically beautiful guitar. I really like the rosette he designed, as seen on his website, and the plantilla is very comfortable for me to view as a work of art. Keep it up Aaron!
Also, I don't know where you came up with the guitar's head design but it's one of very few that I look at and actually see balance and beauty.
Funny you should mention the Ole at the end, it was that which almost made me not put it up. And you are right I was sitting there getting blasted by the sound of that guitar thinking its just about the best work I've ever done and it's not even played in yet. What I am so happy with is the weight of the notes, huge fat notes with razor blades. The clarity of it's voice throughout the registers and the discipline of the harmonics give it that metallic bite when you push it but that is totally under the control of the player, it's a very sweet sounding guitar when you want that. Tonal flexibility has always been my biggest goal in any guitar I build, classical or flamenco.
And of course Juanito's playing is especially inspired these days, he's got a new trio with two masters in their own right and is gigging like crazy. I've known John since we were both in our early 20s and have always loved his playing. He's been a great friend and I am honored he chooses to use my guitars.
I hope none of this comes across as me patting myself on the back excessively. I am very happy with that guitar of course, but believe very strongly that when the stars align, they align. And when they don't......
Thank you for your kind words esp. Tom. I appreciate that very much. BTW my headstock crest is another variation on a theme of Manuel Ramirez. I didn't start out trying to do that but thats what it ended up being.
You've married with this forum very nicely, in that you love to talk about guitar. This is certainly what we do and I applaud you for being so excited about it.
You, Stephen, and Anders are going places, and this is clearly seen by me and many others on this list.
I wish I was able, I would buy 10 of your guitars, and keep them for my sons inheritance. I had the chance to do this with Marcello Barbero but alas, I wasn't wise enough to see the potential collect-ability
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