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Joined: Jan. 29 2012
From: Seattle, Washington, USA
A factory/hand method
There are a lot of videos on Youtube about guitar making. I found this one interesting. It is about some of the methods used by a factory. The number of work stations says factory. But they are hand methods. The method of installing binding and purfling in one shot is shown. I saw something similar in a video from the Ramirez workshop. Here I was amazed that work with glue was done on a surface covered in sawdust from routing. What a mess that could make in unskilled hands. The way I do it is by pre-bending bindings. These must be thinner--several layers of veneer? Has anyone done it this way?
A treat is that Paco del Gastor tries out one of their guitars at the end.
That is the typical Spanish Small factory approach. Its very close to to artesan lutherie. BUT!!! the big difference is what matters the most, the attention to details. They go through the building of a guitar very fast and work on MANY at a time, meaning they loose control of the particalar need of each instrument. The final result is obvious: lack of consistancy. I´ve tried many Bernal guitars and they vary a lot. Bernal guitars make a lot of different models at different prices and the expensive ones dont necessarily have to be the good ones.
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