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Escribano

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Do you like the smell of your guitar? 
Just to start one off in this forum....

My "ice maiden" had been lurking in the living room waiting for me to fit her fingerboard, bridge, nut and saddle etc. Meanwhile, temperatures are hitting the 90's in the UK!

She is smelling delicious as she dries out a little (I am keeping an eye on her). It's the unvarnished cedar neck and end block mostly. Absolutely wonderful. I take a deep sniff every night

Do you like yours?

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 15 2003 13:01:58
 
TANúñez

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to Escribano) 
Are you sure it's the neck that's giving you the smell and not the cypress? that's if your using cypress. I love the way mine smells but I think it's the cypress. Better than any perfume!

I'm using Monterey cypress for my first guitar. My Carrillo smells 1000 times better, Spanish cypress.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 16 2003 12:57:00
 
Merle

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to TANúñez) 
El Zurdo, I can still smell the wood from my Carpio and I have had it over a year now. What a sweet smell!! ;>)

Merle

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 16 2003 13:32:12
 
Escribano

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to TANúñez) 
Maybe it's both - apparently Martin guitars put a cedar end block inside for the smell alone.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 16 2003 13:36:32
 
TANúñez

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to Escribano) 
Hi Merle, I have heard that that smell will last a very long time. Some luthiers have said it never goes away.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 16 2003 13:39:19
 
TANúñez

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to Escribano) 
Simon. That's interesting. I've never heard that. Cedar does have a nice smell though.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 16 2003 13:40:00
 
Miguel de Maria

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to Escribano) 
A little update on my Vicente Carillo blanca. Well, perhaps with all the environmental changes from taking it from Arizona to Madrid to Barcelona to Malaga to Granada to Cordoba to Sevilla (whew!), it seems to have a little deformation in the finish where the fingerboard lays on the soundboard. Oh well. It is a tool, not an object dárte, this I will argue with anyone!

Everyone loves my guitar and says that it is very playable and sounds great. And I agree, when I hear other people play my guitar it sounds good. Maybe that´s because they are all better than me! So I have to recommend very heartily the VC Blanca, because a lot of these people are playing low-end Condes--the Vicente Carillo is better than these, no doubt. A great value.
  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 17 2003 13:42:06
 
TANúñez

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to Escribano) 
Michael, I don't know if you'd have the time but maybe you could take the Guitar back to it's creator and see what he thinks about the finish? That is if he's not too far from where you are.

Can't wait for your return to hear your stories. I hope your taking a lot of photos.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 17 2003 14:18:50
 
TANúñez

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to Escribano) 
Michael, one more thing. I don't know what strings your using on your Carrillo blanca but I just put on some Hannabach flamenco 827's medium and the guitar sounds awesome!

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 17 2003 14:23:14
 
eslastra

 

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to TANúñez) 
LOL, an interesting topic. As one who's owned a number of guitars through the years, the one that has "outsmelled" them all is my old DeVoe blanca. A Spanish cypress body with a cedar top. After 25 years the nicer cedar aroma is still present, especially after I've had a humidifier in the soudhole for a couple of days. The dullest smelling guitars have been the negras. You'd think for the premium price you pay for these woods that they'd at least smell nice. Brazilian rosewood kinda smells like an old damp towel

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 18 2003 5:27:50
 
Jim Opfer

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to eslastra) 
I pulled my Valeriano Bernal out the case the other night for a go, I hadn't played her for a few months and as Simon mentioned, the temperature here in the UK has been very warm (well by our norms).
I kept getting this strong wiff of sherry, sherry in old wooden barrels! I thought it was strange, you know the way hearing an old song can just suddenly bring back a vivid memory, you might even feel a taste in your mouth! Well it was strong like that.
Jeez! it was the guitar. I couldn't believe it, cypress and ceder, what a mix. Trying to find a way to bottle it.
Cheers!
Jim.
  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Jul. 20 2003 10:53:20
 
Escribano

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RE: Do you like the smell of your gu... (in reply to Jim Opfer) 
I get whiffs of it at work and my guitar is a home, go figure. I think it's quite musty and rather attractive

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