Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.
This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.
We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.
Really good and balanced sound, I also like the cutaway more than the more commonly(relatively) found sharp cutaways. This one doesn't sound like it has a cutaway at all.
beside the nice heel shape, i really like that rosette.
two questions:
does the PO cedar have any sort of dye? it really is much darker than the spruce can you disclose the radius on your back? from the pic it seems rather strong.
Posts: 1708
Joined: Jan. 29 2012
From: Seattle, Washington, USA
RE: Dangerous Curves (New Cutaway Bl... (in reply to mqbernardo)
No dye. I used different naturally colored shellacs on the soundboard vs the rest. The one on the soundboard is called Platina. The one on the rest is called Ruby. I think the color depends on what tree the lac bugs are on.
I do the lengthwise curvature of the back by eye, a little different each time. It is not made on a spherical dish; I create it as I plane the edges of the sides. So I can't really tell you what it is. I think some of the photos from the sides that I have on my website will show that it is not really as strong as it appears in the above photo.
thanks. so far i only used pale shellac on spruce and cypress and buttonlac on rosewoods. was a bit afraid of getting a patchy finish on lighter woods. cypress, as you know, gets a lot darker than spruce with the polish on it - a thing of beauty, really.
i made the back fitting on my first guitars with only a plane, resorting to trial and error, and eventually got the rims and back to get along, but a radius dish really speeds the process and makes it idiot proof (a frequent necessity of mine), but OTOH it looks a bit sterile, for lack of better words. nitpicking, of course.
Posts: 1708
Joined: Jan. 29 2012
From: Seattle, Washington, USA
RE: Dangerous Curves (New Cutaway Bl... (in reply to mqbernardo)
Making backs and soundboards sections of a sphere just seems wrong to me. I like the traditional way. And I like wood shavings much more than I like sanding dust.
Printable Version
New Messages
No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages
Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages
Locked w/o New Messages
Post New Thread