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RE: new build for a 1987 Reyes style flamenco
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Tom Blackshear
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 RE: new build for a 1987 Reyes style... (in reply to Tom Blackshear)
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I think it's about time that I reiterate some things about my learning curve.
Most of it has been learned from the Spanish master builders through a period of 58 years and nothing that I do to adjust tonal quality is much different, only in the sense of my own feel for the building process.
Most of the tonal essence is all in the top and this is controled by bringing the top's thickness into compliance with the rest of the instrument's set pattern.
True, the guitar operates as a whole, but the top is the main generator, with how the tension is set with the accommodation of how it marries with the string torgue, action, and such.
To get this all in balance, is the key to a good guitar.
This is the reason that I've tried to pass this information along for builders to try out for themselves. Serious students of this process have E-mailed me to say that it works.
Manuel Adalid in Valencia Spain, who visited my shop, shortly for 2 years in a row, seemed to agree with the information, saying that it opened up his motivation to build the very best guitars he could for the duration of his career.
So I feel that I have been associated in some ways, to be a help in the process of qualifying guitar tone for those who feel the need to develop certain top techniques.
When I finish this current guitar I've been working on; for too long, I'll try and share any new ideas I gain from its birthing process.
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Date Dec. 27 2018 15:22:31
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Tom Blackshear
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RE: new build for a 1987 Reyes style... (in reply to flyeogh)
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Whether it's China/Trump, brexit or bank crashes everyone seems a bit guarded even when credit is cheap.
I see this as being quite possible due to the present economic conditions world wide. And I think one reason my instruments sell, at all, is their being collectable.
I've tried to keep the prices stable with the number of guitars, at a collectable level. But there is no doubt a drop in the buying potential due to loss of buying power.
But there is always going to be those who want the very best; Cadillac, Mercedes, Rolls Royce, who are going to buy what they want.
I remember years ago someone called out my prices as being too much due to my making copies of Spanish masters models. Then some thinking person chimed in and told him that my prices were a fraction of the then working models of the Spanish masters.
So, what is the gripe about building replicas, it's done all the time with the violin family, as well as guitars. There are some currently built Hauser style copies that sell for more than my guitars.
All I can say here is that there are some people who don't realize what it took for me to gain a certain position of acceptance toward market value by slowly raising prices for the past 58 years.
I'm not complaining the least bit, for I know everything is going to balance out in the end. And I'll have to make a choice whether or not to continue building my passion.
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Date Jan. 9 2019 18:38:26
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Tom Blackshear
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RE: new build for a 1987 Reyes style... (in reply to Tom Blackshear)
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Today, I talked again with Juan Cadena, and he has received a CNC set up for the guitars he wants to build in his newly remodeled shop. He has scheduled a fellow to come show him how to use it.
He is excited to get started with the building process. We are taking it slow, with a starting build of about 4 o 5 guitars before we go to the market for wider exposure.
The guitar we built in my shop turned out well, and this will be the prototype for the future presentation; for the start up line of instruments, with other models added later.
Now, here's the problem: We have only one speed for quality on this project, and that is the highest quality we can build. This means that the guitars will compete with just about any price-line in the market.
But how do we treat the average player with a limited income, to buy one of these instruments? That is going to have to be figured out with great discernment, and it may take some time to accomplish.
However, where there is a will, there is a way.
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Date Mar. 28 2019 15:00:54
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