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RE: Bogdanovich´s method for flamenco guitars
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ernandez R
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 RE: Bogdanovich´s method for flamen... (in reply to Andy Culpepper)
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Andy,
I might have got the idea after reading about that story, but then again I've seen music paper inside many guitars and was intrigued when I read that Stradivarious had used paper, made from rags back then, as bindings on his builds. It was a simple solution and I've been working on that Pentenera and had printed out a few copies. Had a copy out in the shop so I could work on it with my shop guitar, my ugly #2, and it was sacrificed as you can see. This series of parlor guitars is based loosely on the 1863 Torres featured in Vintage Gutair written up by Brune I think. I chickened out and added sound bars though...
Looks like I took a little too much cough syrup last night, slept in, and missed the troll fight. I like a healthy exchange keyboard battle but sounds like it got ugly. That's too bad...
Lot of strong creative minds here and luthiery in general. I prefer to listen, keep my opinions to myself, and interject when it feels like I'm adding value like making a quick finger plane or describing a thought process involving a borouque cutout and music paper, or pondering how strong minds can get along, have a healthy fight, brush off the dust feathers and blood, poor a drink, then salute each other because we still can in this age of dissension.
HR
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy,
doesn't have to be fast,
should have some meat on the bones,
can be raw or well done,
as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor.
www.instagram.com/threeriversguitars
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Date Mar. 6 2020 21:52:15
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ernandez R
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From: Alaska USA
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RE: Bogdanovich´s method for flamen... (in reply to JasonM)
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Mango,
Exciting times glueing the top and bottom on, it's almost like she is a guitar at this point and becomes alive. Like Prometheus bringing fire to the clay people or perhaps Dr Frankenstine making life from bits and pieces, only we are making this wooden creature with strings, some might say only a tool, but after hours of shaping with our hands, binding here and there into shapes almost human, who could deny there is life once strung up and given voice.
I had to laugh once my mind wondered down this road, that we are like gods creating our own creatures, only I began to tally the faults and missteps in this journey we call luthery. There is my great experiment I keep hanging in the shop and dare drag outside in the snowy or sunny, riverside beach or bonfire; my ugly monster with six string who I would name Hubris if said name was less ugly, Segundo if she was less feminine. And while I laugh again at Sr. Torres for naming his... who is it we worship now?
I too found myself fiddling with the top before glueing on the back. At some point you have to believe in yourself and the magic of luthiery and all who have gone before who said, this is how it should be. I was told more then a few times that one should stick exactly to a plan but I couldn't even begin, my mind is not wired so, and more then anything, a desire to walk a solitary path, to carve against the grain, to shape almost too thin, dare the wood explode for a tone explosive; is this not what makes us human, or rather super human, pulls us above the mundane with six strings?
You are getting close. I feared this point when I was building my fourth, so much time and care invested and one mistake could send it all into the wood stove. I would get trapped: how did I do that last time or is this going to be good enough? I would stop, brew up a cup of tea to get over myself then race through the next step so excited nearing the finish.
It's early am, I've been sick for weeks but I was in the shop yesterday for half a day; my list said, clean the shop. I too have a top and bottom ready to glue; waiting patiently for me to bring alive...
HR
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy,
doesn't have to be fast,
should have some meat on the bones,
can be raw or well done,
as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor.
www.instagram.com/threeriversguitars
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Date Mar. 27 2020 15:33:07
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ernandez R
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From: Alaska USA
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RE: Bogdanovich´s method for flamen... (in reply to Ricardo)
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo
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It was a simple solution and I've been working on that Pentenera and had printed out a few copies. Had a copy out in the shop so I could work on it with my shop guitar, my ugly #2, and it was sacrificed as you can see
Oh no. You know that’s bad luck right? No offense but I wouldn’t touch that guitar!  
It's the dark magic, a song form conjuring up fear, late night gipsy dancing around the fire flickerings, sharp blades and wine gone bad in the barrel, thick in men's minds like pooling blood under the slaughtering tree; the taste of fear in the mouth of mothers wondering when the next meal comes, the guitar with a broken treble string thrumming along regardless: five strings, five fingers inverted as the dark lords mark making mad music, the anti tempo of each compleat compas. Pentaneras!
Years ago I went to a airplane pilot and mechanic school in Tulsa Oklahoma started in the early 1920's . It's mascot was a black cat over the number thirteen. There was a lot of superstition associated with Avaition back in the day and this was their way to get the new pilots and mechanics over being afraid of nonsense and trust the science.
Oh you would play, you know it, you can't overcome the power inside yourself to master each instrument, it's in your soul. And I know a guitar is just one tool in the box, that gilded or rusty, you and countless like you would make her into your own. And I would relish that moment, when artist or neophyte makes those bits of wood I have conjured into holding six strings in tension release music I've never imagined. So ether pious or Pentaneras play, I dare you.
HR
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy,
doesn't have to be fast,
should have some meat on the bones,
can be raw or well done,
as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor.
www.instagram.com/threeriversguitars
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Date Mar. 27 2020 19:06:58
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