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RobF
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Joined: Aug. 24 2017
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RE: Personalizing your guitars (in reply to JasonM)
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If I ever make a guitar so good that everyone wants it then I will name it My little Pony Do that and you’ll almost certainly be allowed to keep it! The problem with naming guitars is the danger it might get too personal. Or maybe some other maker has already used the name. What a hassle. I think it’s better to remain a little generic, so I’ve started calling all my guitars “Hey, you. Yeah...you!”. Then I’ve made a label with a drawing of an old fashioned looking guy staring quizzically and unconfidently out of the soundhole with his finger pointing at his chest and the quote below him saying: “Me?”. It’s probably a smart idea to try to come up with a signature head design. Lots of makers also have signature rosettes, too. In the spirit of following my own advice I just looked through my notes and it looks like I’ve used about ten head designs (all mine), ten or eleven mosaic designs, although I’m not sure I’ve ever done two rosettes exactly alike, and nine body shapes. It’s not that crazy. The first four guitars used the body shapes of my teachers. Then I drew my own, but it underwent five subtle iterations, although I think I only built to four of them. I still use this shape but I drew a new one, which is on its second (subtle) iteration. So, ten, actually. I drew my first head and was really proud of it, but then my teacher’s daughter said she thought it looked like hers (it didn’t) so I scrapped it after two guitars. My first flamenco head was also something I really liked, but then I saw one of Andy’s guitars and they looked a lot alike, so I discontinued it. I do have a standard classical head now, that I’ve been using for some time, but I’ve been playing around with about five head shapes for my flamencos, three are quite recent. I’ve considered using one of the new ones on the classicals, too, but not sure. So, all over the map, but I don’t advise it, I think it’s better to settle on one or two standards.
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