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Copies are useless, I was never struck by copying anything.

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I don't care having a flamenco guitar and the cigar that Fidel Castro used to smoke passes under the strings, as long as it's comfortable and it sounds flamenco, I don't care what others think.

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Pali, you can say this all you want, but that doesn’t make it true. The problem is if you can pass Fidel’s cigar under the strings the guitar will likely not be comfortable to play or sound flamenco. If a guitar meeting that test does end up being liked by a flamenco player, then you’re right, and that’s OK, at least for that player. But I think it’s making life difficult for a maker to go this direction, as lots of players might complain or start bleeding all over the place and then the only way you will be able to stop them from crying is to let them smoke Fidel’s cigar, which I know you were saving for a special occasion.

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I spent the last 25 years working as a workshop manager and technical teacher specialized in orthopedics, helping people, I worked for a large company that allowed me to have expensive hobbies such as making musical instruments and many other things.

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But, I thought when you first posted here you said you were new to making flamenco guitars because you mostly made classical guitars. Almost like you wanted some response or feedback from the makers on here. Even if that’s not the case, everything is still fine and it is interesting to see your projects.

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RobF: But, I thought when you first posted here you said you were new to making flamenco guitars because you mostly made classical guitars. Almost like you wanted some response or feedback from the makers on here. Even if that’s not the case, everything is still fine and it is interesting to see your projects.

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Pali: I'm sorry but I've been reviewing what I've written and I can't find anything you say, I've never said that I was starting to make guitars ..... I also don't hope anyone says anything, I just participate like any other member.

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Pali: I have not played guitar for 30 years, I made this one for a friend, I had to read something about flamenco so that he could hear its sound, I'm a classical musician as I said before,

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I'm sorry but I've been reviewing what I've written and I can't find anything you say, I've never said that I was starting to make guitars .....

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I think you came into the “Classical vs Flamenco” guitar topic claiming people had the wrong idea and a blindfold would surprise people...I agreed with you, but the impression you gave at that time was that you make CLASSICAL guitars only. The fact that flamenco folks have used your guitars with tap plates taped on or whatever means you don’t build flamenco guitars, and that is totally fine. But it also implies that you are NEW TO BUILDING FLAMENCO STYLE GUITARS. This could be a false statement if you have in fact built guitars specifically for flamenco and NOT for classical. Like it or not this is reality. If your opinion is a flamenco guitar IS a classical guitar with a tap plate, well, that is fine too. But it still means you did not build with flamenco music as the exclusive intent for the instrument.

Nice boots!

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Relax, they have the required measurements and there is no room for a cigarette under the bridge ...

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What kind of cigarette?

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During WW II and afterwards, members of the U.S. Air Force distinguished themselves from other members of the military by certain "out of uniform" articles of clothing. Among them were shoes.

My father sometimes wore monk straps, at other times some that resembled these, but made correctly:



His were made by Abram Rios e Hijos, Raymondville, Texas. Rios mainly made boots for the Texas ranch trade and fancy ones for the Hollywood cowboys, but they also did shoes for people whose families had been customers for a period of time,

The last generation of the Rios who were in the business sold the name to a small factory, I believe in Laredo, Texas. It has become difficult to get properly fitted boots and shoes in Texas.

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Vary nice. On the back of the one with the wider dark detail, is it herringbone?

Last two I shellacked I had taped off the bridge location but didn't like how bumpy the shellac was around the tape so I pulled the tape off of one just to see. Of course the shellac evened out after a few more sessions over the tape. I just found it a lot easier to slice the edge of the tape then pull the tape rather then masking and scraping, I cut a single edge razor blade in half, then sanding. Wondering if you tried taping first and decided you like shellacking without it?

I do like how you shellac before fitting the fretboard. The top next to the fret board used to give me a lot of problems but I have it figured out now. Still I might try it your way and shellack first.

Looking forward to a sound sample.

Oh ya, what strings do you prefer?

I just purchased my first Red Cedar for tops so I'm excited to use it on a future build. Do you brace your cedar tops differently then spruce? I understand most are making the top just a little thicker with Cedar then spruce. Do you find this to be true?

About the shoes, they are amazing, like Richard mentioned the black ones with the ankle straps and gold buckles are super cool, just think how good I would look and sound playing guitar with them on my feet, perhaps a Cuban cigar too but I don't smoke ;) Do you make them custom one at a time to fit the foot exactly? They say it takes about 200 hours to build a guitar if that is so then how long does it take to make a nice pair of boots like the black ones mentioned?

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I have been working for many years making all kinds of exclusive custom-made footwear.

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This means you are a true cordwainer. It is even more interesting as the word “Cordwainer” is originally derived from the city in which you live.

Just out of curiosity, what word is used in Spain to describe a maker of custom footwear? The word “Cordwainer” is not in common usage in English any longer, probably because shoemakers are often erroneously referred to as being cobblers, or are just called shoemakers, instead.

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All in all this is a really funny topic.
Anyway Pali, you look like a really talented and skilled guy.

I’d like to add that every famous firm of flamenco guitar has their own sound/playability thing that makes their guitar recognisable and the players to like it. The more you get into it the more the differences are evident for a fussy player.
The reason why the listener doesn’t catch the differences as well as the player is because the player is behind the guitar: he catches better the bass frequencies and perceives much better the attack of the note, while a metre away in front of the guitar the note content develops with different harmonics.
I cannot appreciate when I listen myself singing either: at the end it’s the same stuff.

I know about the blind tests etc but at the end of the day I think they are deceiving. I care much more about what I listen and the feeling I have when I play than what the people get.

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I care much more about what I listen and the feeling I have when I play than what the people get.

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Sí, estaba preguntando por la costura trasera de tu última guitarra. ¿Quizás una foto de primer plano?

Acabo de instalar trastes en cuatro cuellos, lo hago antes de unir el mástil al cuerpo.

Muchas tareas de primavera afuera ya que la nieve y el hielo casi han desaparecido aquí en Alaska, por lo que la construcción de mi guitarra debe disminuir la velocidad.

Adquirí algo de abedul para las costillas y el lomo y estoy probando una nueva forma de sazonar la madera usando vacío para extraer la humedad. La madera se envuelve y sella en una bolsa con elementos calefactores en el interior y se utiliza una bomba de vacío para bajar el punto de ebullición del agua para que salga más rápido sin tener que usar demasiado calor. Es más complicado que eso, pero un experimento divertido, ya que tengo todo el equipo de todos modos.

La otra foto es la parte inferior de dos guitarras hechas con el Abedul que crece en nuestra zona. Un poco de nogal negro y el otro de madera de encaje con papel para la raya azul y blanca también se usa en el perfling. Ambos están en una tienda para vender, ojalá alguien se enamore de ellos.