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RE: Peek at a new rosette design. (in reply to Stu)
I’ll show you the rest of it then.
It’s a spruce top, 650 mm scale
The sides are Macassar thin, laminated over Hinoki- total thickness 3.5 mm very stiff The back is Cherry or as we say here Sakura.
I found two Macassar logs in a lumber yard and had them sawn into fingerboards and ribs. Same lumberyard I found a 4” thick slab table top of Sakura, I had it sawn into backs. I married the two in five special sets with Sakura backs and Macassar sides, because the browns and golds in each wood look so beautiful together. Plus I wanted an active back of a non rose wood.
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RE: Peek at a new rosette design. (in reply to estebanana)
This one is set up more like a classical, or perhaps in between? The treble is about 2.8 mm and the bass about 3.2 or 3.4 you could play flamenco on it, but the laminated ribs make the whole thing feel too heavy. It’s a guitar with a flamenco kind of voice if you pushed it, but it has a treble register that’s made for singing melodies. It’s like a mullet hair cut, business in the front, party in the back.
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RE: Peek at a new rosette design. (in reply to Escribano)
Thank you!
The design is a spin off of the traditional Japanese pattern called Seigaiha. It was by request of the customer I use the design as a motif in the rosette.
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RE: Peek at a new rosette design. (in reply to Stu)
But it’s also been pointed out it looks like Kamaboku - fish cake 😂
This old thread is fun because it’s got snarky comments by Ron ( page 2), I’m sure he would have pointed out the similarities between fish cake and my rosette. 😂
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RE: Peek at a new rosette design. (in reply to estebanana)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana
This one is set up more like a classical, or perhaps in between? The treble is about 2.8 mm and the bass about 3.2 or 3.4 you could play flamenco on it, but the laminated ribs make the whole thing feel too heavy. It’s a guitar with a flamenco kind of voice if you pushed it, but it has a treble register that’s made for singing melodies. It’s like a mullet hair cut, business in the front, party in the back.
Beautiful guitar. I would be curious if you could get a more flamenco voice out of it as it would be a stunner with the sides like that. While I am not a luthier, what about a back of lighweight cypress to counter balanca a bit on the sides being heavy? Or maybe a maple?
Gioachino Giussani uses double backs and sides to force the tone through the top for his classicals. They are pure canons in terms of volume and have a very aggressive voice to them even though it's a classical. If not for the sustain he brings forward they would easily pass for flamenco with how hard they attack.
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RE: Peek at a new rosette design. (in reply to estebanana)
Stephen, this guitar is very zippy looking. I mean dazzling. A good thing. Not just the rosette but the figure in the headplate (whose shape complements the grain pattern) and the sides, all of it. Owning that guitar would wake me up every time I went to play it, let alone the sound.
RE: Peek at a new rosette design. (in reply to tri7/5)
The Sakura isn’t that much different than Cypress in strength and density. It feels a lot like cypress, but probably is close enough you couldn’t tell it from cypress. This guitar is braced asymmetrically( the one above with the fancy seigaiha rose) oddly enough in the modern French influenced way, think child of Friederich. But with single thickness thin Macassar ribs and more flamenco top bracing this could be a killer ‘media Blanca’
I just made up that term right now 😂 media Blanca-
I’d probably call it ‘Sol e Sombra’ if I were to make branding of it. Actually that’s not a bad idea. The next one I’m building is also a classical ( a guy has got to make a living) and it’s a Cedar top, 640 mm scale. Here:
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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.
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