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Poca Loca Flamenco Negra Commission Completed
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SalvadorDalinian
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Joined: May 26 2006
From: Portland, Oregon, USA
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 Poca Loca Flamenco Negra Commission ...
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After a year and a half of torture, my poca loca flamenco negra finally arrived last month from Larry Breslin's Deerhead Guitars workshop. I've had a great time playing her in, and she is so very easy to play with! She is light and loud with a sweet sound overall, crisp and bright, but also capable of a very lyrical and dark line when that need comes.
A photo essay is available at my website:
http://www.trentonscott.com/deerheadFlamencoNegra.shtml
This is a crazy flamenco by design, 650mm scale with a 51mm nut and a very thin (19mm) neck; the setup is low and fast, very easy to play; the tapa is Engelmann bear claw spruce, french polished with tap plates; the back is Brazilian rosewood; the sides are laminated Brazilian and cypress; the nut and saddle are pre-ban ivory; the bridge is East Indian rosewood with a MOP inlay; the bindings are ebony; the head plate is Brazilian rosewood, featuring very crazy figuration; the bronze machines are Alessi Simplicio with MOP buttons.
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Trent
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Date May 26 2006 18:56:14
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RE: Poca Loca Flamenco Negra Commiss... (in reply to SalvadorDalinian)
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Wow, thats a mean webpage for those of us only having the option of a modem 
I´ve been downloading for more than half an hour now, and I´m still not half way
The soundboard looks absolutely lovely, and I agree that bear clawing is very good looking.
The back I dont like.... And I would not even build with wood like that. Flatsawn wood from Amazonas is very unstable, prone to cracking and not the best sound producer. Be carefull with sudden weather changes.
Maybe I´ll se the final guitar another day. Right now I have to disconnect. I cannot block my telephone line all day long
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Date May 28 2006 8:20:14
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RE: Poca Loca Flamenco Negra Commiss... (in reply to SalvadorDalinian)
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That piece of wood for the back of you double top classical looks nice. quatersawn and with straight grain. It will sound and I.m sure and it will be a lot more stable than the flatsawn wood for the negra.
You use different words for the wood. Jacaranda is not rosewood. It is a locally used brownish wood from the amazonas mostly from Bolivia and Brazil and around there.
The biggest problem with all this Brazilean rosewood thing is that it´s so full of myths and cheating.
The famous Brazilean rosewood was Rio Rosewood, Dalberghia Nigra. It´s 100% banned and very difficult to get. Its THE wood which made the term Brazilean rosewood famous, which created the myth.
The rest is whatever brownish wood from amazonas and is used under the name of Brazilean rosewood in order to make money. It can be Jacaranda, other Brazilean rosewoods, Pau Ferro, Caviuna etc. Some of it with very poor sound quality and very unstable.
The only way to get an idea of the quality of a piece of wood as a tonewood is to tap it and hear the quality of the frequences. Some of these woods used under the name of Brazilean rosewood have very poor performances.
At the moment, I have one piece of Brazilean rosewood with a very nice tap tone. I will not buy more while the situation is the way it is. It´s just not worth it and I feel it´s a big cheat. What I´ve been offered lately by different wood suppliers has been absolutely lousy quality.
At the moment I´m staying away from wood for backs and sides which comes from South America. Just dont like the whole situation. It smells. 
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Date May 29 2006 7:29:54
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Ramón
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Joined: Feb. 23 2005
From: La Jolla, Ca
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RE: Poca Loca Flamenco Negra Commiss... (in reply to SalvadorDalinian)
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SeanM,
Just use a tiny dot of White Out for a marker. That way, if you 'slide up' to any fret to accompany, you can quickly remove and make another 'mark' if you need. I keep a bottle in my case, make a TINY mark, fingernail it off, and remark, as a lot of the singers here use 5th fret for vocals, where I usually preactice/play at 2nd position.
Not very elegant, but it works!
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Date May 29 2006 18:18:32
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