estebanana -> RE: The Moth takes a shellacking (Mar. 21 2010 11:21:06)
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I really like how the purfling tapers away at the heel. I don't go in for a lot of fancy business with the aesthetic details on a guitar, and always prefer a simple, clean, bare-bones approach. This sort of small detail is exactly the kind of thing that adds a touch of elegance and shows the craft behind the guitar in an unostentatious way. Thank you. That detail is straight up old style Ramizez, Barbero etc. It makes a lot of sense. There are Torres and other early guitars which have that same binding termination, but the ends are just squared off! No taper. I want to do that once too sometime. When I make a guitar and someone asks for something specific I'll try to accomodate them with the appointments they desire, but given my druthers I'll go as reductive as possible to please myself. As a collaboration between builder an client I think a compromise is best. If you're a builder, at least I feel this way, it's nice if the customer grants you some creative design leeway instead of demanding everything be dialed in as if they read it off a menu of priced options. That way of working or marketing never appealed to me. There's a fellow who may commission a guitar and he and I are bouncing around the idea of text in the rosette. An interesting challenge but it could be stunning. That's clearly a one off unique thing which interests me much more than standard menu options. Making them super reductive is fun too. The way the heel is carved, is more important to me than variations in purfling complexity. You can go to any classical guitar shop and look at a wall of guitars and see from a distance the ones that have beautiful distinctive heels. They stand out. Then if you move in closer a look at the ones with not so elegant heels they may have more purfling or other detail work, but if it's superimposed onto a guitar with a clumsy heel or some other basic design wonkyness to me it's disappointing. This particular guitar is influenced by my opportunity to handle Moya's Bellido. That Bellido was a real turning point for me. That guitar is very simple yet refined, straight forward. It gave me the permission, if you will, to be simple. That's the a story behind this one. We'll see how it sounds in a few days.
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