elgreco -> RE: New vs Old (Jan. 11 2011 18:11:26)
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Come on guys, If you believe that collectors are romantics, then it is you who are the romantics. A collector only cares to sustain or increase his/her wealth. The art recipe is old, effective and simple. You buy the VERY BEST and it increases in value. Not the second best, but the BEST. I started this thread out of simple academic curiosity. The myths are started by the younger generation of luthiers, not me. The most expensive condes are the re-editions. Lester, as was correctly mentioned, went from Santos to Torres who is the very beginning of guitar making history. Green has a whole manifesto about his Barbero influence. Navarro's most sought after, the Reyes. Kenny Hill's, the Reyes. Lester, at least, talks in his website about some refinements of his own and I quote: "Some of the refinements I have developed involve more accurate fret placement, string compensation, top arching, stress-free assembly and internal bracing design that make my guitars unique and consistent in sound and feel." This is the kind of info I was looking for, that perhaps the old luthiers had mastered and the new ones are left alone to rediscover. Ricardo, Andy and Ruphus were the only ones that offered constructive opinions (as usual) but I was hoping people would not just blame the contemporary woods. Santos might had very stiff spruce. Again as a naive guitar user, I wonder how hard it is to detect a "good" batch of wood. Can it be done a priori? Is it a particular forest, region, climate. Were the best trees cut last century or something? Cheers D.
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