estebanana -> RE: "Luthiers share your creations" thread (May 6 2014 23:14:00)
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That trusy falseta of David's is a good one to see how the guitar responds- if it plays that falseta with not much effort to articulate the trebles and the legato then the guitar is working. Tom, That guitar and the last five have been based closely on the 51 Barbero drawing of Brune' , with the exception that the plantilla is from a 1927 Santos. I did not set out to make Barbero copies to market as Barbero copies, but I wanted to build the same exact model over several times to see how it changes from guitar to guitar. It was more about what I would learn than about selling them as reproductions, which they are not. I'm off flamencos for a few months I have some personal projects lined up, an instrument for David Serva in fact- it's a secret what I'm going to build. And a Torres model which I'm building because I have not yet grappled with Torres and that interests me. Then a Friederich cedar top. A viola is in the works based on Gasparo da Salo, but there always room to work on a flamenco. And 'll get back to it because once you build flamencos you really can't stop it's rather obsessive. It's frustrating I have not explored building a Hauser or a Bouchet yet ether and I've seen flamencos guitars which have Bouchet bars. Both those ways of thinking are considered old hat by now, but I think there is still a lot of merit in investigating them. What I've been drawn to after making the five from the Barbero plan is to make small intimate guitars, so the Torres with 644 scale I have sketched out is probably next. Oh but first there is this matter of a cutaway retopping. That will prove interesting.
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