Tom Blackshear -> RE: fine tuning a top (Oct. 24 2012 22:34:52)
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ORIGINAL: keith Mr. Blackshear: I am puzzled here. In a thread at Acguitar a poster posted a query about validating your method with factory guitars and such and your response was not quite what you mentioned in your post here. So, to follow your statements, which is it? Can your methods be validated by taking a less than steller guitar and making it more steller? If so, then great and sally forth. If not, then maybe the post estebanana made holds validity. This is not to argue with professional knowledge but to say that I'm finding out things, as I go, with guitar building. Fine tuning certain designs is more complementary for me if I understand the design, which was the case with the 1200 dollar guitar. And if I implied it couldn't be done on a cheap guitar, then I now have to admit that it can, but with the reservation that certain aspects of the guitar's top have to be in line with certain rules of fine tuning. In other words, the greater the distance between cheap builds and quality designs, the greater difficulty there would be to make it work. But for an example: If a guitar company would follow a specific quality design for a less expensive guitar price, then the fine-tuning technique could be of great value at a more affordable price. I think this is a certainty but not many builders are interested in learning this technique as a vocational endeavor. At least, not right at the moment. I have taught this to a few builders and they see the benefit but the majority of builders already have their own techniques that they feel comfortable with.
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