Ricardo -> RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (Apr. 2 2014 0:19:06)
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ORIGINAL: n85ae Not speaking for Ricardo, but as an owner of a couple PDM's he probably means the way by which they farmed out a lot of their guitar construction, and then final tune the guitars and sell them out of their shop as PDM's. At least for the semi prof models, etc. Like the 27F variants, etc. Which if you look inside of with a mirror you can see obvious whittling of the braces, etc. Regards, Jeff Ricardo may have been a little facetious in regard to my ordering a PDM from James Greenberg, as a first class flamenco guitar advertised at Zavaleta's store. I don't consider this as James fault and I don't return guitars, I just fix them and send them on to a good home, which I did and Dan Zeff sold it for me. Does this reflect on all PDM guitars. Obviously, PDM has grown in knowledge and expertise from that time, and I'm sure he will keep going like all the rest of us. I just remember you admitting to sanding the inside of one. It stuck in my mind for 2 reasons. 1. I have a few player friends, very GOOD players mind you, that love those guitars. I personally can't stand em, very stiff sounding. So when you said you went at one of em it made me curious as your description of your complaint about the instrument I was in agreement with....taste wise. 2. I was at Dan Zeff's place in 2011, I believe. He showed me one PDM I was not even interested to touch, but I did, and low and behold it sounding very punchy and flamenco. Could it have been the same one? Most likely. So Just poking fun at you for saying, now after all, it might be "ethically" wrong to mess around with an other builder's work. My friend, pro player and amateur builder, claimed that R. Diaz gave him a Manuel Cano years ago (aka andalusian) in hopes to promote the mexican builder that had a "Made in spain' label, but he proceeded to lop off and replace the hideous headstock, and went filing like crazy up inside at the braces and top to make it sound more flamenco. It certainly worked, I played it after all that. After all he put electronics in it. But I am thinking that simply removing wood will get any guitar sounding more percussive and flamenco....to the point the top just caves in I guess? [:D]
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