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gj Michelob -> RE: Ink Stamping (May 3 2013 17:30:18)
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And a stamp can improve the sound of a guitar almost as much as a salt treatment or sanding a brace with 600 grit.
Even though Charles Vega's comment is correct, it is also gratuitously bitter and unjustly offensive; above all it distracts [as it is his recurrently dysfunctional habit] from the question.
Anders is a purist of design -and I admire his work. Yet, pure and simple as they may appear, he too makes certain purely aesthetic choices. These my be shared or emulated by other builders and help define a 'style'.
Your choice about the stamp is neither a waste of time nor an unnecessary whim. Instead, it speaks of your individual taste, along with a rather human need to mark your work.
Flamenco guitars are among all related instruments [including classical], still slavishly respectful of the tradition they are made to uphold. Hence, a narrow scope of variation and creativity for luthiers who choose this challenge. In fact, the trend seems to follow that of violin makers, with their ubiquitous 'after' -after Stradivari[us] or Montagnana and the like.
That stamp you envision, staining across your label and the wood, is -I propose to interpret-
a respectful tribute to an inveterate school of flamenco guitar making, is the 'AFTER' of the violin making luthiers.
And I cannot wait to see your guitar finished in all its glory, dear Tom.
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