Ricardo -> RE: Question to the luthiers about saddle (May 28 2013 16:37:00)
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ORIGINAL: Arash So could you say that there is also a little bit of "luck" involved in this final stage of setup., etc. and no one can really calculate all the factors (which you also mentioned) to a degree which would avoid these differences, even if the guitars are built with the highest possible attention to detail and material, etc.? There's no luck involved if the guitar is truly hand made. There is slight variation in the deflection of the neck that is pretty much unavoidable but this is easily corrected by tapering the fingerboard in one direction or the other to achieve a very uniform action. We have no trouble keeping the action at 2.8mm at the 12th and leaving enough saddle to lower it further. The general issue for flamenco players, serious ones, is we prefer the low bridge, but can accept different actions of the fingerboard based on taste. Obviously some guitars end up being too low over the fingerboard and we are reluctant to raise at the bridge. And vice versa, many many many guitars were once hoped to be "perfect" with super duper low bridge, not not quite easy enough on the left hand for all players. Tom refers to Reyes as "perfect" but I felt in most cases the saddles where high and action too soft, Conde the opposite problem, some saddles too low and a bit hard on the left hand. Ricardo
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