estebanana -> RE: Romanillos-like bracing in a flamenca - what do you think? (Oct. 15 2014 14:57:02)
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Stephen, I think that this is certainly a funny group of people. And I believe that any novice builder should secure a plan they like and start from there to make a lasting impression of where they began their career building guitars. However, there is no really good Conde plan, that I know of, to start with. Every good Conde that I have examined, has different top thickness's sanded to bring out the best tone. So, this means that any Conde build is going to have these thickness's to contend with. So, my contribution was for the M. Reyes pattern that had essentially even thickness with brace shapes, sizes, and tapers. If a majority of people wanted a Gerundino or Conde style plan, then I would be happy to try and donate it to the Guild of American Luthiers, but this requires a lot of work, and I'm not sure the GAL would be up to it. So, what is your next project in flamenco? My next project in flamenco guitar making is to get as far way from it as possible. [:D][:D] My next guitars are going to be a 18-1/2" long body of my own plantilla with small dimentions in the bouts and waist. My own plantilla but really inspired by Second Epoch Torres guitars I have been looking at and researching. I'm making the prototype now and I'm just gluing the back on. The model is designed to work with a 640 scale specifically, but will also work with a 650. I'm going to offer them as my classical model in a shorter scale with smaller body and build it in Maple, Indian rosewood and Cypress as a standard offer, with the possibility of other woods if a customer wants them. I designed this guitar in 2006 and saved the plantilla after having built it one time. I decided to revisit it and work it up. The first one sold for quite a cheap price one day when I needed rent money very badly. I asked 1400.00 and the guy only had 950.00, but my land lady wanted some money the next day so reluctantly I gave it over for 950.00. It was worth three times that,at least. I've never been able to find it again to buy it back, it was European Maple and had rosewood pegs inlaid with ivory circles I had made. It had a fantastic rosette. The whole episode made me so angry I never built that guitar again until now. It was quite a pisser for me to find out the guy who bought it resold it soon after and turned a good profit on it. Then the guy saw me at a flamenco show and came up and boasted to my face they he sold it and asked could I build him another guitar, but this time a cutaway. One of my friends stepped between the fellow and myself as I was about to punch him in the face and said, it's not worth it. chill out. So here is the coolest thing I said: "Ok hey, I can't build you another guitar for 950.00 but I'm sure if you trot down to Guitar Center they have a nice Cordoba thin body cutaway waiting for you for 950.00. Then my friends told the guy to scram before I changed me mind about knocking him down. Then we had another beer and did not worry about it. The trouble really came later when I told this story on the Foro, ( it's in the archives) when I was bad mouthing this jerk, who really is a total hack guitar player, and one of the prospective customers was reading the thread and cancelled his order for a cutaway, he thought I was speaking about him! I saw later another Foro regular guitar maker made him a cutaway, which looked to be a fine guitar, and the guy while not Paco de Lucia, is not a bad player at all. The moral of the tale is make small classical guitars and charge more for them. And I recognize now I should have punched the guy. It would not have solved the problem, but a fight would have been more fun. And I would have totally taken him. No that the impresses anyone. It was 2007 and I'm too old for bar fights now, so I'll just make the guitar again and price them for gentlemen to purchase. But this model will not be available in a cutaway. No Sirr-eee. [;)][;)]
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