Echi -> Flamenco guitar too stiff (Apr. 5 2015 10:45:15)
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I have a couple of problems with 2 flamenco guitars I own and I'd like to have some advice from you: I own a Conde and a Bellido (among other guitars) which make me quite disappointed. The Conde has a very nice tone and looks fantastic, but in my opinion the top is overbuilt: I mean that the "pulsation" is definitively high (the right hand has to push quite hard to take the best from it or for a warm rasgueado) it's not powerful, the notes have a long sustain, well defined, with a good scope, but to me it's kind half classical and half flamenco. This guitar start sounding well (really well) just after an hour or more of warming up. In few words, I suspect the top was left way too thick. I'm an amateur luthier (I made about 30 guitars, I followed some training as luthier, but I'm not building professionally) and I'd like to do something to improve that guitar (instead of selling it) but I wouldn't like to strip the varnish. Any suggestion? The Bellido sounds very nicely (maybe there is not too much scope in the note, which I found quite common in the guitars from Granada I owned, but I like the airy open sound is capable of) nevertheless I noticed a problem with the strings action. 3.3 mm at the 12 fret and 7.4 at the bridge with no room to lower the bone more than 0.6 mm. This setting seems to me wrong as the projection of the neck is more like a classical than a flamenco. I don't think the neck bent over as it seems quite bulky made, perfectly straight and the ebony fretboard is even at 6.7 mm. Maybe someone before me remade the fretboard, I don't know. A guitar of the same maker and year found in internet shows different settings 7.4 at the bridge but 2,6 at the 12 fret) , therefore I presume that the projection of the neck is not a consequence of the solera used by Bellido... Any idea? What would you do? Thanks
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