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estebanana -> RE: This will be of no interst to flamenco people* video fixed (Jun. 1 2016 3:49:00)
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Thank you Lenny for your severe and unrelenting disinterest! LOL
The maple was a request, and as for a " bossa nova guitar" that was just me saying to the customer this one will work for your kind of music.
He ordered the small scale because he wanted it to be similar in length to his string guitars, he has a few old Martins which he mainly plays. This is his first nylon guitar. I stayed small on the nut width as he directed and the string width at the saddle.
The only difficulty I have with smaller scale guitars is the bass E string, they don't quite get enough tension for my taste and can be a wee bit wobbly and take to much of an excursion. They can swing wide due t less tension, I put high tension E's and regular tension for the rest of the set on shorter scales.
It has a small guitar sound, but by that I mean not expansive and big and wooly. It is compact, tight, but has a lot of power and guts. It's also metallic not soft and cottony. I think the metallic part is important and the initial tightness and compact sound. All that opens later and if it is loose to begin with you get a mushburger guitar a year later. The upper mid area of the fret board I feel develops slowly and I don't mind if it is slightly closed now. It will ring open later. I've gotten to the point were I have confidence to build tight and know that it will open significantly. One knucklehead bought a guitar from me and rejected it 15 minutes after it was strung up. Then played it for three days and thought is was a dog. That was foolish because that guitar will turn into a little monster, but someone will have to play it for 6 months to a year. That kind of snap judgment used to put me off my game, but I learned not to listen to it. Some guys just refuse to believe that guitars change as you play them, that's too bad.
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