Earloflondon -> A Prudencio Saez classical modified to be a crossover flamenca (Jul. 6 2016 12:26:04)
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Hi there, this is my first thread. I have converted/ modified my classical guitar into a flamenco. Here is the list of what has been done in 3 months time: 1. Frets sanded and polished to get rid of the useless factory finish 1a. Headstock modified 1b. Bone replaced upper and lower saddles lowered considerably resulting in a height of 2.8 mm at 12th fret from around 4mm 2. Fretboard sanded to a silky smooth finish 3. The polyurethane top, back and sides sanded down to bare wood. 4. Cedar top and mahogany back were sanded down to almost 2 mm. 5. Neck was thinned with a less curved profile 21mm 0th and 23 at 12th fret 6. Sounboard and back were pore filled with vernica bianca top 21 back 18 layers 7. Soundboard painted on with base earth material in red 8. Soundboard, back and sides were touched with dark brown and black to give a vintage contrabass effect 9. Guitar brush polished with a mixture of 5 resins (Mastic, pine resin (colophone), sandrac, liquidambar orientalis, and yellow gommalaca) 10. Padauk golpes glued on both sides of the soundhole 11. Finishing layers of yellow and blonde gommalaca with sandrac resin brushed all over and sanded I was curious about the resulting sound. The feedback from a famous flamenco player was a positive one, except that it was a bit more difficult one to play as it converted from a classical guitar. Other than that it really sounded better than it was with a typical punchy percussive sound of a flamenco guitar with a hint of a classical as the braces were not touched at all
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