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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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