RobF -> RE: New Classical Guitar Build. (Sep. 15 2018 17:58:55)
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I think Ricardo pretty well hit the nail on the head and has covered most of the important points. [:D] While Ricardo is correct w.r.t. the bracing, I feel I should caution that if you use Torres as your basis you shouldn’t tell anyone. If you do tell them, there is the danger they will look at you like you’re “yesterday’s man”, and you can’t charge as much. Unless, of course, you make some stupid looking oversized rosette covered in chequerboards, shields, meandering patterns and the like, in which case you can call it a bench copy and charge more. If you use one of his more understated rosettes as inspiration people will insist on telling you it’s a Hauser, in which case you might as well call it a Hauser copy and charge more. Any other fan bracing, with the exception of patterns using treble bars, can properly be called Santos, and you can charge more. Treble bars allow you to claim the pattern as your own invention, as long as you also state that all other makers using them don’t really know what they’re doing. In which case you can charge more. [:)] But seriously, I have a feeling if you take one of your Negras, use the fan bracing pattern you already have in your shop, the one with closing bars, adjust the bridge design to give it a classical string height at the saddle and adjust the neck angle and fingerboard thickness to get a classical action at the 12th fret you probably will be fine.
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