Tom Blackshear -> RE: Adirondack Spruce? (Jan. 17 2020 17:07:39)
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I keep thinking about making a short sustain flamenco blanca, and that may require using top wood that tests poorly! Brian, Respectfully, I understand your engineer's mind about these things but there are varying schools of thought that take elements of design to turn out a basic difference in tonal perception. In my 58 years of guitar building, I've come to the ideal that there is no tonal outcome that is perfect, without final tweaking methods that finalize the voice. Sure, many guitars can get by with being by design only, but in retrospect, very few I've ever built without certain tweaking methods would be the best I could build. I grew more confident in this in 2004 when I investigated the 2003 Manuel Reyes flamenco guitar; to find that I was doing some of my fine tuning similar to his. But the big difference was that he supposedly preset his top's fan braces with different shapes, sizes, and tapers before he completed the construction. The tell tail evidence was that, upon my investigation, I found that his guitar's second string was not quite as strong as the first and third strings. So I developed a method to fine tune the fan braces through the sound hole, and Little by little, I gained the knowledge on how to finalize sound. Then, of course, age takes over and gives the sound its propio sello.
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