Tom Blackshear -> RE: new build for 68' Conde style flamenco (Mar. 24 2020 14:51:09)
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I followed Toms advice about sanding braces to relieve top tension and get more string snap and he was spot on. I didn’t notice any change in tone though...............' Jason, What I mean about the tone is that I put an edge to the sound that reflects a different voice to some extent. And the string articulation/snap is to alter the feel for the right and left hand. The fine tuning effects both at the same time. One thing you have to be careful of, is that the more you remove off the strut height, (equal height from top-to-bottom), the brighter the sound on the particular designated string. If you remove the wood near the sound hole you get a certain drop off on the designated string tone. You can see this on the 2003 Reyes plan, on the second and third strut. If you remove some wood near the bottom of the strut then you heighten the frequency of the tone. You can see this on the first strut of the plan. You'll also be able to see, (some of this), on the 1968 Conde plan I'm building. The trick is to get all strings level in tone as much as possible, from side to side and top to bottom, without messing things up, or learn how to modulate the polishing technique and cause certain inter-dimensional voicing that is pleasing to the ears. So, to do this, you have to polish the strut just a little off its synergistic communication, with other struts next to it, and this will disturb its own balance a little, so as to create your own voice. Sometimes one swipe of the #400 paper will do it Note: I find that sometimes its best not to do too much fine tuning so as not to push things out of sinc. Because, when this happens, it may take a longer time to get it fixed. Or you may have to send your guitar to me, to fix it for $1,000 :-) I actually did this for a fellow once and he wound up selling his guitar for more than he thought was reasonable, but there's no guarantee[;)]
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