Andy Culpepper -> RE: Cedar negra (Feb. 8 2020 17:01:10)
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Andy, I have a confession to make: I thought you and Ethan were the same person when first I started reading the Foro luthiery section a couple of years ago. I think it's cool you two can be in this small world of Flamenco guitars and work together. I like how you fair the neck into the body, my last two are similar. I wrote it out it like this: I had this idea how I wanted these two necks to fair into their bodies, like a sharp ships prow or a shark fin. An angle that inspires an attack of fast cords, pulsing pulgar, and ringing picado. I am guessing it was a signature of a builder from the past but I'm not familure with who. You mentioned adding the tail stripe detail and I thought to myself, how does one keep from getting carried away. We all all have a standard. I decided to make up a brace of vary simple parlor guitars loosely based on the 1863 Torezz that Bruen wrote up in Vintage Guitar. I had a walk in commission of sorts for one of the parlors and She wanted this and that, ok fine, but then I keep on wanting to take this one to the next level all the while knowing I will only be compensated in knowing I did my best or rather better then I had done so far. How does one set a personal limit on these commissions without making compromises? Of course my master plan was to never build on commission or custom anything, go figure... It's not like one can say no. And your " nonsensical noodling", it puts my remedial noodling to shame. HR Lol...I'm struggling to find any similarity between Ethan and myself, at least visually, but we do both make flamenco guitars! Personally I'm 100% focused on tailoring my guitars to the people who order them. This was a repeat customer and he had specifically asked for a little extra tail stripe detail before so I had no problem doing it. I am always willing to throw in some extras for a repeat customer especially.
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