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ernandez R -> RE: Felipe Conde - So Much for Handcrafted (Jul. 1 2022 21:37:50)
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Buffing out my latest today, #14, and seeing all the flaws here and there and thinking could a machine do better?
I use a most of the power shop tools one way or another but the wood still gets pushed or pulled through by my hands and fingers. I use a little belt sander like Anders had but clamped to the wall with a wood bracket instead of a vice for a hundred little details, still it takes the magic of my fingertips to make the parts right.
A few years ago there were some cheap classical guitars from china in a music store but the fit of the wood was impeccable, they had a vary thin flat finish so no thick gobs of clear plastic in the creases etc. They were strung with some impossibly thick strings and sounded charitorless as in no tonal variation from saddle to the top of the sound hole: over built "to survive the retail event"
In the end you play the guitar you fall. in love with regardless of its origin, sure many need to brag about this or that guitar, my strings are lower then yours, etc... I still play my first guitar every day but when I play one of my others its like, oh ya!
With todays technology machines could replicate all the checks we do with flexing wood, bridge rotation, and top lifting, doming etc, sensors could give feedback and in the end fine tune braces etc, right up to mechanizing all the Magic Tom does with his fingertip tuning.
Just play the dang thing best you can.
Ol'e
HR
ps. been cutting back on my social media cause, but I still read the Foro every day.
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