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Pgh_flamenco -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 25 2022 17:16:40)

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ORIGINAL: trivium91

Well the first thread was cedar vs spruce, my plan for a guitar was longer term so I wasn't buying anything at that point. This thread was me digging deeper into actually making the purchase as I feel with the state of world events I may not get another opportunity for a long time. Moreover the Euro is really low right now, who knows if that will change or not.

I will say this again though, regardless of my purchase choice the advice and knowledge has better educated me (and possible to others) so to anyone that feels their time was wasted, I can tell you it was not, instead it was very much appreciated.


So this is the third thread?

Macroeconomic factors should be the least of your concerns when buying a guitar. Learn about the genre and go from there. For example, if you will be accompanying dancers a blanca is a good choice. The fan pattern of a blanca reduces sustain - which interferes with the percussive aspect of the guitar. If you’re performing solo pieces, which is a small part of the genre, a negra would be a good choice. According to one of the Foro luthiers the tension of the top and strings on some flamenco guitars helps the string snap back into place during fast picados. Spend a few years learning about the genre.




trivium91 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 25 2022 18:03:19)

No Definitely not the third thread, The advice makes sense. I have the luxury of listening to music for hours a day, I’ve been listening to flamenco for a few years now so that’s definitely a start to understanding it.




trivium91 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 25 2022 18:15:41)

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ORIGINAL: tri7/5

With all your worry about what other players guitars cost, how to convince your wife of financial purchases, and all your airing of comments/replies that are in no way beneficial you could have been playing guitar and finding out your own path. Your concerns and worries are heavily misplaced. Do you actually want to play flamenco guitar or not?


You’re absolutely right, I worry too much what others think. I should just ignore off putting comments and just forget about and play.




Ricardo -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 25 2022 18:39:55)

This.



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kitarist -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 25 2022 18:53:18)

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ORIGINAL: Ricardo

This.





[:D][:D][:D] Always cracks me up [:D]

BTW guys, trivium91 is not a troll - e.g. he posted his real name in his profile so maybe don't push too hard for now - he is just trying out the waters.. [;)]

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trivium91 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 25 2022 19:58:57)

Thank you this is true. I’m not deliberately trying troll here, my mind just works a little different is all. I have a lot of stress in my life, flamenco is supposed to be an outlet.




trivium91 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 30 2022 16:53:33)

Just got my Camps Primera in and it is absolutely beautiful! It sounds very Flamenco and resonate, also the cypress smells stunning. Compared to my Paco F7 which is decent for the money I think, the camps sounds amazing. Legatos and hammer ons are more lively and have more volume and less dull. The neck is really comfortable, nice and thin. The quality on this guitar seems to be top notch. Did I mention the resonate lively sound? For anyone that is on the fence about the Primera line, I can honestly say this guitar has blown me away. Also im not sure if this is a comparison of spruce vs cedar but my golpes are much more satisfying and loud with just a light tap. What I don't understand though is how much sustain it has, especially for cypress, though whatever it is...it sounds and plays awesome. I even played both for someone who doesn't know guitars or flamenco at all, they immediately pointed out the differences.




Stu -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 31 2022 9:42:49)

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BTW guys, trivium91 is not a troll - e.g. he posted his real name in his profile so maybe don't push too hard for now - he is just trying out the waters..


Yeah I've read this thread a few times and can't really see why people are getting a bit bent out of shape.

Hes just a dude thats dealing with some self doubts and fears and thoughts about spending on a new guitar. He's not been rude or unpleasant.

Maybe it feels like some advices have been ignored etc but I wouldn't take that as a sign of malicious intent. His responses to your challenges seem to make him sounds like a decent sort to be honest.

I hope the guitar works out for you trivium. When you decide to upgrade... I'm about to start making number 3! 😄 it's yours for the right price! 😄 jokes..I'm keeping it!




trivium91 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 31 2022 16:42:23)

Thanks for sticking up for me, and sounds great. I suspect my next guitar will one day be a luthier made model maybe way down the road but for now I’m really enjoying the camps. Yea unfortunately I don’t mean to ignore any advice but I can’t please everyone so I have to do what I feel is best for me and my family at this point in time.




Mitch -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 31 2022 20:44:41)

Congrats. I’m glad you’re pleased with it, and I hope it serves you well for a long time.

If you noticed in my praise of my friend’s guitar, I never added “for the money” or any other disclaimer. His is a great guitar without any asterisks needed.

Between us and our extended flamenco family, we’ve had many very fine, very expensive guitars, and his Camps impressed us both. If I could be honest with myself, it would be more than enough guitar for me. Luckily I can rationalize anything so I don’t need to acknowledge the reality of the situation.

Have fun with it. New guitar days are the best.




trivium91 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Aug. 31 2022 22:50:40)

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ORIGINAL: Mitch

Congrats. I’m glad you’re pleased with it, and I hope it serves you well for a long time.

If you noticed in my praise of my friend’s guitar, I never added “for the money” or any other disclaimer. His is a great guitar without any asterisks needed.

Between us and our extended flamenco family, we’ve had many very fine, very expensive guitars, and his Camps impressed us both. If I could be honest with myself, it would be more than enough guitar for me. Luckily I can rationalize anything so I don’t need to acknowledge the reality of the situation.

Have fun with it. New guitar days are the best.


That's awesome, I guess its hard to get out of the "you get what you pay for" mentality. Its not true with wine in my experience, it sounds like its not always true with guitars either. Thanks for the recommendation though on Camps, loving the new guitar. All being said though I've realized there is likely around 200 hours or more that go into making a guitar so if I put myself into a luthiers shoes, $4000 every month subtracting materials certainly is not making anyone rich. Camps must just have their factory formula down to a 'T' to make them as high quality as they do.




Pgh_flamenco -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Sep. 1 2022 15:47:01)

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That's awesome, I guess its hard to get out of the "you get what you pay for" mentality. Its not true with wine in my experience, it sounds like its not always true with guitars either. Thanks for the recommendation though on Camps, loving the new guitar. All being said though I've realized there is likely around 200 hours or more that go into making a guitar so if I put myself into a luthiers shoes, $4000 every month subtracting materials certainly is not making anyone rich. Camps must just have their factory formula down to a 'T' to make them as high quality as they do.


There are luthiers on the Foro that sell their guitars for $4,000 or less. Why don’t you ask them how many hours it takes to build a guitar? I have a feeling you won’t stop talking about this factory guitar brand until you believe the entire Foro is on board with you regarding its quality and the wise decision you made in purchasing one.




JasonM -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Sep. 1 2022 16:31:04)

Congrats on the new guitar! Your happy and that’s what counts. I’ve read some decent remarks here over the years about the Camps guitars, never played or heard one personally.




trivium91 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Sep. 1 2022 16:36:38)

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ORIGINAL: Pgh_flamenco

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That's awesome, I guess its hard to get out of the "you get what you pay for" mentality. Its not true with wine in my experience, it sounds like its not always true with guitars either. Thanks for the recommendation though on Camps, loving the new guitar which is why I said they had the formula down to a T. All being said though I've realized there is likely around 200 hours or more that go into making a guitar so if I put myself into a luthiers shoes, $4000 every month subtracting materials certainly is not making anyone rich. Camps must just have their factory formula down to a 'T' to make them as high quality as they do.


There are luthiers on the Foro that sell their guitars for $4,000 or less. Why don’t you ask them how many hours it takes to build a guitar? I have a feeling you won’t stop talking about this factory guitar brand until you believe the entire Foro is on board with you regarding its quality and the wise decision you made in purchasing one.


No I dont need validation on my purchase, I've done some research on the hours its takes, though as you said it would be interesting to talk to a few luthiers. I wasn't comparing camps to a luthier built guitar because as much as I like the guitar, Camps is still a factory guitar after all so there is nothing extremely special about them other than the fact that they are great guitars which is why I said they must have their formula down to a T. I would say at this point that the end goal would be the luthier build as I've realized its like artwork. I guess all im saying is the cost of a luthier build is easily justified when you factor in the amount of hours that go into it by one very skilled individual. As a result, a factory guitar is likely never going to be built with the passion that a luthier build would.




ernandez R -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Sep. 1 2022 21:18:45)

I wrote the following a few days ago over to the Delcamp:


Ive been thinking about this thread and what the OP is asking and also what they had not asked. I’m a beginning luthier but I don’t make traditional Spanish guitars or use traditional woods so I’m out of the running as it were.

But…. anyone in todays market asking for a hand made guitar for $2000-3000 USD, well its posable those days are done. I figure about 200-250 hours to build one of my guitars, most of my woods start with a , tree, log, or billet. Takes time to processes this wood, I’m not just buying tops or pre carved necks from LMI and in fact the only parts I do not make from something are the frets and the strings. Ok you got me, I don’t scrape the bug **** off the trees to make my shellac buttons or distill the alcohol to thin it with, I don’t even know what a linseed look like, and the envrimentslst in me just looks the other way when I’m squeezing the two components out of the epoxy tubes….

Ok, say I rock one out at 200 hours and agree for you to pay $2000, thats $10.00 an hour and we haven’t even payed for the shop rental electricity and heating oil, we suffer up here in Alaska without air conditioning cause, well cause we can.

Now, this 200 hour guitar is going to be a standard shape and scale, oh you want/need a shorter scale? Oh my, now all me pre cut pieces of wood don’t fit, my molds and bending jigs and binding strips, my fret slotting set ups, wow, that custom scale and neck etc just added another 20-50 hours.

Rosette? Custom? Ha ha haha hai haaaaa I’m going to the mad house cause I can’t afford to go to the poor house.

Ill tell you secret, I built my vary first guitar in fourteen days, twelve to sixteen hour days cause I’m like that, a little OCD, a little on the spectrum, a little bit country and a little bit rock-n-roll. Shhhhh, Today I could whip out a guitar in about sixty hours, probably forty, but you wouldn’t want it and I wouldn’t sign my name to it. Why do you think the cheap versions most of the luthiers who post here sell come unsigned? My latest guitar just went to the gallery at $5,600, I’ve probably have better then three hundred hours in her but who’s counting, the gallery takes their cut, at that rate we are talking about $15 an hour, I would make more washing dishes at my partners restaurant, get tips, and a free shift meal…

I see you are on the east coast- cull pepper, Northern New York , Andy Culpepper, this is the luthier you want, think a little more about your needs, woods and details, and yes even that ‘shorter scale’ then give him a ring. He is not new and up and coming but he is fresh and just might bend that little bit you need to meet somewhere in the middle of your playing needs and his empty luthier wallet.

And don’t get me wrong, If you were in the northwest or Alaska I would sell you one of my guitars like selling ice cubes to Eskimos…


HR

ps. I wrote this partially tongue in cheek ;) please don't take offense.




trivium91 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Sep. 1 2022 22:44:49)

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ORIGINAL: ernandez R

I wrote the following a few days ago over to the Delcamp:


Ive been thinking about this thread and what the OP is asking and also what they had not asked. I’m a beginning luthier but I don’t make traditional Spanish guitars or use traditional woods so I’m out of the running as it were.

But…. anyone in todays market asking for a hand made guitar for $2000-3000 USD, well its posable those days are done. I figure about 200-250 hours to build one of my guitars, most of my woods start with a , tree, log, or billet. Takes time to processes this wood, I’m not just buying tops or pre carved necks from LMI and in fact the only parts I do not make from something are the frets and the strings. Ok you got me, I don’t scrape the bug **** off the trees to make my shellac buttons or distill the alcohol to thin it with, I don’t even know what a linseed look like, and the envrimentslst in me just looks the other way when I’m squeezing the two components out of the epoxy tubes….

Ok, say I rock one out at 200 hours and agree for you to pay $2000, thats $10.00 an hour and we haven’t even payed for the shop rental electricity and heating oil, we suffer up here in Alaska without air conditioning cause, well cause we can.

Now, this 200 hour guitar is going to be a standard shape and scale, oh you want/need a shorter scale? Oh my, now all me pre cut pieces of wood don’t fit, my molds and bending jigs and binding strips, my fret slotting set ups, wow, that custom scale and neck etc just added another 20-50 hours.

Rosette? Custom? Ha ha haha hai haaaaa I’m going to the mad house cause I can’t afford to go to the poor house.

Ill tell you secret, I built my vary first guitar in fourteen days, twelve to sixteen hour days cause I’m like that, a little OCD, a little on the spectrum, a little bit country and a little bit rock-n-roll. Shhhhh, Today I could whip out a guitar in about sixty hours, probably forty, but you wouldn’t want it and I wouldn’t sign my name to it. Why do you think the cheap versions most of the luthiers who post here sell come unsigned? My latest guitar just went to the gallery at $5,600, I’ve probably have better then three hundred hours in her but who’s counting, the gallery takes their cut, at that rate we are talking about $15 an hour, I would make more washing dishes at my partners restaurant, get tips, and a free shift meal…

I see you are on the east coast- cull pepper, Northern New York , Andy Culpepper, this is the luthier you want, think a little more about your needs, woods and details, and yes even that ‘shorter scale’ then give him a ring. He is not new and up and coming but he is fresh and just might bend that little bit you need to meet somewhere in the middle of your playing needs and his empty luthier wallet.

And don’t get me wrong, If you were in the northwest or Alaska I would sell you one of my guitars like selling ice cubes to Eskimos…


HR

ps. I wrote this partially tongue in cheek ;) please don't take offense.



Makes perfect sense, so really the time estimate I had was not far off. The asking prices are fully justified especially considering the cost of living these days. Making a guitar is like artwork. My father builds hot rods and it’s the same thing with time, he also puts his blood sweat and tears into the project. It kind of reminds me a Paco though, as talented as he was and has intense his practice his net worth was still only 1.5 million, yet Taylor swift is 400 million, go figure. At any rate, im sure down the road i will buying another guitar somehow and it will have to be a luthier built one from one of you fine gentlemen on here.




kitarist -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Feb. 14 2023 17:29:13)

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Ricardo -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (Feb. 17 2023 11:50:38)

Lol



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Ricardo -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (May 8 2023 17:52:35)

Another one.



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Ricardo -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (May 8 2023 17:54:04)

LOL







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JasonM -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (May 9 2023 15:39:29)

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I'm about to start making number 3! 😄 it's yours for the right price! 😄 jo



Umm excuse me! Didn’t know you finally finished number 2! Congrats!

[:D] All these guitar memes. I relate to the one “1 in 4 men” The pic of the wife yelling and the dude is just not arguing back and then picks up his guitar. And this is why I’m divorced lol




Mark2 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (May 9 2023 20:10:40)

Heck, you could have bought a BMW but only bought a 2k guitar and you feel guilty? If you stick with it, one day you'll want a more expensive guitar and then you'll go through it again. I get it though. When I was raising my kids a really expensive guitar was out of the question. I used what I could afford, and was lucky to get a good deal on a good guitar. I also earned money with it, so it was justified.

I met a guy who was playing with Ottmar and he felt guilty for buying a Devoe. I think he had just had a child. I told him he shouldn't-he was playing professional concerts.

As far as the wife, I don't have the discussion. But I also pass way more than I buy. Saw a lefty Gibson jazz box, which are rare. I wanted it, but I didn't buy it. I'm eyeing a Graciliano Pèrez blanca that is on reverb for 2,650.00

Someone please buy it and save me the 2,650.00 before it's too late!!!



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ORIGINAL: trivium91

Beautiful guitar for sure, it sounds great. Just out of curiosity though, how do you guys convince your spouse to agree to purchase a guitar that costs as much as a running vehicle? I can’t speak for everyone here but All these models seem like a luxury, that are all wants rather than needs. My wife is Latina with humble roots, and even telling her about the guitar I bought for $2000 cad was not exactly easy. I mean God provides for us, we have more than enough, I can easily afford a BMW but just because I can doesn’t mean I should. My hope is to one day get off this hamster wheel that is society, we also sponser several children to try and make a difference. Trust me guys, i would love to own a guitar like that one day but thought of spending that makes me sick to me stomache. I would sooner put the money to put my daughter through school so she doesn’t have to work as hard as I do.




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mecmachin -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (May 9 2023 21:33:48)

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Another one.


lovely




JasonM -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (May 10 2023 14:38:30)

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I'm eyeing a Graciliano Pèrez blanca that is on reverb for 2,650.00


https://reverb.com/item/67765270-graciliano-perez-blanca-2019

What is that piece of wood Vicente Amigo signed? Is it just that? a piece of wood sitting on the top during construction? That he gives this guitar that he will never play his blessing lol? I'm a little confused, but im curious to know how it sounds/plays. You should but it and let us know!




Mark2 -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (May 10 2023 16:41:09)

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ORIGINAL: JasonM

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I'm eyeing a Graciliano Pèrez blanca that is on reverb for 2,650.00


https://reverb.com/item/67765270-graciliano-perez-blanca-2019

What is that piece of wood Vicente Amigo signed? Is it just that? a piece of wood sitting on the top during construction? That he gives this guitar that he will never play his blessing lol? I'm a little confused, but im curious to know how it sounds/plays. You should but it and let us know!


That is a different guitar. The one I was looking at is in California, actually in the town I live in, and it's 100.00 less. Since I'm a lefty I'd have to spend some money to convert it, hence my hesitation.




Echi -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (May 10 2023 18:07:34)

It's a 2nd plate glued on top of a couple of struts in order to form a sort of "chamber".
Here there's a sound clip
https://www.flamencoguitarsforsale.net/en/graciliano-perez-guitars/flamenco-guitar-graciliano-perez-2019-ovalo/




Echi -> RE: Concert Guitar vs Student Guitar (May 10 2023 18:15:38)

I believe some guitars are "concert" guitars as they endow the quality to project very well the sound in loud environments; the middle freqs blends ideally with the trebles; other than that they got an ideal right end feeling for the purpose.
This is just my idea obviously.
In my experience it's not just a matter of set up: some guitars are just better than other for certain purposes.
A studio guitar may sound very nice when you practice it in your room but not as good in other environments.




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