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estebanana -> RE: I changed my model after my taste changed (Oct. 14 2024 5:24:41)
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ORIGINAL: RobF
@estebanana,,
I feel kind of bad for the part I've played in pulling the thread so far off topic. You came on to show a nice new body shape and it sure looks like it's going to make a great guitar. Hopefully you'll be able to pull the thread back on track by posting updates of the progress. I'll be following it. Nice choice of woods, too. š
As far as the wolf talk goes I think it's been a pretty interesting discussion and there's lots there to mull over, but at the end of the day people have to draw their own conclusions. Investigate and verify. It's all good.
Itās cool, itās interesting to see how people think about the wolf tone.
I should add that the guitar I sent to the dealer that he claimed had a wolf on F# forth fret on the D string was not felt strongly by others. I suspect he was looking for very small glitch sound. This was around 2015, and I remember getting that guitar back and noodling around with the set up and the problem either went away completely or was so greatly diminished I didnāt feel rot hear it anymore.
Thatās why I said lots of these creaks and gurgles are in the final set up if itās not perfect and scrutinized. I had a couple years here where I was hitting bottom with culture shock from being so isolated in a small town in winter that there were times I couldnāt work in my shop or only for a few hours and Iād go for walks or just sleep all day. I did terrible work during that time, and many problems occurred. Richard Jernigan emailed me after I complained about his it was going and said culture shock is a real thing and donāt let anyone tell you that you have to be tough. He advised trying to adapt the way you engage your social environment and see how that works. Not too long after that I began teaching in the public schools and through the school and city hall I made many social connections and from there started the guitar ensemble. Everything got better from there and my guitar work got better. I had a growth phase in 2018 to now with fewer screwups. This culture grinds up foreigners and buries them if you donāt exist defensively. š
As for wolfs, I have spent a great deal of time with the cello as a player, the F# on the G string almost always has a wolf and there are ways to get around it or diminish its rattle. Guitars can have wolfy notes, but not the same as a cello. BTW Simminoff the guy in the video is one of the people who proposed free plate tuning and wrote the book with all the analysis back in the mid 1970ās. My friend Stewart Port has that book on his guitar reference shelf. I pulled it out, opened it, closed it and never gave it a second thought. You know why? Because none of those guys made flamenco guitars and the most important thing is how it feels and how it enables the flamenco player to go rasgueado and alzapua. Thatās all stuff you build in physically, not by playing with spreadsheets on voicing by looking at tap tone spectrums. The great flamenco builders worked differently, they didnāt try to backwards engineer guitars, they just built them the right way.
There was a year and a half when I had a skin condition, still have it somewhat, where I built 3 guitars during that time. Two of them were screwed up due to my hands, the other one is one of the most interesting guitars Iāve ever made, which everyone agrees is a gem, but no one will buy it because they donāt like pegs. I may get it back from the dealer, maybe thatās my guitarā¦
Now my hands are not shredded and Iām making probably the best guitars I ever made, you have to adapt and keep going.
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