ernandez R -> RE: Lateral tautness (Dec. 7 2025 21:09:53)
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ORIGINAL: Arash
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ORIGINAL: rombsix
Y'all are next level. [:D][8D]
Comment on the lateral tautness / liminal stiffness with regard to my BlackBird Rider (see below video).
Easy.
In the dark ages preceding El Rumbero and his Blackbird Rider, flamenco guitarists in the dark web were fighting over which of their fragile ticking wooden time bombs has nice Pulsacion and which one does have Pulsacion of a brick.
Then arrived El Rumbero with his Rider and changed flamenco history forever.
The answer was: carbon fiber. A material with almost illegal physics, with consistent mysteriously self-modulating lateral taughtness and liminal stiffness, creating an out of this world Pulsacion, which made luthiers question their entire careers and aficionados their entire guitar collections (and their feelings).
All these centuries, the total lack of organic cellular material and total lack of hand work and manual labor and total lack of feelings, was the simple answer, yet it was El Rumbero who discovered it first.
MUST NOT REPLY… 🤐
Oh **** it, years ago my nickname at the aerospace repair place was CARBONDEZ! Just for kicks I would use dated prepreg CF material to make all kinds of cool ****. Once I made a batch of fancy clipboards with it and nomex honeycomb cores, my supervisors supervisor at the time came up to me to complain about it and I before he got to far I handed him one with his name already on it. Then I laid it in thick how I was exploring the limits of the material…
My last two flamencas and two classicals have a CF cloth bridge plate.
You can think of it as a harmonic stiffener but I just call it a hummer ;)
Don’t have photos of the flamencos handy but here are a few of the classical:
ernandez R -> RE: Lateral tautness (Dec. 7 2025 21:17:46)
Photos?
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ernandez R -> RE: Lateral tautness (Dec. 7 2025 21:31:41)
Ok I found one of the flamenca tops with the hummer:
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Credit to Ernandez R for both his carbon fibre and his neck off construction. Although as Arash suggests, these transgressions away from the flamenco guitar 'suum perfectum’ are vellicating the purist feelings in me.
(PS Arash don't actually use this type of English vocabulary, no one will understand you. This is my attempt to amuse Stephen.)
Credit to Ernandez R for both his carbon fibre and his neck off construction. Although as Arash suggests, these transgressions away from the flamenco guitar 'suum perfectum’ are vellicating the purist feelings in me.
(PS Arash don't actually use this type of English vocabulary, no one will understand you. This is my attempt to amuse Stephen.)
E-Hern gets a season pass on purism in my book. He eats Mexican food, he’s an Alaskan bush pilot and he’s been stepped on by a moose. I think he’s had enough trauma. 😂
