ricecrackerphoto -> RE: Humidity (Jan. 12 2007 23:45:25)
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hey juben, i'm going to be out of town for pdl unfortunately but if this gig falls through then i'll get a last second ticket if i can. where are you sitting? any my guitar's humidity problems got even worse. i ended up getting a crack in the back while i was away for the xmas holidays. actually it was more like a fissure since part of the wood was warping. i took it to german vasquez rubio who is going to repair it. he's going to have to insert a sliver of wood into the crack, sand and refinish the back. also he said that of all places for it to crack, the back was the best and least important. i hope so! from the graf-martinez site: "An important aspect is the region where the guitar comes from and which climate it is ”torn away” from. There is an old saying, ”La guitarra de Granada suena (sounds) en Granada, la guitarra de Sevilla suena en Sevilla.” A guitar from Málaga, a town on the coast, won’t survive the first winter without cracks in the wood in a normally (for us) heated room, where air humidity often drops below 40 per cent. The same conditions wouldn’t harm a guitar from Madrid because it is very dry there." is that really true? well it seems like my granada bellido had a rough first seven months acclimating to LA. and maestro rubio's assistant paid my bellido a great compliment. he picked it up, played if for a while and then asked where i got from, how much it was, and then told me it was a great sounding guitar and a great deal. even with the back fissure! doug
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