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Anders Eliasson -> RE: Factory vs handmade guitars (Sep. 22 2008 1:19:32)
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Hi Jan
Handmade guitars should not be more delicate than factory guitars. Exept the French polish. French Polish is more delicate than industrial laquer but its also 10 times easyer to fix.
Factory guitars are not nescessarily made out of "rougher" material. In fact some of the expensive ones from Valencia are made of very high quality material. Its because they get it cheaper because of buying a lot.
Factory guitars are often made heavyer, but thicker wood cracsks just as easy as thinner. NO difference. Wood cracks because of change in humidity and because humidity was not controlled while they were built. In this last case, handmade guitars are often way better. (not always though depending on the builder)
Dont worry about golpes. You can give your guitar golpes all day long and it´ll just sound better.[;)]
What you should learn is to monitor humidity and not go outside in the park when its very dry after a long period of humidity, also be carefull with stron sun directly on the guitar. These advices go for handmade and for factory guitars.
I use one of my first guitars as a "swing around guitar" It fell on the hard floor when being built, so I had to repair it and decided not to sell it. Its also built to thin. Its some 5 years old now. It always stays outside its case and I play it a lot outside, its with me when I go camping. It stays in the car in the sun etc. Its not a good way to treat a guitar. I dont encourage anyone to do so, but I´m testing it. So far no problems it hasnt changed at all, not even a tenth of a milimeter.
Anders
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