Exitao -> RE: Racial Profiling in Choosing Luthiers (Jan. 5 2009 15:33:16)
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I had no options in regards to the one I chose. Really. I when I decided to get a teacher (I was a terrible student with myself as a teacher), I asked for his advice. My thought was that Yamaha was consistent/dependable for a starter guitar. The teacher in question has been dealing with Jeff for well over 10 years and said he'd see what he had going on. I was told that he was finishing a guitar for a guy, on spec, but there was a cosmetic blemish and he didn't want to sell it as a 1a because of the blemish which is really just a small spot under the saddle where it darkened when he applied the French polish. And really, it's barely noticeable, as a person who works with wood myself, it's just the sort of thing I expect from real wood. I had given my price range and I was given a choice of that guitar or a student model with a cutaway, and considering the choice of materials I was prepared to accept a much bigger cosmetic flaw. My guitar has a german spruce soundboard, Spanish cypress body, Spanish cedar neck, bindings, bridge and headstock veneer are all rosewood, with an ebony fingerboard. The soundboard is French polished, but the rest is lacquered. I do think I got the budget Gotoh tuners though, but I can't grudge him that. It's built on the 1951 Barbero design, like the one Barbero built and dedicated to Carlos Montoya, who then gave that same guitar to Sabicas. This was intended to be a concert guitar, and I got it for less than half of what he'd agreed upon with the guy who ordered it.
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