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News rom the workshop, Inlayed soundport
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RE: News rom the workshop, Inlayed s... (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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Ok first of all, I had to make a new profile, this one, because I changed my e-mail in my profile and later on the foro software refused to confirm my E-mail...... Thanks for your replies. I will try to respond to all your questions. With respect of the design, its not mine, but I like it a lot, so I will stay with it. Besides being pretty, it is workable, it doesnt cover the hole to much, meaning that the hole doesnt have to be to big in order to work well and it centers the strength very well in the center of the design. The inlay itself is some 4mm thick which is the double of the sides and is very strong and doesnt make the sides weaker. A lot of the holes which have been posted here on the foro are just holes, leaving open endgrain and as such make the sides a lot weaker. Its not the way to do things. I will not be making a logo rosette etc. I would like to be free to make changes when I like. I dont believe in modern marketing, profiling etc. And my whole way of being and thus also my way of building will always be against these ideas. Tom, the finish is FP. I dont do anything else. Ron, I have no idea what Pretzel is, so no comments on that. yeah, this port is a bit lower on the sides. Good position IMHO. The rosette doesnt change the funcion of the soundport. It works very well. gj, no I didnt receive a PM. I went to my profile and found out that my e-mail was wrong. I changed it and was thrown off the system and had to make a new log-in name. (its all your fault )
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Date Jan. 12 2010 0:47:16
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cathulu
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RE: News rom the workshop, Inlayed s... (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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Anders I think it looks great! Regarding the science, my mind says projection will certainly decrease as there is only so much energy imparted into the acoustic output of a guitar, if some of it is bled off the side to the tocaor, then less goes out the front. But since the ear hears logarithmicaly, no listener will really notice the loss. If a customer pays a lot to get it done, then they will think the projection is even louder! But that is just the money talking! At least the tocaor enjoys it, and that is what is important. I also sent you a PM, you probably didn't get it re the beginner challenge. Anyways, just want to say thanks again for all your help there! If you want to judge jump in. Cheers!
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Date Jan. 16 2010 19:10:45
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mrMagenta
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RE: News rom the workshop, Inlayed s... (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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This guitar is a truly beautiful instrument! I'm not saying that because of the sound port, that's only one detail. Regarding the sound port. I might be slightly biased because I sketched out the design, but It's very pleasing to see how it turned out. I think the level of simplicity/complexity feels right and it effectively takes away the naked feel of a hole. On a baroque guitar or oud, you can go wild with the design, but I think holding it back is more suitable for a flamenca. I chose not to go the moorish route with this design. I love those aesthetics as well, but Anders doesn't use a moorish pattern on his sound hole rosette, it's more organic in feel, and the head design feels more nordic to me than moorish, though celtic knots wouldn't feel right either in my opinion. Anyway. With these things you can't please the tastes of everybody, but I'm happy that so many of you like it :-) quote:
small port with a grille doesn't do much but let the player hear his instrument better I would think. In my opinion that's the most valuable thing though. If it comes without a loss of volume / projection, that's great.
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Date Jan. 17 2010 9:44:27
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