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estebanana
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Thank you Lenny for your severe and unrelenting disinterest! LOL
The maple was a request, and as for a " bossa nova guitar" that was just me saying to the customer this one will work for your kind of music.
He ordered the small scale because he wanted it to be similar in length to his string guitars, he has a few old Martins which he mainly plays. This is his first nylon guitar. I stayed small on the nut width as he directed and the string width at the saddle.
The only difficulty I have with smaller scale guitars is the bass E string, they don't quite get enough tension for my taste and can be a wee bit wobbly and take to much of an excursion. They can swing wide due t less tension, I put high tension E's and regular tension for the rest of the set on shorter scales.
It has a small guitar sound, but by that I mean not expansive and big and wooly. It is compact, tight, but has a lot of power and guts. It's also metallic not soft and cottony. I think the metallic part is important and the initial tightness and compact sound. All that opens later and if it is loose to begin with you get a mushburger guitar a year later. The upper mid area of the fret board I feel develops slowly and I don't mind if it is slightly closed now. It will ring open later. I've gotten to the point were I have confidence to build tight and know that it will open significantly. One knucklehead bought a guitar from me and rejected it 15 minutes after it was strung up. Then played it for three days and thought is was a dog. That was foolish because that guitar will turn into a little monster, but someone will have to play it for 6 months to a year. That kind of snap judgment used to put me off my game, but I learned not to listen to it. Some guys just refuse to believe that guitars change as you play them, that's too bad.
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Date Jun. 1 2016 3:49:00
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BarkellWH
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From: Washington, DC
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RE: This will be of no interst to fl... (in reply to estebanana)
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Perhaps we should book ahead at the DC Alphonso Trece Hotel and make sure we are ushered into the Jernigan Suite so we can check up on those cold young ladies whom El Sr. has so kindly allowed to warm up in his namesake suite of rooms.
My sources tell me that if we were to approach Mr. Jernigan, he might arrange for us to not only have full use of the Jernigan Suite at the Alfonso III, but also to arrange for a showing of your guitars at the Spanish Embassy. Apparently Mr. Jernigan, exercising his usual modesty, has failed to mention that the Spanish Ambassador bestowed upon him "La Cruz Oficial de la Orden de Isabel La Catolica," an honor that admits him to the Order, of which the King of Spain is the Grand Master, and which is the equivalent of a knighthood.
It is a rare honor. The only other recipients of whom I am aware are Paco de Malaga and his wife Ana Martinez, who actually did receive it and were inducted into the Order as members in 2008 for their services in promoting Spanish culture. The services Mr. Jernigan performed for Spain that led to his induction into the Order are shrouded in mystery and probably have something to do with suppressing the Basque separatist movement, although that is just conjecture. One hesitates to probe too deeply into such sensitive matters.
Bill
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With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
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