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RE: My new Stephan Faulk blanca!!! (in reply to Leñador)
Actually that's a really spot on characterization. I have shown Stephen's guitars to many people and almost all are classical guys. They consistently characterize the sound as immediate and the trebles as capable of being very sweet. I think that's something which is oft overlooked in flamenco guitars.
The rasp is there. The punch is there. But the trebles are sweet in almost a little diffused. So many other flamenco guitars are pointed and fundamental focused in the high end that it makes it difficult to use the guitar for anything nuanced. Stephen's give you the control to dig in and give that classic pointedness or lay back and create sweet and nuanced texture.
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RE: My new Stephan Faulk blanca!!! (in reply to Leñador)
congrats man! interesting choice of woods. i've never even heard of mersawa. it looks and sounds amazing bro. that back stripe thing and the head plate is i really dig my pegheds. all the style but no fuss.
RE: My new Stephan Faulk blanca!!! (in reply to Leñador)
Thanks Oliver, Todd and Anthony!!
Yeah Hemeola, I was noticing yesterday that it's already opened up so much more even since I posted that video, the trebles are crystal clear without being annoying or...."gainy" I guess is the best word I can think. I was playing some Argentinian stuff and even my lady noticed, "That sounds really beautiful on that guitar!" She's heard me play those songs 1,000 times on the other ones.
RE: My new Stephan Faulk blanca!!! (in reply to Leñador)
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even my lady noticed
Yeah - but what does she think about the rosette? Why can't he do a Reyes replica rosette like everyone else? This is the kind of mad, bad and dangerous guy who has crazy dreams in full colour and then wakes up and represents them in wood.
RE: My new Stephan Faulk blanca!!! (in reply to Leñador)
Thanks blondie and Rob! Hah yeah, Stephen should be locked up for such blasphemy! I feel like I did reap the benefit of having not only a craftsman but an artist build my guitar.
RE: My new Stephan Faulk blanca!!! (in reply to Leñador)
My ears a burning. I my defense, my rosettes are not that far out these days- here is the one after Lenador....
Gene Clark told me look at classic Spanish work and then make something of your own based on those ideas. As long as I keep it grounded in that school of thought I get nice things. Hauser rosettes are not super fiddely and early Esteso and Ramirez made some very clean reductive roses, so I mainly take inspiration from those three and maybe de la Chica. Also bold is better than complexity for complexities sake. He said never ever, ever buy pre made rosettes. And I never will.
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RE: My new Stephan Faulk blanca!!! (in reply to estebanana)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana
My ears a burning. I my defense, my rosettes are not that far out these days- here is the one after Lenador....
Gene Clark told me look at classic Spanish work and then make something of your own based on those ideas. As long as I keep it grounded in that school of thought I get nice things. Hauser rosettes are not super fiddely and early Esteso and Ramirez made some very clean reductive roses, so I mainly take inspiration from those three and maybe de la Chica. Also bold is better than complexity for complexities sake. He said never ever, ever buy pre made rosettes. And I never will.
That's a nice sticker.
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RE: My new Stephan Faulk blanca!!! (in reply to RobJe)
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You don't need to defend yourself. You have a way with colours that nobody else can match. Do you dye the woods yourself?
Rob
I have not dyed any wood strips for quite some time, I buy colors from veneer suppliers, and I pick the ones few other guitar makers would pick. No secrets there. I put the colors next to each other so they blend in your eye and create a second color sensation.
This last one is not really made that way, it's like a checkers set, red and black, with a dark purple line. And Ive gone to using thin white lines like most Spanish work.
The reason the colors look like they do in my other rosettes is because I will put a light acidic green and bright yellow together with an orange line, this blends the three color together to make a color that shimmers as it blends in your eye. Blue and red next to each other blends in your eye an makes purple, Yellow and red makes orange, etc. So I try to think about putting sets of colors together so they either fight and become more intense, or they cancel each other out and become muddy or greyed by being next to each other. I make the decision pretty quickly and don't belabor it.
I worked through a period of having three or four strange greens on hand, and most of it is gone, so now I'm headed into Black and White with Red and accent colors. I'm also going to do fewer of the concentric circles without rosettes and make more tiles for a while. I'm switching from color driven to graphic driven, I think.
The structure or format is almost always Spanish - center element, which is a band of something either lines or tiles. A field of black one either side, or sometimes brown, then a set of border lines or a "braid" design and a final black border. There has been some rule bending on that format, but mainly just swapping places with the outer border decorations.
To tell the truth I look at other peoples rosettes and I wish I could be more normal. Oh well.
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