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Cedar top on Hinoki back & sides
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estebanana
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 Cedar top on Hinoki back & sides
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This is think the 7th Hinoki guitar....
Anyway, back and sides Hinoki with a Cedar top. All the other Hinoki blancas have been Spruce toppped, so this is combination I have been wanting get into for some time.
The model is evolving a a bit. I'm working with two main ides, the infamous, and notorious, but ever so awesome 51' Barbero and this five fan baring pattern that is mine. It looks very similar to what some other Foro makers have been doing, and frankly it is. Good ideas are good ideas. I drew that pattern in 2014, but it is as old as the hills, influenced by older guitars from the 1950's -60's I have seen with that basic five fan pattern, but arranged a bit wider. The strap braces between the lower trasverse bar and bridge are a newer idea I use to stabilize that area a bit.
Those who have played the guitars I've made this way have simply said, "Funky, gitano sounding" and that's it. Which tells you really not much, so you'll have to wait and see. I like being told it sounds funky rather than someone trying to describe something that sounds like a wine tasting. "Fruity, with hints of Cedar and canela, smooth finish with a acid overtone glow" ......Uggghhh...... 
This one is possibly for a customer who already has one of my blancitas with a spruce top, and he is a very good player. This musician has had in his possession three of my blancas, but he covets one of mine that belongs to another pro player. He expressed an interest in hearing a Cedar top with this bracing, so I'm doing it. He's looking for something very specific and he's well heeled enough to wait for it. He'll snatch it up as soon as he hears it. Where this one will ultimately end up, I'm not sure. It's possible the care and feeing of this one is open to kind animal lovers, depending on its purr.
Further note on this one, I took it right to the edge of where I understand it is stable. It'll be a like skin pulled over a dry box. That is what the player asked for, I'll see if I can deliver.
Follow along if you care! I take the making of a guitar very seriously, but there's still Plenty of Sarcasm to go around!
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Date Apr. 14 2017 22:32:06
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estebanana
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RE: Cedar top on Hinoki back & sides... (in reply to SephardRick)
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Your designs have always been a breath of fresh air and eye catching. You adapt the instrument to user. I really admire that. But...my curiosity is killing me on this one...I have to stayed tuned for this build.
Interesting to hear. I do make off the wall stuff, but not as often as you think. My basic idea is to make Spanish work like the Santos, de la Chica, Barba, Reyes etc. guitars my friends have that I've spent a lot of time with. I work for really light Spanish sounding guitars that are informed by those makers, but I take off from there and make some components with my own sello propio, like the rosette with the simple square tiles.
Other than that, the headstock design and the way I carve a heel and shape the neck, brace, and overall conceive of a flamenco is traditional Andaluz stuff. I'm using Hinoki about half and half now as Cypress, and I'm out front as an advocate of changing the guitar world to normalize new kinds of woods and back and sides material.
All that, but my work is ground deeply in a close and long study of Spanish work, and I think that is most important.
I'm waiting for a special shipment of viola pegs, I made a rather large quantity order of pegs. They should arrive in about a week. I plan on making more wooden pegged guitars, as I get feedback from players who feel like it's time to bring that back after a decade of people being scared of pegs. I'll be making instruments with tuning machines, but also pushing the pegs.
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