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RE: Did Gerundino really make his guitars from Mid 90's up until his passing?
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yourwhathurts69
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RE: Did Gerundino really make his gu... (in reply to Ricardo)
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I'm a bit late to the party, but just to add a little info from my own personal experience, I've noticed a change in the details of some late 90's guitars. I have experience with a 98 Gerundino, and it's definitely among the best, if not the best, sounding guitars I've played, but the guitar details look really rough, kind of like he ran out of sandpaper and really only cared about how it sounded, not how it looked. However, I've also seen a few 98 Gerundinos that were more refined and with slightly different details in things like the headstock, heel, finish, etc.... They reminded me of the factory guitars you see coming out of Valencia. I have no idea who did what with the guitars, but I can certainly say there must have been at least two different people involved with the construction. I would also say that it's worth trying a late 90's Gerundino if you have access to one because it might be a really, really great guitar, regardless of who made it.
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Date Feb. 29 2020 17:44:29
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Richard Jernigan
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RE: Did Gerundino really make his gu... (in reply to Ricardo)
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo I am starting to realize that is purely a humidity issue. When guitars dry out, they sound a lot more lively than when they are holding too much moisture. Of course deliberately drying out a guitar, especially too fast, can be very bad for it. It is a delicate balance. The humidity indoors varies considerably in most houses here in Austin, Texas. In the summertime it tends to get pretty humid, in the winter pretty dry, as low as 30% relative humidity. In the mid-1970s my '67 Ramirez 1a blanca responded quite audibly to changes in humidity. Now, fifty years later, it seems to be pretty much the same no matter the humidity in the house. While I lived in the Marshall Islands, in an apartment building with a very bad air conditioning system (designed by the U.S. Corps of Engineers) it was hard to keep the relative humidity down to 60%. Outdoors it was 90% day in, day out. The central air conditioning system had no "re-heats" to remove humidity. When I moved back to Texas in 2010 my guitars didn't seem to change much. The youngest one was a '91 spruce/Brazilian Contreras "doble tapa." Next in age was the '82 Arcangel Fernandez blanca. My guitars, at least, seemed to respond less audibly to changes in humidity as they got older. RNJ
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Date Mar. 1 2020 0:08:08
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