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RE: new build for 68' Conde style flamenco
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Ruphus
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 RE: new build for 68' Conde style fl... (in reply to Tom Blackshear)
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Hey Tom,
Thank you very much for your very appreciated, kind perception. :O)
Hopefully you are not a physician-avoiding type like me. It can result in needless pain.
In the early millennia me got something terribly aching in the lower abdomen and back. It temporarily crippled me, with each and every smallest of moves hurting like hell. Apparently shingles (some herpes virus attacking the nervous system, finally diagnosed by my doc sister). Went through it without medical help.
Only weeks ago (after someone having coughed in my face –the way many folks here uneducatedly do- 4 weeks before) I first got a cold, then pneumonia which then kreeped further into diaphragmitis.
Also incredible pain with each breath, let alone when coughing. Just as if there was a knife being twisted between one´s rips. Almost couldn´t move around anymore. During two nights crouching from the lower end of the bed into sleeping position truly took almost an hour. And there was no position, whether standing, sitting or laying down, in which there was lessening of the trouble.
Then after 5 days of that torment, finally overcome myself to see a doc, and the pain was taken off within hours by description of 4 medicines and a cough syrup. Can´t put into words what a relief that was! Gladly then accepting regular taking of diverse pills over the course of a week or so.
In decades of physical activity and MA there have being countless of cracks, cuts, dysfunctional jaws and thelike stuff, but the above experiences meant another league.
What I want to say is: When being of the type used to overcoming booboos without pharmaceuticals, one should not exaggerate such attitude. That seems at least what I learned from these two occasions. There is no use in enduring serious pain.
Let the doc help you out with the lower back cold. Even if it be just for the issue to not expand any further.
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Date Feb. 26 2020 11:34:55
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Tom Blackshear
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RE: new build for 68' Conde style fl... (in reply to Ricardo)
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So whatever he is doing to the braces, it opens up the sound in a good way...I’m sure it can be over done and ruin the guitar just as easily.
Thanks Ricardo, but it's true, there is a risk every time I use this technique, but it's also true that if I get it right , there is a general improvement to the tone and articulation of the instrument; especially with my own builds.
It all comes down to being able to improve the technique with practice and to gain knowledge so as not to hurt the guitar with fine tuning. Since I've been practicing this technique, I've learned what not to do to hurt sound.
Thankfully I haven't done this to many other builders guitars. The very last time I did this was with a Poncho Navarro "Miguel Rodriguez classical style" made for a guy in Texas.
The fellow's teacher told him that the guitar sounded like a student model, (I won't go into detail). So he called me and made the trip to my shop for an adjustment. I saw what the problem was and made a couple of slight adjustments that made him very happy.
The next day he called me from his home near Houston, Texas and told me that his teacher loved the guitar, thinking that he was playing a new guitar, not the same one with tonal adjustments.
Does this mean that I knew a great deal with the Pedro de Miguel guitar. Not hardly, since I've learned quite a bit since then. And this in no way should reflect on the Navarro guitars, as I consider him a good builder.
So, now that I'm in the twilight of my building career, I'm trying to get this Conde style finished, to see how well it turns out for anyone who is interested in buying it.
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Date Mar. 15 2020 17:19:24
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Tom Blackshear
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RE: new build for 68' Conde style fl... (in reply to JasonM)
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I followed Toms advice about sanding braces to relieve top tension and get more string snap and he was spot on. I didn’t notice any change in tone though...............'
Jason, What I mean about the tone is that I put an edge to the sound that reflects a different voice to some extent. And the string articulation/snap is to alter the feel for the right and left hand.
The fine tuning effects both at the same time.
One thing you have to be careful of, is that the more you remove off the strut height, (equal height from top-to-bottom), the brighter the sound on the particular designated string.
If you remove the wood near the sound hole you get a certain drop off on the designated string tone.
You can see this on the 2003 Reyes plan, on the second and third strut. If you remove some wood near the bottom of the strut then you heighten the frequency of the tone. You can see this on the first strut of the plan.
You'll also be able to see, (some of this), on the 1968 Conde plan I'm building.
The trick is to get all strings level in tone as much as possible, from side to side and top to bottom, without messing things up, or learn how to modulate the polishing technique and cause certain inter-dimensional voicing that is pleasing to the ears.
So, to do this, you have to polish the strut just a little off its synergistic communication, with other struts next to it, and this will disturb its own balance a little, so as to create your own voice.
Sometimes one swipe of the #400 paper will do it
Note: I find that sometimes its best not to do too much fine tuning so as not to push things out of sinc. Because, when this happens, it may take a longer time to get it fixed.
Or you may have to send your guitar to me, to fix it for $1,000 :-)
I actually did this for a fellow once and he wound up selling his guitar for more than he thought was reasonable, but there's no guarantee 
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Date Mar. 24 2020 14:51:09
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