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estebanana
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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On the yellowtail- Australia they call them kingfish, in Japan there are four names, hamachi, buri, hiramasa and sometimes Buri no ko- mainly there’s the difference between the Buri and the Hamachi, same fish only different age. Buri is a full grown yellowtail that usually reaches one meter or so. Hamachi is the same fish but between 12” and about 20” - there is a bit of difference in how the flesh looks and feels that makes the younger ones better for sushi. Buri is usually cut and served as sashimi, but hamachi is better for nigiri sushi 🍣 Hiramasa is a larger than one meter Buri, but some people tell me it’s a subspecies, I’ve not been able to confirm this yet. Buri no ko, that’s the ovaries full of eggs, which are quite tasty if you catch a female. Small Hamachi under 12” you could also call Buri no ko, ko means child, child of the Buri, but unless you were looking right at it while you said it probably people would think you meant ovary. But language is elastic, even Japanese is elastic despite a Japanese person telling you it doesn’t stretch. In California they call it all yellowtail, big ones and small ones, and most people confuse Buri with Hamachi at the fish market. Asking for hamachi when clearly the yellowtail in the ice is a meter long. The butcher doesn’t know the difference either because he doesn’t understand fish. When I visited home in 2016 I wanted to cook a fish for some friends, we scoured the Bay Area for a fish counter were the product was not a week dead with grey gills and cloudy eyes. Finally the Berkeley Bowl supermarket had a passable fish counter. I remember gandering at a large Buri on the ice and some yuppie hipster says to the fish man, “give me a pound of that yellowtail hamachi”. Being the snob that I am, I turned to my friend held my arms a meter wide and said, this is a buri, and moved them two feet apart and said this is hamachi. But my explication wasn’t well received by the lady standing in line next to me because as I gestured out to make the meter wide distance she moved and the back of my hand landed square on the front of her right tit. She scowled, I apologized, she re scowled. It just goes to show you, language is elastic.
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Date Nov. 19 2020 23:52:32
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estebanana
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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Two funny stories today- one thing found one thing lost. This is my favorite ruler, a month ago I took it to the hardware store to measure some stuff I was going to buy. It slipped off the dashboard of the car and into a seam in front of the speedometer. It was lost inside the dashboard. Today it fell out of the dash board at a stop sign when I hit the brakes and the car lurched and shook. My ruler is back. I’m happy. 1985 I was working for a modeling agency and they brought an agent from Tokyo took at their models, they thought I would get picked to work in Japan. The agent was seeing us in a room, I walked in with the right side of my face to her. She smiled and nodded and I instantly thought great I’ll get this work. As soon as I turned my face she saw I had a small mole on my chin, and she completely shut down and motioned for me to leave, with a glare as if how dare the agency recommend flawed goods. That happens when you go to see art directors and agents, some like your look and some hate it. Today in the bathroom of the community center I was blowing my nose and washing my hands because I had to read a text in front of 50 people at the jr high English speech contest. So I looked at my face to make sure I looked neat. The mole on the center of my chin was missing, gone. I looked in the tissue I had used and there was a tiny flat round sluff of skin, the mole was dry and had just fallen off, just like that, clear skin where it had been. Damn, I thought, if I had that agents name that came from Tokyo in 1985, I could send the dried mole to her agency and go do some fashion plate work in Tokyo.
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Date Nov. 27 2020 12:28:58
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RobF
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to estebanana)
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What scale length do you make them with, typically? I've been catering to the 650mm requests, or 655, but I'm making them 660 from here on out because I just don't think flamenco guitars get the right string stiffness and taut response from 655 and lower. Short scales always have more buzzing issues This post would be the perfect opening for another thread. You and I have had enough off-line conversations for you to know that I’m pretty well firmly in the same camp as you, but it would be great to hear the experiences and opinions of other makers on this matter. To add to your data (even though you’re asking SEden), I’ve settled on 655mm for Negras, and 660mm for Blancas but, like you, will make 650mm if specifically requested (and paid for). I’ve recently had a request for a 665mm Negra from a Spanish pro, so that’s not obsolete, either. But, yeah, it would be great to know the experiences of other makers (and players). It seems to be assumed that the norm these days is 650mm and people will simply refuse to even consider any higher, but is this really the case, or are we just victims of the marketing of the larger manufacturers?
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Date Dec. 14 2020 14:08:45
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ernandez R
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Unless I am wrong, if one increases scale length using the same string, increased string tension is required to attain the same frequency, and in doing so the string amplitude decrease at the same frequency hence lower action is posable and less buzz or string pop when hitting them hard? I'm sure string selection has a lot to do with this but I'm afraid to use the higher tension string sets in my 900-1000gm lightweights and I'm not ready to go to the dark side using carbon fiber rod and heaver construction technics. I built a pair of 666mm "Beasts!" and they are both vastly superior to my previous handful of guitars. Too many variables to say much concrete about scale length and the only flamenco player in town moved away before he could play one of the... Finally able to get in the shop after the moose event for more then an hour at time and wrapping up the mothballed projects. Can't wait to start the next Flamenco build, something I sketched up last year, drew up in CAD, off the path for sure. Three guitars to shellac and prying it doesn't drop to -30f before I get them done. Shellac and the wood stove scares me ;) Also have a minion building a classical, trying for a heavy dens lining Brouchet kind of build. It's good to be busy instead of laying around getting fat and playing four to six hours a day. HR
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Date Dec. 14 2020 21:08:38
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