RE: I changed my model after my taste changed

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silddx

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RE: I changed my model after my tast... (in reply to estebanana)

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estebanana

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RE: I changed my model after my tast... (in reply to silddx)

Quick point I’ve been thinking about while French polishing this one. I omitted the bright purfling on the back, that’s not uncommon with flamenco guitars, but this is going into the classical market. It’s custom and style to use a bright light stripe of purfling on the back of a classical, but only do it if the wood is fairly plain or needs a containment line to set it off visually. And that’s just me, most people use back purfling 100% of the time.

On this particular book matched back I like the center stripe of light wood so much that I didn’t want a container line of light purfling to complete with it for attention. This guitar wouldn’t be as distinguished if I had treated it conventionally. It’s on a case by case basis, but it’s my conviction about style and design that you have to let nature have its own voice in these situations. You have to get your ego out of the way of certain pieces of wood and trust that others will agree.

I had to think ahead and work to get the figure on the back to be symmetrical and present that line down the center. Only one side of the book match has that symmetrical pattern, the edges of the sapwood markings were radically different on the verso, not at all as striking. To preserve this outer side pattern I had to glue the back together and carefully hand scrape the back to keep that center ornament intact. Then all the thicknessing was done by planing and drum sanding the other side. After that I wasn’t going to add purfling, because that back is making a distinct visual statement.

Like the saying from the movie Jurassic Park “Nature always finds a way.”