This is a guitar I built for Martin Guhl, the German tonewood dealer, some of you know him. Here are some specs:
-top: Swiss spruce
-head plate and bridge: Brazilian RW
-B&S: stripey Indian RW
-the purfling is a mix of bloodwood (to match the reddish rosette) Indian rosewood and maple.
-tuners are ebony buttons, brass plates Rubner.
-finish is french polish, not done yet. I completed 3 sessions and plan to do 3 to 5 more plus the final polish.
Build style is of Torres. The top, while old, stiff and light (maybe my best top piece so far) was actually cut a little of quarter making it rubbery across the grain. I decided use the heaviest German spruce I had for bracing, and to leave the top a bit thicker (+0.1 mm) than on my last, and it seems to have worked. It is the loudest of my guitars yet, with nice clarity and lots of overtones. My previous 3 tend to be a bit sweeter and rounder though, but they are also older and more played in...
The pics are ..., yes, so much for my attempt to take pics in the field. First sound clip turned out pretty good, so left it perfectly clean/untouched, but the second had clipping issues and tried (unsuccessfully) to mask using some reverb and normalization. The 2 mics are Rode NT1's and the interface an EMU 0404. Transcriptions and playing by my friend Tudor Anghelescu.
Thanks for looking and any comments!
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