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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!

Cesaria Evora - Ausencia

Garota de Ipanema

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Nice work Alex, great looking classical and sounds wonderful. Your friend plays beautifully.

Congratulations, looks and sounds great!

Nice work Alexandru, I think it's clean and elegant.

I like that style of butt wedge and plan to one like that at some point. How is that executed. Is there a butt joint in the middle or is that offset to be hidden by the purfling? I can't quite see from that photo.

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David White, Toronto

"All my favourite singers can't sing."

It looks great Alexandru,

It is a classic classical!

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David,

it is made exactly like a regular wedge, only that it is comes from the side offcuts. I glue the purfling to the wedge, then chisel the corresponding pocket and glue it in.

It works best with more figured wood though.

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Absolutely beautiful Alexandru. Nice work and fantastic sound.

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Ron

-That is a *very beautiful* guitar, Alexandru. -Carey

Gorgeous work, Alexandru!

Steve

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Thanks all! The wood is not the "wow extractor" kind but I am happy that my finish is up a notch. I did maybe 10 different pumice sessions for the back and that did help compared to my previous 2 rosewood guitars.

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Alex, Martin will be very happy with that superb guitar you've made. Fit, workmanship all look to be of the highest order, great job done.

Colin

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This guitar is so shiny that it hurts my eyes! Excellent job!

Alexandru,
Great looking and sounding guitar; kudos to your friend Tudor Anghelescu, I really enjoyed the clips,
best regards,
jack

Here is a new clip. It's Tudor's take on an old Romanian tango, made famous by Jean Moscopol in the 1930's. The lyrics are about a woman of course and they are the sad pathetic kind The title translates to "cabman, move on!"

Tudor doesn't try to make it a real tango, it's more relaxed, anyway I believe he did well. Sound clip: "Mana birjar!"

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Nice job, Alex. It sounds as good as it looks, and it'll just get better. Great finish job.

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Waddy

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