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Hello, I wanted to share some pictures of my recent build. made of Italian spruce, Cypress B&S (locally harvested), ebony FB, Cedro neck, Indian Rw bridge.
Sounds nice, Im pleased with it.
Forgive me if the images are a little too big for the screen

Nicely done!

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They don't ever need to be any prettier than that. It's gorgeous.

Very beautiful. I love the design of the peg head slots.

Yes, very nice indeed. I also like the slots on the headstock - a restrained and elegant decoration. The way that you blend the heel cap into the back , through the bindings, is also a nice and distinctive touch.
Mark

Very nice!

Nice one Bruno!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Very nice! Is the cypress down your way the same species as Spanish Cypress? Is it plentiful or just the result of the odd ornamental planting?

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

Its cupressus semprevirens, the one with the distinctive sharp cone shape. Its widely used as ornamental, but not often found in size and free of branches. This one was around 100 years and had about 3 meters free of branches and a diameter of about 65 cm. it was located in my towns graveyard, and fell among many other trees during a very powerful storm a few years ago. I went to the place and ask the guy incharge if I could make my self with some wood, he sent me to speak with hes superior, I got the ok so I went back, picked the most suitable tree, cut to manageable size, and then after a lot of work and resawing I ended up with a handful of very good sets, and some other lesser quality.
The grain is not very tight, and it widens some more at the center but all in all was a great score.

Beautiful guitar.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

nice work, and good story abt the cypress My kind of luthier . who gets his own tonewood

Very nice work Bruno. Is it for you or someone else?

I buid for pleasure but I need to sell to support the hobby, so it´s on sale. hopefully it will go anytime..
Thanks

didn't notice the green purf scheme before. Nice touch!

Nice work Bruno!

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Very nice work indeed! As for the tone, does it sound more classical or does it favor flamenco?

Very nice work, I like the segmented rosette plus many other fine details that pulls the whole guitar together.

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To be honest I couldn´t tell if its one or the other, first of all it depends a lot on playing technique. and I don´t have either of those. I guess it has what I think its the normal sound of cypress, kind of dry if I may say.. anyway I´ll try to make a decent sounding clip these days and will upload so you can hear by your self.

Here´s a little clip, there is some Hiss in the background that I couldn´t figure out or remove without altering the guitar´s sound. But pay no attention to it and let me know what you think about the sound..

https://soundcloud.com/bruno-pianca/7ma-test-2

Munen that was very nice indeed. Loved the sound as well as the melody.


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