Members Stackabones Posted January 5, 2008 Members Posted January 5, 2008 Side hole? Ruck hole? Click
Members drnihili Posted January 5, 2008 Members Posted January 5, 2008 Wonderful, perfect for the way I play. Nobody else wants to listen to me. And it looks like it would be an easy modification to give it some much needed bridge pins! I love the sides and the triangular insert in the back.
Members ChiyoDad Posted January 5, 2008 Members Posted January 5, 2008 Moving the hole to the side or to the upper bouts would, theoretically, increase the amount of active surface area on the soundboard. Assuming that the bracing were done right, you could increase the bass response while still getting a clear treble response. David Grimes does that with his double-puka (Hawaiian for "hole") slack-key guitars like the Keola Beamer model (shown below). After seeing that bridge, my guess is that the side-hole guitar might use Kasha-Schneider bracing. That allows the hole to be moved a side of the upper bout ... or to the side. However, William Cumpiano, one of the world's premier luthiers and author of one of the most authoritative tomes on building acoustic guitars, thinks the KS bracing has not proven itself. I tend to agree. More folks are adapting Smallman bracing into modern guitars. Only a few experimenters are still playing with KS bracing.
Members T.B. Posted January 5, 2008 Members Posted January 5, 2008 Come on Stacks pool your birthday money and buy it; the Clarita Negra is only 13 grand used. I thought I read somewhere Mr. Boaz Elkayam moved to the States, but I maybe mistaken. He builds a Uke too. http://www.claritanegra.com/workshop-projects-ukulele.htm http://www.claritanegra.com/workshop-projects-ukulele.htm http://www.boazguitars.com/ Trina
Members Samilyn Posted January 5, 2008 Members Posted January 5, 2008 Even if I had megabucks just laying around, I just can't think far enough outside the box to buy a git that looks so strange.
Members ChiyoDad Posted January 5, 2008 Members Posted January 5, 2008 $13K-$14K for a Kasha-Schneider classical? You could get a custom-made Salvador Castillo, a Francisco Navarro or an Alejandro Cervantes for about $3-6K and I'd wager that any of those three luthiers' guitars would easily outperform it even with traditional Torres/Hauser/Fleta bracing. And they'd look a lot better too. Heck. You could get a Pavan TP-30 for $1.2K and you'd probably be very happy. With $13-$14K, I'd instead get myself two top-of-the-line guitars from German Vasquez Rubio! Here's Sr. Castillo in his Paracho workshop. [YOUTUBE]jrnLplZCscg[/YOUTUBE]
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