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Post by jonnymosco on Jun 17, 2013 22:46:06 GMT
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Post by ocarolan on Jun 17, 2013 22:59:45 GMT
Great pics Jonny Keith
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Post by philw on Jun 18, 2013 6:03:46 GMT
Blimey jonny nice one was the trips business or personal? Nice pics taken too
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Post by jonnymosco on Jun 18, 2013 6:22:52 GMT
The trip was purely pleasure - a friend of mine knows the brothers at Camps and thought I'd be interested.
I visited Picado a few years back when I ordered my guitar, so it was interested to see the differences between a relatively low output workshop and high output workshop.
When I asked one of the brothers who he worked with before, he was shocked and said, "My father of course". His daughter is studying steel string guitar making in London and implied he'd prefered her to study with him as what she is learning is not traditional.
Jonny
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Post by philw on Jun 18, 2013 6:33:05 GMT
Lucky you hope it was a good one for you, am sure it was PS - thanks for the delcamp tip - just registered on there too
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Post by leoroberts on Jun 18, 2013 7:34:55 GMT
Girls making guitars! Whatever next.... LOL
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Post by earwighoney on Jun 18, 2013 8:11:43 GMT
I didn't know Camps were from Barcelona! Nice pictures. What was the back and sides of the high end Negra? Was it Palo Escrito? Here's a link for such a model. Palo Escrito and Padauk are my two woods for negras (a little unconventional). I really like guitars made by Camps. I've not tried their high end concert flamencos, but I've played the budget laminate ones and their mid range Primera models. They are all excellent guitars.
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Post by jonnymosco on Jun 18, 2013 9:16:25 GMT
I'm pretty sure it was Madagascar Rosewood, but I could be wrong (he spoke in Catalan!)... they do use a variety of different woods for the special models though incl. BR. I saw they do a latticed braced classical too - which is a very different approach to Picado whose most 'modern' design aspect is Contreras' doble tapa. Here's a good photo for you: That would be the Ziricote sides bin... they have stopped using it as they had so many guitars returned with splits/cracks in the wood.
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Post by earwighoney on Jun 18, 2013 9:43:10 GMT
A few places use Mad Rosewood for their Flamenco, Hermanos Sanchis Lopez being a notable others. I've not tried a negra with that tonewood though, I imagine it would be in the realm of Braz, which I have tried. One of the nicknames for Ziricote I've come across is 'Mexican Crackwood', those pictures seem to support such suspicions! Great pictures though. I came across a advert for a Dvd which is about a flamenco luthier, which I think you might like. The luthier is a Swedish chap called Anders Elliason who lives near Valencia, who makes some great guitars.
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