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Are you sure? :P I've played one of Bruce's Schoenberg dreads and it was the best dread I've ever played or heard, by a mile.
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I am sure...
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I make dreads both wedged and unwedged, though I am mostly known for my smaller Guitars. Being convinced that wedging has no downside, it has become a nearly standard feature of my work, excepting those few conservative customers who can’t accept it. Certainly it has never happened to one of my Schoenberg’s, for instance.
Perhaps this dread-centric video will not be too much more of a hijack: https://pegheadnation.com/instrument...-dreadnoughts/ |
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Thanks Bruce, very interesting video and super nice guitars! No wedge to be seen though. Can you point me, by any chance, to some photos of your wedged dreads? So I can show them to my guy, telling him „see? It can be done.“ One more question: did you ever have trouble finding a well fitting hard case for those guitars? Because I understand that the treble side of the guitar will be even deeper than a standard dread’s. Will I have to have a custom case made? Thanks for your input.
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Without looking straight at the bottom of the guitar from several feet back, you're not going to notice the wedge on my guitars. I think most iterations of the wedge concept are way overdone, making the guitar unwieldy both ergonomically and as you mention, for fitting into a case properly. My wedge is typically just 5/16" and it does the job of making the guitar seem smaller under the right arm w/o being otherwise intrusive. A wedge as large as 3/4", which is common, tilts the top and the neck to a degree that I find has to be addressed by modifying my ergonomic technique, which seems counterproductive.
By the way, I am a top-down builder, and the wedge is more easily accomplished my way than with the more typical top-up method, though it can be done either way, apparently. I don't really seem to have the picture you want, but these are recent wedged dreads: |
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Can you explain that please?
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Standard American guitar construction come from Germany via Martin, and it starts out building a box with the side attached to the back, and the top is added later.
The Spanish tradition, from which my work springs, starts with the top and adds the sides, and finally the back. It is easier to wedge a back after the box is made than to start with the wedged back and then add a “level” top. |
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I built a wedge one time, but didn't like it. Technically the back is tilted, but when holding the guitar it's the soundboard/fretboard that get tilted... and that means more bend on my left wrist to keep the same relation to the frets. Fast track to carpal tunnel.
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