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Originally Posted by taxman
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I am very happy to see a guitar by a german luthier here, especially by Alex Voss, because i met him in 2013 at the "Vintage Guitar Show Oldenburg" in germany and had a very nice talk about building, woods and guitars.
He is a very warm and friendly person.
I could see his guitars in person and touched them, they are very well made and sound even better. He brings a big part of construction methods from the spanish/classic guitar to his builds, wich you can see on his page.
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that's quite right and no wonder, because he's been trained in building classical guitars by Stephan Schlemper, a well-known german luthier. And for me the mixture of old and well-proven construction methods with some newer and sometimes even more experimental approaches is really fascinating. For example to adapt the concept of a spanish neckjoint to create an negative neckangle and an elevated fingerboard combined with an "spanish neckjoint"...
as you can see here
before closing the box
before glueing the neck to the neckjoint