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Sexauer/2020 (chapter3)
Seems like the 300 limit snuck up on me on Chapter 2. It's as though I checked last week and was mid-200's. Here's the link to the previous thread, chock full of useful information: Sexauer/2020 (chapter2)
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Last post from previous thread
I completed V8, the fiddle I made a month ago, and have been playing it daily. Despite my trepidations, it is the best I've done so far. If the next one, V9 currently under construction, is better I won't have to deliver V8 to the customer, and I will avoid a broken heart.
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That’s just beautiful!
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How do you differentiate between a violin and a fiddle. As far as I know it's the same instrument. Classical players call it a violin; those who play traditional music, folk, bluegrass, old-time, etc call it a fiddle. Trad musicians also sometimes use different tunings and have different styles of playing but it's the same instrument. I have a friend who plays both, so when he changes from classical to trad does his violin become a fiddle?
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Back to guitars for a moment:
Early Report: I now have in hand my newly built Sexauer FT-0-C Adi/Mahogany (see Sexauer/2020 (Chapter 2) thread). This guitar makes me happy. It is what I had hoped it would be. It feels right in my hands. I’m not capable of the describing sound as well as many here on the Forum. But I’ll just say that this guitar, in it’s infancy, sounds open, full, and alive. And although I know that it will only get better as it plays in, for me it doesn’t need to. I played only Dreadnaughts for the majority of my playing years because (without really thinking much about it) I guess I thought anything smaller was just less of a guitar. But there is nothing small about the sound from this guitar. This one plays big. Bruce, thank you for your work. |
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In the case at hand, V8’s top got a bit too thin at some points, which should result in a slightly inadequate focus in the tone, but it is a warm and very pleasing sound none the less. I will likely string V9 In the next few days, and it will be very interesting to see how they compare. I will give the customer his choice. Between these instruments, I bought a Deep throat dial gauge for accurately measuring plate thickness everywhere, and have a unprecedented and precise knowledge of V9’s plates. IMO, it is not so much their absolute dimension as the consistency of the thickness, particularly in the top plate. We’ll see. |
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Down here in the mountains of Virginia they are fiddles unless you are playin in one of them fancy halls and they are called violins
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Congrats on your new FT-0...
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A bunch of nice archtops, flattops, a gypsy & nylon strings… |
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I have string V9 and put a couple of hours into playing and finessing. This instrument is particularly responsive to sound post adjustment. Theoretically, they all are, but I have not found that to be true. Or possibly I am getting better at hearing the differences.
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CN3, the Myrtle Noodler, is closed, and here are a few pics leading up to the:
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Closed the Myrtle CN.
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Old joke - be kind😀. |
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That myrtle is so nice! Looking good Bruce!
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