Build Thread: Buendia OM Cutaway Multiscale Adi/Hog

[nootis]

Tell Leo he should use actual corn hole bags and not dive weights, unless he laminates that hog back of course.

Corn hole and all, this is looking pretty sharp!

[Diamondave]

ADI HOG is one of the best combinations for a guitar, Leo will bring something fascinating into the mix for sure, congrats...!

[justonwo]

Originally Posted by Diamondave

ADI HOG is one of the best combinations for a guitar, Leo will bring something fascinating into the mix for sure, congrats...!

Agreed! It is a fantastic combination. Leo added racing stripes to the side of this one.

[MTguitars]

This is going to kick some serious butt! Can nor wait to see and hear more.

[Jwills57]

Beautiful-looking instrument. I will make a comment regarding guitars with so-called double sides. I received about six months ago two OM guitars I had commissioned from Scottish luthier Oska Burman. The guitars, as you can imagine, are just incredible. Oska uses double-side construction, too, and I can say, based on my experience with these and quite a few other luthier-built guitars, that the double-side construction gives a guitar a certain amount of heft and fullness to the sound that might otherwise be lacking. It's a very subtle thing, of course, but it's something I think I can notice or maybe say feel about Oska's guitars. And, of course, structurally there are obvious advantages to double-side construction, in terms of the stability and longevity of the instrument.

[justonwo]

Originally Posted by Jwills57

Beautiful-looking instrument. I will make a comment regarding guitars with so-called double sides. I received about six months ago two OM guitars I had commissioned from Scottish luthier Oska Burman. The guitars, as you can imagine, are just incredible. Oska uses double-side construction, too, and I can say, based on my experience with these and quite a few other luthier-built guitars, that the double-side construction gives a guitar a certain amount of heft and fullness to the sound that might otherwise be lacking. It's a very subtle thing, of course, but it's something I think I can notice or maybe say feel about Oska's guitars. And, of course, structurally there are obvious advantages to double-side construction, in terms of the stability and longevity of the instrument.

Good to hear from you and thanks for commenting. Yes, double sides have a number of advantages and are a common part of the recipe for Somogyi-style guitars. I used to own a couple of Baranik (and a Kostal) guitars with double sides as well. That being said, I'm firmly of the camp that believes there are a number of recipes to achieve fantastic tone. While I have played or owned many amazing guitars with double-sides, I have never felt like guitars built with different methodologies have been lacking. I have always found it difficult to parse out the effect of individual variables in guitars. I tend to look at guitars as the culmination of many, many different design decisions. While a builder using double sides may make different decisions down the road about how to construct the guitar for optimal tone, another building using traditional single-layer sides will optimize around that type of rim.

All that being said, I have enjoyed Oska's build threads and would love to play one of his guitars one day. Thanks for chiming in!