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My last complete instrument for a short time (I promise.) It is just that I had two going on and the scheduled Ukulele class. In any case this is a "Contemporary Classical" Guitar. I get it, an oxymoron. The basic body shape is a Hauser 37 with the cutaway added. The contemporary features are a bolt on\bolt off neck, compensated nut, 30' radiused top. 10' radiused back 24" radius fretboard, 49 mm nut, sound port and carbon fiber reinforced falcate braces.

Three piece Pernambuco back and sides
Western Red cedar top
Cocobolo Bindings and fretboard
Brazilian Rosewood headstock veneer
CF reinforced Brazilian Rosewood bridge
Traditional French Polish top with shellac
Amboyna Burl classical style rosette
Back and sides and neck sprayed with Post catalyzed Royal lac sprayed on Silvertip Epoxy with slow hardener pore fill.
Bright Gold with Ebony Schertler Classical Guitar Tuning Keys.

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Hi John,
Another beauty. The Pernambuco looks like Osage Orange colorwise, and I'll bet they will both age to the same warm brown. The Pernambuco fiddle bows I've had were always a few shades lighter than the Brazilwood bows.How do the two guitars compare soundwise?

Thanks, They both basically have the see resonances, are braced the same, both WRC and both tops were thicknessed to targets of the Gore equations. I can not really hear the difference. I know in a blind listening I could not pickout one over the other. They sound good, load, rich voice long sustain.

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That's a great looking guitar. The color of the cocobolo binding is a really nice fit with the back and sides color and the amboyna in the rosette appears to match the back and sides well.

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Nice work, great result John.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Thanks guys!

Here is a video my guitar instructor Doug Rice trying this guitar. His main guitar now is one of my falcate classical guitars. Here is his description of the sound he hears from this falcate bracing pattern. "Their superb basic tone color and resonance, especially their high overtones presented a harp-like quality. They exhibited a wide dynamic range and followed esponsively throughout the range, enabling a vastly broadened interpretive menu: for example, piano subitos were not simply softer, but seductively engaging to the ear.The sustaining quality enabled impressive legato lines. The treble-bass balance enhanced voice leading and unfolding rich harmonies."

Both videos are from my phone

https://youtu.be/e6EAVj3J00g




Here the guitar is being played by a non classical player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wh7GO2SWww

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