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[QUOTE=SonicAgamemnon] It's interesting to see how few build strictly nylon; however, it's even more surprising to see how many build both steel and nylon instruments. I have met several classical/flamenco players who will not pick up a steel string guitar, nor consider a builder who makes steel guitars-- I don't know why this is so, but I've met too many players out there with that mentality, probably groundless...[/QUOTE]
Probably because an experienced SS builder that does not have much classical experience will likely over build a classical. That with the fact that a larger percentage of classical players that buy hand-crafted instruments are professional concert players than those that by steel string. Therefore they want someone that is very proficient in classical building.
I got to spend an evening a couple years ago with Michael Chapdelaine the five time classical finger-style champion and head of Guitar Studies at the University of New Mexico. During this evening he set down his classical for a moment and picked up a Yamaha steel string and played the Beatle’s tune “Come Together”. Stopping half a measure into the song and saying “I’m 4ct flat on D, but this is a steel string so it don’t mater. I have spent 30 some years worrying with perfect intonation. I figure I am entitled to a little rock and Roll now and then” .
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