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a good friend of mine, Adi Weisler, is now building a flamenca negra under my supervision.
i dont have a shop but i have keys to someof the finest carpentries and shops in town so i pop in there every now and then to do some work.
Adi is also a big photography fan and whenever he pops in he bringshe camera along with him.
sometimes i m thetre so he takes pics of me while working sometime i m not there so he takes pics of whatever is left there from last night.
yesterday he gave me a cd with over 500 pics on it and i decided to share a few.



















Udi.

Cool pics Udi. That's a pretty sweet looking guitar. How would I go about getting keys to the best shops in town? That's a pretty sweet deal you got there. Keep it up. Thanks for sharing.

Alain

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

Looks fantastic...love the way the headstock follows the back with the sapwood. Do these carpenters know you have the keys to their shops?   

Udi, i'm jealous of your deal for the shop time. Your guitar is stunningly beautiful and unique Man, i love the shape of that heel and bridge, that's a winner trademark right there, if you ever make it to Canada, i'd work under your supervision anytime!

Serge

Hey....that squareneck resonator don't have a cone! You put a bridge and soundhole there. Whassup with that? I gotta tell you, it won't sound right !!!

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Only badly."

You tell em Don

Beautiful work! SHow us some more, and don't forget the finished guitar too!

Looking forward to it!

Udi, I think the neck in the first pic looks really uncomfortable to play.
Nice work. And the photos are very warm and pleasing as well. Keep it up. P

I have to say, I really like the b&w pics especially. Nice camera work.

Oh! The guitars are lookin' good too !

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

She's a beauty! I particulary like the top clamping picture. Looks like something right out Cumpiano!! That ought to hold her down!!

I only say that because I too have been known to cut up a tube or two.Joe Beaver38808.5371990741

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Something I've never understood...Why carve the neck after it's attached to the box in Spanish construction? It would be a hell of a lot easier to carve the neck to within 95% of being done first, especially the heel area.   This has always looked ass backwards to me...

Looking good Udi. Now that was only 9 pics of 500. So if you post that many a day, we can enjoy them with you for nearly two months.

I like the one with the big Milwaukee Router, is that you? and .... are you wearing your bo boats? (Okie for hearing protection)

I also got a chuckle in the last picture, reminds me of a blowout I had on my car along Interstate 40.

Those inner tubes are getting harder and harder to come by. Firestone, now owned by Bridgestone, has a tube plant here in Russellville Arkansas. When I was 18 I worked there two summers in that plant. Hot and sweaty work, even on the graveyard shift.

Thanks for the pics Udi.

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most of them do know i have them keys!!!!
Israel's a small country.
my city,Rehovot is a small city.
so all the carpenters know each other, and all the cabinet makers know each other and all the woodturners know each other and they all know ME ;)

Hey Sensai Rick ;)
the neck is indeed carved...some would argue and say that it is carved to 105% of final thickness(too thin) but thats the way i like it on flamencas, and i seem to be dragging most of my clients down the "thin fast neck" route.
the un carved neck is on the OO-ish guitar and it is bolted on, so no problem here.

Serge,
i left university coz electrical engineering wasnt my thing.
might take a long trip through the americas(already been to the south), if i ever do it ill PM you and we'll hook up eh?

and as for the back gluing with the tubes, i use mostly
arterial tourniquets - i have a friend who is an ambulance driver so he gets me my fixes- he's a good source for scalpels too

thats what freinds are for.
right?

Udi.vachterm38809.3844328704

[QUOTE=Rick Turner] Something I've never understood...Why carve the
neck after it's attached to the box in Spanish construction? It would be a
hell of a lot easier to carve the neck to within 95% of being done first,
especially the heel area.   This has always looked ass backwards to me...[/
QUOTE]

Rick,

Not all of the neck gets carved after the body gets built up in the spanish
method. Usually the heel area immediately
adjacent to the sides is done before the sides go on....very difficult to
work that area where youre in close to the sides without damaging the
latter. I tend to carve 75% of the heel before the neck gets glued to the
top.

Cheers Martin
kiwigeo38809.4229050926

Udi,

Thats a very unusual but very attractive flamenco....the binding on the
neck is especially unsual on a flamenco. I also notice there's no heel cap,
or is that to go on t a later date?

The heel block looks like it hasnt been carved at all prior to the body
being built up on the neck (I assume youre using the spanish method of
construction).

Cheers Martin

[QUOTE=vachterm]
Serge,
i left university coz electrical engineering wasnt my thing.
might take a long trip through the americas(already been to the south), if i ever do it ill PM you and we'll hook up eh?


Udi.[/QUOTE]

You bet Udi, looking forward to meet you in person one day in either Montreal, Ottawa or Toronto which are the big cities closer to mine, i live near Ottawa by the way! That'd be really cool!

I've seen guitars being built in Kenny Hill's shop where very little of the neck and heel is done before the sides are glued in place, and I've seen that in pictures of Paracho and Spanish shops.   It just seems to me that getting the neck at least 95% done before assembling the box to it would make a lot of sense in Spanish style construction. I suspect that tradition has a lot to do with it, but...talk about making things more difficult than they need be!   

Maybe this topic should really be another thread, though.   

Martin,
i was given freedom with the flamenca negra at hand.
so i used mac.ebony for all appointemtns, and i think it came out looking unique yet very cool.
the heel is carved, and has been carved to near final dim. beofre i attached the neck to the body.
perhaps the pic does not shiw it well, since the only pic in which you can see the heel is the one where the focus is on the nut area and the heel is all blurry.
if you look very closely youll also see an ebony heel cap.

Udi.