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We rely more and more heavily on an infrastructure that no one is willing to pay to maintain or improve, while also building our future upon it. The cracks grow ever wider while everyone just points fingers –
Ok -we’ll try it with Youtube – part 2 –
Trying to link some videos – here is part 1, the eval –
https://vimeo.com/user58492532/review/368550976/37c932d4d9
but the main part is about 2.5 gig, so I need to figure out how to break the video down into something Vimeo will let me upload – over the next few weeks –
That looks incredible Daniel! I just took my first trip to europe last year, going to the Cremona Music Festival with my wife, and Bruce Sexauer and his wife. Had an incredible time traveling through northern Italy, and we’ve planned on another trip, to Spain, in October next year. May have to take an extra couple days to see how we’d get to France and say hi –
If we can organize a European meet-up, I’d sure enjoy trying to take part.
i’d bet you if you can help them set up a few shows, you might just get the Carolyn Sills combo out to your neck of the woods long enough for Gerard to take a look at your guitars – but he’s a pretty picky repair person, and may not bring all the tools he’d want at his disposal on the road. You could always ask, though!
I shot a video of Gerard doing re-string and minor adjustments at the first Fretboard Journal Summit – Lemme try to find it and see if I can put it up – maybe thats what you’re thinking of?
It is quite a bit of fun to make these – mostly the company, but the subject matter helps too –
we have a couple ideas for future shows – there are a few behind-the-scenes folk that have been “instrumental” in keeping things going at SCGC, and we have a couple theme-based ideas. We hope y’all continue to find it interesting, and even more, hope y’all can help spread the word to bring more sane and rational people to this forum, and maybe to listen to Richard.
I feel like we’re getting a little better with each one, and personally, I would love to get more feedback on how we can improve – what you like, and what you don’t like as much – its all good, and I’d rather hear it from friends than some of the voices I’ve dealt with on other forums –
And once again, I need to say a huge Thank You to our beloved moderator, both for all his work on this forum, as well as the many hours he puts into engineering those files so we sound so good on the podcasts!
You da man, Mr Newman!
Santa Cruz has a number of “standard” profiles – everything from a very shallow C to a very pronounced V. Since many of their guitars are customized for the buyer or the shop ordering them, you can run into a number of different profiles – plus they do a number of truly custom necks –
That said, it sounds like you have their most generic modified V neck – but I could be wrong. You can call the shop to confirm the neck profile on your specific guitar if it was changed in some way. But yes, you probably would need to keep your eyes open for an OM with a different neck you could sell yours or trade for, or custom order what you want from them –
Most chestnut seems to suffer from worms – hence “wormy chestnut” – may be primarily a US problem? But it does (usually?) have a very pronounced grain – it’d be interesting to see one!
Wow – thats a very thoughtful and well considered analysis. Almost too much so, as it leaves me feeling that the nuance you want is something that probably only Richard Hoover could understand well enough to give you useful feedback –
I have never been a fan of dreadnaughts – so I can’t respond to those thoughts. But I do have 2 braz rw guitars, both with sitka tops, one an OM, and the other a baritone – very different. The braz is very nice, but with the price that it seems to take for really good quality braz, I’m not convinced its what I’d choose if I were ordering a new guitar. But again, Richard is the one to talk to about that. There is some really fine braz out there – Richard may have it, or know where to get it, but it will not be cheap. I have a 000 in blackwood, and it has many of the same qualities, but it is 12 fret, and deeper body, and slot head, and euro spruce, so – almost completely different.
I wish I could offer something as intelligent and useful as your original post, but I know I’d fail – but what I think you should do is send your thoughts to Richard, and see what he suggests to accomplish your goals. I’d love to hear his thoughts, amd which way you end up going! In the meantime, I’m gonna throw some fresh strings on the blackwood and braz OM, and see if I can hear some of the qualities you’ve so well described –
The latest ads have the logo front and center! Hope thats driving a little more interest down to our friends!
A huge thanks to our own Mr Newman for the outstanding work he does making us sound good, and polishing out the vocal warts and brainfarts –
