well that’s a tough question but I can
think of a few parts that are
especially complex for me.
well, first buying
wood buying tops especially
I travel to the source and I look
through thousands of tops.
And then also deciding which top I’m going to use
for a particular guitar
I thickness them and I join them and
then I start measuring and I start
trying to feel them that’s also difficult.
And then at last assembly
brace and gluing the bracing controlling
humidity trying to make
all the conditions
perfect so that there are no tensions
built in the top
and up until I glue the bridge and then
it all becomes a lot more easy
well I can think of
two different moments
when I feel that my guitar making
took a turn for the better
the first one would be when I got in
touch with professional guitar makers
first, I tried to learn on my own and
I felt like I was trying to learn a
language within studying a dictionary
and then I met some guitar makers in
Granada and especially met Antonio
Marín and Jose Marín
and when I started visiting them and
seeing them work and they explained to
me the fundamentals of guitar making in
Granada everything took a … yeah it was
like learning a language and traveling to the
country and living in the country and
spending time there and then
you realize how much you didn’t know and
how much you were doing wrong.
And then the second moment when I think
I took another turn for the better was when I
started measuring more
and more things about the tops that
I use. Up until that moment I looked at the top
and I flexed it and I thicknessed it and
flexed it again with my hands, and tried
to feel it, tap it and then I started
measuring measuring flexibilities
densities frequencies … And I’m not
letting that part guide me on which stop
I am using but I’m trying to complement
what I thought a good top was with
actual facts and actual measurements
about that top. And that has been very
interesting
JOSE VIGIL CLASSICAL GUITAR IS CHOOSING WOOD FOR HIS NEXT MADERA GUITAR AT HIS WORKSHOP. PHOTO TAKEN WITH A LEICA M6 AND LOMOGRAPHY 400 FILM. ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY.
