Curly Girl

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soundshooter
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Curly Girl

Post by soundshooter » Mon Jul 30, 2018 4:49 am

Curly girl is Honduran mahogany and engelmann Spruce .25.4 scale
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bloodwood fretboard with "hot doged" EVO frets
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hand rubbed burst with French polish shellac finish
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bloodwood binding and wingless bridge
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magnetic armrest is removable
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straight string pull open headstock
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seven strut interlocking radial bracing design to work with wingless Bridge
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shot with armrest removed
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WJ Guitars
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Re: Curly Girl

Post by WJ Guitars » Mon Jul 30, 2018 11:11 am

I like the design character of this guitar with the headstock shape and the rosette. With the bridge arrangement and bracing pattern how does it sound? I like to here a sound track sample.

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Re: Curly Girl

Post by soundshooter » Tue Jul 31, 2018 3:18 am

Here for your consideration a sound file. Curious to here your impressions. sould I continue with this desighn concept or go back to x bracing?
Curly Girl Eclips.mp3
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Re: Curly Girl

Post by WJ Guitars » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:06 am

Well done! Thanks for providing the audio track. The guitar sound is well balanced and has distinct clarity. I would expect that these features would be very helpful for recording and live performance. From my limited sound engineering experience in recording studios your guitar would work very well in this environment to enhance and develop a very workable audio track.

I have only been building with 'X' brace patterns so far and are yet to try other bracing formats. This makes the guitar building journey interesting and exciting with all the variety of timbers when factored together that can create unique musical instruments.

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Wayne

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