[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: Early flamenco guitars

2015-04-11 Thread David Van Edwards
I know nothing about guitars but from lutemaking experence it is perfectly possible to glue the thin piece of rosewood onto an unvarnished spruce top and then to remove it again without any damage at all to the spruce..so long as you use hide glue. Which of course would have been the

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: Early flamenco guitars

2015-04-11 Thread William Samson
at 11:37 Subject:[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: Early flamenco guitars I know nothing about guitars but from lutemaking experence it is perfectly possible to glue the thin piece of rosewood onto an unvarnished spruce top and then to remove it again without any damage at all to the spruce

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: Early flamenco guitars

2015-04-09 Thread Richard Lees
hello all a flamenco question OLE... It so happens that as some of you know, I lived in Spain for years and knew personally some of the most historically significant builders of classical and flamenco guitars of the 20th c. Arcangel Fernandez, Marcelino Lopez Nieto, Manolo