Indeed, if only one could get a fair return on time spent. But then again, hobbies are supposed to cost money, not generate it. Mind you, with over a 100 made, gotta be more than a hobbyI love that there's guys out there who keep asking themselves original questions then head out to the workshop to build the answer.
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Eh?Slowy wrote:Shape: None at all.Vince wrote:So what difference does it make to the sound?
So why didn't people make square guitars from the word go? Square violins and cellos and violas and mandolins and whatever else acoustic, too?
When you add up the time spent on each individual instrument, it would have saved several collective centuries of fucking around getting that rounded shape.
Does it really make no diff?
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I'm guessing that it's not so much that shape makes no difference whatsoever and more that the shape of these is not significantly different from normal acoustics as to produce a markedly different sound.
I think the real question is: are they comfortable to play or a bit stabby?
I think the real question is: are they comfortable to play or a bit stabby?
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Vince wrote:Eh?Slowy wrote:Shape: None at all.Vince wrote:So what difference does it make to the sound?
So why didn't people make square guitars from the word go? Square violins and cellos and violas and mandolins and whatever else acoustic, too?
When you add up the time spent on each individual instrument, it would have saved several collective centuries of fucking around getting that rounded shape.
Does it really make no diff?
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None that I noticed. Then again, Tony's guitars have their own character anyway. There are huge differences in the wood combinations, but the angular guitars didn't sound any different to his equivalent curved ones. There's plenty of comparisons to do too; so far, he's built well over 100 instruments.Vince wrote:
Does it really make no diff?
Now if you could get a couple of Martin D28s, one angular, that would be interesting.
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Comfortable. Not stabby at all.twangnsnarl wrote:
I think the real question is: are they comfortable to play or a bit stabby?
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i suppose the sound still bounces around inside the same ways as before. I guess it would be different if it was a completely square or rectangular guitar.Slowy wrote: None that I noticed. Then again, Tony's guitars have their own character anyway.
I'm wondering if you could make a rectangular acoustic but preserve the sound by keeping the interior the same as always.
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I really like the one on the left, and i dont like acoustics or their looks at all generally, so that's something.