Peter Oberg 2011 Brazilian/Spruce Guitar For Sale Assad Farewell...(SOLD 11/19/11)

[PolloMole]

Sounds beautiful. May I ask which strings you used on this guitar? Brand and tension?

thank you

[sdluthier]

@PolloMole Thanks! The basses are Savarez Corum Cristal normal tension and the trebles are Savarez Alliance high tension.

[650mm]

Looks and sounds beautiful, Peter. My compliments on some very nice playing as well.

[sdluthier]

@650mm Thanks JW, it's great to hear from you! Happy New Year!

[KarloPero]

The high notes on this guitar are incredible! One may have to refine one's touch in order to master its stunning reverberation. I suspected, for years, that a single-hole guitar cannot really do justice to both the high and low notes at once.Thus the positionning, dimension and bracing of the single hole is a compromise between the two. I am impressed by your approach.

*** One possible area for future $ investigation: Heat treatment of the raw spruce to alter the specs of its hard fibers.

[sdluthier]

@KarloPero The secret to this design is the 'moustache' treatment of the end of the fingerboard. It opens up the soundhole just the right amount to mitigate any detrimental coupling of frequencies, and reinforce the high trebles. Just kidding....never really gave much thought to the bracing of the soundhole. Thanks for your comment.

[tim0824]

I generally don't like videos 'touting' the sound of "x" guitar, as many of them are recorded on simple cameras or cell phones, and the audio is very compressed, digitized, and, frankly, downright bad. That, sir, is a BEAUTIFUL guitar. Both in build and sound...

I'm in the process now of building my first steel string acoustic. I can only hope some day maybe 50-60 builds down the road, I'll be able to pull of something 1/2 that nice...

[sdluthier]

@tim0824 Thank you for the kind comments! I know exactly what you mean about recorded and compressed audio, and on the other side is the overly mixed and edited variety.

I'm sure you will build a fine instrument before you've built 50-as long as your design is sound and your execution coherent, you'll be fine. Best of luck to you.