Inside a Greg Smallman Guitar

Look inside a 2001 Greg Smallman and Sons Classical guitar.

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Music

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• Greg
• Smallman
• Classical
• Guitar
• John
• Williams
• David
• Schramm
• Lattice

[Leoji67]

What is the purpose of the CF tow?

[schrammguitars]

@Leoji67 strength and light weight capping of the balsa lattice.

[AbrahamVanHasselhoff]

How does the adjustable neck work? Is it a bolt on or something, similar to a Taylor? Thanks.

[schrammguitars]

@AbrahamVanHasselhoff The neck is held on by string tension. The neck would fall off if you took the strings off, except there is a special retaining bolt that prevents that.

[yohanesniko]

what is the blackish thing on the lattice bracing?

[schrammguitars]

@yohanesniko It is carbon fiber tow.

[matrags]

Could a man live in there?

[schrammguitars]

@treatb09 Listen to Julian Byzantine, Ben Verdery, Gabriel Bianco, Carlos Bonell, Alexandr Tsiboulski, Jacob Cordover, Tim Kain, Xue-fei Yang, and some guy named John Williams.

It doesn't matter what a guitar looks like inside. That won't tell you a thing about how it sounds. You have to play it yourself and listen.

[fourassedmonkey]

@treatb09

These guitars sound fantastic.

Just listen to any John Williams recording since the mid eighties.

He uses them exclusively.

[st91bp7t]

men..is a mess in there... I guess sound is more important then it looks