Module 3 of 6
The Wood
The tree before the guitar. Quarter-sawing, seasoning, spruce and cedar. Why cypress makes a blanca and rosewood a negra. What a hundred years of playing does to an instrument, and why we do not restore.
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Unit 1
The Tree Before the Guitar
Days 43–46
Slow growth and the stiffness a soundboard needs. Quarter-sawing and why it matters. Seasoning and the years before the bench. Spruce and cedar, two different promises.
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Unit 2
The Body
Days 47–50
Why cypress makes a blanca and rosewood a negra. Neck, fingerboard and bridge, and the Spanish heel that changes what a repair can be. The wood the law now guards.
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Unit 3
What Time Does
Days 51–54
What a century of playing does. Cracks, checks and the truth they tell. Why we conserve and do not restore. The instrument as the record of a craft that wrote almost nothing down.
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