After a year and a half of torture, my poca loca flamenco negra finally arrived last month from Larry Breslin's Deerhead Guitars workshop in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I've had a great time playing her in, and she is so very easy to play with! She is light and loud with a sweet sound overall, crisp and bright, but also capable of a very lyrical and dark line when that need comes.
I've included a few photos here; more are available at my website.
http://www.trentonscott.com/deerheadFlamencoNegra.shtml
This is a crazy flamenco by design, 650mm scale with a 51mm nut and a very thin (19mm) neck; the setup is low and fast, very easy to play; the tapa is Engelmann bear claw spruce, french polished with tap plates; the back is Brazilian rosewood; the sides are laminated Brazilian and cypress; the nut and saddle are pre-ban ivory; the bridge is East Indian rosewood with a MOP inlay; the bindings are ebony; the head plate is Brazilian rosewood, featuring very crazy figuration; the bronze machines are Alessi Simplicio with MOP buttons.
I decided against any other decoration, ruled out gold leaf, etc., but I did ask Larry to do something a little extra on the neck, so he inlayed an ebony diamond for me, nothing more...
