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Curtis
Aloha
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 Posted - 04/03/2012 : 07:18:38 AM
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Aloha All:
I am lucky enough to have been able to put an order with Dennis Lake for a guitar. (Time to cut out a few non-guitar amenities so as to fund the guitar...)
I'd love to be able to play one if Dennis' guitars so I can get a feel for what he's done with the body and the neck.
I am wondering if there is anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area with one of Dennis' guitars that I could meet up with.
Also, I am particularly interested in the nut width and string spacing. I am contemplating getting a nut width close to 2" with a wider string spacing. Anyone have any experience with a steel string nut width this wide and wide strings spacing? My hands are not particularly big, but I've got a Recording King resophonic that comes close (1.9") and it is really pretty comfortable to play...
Mahalo,
Curtis
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 04/03/2012 : 07:43:18 AM
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I have several guitars with 1-7/8" nuts, and that's about as wide as my (rather large) paws find manageable. Of course, if you don't thumb-wrap, it's not an issue, and I don't do any of that in slack key. (For the record, I can fret the sixth and fifth strings on my 1-7/8" instruments, but on a 2-plus-inch classical I have trouble even with the sixth at the first fret.) But if I were specifying a general-purpose guitar, I'd ask for 1-7/8 or even stay with the common and roomy-enough-for-me 1-3/4".
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noeau
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 04/05/2012 : 8:15:48 PM
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| If you like finger picking and want to avoid buzzing adjacent strings 2 inches is good or 1 and 14/16 :-). Dennis has built Guitars for Keola B. and he likes em wide too. I just got a student who has a Martin 12 with just six strings because he got fat finger tips and with his arrangement he avoids buzzing too. I also prefer a wider neck because I one sloppy player( nah, Keola B was my first teacher and I just opted for a wide neck.) |
No'eau, eia au he mea pa'ani wale nō. |
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Julie H
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 04/08/2012 : 7:10:17 PM
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I assume Dennis knows who in your area might have one of his guitars. Could be you could eyeball it locally?
Julie
PS, I have several of his ukuleles, they're the ones that stay in tune! |
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Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2012 : 7:23:00 PM
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If you like 2" tell Dennis NOW so he set you up. I've his special bracing, finger-pickin, kihoalu instruments (aka, guitar). Noeau is not one sloppy finga-picka and he seems to like this Po Mahina.
Herb
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Dennis Lake Po Mahina Guitars
