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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 9492562, member: 20148&quot;]Yes, top class instruments are expensive aren&#039;t they, but of course well worth it, if you have it!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /> Which unfortunately I don&#039;t either !..........<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I&#039;d like a Manual Reyes or a Gerundino Fernandez guitar, both makers now sadly gone, and a guitar by either of them is probably in the $8-10k range.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the &#039;repair&#039;, if it indeed is a repair, or original as you suggest may be the case. I have never seen a guitar made this way, and these little blocks would give very little support to the long thin join along the back. It is certainly an oddity. Even as a repair, one would have thought that a thin solid wooden strip would have been preferable?</p><p><br /></p><p>The man who owned the Huipe guitar had some issues with his usual guitar, a 1966 José Ramirez&nbsp; guitar, so as he was living in LA at the time, he was told about a luthier in Paracho, Mexico who was very good. So he paid him a visit and saw some of his work. Repairing the Ramirez would be no problem, but he said that he could also make him a similar guitar, and as the price was very good, he was given the go-ahead. The result was that the Ramirez was beautifully repaired with those delicate little blocks inside, and the beautiful Huipe guitar was delivered. The workmanship was beautiful, and the sound and action of the Huipe guitar exquisite, one of the finest I have ever played. The little blocks on the repair to the Ramirez were not as large as those shown on the guitar here, but as they were &#039;stitching&#039; a crack together, they didn&#039;t need to be, and with a flamenco guitar as opposed to a classical guitar, the woods need to be thin and kept to a minimum to achieve that sharp, crisp sound, so important to flamenco.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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