{"id":1638,"date":"2022-11-09T18:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=1638"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:58:46","slug":"001-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=1638","title":{"rendered":"001 Classical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Serial Number 001<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First Build\/First Classical<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Started build in May of 2022: completed on October 4, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*edited on February 24, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The construction of 001 and 002 took a long time: 001 taking approximately 5 months and 002 taking approximately 4 months. This is because of many reasons but one of those reasons were because I wanted to get these guitars as good as I can possibly get them. I was over-critiquing my work which made me spend more time on things than I should have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was told by Jeremy (my teacher) that the first two guitars you build are going to be shit. I tried to make that not the case scenario but there is a really big difference in going at it yourself and having somebody there to guide you and fix the mistakes that arises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I eventually gave up on perfecting the two guitars and it helped a lot: I don’t think I would have ever finished either of them had I kept on nit picking everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of staying with blue prints, I am trying to tweak some specs and see\/hear the results. Right now, I am making the body heights different to see how much they change the sound and loudness of the guitar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With 001, I went with a shorter body depth and did a double binding on the soundboard side of the guitar. I like how the extra binding gives the guitar a little more but doesn’t feel like it is over done. I personally don’t think a double binding on the bottom would have looked better but that is subjective<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are species of Rosewood that are more expensive than Indian Rosewood. Brazilian Rosewood prices are high now: it is highly sought after for its tonal qualities and that they are harder to come by – I believe there is a ban on cutting down Brazilian Rosewood trees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indian Rosewood was also used for the bridge a different Rosewood was used for the fingerboard. They aren’t too different in colour but similar enough. Sometimes when I have a bunch of Rosewood pieces together, it could be hard to tell them apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A standard rosette was used – nothing fancy. The soundboard has some bear claw in it but it’s hard to tell in the picture (below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The neck is constructed of 3 pieces of Spanish Cedar and has laminations of Oak between the three pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With being official production guitars, I had ordered branding stamps: the initial idea was that one would be for acoustic guitars and one for kit guitars – which I don’t expect to do a lot of to begin with. Eventually, I gave the customer the choice between the two logos – everybody has their own preference between the two but I am seeing people going with the second logo more now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depending on the wood used for the head plate veneer, some of the silver metallic wax gets into the open grains of the wood as seen below. I know it doesn’t look very professional but I do get some of the logos CNC routed now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The neck had been taken off in December of 2022 and again in February of 2025 for a bit of touch up work. The strings have been changed from D’Addario Classic 27N to D’Addario Pro Arte EJ45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SPECS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Body <\/strong>Classical Ramirez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scale<\/strong> 660mm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top<\/strong> Sitka Spruce<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back<\/strong> Indian Rosewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sides<\/strong> Indian Rosewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neck<\/strong> Spanish Cedar\/Oak veneers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fingerboard<\/strong> Rosewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridge<\/strong> Rosewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuning Machines<\/strong> Mr. Power<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strings<\/strong> D’Addario Pro Arte EJ45 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Serial Number 001 First Build\/First Classical Started build in May of 2022: completed on October 4, 2022 *edited on February 24, 2025 The construction of 001 and 002 took a long time: 001 taking approximately 5 months and 002 taking approximately 4 months. This is because of many reasons but one of those reasons were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1638","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}