{"id":2102,"date":"2023-01-16T11:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=2102"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:05:10","slug":"007-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=2102","title":{"rendered":"007 Rob Stickland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Serial Number 007<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

3rd Customer Guitar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Started on January 18, 2023: completed on March 28, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*edited on July 18, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guitar is for a co-worker from my last (major) workplace. He is a top notch player and was one of two people that inquired about a custom guitar back even before I took the course. Talks about the guitar specifications and options were on and off but I finally managed to get the details hammered out with the customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A left handed classical guitar. He has left the build specs up to me as he plays on an electric guitar more because it is thinner – and I understand. I am not too fond of thick bodied (acoustic) guitars myself. It is part of the reason why I have been trying different body heights but I think I have figured out the heights I will continue to use for my guitars now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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S\/N 007 has a bear claw Sitka Spruce top and Indian Rosewood back and sides. I decided on an Ebony fingerboard and made an Ebony bridge with Purple Heart for the tie block. I think the Purple Heart gives the tie block a nice accent in colour. I used a traditional rose patterned rosette on this classical. This was the better of the three rose patterns that I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I tried something a little different with the head stock shape. I don’t feel that it is bad. I really need to sit down and design a custom head stock shapes and bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the neck, I did a double lamination – one Wenge and one Purple Heart strip. I have seen some electric guitars that have double or even triple strips through the neck, so why not give it a try?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This will also be the first Classical guitar that I will install a truss rod into. I know it is not uncommon for Classical guitars to have them now and they would be considered as “modern Classical guitars”. I know that a truss rod has a lot of advantages to not having one in there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I did have to fix a couple of things on the neck. One of them being that the neck was off to one side making the high E string having a further distance to the edge of the fingerboard than the low E string. The second was a rough spot on the heel of the neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Body <\/strong>Classical Ramirez, left handed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Top <\/strong>bear claw 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\/Wenge and Purple Heart strips<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Tuning Machines<\/strong> Gotoh 1800s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strings<\/strong> D’Addario Pro-Arte hard tension<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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