8-string Flamenco Blanca Guitar / Livio Gianola
Specially made for the Italian Flamenco Guitar Player Mr. Livio Gianola.
Plantilla, Template: Ignacio Fleta.
String length: 64,8 cm.
Total length of flamenco guitar: 101,5 cm.
Soundboard: Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata).
Golpeador, pick-guard: Clear Mylar, but now iw a white colour.
Bridge: Wenge (Millettia Laurentii).
Bridge saddle: bone, compensated, to get a better intonation.
String clearance 1st to 8th at saddle: 80 mm.
Back and sides: Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens).
Sound box measurements, long: 49,3 cm.
Upper bout 28,4 cm.
Waist: 23,6 cm.
Lower bout. 35,9 cm.
Sides height: 99 / 108 mm.
Soundhole: 88 mm.
Bindings: Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia Latifolia).
Neck: Laminated with Honduras Mahogany and Samba, with two truss-rod accessible from the soundhole to maintain their relief and the action of the strings over the frets.
Thickness (included fretboard), 1st fret 17 mm.; 11th fret: 18 mm.
Headstock, peghead: Veneered with Ebony (Diospyros ebenum).
Width of fingerboard at nut: 67 mm., at 12th fret: 81 mm.
Nut: Bone. Distance 1st to 8th string: 59 mm.
Frets: 21, nickel, tall, wide, hard.
Finishing: Shellac by hand.
Plantilla, Template: Ignacio Fleta.
String length: 64,8 cm.
Total length of flamenco guitar: 101,5 cm.
Soundboard: Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata).
Golpeador, pick-guard: Clear Mylar, but now iw a white colour.
Bridge: Wenge (Millettia Laurentii).
Bridge saddle: bone, compensated, to get a better intonation.
String clearance 1st to 8th at saddle: 80 mm.
Back and sides: Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens).
Sound box measurements, long: 49,3 cm.
Upper bout 28,4 cm.
Waist: 23,6 cm.
Lower bout. 35,9 cm.
Sides height: 99 / 108 mm.
Soundhole: 88 mm.
Bindings: Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia Latifolia).
Neck: Laminated with Honduras Mahogany and Samba, with two truss-rod accessible from the soundhole to maintain their relief and the action of the strings over the frets.
Thickness (included fretboard), 1st fret 17 mm.; 11th fret: 18 mm.
Headstock, peghead: Veneered with Ebony (Diospyros ebenum).
Width of fingerboard at nut: 67 mm., at 12th fret: 81 mm.
Nut: Bone. Distance 1st to 8th string: 59 mm.
Frets: 21, nickel, tall, wide, hard.
Finishing: Shellac by hand.
You can see Livio Gianola performing his music (in this Custom flamenco guitar), Sevillanas, Bamberas, Zapateado, Fandago, Tarantas, Guajiras in this video:
https://soundcloud.com/live-in-europe/livio-gianola-02-temple-del-amstel
8-string Negra Flamenco guitar, scale 650 mm., Western RedCedar and Indian Rosewood.
Rodolfo Cucculelli, luthier.
