really inventive Chris, this contraption you created to keep pressure applied. brilliant.Go-bar deck built and bridge plate glued and clamped. (Did a little more work on the sound hole reinforcement, too.)
It’s actually old school technology, quite common in the luthiery world. Although the kids today tend to use fiberglass rods. But, I got wood scraps galore, so I went with walnut.
I was confused on Don's first build, when he kept saying "Go-bars" and I said, "But they're really stay bars, they don't go." He just looked at me weird.....
I would have heard, Let’s GO to BARS.I was confused on Don's first build, when he kept saying "Go-bars" and I said, "But they're really stay bars, they don't go." He just looked at me weird.....
Making purfling? My word, how thin do you have to cut the strips? Do they have a tendency to break? What do you use to adhere the strips to each other?Making up some custom laminated bindings out of some lovely quartersawn pau ferro and some w-b purfling, step-by-step (bottoms to top). The prefab stuff has gotten way expensive for what it is, and this way you get exactly what you want for less.
To clarify, the purfling (the very thin white/black strip) is not homemade. I just laminated it to some pau ferro to make the binding. After glueing with Titebond (original), I used my drum sander to bring it down to 1.8mm.
Yes, one of the many variants of a fan brace. Probably 5 times as many different fan brace patterns over the years as x-brace patterns.Chris, this is what they call a fan brace, yeah? This is so fun!! Thanks for the journey!!
Usually you start with the bracing pattern of a builder you admire whose sound speaks to you. So, in the case of my classical, I started with Robert Bouchet’s pattern (or at least one of them; like most builders they will evolve over their career). Then I combined that with the ideas of Jeffrey Elliot, whose innovations made a lot of sense to me.
Yes, not strong enough. The tension of nylon strings is far less than steel strings, and since they are play solely with fingernails, the bracing is far lighter to allow for maximal transmission of vibrations and maximal touch. A steel string exerts far more force and the driving force is much higher, allowing for a beefier bracing to counteract the tension (and delay the guitar folding in on itself) and capable of dealing with the greater driving force.
