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- Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:46 pm
- Forum: Other Stringed Instruments
- Topic: Mandolin - small archtop guitar or completely different?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2911
Re: Mandolin - small archtop guitar or completely different?
Nigel Forster has some pretty pictures of his style of building on his website. DM
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:43 pm
- Forum: Other Stringed Instruments
- Topic: Mandolin - small archtop guitar or completely different?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2911
Re: Mandolin - small archtop guitar or completely different?
Are you aware of Graham McDonald's work: The Mandolin Project?
Good description of his build technique. Once you start reading about mandolins you find there is no standardised way of doing them. I have it on the list to try a flat backed version.
Good Luck Dave M
Good description of his build technique. Once you start reading about mandolins you find there is no standardised way of doing them. I have it on the list to try a flat backed version.
Good Luck Dave M
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:26 am
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: open discussion about binding/purfling fitting
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13717
Re: open discussion about binding/purfling fitting
I have had by far my best results with bending the bindngs + purflings in the side bender along with the sides. One thing that hasn't been talked about much is the vertical bend required with a highly arched back which I use. Also round the sharp cutaway. I always struggled with this, given that aro...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 1:45 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: bending binding
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8223
Re: bending binding
Have to say I remembered to put my (wooden) binding in the bender with my sides on my latest build and got a much better fit than I usually do. I do the waist vertical bend on the pipe afterwards. This is on box with a pretty sharp cutaway curve.
Dave
Dave
- Thu Dec 12, 2019 6:59 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Another renaissance vihuela de mano / viola da mano I've just completed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4303
Re: Another renaissance vihuela de mano / viola da mano I've just completed
Right of course. Dave
- Thu Dec 12, 2019 1:37 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Tap tone on the closed box
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2903
Re: Tap tone on the closed box
Bryan I would think your experience would suggest that you are building with what Trevor G calls a 'live back'. Thus when the box is on the bench the back is deadened so you are not getting that interaction between the top, back and the insides.
Possibly...
Dave M
Possibly...
Dave M
- Thu Dec 12, 2019 1:24 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Another renaissance vihuela de mano / viola da mano I've just completed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4303
Re: Another renaissance vihuela de mano / viola da mano I've just completed
Joe I have just looked at your database of string instruments and it is fascinating. Must take a huge amount of effort, congratulations.
Dave M
Dave M
- Thu Dec 12, 2019 1:13 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Another renaissance vihuela de mano / viola da mano I've just completed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4303
Re: Another renaissance vihuela de mano / viola da mano I've just completed
You must have endless patience cutting those roses.
It would seem a bit disrespectful of the chap in the painting to be using another instrument as a footstool!
Dave M
It would seem a bit disrespectful of the chap in the painting to be using another instrument as a footstool!
Dave M
- Tue May 07, 2019 3:10 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Wrong radius dish for top-15ft What to do
- Replies: 8
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Re: Wrong radius dish for top-15ft What to do
That does mean quite an arch on the top. As Barry says you are going to have to work out the geometry quite carefully. A few things come to mind. In no particular order: If you presize your sides based on a different radius they will likely be the wrong shape. Particularly if it is a cutaway. As you...
- Thu Jul 05, 2018 5:29 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Warped Tops And Fingerboards.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6126
Re: Warped Tops And Fingerboards.
Randy good suggestions. I am lucky enough to have a well sealed workshop. The problem is mainly that due to the grass growing and gardening season I have been taking a break from building, so have not been running the dehumidifier. It then takes some days to dry everything out again. However I am us...
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 4:53 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Warped Tops And Fingerboards.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6126
Re: Warped Tops And Fingerboards.
It's a bit ironic - I am bracing a soundboard, based in the UK, desperately trying to get the RH down below 50%. Doors tightly shut, dehumidifier going full blast, while you are trying to get water back into your boards! I guess this is what makes these international forums so useful; that we get so...
- Mon May 07, 2018 3:51 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Reverse Kerfing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6815
Re: Reverse Kerfing
On another forum I saw that Roy Courtnall does kerfed linings in the usual way then glues a thin strip of timber on to the linings thus making a rather stiffer structure. It looks really neat and tidy. It may also address the OP's concerns with the aesthetics of the faceted look of reversed kerfed l...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:01 pm
- Forum: Jam Session
- Topic: Software for Performers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8025
Re: Software for Performers
Not sure if it is the sort of thing you are after but I find Guitar Pro very good for learning pieces. It provides the tab and the notes and will play the piece back as it is written using a (not great) sound synthesiser. The powerful thing being that you can slow it down and loop small phrases. The...
- Tue Oct 24, 2017 1:01 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Hawaiian guitar bracing question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7132
Re: Hawaiian guitar bracing question
Freeman thanks very much for that. Since this a new area for me this is all useful stuff. I guess my query re spruce was partly prompted by what to my eyes looks like massive bracing compared with ordinary steel strings, and thinking perhaps spruce would be stiffer than Koa hence requiring a bit les...
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 4:46 pm
- Forum: Flat-Top Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Hawaiian guitar bracing question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7132
Re: Hawaiian guitar bracing question
I realise this is an old thread and my question is somewhat off topic but... If I was to build a lap steel to be used acoustically rather than amplified what do people think would be the right way to go about building a guitar with good acoustic volume? We could stay with the Wessie design to narrow...