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All good comments above. Since I was one of the people who suggested considering a kit, I'll add my two cents. And because I don't know anything about your experience, abilities, shop or goals, I'll tell you mine and you can extrapolate to yours. I'm an intermediate player, own several very nice gui...

Thanks Freeman for all the info. You've been very helpful. I'll take a look at it all in detail tonight. I had already come across the Baritone Acoustic kit you included a link to. The idea of easing myself in to building guitars by starting with a kit does have it's appeal but I wonder what value ...

If you decide that you want to do a kit, there are a couple of options. Here is an 8 string bari (kind of like the Taylor I think) http://www.waldronmusic.com/product_info.php?products_id=1128 Waldron also sells some bari parts and some patterns for bracing different scale lengths - you might see if...

I found the article that I was thinking about re: the baritone with the JLD. Unfortunately, no full sized plans but lots of good information about designing a baritone - for example, exactly what scale length should you use. Also, unfortunately, it is out of print and not available as a download. I ...

There are several plan sets available on the internet for baritone guitars (I have built none of them). Here is one http://www.cadguitarplans.com/blueprints/guitar-plans/acoustic-guitars/baritone-guitar-martin-style-acoustic and somewhere I remember seeing one that used the JDL Bridge Doctor as part...

1 - fill the saddle slot and route a new one (the StewMac Dremel jig makes that fairly easy) or replace bridge. If the pin holes are angled you might need to plug them and redrill. Make a new saddle. Deal with neck angle at this time if necessary. 2- make a new nut 3- optional - add a lefty pick gua...

Yair, I don't want to hijack Xavier's wonderful thread on his lap style tricone but I was the one that sent him the AutoCAD drawing that he used. I did not make the drawing, it was in the public domain, but I have it both in dwg and pdf format and I feel that it can be distributed without copy issue...

Wow, Xavier, that sounds as good as it looks. I particularly like the way the Weissenborn style neck fit onto that body - it just looks "right". The wood body seems to mellow the bite of the cones but it also seems to have a sharper attack than a spider bridge - its a great combination. Mo...

My Weissenborn clones fit perfectly in the Goldtone case. http://www.goldtone.com/products/details/w/instrument/369/HDW-Weissenborn I have also had good luck with Cedar Creek cases for unusual sized instruments - they are very expensive and slow delivery, but have always fit perfectly when working f...

The Grellier L-00 plans show "filet plastique, b/n/b ep. 3mm". The three rings look to be the same thickness on the drawing. I assmue that mean that the entire rosette is 3mm, that would be 0.040 for each ring. Not sure how this relates to an L-0 or any other guitar from that era.

Here is, from left to right, a standard Martin short scale dread, my short scale OM 12 and my very long scale ladder braced 000. The OM is my go to finger picker, the ladder braced one my slide and blue axe. The Martin sits in the closet. http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f387/Freeman_Keller/IMG_202...

OK, here are some measurements taken from my two factory built resonators. The are quick measurements so they might vary by +/- 1/16 http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f387/Freeman_Keller/Resonators/Dobros1.jpg 1932 Dobro type 27. This was their cheapest model (sold for $27 new) - birch plywood body,...

keith ambridge wrote:Howard,
when I get back home after the holidays I will post the dimensions that I either guestimated or got from elsewhere to go with the StewMac article.

Keith.

And I'll do the same for my tricone and the other ones.

Freeman

Howard, as you probably know, there are three basic resonator configuration and they are quite different in construction. The one in the StewMac link is a biscuit bridge - they are most often made of metal but can also be wood. The 9 inch cone sits in a little well that suspends from the top by one ...

StewMac's very handy fret position calculator also lets you input the type of bridge that you will be using and it tells you exactly where to locate it. I don't remember the details, but here it is

http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Frettin ... tcalc.html

In Dan Erlewine's book on guitar finishing (available at StewMac) he has a chart of all the different possible colors that you can make by mixing two of their Colortone stains. It looks like their blue and cherry might give the color you are looking for. Like the others, I have had good luck with th...

I hated the neck on one of my guitars and finally bit the bullet and recontoured it. Ironically, I used the 12th fret template from the Lester for the first fret (its a 12 string and has a wide neck)

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/sho ... -my-guitar#

Bill, I recently built a LP from StewMac's 59 burst plans and pretty much followed their neck profile (I made templates from the plans). They call for 0.896 at the first fret and 0.982 at the 11th (the heel is starting to form at the 12th) - those measurements include the fretboard. I don't have a w...

Looks darn good to me - would love to see a few more pictures, including any of the bracing. Scale length, materials, finish, how are you stringing and tuning it? I think you can be very proud.

Justin, you might want to consider getting all of your other routing (pickups, electronic cavity) done before you spend money having it setup - you'll just take it back apart anyway. As long as you think the neck angle is OK and everything is in the correct location. Also, as I mentioned before, the...