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Yo Grant,
grey matter tells me that we had dis conversation way back from when me no remember stuffs too well no more...
so ...
would yo please be so kind as to post a pic of this top fully braced.

thank you
the ?adma

the Padma wrote:Yo Grant,
grey matter tells me that we had dis conversation way back from when me no remember stuffs too well no more...
so ...
would yo please be so kind as to post a pic of this top fully braced.

thank you
the ?adma

Will do. I will post before and after carving. Be a couple of days.

G

Grant, this is a real treat of a build thread. I particularly like the second set of cocobolo, can't use it myself due to allergy, one deep regret. The bark rosettes, as others have said, look superb, I like the way that the 'figure' in the bark is angled with respect to the top grain, a particular bee in my own bonnet. I don't much like it when it's with or normal to the grain. I've restored a couple of guitars with bar frets, but never made one from scratch, so I await the fretting with interest.

Thanks for posting this.

Colin

Colin sighting!

It does me heart good!



Urb

Have been busy the past couple of days sorting, photographing, and packing wood, but have squeezed in a bit of progress

Gluing the curved laminated braces

This time I carved them to shape before gluing....waaayy easier

And 3 layers of the 5 laminations of the main braces

The braces around the soundhole are not laminated and will be glued last.

Thanks for looking

G

Thanks for the background info, Grant. It appears that the first lamination of the braces that cross over the bridge plate is the same thickness as the bridge plate. Is that correct? The result would be the second layer is glued to the bridge plate?

Edit: Ok, I just went back to your bracing explanation in the "Design 101" section of the forum and will stop asking questions you've already answered there and simply enjoy this thread and patiently wait to see these guitars and play them at Stringfest.

Fred Blom wrote:Thanks for the background info, Grant. It appears that the first lamination of the braces that cross over the bridge plate is the same thickness as the bridge plate. Is that correct? The result would be the second layer is glued to the bridge plate?

Yessir

As promised, here is the final bracing....completed. (as Fred mentioned, this may all be in the Design 101 section, so consider this a recap)

First, here are all of the laminated braces with the 5 layers glued up

Everything looks kinda messy at this point with the glue on the sides

Next step is to plane to height

No scallops, just an even curve. I have done this enough times that I pretty much know what is needed

Then I carve the cross section, mostly with small planes with a bit of cleanup with a chisel. Here is one done


And the rest of them


Now I add the braces in the upper part

These are solid, not laminated. This completes the bracing. Just a bit of cleanup fine sanding to do

Another view


This shows how the laminations interlap at a brace junction


So, you might be wondering about the space under the brace that goes over the bridge plate


Well, it is so I can add a B-Band


Thanks for looking and ask questions or comment.

G