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estebanana
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RE: some luthery (in reply to estebanana)
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Peter, In the first photo you can see the strap moving off to the right and diminishing. The the strap is cut and the fans are set between the sections very tightly. I would have taken a picture of the braces, but the instrument has a huge white tap plate on it. If I get it back for A day of documentation I'll be ready with a different camera and I'll trace the brace layout. Otherwise it's pretty much the "Reyes" style, that Reyes probably did not invent. I think this goes back to Barbero, but I'm no expert because have not seen enough of them in person. If you know, for a reference we all have, that Barbero that R.E. Brune' drew and published in the Guild of American Luthiers this guitar looks like a direct descendant of that one. The fan layout, almost identical. And the ends of the transverse braces are the same height where they hit the ribs, etc. Many many things to see here. It's refreshing to get back to a primary source guitar which is this old and be able to study it. It's Archangel #160-something from 1963. One more detail on the fans, they were rounded over on the ends not scooped and tapered. On the rosette end the fans started to taper about 3/4" from end of the fan and then to about half the height of the fan. Then an abrupt round over. So instead of a scoop on the end they rounded over more like an airfoil shape. Same thing on the other end, but the taper started about 2" for the end of the brace. The rest of the brace was rounded over from a blank about a 1/4" square. There are five of them. They end somewhat short of the tail like the GAL Barbero, they are kept quite in inboard of the ends of the bridge are splayed out a bit. I think the round over is different from the Barbero. You can see the taper treatment on the cut off fans quite well. Apologies for the bad pics.
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