Tom Blackshear -> RE: GAL Reyes plan (Feb. 23 2010 6:37:00)
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ORIGINAL: stephen hill In my understanding, Reyes builds his guitars in the traditional way using a solera and mold. To relieve the sides at the position of the upper harmonic bar you would have to change the way you build, (ie not the way Reyes and the southern makers do. ) Its all possible but to use a solera and flat rim to the front gives you a fixed neck angle. The neck angle depends on your doming to the front, and the fitting of the fingerboard from the 12th fret to the soundhole is done by relieving the fingerbord underside taking 1mm or so at the 19th to nothing at the 12th. Reyes doesnt use a particularily high dome hence the neck angle can be as far forward as 2.5mm at the nut giving a more or less flat plane at the neck to body Joint. Anyhow, great plan Tom! I have one as you know. Hi Stephen, good to see your post here. I understand that Reyes uses a solera and the actual 2003 guitar I drew the plan of was lifted about 2.5 mm at the nut. I thought it was a little much but I followed that trend just the same. But I build the straight fret board like Reyes, in that it is totally even thickness from the nut to the 19th fret; no taper from the 12th to 19th, but totally even. To do this I slightly relieve the side edges to compensate not having to concave the bars going across the top. Normally this incorporates lowering the upper bout on its edges, slightly, and tapering up to keep the waist in its original height. If you put a straight edge from the nut to the bottom of the sound hole, the tip of the straight edge will hit the edge of the sound hole about half way down into the top thickness at the lower end of the hole. And as I've already said, I don't dome the top under the bridge but behind it, more than halfway toward to the bottom of the guitar. And the normal string height at the bridge is about 8 mm. This technique, with the built up solid lining, similar to the Miguel Rodriguez classical guitars, lifts the top and rounds it a little at the bottom because of the lininer lift at the bottom, with the wood filler, then the middle fan braces are slightly bent to raise it a bit more but it maintains a flat suface in front of the bridge. I get a lot of power and sound this way; so much so, that it gives me the opportunity to flavor the voicing, as the guitar's volume is being tuned down a bit; this is before it goes out the door. I'm doing this now, on the Miguel Rodriguez (Style) classical models I build.
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