estebanana -> RE: The challenge issued by my school teacher (Mar. 4 2011 1:51:31)
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The final product should have a thickness of 20mm according to my plans so with the veneer on it will be 19mm, or I can just not plane the veneer and I can still have a 20mm thick headstock. What do you guys think? F8ck the motherf8cking plan. Here's the deal, the head stock has to be thick enough to make your tuners work. Period. Measure your tuners plate width and plan your headstock so the plate does not stand proud of the headstock. Spanish guitars are made to fit the hardware fitted on them, if your head stock blank is too thin you're going to have to make it up by making your headstock veneer slightly thicker to get your tuner plates to fit. Measure your headstock a get out your tuners and do some thinking and figuring. Also if you choose to make head stocks with pegs you can get away with thinner head stocks. If you ever blow headstock meant for tuners save it for a peg head guitar. I shoot for 7/8" thick for tuners and as thin as 5/8" thick for pegs. ( depending on if I'm trying to make it an older style model) These measurements are proved out on many old Spanish guitars. I use inches because older Spanish work used to be done in inches and when it's translated to metric sizes it just feels really random to me. Although now I mix metric with inches when I work. Plans are good to a certain extent, but you have to think about what you actually have in terms of hardware, scale length, etc. and make your moves according to what is real. Just my opinion.
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