Shawn Brock -> LMI guitar templates? (Jul. 9 2012 0:44:59)
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After my last thread I'm reluctant to bring this up... But after all its a free world right? Do any of you builders have thoughts on the acrylic guitar templates sold by LMI? I know that most everyone is past that stage in your building where you would want to use such a thing, but I'm gearing up for my first and find these templates entreating. Apparently they have cutouts for the braces, bridge and so on. Yes, yes, I know that you don't place the braces in the same places all of the time and you don't make the braces the same height and width all of the time. Everything rides on the stiffness of the wood your working with as I understand it. These templates offer an option though, if its good or bad is the question. This is a project which I wish to start up in a few months and I'm in the stage of gathering materials. My plan is to build a blanca and see if its playable. After that I might try my hand at a negra. If nothing else this will give me a great appreciation of how things are done, and I'll have something I can hang on the wall and laugh about. It seems that everyone should do the first build on a plan, and that's how I want to go with it. If I get one of these acrylic templates my options will be few. All they seem to have are classical templates. No Reyes template to go with the Reyes plan... I had thought of going with a serviced kit my first time through, but I don't like the fact that the serviced fingerboards are 650 and they don't have any other options. So if I go on the dreaded Reyes plan I will have to do all of the fingerboard servicing myself. I haven't looked through the Barbero plan to see what scale its built on or even if it would matter... Ether way this is a lot of money to put out just to have fun cussing at myself in the garage... :)
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