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El Burdo -> Torres dimensions (Feb. 12 2013 23:10:10)

Came across this from an earlier attempt to build and checked it against my Santos drawing - it doesn't seem to chime at all. Maybe the ratios are relevant in some other way.



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Sean -> RE: Torres dimensions (Feb. 13 2013 5:38:41)

I don't think it is even relevant to Torres.
I'd have to look through the Romanillos book and break out the calculator, but I'm too lazy.



Blair Russell -> RE: Torres dimensions (Feb. 13 2013 9:41:39)

Torres didn't use mathematical ratios for his body shapes. Although he made a few distinctly different sizes, (FE17, FE19, and SE117 good examples), most of his guitar plantillas were similar shape but varied by quite a few millimeters.

In the Romanillos book he mentions another luthier who tried to draw a guitar shape based of some geometric proportions, the outcome was a shape that wasn't too far off of Torres shape. This luthier used Torres's dimensions (scale length and bout widths) for a starting point so his final drawing was a bit biased and ended up quite similiar to Torres's shape.



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