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estebanana -> RE: Something you're going to really F-ing hate. (Oct. 28 2016 7:49:27)
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This is why the project came up for me, I'm simply inspired by the photos of the Ribot y Alcaniz and of Llobet himself.
The of the braced top is showing it placed in front of a a guitar I made that is 14-5/16ths wide in the lower bouts. It hangs out a bit, you can see the binding line. The guitar inspired by the R y A is 19" long, but 13-3/8ths wide. And that material is cut out of the lower bouts and basically nowhere else. Essentially a full sized guitar with a narrow lower bout.
When John mentioned double tops I thought about the Dammann concept of giving the lower bouts wide glue blocks which in effect, impinge on the top lower bout width and effectively create a smaller activated top surface. This not a new idea in terms of cutting down top surface area, but Dammann's idea od doing it inside the guitar yet keeping a fuller plantilla is a newer concept....unless you count the guitar inside a guitar style that John also builds and that we have historical models of built by the Ramirez shop when Santos was the foreman.
That is a lot to take in. What I'm getting at is there are a few ways to utilize the idea of reducing the surface area of the top while still maintaining more or less the same amount of air in the box- and the smaller active surface area theoretically the same amount of string energy will activate less top. Hopefully resulting in more output.
So it is an aesthetic venture, but also grounded in a nice guitar energy efficiency concept.
The top is pretty thick, and the braces are pretty beefy. We'll see what my calculations render.
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