Echi -> RE: Specs in a guitar plan (Sep. 28 2017 7:32:27)
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The thing is not difficult in itself, I's difficult to explain it though, even more for me as I don't have enough language skills to do it properly. The point here is the neck ANGLE, which is not drawn in the plan but just mentioned in the specs. As you know the neck/fretboard usually has a slight relief (2.5 mm in this case) to avoid the string buzzing over the frets. In the average Spanish way, you first glue the top flat to the neck (in line). Then you build face down keeping firm the top over a solera which is made allowing for the right neck ANGLE (by planing down the neck ramp accordingly). After having glued the sides to the top with tentelloned you close the box, by gluing the back: the neck angle is now naturally set as the neck cannot move anymore. It’s to be noticed that the cuts on the blank neck for the sides are usually made at 90 degrees, hence you practically end up having bent a little the sides to let the neck tilt forward. The maker ends up planing down the underneath of the fretboard of 1 mm or so from the 12th to the 19th fret to accommodate the NECK ANGLE. The difficulty here is that Reyes doesn't taper down the underneath of fretboard, meaning that he achieve the same result in a different way, either by making a concave upper harmonic bar or by shaping the sides profile to accomodate a slight top depression along with the fretboard. I don't know how Reyes does it so mine it's just speculation. PS: I corrected neck relief with neck angle as suggested by SEden.
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