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Guest -> RE: Bracing - Fine Tuning (Mar. 3 2006 7:17:49)
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I took of some height of the braces on my first guitar after I finished it because I found it to be to stiff. Result: Nothing. It did not change. The guitar is with my father, and is playing nicely. It opened up slowly, and is a bit on the stiff side, but it sounds very nice.[:)]
I agree with Aaron that it would be a better idea to build one more. You´ll learn a lot.
Final tuning is something which is very personal. From the intelectual and tecnological attitude (Smirnoff: Luthiers handbook) to the tap tap, now its right feeling. Some only fine tune the soundboard, before assembling and others continue the tuning all the way to the end, like Aaron says. This is I find to be a very good idea, because all guitars react differently to assembly, bridge and fingerboard. .
Remember that you can only remove wood, meaning making the taptone lower. I personally sand the top below the bridge a little bit if I find that the taptone is to high.
On the other hand I want to add, that in my opinion, there´s no "correct" pithch of a guitars taptone. The harmony of all the components, and the harmony within each component is a mch more important factor, like that the differnt tap tones of the soundboard work together.
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