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mmmenk
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RE: Unusual bracing... (in reply to DaveyS)
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Dark art indeed. We need to keep our trade secrets. What do you the think the old guild system was all about? Well not so much about keeping secrets, more like insuring that the craft prospered and the apprentices came up in the proper environment. Here is an answer to your post: It is an art, most artisans are creative and have ideas that they wish to try. The bracing is a very visual thing, but also sensual in every way. The way that you arrange the design, choose the materials, for strength, flexibility, resonace, and how you fasten the ensemble. Tension, no tension, light tension, angle, or bend the brace, how to carve it and voice the response. Rather complex. Like a true artist, the final result and goal must be in your spirit and you connect with the material, make it come alive.
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Date Jan. 23 2016 1:25:21
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mmenk
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RE: Unusual bracing... (in reply to Escribano)
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Thanks for the help. I tried to reduce pixel size with a photo manipulation program, and was a bit surprised at what happened on the listing. Impossible to understand the original photo upload, surprised that it went thru. As a result of this snafu, it seems like you made some corrections to the up-loader. Did you set the list default software to automatically shrink incoming images? At any rate, the idea is to show that lots of design ideas are successful This design was a variation by the Selmer company on a design by Mario Maccaferri. They did plenty of experimental models and some of the most interesting work during their run with this line of guitars. They did some nylon/gut string variations, with various sound hole shapes, internal resonator structure, cranked tops(induced arch structure), both fixed and floating bridge systems and much more. The bodies were designed to be laminated construction. Many materials, string scales, and rosette and details are available on these styles, and they are still evolving, and perhaps more popular than ever before. Just hard for me to get my hands inside the small oval sound hole to do repairs and adjustments, so I have invented tools to help with those jobs.
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Date Jan. 24 2016 23:59:19
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mmmenk
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RE: Unusual bracing... (in reply to Escribano)
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ok, I am not going to post the images, just try to describe some of the designs that I have seen, and have worked on. There is a fellow who is trying every variation that he can envision, and some of them work. He is doing radial patterns, cross patterns, octagons, helicals, fractels, you name it. Do they work? sure. once you get the strings on there, they will make a sound. How do they respond, depends on how hard you hit them. What about the tone and response and the voicing? well, that is what takes a bit of time to adjust and perfect.
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Date Feb. 5 2016 7:48:19
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