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Side sound port addition... Pictures?
I am considering adding a side sound port to a guitar. I have seen the "fitness method" (named for AGF member fitness1) mentioned in many threads on here, but never in any detail. Has anyone here ever photographed the process adding a side sound port? Or if not, could someone provide a set of detailed instructions for how you added your port? Thanks!
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Here is one I did a some time ago. Don't know fitness or his method but this is how I do it.
http://howardguitars.blogspot.com/20...ic-guitar.html |
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Here's the description from fitness on his old thread:
I've got this 10" long, 3/4" diameter steel rod that is an accessory for one of my fitness machines. I wrapped it and taped it with fine grade sandpaper, taped off the side of the upper bout (leaving a "slot" open as a guide for where I wanted the port so it was perfectly centered) and started sanding, using the bar the long way. Because of the arc of the upper bout, it would leave a perfect, oblong port (which is what I had in mind all along....reasoning that long and narrow, top to bottom, would disperse sound to both ears more than a more round port. I waited until I got through the wood, checking every so often to make sure I was still "straight" and hadn't gone off line, then I used an Xacto knife to get some more of the rosewood removed and started using needle files and sandpaper to get it the rest of the way. By doing it this way, it left a perfect oval in the finish and I just used that as a place to sand and file to.
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Jeremiah Current Guitars: 1986 Petros Spruce/Rosewood Dread (for sale) 2000 Taylor XXV-DR 1997 Taylor 514c My photography website |
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I did these not too long ago.
I traced the pattern onto the guitar and used a dremel to cut it out and files and sandpaper to finish it off. Last edited by Fret-O'File; 10-16-2015 at 10:44 AM. |