It’s been too many years since I last read overholtzer’s book to remember the specifics of his top bracing. If I ever owned a copy of his book, I no longer have it. Aside from aluminum jugs and Brazilian rosewood necks, boiled sides to remove the resins from Brazilian rosewood, about the only thing I remember is the thick tops in the upper bout. I hadn’t remembered flat tops or cantilevered bracing.
I’m currently building two classical guitars with dead flat tops. I don’t expect there to be significant differences in sound between them and my usual domed tops: standard domes are very shallow. I’m using the same bracing pattern as the domed tops.
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