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Originally Posted by Marcus Wong
That's a cool experiment! Tony Yamamoto did a similar experiment but with exchangeable tops instead.
How are you keeping the way you brace the backs "constant"? Maybe another point of experimentation could be using the same back/sides of similar properties (ideally sister sets) but bracing them differently  |
Thank you, Marcus.
I tested the deflection of the backs and worked them to the same stiffness, then I routed the profile on the braces and I made some templates for the scalloping. This is probably not the same crossgrain stiffness at the end, but it would be the same procedure than I would do on a "real" back.
When I built the jig my first idea was to voice the top on the jig with strings on and then build the guitar. I tried it on one guitar and wrote my last theoretical thesis about this but it is not the same sound on the jig than on the real guitar.