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Originally Posted by VJP5
Being relatively new to guitar play and certainly ignorant of construction, why did you pick that bracing pattern? Are nylon guitars braced differently then steel strung ones? I was recently at a Martin show where they talked at length about their trademark "X" pattern and the reasons for it.
Just curious
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This is one of the variations of the most popular bracing pattern for nylon stringed guitars. Yes, nylon guitars are braced very differently from Steelstring ones. Even Martin Steelstring Guitars were braced with fan bracing before they came up with the x-bracing. They support the much higher string tension of a steel string guitar.
Here you see the most popular bracing patterns for classical nylon stringed guitars, used by some of the greats:
