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Old 06-11-2019, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by RJVB View Post
I didn't occur to you to check how the instrument sounded with nylon strings, before selling it? If I understand the design correctly the top must have been braced pretty lightly because it didn't have to carry all the tension a steel-string acoustic guitar top usually has to carry.
You know I never tried it. Might have worked with this design. Still a nylon set of strings usually has under 100 lbs of pull, most steel string sets are 150ish. Something like that. So I doubt they would have the horsepower to move that top.

TK
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