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Originally Posted by enalnitram
you must realize how lucky you are. amazing! please keep posting pics of progress. looks very nice.
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Thank you. I, too, am pleased with it so far.
Yes, I feel very fortunate to find a luthier like Larry who is both local and interested in teaching luthierie. I lucked into a very good situation with a guy who could not be more patient.
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sooooo, popsicle brace, yes or no?
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And the answer is....
*Drum Roll*
No! Larry views it as a structural choice. I view it (in my "expert" opinion) as freeing up the top a bit. One of my Collings has no tongue (popsicle) brace (and a darn fine sounding guitar it is), so we looked in there to see what they did to deal with its absence. They have a strip of mahog on the center seam. We went with a strip of Adi as sown below.
Note also we tucked the tone bars and finger braces under the X-brace, capped the X with an Adi cap, and faded to nothing the lower ends of the X-brace. The same was done with the ends of the finger braces (shaving was not complete when this photo was taken). The other ends were brought down to 1/10", which Larry tells me is a Martin standard. Everything above the bridge plate remains flat or convex. Below there is some scalloping action.
