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I thought that was where you were heading. So are you wanting to try to build an electric bass with an acoustic flavour to its sound? Airy without the initial long sustain and attack on the notes?

Just to clarify your reason for posting this topic, is this information for your idea of an acoustic bass?

Further to the info I provided on Selmer type guitars, here are some Busato dimensions

As I've pointed out I think you need to carefully evaluate your reasons for wanting to use HHG for laminating. Thanks Martin for your input. Always to be respected.I am still curious, so by the time I have tried a few different methods I will know what works for me.It's possible that Selmer used ca...

Yes Nick. I have used the urea formaldehyde glue in a vacuum bag. I didn't really like it and the Selleys one, which was readily available locally, is off the market now. It's also expensive for the quantity that they sold it in. I find that the epoxy is better, and this time of year I have been usi...

Thanks.That's how I have been vacuum laminating my sides,same kind of thing to hold the bagged veneers onto the mould.I like the use of multiple layers of masonite, which I'll try. But the reason I asked is because I am looking for a good way to laminate without the vacuum bag using HHG, which gells...

artin wrote:

I glued them up with Titebond but used an internal mold with a flexible caul to ensure even clamping

How is the flexible caul constructed? Cheers!Ross

If you end up making a Selmer Petite Bouche from the Charle plans,you will find that the neck angle and arching of the first and second braces is not correct and results in a 5mm action at the 12th fret if you want to keep the bridge height and break angle where they should be. If the bridge height ...

There are several variations among the Selmer Maccaferri style of guitars. The big three as far as afficionados go are the Selmer, the Favino and the Busato. The Busato and the Favino had larger soundboards and produced, usually, a richer bass. The Favinos are often characteristically described as m...

this might help... http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6993&p=77672#p77672 I admit I am not as experienced a builder as some of the guys on this forum, but here is something I have experienced. I made myself a bending iron, using Chinese elements, a temperature controller, a temp sensor-all fro...

felix:Considering the linings and sides can be profiled with a block plane then finished with a sanding stick in under 5 minutes, what's the point of setting up a jig and router? I am guessing that the reason for using the jig in the photos I posted on the Selmeroid designs is due to the pliage and...

Just to expand on this topic a little: I use an iPhone and have a free app on it called "radius calc". There are also online calculators which can be used. An interesting method for profiling the liners using a router and jig is as shown in a photograph on Michael Collin's website (Michael wrote the...

Nice one Robbie! I have one query re your construction here: it appears from the video that your back braces go through the sides and are not checked into the liners short of the sides with a tiny gap to allow for wood movement as some makers do, particularly those who have made repairs to old instr...

I would like to postulate the following speculation. Please note that it is not a judgement or an opinion, it is merely a possibility to be considered... A laminated soundboard and back would not have the kind of sensitivity to changes in moisture content that solid timber plates would have. A lamin...

I made a shipwrights compass a while back, which I threw together in a hurry out of scrap. I soon realised that I had to make a better one with a better pin set up for the ends of the compass to run on and improved centre scribe. This takes time. I have made radius dishes and curves using a non stre...

Steam will swell the timber and raise the moisture content of the wood. Soundboxes need to be assembled with lower moisture content in the timbers than the instrument will be normally played in, within reason. Most makers assemble at 45%RH (relative humidity) which gives around 8% moisture content w...

I glue tantelones (chopped up kerfed lining) on the underside of the back overhang so they're hard against the sides...this keeps everything lined up during glue up. I use super glue to glue the tantelones in. Once back is glued on the tantelones get trimmed off with the back overhang using a route...

The hexagon is one of nature's lowest energy shapes

"lowest energy" -Can you elaborate please?
Ross

So between the bridge and the tail the CF would go between the soundboard and the brace, between the bridge and the neck the CF would cap the braces...a T beam. On an archtop the braces would be capped. I intend to do some testing to see then try a build. Did you deflection test your Selmer? Did you...

Referring to the Gore/Gilet books, I read that with the lattice braced guitars there is a Hex-cartwheel mode of top vibration. Worth a discussion here perhaps? Please chime in. So I googled images of that mode and found this interesting photo of a tortoise shell and some Chladni patterns. There is m...

I speculate that using CF on the tension side of a brace only might have similar properties to a T beam as compared to an I beam. I have heard reports that there is a volume gain to be had by doing this, yet to experiment when I actually get hold of some CF. Jeff, have you used CF on a Selmeroid bui...

Thanks guys...I am wondering about this "tow" business. I came up with the 3k tow idea from one of Jeff's posts where he said he uses it. In "the book", Trevor Gore writes that they "use strands pulled from cloth woven from 198g/1000m yarn". What "tow" is this? How many strands to use top and bottom...

I was wrong...it was actually Harry Potter and the Sporran of Doom!

Hi there Chris...I had a look at your website..I like your cored bracing, your Black Mamaku rosettes! Lovely workmanship! (But I am a little concerned re the bandsaw without the guard fitted!) Well, to take you up on your offer, I would like to know Ken Parkers bracing ideas, and of course more deta...

Easy to find the CF bar, I use it for my necks. But I am looking for thread for brace capping. I have only found ribbon, which is made from strands held together with a flexible epoxy bond. Has anyone used this? If so, how?