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One in redwood, it tested off the charts in dampening, it is not very stiff but also very light. I wouldn't have tried it with @MichaelHorowitz 's recommendation. I'm going to put it on a Koa guitar I'm making for myself so I hope it work ;)
That's a lot of work right there!!!
yeah making these rosettes kind of freaks me out as good tops are precious. I get stressed I'm going to ruin one. So once I'm tooled up it seems to make sense to do a few.
But the issue is that then it's months and months till I do it again and I have to remind myself how to do it. Either way I'm stressed.
Why don't you video the process?
Because I have glue all over my hands, more or less. I need a lackey.
Or an elf.
An elf would be cool and if it wasn't human I think I wouldn't have to pay them. Not sure what the labor laws are for elves in Maine.
I'll have my people get back to your people.
Current experiment...a carbon fiber bridge plate between the ladder brace and "foot" braces. I'm intolerant of any amount of arch deformation in the tops, even though it seems present in a lot of guitars. My idea is putting a lot of stiffness right under the bridge and pushing the force out further where it can be more diffuse.
It's about 5.9G of extra mass, which isn't nothing. But it's going on the redwood top, which is much lighter than spruce. We will see. I'd love it if it worked, I think it makes sense. The last experimental guitar I made was a super flop (a flamenco) but I learned a shitload in the flopping.
Onward and upward. Or sideways, or potentially, backwards.
The bridge plate is 1mm of spruce with a layer of 3k Carbon Fiber laminated to each side. Based on Trevor Gore's bridge plate. I wanted to replace the little foot braces entirely but didn't have the ballz. Maybe in the future.
I laminated the CF in my hot rodded food saver vacuum which is like my fav tool.
That violin scroll is a super top secret scan of a strad I managed to get. I 3d printed it. It's cool.
Yeah my guitar has quite the beer belly without strings but with the strings and tuned up, at least half of it is squished. Though it was never an issue. I'll be interested to see how that works out.