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LiquidGabe
 Post subject: Herringbone plans
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:22 am 
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I've just received the Herringbone dread plans from LMI (same as StewMac). It was my understanding that the plan was based on a pre-war dread. Also my understanding that the pre-war guitars had "forward shifted" bracing. StewMac recently had an article in their trade secrets on forward shifting the braces in their plans.

http://www.stewmac.com/tradesecrets/promo/ts0051_xbraces

So what do I have with these plans? Something in between?

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 Post subject: Re: Herringbone plans
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Gabriel,

Stew-Mac is always responsive to emails. Friendly, too. Try 'em and let us know.

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 Post subject: Re: Herringbone plans
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:19 pm 
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Here is the response I got from StewMac:

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Thank you for contacting us. It's design is based on the C.F. Martin HD28, but not from any particular era. It does not have forward bracing, although we have a Trade Secrets Newsletter about making that change if you are interested.


I thought that the HD28 was supposed to be a modern version of the pre-war guitars, is it just the scalloped braces, but not in the original location?

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LiquidGabe
 Post subject: Re: Herringbone plans
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Thanks for clearing that up Todd. I think I'll start as drawn....

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Jody
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right Martin stopped using the forward shifted bracing in the 1940's due to the increased warrantee issues with the popularity of heavier guage strings, in other words if you use forward bracing and heavier ( what we call medium ) guaged strings expect warrantee issues ! Jody
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