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I saw a parlor guitar advertised based on a 1894 Martin 0 model. I couldn't find anything about it on the Martin site. Anyone know about this animal?

Here's a link to a few specs in the MIMF archives.

http://www.mimf.com/archives/martin_dimensions.htm

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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Thanks Pat, thats very helpful! I got an offer from a friend to get a copy of the plans. I guess its based on a 1920's 0-17.

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Rich Smith
Issaquah, WA

Here's some specs and a tracing pattern plus some pics of bracings.

0-18 specs

Bob

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Bob Connor
Geelong, Australia

Bob now that was downright handy and timely....many thanks sir!

Thanks Bob, I was going to ask you for a tracing of that Ziricote 0-18 you've got on the bench.

Wow, what else do you have on CAD?

That appears to be the 14 fret. If you need a 12 fret ask John over at Blues Creek. He should be able to get you tracings and bracing info for a truely minimal charge. I just ordered the 0, 00 and Norman Blake info from him a few days ago.

That is the 14-fret, that came from a tracing that GD Armstrong sent along to Bruce D and then Bruce sent it along to me to give it the CAD treatment. There are two versions, one is the original size per the tracing, and the other i scaled up slightly to meet Martin's published spec, I think there's about 3/8" difference in body length between the two.

Does anyone know the source on the 1932 and 1933 jpg tracings? One looks like a 12 fret and the other looks like a 14 fret. I might have to put those in CAD, too.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

Hi Jon

I knew that I'd got those .pfs from here but it was a while ago and I couldn't remember from whom it came so thanks heaps.(and to the others who contributed along the way)

Most of the other bracing patterns came from the UMGF forum. There's a great thread over there where people are sticking light sources inside their guitars and taking photos of the bracing patterns. Some of the guys have drawn them up so that's where they came from.

I'm building five O models at present and this is as much info as I could find on the model.

I don't tend to follow plans that closely. If I have a body tracing and a rough idea of the bracing layout I'm a happy man.

Bob

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Bob Connor
Geelong, Australia

I figured UMGF was where I had seen those, that's a great resource. Seems like they were going to do the same deal in another thread with old Gibsons where people would submit bracing photos.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

I've got a basic plan and top brace layout taken off an 1890's O-28. I could make a few copies if someone wants to make a proper plan out of it.

Louis

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- Louis Freilicher

Oh No! Not another learning experience!

Jonathan,
Just out of curiosity, how are you putting these jpegs and pdf's into an auto cad drawing? As a "cad head" I would love to develop a cad library of Guitar plans, thanks to you and Bob for the start. If anyone else would like to take this project on, I would love to help.
Peter LaMorte