Does any OLF member have any experience with steam bent or laminated and bent braces?
Any thoughts welcome.
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Thanks ,Brett
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| Author: | Brett L Faust [ Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:20 pm ] |
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Does any OLF member have any experience with steam bent or laminated and bent braces? Any thoughts welcome. Thanks ,Brett |
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| Author: | K.O. [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bent or laminated braces |
 Any examples? I guess you could think of bent linings as bracing? |
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| Author: | wbergman [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:04 am ] |
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Didn't Hauser bend the brace next to the sound hole??? |
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| Author: | Dave Higham [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bent or laminated braces |
I'm sure Mark Swanson has used laminated braces, building up the laminations in situ with the back (or front) in the radius dish. I assume that this is what you mean: instead of cutting the brace to a curve to match front or back radius, laminating or bending it to match that curve. |
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| Author: | Brett L Faust [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bent or laminated braces |
Actually ,what I meant was a bend like an s or u or any kind of squiggle. Not an arc to conform to a radiused top ,but curved sections instead of many small straight sections. More a curve to make the braces in fewer pieces with taller and/or wider sections to voice the top. Thanks for the input. 
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| Author: | LPMc [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:28 pm ] |
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Gary Southwell is a classic maker who uses bent bracing on his modern classic guitars http://www.southwellguitars.co.uk/aseri ... ruct.shtml |
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| Author: | Greg [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:30 pm ] |
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I now see this is not what you mean. This is a laminated bracing which conforms to the radius produced by the radius work dish. |
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| Author: | Kim [ Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:09 am ] |
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Don't know if he will tune in, but Grant Goltz has a very interesting bracing system in his steel strings. He has this semi circular laminated brace which sweeps around the rear of a unique bridge plate which links a series of fingers together to drive the top like a diaphragm, very clever stuff and worth a search either here or over at luthiersforum.com. Cheers Kim |
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| Author: | Kim [ Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bent or laminated braces |
Here ya go: http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10102&t=4278&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=0 |
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| Author: | jhowell [ Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bent or laminated braces |
Kim-- Thanks for the link to the old post with Grant. It was before my time here and I've foiund it facinating. Dennis-- How did your bracing experiment pan out? Are you using it, a variation on Grant's or back to a variation of the Martin 'X'? |
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