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But that does esplain what happens when you drive too fast in rainy weather. It's that hyperplaning that makes the car start to rotate around its centroid.

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I just finally read the Martin specs and voila! All is revealed!   The answer is...."Unique Top Bracing Pattern"!

A couple of things...the small sound hole is going to drop the Helmholz, and forward shifting the braces like that and having so little bridge directly over braces is going to make this a boomer.   It looks to me as though Norman wants to get the rumble of his old 12 fret long dread bodied guitars out of a smaller instrument that's more comfortable to play.

Blake has always sought a lot of bottom end from his guitars. he mixes up his own string sets, and in an interview from something like 20 years ago, he was running a .062" on the bottom. Today, he runs a .058 or so, despite lights up top. It's part of his sound...., s I would't be a bit surprised to hear that his sig. Martin would be voiced for a deep bottom end.

I've had a couple of guitars come across my bench that smelled as though someone had voided in them...

I've told this story many times, but it fits the theme:

fellow brings me a guitar, says there's a bad buzz that just happened. Okay, says , take it out... So he opens the case and hands me the guitar. I look it over, and the top is sunk right where the X brace ends, so I tap there, and can clearly hear the buzz of a popped loose brace. Not a problem, right?

I look in the soundhole, and see  what look to be pieces of carrots, peas, and who knows what else, caked in there. "What the f&*$ is that s*@%?!?" says I, moments before I was to stick my hand in there. "Oh, huh-huh-huh, I puked in it last weekend at a party, man" says the owner. "Happy trails" says I, handing back the POS to the idiot....

[QUOTE=Rick Turner] I just finally read the Martin specs and voila! All is
revealed!   The answer is...."Unique Top Bracing Pattern"!

A couple of things...the small sound hole is going to drop the Helmholz,
and forward shifting the braces like that and having so little bridge
directly over braces is going to make this a boomer.   It looks to me as
though Norman wants to get the rumble of his old 12 fret long dread
bodied guitars out of a smaller instrument that's more comfortable to
play. [/QUOTE]

Makes perfect sense given what I've read about his current preference for
the easier handling of of a 000 body with the short scale -- while
retaining some of the desireable characteristics of a dread.

Another thing that I particularly liked about this model is that if you wnat
to really dig in with a pick, you can drive this little guitar suprisingly hard
with low to medium action and without a ton of relief.

Well...we'll see how my build turns out. I'll be happy if I can sort the
whole thing out in 4-6 months.

Thanks again to all who posted on this topic.

[QUOTE=grumpy]I've told this story many times, but it fits the theme:

fellow brings me a guitar, says there's a bad buzz that just happened. Okay, says , take it out... So he opens the case and hands me the guitar. I look it over, and the top is sunk right where the X brace ends, so I tap there, and can clearly hear the buzz of a popped loose brace. Not a problem, right?

I look in the soundhole, and see  what look to be pieces of carrots, peas, and who knows what else, caked in there. "What the f&*$ is that s*@%?!?" says I, moments before I was to stick my hand in there. "Oh, huh-huh-huh, I puked in it last weekend at a party, man" says the owner. "Happy trails" says I, handing back the POS to the idiot....

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This would go great in a sticky entitled:Sooooo. you wanna be a luthier .aahheeeeeeeeeyy?

[QUOTE=grumpy]....deletia......
I look in the soundhole, and see  what look to be pieces of carrots, peas, and who knows what else, caked in there. "What the f&*$ is that s*@%?!?" says I, moments before I was to stick my hand in there. "Oh, huh-huh-huh, I puked in it last weekend at a party, man" says the owner. "Happy trails" says I, handing back the POS to the idiot....
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Now I know (not kow) why he calls himself "Grumpy."

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