That bracing looks very nicely executed. It should yield great results
for you. Very neat work, too.
Tuning tops to specific notes will prove quickly to be an exercize in
futility since every top and every pece of bracing that you use with it will
have unique resonant chracteristics. To create the same note on one top
can call for the need to remove more or less material than is desired or
may have been necessary on another so it needs to be about individual
resonance of the top and bracing as a system instead of note
achievement.
I match bracing and tops to one another according to their
fundamental resonant frequencies.....and that's not the note at which
each resonates, but simply whether they fall into what would be
conidered generally low, medium or high fundamental resonance.
It's interesting when we discuss voicing since the number of theories
and approaches used will equal or even exceed the number of people
presenting them. Damping, mass, shape and placement are all among the
many variables that we all are confronted with when we take on the
prospect of coaxing a top as close to its tonal potential as we're able to.
There is always mass, so there is always damping and we use shape and
placement to control and direct the effects of both.
Regards,
Kevin Gallagher/Omega Guitars
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