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Brett L Faust
 Post subject: Bent or laminated braces
PostPosted: 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. [:Y:]

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Any examples?

I guess you could think of bent linings as bracing?

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Didn't Hauser bend the brace next to the sound hole???
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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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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. :D

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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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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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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.

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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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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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