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Hi All,

Does anyone have scale drawings of some sort of a couple cross-sections of a martin modified low oval neck. Played one of those a while back and really liked how it felt.

Thanks,

Frank

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Frank

Frank,

Since nobody has posted a better source, there are photos of cross sections here on the Martin web site.

Pat

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formerly known around here as burbank
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

I tried the guitar in a store a while back, so no don't have it available. Think they would raise more than an eyebrow if i started spreading epoxy over the neck... .

I guess i could do som scaling with those pics off martins site, but i'll shoot luthier suppliers an e-mail first. thanks for the tip.

Frank

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Frank

With a cad program, you can actually use those images to create a template. Copy & paste a into an image type program (corel, paint shop pro or whatever) and exactly crop to the neck width/height. Copy to cad, draw a box scaled to the size you want (eg 1 3/4" nut) and scale up the image so it just fits the box (maintain the image aspect ratio). Then, on a new drawing layer, trace a line drawing of the image perimeter, "hide" the original image & you have a printable template! I've done the same thing with body shapes.

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Dave
Milton, ON

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Frank