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#147 from blues creek
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:40 am
by tippie53
Here is a simple Mahogany dred that I did. Sitka spruce top with nice silking , and simple design. I let the ribbon mahogany do the talking. A killer guitar assembled with HHG and forward shifted braces. Dovetail neck joint and killer tone.
Grover open backed butterbean tuners.
Hope you like it
Re: #147 from blues creek
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:59 am
by JRHall
That is some beautiful mahogany.
Re: #147 from blues creek
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:55 am
by justrfb
Beautiful guitar John. I believe there is a real beauty in simplicity...
Could you please explain "forward shifted braces" to me as I have heard the term but don't have a clue as to what it means. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Rich
Re: #147 from blues creek
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 10:56 am
by Ben-Had
Sweet John, is that tortoise binding?
Re: #147 from blues creek
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:08 am
by tippie53
yes that is tortoise binding
FORWARD SHIFTED BRACING
After about 1943-44 the X brace on the Martin dred was moved back. This changed the X brace location. Notably from about 1 inch from the sound hole to about 1 3/8 from the sound hole. There were other changes also that happened though the years but this is the era of forward shifted ( original location actually ) to Rear shift . Lower into the body. Also they stopped scalloped bracing and went with straight braces. In 1939 the neck block size was changed from 1 9/16 to 1 3/8 in thick the Popsicle braces was added to help control the shear that developed at the fret board .
Re: #147 from blues creek
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:00 pm
by Ben-Had
tippie53 wrote:yes that is tortoise binding
FORWARD SHIFTED BRACING
After about 1943-44 the X brace on the Martin dred was moved back. This changed the X brace location. Notably from about 1 inch from the sound hole to about 1 3/8 from the sound hole. There were other changes also that happened though the years but this is the era of forward shifted ( original location actually ) to Rear shift . Lower into the body. Also they stopped scalloped bracing and went with straight braces. In 1939 the neck block size was changed from 1 9/16 to 1 3/8 in thick the Popsicle braces was added to help control the shear that developed at the fret board .
John, I heard that the change in the X-brace that occurred during wartime was a mistake. The person that usually made the templates was off to war and the replacement mistakenly made a new template and put the x-bracing in the wrong position, it was quite a while before anyone realized and by that time a bunch of guitars were made so they marketed it as new improvement. Any truth to that?
Re: #147 from blues creek
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:26 pm
by tippie53
I heard a similar story.
Re: #147 from blues creek
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 6:47 pm
by Darryl Young
I love it!!!
Re: #147 from blues creek
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:52 am
by Kevin Sjostrand
Awesome John, as usual. You got to love that ribbon figure.
So forward bracing is suppose to give the sound more.............????
Kevin
Re: #147 from blues creek
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:58 am
by tippie53
I won't say more sound but I think it is a nice sound for a lead or bluegrass guitar. This is the way Martin used to build them