Wildestcat
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Well I've made my baritone mold, and now need to finalise the internal design. As explained in a previous thread, this will be my first attempt at a baritone and the prospective customer is wanting to tune to GCEA rather than DGBE. From Allens advice in the earlier post, I'll go with a 19" nominal scale length and play around with the frets-to-body to position the bridge in a reasonable location. Strings will be selected to suit the tuning.
I would appreciate guidance with the bracing though!
I don't want to push the boundaries, so the body is standard shape 14" long x 10" lower bout. From what I can glean from Google, the norm seems to be 5 fans and a bridge plate?
I'll be using spruce for the top. For the fans, does 5 mm wide x 7 mm high, peaked in front of the bridge plate and tapering to nothing at each end sound about right? That's a tad smaller all round than I would use on a tenor.
For the lower soundhole transverse braces I thought around 7 mm wide x 9 mm high and for the upper transverse go a little larger to around 10 mm wide. The soundhole itself to be re-enforced with a spruce doughnut.
Very grateful for any help!
I would appreciate guidance with the bracing though!
I don't want to push the boundaries, so the body is standard shape 14" long x 10" lower bout. From what I can glean from Google, the norm seems to be 5 fans and a bridge plate?
I'll be using spruce for the top. For the fans, does 5 mm wide x 7 mm high, peaked in front of the bridge plate and tapering to nothing at each end sound about right? That's a tad smaller all round than I would use on a tenor.
For the lower soundhole transverse braces I thought around 7 mm wide x 9 mm high and for the upper transverse go a little larger to around 10 mm wide. The soundhole itself to be re-enforced with a spruce doughnut.
Very grateful for any help!