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I’ve got the laminate materials for the first three basses, and I’ve settled on a bracing design for the tops. The next step will be to start building the body mold and side template so I can start making some sawdust. I’ve been holding off on this step for a while because I really wanted to make the master patterns for these parts on one of the CNC’s at work, and I had to get a couple of other work projects out of the way first.
Now things are looking good to make the patterns this week. I’ll update the comments with more progress info as it happens.
Also, be sure and check out the new links page, as well as the pictures I took on vacation of Rick Turner’s Renaissance Guitar Company and Gryphon Strings.
This weekend I got the load-testing frame done and a test bridge made so I can evaluate the bracing under real-world stresses. I also conducted a sussessful test of yet another bracing design, this one with a lower-density epoxy mixture and aluminum honeycomb with carbon fiber skins on both sides. This turns out to be much lighter, stiffer, and more stable than the HPL-honeycomb-CF sandwich.
Left by Brian Goode on August 9th, 2006