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Luthier's bracing photos - Non-O (mostly)

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MarkM
Posted 2011-03-03 5:38 PM (#355183)
Subject: Luthier's bracing photos - Non-O (mostly)


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Posts: 98

Location: SF Bay area, California
Luthier Frank Ford from Palo Alto has interesting photos taken inside the bodies of several guitar models. B&W pics apparently illuminated with lights through the top of the guitars.

There is one Ovation in the series:
http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Musician/Guitar/XGallery/xgallery1....

"Scalloped" braces:
http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Musician/Guitar/SclpBraces/sclpbrac...

Martin styles:
http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/History/Martin/MartinBraces/martinb...

Index page for Frets.com, lot's of fascinating stuff for a gearhead like me:
http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/pagelist.html

Cheers,

Mark
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Darkbar
Posted 2011-03-03 6:10 PM (#355184 - in reply to #355183)
Subject: Re: Luthier's bracing photos - Non-O (mostly)



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Posts: 4536

Location: Flahdaw
Maybe I'm a nerd, but I found this pretty fascinating.
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G8r
Posted 2011-03-03 6:30 PM (#355185 - in reply to #355183)
Subject: Re: Luthier's bracing photos - Non-O (mostly)


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Yes, you're a nerd, but the links are cool, too.
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Denis
Posted 2011-03-03 6:36 PM (#355186 - in reply to #355183)
Subject: Re: Luthier's bracing photos - Non-O (mostly)


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Location: Moscow
Mark,
very interesting topic. Thank you.
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Slipkid
Posted 2011-03-03 6:46 PM (#355187 - in reply to #355183)
Subject: Re: Luthier's bracing photos - Non-O (mostly)



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Location: south east Michigan
Almost looks like a picture of an auditorium.
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