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Acoustic Guitar Review - Alvarez AF60S 2 years 10 weeks ago

Alvarez AF60S acoustic guitar has a solid spruce top with mahogany back and sides. A bound fretboard and headstock, multi-ply top binding, and pearloid rosette add up to one sweet-looking flattop.

And it sounds as good as it looks with bold, crisp tone from the solid spruce top mellowed by mahogany back and sides. Nickel die-cast tuners are great accents for the rosewood headstock veneer with traditional Alvarez inlay.

Acoustic Guitar Soundboard Bracing 2 years 10 weeks ago

Preparation of the Top Bracing:
If you purchased Guitar Building Plans, from Ultimate Guitar OnLine refer to the bracing profiles for the top plate. Rough-cut all of your bracing to length and width. Finish sand the sides and the gluing surface of the braces in preparation for the gluing process. The thing that is of most concern with the soundboard bracing is the X-Brace intersection joint.

The X-Brace:

Guitar Repair - How to Dis-assemble an Acoustic Guitar 2 years 4 weeks ago

We will be talking about some pretty major guitar repair in this section. Actually removing major portions of the guitar for repair, replacement or access to otherwise inaccessible portions of the guitar is what we are talking about.

Fingerboard Removal:
Removing the Fingerboard can be a agonizing and frustrating event. Fingerboards quite often have to be removed in pieces and replaced. The reasons for removal can be several, from top removal to adjusting a severely bowed guitar neck, or simply replacing a worn out fretboard. See our article on Fingerboard Removal for lots of details.

How to Build A Free-Floating Guitar Top 2 years 4 weeks ago

Free-Floating Top Installation:
Whether it is a Classical Guitar top or an Acoustic Guitar top, the free-floating top, as I call it, can add some tonal qualities to you guitar - arguably so that is. In this article I will only address the installation of the free-floating acoustic guitar top. We will cover the Classical Guitar Top in another article, but much of the instruction used here can be applied to the classical guitar as well.

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Guitar Building - Brace Strength Analysis 1 year 40 weeks ago

Wood braces on a guitar top or back plate act in a similar manner to those wood beams that support the floor of your house or roof. We are just working on a much smaller scale. Proportionally though, the bracing for a guitar top plate takes much more stress than that of the home structure. Everything has to be perfectly made and installed to work properly. In addition to that, different kinds of brace wood give you different units of strength. We explore those units in this technical article on guitar brace strength.