All Wood Lattice Guitar

All solid wood.

All wood lattice guitar. Calido soloist dt cedar double top classical guitar lattice braced all solid wood indian rosewood back sides ebony fretboard. Lattice bracing has been used on classical guitar soundboards for a number of years. Now that the neck and sides are built it is time to start making the soundboard. Possessing even stronger fundamental tones greater sustain evenness and projection than byers previous concert guitars greg byers innovative double fan all wood lattice braced guitars represent a further refinement to his classically beautiful traditional musical sound.

Ideal for intermediate players. By viktor fogas luthier guitar maker this is my most successful guitar model called modelo formentor built with a self designed all wooden harmonic lattice bracing introduced in 2014. This bracing contains no carbon fibre balsa wood and epoxy glue because it is made entirely from pure old european spruce. There are a lot of different configurations for the braces as.

If you prefer cedar there is a cedar version available of this model. Three decades ago australian greg smallman irreversibly changed the design of classical guitar bracing by introducing a system of overlapping struts all joined together using a combination of carbon fibre and balsa wood in a lattice framework joined to a top that is much thinner than tops using the conventional torres bracing. Double top guitars have a shorter history. After completing 5 i feel that i ve made some of my best guitars to date and will continue to use this system instead of the radial bracing pattern i ve used for the past 8 years.

Possessing even stronger fundamental tones greater sustain evenness and projection than his previous concert guitars greg byers innovative double fan all wood lattice braced guitars represent a further refinement to his classically beautiful traditional musical sound. My customer has chosen to use a western red cedar top with lattice bracing. See more budget classical guitars for under 500. More luthiers are finding ways to refine the lattice braced guitar so that its sound will appeal to more players.

I m very reluctant to get into double tops or the smallman type of lattice construction or to go back to the much simpler all wood lattice designs that i toyed with years ago. The lattice braced guitar has always been a subject of debate among musicians yet it has endured for over 30 years.