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Yes that is what I was thinking.

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Cool. I'll add the soundhole bracing, sand things up and close the box!

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Is the reason for this(shape) to reduce mass but maintain strength ?

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Yes, you can shed a great deal of the weight of the brace without sacrificing much stiffness.

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I carved braces for a second top on another parlor I'm working on. I tried to think suspension bridge, I got closer but not quite there yet I think.

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Brad, I'm not going to wade thru all the discussion up to this point but I just want to show you what I have done. I've built three guitars from the Antes plans (and yes the first one was braced backwards but it sounds OK). The last two were lutz spruce (0.110) over Brazilian and Mad rose, and they are incredible little guitars - very loud, punchy and fairly complex sounding (however they definitely have that "parlor" sound). Braces are 1/4 wide, tapered (not really scalloped) and look like this



Here is the first one, the braces look a lot like yours (except for the tone bar of course). It is Sitka over EIR so there are several differences besides just the bracing - everyone who has played them like the last two better



Yours look like they are way over braced, but then maybe mine will blow up LOL.

Btw, if you build the depth shown on the plans they will just barely fit in a TKL case, next time I will reduce the depth by maybe an 1/8 of an inch or so.

Thanks, Freeman!

Is this the case you are talking about? http://www.tkl.com/site_item_details.ph ... uitar+Case

Thanks!
Brad

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Pretty sure that is the one. The guy that I built the Braz guitar for has moved it into another case that he already had - he didn't like the way the lid of the TKL case was pushing on the top. I kept the Mad rose guitar for myself and I put a couple of paint cans in the case that were a little bit taller than the guitar, closed the lid and "coaxed" it into a slight dome. Taking an 1/8 or 1/4 off the sides would be a much better solution and I don't think would change the air volume appreciably.

Show off time

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I have posted this here before but Cedar Creek does a custom case for my size 2's. It fits the Antes specs nicely and is a very nice case. I think they were charging me around $135 last time I ordered. I actually need more so we'll see if the price has gone up.

If you call Cedar Creek and ask for the parlor guitar case they make for Kennedy Guitars in Alexandria MN they should be able to fix you up.

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Looking better, the peaks at the end of the X are a little high. Mine are a little under 1/2"

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Here is mine. It's an old parlor I refurbished. It is braced for gut/nylon strings.