I was told I might want to start a new thread for this. I'm buying a bandsaw so I can mass produce a design of mine with better quality craftsmanship. Some of you are already familiar with my Archangel design but I'm posting a pic for those of you that aren't. So in the meantime I've got a neck and body blank that would love to be mated to each other. And I'll need the leftover scraps for acoustic guitar blocks. So I decided to make a T5 type guitar out of my Archangel design (see pic). Now I know that this is technically an electric guitar but it does have acoustic properties and that's what I want to discuss.
Now the T5 sounds decent enough unplugged but it still sounds like a hollow body. I think this in part due to the bracing. As you can see in the pic of an opened up T5, there's only two braces or sound bars running up and down the sound board. So what I plan to do is gut out my body blank into a ring or clamshell and throw a more acoustically built sound and back board to it with an acoustic bridge and undersaddle pickup . And I'll reinforce the pickup area like pictured though it will be closer to the fretboard that way I still get good action in the upper area.
Now this build is just for fun it's not that serial but I would like to hear some ideas about bracing the top better. Like what would you do. Now the Eparts I'm not worried about. I just want to improve the acoustic qualities. That's why I'm asking here.
This is my AA design.
T5 opened up.
