I've always been enamored by Kevin Ko's work. Kevin has a US patent on his anchor system for this guitar.
And check out his bracing -- KEVIN IF YOUR OUT THERE! Tell us about this -Please!
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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:34 am ] |
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I've always been enamored by Kevin Ko's work. Kevin has a US patent on his anchor system for this guitar. And check out his bracing -- KEVIN IF YOUR OUT THERE! Tell us about this -Please!
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| Author: | Dave-SKG [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:56 am ] |
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That realy is beautiful. Porn not in my book! The bracing is very nice and seems to make sense for a Nylon string. lance did you say he a patent on the Bracing? |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:57 am ] |
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Not the bracing - the block that supports the string attachment. |
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| Author: | Dave-SKG [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:04 am ] |
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Thanks for the Clear-me-up. or are you just picking on me again? 
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| Author: | stan thomison [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:11 am ] |
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Lance very cool. This isn't something that can work. No way, this shouldn't be on a real builders site. I can't imagine how it can play, it isn't conventional and not to the standards of guitar making. There is only one way to make a guitar, and this isn't it. Please remove it. This is worse than McPherson and others who have messed up the way guitars can be built. There is one way and this isn't it. I am hacked such a thing is presented here. By the way, I know Taylor and Martin and for sure others make nylon string guitars, other than classical. I can't believe they can work, again because they aren't traditional and just nylon stringed, steel strings. If it has nylon, it should be required to be classical and built as such. Again there is no room for diversity in building, or shouldn't be. Please build to the standard of either classical and steel and the way those are to be braced, look and done, anything else in not acceptable. By the way, in building the nylon stringed, steel string look, is it fan bracing, X or other bracing really small. Please Lance only conventional guitars and proper way of building should be allowed here, there is again no room for things that are different, because they can't work and it gives others false impression of how something can be built. If it ain't Martin and to that standard, it isn't a steel string guitar or a guitar at all it is merely another type of instrument, trying to be passed as a guitar. |
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| Author: | crazymanmichael [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:29 am ] |
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worse yet, isn't that the face of a noseless demon staring at us in the fifth photo ---- REMOVE IT ---- i'm terrified!!!!!!!!!!! where is the cyber black tape when we really need it?? in all seriousness, the top construction appears rather complex. is the raised inner portion a doubled top? but at least his cut away would be easy to bend. michael mcclain |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:33 am ] |
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I believe the top is solid, and has a routed channel around the perimeter to act as a speaker cone would. Kevin has gotten a lot of very positive reviews with this design. |
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| Author: | Dave Rector [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:33 am ] |
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WOW! Now that's my kind of porn! |
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| Author: | Bobc [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:42 am ] |
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Kevin's work has always intriqued me too. His innovative ideas and excellant execution are a source of inspiration to me. |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:18 am ] |
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Too cool for words 
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| Author: | Colby Horton [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:59 am ] |
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That kind of stuff just blows me away! |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:01 am ] |
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This is Kevins #4.. Yup, his forth guitar. |
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| Author: | EricKeller [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:19 am ] |
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That bracing pattern and the groove in the top totally goes against everything that I understand about the vibration of tops. That's what's called a learning experience, and you have to hate those. |
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| Author: | PaulB [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:21 am ] |
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How does it sound? |
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| Author: | crazymanmichael [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:42 am ] |
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lance i obviously misinterpreted the photo. the groove stirs other questions: |
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| Author: | crazymanmichael [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:56 am ] |
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lance i really misinterpreted the photo! the groove causes other questions to arise: how thick is the top overall so that the groove does not overly weaken it? what is the brace material? they appear to be a different sort material, perhaps even machined or moulded. using the tailpiece, does he glue his bridge or leave free like an archtop? are his instruments aimed at the classical player or greater eclectic nylon market? the body doesn't shout classical. and the cutaway would be easy to bend. when i see such an innovative approach i am always impressed by the ingenuity that dreams it up and the courage it takes to implement it and fly in the face of convention! michael mcclain |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:16 am ] |
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Ko Guitars As Kevin, hes a great guy and is usually happy to answer any questions. |
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| Author: | EricKeller [ Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:40 pm ] |
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Just looking at it, I would say the braces are machined spruce and the top is cedar. Actually, the overall bracing pattern confounded me so much that I didn't really think about the braces. That is pretty much what an engineer that wanted light and stiff would design. If the flange on the top is big enough to take the load, the material in the middle doesn't contribute significant resistance to bending, just weight. That's why many structures are made of I beams. Since the bridge doesn't take any string load, things can be very different. Clearly, he's making a big fairly rigid piston at the bridge. Very interesting. His webpage doesn't do anything for me, only live link is his email. |
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| Author: | Dave-SKG [ Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:36 pm ] |
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No tape on this one ....Please! 
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