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Furtive 00-12 Fret Grand Concert plans/template

Dear esteemed rabble,

Thanks to a brilliant community wood supplier, who packages his wood better than anyone I’ve ever imagined, I have a sweet collection of narrow walnut just begging to be plucked.

Enter the search for a body plan/template of a 00-12 Fret Grand Concert. No dice.

LMI has a template for a 00-14 fret but to my rather inexperienced eye the bodies do look a wee bit different (martin’s site as reference).

In an ideal situation I would find an acrylic half template (i.e. LMI) that I could use to make a mould, but if I could find even a rough tracing I would be so happy I could just dance.

Can anyone help?

Cheers,
Jeremy

[QUOTE=JeremyC] Furtive 00-12 Fret Grand Concert plans/template

00-12 Fret Grand Concert.

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contradiction in terms? Differnt body sizes

Jeremy, I own a Martin 12-fret 00. The old, elongated (original) shape. If you would like, I could trace it for you and get the pertinent measurements. Not acrylic, but you could transfer it to acrylic.

If this would work, lemme know.

Steve

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Thanks for the quick reply everyone.

MichaelP - Sorry for the contradiction in body styles, I got the name right off of Martin’s site
http://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/choosing/guitars.php?p=z &g=a&m=00-45S%201902

Steve – If you could do that I would really appreciate it (read: forever indebted to you).

I also noticed that guitarjigs.com has a 00 12 fret mold available but I also really need to eat this month and my rent is already late.

Cheers all,
Jeremy

Wow I have never seen a OO body referred to as a Grand concert and I have been to Martins sight hundreds of times. guess I just missed it. I think of a GC as slightly larger than a OM. Shows you what I said a couple weeks ago about definitions being different form one maker to the next. I did not take offence sorry if I came over that way.

michael

i think you may have a grand auditorium in mind. taylor's gc is in the same ballpark size as a oo, but martins ga, or m model, like taylors ga is a bit bigger than the om

Your right I am thinking of auditorium size boy I am lexdexic this week

your lucky; i generally only manage to get myself out of the state when asleep.