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I am interesting in moding a classic guitar to a selmer type guitar( with the bridge movable and the strings pressing the top) does anyone has plans of selmers guitar or for specifications for the bracing?

plans for sale:
http://www.rfcharle.com/HTML/PlanSelmerA.html
http://www.elderly.com/books/items/509-2.htm
http://shoppingcart.djangobooks.com/Ite ... lmer-plans
http://www.guitarplans.co.uk/Macafferri.htm

good info :
http://www.benoit-de-bretagne.com/phpBB ... hp?t=10687 (if you read french)
http://www.djangobooks.com/forum/viewto ... &hilit=byo

some build logs:
http://www.pluckandsqueeze.com/Mac%20pr ... roject.htm
viewtopic.php?f=10101&t=34687&hilit=selmer
http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?f=1& ... lit=selmer
http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?f=1& ... lit=selmer
http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?f=1& ... lit=selmer

hope this helps!
miguel

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When you say "classic guitar" do you mean a classical nylon string guitar? If you do, then you might be interested in following the Selmer original. The nylon string guitar was the first of the Macaferri/Selmer guitars.

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Doug:
Jeremy Hamm was displaying one last year at the Folk Festival. It might be worth a phone call but not this weekend.

Bob

i didn´t notice the part about classical guitar, just "with the bridge movable and the strings pressing the top"... my bad.

anyway, the maccaferri design for the classical guitar, if i got it correctly, is a rather standard (if you forget about the inside resonator, which most of the folks do), conventional tie-block bridge, 7-fan braced classical guitar, but with a cutaway and a funky looking D-hole. OK, the fans have a focal point around the soundhole (a "tighter" design) and start at a 2nd harmonic bar, but that´s it. there´s a plan for the nylon maccaferri at the Charle shop in the links above.
In case your interested in the later, floating bridge/oval hole selmer design i can check in the Collins book for measurements, if it helps.

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The classical Selmer is a much wider instrument to accommodate the internal resonator, and the resonator was the entire reason for the D shaped sound hole as there was the "reflector". The bridge was longer and thinner, and had a split saddle to manage the intonation of the thicker and thinner strings.

Bob, I saw Jeremy last year and I'll be seeing him again this weekend. Dave Freeman will be there, too.

I've already built a Selmer a few years ago. I've got the Charles plans for the oval hole and I have the book.

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oh yeah, split saddle. Thanks for reminding me Doug.

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