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Ruby50
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Again, very nice guitar. The one I just built is Sitka on Mahogany, a Nick Lucas tribute. Its braces are 1/4" X 9/16" on the top and just a touch wider and taller on the back. The broken L-00 may be out of the ordinary, but its top braces are 3/16" X 9/16" on the top (yes three-sixteenths) including the X, and on the back they are 1/4" by 1/2". The top edge of the top and back braces are about 1/16" wide - incredible.

I am just starting an LG-2 3/4 (the Arlo Guthrie model) and I will be using these smaller sizes I just found on the broken L-00, or maybe even a little less.


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Wow. Those are some thin braces. I guess the ones I have seen have been recent models. Maybe they make them thicker these days.... The older ones must sound better than the later models...

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Hi. Rebuilt a old gibson like this a year or so ago it was almost this bad. It turned out to be a great sounding and playing guitar the guy is good picker it sound better then his D28 in the mike. I'm retired so I charged him. $500 it made a good project to work in with some other builds. Lee
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Pick guards says "I'll give you everything cept my guitar." I guess the girlfriend still wanted more and he couldn't deliver so she smashed it over his head. :D

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I figured the hole was the size of a women's size 5 shoe - I think you are right, but she put her foot through it

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