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If Frank says it's ok to post pretty pictures, I would love to see on-going and latest finished instruments here.

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Permalink Reply by William F.Eden on December 30, 2011 at 10:56am

Well Ned I tryed the scalloped bracing on another one before and it realy sounded good but the problem with it was the back arch whent flat on me so this time I thought I would try lamitating the braces but the same thing has happend to this one so I am going to take the back off and put other bracing in it. I wish I new the answer why they go flat as it don't happen until you get it together.I had the back of this one sitting on the bench for two months before I put it together and it was fine until after I put it together.It has me baffled .I had even made the arch on my jig deeper to see if that would make it stay arched but no luck. I guess it's just one of those things that don't wan't to work out .Thanks for the interest Bill............

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Permalink Reply by Ned Knepp on December 30, 2011 at 7:00pm

That's too bad, Bill. I really like the way it looks.

Just a shot in the dark but could it be that tension on the front of the body pulls the back flat? It might be interesting (and expensive) to try laminating a spruce/graphite brace that is scalloped to see how it works out.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Verticchio on December 30, 2011 at 4:10pm

Beautiful guitar Bill. Your pearl inlay work strikes a wonderfully balanced medium between high grade utility and high class wow factor with a lean toward the high class. Again, it's simply beautiful (-: