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| Author: | B. Howard [ Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Adding a soundport |
I recently added a soundport to a guitar for a customer and thought you may enjoy a few pics of how I did it. The Guitar is a Leoff. It is a 13 fret dread though it is a bit smaller bodied than a typical slope shoulder dread, it also had a slightly smaller sound hole (3-3/4"). It is made out of Walnut a Euro spruce. This Builder is one of those Using "Moon Spruce"...... The guitar seemed very tight sounding and almost a tad over built when it first arrived but overall had a pleasing tone and well balanced sound. After Adding the port and setting it up....WOW! It was a whole different guitar. Very open sounding with a nice airy quality to the tone. Volume and projection to the room did not seem to suffer any that I could tell and the new open sound indeed also projected into the room thus discounting my initial notion that I could just hear it better from the playing position. Attachment: IMG_4986.JPG Attachment: IMG_5038.JPG Attachment: IMG_5039.JPG Attachment: IMG_5042.JPG Attachment: IMG_5043.JPG Attachment: IMG_5044.JPG
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| Author: | B. Howard [ Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adding a soundport |
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| Author: | phil [ Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adding a soundport |
Sweet work Brian! |
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| Author: | Ron Belanger [ Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adding a soundport |
Brian, What glue did you use for the lay up of the reinforcing patch? I've used titebond and I get a tighter bend than I like. |
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| Author: | Tony_in_NYC [ Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adding a soundport |
Looks great! |
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| Author: | B. Howard [ Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adding a soundport |
Ron Belanger wrote: Brian, What glue did you use for the lay up of the reinforcing patch? I've used titebond and I get a tighter bend than I like. I used Titebond for this. The Walnut wast thicknessed first. I needed to join two pieces together as I did not have a single piece wide enough for the panel as I was using off cuts from a smaller set of sides. I then bent the walnut over the hot pipe and glued the Mahogany to the shaped walnut with some spreader bars and a handful of big rubber bands. I did it this way as the cross grain mahogany would have ruptured and tore if I had glued it up like a sheet of ply and tried to bend it. |
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| Author: | Goodin [ Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adding a soundport |
Great tutorial. I would like to see pics of the hole being cut, or at least more details about how you used the high speed rotary tool. Thanks. |
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| Author: | theguitarwhisperer [ Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adding a soundport |
Nice! I'm going to add a sideport to my 12 fret Dreadnaught I made in Cumpiano's course. |
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| Author: | Pat Hawley [ Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adding a soundport |
Nicely done. Pat |
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