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B. Howard
 Post subject: Adding a soundport
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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.
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Sweet work Brian!
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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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Looks great!

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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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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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Nice! I'm going to add a sideport to my 12 fret Dreadnaught I made in Cumpiano's course.

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Nicely done.

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