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Not essential, as others have shown. But you have to put in more wood (and hence mass) to counteract the tendency that highly stressed wood has to cold creep.

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Finally got my first two falcates sorted and took some videos of a friend playing

2012 Flamenco Blanca by Jeff Highland
Engelmann Spruce top
Carbon fibre reinforced Falcate bracing
Alaskan Yellow Cypruss back and sides
African Blackwood fretboard / King Billy Pine neck
13th fret neck joint
Koa and Tasmanian Blackwood trim and bridge
Adjustable neck with floating fretboard.
K&K pickup (but recorded unplugged)

2012 Steel string Classic by Jeff Highland
Engelmann Spruce top
Carbon fibre reinforced Falcate bracing
Queensland Maple Back and sides
African Blackwood fretboard / New Guinea Rosewood neck
13th fret neck joint
Koa and Tasmanian Blackwood trim and bridge
Adjustable neck with floating fretboard.
K&K pickup (but recorded unplugged)

http://youtu.be/F44GTxvMFqg
http://youtu.be/O3MPhf464NY
http://youtu.be/IHmSB-KW4v4
http://youtu.be/F8MU_j5lGyA
http://youtu.be/PaxHymHIYZU
http://youtu.be/B7N8gGZbrdM