Hey Paul,
I've only built one gutiar with a sound port, it's oval shaped
check out some more pictures here
Location starts at the start of the upper bout curve. The oval is 4" long x 2" wide
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| Author: | Paul Burner [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Show me your sound ports |
I'm looking for sound port ideas - so how 'bout showing them here. I'm trying to figure out the best location and would also love to see some of your creative ideas. I already have a maple veneer and ebony piece bent to reinforce my area. Just need to glue it in once I figure out where I want to position it. (Just need to cut off some of the excess.) Thanks |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Hey Paul, I've only built one gutiar with a sound port, it's oval shaped check out some more pictures here Location starts at the start of the upper bout curve. The oval is 4" long x 2" wide |
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| Author: | Pat Foster [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Paul, Here's a couple I did recently. Pat Maple Attachment: lyleomsp.jpg Ebony, before finish Attachment: L-00sp.jpg
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| Author: | Paul Burner [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Wow Pat - nice job on binding your sound ports. Did you actually bend that - or is it a cut-out ring? |
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| Author: | mhammond [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Heres' a couple: I think this one should have been a little larger: Attachment: 66small.jpeg This one is bound with cocobolo and maple: Attachment: kauri 5.jpg And finally Attachment: Steves sm2.jpg Have fun, be imaginative! Mikey |
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| Author: | Pat Foster [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Paul Burner wrote: Wow Pat - nice job on binding your sound ports. Did you actually bend that - or is it a cut-out ring? Thanks. They're bent. I broke a lot of ebony, even with SuperSoft. Pat |
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| Author: | Paul Burner [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Wow Pat - You got skills man. I can hardly bend an ebony sound hole ring. ![[:Y:]](./images/smilies/smiley20.gif "Thumbs Up")
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| Author: | SteveSmith [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Hey Paul, here's my first although I'm working on #2 tonight. Attachment: DSCF0390.JPG
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| Author: | Chris Ensor [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
I usually do an oval shaped hole with a rounded over edge, but sometimes I try new things too. |
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| Author: | Paul Burner [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Wow Chris, The one with multiple holes is pretty mazing. How's the sound from it? Are you using a standard sound hole on the front? And to others - how much compensation did you do to your primary sound hole to account for the sound port? |
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| Author: | Pat Foster [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Paul Burner wrote: Wow Pat - You got skills man. I can hardly bend an ebony sound hole ring. I cheated. It was laminated.  Pat |
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| Author: | the Padma [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Sound ports eh. Well me got a hole in one once. SEE...  Didn't do nuthin for me score.  Padma |
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| Author: | evanmelstad [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Attachment: Soundport.jpg
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| Author: | Chris Ensor [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Thanks Paul. I like the sound from that padauk guitar. That one is interesting because it has a tailpiece and a cantilevered fingerboard. But yes, it does have a standard sound hole in the top. All of those things made for a very loud guitar with extremely long sustain. Overall, that one is pretty balanced from string to string as well. Whenever I put soundports in, I don't adjust my sound hole at all. I leave it the way I normally do it. That seems to work for me. |
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| Author: | Nelson Guitars [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
It seems that ovals and circles are the "go to" shape.  I do adjust the main sound hole for some of the additional square inches the port provides but not all. However, since the reports about adding the ports improving the sound of supposedly already properly sized instruments I am beginning to wonder if I should. Greg N |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
I did not compensate the tops sound hole at all for the sound port. |
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| Author: | peterm [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
I've done a few...     
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| Author: | Nick Oliver [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Not quite finished this guitar yet, it's in need of a coat of jam but it's my first with a soundport.  Veneered with birdseye maple and a black purfling & a curly maple "core" which doubled as an inside patch. |
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| Author: | Tim McKnight [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Here are several designs that we use: http://mcknightguitars.com/soundports.html |
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| Author: | Dave Stewart [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Lots of great shapes... the "guitar pick" one is inspired Tim. Here's the only one I've done. |
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| Author: | Dave Livermore [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Here's mine. I put it in pretty much every guitar because I REALLY enjoy what it does for the tone I can hear as I play. It is reinforced with a piece (or three or four if it won't bend) of side material running the grain perpendicular to the side. Then cut the port with a dremel. Then sand/file so that the reinforcement material can not be seen from the outside.  Dave |
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| Author: | Omicron_9 [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Greetings. Q from a non-luthier here. What does the presence of sound ports do to the overall tone, especially what is projected from the front sound hole? Somehow, I always imagine sound ports as having a detrimental effect on the overall voice, but again, not a luthier. Insanely curious, tho. Kind regards, -0.9 |
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| Author: | Dave Livermore [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
-0.9, play a guitar with a port in it sometime. It's amazing this hasn't caught on long ago. Some say the tone is enhanced out front. Some say it is diminished. I say I really don't care because the guitar sounds so dang good to me. Plus I'm finally not at the mercy of the sound man to keep my acoustic loud enough that I can hear it above the drums, bass and piano. Dave |
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| Author: | Ed Haney [ Thu May 06, 2010 4:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Wow! Great post. I've got to try a sound port. Ed |
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| Author: | Bill Hodge [ Thu May 06, 2010 5:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Show me your sound ports |
Here a quick fuzzy and dirty shot of one I have in WIP. Better photos to come in the near future in a new thread. 
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