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This topic should be interesting...I have read where you can make your own dishes using 1/4 MDF. Just cut it into a circle, screw down the center and use spacers to "dish it" to your appropriate radi. (for some reason its not a perfect 'radi' but....eees cheap...)



Has anyone done dishes this way? What are you using to get a 30-40+ radi? (Does anyone have the MATH to figure out radi from a 14" rod bent in ala Kinkeads method in his book?)

I am thinking spacing with pennies or nickes at a given distance around the arc, or maybe roundhead screws screwd in to the bottom baseboard.

Havent seen this topic posted here, just on MIMF...

tanks...

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Theoretically this is just a mater of knowing the total rise of the cord. Frankly though that thin of MDF will not likely hold the arc true for long unless well sealed.

Try this

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Dave White
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Dave, I am aware of that technique, but I need to do the rim to match also. But for giggles sake, how do you get the origional 40 degree brace to start with?

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I feel really sorry for the guitar makers of old. How could they possibly start making guitars without a radius dish - I mean you couldn't possibly mark the rim and use hand tools could you

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

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Very cool that would do it...thanks

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Here is what a Parlor Guitar is for!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEa8PkjO6_I