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Trevor Gore

Post subject: Re: So, Who's Made One Using Falcate Bracing?

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:04 pm

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D. Ramsey wrote:

So do you feel that CF is essential to bracing with this design?

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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Jeff Highland

Post subject: Re: So, Who's Made One Using Falcate Bracing?

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 3:51 am

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Location: Caves Beach, Australia

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

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