I am about to begin work on an L-00 size guitar, and have a set of plans (GAL via LMI) by Char. I want to build a radius dish for the top, along with bracing templates for the router table. I am curious as to what the radius should be in order to arrive at the proper geometry for the fingerboard extension to sit right, without a nosedive or worse, upturn. According to the plans, the soundboard has a top dome side to side rise of 3/16" and peaks 1.5" behind the bridge. When putting this into the Excel program that someone so graciously posted here, and assuming (I know that's a bad thing to do, but I had to) that the measurement was taken across the lower bout, I come up with a radius of 36'.
I am curious as to whether or not any of you have built an L-00 size, and what radius you used to arrive at the proper geometry for the fb extension, etc.
I am familiar that a lot of you use the flat UTB and sand the angle into the sides before gluing on the top, and I usually do not do that (may have to
) and I was wanting to start using radius dishes for my sanding of the side/linings on future builds as well. I just wanted to get pretty close on the radiusing of this top, so I don't end up with any un-necessary surprises. I appreciate it.Thanks
so some of my stuff is trial and error, taking notes on what does and doesn't work, etc. It just so happens that I made a radius dish, 25' about 2 days ago (outside, dust everywhere and messy as all get-out!) for some of my other builds, so that is 3 models I can use it for. Thanks for the info ol' buddy!