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Lets' do this again and give others a chance at winning a prize.

This prize is 2 more Martinsh bridges, one ebony and one rosewood that likely came from LMI or Stew-Mac.

Again since the prize is best suited to newer builders who may not have tackled creating their own bridge designs yet I would again ask that contestants only have 0 - 3 builds under their belts. Us contestants only please because I'm covering shipping too and I am basically a cheap bastage as well...

Be the first one to answer the questions below correctly and post your answers in this thread and You Win. It's that simple.


QUESTION 1) Pre-War Martins have a pretty good reputation for being some of the most coveted acoustic guitars ever made. Which bracing style best describes what can be found on PWMs (pre-war Martins)?

a) Ladder
b) fan
c) X
d) forward shifted X

QUESTION 2) Fox style benders are often the bender of choice these days but more recently they have been augmented by another innovation that makes them faster, more reliable, and less prone when used correctly to cracking a side. What is this innovation?

a) Multiple cauls
b) Heating blankets
c) Fat-arse Al Gore CFL light bulbs

QUESTION 3) When binding a guitar with wood bindings its common practice for many builders to lightly break the inner edge of the bindings because?

a) Bindings will snug up better to the channel with the inner edge broken matching the less than perfect channel corner
b) They bend better
c) Fetish for scrapers

QUESTION 4) What is a method for holding bindings in place while the glue dries?

a) Tape
b) Rubber bands
c) Rope
d) All of the above

QUESTION 5) A jig that has been used for likely centuries that can be shop-made or purchased from LMI that employes wedges and ropes and is used for joining plates is called?

a) Plate joining jig
b) Wedgie
c) Spanish tourniquet

QUESTION 6) Another method for joining plates employing only tape and perhaps some weights is called?

a) Flat method
b) Tape method
c) Weighting method

Good Luck everyone!

cbadab

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

The first question is "C", the forward shifted X "D" was just for the pre-war dreads, I believe. The rest of the pre-war Martins used the non-forward shifted X braces.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

D B A D A B

I'm going to make the executive decision here to call this a WIN for ZAC STOUT!

On question five I was looking for answer "c" or Spanish tourniquet but I failed to say that I was looking for the best answer or the historical answer so my mistake and you most certainly could call it a plate joining jig too.

Congrats Zak!!!!

Please PM me your shipping addy and I will get this off to you. Very well done!

John my friend there were other Martins in that era besides just d*eads that had forward shifted braces. IIRC correctly they included some OOO and even some smaller body styles. Here is a link to another discussion and scroll down to John Arnold's post to see what I am referring to: http://theunofficialmartinguitarforum.yuku.com/topic/144624#.UsmRRHmdCf1

Thanks Hesh! pm sent!

Just to be clear, by "pre-war Martin", you really mean "between-the-wars Martin". Otherwise, the answer would be "e"--all of the above, and then some.

Good contest!!!

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

Good guy too!

Hey Hesh-

Thanks for the link! I always thought the forward shifted X-braced guitars were just pre-war dreads. Good info from John Arnold.


Thanks-

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds