Re: Electric Classical
Here's the top for the second electric acoustic, this ones a steel stringer.
The bracing is the Kasha Schneider principle, which uses the braces as sound transmission "fingers" to various parts of the soundboard, nearly all the braces, or fingers are lapped into the bridge plate, and their ends are then feathered completely into the sound board. The fingers, (cos braces isnt really the right word) are a whole lots smaller physically than standard bracing systems, the idea that I get from this design is to use the web structure of the brace fingers more for sound transmission as a primary function, and to add structural integrity as a secondary function.
If you look at suspension bridges as an analogy, you have a huge structure being suspended, by very small seeming cables and steel superstructures.
As Kasha was a Physicist, and not a guitar player, he used the scientific principles of sound transmission through timber structures as the basis, and then arranged the fingers to provide the transmission, but also the structural integrity of the whole.
because of the differing wavelength properties of different timbers, I have used the same spruce from the same block for the top plate , bridge plate and the braces, thereby hopefully maintaining the same wavelength transmission across the whole top..
Also a feature of this design is to translate the forward/backwards transmission from the bridge to the fingers,
here you can see how they are feathered into the top
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