Low-Stress Archtop Guitar Design.

Autor: Grimes, Steve
Zdroj: American Lutherie; Spring2010, Issue 101, p6-37, 10p
Abstrakt: The article features the events at the 2008 Guild of American Luthiers (GAL) Convention workshop with Steve Grimes. It offers a history of Grimes' craftsmanship and methods used in the development of his first unit of archtop guitars. Grimes also notes three essential elements involved in making low-stress guitars, such as the reduction of the downward pressure and stress on the top portion of the guitar, its thickness, and the sizes of the braces to be used.
Databáze: Supplemental Index