Laminated Archtop Guitar Plates

Holst custom stringed instruments 2016 sheets of veneer ready to glue and press.

Laminated archtop guitar plates. Each laminated plate can be used as a top or back as they are symmetrical. Archtops vary in size generally ranging from 16 inches to 19 inches on the lower bout. Holst custom stringed instruments 2011 in my gallery of completed archtop guitars you will find many examples of my laminated plates in use. Electric body blanks and top plates used to laminate to the top of the core body wood.

A finished guitar. Additionally they can accommodate both sharp and rounded cutaways. The email you entered isn t valid. Will this construction yield a sound that is compared favorably with a solid.

We also offer thinner laminates for the builders that laminate decorative exotic woods to their body without carving. Watch ken walk us through the best practices when trimming down a laminated archtop guitar plate. I set out to make my own laminated plates and the guitars came together beautifully. See my first post on this for the whole scoop.

All guitars using my plates are indicated at the bottom of the frame as laminate archtop. Thanks for tuning in. The larger an archtop gets the more it emphasizes bass and low mid frequencies. The basic questions were.

Last year i got a nice vacuum system for the shop and it makes the coolest laminate plates for these guitars. Building an archtop guitar via will ehster archtop sizes. A floating pickup can be added or it can be played free of electronic amplification as the tone is balanced warm punchy really quite remarkable. I am even offering an acoustic version of this small laminated guitar.

Thickness is listed for each top in decimals of an inch. Can a laminated spruce plate be constructed so it will take the contours of a conventional archtop flat rim and recurve. Look for another. Archtop guitar kits parts.

Can a laminated spruce plate be constructed to allow traditional tonal carving particularly in the area of the recurve. Purchase holst laminated archtop guitar plates. Here s the laminate plate process im using on the run of 14 guitars that i m on.