Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Martin, The guitar was sitting on an A frame stand, strings are on and damped. I'm holding the the guitars by the neck while tapping. The microphone (zoom H4) was 1 meter out in front of the lower bout just off of center line and about bridge height, same set up for all three guitars. I repeated the...

Thanks Markus, The Chladni test is a good idea for sure. I need to replace my speaker for it though before I can do it.
I was also wondering if the 168-ish is a harmonic of the main air, I suppose I can block off the sound hole easily enough and see if it goes away.

Hello all, A real quick introduction: For starters I'm familiar with many of you at the OLF and some of you may be familiar with me as well. But for the many who aren't I've been building for about 20 years and study as much as I can. I have a very low output of a few instruments each year. I enjoy ...