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I've been a bit slack at sharing my finished builds of late. So here is a nylon build I finished a few months ago. It is a falcate braced with a king billy soundboard and amboyna back, sides and neck, flame maple fretboard and bridge. It is hard french polished.

Absolutely beautiful looking guitar. Exceptional fine woodwork.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Alan

Very nice Trent. Everything works well together, good job.
Wayne

Beautiful job, lovely clean work and bloody nicely finished, congratulations

Cheers
Rod.

Love all of the fine details. Excellent craftsmanship. I like the rosette. Trent can you explain what the timber rosette is made up of.

Wayne

Thanks. Wayne the rosette is fish scale pattern made from amboyna off cuts from the back. The amboyna does not show separation like the maple does so it has more of a textured look in photos:

Trent... nice work!

I *love* the cutaway. Venetian and Florentine styles combined! I might have to steal that idea.

It looks like you didn't use carbon fiber in your bracing, but still hit the "ideal" bridge rotation angle. Can you please walk through the basics of how you did this? I'm re-reading "The Books" and I'm not smart enough to figure out how to figure the bracing numbers without carbon fiber. Any tips you have would be appreciated.

Hey Joel, half way between Florence and Venice is Bologna, so I reckon it should be called a Bolognian cutaway. I am sure I'm not the first person to think adding a scoop to a venetian, so steal away.

TBH, I didn't do any calculations just tapped and measured along the way.

As far as carbon fibre goes, as this was my first falcate nylon and a bracing pattern of my own design, I decided not to use CF in case I needed or wanted to trim frequencies post boxing. I wanted to be able to get a plane in through the soundhold and plan the falcates down if it needed. I used Robbie O'Brien's 7 fan braced classical plan as reference for ball park brace dimensions. As it turns out, the air frequency is 96hz, top frequency of 191hz and bridge rotation of 1.9 so nothing was needed post construction. Possibly more luck than anything else

PS. I owe you a beer for the referral. I'm building Jack's guitar currently

Maple fretboard on a classical…. ridiculous! I love it! Actually everything about this guitar works beautifully, esp like the rosette and matching inlay. Great to see such creativity and a very modern classical

Fisherman wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 07, 2022 11:31 pm

Maple fretboard on a classical…. ridiculous! I love it! Actually everything about this guitar works beautifully, esp like the rosette and matching inlay. Great to see such creativity and a very modern classical

Thanks Peter, i've shied away from calling it a classical, I'm sure it would run a shiver up the spine of purist.

Wow! One of the nicest guitars I have ever seen, it is just amazing work.

Col

lamanoditrento wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:00 am

Thanks Peter, i've shied away from calling it a classical, I'm sure it would run a shiver up the spine of purist.

It's a neoclassical mate

A pleasure to look at Trent.
Beautiful workmanship.
Thanks for sharing
Cheers Alan

I've been so busy this year that every time I try and catch up on the forum I never seem to get to the bottom of the unread posts and so never post anything. Got there today

Here's a couple of sound samples of this guitar:


youtu.be/9qjLabk0N60

youtu.be/lVR-KVn3L1c

Hi Trent, what a beautiful guitar I love the detail and clean lines, it all comes together very well.
Cheers Taff