All Wood Lattice Guitar

I will always continue to build the very traditional guitars that i m building now i love this kind of guitar too much.

All wood lattice guitar.

Ideal for intermediate players. There are a lot of different configurations for the braces as. I really like that guitar and it inspired me to try an all wood lattice version of my own. This budget classical guitar features the all important always included truss rod to allow for tension adjustment.

I m very reluctant to get into double tops or the smallman type of lattice construction or to go back to the much simpler all wood lattice designs that i toyed with years ago. This bracing contains no carbon fibre balsa wood and epoxy glue because it is made entirely from pure old european spruce. Lattice bracing has been used on classical guitar soundboards for a number of years. My customer has chosen to use a western red cedar top with lattice bracing.

If you prefer cedar there is a cedar version available of this model. The lattice braced guitar has always been a subject of debate among musicians yet it has endured for over 30 years. Calido soloist dt cedar double top classical guitar lattice braced all solid wood indian rosewood back sides ebony fretboard. All solid wood.

Three decades ago australian greg smallman irreversibly changed the design of classical guitar bracing by introducing a system of overlapping struts all joined together using a combination of carbon fibre and balsa wood in a lattice framework joined to a top that is much thinner than tops using the conventional torres bracing. See more budget classical guitars for under 500. More luthiers are finding ways to refine the lattice braced guitar so that its sound will appeal to more players. By viktor fogas luthier guitar maker this is my most successful guitar model called modelo formentor built with a self designed all wooden harmonic lattice bracing introduced in 2014.

After completing 5 i feel that i ve made some of my best guitars to date and will continue to use this system instead of the radial bracing pattern i ve used for the past 8 years. Double top guitars have a shorter history.