I've been building from Scott Antes plans for my first 4 guitars, and wanted to venture out with a body shape of my own. I really like the smaller body guitars, but love the look of Jumbo's.
I've built the mold this weekend and now waiting for wood orders to arrive in the mail. I call this one a "Petite Jumbo" (yes, I'm aware of the oxymoron)
. It's 15 1/8" across the lower bout, 10 1/4" across the upper bout, and 19 1/4" body length. I also think that it would be easy enough to add a spacer between the 2 halves of the mold to increase the width for something a little different.
I used a pretty standard bracing pattern but liked the idea of the sound hole braces extending through the upper transverse brace and into the fingerboard extension support.
I've been reading recent threads about the sizes of the X-braces, tone bars and finger braces. Most notably some posts saying that they had downsized the X-braces on 000 to 7mm wide from Antes plans that stipulate 9.5mm. As this is the same size as a 000 but just a different shape, any opinions on what I have drawn up here so far?
I use parabolic bracing and solid linings.
All opinions gratefully accepted.
