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Note That The Lexan Will Be Harder To Sand And Will Scratch Easier, But It Is Very Durable. Plexiglas Will Crack If Dropped On Your Shop Floor.



Drill Holes Through Brace End Intersections - Be Precise



Once All The Holes Have Been Drilled, Remove The Paper Protection From The Plastic.



82.3 3 1/4"



Back Plate Layout &



82.3 3 1/4"



Note: You Should Make All Your Bracing Longer Than It Needs To Be, Or As Shown In The Bracing Diagrams Above. Leave Each Brace At Least 3/8" Long And Trim Back During Fitting Of The Back And Top Plates To The Guitar Sites.



Headstock Template



29.1 1 5/32"



85.7 3 3/8" Depth Of Holes For Rollers Can Vary With Tuning Machine Mfr.



12.7 1.2 1/2" 1/32" 39.7 1 9/16"



1.77°



73.0 2 7/8"



4.8 3/16"



R 36.8 1 7/16"



65.1 2 9/16"



15.9 5/8"



For The Brace Intersections, Take A Sharp Pointed Tool, Like A Scratch Awl And Mark The Centerline Of Each Brace Clearly Into The Surface Of The Plastic.



20.8 13/16" Headstock Trim Goes On Top Of This Line



Use A Sharp Scratch All Or Other Sharp Instrument And Mark All The Brace Ends. These Are Shown With The Small Circle At The Centerline Intersection



364.3 14 11/32" 199.7 7 7/8"



7.9 5/16"



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Knock-Off The Edges Of The Plastic Slightly To Prevent Injury And Damage.



14.0 9/16"



Chuck Up A 1/16" Drill Bit In Your Drill Press And Carefully Drill A Hole Through All Of the Brace Ends



364.3 14 11/32" 8.0 5/16"



Next Use a Sharp Scratch All Or Other Sharp Instrucment And Mark All Of the Brace Ends Clearly Into the Plastic.



With Brace Ends Dirlled And Brace Centers Scratched Into The Surface Of The Plastic, You Now Have A Very Long-Lasting Top Template And Top Brace Marking Template.



5.2 1.8 7/32" 7.0 1/16" 9/32"



Cut This Template From The Sheet of Paper and Use Spray Adhesive To Attach To A Piece Of Plexiglas or Lexan. (Keep Protection Paper On The Plastic.) Cut Out The Top Outline Precicely To This Outline And Sand To The Line Edge With A Spindle Sander If Available.



1.77°



426.7 15.9 5/8"



412.8 398.1



This point starts at the center of the tail block for reference point one.



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Note: The depth of this template represents the total depth of the guitar, which includes the top and back plates. You should subract the dimensions of these 2 plates from your template when you finalize the dimension or your guitar will be deeper by that amount. 27 26 25 30 28 29



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348.5 37.0 1 15/32"



330.0



34.9 1 3/8"



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193.3 165.6



73.0 2 7/8"



136.2 This point starts at the center of the tail block for reference point one.



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16 15 18The dashed 17 14 13 lined represents a straight line drawn from The neck block to the tail block. As you can see, if you would trim your guitar sides to this line you would have a lot of reforming to do.



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Classical Side Contour Template



37.0 Each of these light lines represents a reference line 1" or 25.4mm apart



Fret Layout Template



Center of Waist



Center of Lower Bout



Top & Brace Locator Template



Classical Side Contour Template



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Center Template On Brace And Mark Out Contour.



Back Arch Contour



34.9 1 3/8"



34.9 1 3/8"



128.6 5 1/16"



Cut Slots Into H Machine Head R Locate Holes An Press. Cut Strin and Final Shape A Dowel.



7.9 5/16"



When you order wood make sure you order wood that is at least 1" oversize you can eliminate splits etc. 2" is even better and quite often accomodated sure the tops and backs are bookmatched for grain pattern.



Neck blanks can be Cuban Cedar. This is a very lightweight but very strong should be clear Ebony, solid and you will have to buy 2 of them to allow you reinforcing to the center of the neck.



Most suppliers will have brace wood available, which is split from to log so t the wood - look for this in the literature.



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You will also need additional wood to make up the purfling around he edges maple or some other type of white wood if you want white stripping accents the dark wood use Rosewood veneer.



We did not get into the details of how purfling is put on this guitar as that is issue and not a guitar play issue. Any number of guitar construction books w proper techniques of installing purfling, where it should be and how to lamin



Materials



Heel Contour @ Body



Classical Guitar Plan #2



: Buy good fret stock with at least 18% silver content. Steward MacDonald ha Assemble the proper materials before you b fretwire as does LMI. already, there are several great suppliers in range of top and back wood availa Rossettes are best purchased already made unless youand areside determined to c that is a bit less expensive for first try, operation. Many of the supply housed carry a great assortmentyour of prefabrica is about 50 to 33% of the cost of the Rosew try, go with Honduros Mahogany. It and wor Buy good tuning machines. Make sure they the have good plating on them don't have to deal with exotic resins in the gauge. Buttons can be pearl, pearloid or ebony on many good quality machw of the the other exotic woods. Interior blocking for the butt blocks can be either Spruce or Cedar or even M When you and orderiswood make sure you order Cedar. Just make sure it is free from knots striaght grained. Optain th you can eliminate splits etc. 2" is even bette yards or instrument supply shops. sure the tops and backs are bookmatched f



Neck blanks can be Cuban Cedar. This is a should be clear Ebony, solid and you will ha reinforcing to the center of the neck.



Allowance For Guitar Sides To Slide Into Slots On Each Side Of Neck Stock



Back Arch Contour



37.0 1 15/32"



Most suppliers will have brace wood availab the wood - look for this in the literature.



Top Thickness Allowance



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Once All The Holes Have Been Drilled, Remove The Paper Protection From The Plastic.



This Drawing or Drawings Are To Used For One Use Only And Not Reproduced For Any Other Center Template On Brace And Mark Out Contour. Purpose Than Construction Of This Particular Instrument, and a One Time Reproduction Only is Allowed



For The Brace Intersections, Take A Sharp Pointed Tool, Like A Scratch Awl And Mark The Centerline Of Each Brace Clearly Into The Surface Of The Plastic.



Classical Back Arch Template



Heel Contour @ Body



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With Brace Ends Dirlled And Brace Centers Scratched Into The Surface Of The Plastic, You Now Have A Very Long-Lasting Top Template And Top Brace Marking Template.



Back Arch Contour



Knock-Off The Edges Of The Plastic Slightly To Prevent Injury And Damage.



Center Template On Brace And Mark Out Contour.



Note That The Lexan Will Be Harder To Sand And Will Scratch Easier, But It Is Very Durable. Plexiglas Will Crack If Dropped On Your Shop Floor.



Each of these light lines represents a reference line 1" or 25.4mm apart



Use A Sharp Scratch All Or Other Sharp Instrument And Mark All The Brace Ends. These Are Shown With The Small Circle At The Centerline Intersection



Classical Back Arch Template Classical Side Contour Template



The dashed lined represents a straight line drawn from The neck block to the tail block. As you can see, if you would trim your guitar sides to this line you would have a lot of reforming to do.



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Tail Block



Center of Waist



Head Block



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Top & Brace Locator Template



Center of Upper Bout



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Cut This Template From The Sheet of Paper and Use Spray Adhesive To Attach To A Piece Of Plexiglas or Lexan. (Keep Protection Paper On The Plastic.) Cut Out The Top Outline Precicely To This Outline And Sand To The Line Edge With A Spindle Sander If Available.



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Next Use a Sharp Scratch All Or Other Sharp Instrucment And Mark All Of the Brace Ends Clearly Into the Plastic.



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Note: Be Sure To Check The Actual Roller Spac 1.77° Machines Before Making The For Your Tuning Template and Layout. They Vary Slightly From M To Mfr. 1.77°



Assemble the proper materials before you begin your project. Note: Be don't Sure hT If you already, there are several great suppliers including LMI (Luthier's For Your Tuning Merchant range of top and back and side wood available. If this is your Template andyo La first guitar, that is a bit less expensive for your first try, such as mahogany To Mfr. for backs an is about 50 to 33% of the cost of the Rosewoods etc. If you want an easy b try, go with the Honduros Mahogany. It works easily, sands nicely, and finish don't have to deal with exotic resins in the wood like you do with Rosewood of the the other exotic woods.



This point starts at the center of the tail block for reference point one.



a reference line 17 21Each of these 19 20 light lines represents 18 1" or 25.4mm apart



Cut Slots Into Headstock After Drilling Holes For Machine Head Rollers. Make A Template To Locate Holes And Drile Precisely With A Drill Press. Cut String Ramps In With A Round Rasp and Final Shape With Sandpaper Wrapped Arou A Dowel.



Materials:



Chuck Up A 1/16" Drill Bit In Your Drill Press And Carefully Drill A Hole Through All Of the Brace Ends



Note: The depth of this template represents the total depth of the guitar, which includes the top backfrom plates. You should subract the dimensions The dashed lined represents a straight lineand drawn of these 2 plates from your template when trim you finalize the dimension or The neck block to the tail block. As you can see, if you would guitar will be deeper amount. to do. your guitar sides toyour this line you would have aby lotthat of reforming 27 25 30 26 29 28



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Tail Block



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Center of Lower Bout



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Center of Upper Bout



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15.9 5/8"



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Tail Block



Center of Lower Bout



Center of Waist



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4.8 20.8 21.8 3/16 16" 13/ 27/32" 85.7 3 3/8" Depth Of Holes For Rollers Can Vary With Tuning Machine Mfr.



Notch For Nut Here



Center of Upper Bout



Head Block



267.6



15.9 7.9 5/16"Thickness Only Is Shown (No 5/8" Neck Fingerboard)



Head Block



289.6



Neck Template



Note: The depth of this template represents the total depth of the guitar, which includes the top and back plates. You should subract the dimensions of these 2 plates from your template when you finalize the dimension or your guitar will be deeper by that amount. 25 26 29 30 27 28



29.1 1 5/32" 128.6 5 1/16"



34.9 1 3/8"



You will also need additional wood to make maple or some other type of white wood if y the dark wood use Rosewood veneer.



We did not get into the details of how purflin issue and not a guitar play issue. Any numb proper techniques of installing purfling, whe Buy good fret stock with at least 18% silver fretwire as does LMI.



Rossettes are best purchased already mad operation. Many of the supply housed carry



Buy good tuning machines. Make sure they gauge. Buttons can be pearl, pearloid or eb



Date: Feb. 2010 Revisions: Unless Noted Otherwise, These Plans Are Drawing Full Scale. They Are Labeled in mm and Fractional Inches



Interior blocking for the butt blocks can be e Cedar. Just make sure it is free from knots a yards or instrument supply shops.



Sheet Number



C5