Today I finished bracing the top of Mike's fan fretted semi-baritone. The x-braces are layed out slightly off center so that each brace properly catches the corner of the slanted bridge. On custom guitars like this one I really enjoy incrementally laying out the bracing scheme. It all starts with drawing the precise location of the saddle on the bottom of the soundboard. Then I draw the bridge around that. Then I'm ready to draw in where the x-braces go and fill in the outline of the bridge plate. From there everything else falls into place. Next I'll be assembling the rim and getting it ready to be glued onto the top.
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