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Private member DiscussionDesign and Testing

New fretboard modeling tool

Hi everyone. I just wanted to share a new (free!) tool I made, a website for designing fretboards. https://fretboard.buzz. It's similar to FretFind2D, but modernized, with many more features, including fretboard markers, a 'flip' for converting any design to lefty, support for mixed units of measure (use both metric and imperial at the same time), etc. I spent months building it, I would love to get your feedback. Thanks!

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Ian Davlin
It is up. Let me know if I missed anything. Really awesome work ! Any chance you're up on Nginx reverse proxies ?
Private member DiscussionDesign and Testing

Vibrational Stiffness

@member @member I have a question for you. I'm starting to measure spruce for a couple of classical guitars I'm going to make. I used structured sides (I'm calling them cored) on one of my last guitars and it came out notably great. I accidentally thinned the top more than I might have and it seemed to work very well. My thought is that the sides are so stiff that it's allowing the top to survive structurally even…

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I’m running structured sides for all my builds. Though I’m debating doing a typical side build for other reasons soon regarding my neck joint at cutaway. The way I understand the structured sides is t…