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Location: Upper Left USA | I have used the Elite/Adamas style of bracing but I want some opinions on where to punch the sound holes.
Option A: Put the holes on the sides and keep the top clean.
Option B: Nearly 2007 Collector's Style.
Option C: Long Oval Pairs.
Option D: Short Ovals.
Option E: Oval Pairs.
Option F: Suggest your own...
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Location: Milford, MI | I think I like the short ovals. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Paired ovals for me. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | The REGULAR Elite Style is Best .. the rest looks like " Scary Movie " to me .. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by stephent28:
Paired ovals for me. +1 |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Just don't do one of them 2080 tear-drop/Nike/cat's-eye thingies. |
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Location: Michigan | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Originally posted by stephent28:
Paired ovals for me. +1 |
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Location: Newington, CT | Oval pairs for greater sound balance. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Again, paired ovals.
They look different enough but still look "right". |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by twistedlim:
Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Originally posted by stephent28:
Paired ovals for me. +1 |
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Location: Ohio | Ow boutthe Nike Swoosh. Maybe yo can get Tiger whats his name to endose it....
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Location: Utah | Small ovals do it for me. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Elite Style is Best .. the rest looks like " Scary Movie " to me ..."
Any Princess Mononoke fans out there? |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | What would the paddle shape of the head look like as a sound hole?
Maybe the guitar shaped "O" used on the cases?
ehhh... nevermind! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | all the ovals are light in the loafers. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Beal:
all the ovals are light in the loafers. OK, how 'bout a Rambo version...
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Location: Ontario Canada | Hello MWoody,
A question for the experts. What is the percentage area of the soundhole(s) in relation to the total area of the soundboard please.?
I have an idea for something a little different.
Jim |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Reminds me W2, I was looking at some of the early Nationals (I think) and I saw the predecessor to your Thunderbolt theme. Not my favorite but definately stepping out.
RE:"What is the percentage area of the soundhole(s) in relation to the total area of the soundboard please.?"
You would have to research Hiemholtz Law as there is a ratio od chamber volume, surface area and tone through the open hole.
Off hand, I'd say 18:1 until a better answer shows up. |
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Location: closely held secret | Wonder what would happen if you put the hole(s) south of the bridge... |
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Location: Ontario Canada | Originally posted by MWoody:
RE:"What is the percentage area of the soundhole(s) in relation to the total area of the soundboard please.?"
You would have to research Hiemholtz Law as there is a ratio od chamber volume, surface area and tone through the open hole.
Off hand, I'd say 18:1 until a better answer shows up. Thank you, now for my old brain to figure the area of circle(x)the depth. Gotta go digging in archives, perhaps it's already been calculated for the volume of the bowl.
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Location: Upper Left USA | That thar is prime soundboard territory, no drill'in allowed!
Although...
some of the Archtops like this D'Aquisto Centura went pretty low. |
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Location: closely held secret | Mike, are you using an Ovation bowl for this project? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Yes |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Here's another option ... The location worked well for the McPhersons ...
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Location: Upper Left USA | Considered that but that is where the big ol Preamp goes (precut). |
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Location: Ohio | As far as the soudhole/volume numbers. Take a look at the Martin that Tony Rice plays. Clarence White used to put his cigarettes out on the edge of the sounshoe, and over time opened up the size and that git is a legend.....(no pun intended)
How about 2 well placeed old style f holes...
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Location: Omaha, NE | I really like Vince's suggestion. Different, yet still looks "Ovationy". |
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Location: Ontario Canada | Originally posted by nikon4004:
How about 2 well placeed old style f holes...
Steve That's what I thought might look nice, something Eddie Lang would pick up. Gosh I relly am dating myself.
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | I'm an asymmetrical person. I like Vince's suggestion best but I'd prefer to replace the 3 small holes on one side with one medium hole. Then leave the rest as suggested. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Bummer about the preamp conflict. You KNOW ... you COULD aquire one of those Takamine TUBE preamps and place it up in that left upper bout. Then you could have the better of both worlds. (: |
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Location: Utah | How about moving BVince's configuration down under the strings? Sort of an Eliticized center hole. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Instead of F holes, what about an M and W? |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | Waves:
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | like this, but on the bass side, like an epi. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | How about elite style where the f-holes would go? |
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Location: big island | i like option D but place the single oval on the bass side and make it slightly larger than the three others that should be on the treble side. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Make your favorite Jack-O-Lantern face on it and call it a semiHollow-een body???
Jus tryin to hep... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | waves on one side and holes on the other. oh yeah.. |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | How about 2 yin/yang-shaped holes (like these two but pulled apart and separated by a bit of wood)?
Then add some fretboard inlays like this guy did here :
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by Capo Guy:
Originally posted by twistedlim:
Originally posted by Trader Jim:
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Originally posted by stephent28:
Paired ovals for me.
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | How about a big happy-face cut in the upper left hand corner? :) |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | I kinda like the long ovals but what FlySig was saying would be cool too; Elite-style holes where the round hole would normally go.
Even further if I was doing it, two sets of Bass-side epi holes, big holes facing one in, little holes to the outside.
I can't figure out how to post a drawing of what I'm thinking but do you "see" what I'm getting at?
Anyway, just my two cents.
Tell you what, I'll get you to make me a top and.......
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Where to put the Hole(s)?