Thanks: 0
Likes: 0
Needs Pictures: 0
Picture(s) thanks: 0
Results 1 to 4 of 4
Thread: white falcon
-
16th December 2010, 12:18 AM #1Senior Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2008
- Location
- perth
- Posts
- 112
white falcon
hey everyone, just wondering what the best place is to get plans for a build. i want to make something similar to a gretsch white falcon so so yeh if anyone could help with a good link or even a book.
Cheers..
-
16th December 2010 12:18 AM # ADSGoogle Adsense Advertisement
- Join Date
- Always
- Location
- Advertising world
- Posts
- Many
-
17th December 2010, 11:43 AM #2
doubt you will get a set of working drawings for a white falcon
a good starting place would to read benedettos book on building an archtop
The White Falcon has a 25.5 inch scale and a set net joint. Gretsch uses solid spruce for the archtop of the guitar. The back and sides are made with laminated maple. The Falcon has a maple neck with an ebony fingerboard.
there are some differences in the benedetto project
carved maple back
solid maple sides
25" scale - the neck is laminated maple
you could build the benedetto to the falcon outline and depth, paint it white and you have it -
if you are talking modern falcons built in the orient i think they have a laminated top as well as back
it would be a very difficult job to build laminated maple top and back - you need molds and presses -
on the other hand the technology required to carve a top and back is very low tech
i think there is a guy in the states that sells laminated arch tops and bottoms as well as cnc carved sets from solid material - they are expensive
this is a very ambitious project btw
ray c
dunno what's more fun, buyin' the tools or usin' em'
-
17th December 2010, 04:20 PM #3Senior Member
- Join Date
- Apr 2010
- Location
- Blacktown
- Age
- 60
- Posts
- 175
Last month a i was in Carbatec and i saw two books on arch tops , cant tell you what they were but, i flicked through both and they have some pretty good stuff in em. I know you can buy from them online so you could give that a try. My knowledge on guitar books is extremely limited.
In the not too distant future (probably in a few months or so) i am going to make a mold to press laminates for archtops. Ill be using Canadian Hard Rock Maple just to sus things out at first thickness to 5-6.5 mm and will be tough as. Ill be posting up progress of it when i start, should be an interesting project.
-
18th December 2010, 03:42 PM #4
There may be some thing of interest on this site.
Vintage Guitars Info - Gretsch collecting vintage guitars
regards
Wal<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line- 120%; }</style> Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Abert_Einstein.
Similar Threads
-
Southern Star - White Wheel Or White Elephant?
By Metal Head in forum NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH WOODWORKReplies: 2Last Post: 4th February 2009, 01:51 PM -
falcon/pope 6/7???
By Greg_stewy in forum HAND TOOLS - UNPOWEREDReplies: 0Last Post: 16th May 2007, 12:13 PM -
LPG - Falcon
By Daddles in forum NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH WOODWORKReplies: 2Last Post: 30th January 2006, 12:31 PM