 650
mm or 640 mm?
Keep the following
rule at hand: If the distance between the tip of your thumb and the tip
of your little finger is equal or less than 9 in. when fully stretched,
use 640 mm. In stringed instrument performance, a single millimeter can
mean the difference between playing effortlessly or the exact opposite.
The fan brace is based on the Hauser
1943 Frame. It incorporates 4 different species of wood: Sinker redwood,
Spruce, Cedar and Mahogany. The sinker Redwood is the transversal strut
that shortens the trebles side to augment the power of the high registers
whilst Cedar and spruce were used on the bass side to augment the power
of and resonance of the bass line. I think I can affirm that she has the
most powerful 6th string I have ever heard and one of the best ringing
trebles you can hope for. Simply amazing. The top was reduced to less than
1 mm towards the edges and just a little over 1 mm towards the bridge area
where I installed a new underbridge system that connects the bridge with
each strut in the fan brace whilst directing each frequency to the right
portion of the top.
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Italian Alpine Spruce is
the highest growing tree on the planet. It grows at or above 1,800 meters
where the oxygen is rarefied. This makes the grain much tighter resulting
in a strong reverberating tone wood. This is the species Stradivarius used
for his legendary violins.
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