Myrtle Complete

I completed the Myrtle version for final assembly. I did fret wire leveling and polishing. I applied Oil finish over the finger board.Then, I assembled the neck and the body, and glued the bridge. I have been using the vacuum clumping system. The Kasha bridge needs to use a pressure aiding attachment to obtain a perfect assemble, because the Kasha bridge has super thin edges. Once I apply the glue over the bridge bottom, the bridge wings will be bended due to the glue moisture. I have been using the vacuum clumping with the attachment. This technique enables to perfectly accomplish very tricky Kasha bridge assembly.

Brazilian special is completed

Finally, the Brazilian special nylon model is completed. I attached a Kasha style impedance matching bridge. This bridge is heavily tapered. So, the bridge install is quite tricky. Tapered edge bends when apply glue due to the moisture. I have to use a vacuum clump for removing moisture during the cure of the glue. You may see very thin bridge. I also installed an arm rest. The arm rest is also made by the 100-years old special Brazilian rose wood.

The completed guitar created a piano like very even tone with nice brightness. Bass is very strong and treble to very bright. I have never heard of this much strong bass other than Kasha bracing system. This guitar has very nice Kasha model sound. However, my design showed more balanced tone character, because I shortened some tone bars in buss side. I also added two strong horizontal braces in upper bout. I also moved the sound hole into players side. This offset sound hole improved monitoring capability for a player. So, this guitar does not need additional sound ports. Anyway, I am really happy with result.

I will install a piezo pick-up system for this guitar.