Not Only Cones Make It… and Cylinders Almost.
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0In the time since Tim Olsen’s article “Cylinders Don’t Make It” [1] the main ideas there havebeen accepted, developed and, finally, simplified and distorted. Many, including myself, remembered it more like “Only Cones Make It.” The first impression that something in my ideas was wrong was when I made a CAD model of a fretboard some time ago. I wanted it to have a constant curvature radius of 300 mm (around 12”). There are many customers that still want that, in spite of offering well-designed conical-shaped fingerboards. My first thought was to draw two circles, 12” diameter, one directly above the other, at the distance from nut to end...)
Publicado en American Lutherie #101 (Primavera de 2010)
Not Only Cones Make It… and Cylinders Almost.