Hatcher Piña 0 model Green Mountain Series

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by J.R. Rogers

Wow - absolute work of art as usual, Mark. I really love the stones in the rosette and on the back. The hues in the stone work with that wood set so nicely.

JR

Thanks for commenting JR! I’m loving this color combo too.

Mark

[Mark Hatcher]

I have the back braces split out, profiled, weighed, deflected, matched and surfaced and am gluing them onto the back in my lattice pattern:



Here is a peak of the unvoiced back through the sound hole:



Mark

[Mark Hatcher]

I have the top in the go-bar. I'm deck gluing down the last round of braces:


The height of these braces will be trimmed down in the voicing process. You'll notice I work with rather thin braces.

Here is a close up of my X brace for this guitar:



You'll notice I use a sash joint at this intersection rather than a big clunky, heavy, sound deadening lap joint. This is a lot more work to do with a lot of miters but the result is a joint that is not a big clunky, heavy, sound deadening lap joint.

It is harder to see all but of my tone braces are hand split to assure they are absolutely quartersawn and have no run out. This optimizes stiffness so I can cut away more sound deadening weight when voicing the guitar and it also reduces the chance of splitting.

You can see my brace profile has a foot where it is glued to the top. This lowers vibrational impedance between the tone brace and the soundboard. It also provides a wider gluing surface, reduces stress points at the joint edges and reduces the brace positions from showing through the top of the sound board.

You also can't see that I prepare the braces' glue surface by scraping it right before glue up. This improves adhesion and make the joint more permanent.

You also don't see things like my top brace pattern and all that goes into that. I just wanted to make a point that it's easy to take pictures of a pretty guitar but I spend the majority of my time doing things that you don't see and are done for my main goals of making the guitar sound great, play great and last a lifetime.

Thank for following along!
Mark

[Lonzo]

Hi Mark,
I love how the cabochon integrates all the colors, even with an almost green shell like hue there…
..and after what you previously said about scraping vs planning, I hope the side bending goes well. Fingers crossed!

[mondoslug]

Really amazing.

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by Lonzo

Hi Mark,
I love how the cabochon integrates all the colors, even with an almost green shell like hue there…
..and after what you previously said about scraping vs planning, I hope the side bending goes well. Fingers crossed!

Thanks Lonzo! I’ll have more pics up soon. The sides bent very easily, no cracks, no scorching, easy peasy!

Originally Posted by mondoslug

Really amazing.

Thanks monodoslug!