Like the "wildwood" Coronados or something, to my mind it evokes woodchip wallpaper, thick carpets in the bathroom and knotty pine cladding. It always looked a bit twee, a bit too much forced-rustic. I agree, Fender didn't do a good job integrating the f-hole onto their models in the '60s and '70s. I agree with a lot of what you say, and it's a really difficult balance to strike since the f-hole will always have a kind of renaissance look to it - and was very much an antiquated feature even on a lot of guitars we would think of as very old fashioned today. On the contrary, it's a valid opinion and I'm very glad you shared it. Semi-semi-hollow XDĬonstruction-wise I will approach it like this thinline Jazzmaster I did with forearm and tummy contours. I will leave several columns around the f-hole to make sure, and I'm going for half way between a semi-hollow and full hollow on these. In reality, I will probably make one or two of each to start and see how they go!Īs far as weakening the top, the other one I did was fully hollow and had no problems. On the other hand, maybe someone is sold on the features already, it's already not a Les Paul or a Strat or what have you, and too much might put them off.
On the one hand, a love-it-or-hate-it approach makes a bit of sense, because at the price point you have to charge as a small builder, it's not going to be people who think it's just "ok" who put their money down for something like this. I'm basically developing this model to launch into making guitars professionally, so a part of me has to look at it and ask what is going to sit right with the market.
It's different if it's "what would I want on MY guitar" perhaps. More typically in guitars, mandolins, it's more of a parallelogram or a diamond - which is what I see more of in the first guitar not so much in your new design. You would have to tilt the axis of the notch on your new design to make that happen.Īlso, in some classic designs, the middle notch on some f-holes is barely a line. This isn't happening in the middle notch of your new design - just an observation. Your design points elsewhere, but I think it works well in the already built because it works as an extension of the line of the lower bout, before curving back out to the upper bout. The middle notch in traditional f-holes points more or less at the bridge. Lets talk about the "middle notch" first - the slanted part in the middle that resembles the line that defines a letter as an f. Seems to be your own take on the concept and having your own version is a good thing, IMO. Your larger f-hole version works ok, looks fine on the already-built guitar. (And maybe the bin is where they belong.)
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