Telecaster Guitar Forum - View Single Post - Inexpensive Martins or other acoustics good for blues?

Wally · May 9th, 2008, 02:16 PM

Rotelli, those are not the X braces that I photo'd, and yes your guitar is one of the ones that looks like this on the inside. Mirrors are very revealing instruments.I hope your experiences are different from those of the folks I know. These guitars that I have known over the past 10 years that have this problem do not suffer from the problems that one usually sees when a top goes in like this....loose or broken braces...X or side braces. These guitars simply did not have sufficient support from these braces that come off of the side of the X bracing.
All of the Martins that are 'inexpensive' and have modern nomenclature are built this way ime.

May 9th, 2008, 02:16 PM	#20 (permalink)
Wally Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Lubbock, TX Posts: 3,769	Rotelli, those are not the X braces that I photo'd, and yes your guitar is one of the ones that looks like this on the inside. Mirrors are very revealing instruments.I hope your experiences are different from those of the folks I know. These guitars that I have known over the past 10 years that have this problem do not suffer from the problems that one usually sees when a top goes in like this....loose or broken braces...X or side braces. These guitars simply did not have sufficient support from these braces that come off of the side of the X bracing. All of the Martins that are 'inexpensive' and have modern nomenclature are built this way ime.