Tone Braces

Well...... I found out tonight I will need to make a shooting board. I was carving the tone braces, slipped and hit my floor with the chisel. requiring a resharpening of the chisel and a mad look on my face.

A shooting board similar to this should work:


photo from http://acousticguitarbuild.blogspot.com/2008/06/building-soundboard.html


I have some spare MDF in my basement as well as some spare hardwood.

here is a good article on scalloping tone braces:
http://www.frets.com/FRETSpages/Musician/Guitar/SclpBraces/sclpbrace1.html