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Alan, can you think of any reason the shorter scale is an improvement?

Since 25.5” is only ~2.2mm shorter than a standard 650mm scale, could I make the neck 1.1mm longer, move the bridge down by 1.1mm, and go with the longer scale?

Thanks, Barry! It’s nice to be back on the forum. I built a couple steel strings back in the late 90’s and got lots of help with my questions from Deb and the forum members. I’m retired now and getting back into building. Classicals are new to me, so I don’t know what is tradition and what is requir...

Hello MIMF’s I’m considering building H.E. Brown’s “improved” Torres classical guitar (Int’l Luthier Supply plan AGP-040). Has anyone here built from this plan? Comparing against other Torres plans I’ve found online, it looks like he went to a dovetail neck, shortened the scale to 25.5”, and compens...