Box Archtops

We designed and built three box-shaped archtops. The first was intended to turn a spare neck into a travel guitar.  The second and third were intended to explore the use of a side port.  Here we catalog some of our results.

Designing and building

A CNC-routed neck

Here we report on our efforts to 

1) Quantify the role, if any, that the lowest-frequency  body resonace has on the percieved musical quality of a guitar, and  

2) Quantify the role, if any, that a side-port has on the player's experience, and if so why.