It flexes a little but it doesn t matter.
Go bar deck construction.
Now you could just use lots and lots of expensive clamps with many cauls but most luthiers use what is called a go bar deck.
We can take care of all your decking needs from wood decks to composite decks.
A go bar deck is an open sided box with a plywood top and bottom.
The supports consist of all thread rod fished through 1 plastic conduit bench dog holes in the bench and holes in the plywood with washers and wing nuts at the ends.
Once the body is finished and it is time to glue and clamp the top or back of the guitar to the sides the upper deck will be raised about four of five inches to give room for the guitar body without over bending the fiberglass rods.
Go bar deck assembly from a sheet of 3 4 plywood cut six pieces each 2 feet x 2 feet.
When clamping braces on the front or back of the guitar the upper deck is set about two feet above the lower deck.
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The basic idea is that you apply vertical pressure using rods usually fiberglass under tension.
There are no critical dimensions involved in the construction of the go bar deck but if you want to use commercially available dished work boards 2 in diameter and commercially available go bars 2 long it is best to keep all dimensions at 2.
The top of the deck is just a single sheet of 3 4 construction grade plywood.
Stack and glue two of the pieces together and stack and glue the other four together the extra thickness is required to give the go bar deck base sufficient stiffness.
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The peices being glued sit on the bottom and the flexible go bars bend to apply pressure by pushing against the top.
The second part of the equation is to press it all into a disk with the correct radius but that s not todays problem.