One piece composite guitar body
OwnerStephen J. Davis, Richard Janes +2inventors
InventorsStephen J. Davis, Richard Janes, C. Malcolm Bash, Peter J.C. Chou
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Abstract
A body for a stringed instrument comprising a front face and a back face and a continuous side face there around; and an exterior laminate, the exterior laminate being formed of a plurality of composite layers including an interior layer, the composite layers of the laminate also including at least one supplemental layer, each layer including strands enveloped in an associated polymeric binder, with each subsequent layer being in intimate contact with the next adjacent layer.
Claims15
A body for a stringed instrument comprising:
- a front face and a back face and a continuous side face there around;
- and
- an exterior laminate, the exterior laminate being formed of a plurality of composite layers including an interior layer, the composite layers of the laminate also including at least one supplemental layer, each layer being fabricated of strands of an essentially inextensible material enveloped in an associated polymeric binder, with each subsequent layer being in intimate contact with the next adjacent layer.
An electronic guitar body for tailoring the sound produced by virtue of a one piece composite construction comprising, in combination:
- a front face and a back face having a common shape formed with a lower curved edge and an upper sinusoidal edge with a central neck pocket formed therein and with sinusoidal side edges there between, the body also having a continuous side face there around between the edges of the front face and the edges of the back face and with an essentially common distance between the majority of the extents of the front face and the back face;
- a plurality of discontinuities formed within the front face including a hole for bridge installation extending from the front face to the back face and also including a plurality of electronic cavities extending downwardly from the front face to a distance less than the common distance between the front face and the back face;
- an interior one-piece core with an exterior surface fabricated of a rigid foam of a type adapted to abate shrinkage during the heat of molding, preferably polyurethane;
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- an exterior laminate in intimate contact with the entire exterior surface of the core, the exterior laminate being formed of a plurality of composite layers including an interior layer of linear aligned strands or fibers cloth having continuous longitudinal strands and continuous latitudinal strands, the composite layers of the laminate also including at least one non-cloth layer of continuous aligned strands, all of the strands being essentially inextensible fibers, preferably fiberglass, the strands of each layer being enveloped in an associated polymeric binder, preferably epoxy, with the interior most ply being a linear aligned strands or fibers cloth in intimate contact with the core and with each subsequent layer being in intimate contact with the next adjacent layer.
An acoustic guitar body for tailoring the sound produced by virtue of a one piece composite construction comprising, in combination:
- a front face and a back face having a common shape formed with a lower curved edge and an upper sinusoidal edge with or without a central neck pocket formed therein and with sinusoidal side edges there between, the body also having a continuous side face there around between the edges of the front face and the edges of the back face and with an essentially common distance between the majority of the extents of the front face and the back face;
- with or without one or more sound holes positioned on the front face to a distance less than the common distance between the front face and the back face;
- an exterior laminate formed of a plurality of composite layers including an interior layer of linear aligned strands or fibers cloth having continuous longitudinal strands and continuous latitudinal strands, the composite layers of the laminate also including at least one non-cloth layer of continuous aligned strands, all of the strands being essentially inextensible fibers, preferably fiberglass, the strands of each layer being enveloped in an associated polymeric binder, preferably epoxy, with the interior most ply being linear aligned strands or fibers of cloth and with each subsequent layer being in intimate contact with the next adjacent layer.
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