Tenor guitar dimensions
Ed Edelenbos iPad
body depth) for a Martin O-18T? I can find the standard Martin O
dimensions but apparently, the tenor was slightly smaller. I'm considering
building a tenor (with a bunch of help from a friend). I'm almost set on a
Size 5 (terz) tenor but I'd like to look at an O size tenor shape, too.
Ed
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JimLowther
I have a Little Martin that is supposedly has the dimensions of an
0-14 fret tenor. Would those dimensions suit you?
Best wishes,
Dr. Jim Lowther
Ed Edelenbos iPad
If you wouldn't mind, I'd sure appreciate it. I think the scale length is
23", is that right?
Thanks a million.
JimLowther
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The scale is about 23.25 inches. Width at the nut is 1 5/8. Lower
bout is 12.5 inches wide, upper 8.5. The body is 3.5 inches deep at
the tail pin, tapers to about 2.8 at the neck join. The body is 15.7
inches long. Overall length is just over 34 inches.
Need anything else? remember, CFM calls this guitar using a size
"modified from" an 0-14 fret tenor size, so there may be some
deciations.
Ed Edelenbos iPad
That'll get me started. I sure appreciate it. Maybe I'll try to find pics
of each and Photoshop them next to each other.
When you got the Martin, did you compare it to any of the imports?
Blueridge makes a few and so does Gold Tone. There are a couple others but
those are the two makers that seem to be easy to find.
And, what sort of stuff do you play on yours?
Tony Done
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I just had a look in "The Martin Book". I think that the 0-18 would have
been bigger than the Little Martin, at 13 1/2", but in the 14-fret style.
There is no mention of an odd dimension for the 0-18T, evidence by omission
isn't strong, but I don't think they would have called it an "0" if the body
had been narrower than that. years ago I looked briefly at a Gibson 25-T (or
something like that) and can't recall that it looked particularly small,
maybe their 00 size. I do remember that it sounded very sweet and chimey.
FWIW, the 00-18T shown in the book is 15-fret, and the Gibson may have been
similar.
Tony D
Tony D
Ed Edelenbos iPad
At this point, I forget where I read it exactly but it was more than one
place, and one was one of the (Unofficial) Martin history pages. I think
the distinction is O and O Tenor. Just like the differences between 12
and 14 fret O bodies, not quite the same but both still called O. I think
the Blueridge tenors are supposedly very close to an actual Martin O Tenor.
Maybe I can find a dealer who is feeling generous enough to do some
measuring for me.
So far, I think I'm going to stick with a Size 5 body size. Obviously I
have a ton of work to do "spec'ing" this thing. I have several plans drawn
from examples of various Tenors, terzes (sp?), and size 1 and O.
JimLowther
Well, not playing much of anything on it currently. In fact, I would
sell it for a fair price (I think). Like Jim McCrain, I seem to be on
an endless search for the ideal travel guitar. The Little Martin just
wasn't it for me. (I think maybe a parlor size solid top Voyage Air
might be, if there was such a thing.) I got the LX Black because I
cannot abide surfaces with printed or otherwise forged "wood tone."
But the HPL top really limits the "viable tone." I think Martin
should make an LX-1 with a black body and solid Spruce black gloss
top.
When I do play it I play fingerstyle, but bare nails don't really seem
to drive the top enough, and the neck is rather narrow for
fingerstyle.
So does all this make someone interested in buying my LX Black?
JimLowther
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I doubled check just to be sure, and the bottom bout on the LX is 12.5
as originally reported. I don't know if The Martin Book could be
wrong or CFM "modification" of the tenor shape includes a narrower
bout without comparing to an actual 0-18T, which I don't have. BTW,
the waist for the LX is 7.5 inches, if anyone is interested.
Just a side note--the body sizes of flat top Martin guitars are
expressed by a number, hence 0 not O, except for the OM, in which the
O stands for Orchestra, as in Orchestra Model. So it is 0-18T rather
than O-18T.
Besides Blueridge I think Gold Tone also has a tenor guitar. The last
tenor guitar I saw "in the wild" was a Harmony that my old buddy Rick
Roberts sold at the Dallas Guitar Show some years back.