David Zachman is a graduate student at Purdue University, specializing in mechanical design and robotics. He is an avid fan of guitar-centric music and is an amateur musician. While taking a class with Prof. Mark French, he helped design a linkage to approximate curves for guitar soundboards.
▪ bio current as of 2018
2018
AL#134 p.60
Mark French David Zachman
▪ There are times when a luthier may want to draw a good long-radius arch. If jury-rigging a 25-foot compass seems like a hassle, you may have been tempted to just bend a straight stick a little and call it good. Turns out that’s a better solution than you may have thought. This article evaluates several techniques and gives the math that undergirds them.