Acoustic Guitar Construction

I'm making working templates from StewMac's Herringbone drawings. Nobody laugh, please: Is the drawing oriented so that I'm looking at the braces from the back or the front? I haven't noticed any comments on the drawing to indicate which orientation is shown. My guess is that I'm seeing the bracing from the back and that pattern could be copied and laid out on the backside of the top just as shown. If the bracing is shown looking through the soundboard from the top, it would have to be mirrored so that the tone bars wind up on the same side as the prototype...

Is there a conventional orientation I need to know?

Thanks, folks.

The tone bars the bottom two braces slant so that they are closer to the bridge on the treble side and farther away from the bridge on the bass side. I forget which way that plan is but you can use the above to orient yourself.

John, I think from your suggestions that the drawing is oriented as if the back is off the instrument and I'm looking at the underside of the top. I think.

Thanks very much.

Yes Peter,
It is the view from the inside.
Herman

peter havriluk wrote: I'm seeing the bracing from the back and that pattern could be copied and laid out on the backside of the top just as shown.

That is correct if you are building a right handed guitar, the tone bars would be reversed if building a left handed guitar. At least that's how I do it.

Sorry I am failing to see the mystery here? Bass/tone bar placement is basic and very much standardized.

https://www.google.com/search?q=martin+ ... 24&bih=691

It's a mystery until you do it once...