Tavy, you can hear the 'experimental' mandolins on Martino Quintavalla's website:
https://www.liuteriaquintavalla.it/en/df-carbon/
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Tavy, you can hear the 'experimental' mandolins on Martino Quintavalla's website:
https://www.liuteriaquintavalla.it/en/df-carbon/
That's a neat way of making the veins. How thin do you think you could sand them? The veins on most bowlbacks are only about a milimetre wide, sometimes closer to half. The way they were/are usually...
Lovely instrument and great sound, especially that E string. It does have amazing sustain and a lot of sympathetic resonance.
I've been meaning to ask why you chose to place the straight fret on...
How did you handle those funny angles at the junction of the skewed nut and the headstock? From the photos it looks like the longer side of the fretboard overhangs the bend and sits on top of the...
I remember a post on Maestronet about someone trying button lac in 1704 without success. It might be that the wax content of seed lac is part of what makes 1704 varnish what it is. I don't know what...
I don't really see how paper would work as a release layer over the mold since glue would inevitably leak through it. Nor do I see how you could achieve a neat paper lining if it was used in this...
So I guess it depends what the OP means by a 'slight' arch. Maybe try fitting the top to a flat rim first and see how it looks. If it doesn't take much pressure to get a clean joint all around, it's...
You really need to shape the linings and the blocks to the same radius as the top or the top will deform or the glue joint will be bad. It's pretty simple to make a radius sanding dish to do the job.
Ken Parker did, when he used them.
That's beautiful David. Of course I'm biased, but I love the old roo & emu penny and the timbers. How does the Huon pine top sound? I know it's been used successfully in guitars, but I've never tried...
Re. bridge placement, just how critical is it? Would a couple of mm forward or back make a significant difference?
So you can really bend the pearwood spacer around the tightest part of the curve without using any heat at all? Even heat-bending ebony I've had to make kerf cuts on the back side with a jeweller's...
Thanks a lot for this. It's really interesting and useful.
Am I right in thinking the ribs are glued at the tail end to a piece of veneer and the tail block fitted afterwards?
What was the...
Oh, and I forgot to ask what finish you used.
Beautiful Graham, and the end of a big project. Is the top of the mandocello King Billy as well? It's hard to see clearly from the photo, but the dark streaks make it look almost more like Bunya or...
Lovely instrument. Did you base the shape of your bowl on a particular model, or a combination of them?
Very nice! It's Blackwood bowlback week.
Did you use the Seiffert bracing scheme?
After bowl was together, with scrapers of different radius, then sandpaper on dowels.
Are you planning to replace the staves?
Here are some pictures of an Embergher model 5 I recently completed in Queensland Blackwood. The curl in the grain is more broken than in maple, so it was hard to get the same continuity of pattern...
Yes, though not as dramatic as the good quality Vic/Tas stuff. I've never heard of Daran. I wonder what other names it has? Nice grain - looks almost like She-oak.
This coincidence is too weird not to post. Here's another Australian acacia bowl-in-progress, this one an Embergher copy made from Queensland Blackwood (which might be one of several Acacia species)....
Very intriguing. If the tanbur is reversible, and has been flipped between the two segments of the video, then the only way I can make sense of it is that it has a very shallow body (the same...
Thank you Martino. A fine sounding (and fine looking) instrument.
As I understand Gore falcate bracing, it is designed specifically for the rocking motion of a guitar soundboard with a fixed bridge, so I wonder how suitable it is for a floating bridge system. The...
It didn't persuade me either. But if the moon does something measurable to trees (just) I suppose the moonwood story is just possibly free of leprechauns.