My Paddy Burgin bouzouki

I am posting a picture of my Paddy Burgin bouzouki made in New Zealand. It has a 23.5" (596 mm) scale length. The top is made of spruce with the back and sides made of blackwood. I will post picture of what is looks like closer up. The headstock has a nice shape to it.

It has an interesting woody tone with good intonation up the neck. Actually I really enjoy playing it right up the neck. The neck has a nice profile and feel to it.

I love playing balkan pieces on it. It also sounds nice playing chords on it.

Any comments on it are welcome.

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Here are some extra photos to show it in more detail:

slight induced arch on the soundboard
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the front
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the headstock
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the back made of Australian blackwood
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If it sounds half as good as it looks, you've a cracker there.

Paddy's work has always been interesting.

Best of luck with it.

Paul

While it does not sound anything like a Sobell, it has a really characteristic bouzouki sound, with an interesting timbre produced by the blackwood back and sides. I really like the shape of the bridge. It is a bit quirky.

Paddy is a really nice guy to deal with. He has a great sense of humour. See the blog relating to the making of another bouzouki like mine.

http://wharfinexile.proboards.com/in...lay&thread=781

He also makes a 'Shanghai' version of the bouzouki. Refer to his web site: http://burginguitars.co.nz/instruments/cut-away/

He is also well known for his Weissenborn guitars.

Very nice! That one looks as though it will get you through any seisiun.

The blackwood is quite nice looking. It looks, to me, like walnut. Can you draw a comparison? Does it sound more like rosewood, or walnut? Maybe mahogany?

Regardless, nice instrument ya' got there!

[QUOTE=Gerry Cassidy;1038962]Very nice! That one looks as though it will get you through any seisiun.

The blackwood is quite nice looking. It looks, to me, like walnut. Can you draw a comparison? Does it sound more like rosewood, or walnut? Maybe mahogany?

I would say that it would tend towards a walnut sound. Yes, I suppose it has a clear nutty sound. I have a mahogany back and sides octave mandolin. It has a very different tonality to this one - the scale on the octave mandolin is 1" shorter than this one.

I would love to hear a little sound clip or even better, a video. I really like the look of that instrument, especially the lovely carved top.

Bill

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Originally Posted by Bill S

I would love to hear a little sound clip or even better, a video. I really like the look of that instrument, especially the lovely carved top.

Bill

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Hi Bill,

Ok, I will do a video - I have been meaning to do a video of it for sometime

As it is the Easter weekend, I have time to record a tune or two.

i was looking at his web page as well. very nice work but i have never heard one. i was thinking of a short scale cittern.he used a lot of southern woods. which can be nice. i bought a handmade local guitar with lacewood back and sides, from australia(the wood not the guitar). i had never heard lacewood before but it's beautiful, sort of half way between rosewood and mahagony. australian black wood ought ot be interesting.

let's hear a sound clp