Sergio, I just sent you a PM on this.
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Type: Posts; User: Bill Halsey
Sergio, I just sent you a PM on this.
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Further to the OP, this new book by John Schippers just came to my attention thru Steve Lindsay's forum. Very positive pro reviews state that it focuses on traditional pushed-buren and hammer &...
Sam Alfano & Steve Lindsay have brought hi-tech hand engraving into fashion by providing air-powered handpieces that combine the convenience of push-style engraving with the confident control of...
Sam is a very generous & accomplished pro, who has presented a lot of good info. Here's a brief YouTube worth viewing on hand-pushed script. Also, here is one on hammer-chased work.
I need to...
Extreme perhaps, but not so unusual. Forget the bandsaw myth. We're talking a thin, fairly fine-tooth hand saw of some sort. There are accounts of saw marks observed around the inside perimeter of...
The Pickin' reprint of the 1923 F-5 tri-fold is ©1975 by Roger Siminoff, but I don't think he will mind a cut posted here for ref. Here's the entire paragraph:
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Also, this business of...
Evidence indicates that the backs removed at the factory were done with a saw, sometimes to insert a Virzi.
Perhaps not for makers, but it appears to me more of a promotional piece.
To the OP point, stringing in the white-wood has always been a part of my own approach, allowing an instrument to be...
Dave, did Loar actually not have experimental evidence?
I ask this because he apparently had a factory & workers available to him (& McHugh, et al) to carry out his ideas, plus a workbench of his...
Tom, thanks for the correction -- he certainly is degreed in that he holds honorary degrees at that and countless other universities that wish to be associated with him. However, Noam himself...
Title does not necessarily reflect academic training, although it is sometimes assumed. Neither is Noam Chomsky degreed. The proof of Loar & his staff lies in results and resale value.
Here's another example in the CB finish, TB-4 #11000A-22, which places it in the first run of these instruments in 1924. Interesting in that it also features other period F-5 appointments, including...
Sergio, I just received a response from Dick Doan. He said that they made about four or five mandolins per month in those days, and he was quite sure that yours would have been the only one that he...
Sonnyjammer, I can confirm that for you. Aaron told me that was exactly the source of his "Jubal" logo.
That's where/when I first met Aaron. After leaving Gibson, Aaron opened his own business in Vicksburg, in the storefront once occupied when I was a kid by the local pastry chef, Otto Kaak (pron....
Aaron Cowles passed away on 11 December 2013, nearly a year after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Aaron was the last mandolin maker to leave the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo before their...
Pretty cool indeed, Alex! Thank you for this. If Will Millen were to have been an AR/PR man representing Gibson, so much more the likelihood his F-4 should have been updated with the latest...
Here's a pixel-enlarged crop of the headstock -- open it and take a good look:
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I'm having a hard time accepting the Handel tuner theory. Not sure what's going on with the resolution on...
Definitely an F-4. Those bindings were sometimes scraped well below the level of the wood rim, but there's just a hint of back binding as it crosses the black stripe on the player's shirt. Besides,...
I'm on it... back in a few.
Some great answers here! :)
Gibson, the presumed designer of this desperate fix, sought a way to elevate the fingerboard above the upper soundboard of the (then) new 1922 Style 5 instruments --...
Ask Randy Wood about that.
Right around 1970-ish, Stan Rendell had responded to market demand and initiated the first attempts at going retro on mandolin & banjo headstocks, inlays, etc. Mandos...
Also, I've been trying to learn to engrave my own t/p covers in the old style:
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Dang...well, there's the blue url again... clues, anyone?...