Loar Picture of the Day

**danb** · Jul-10-2004, 6:04am

This macro shot of the fern inlay is also a little big to include on the page..

but this one of the serial number looks just about right..

**danb** · Jul-10-2004, 6:07am

And I know it's huge, but I just have to share it here.. The scroll & side..

**danb** · Jul-10-2004, 6:16am

This is the virzi stamp on the virzi itself, viewed through the lower bass f-hole:

**danb** · Jul-11-2004, 2:31am

Another of the scroll

**danb** · Jul-11-2004, 2:32am

**danb** · Jul-11-2004, 4:39am

One more huge one...

**danb** · Jul-11-2004, 4:43am

Last one...

**danb** · Jul-12-2004, 10:28am

That one of the scroll is album-cover fodder

**Spruce** · Jul-12-2004, 11:22am

Great shots, Dan....!

Any chance of a shot of the same point (the last shot you posted) coming at it from the other side of the point?

I have a tracing of that point from 76547, but a visual from both angles would be invaluable...

The dovetailed bone is a very interesting signiture on those mandos, and a Loar is about the only place you are gonna see it.

Very few makers duplicate this feature...

**danb** · Jul-12-2004, 5:45pm

for you Bruce, I'll make sure I get it

**ShaneJ** · Jul-12-2004, 5:46pm

Beautiful photos! #I can't help but think of all the flies I could tie with that chenille under the F-5 though. #Wooley Buggers out the wazzoo!

**danb** · Jul-12-2004, 5:56pm

10 points to gryffindor for fabric identification sjennings.

Oh to be that piece of fabric 1 month from now, for it shall remember the touch of the Loar, while the memory shall fade in my mind.

or words to that effect.

**f5loar** · Jul-12-2004, 9:49pm

Nothing like seeing the real nitty gritty of the world's finest up close and personal. You are seeing details the luthiers who made it didn't see with their naked eye.
When you see the beauty this close up you can almost feel the mystic in each one.

**Bradley** · Jul-13-2004, 5:57am

I'll need three towels to get this drool off my Desk Top !!

Great Pictures

**Tom C** · Jul-13-2004, 7:53am

<span style='color:purple'>Which should be my wall paper for today? Darn, you can wall paper a whole room with all these pics.</span>

**craigtoo** · Jul-13-2004, 8:04am

I'm lucky, Dan tells me that my MAC keyboard and "no button mouse" has "Drool Protection" built in....

Hmm Imagine if I were to actually play that thing...

craig

**76547** · Jul-13-2004, 1:34pm

Spruce, Jack here. Hey, 76547 will be back in town after the 1st of August if you want to have a look.

**danb** · Jul-14-2004, 4:20pm

Here you go Bruce..

**danb** · Jul-15-2004, 2:48am

Very Happy Pickers:

**danb** · Jul-15-2004, 2:49am

Your jaw gets tired from all the smiling..

**danb** · Jul-15-2004, 2:56am

First time I've really been explicit about it here of course, but I figure most everyone has figured it out by now from the pictures. Jack & Sharon have loaned me 76547 to work on some recording, the first major bout of which I'll be doing with Craig (pictured above with silly grin) this weekend. Looking forward to meeting Jack in the states in 2 weeks, but now's a good time for me to start saying THANK YOU to the Schultzes in public!