brunello97
Dec-28-2005, 3:07pm
I read with great interest a previous thread re: bowlback repairs. The luthiers on the board were generous with their advice and frank in their assessment of the financial incentive/logic behind substantive repairs on bowlbacks.
I was inspired by Dave's great website to take some of the matter into my own, albeit clumsy hands.
I have bought a couple nominally inexpensive, probably low-end American and Italian bowlbacks to tinker with.
Learning to shim a fingerboard to make a neck playable would be a huge success for me. I've got that underway on an old Galiano.
I also have an extremely beat Puglisi that I am hoping to work/learn on. The neck has come completely loose. I've taken the fingerboard off (gentley using an iron) but like an earlier posting informed, the neck is set beneath the top (table?). The top will have to come off. The edge binding is wood and appears pretty fragile.
What is a good procedure for smoothly getting a top off a bowlback? Can the binding be saved?
I realize asking for techinical advice on the board is really asking luthiers for free service. Any advice though would be greatly appreciated. No threat of me cutting into anyone's business. There's a guy here in Ann Arbor who I take my Gibsons to, so I try to support the general craft.
Thanks for any help,
Mick
I was inspired by Dave's great website to take some of the matter into my own, albeit clumsy hands.
I have bought a couple nominally inexpensive, probably low-end American and Italian bowlbacks to tinker with.
Learning to shim a fingerboard to make a neck playable would be a huge success for me. I've got that underway on an old Galiano.
I also have an extremely beat Puglisi that I am hoping to work/learn on. The neck has come completely loose. I've taken the fingerboard off (gentley using an iron) but like an earlier posting informed, the neck is set beneath the top (table?). The top will have to come off. The edge binding is wood and appears pretty fragile.
What is a good procedure for smoothly getting a top off a bowlback? Can the binding be saved?
I realize asking for techinical advice on the board is really asking luthiers for free service. Any advice though would be greatly appreciated. No threat of me cutting into anyone's business. There's a guy here in Ann Arbor who I take my Gibsons to, so I try to support the general craft.
Thanks for any help,
Mick