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Here are a few things on my bench these days:
# My daughter's 1/64 size violin, finished recently. #She still prefers to play with her canjo, but will graduate up to this one when she's 2. #I split some measurements w the 1/32 size to make it last her a few years. #BTW, no pegbox will ever seem small again...this one was a real bear to fit pegs into (scary to drill out). #
#The Due it the one I've been playing, the prototype, but is gaining popularity #among the models I make. #I've been playing mostly fiddle these days, but picked it at a recent gig and it was a BG blaster. #Almost strange, coming from such a classical look. #
#Also, La Campanella, F-model big daddy of this little family. #I'm planning on adding 'dola and 'cello to the list of cousins in the next year. #
Benchtop Best Wishes,
Joe C.
Campanella Stringed Instruments (http://www.campanellastrings.com)
back, w/block plane for scale
Mando Content!
La Campanella!
Thanks for looking, and for checking out updated content on my site...
I'm also blogging again, and plan on documenting my 'dola and 'cello progress, as well as a pilgimage to Italy later this year--Rome, Florence and Cremona! I'm hoping to keep digging into the violin style, as I check out the cradle of early and modern lutherie and art. How 'bout a "decorated" Due, in the style of Strad's inlaid Hellier or Amati masterpieces???
oh yeah, Red Maple Back http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Steve Farling
Dec-18-2006, 12:53pm
Hey Joseph, do those mandos have tone bars or sound posts? Just kidding, great looking instruments! That fiddle is something else!
Steve Farling
Dec-18-2006, 12:55pm
Another thought is a "Hardanger Mandolin" http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
fwoompf
Dec-18-2006, 1:05pm
That's such a cool optical illusion in the first picture; like you've got a couple of mandobasses...
mandopete
Dec-18-2006, 4:13pm
Superb craftsmanship!
Steve Cantrell
Dec-18-2006, 9:55pm
You're right about that Mandopete. That's impressive work.
Adam Tracksler
Dec-18-2006, 10:05pm
Joe your work is amazing. I have been drooling over it for a while, a client was in the other day, and saw my Bill Monroe Box set, and said I HAD to hear one of his friends from Vermont, turns out its you!
markishandsome
Dec-18-2006, 10:05pm
Wait a minute, who's holding the camera in the second picture? Nice work
About those mandos though, how have the overhanging edges been holding up?
JEStanek
Dec-18-2006, 10:56pm
Great and impressive looking instruments, Joe.
Jamie
Wait a minute, who's holding the camera in the second picture? #Nice work #
About those mandos though, how have the overhanging edges been holding up?
Thanks to the tripod, I don't have to use my third hand to hold the camera...
On the edges, it's a good point, I may not have enough of these instruments out there yet to have a good representative sample of damaged edges, but I haven't heard of any problems. #
# Luckily, the design has been tested on other instruments, notably the violin. #
Here's what the edges might look like--in about 450 years: #
1560 Amati upper bout (http://www.usd.edu/smm/Violins/Amati3366/3366AmatiViolinUpperTrebleRibLG.jpg)
dig the grain on that top
1560 Amati lower corner (http://www.usd.edu/smm/Violins/Amati3366/3366AmatiViolinLowerTrebleRibTABITQLG.jpg)
True, the mandolin is held and used a bit differently, but you get my point.
The overhang is key in allowing access to repair the instrument, like the hood on a Beetle. #It's one thing that can be a major headache on bound mandos in a repair situation. #Aesthetically, I like how the edge repeats the instrument profile, and gives your eyes somewhere to go.
Joe
Pictures from National Music Museum website.
Antlurz
Dec-19-2006, 6:44am
I'll bet carving the peghead on that fiddle was a trip! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
Ron
Antlurz
Dec-19-2006, 6:45am
BTW......
It would have been neat to show the bow too!
Ron
Joseph, please, a few more pictures of the two-point, if you will be so kind.
Lane Pryce
Dec-19-2006, 2:12pm
The fiddle purfling looks great on your mandolins. Violin varnish on the mandolins I presume? I'd like to see more of the two point as well. Very nice work. Lp
Joseph, please, a few more pictures of the two-point, if you will be so kind.
Here's a link to some 2-pt pics from this forum you may not have seen...
Due--new model (http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=15;t=36155;hl=campanella)
I think those were the best of the bunch. I 'll see what else I've got for this current thread.
Joe
The fiddle purfling looks great on your mandolins. Violin varnish on the mandolins I presume? I'd like to see more of the two point as well. Very nice work. Lp
re: varnish...
I've used both spirit and oil varnish. This one is entirely oil, finished with a tough hard-drying amber oil varnish. Oil varnish really seems to penetrate into the wood, lets the light in, if you will. You get to see lots of small and cross figure, if you get up close.
joe
jaydee
Dec-19-2006, 4:14pm
Joe, I really love your scroll interpretaion. I usually don't care for unusual scrolls, but I think you've found a way to do it in your own style and have it look as if that's the only way it could have ever been.
Nice work!
Jeremy
I agree. I'm not a scroll kinda guy but your intepretation works nicely.
markishandsome
Dec-19-2006, 6:51pm
True, the mandolin is held and used a bit differently, but you get my point.
That's what I was thinking about, specifically the forearm rub area. I would agree that the long-term sucess of the violin would suggest that it would probably be fine. I bet they'll be pretty neat lookin once they've been distressed for a few decades.