Strong on 3rd, weaker above doesn’t point to action height, but you could adjust it anyway. More indicative of low third or high fourth frets, so take a fresh, clean credit card and use it as a...
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Strong on 3rd, weaker above doesn’t point to action height, but you could adjust it anyway. More indicative of low third or high fourth frets, so take a fresh, clean credit card and use it as a...
Considering homage to stripping, perhaps some ‘40s tasteful decalcomanias of strippers?
Sympathetic vibration will consist primarily of harmonics. Other possible modes will be very much less. It’s resonance.
For ease of lefty conversion. Or it was lefty and got restrung. Or dyslexia.
Thanks. Pretty clean refinish, but begs the question about something like usual strippers like methylene chloride or ‘citrus’: would a heavy dose or yikes, immersion, take all the glue joints apart? ...
I did have one scientific encounter with a tater bug. Around ‘74 I found one and was interested in the iridescence of its (I think) wing covers, so enquired of the bug folks at the Smithsonian on...
To follow up on the above, jewelers who actually make jewelry generally have the small, high pressure rollers you’d need for working with wire. They might even have wire in stock. I missed getting...
Sounds like enough height to leave alone. One advantage of modern frets is that they can’t sink into the fingerboard, but a bar fret may be sitting in an irregular groove and may not be stable,...
Wonderful antique drawing in that link! I like, especially, the sun as the octave symbol. That should be a fingerboard inlay. Also, the hand tuning from the cloud; probably coming along right now...
I think they mean the thing at the end of the fingerboard, that today we call —- the nut. Strong clue is wood or bone.
Globally sourced purchased parts are subject to change over time, especially as the rest of the world prefers to avoid Imperial measure. Constancy over 20 years, even for production build is...
I know that UK tech is often unique, but in the US in that time period, piezos were not part of telephones. The transmitter was carbon granule (interesting physics) and the earpiece electromagnetic....
A simple, very accurate, zero skill thing I do on my rescues is to take a Sharpie to all the frets and then run a large known flat thing (I use a sharpening stone, but a piece of wood or glass is...
Thanks, Mike. I hadn’t seen an ad for the Harmony Shutt (upper left) that I have. Nice to know it was so expensive!
If we want to get specific, the process changes the chemical composition of wood in a way that does not represent aging in air. The wood becomes something that can be called char, as in charcoal, by...
I think we may have to credit this builder with introducing the roller fairlead to mandolins, plus a few more novel things as well as mutating specifications. Some of us might get strange ideas, but...
I suppose they wouldn’t care to use a more accurate moniker: baked- tone. Musicians would get the wrong image.
Ok to laugh. I had the neck covered with low tack blue painter’s tape during a repair, and found I not only liked it, but that it’s pretty durable.k
Increasingly hard to turn may not improve with lube, as you might have a split gear or an alignment issue. The buttons you show are held on with screws and replaced easily; they also can be glued...
As above, plus certainly can be strung with 1920s metallurgy.
Since we now have warning and product labels on everything - these days you can’t even tell what color a ladder is for all the stickers...
That last referenced paper is one I can understand, and I appreciate the clarity of explanation. The advantages of current math tools are many - weren’t around ‘in my day’! About the nut issue;...
Spending the time and money for an accurate appraisal of an instrument that isn’t playable IMHO, is hardly worth it. To sell it, it’s almost worth having someone go over it, and there are very few...
Thanks for posting. I tried to draw some useful generalizations from the results, and found that difficult. Perhaps someone might distill it for a somewhat technical audience, or better, builders of...
“ I don't state they are not good or not worth the price, just pointing that Gibsons advertising talk has to be taken with a pinch of salt.”
Perhaps 14 degrees of salt.
And a “fourteen degree radius” - even an AI copywriter wouldn’t do that