Re: Beautiful Regal Bowlback I found
Well, Lyon and Healy had a pretty cool scam down where they would run a piece of white "rib seperator" material down the center of a single rib to make it appear as if it were two. I've seen this on a few of their bowls I have taken apart for dissection or repair. Not sure if Regal was guilty of the same deceit, but 40 does not alway equal 40 with bowlbacks.
Cap'n, you need to come North of the Colorado now and then.... I've owned many a fine bowl over the years: Washburn, Martin, Vega, Favilla, Ricca, Fairbanks, Weymann, all with very solid necks and tops. Very playable and delightful.
One just has to be careful with their inspection and purchasing. That can be harder via the ebay or internet, but there are plenty of 100+ yo bowlbacks out there ready for another 100.
The neck / action on the OP's Regal look pretty good. Is $400 a reasonable price? Maybe a bit high given the relative buyer's market for bowlbacks. But as David said, if all is good, it is not out of line for the quality of instrument it likely is. Would like to have a proper Cloud TP cover at that price. I guess it has a case, too? Not a bad deal, really, imho.
Mick
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