Re: Concerning Loar copy mandolins
Bill has been on the “right” wood lookout for a while and had gotten some from my cabinetmaker/banjo player friend of years! He referred to some of it as “slabby” again with a nod to the casual perfection which was the nature of a factory at the time. “Use what we have boys, it’s paid for.” What we see in many F-5’s today is a lot “hotter” than what the company was getting from northern Michigan at the time, at least that is MY take on it.
I’d suppose that any builder doing really fine work like that is constantly on the lookout for the right wood, and will always look at wood for “that one” project!
And I agree with you Mr. Mott, bench copies are exactly that, a one to one reproduction, makes perfect sense, what Bill did is amass as much first hand measurements from as many instruments as possible and see what he wanted to glean from the data.
Before his retirement from a “day job” he was an illustrator draftsman for Parker-Hannifan drawing filters for gasoline pumps among other things
“Stops, Traps, Screen and Cleans, That’s what the Final Filter does for American’s Gasoline,”
Back when it was “American Standard” gas stations.
I guess I am just showing my age now!
Last edited by Timbofood; Apr-27-2020 at 6:36pm.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
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