Post a Picture of Your Bowlback (or any others)

**Jim Garber** · Apr-12-2004, 11:13am

More details: scalloped fretboard and 6 gut strings. the bowl is shallower than a Neapolitan.

here is a back view.

Jim

**Bob DeVellis** · Apr-12-2004, 12:42pm

Okay- keeping it alive, a reprise of the Style 5 (poetry unintended)

**pklima** · Apr-13-2004, 6:10pm

Here's my 1921 Martin style 6a with extra-plain top trim. A distributor had some of these made, numbering somewhere in the lower double digits... I don't remember the details.

**pklima** · Apr-13-2004, 6:12pm

My 6a is plain on top, but it has the scalloped ribs of the style 6. With ivory spacers, too.

**pklima** · Apr-13-2004, 6:14pm

Here's the whole thing from the front... not the best photo, I'm afraid.

**Eugene** · Apr-13-2004, 6:40pm

You are in a position to receive my envy, Sr. Klima!

**Jim Garber** · Apr-13-2004, 7:03pm

I especially like the bear rug "baby" shots of our non-hockey player's 6a. Reminds me of Victor's thread of his new baby.

There is something exquisite of the plainness of this instrument. I can almost hear the sweetness of its sound.

Jim

**MANDOLINMYSTER** · Apr-13-2004, 8:52pm

Sorry....

**pklima** · Apr-13-2004, 10:08pm

Thanks, guys. Though for the record that's a sheepskin. It certainly is a lovely-sounding mando, though.

**Eugene** · Apr-16-2004, 2:28pm

A couple of my ex-es. Here's one now in the (I hope and expect) loving custody of Cafe-er dvatchka. It's a ca. 1900 Brandt style 2.

**Eugene** · Apr-16-2004, 2:29pm

21-rib bowl:

**Eugene** · Apr-16-2004, 2:33pm

Every Brandt I've seen except two had a tastfully executed scroll (usually in natural maple, not lacquered black). #One exception was a dated, late-19th-c. example with a typical peghead, and the other featured a blocky and graceless partial scroll with a label that read "style 1."

**Eugene** · Apr-16-2004, 2:40pm

This old guy is a 1915 Martin style 2. When I bought it, it had the most offensive non-original, diagonal-fret, undecorated fingerboard imagineable. Dan Larson made the extended re-replacement. It went on eBay for $500 (a bargain compared to a style 0 ukulele!), almost $100 less than it cost me to obtain and restore (Hmmph!).

**Eugene** · Apr-16-2004, 2:41pm

26-rib bowl:

**Eugene** · Apr-16-2004, 2:42pm

Engraved tuning plates and ivoroid buttons:

**Eugene** · Apr-16-2004, 2:54pm

Here's a detail of the 29-fret fingerboard (sans 28):

**Eugene** · Apr-16-2004, 2:55pm

Care to add one more "ex," Jeff?

**Jim Garber** · Apr-16-2004, 3:30pm

Originally Posted by (Eugene @ April 16 2004, 15:40)

When I bought it, it had the most offensive non-original, diagonal-fret, undecorated fingerboard imagineable.

Eugene:
What exactly do you mean by a diagonal fret fingerboard?

Jim

**Eugene** · Apr-16-2004, 3:37pm

Exactly what it implies! Some of the frets weren't quite parallel with their neighbors.

**Jim Garber** · Apr-16-2004, 3:45pm

Ah, reptile dentistry-style of luthiery. I thought you meant one of those fan-fret fingerboards.

Jim

**Jim Garber** · Apr-16-2004, 9:40pm

Here's my Vega Style 3. Still have to get it and a few others. "Get thee to a lutherie..."

**Jim Garber** · Apr-16-2004, 9:41pm

And the back of the Vega Style 3

**vkioulaphides** · Apr-19-2004, 8:54am

What exactly are the "issues pending" with this instrument, Jim? It, ehm... looks healthy.

I wish you the best of luck with this, and to the instrument, well, a speedy recovery to old glory!

**Jim Garber** · Apr-29-2004, 10:14am

I have this nice little catalog from Luigi Ricca, a maker in New York at the turn of the last century. This is a pdf file of the entire catalog.

Mike Holmes says that his factory had upwards of 200 employees at one time. He probably made many instruments on contract.

Jim

**Eugene** · May-11-2004, 12:51pm

Inspired by Hubert's recent acquisition and the subsequent chatter, I decided to post this old warhorse once more. This is a 1908 one-of-a-kind Martin. It is backed in 42 fluted ribs of Brazilian rosewood but, unlike Peter's 6a, it uses maple spacers.