Guitar and Pear-Shaped

[Brian Gencarelli]

Ken McKay,

Just looked at some of your progress pics... looking good! I am getting inspired to give it a whirl myself... I will finally have a big project out of the workshop soon. (Dining room set restoration for my wife... about 8 months work so far.)

Once I have some room, I may be sending you a PM.

Carve on,
Brian

[Ken McKay]

Thanks Brian, I have been working on it here and there. I have the back planed to thickness now and the top arching pretty much refined the way I want it. I have the purfling and am ready to cut the grooves. The corpus is off the false back platform now because I glued on a "false top" to hold the rib shape while I glue on the top when it is ready. I will show some pics of that soon.

I will be glad to help anyway I can.

[David Powell]

I've just caught up on your progress and it is looking really fantastic to me. I'd give the current rib depth a whirl. After all, taking off is easier than putting it back on, and with the long taper like that it is plausible that it will have the right sound. I don't know if there is a formula for rib depth. This fellow is building different shaped cornerless basses: http://www.allbasse.com/

His design, which is sort of a rounded Savart shape, has a rather radical rib taper from bottom to top. I don't know what the measurements are, but I think it looked similar to what you currently have going.

I really like the way your barrel arching shaped up. It's pretty obvious the you have a good instinct as a builder.

[Arnold Schnitzer]

David, I tried to enter the site shown above and my anti-virus program reported an intrusion alert, some type of worm/virus.

[David Powell]

Originally Posted by Arnold Schnitzer

David, I tried to enter the site shown above and my anti-virus program reported an intrusion alert, some type of worm/virus.

Gee I hope not. It is a flash site of the bass maker Antoine Leducq. Try this one. This is more the entry page: http://www.allbasse.com/

I don't get the alerts, but then I'm on a Mac and I haven't run anti-virus in a long time. Hmmm.

[Tim Bishop]

Originally Posted by David Powell

Gee I hope not. It is a flash site of the bass maker Antoine Leducq. Try this one. This is more the entry page: http://www.allbasse.com/

I don't get the alerts, but then I'm on a Mac and I haven't run anti-virus in a long time. Hmmm.

OK here. Sounds like AV protection to me.

[paulunger]

Here are some pics of my guitar shaped Baldontoni, 1820.
http://www.myfamily.com/Photos/ViewP...px?iid=3174660

[Mike Smith]

Originally Posted by Arnold Schnitzer

David, I tried to enter the site shown above and my anti-virus program reported an intrusion alert, some type of worm/virus.

Looks OK to me, is it only when you select a link? Seems that it pop ups in a new window, which I could say your AV program may see that as something potentially unwanted.