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3 new ouds in progress

nati - 12-5-2015 at 11:46 AM

helo everyone!
im working on 3 new ouds and i want to share it with you.
few question-
1. do you have any experiens with pear and apricor bridges?
2. 2 of my ouds are 17.5 cm deep because of some mystake i have done.
i know it better if it 18-19 for the bass.
it 50 cm long and 36 wide. what do you think? can i do somthing?
all the best


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faggiuols - 12-7-2015 at 01:39 AM

wow Nati!!
very beautiful..
great compliments!
Please post pictures of oud finished.
bye

nati - 12-8-2015 at 01:18 AM

thanks bro, keep update with yours project!

jdowning - 12-8-2015 at 06:33 PM

Pear wood bridges (stained black) are found on surviving European lutes over 300 years old.

Your slightly flattened bowl depth (of about 0.5 cm from a semi circular cross section) will be of no measurable consequence acoustically. No 'corrective' action required. Nice work.

faggiuols - 12-9-2015 at 02:51 AM

hi Nati
..but then you did the bowl with olive wood?
I am concerned because I have a lot of olive wood ..

nati - 12-9-2015 at 05:27 AM

thanks jdowning!
faggiuols- i dicided not to use the olive for the bowl it realy hard to work with and not very stable' it realy nice for orantments