sabbassi
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Building 4 Different OUDs
Hello everyone, I would like to share with you the building process of 4 OUDs.
The first one, the bowl is already finished today: Moroccan walnut, I have enouph to build 5 ouds. very rare to find good quality.
the 2nd: Moroccan Walnut\ indian Rosewood
the 3rd: Indian Rosewood with nice patterns
and the 4th, the one I will keep for myself I hope, Santos Rosewood, a beautiful wood, specialy when finished with shellac (a bit expensive).
Any way I have sliced the ribs myself to 2.5mm and Planned them to 2.2mm with the Proxxon DH40 planner(a must have tool)
I will post pictures from time to time.
enjoy it
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Very exquisite wood, wow. Nice patterns, without a doubt. Looking forward to the other posts, thanks for sharing.
Happy Building...PaulO
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Nr 2, Rosewood
Rosewood bowl : tracing the shape of the ribs and bending.
the ribs are 38,5 cm. long before bending.
When bending the ribs, they should have 99% the same shape at the end, this will make the joining easy and accurate without much pression. using a
masking tape should be enouph to join them together.
After fitting the first 5 ribs, The bowl start to have a nice shape.
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shape
shape after 5 ribs
next week more pictures and the progress incha la
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Rosewood Bowl finished
By the way This uds will be for sale when finished. If anyone is interested I can do some minor modifications beforehand. ie, Sounds preferences,
sound hole , pickguard etc.
I will do the in/out scraping later this week and the paper strips with hot glue.
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Walnut bowl
Bowl is finished.
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macassar ebony
beautiful macassar ebony
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Soundboard is ready
American red cedar soundboard is finished and the braces are also ready. I have also prepared the pegbox wall for the walnut oud.
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wow man...good work..please keep us posted and good luck to you
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Michael-GOD BLESS EGYPT
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progress
Thank you Michael,
Well this is how far I'm, going very slow and taking care of all the details.
Applying orginal authentic line oil (italien receipt) and waiting 24 hours to cure. the color of the wood remains original and the patterns start to
come out.
The pegbox are also finished. hopefully by the end of the week if times allow, the ouds will be ready so I can start another two.
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almost there
I will put the strings this sunday, time to dry up a bit.
The walnut ud is also on the way
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Wow, what a beauty
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Wow man..the finish came out great...it's got that 10 miles of depth going on. The grain on the back is amazing, but the back of the pegbox looks
fantastic too ! Looking forward to the walnut !!
Regards..PaulO
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ouds are both finished
ouds are both finished now and are for sale if anyone is interested.
the sound will be posted soon, the strings need to get used to the new owner.
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Wow another beauty ... both look fantastic
I'm very curious to hear them!
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Sound clip
here are the sounds clips.
forgive my playing and the sound quality, I'm just learning:
rosewood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKTsk-mnj1A
wallnut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzxaQ0epRyA
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Me too, but you're far better than I 
It's always difficult to check out the sound characteristics of an instrument from a video or MP3 file, but this first impression is veeery good for
my taste on both ouds.
PS: What strings did you use? Pyramid?
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Mmmm, nice fresh ouds!
You must be pretty happy with them?
Congratulations. (you made them look so easy too!)
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strings
The strings are normal Dáddario. DO
I guess Pyramid strings will produce more beautiful sound than the Daddario.
Thanks Sazi, these ouds are new. they need a while to openup. from any experienced oud makers, they can tell you that every oud need at least 4
seasons (winter, autumn...)to come alive.
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Maybe, but string choice is a matter of taste, I think. Fact is, both ouds have a clean beautiful sound and look very good. And as it seems, Sazi is
impressed too.
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Very impressed! especially since I do know that they take time to mature to their
best sound, if they sound that good new with so-so strings, imagine what they will sound like in a couple of years!
Cheers, S
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