I want try making a simplified mandore. I can't 'do' lute ribs and a lute body and I can't carve from the solid so it will have to be flat-backed. It will be an instrument with similar proportions to a mandore...but with no historic precedent, of course.
I intend to use some of the measurements that appear in Ian Pittaway's blog on Paul Baker's sophisticated reconstruction of a little mandore. As a beginner I want something as straightforward as possible for the neck-body conjunction. No fancy tenons! There seem to be two basic (I do mean basic) approaches. See [1]http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/neckbody.jpg The approach A, (from a set of instructions for building a cittern kit which I got in a second hand bookshop - without the kit, of course) has a butt joint and a screw (could have been a nail or dowels). T he neck is made separately from the union of sides and top block and bottom block. I know that some guitars in the past have been made like this. English guitars were made like this and I'm sure that other instruments have used this approach. On the other hand, approach B, and seemingly simpler, is to build a neck with the top block as part of the neck. Although more complicated than in this little diagram, most or many guitars are built like this. I would welcome any advice as to which is the more straightforward way to conjoin neck and body. B looks simpler but there must be good reasons for A. thanks for nay advice Stuart Virus-free. [2]www.avast.com -- References Visible links 1. http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/neckbody.jpg 2. https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient Hidden links: 4. https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient 5. file://localhost/net/ifs-users/lute-arc/L10429-7587TMP.html#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
