You lucked out- (or he improved by the time you got yours?) I left his shop- somewhere mid-town I think- and proceeded on downtown to No. 2 Bond street off Broadway where David Rubio fixed me up with nice, metal fret, bone saddle, but NINE course thing that delighted me for years. Sic Transit Gloria Testudinarium.
>I think it took at least three hours. Fortunately, mine did not have >the fingerboard raised onto the soundboard. >I also sanded the bridge down to remover the saddle, but I can't >remember how. After the fingerboard was gone, the saddle seemed unnecessary. >It was a great lute for its time. >dt > > >At 01:14 PM 8/24/2008, you wrote: >>A gluon goes on so easily that one shouldn't even consider a quark, >>which must be glued on and leaves a mark. >> >>One lute I had was fitted with small strap peg just into the bowl & >>neckblock near the joint, I used that to anchor the last fret. >> >>David, you are a macho man indeed; I would have needed a floor sander >>to get a Papazian fingerboard down the requisite 3 inches. Did you >>need a froe, sledge hammer & wedge for digging up the saddle channel >>of the bridge? I once visited Papazian's shop back in the bad old >>day. Even with ten or so years of 3rd degree classical guitar >>training under my belt I couldn't fret that thing any better than a >>12-string guitar strung with piano wire. >> >>Dan >> >> >Serveral of my instruments have a VERY tiny notch at the bowl-neck >> >join to enable one more gut fret. I would definitely not advise >> >notching the bowl, just use a gluon or a quark. >> >One of my favorit >> >dte memories from 1972 was taking a sandcat belt sander to my > > >Papazian lute and removing the raised fingerboard. It was awesome. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
