Jim,
Good point as to the joint. Someone else asked why one would need a joint if
the neck were straight. There is a good answer to that if one has tried to
find a good section of wood at a certain size. I turn wood for goblets and
bowls, it is difficult to fine a long straight grain of a decent w
In a message dated 12/10/2003 11:30:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Dear All:
> There seems to be a very simple explanation for the bent-back pegbox: The
> joint is more stable. The glue holds the pegbox in place but is not
> subjected to upward pull -- as it would if the
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Subject: Re: # 1 lute question
12/10/2003
>Yes, it acts like one half of a dovetail joint. Just don't loosen
your strings!
Tim
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>
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>>
>>
The glue holding my pegbox on has let go, but the pegbox
is still pretty much in place, because of the shape of
the joint. There is a little V which locks the pegbox
in place, even without glue!
Wayne
While some guitar headstocks are glued on, most are one piece with the neck.
Patrick
Doctor Oakroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Howard Posner wrote:
> James A Stimson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> There seems to be a very simple explanation for the bent-back pegbox:
>> The
>> joint is mo
Howard Posner wrote:
> James A Stimson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> There seems to be a very simple explanation for the bent-back pegbox:
>> The
>> joint is more stable.
>
> But isn't it the bent-back design that makes a joint necessary in the
> first
> place? I.e., if the pegbox were stra
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prolonging the warping of the neck.
Vance Wood.
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In a message dated 12/9/2003 4:48:59 PM Pacific Standard Time
James A Stimson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There seems to be a very simple explanation for the bent-back pegbox: The
> joint is more stable.
But isn't it the bent-back design that makes a joint necessary in the first
place? I.e., if the pegbox were straight, couldn't it be made from the same
James A Stimson wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Dear All:
> There seems to be a very simple explanation for the bent-back pegbox: The
> joint is more stable. The glue holds the pegbox in place but is not
> subjected to upward pull -- as it would if the pegbox were in line with
> the
> neck.
> Yours,
> Jim
>
Dear All:
There seems to be a very simple explanation for the bent-back pegbox: The
joint is more stable. The glue holds the pegbox in place but is not
subjected to upward pull -- as it would if the pegbox were in line with the
neck.
Yours,
Jim
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> Subject: Re: # 1 lute question
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> In a message dated 12/9/2003 4:48:59 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi James:
>
> I view it as an issue of balance. The peg box loaded is probably the single
> most weighty portion of th
e nut
in case of bent pegbox.
Best regards:
Gabor Domjan
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> Actually, James, in all seriousness I've noticed that it is much
James,
I hope this is neither silly nor cute, but there is also the question of the
size of doors and people at the time. In 1947, at the age of twelve, I spent
a summer at a farm in England owned by a schoolgirl friend of my mother. The
house was over 400 years old and my room was on the second f
Actually, James, in all seriousness I've noticed that it is much easier to
tune and keep the tuning stable in lutes with bent back pegboxes than lutes with
extended pegboxes and certainly more than baroque and renaissance guitars and
vihuelas.
Kenneth
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In a message dated 12/9/2003 4:48:59 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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Hi James:
I view it as an issue of balance. The peg box loaded is probably the single
most weighty portion of the Lute. Bent back as it is helps to distribute
the weight more toward the center of the instru
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> Hi to all,
>
> Whenever I perform on the lute the number one question from the audience
> is, "Why is the head/pegbox bent at such a sharp angle&qu
Hi to all,
Whenever I perform on the lute the number one question from the audience
is, "Why is the head/pegbox bent at such a sharp angle"? I'm guessing it's an
engineering solution to the torque of all the strings on a very lightly built
instrument, but I wish I could give a definitive ans
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