Alioud - 10-23-2008 at 03:08 PM
Greetings to the best Oud Forum on the net..
3 weeks ago a friend of mine brought me an Oud which was thrown away in his father's house for more than 10 years. The guy doesn't know anything about
Oud. He just handed me the Oud which was in an awful condition.
I inspected the Oud, it was a floating bridge Oud made by Mohammed Fadhel on 1/10/1991. Oud number 6200.
I took the Oud home. The soundboard was smashed but the braces were intact. The bowl was very dirty and the whatever varnish it had was completely
gone. The neck was slightly bowed. The Oud was dead.
Here is what I did... Initially I made sure the Oud was authentic (Imagine the smile on my face when I first found out it was real). Dimensions: Bowl
length 50 cm, width 38 cm. Neck 19.5 cm.
I removed the soundboard and the braces. I have an excellent master grade German spruce which I braced with Carpathian spruce because the old braces
were in a very bad condition. i braced the Soundboard like the original bracing with a string length of 58.5 cm.
I glued the spruce soundboard with snakewood binding, bwb laminate and Indian rosewood for the sound holes. I used a Bubinga veneer as a pick guard to
contrast with the Ebony fingerboard I chose.
I cleaned and polished the bowl which was made of Indian Rosewood and another strange wood with lemon stripes. I finished it with Matte finish.
Here is the result and a sound sample from this 48 hours old Oud.
Tell me what you think....
Alioud - 10-23-2008 at 03:09 PM
The back of the Oud
Alioud - 10-23-2008 at 03:10 PM
Look at this beauty
Sound sample
Alioud - 10-23-2008 at 03:12 PM
Alioud - 10-23-2008 at 03:15 PM
The sound sample is here:
http://www.2shared.com/file/4149297/d051db5f/WS330017.html
The label
Alioud - 10-23-2008 at 03:26 PM
corridoio - 10-24-2008 at 12:44 AM
good find and good work Alioud
I sent you a u2u
ale.