Estebanana _Stephen Faulk
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New top new pegbox on Egyptian oud
I've been saving this sturdy Egyptian bowl that a luthier friend gave me a few years back to put a new top on and rebuild the pegbox. It's being put
together on spec. When it is done I'm going to advertise it in the for sale section.
When I got it it had no top, it was topless. The peg box has room for four double courses and one bass. I'm going to convert it to a regular pegbox-
If someone is looking for the 9 string style let me know and I'll leave it in this configuration, otherwise the peg box will get rebuilt.
I've made the rose ring and the sound hole and thicknessed the top. Next I'll brace it this week. I've been using this rosette motif on my guitars, I
took this design motif from a 19th century oud. I'm sure glad I did because it's made some really beautiful guitar rosettes.
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Estebanana _Stephen Faulk
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The design round the sound hole.
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Fritz
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Hi there :-)
Seems to become a good work.... the top is a fine piece of wood with narrow rings... might be very thin later...
The rosette is great... nice design !!!
Do you want to make just one hole ? It seems so because of the "big" diameter.
Keep on doing the repair :-) and share the results please :-)
Fritz
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Estebanana _Stephen Faulk
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Thanks Fritz,
Here is how looking at the oud has influenced my guitar making.
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Yaron Naor
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Good luck
Very nice work!
Yaron
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Fritz
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Hi Stephen :-)
The "origin" of ouds implemented in your guitars is very fine !
I´ve been making flamencas blancas a few years ago for about 5 years... and today I´m hesitating to implate "guitar-style" rosettes in my ouds...
but the idea is okay I think :-)
Make your work as you make it :-) Otherwise the work isn´t authentically :-)
Keep on !
Fritz
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