Hi Marshall. Great channel. Just sub'd. We met at a French polish demo you did at GAL around 2005(?) Love the glue jig Questions: 1)Are the springs tightly fit into holes to keep them in place, or secured some other way? 2)What springs are used? 3) Is the clamp surface flexible enough to conform to a radiused surface? The top and bottom of my braces are radiused. I gotta make one of these. Reminds me of Friederich's gig. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Hi Marshall I have a question perhaps too naive for you, but here it is: I recently replaced the (mulberry) soundboard of my Uyghur duttar with a rather nice piece of Engleman spruce. Effectively I haven't thicknessed it though (roughly 4.5mm thick), and it sounds quite droning and feels not fully responding to the string energy. Would you say that this would improve if I thin it down gradually to, say, 2.5mm? Thank you and as always thank you for these videos!
@@MarshallBrune Thank you for replying! Just thinned it down with a small plane to about 3.5mm today, and the bass improvement is noticeable. The treble though isn't enough... I guess the next step would be to thin it further and adding some braces (which traditional duttar soundboards never use)...
@@SebastianSipos thinned to 3mm and glued on two transverse braces. The rigidity felt right BUT since Engleman is sooo light, the string energy overwhelms it (strumming is too loud and exploding). My guess is that I should have left it thicker while using a smaller brace, or maybe Engleman is too lightweight for duttar all together.
Loving it - watching the full series, just to appreciate my instrument.
Thanks for another great video. Looking forward to seeing the sides ✌❤🎶
Wonderful, Thank you. Cheers
Hi Marshall. Great channel. Just sub'd. We met at a French polish demo you did at GAL around 2005(?)
Love the glue jig
Questions:
1)Are the springs tightly fit into holes to keep them in place, or secured some other way?
2)What springs are used?
3) Is the clamp surface flexible enough to conform to a radiused surface? The top and bottom of my braces are radiused.
I gotta make one of these. Reminds me of Friederich's gig.
Thanks and keep up the great work!
thank you
Excellent video! Quick question: are the backs in your guitars flat? No bowing? It looks like that from the video, but I'm not very knowledgeable..
Maybe you could use a collar mic in these videos. The background sound is a bit overwhelming.
And Mr Brune's voice is not very loud when compared to other RUclips videos
Thanks for the feedback! We have improved the audio for the next set of videos.
Hi Marshall I have a question perhaps too naive for you, but here it is: I recently replaced the (mulberry) soundboard of my Uyghur duttar with a rather nice piece of Engleman spruce. Effectively I haven't thicknessed it though (roughly 4.5mm thick), and it sounds quite droning and feels not fully responding to the string energy. Would you say that this would improve if I thin it down gradually to, say, 2.5mm? Thank you and as always thank you for these videos!
I would imagine it would!
@@MarshallBrune Thank you for replying! Just thinned it down with a small plane to about 3.5mm today, and the bass improvement is noticeable. The treble though isn't enough... I guess the next step would be to thin it further and adding some braces (which traditional duttar soundboards never use)...
@@abdumushuk2219 how'd that go?
@@SebastianSipos thinned to 3mm and glued on two transverse braces. The rigidity felt right BUT since Engleman is sooo light, the string energy overwhelms it (strumming is too loud and exploding). My guess is that I should have left it thicker while using a smaller brace, or maybe Engleman is too lightweight for duttar all together.
Hope it is not broken
Is it really broken?
😂