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Ferdinand van den Berg
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Post by Ferdinand van den Berg »

I see what you mean, Xavier, the back has a very tight curve where the soundbox ends.
Did you do that for a special reason?

Mine looks like this:

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Ferdinand van den Berg wrote: Did you do that for a special reason?
Yes, Ferdinand… aesthetics :D

I wanted to build a guitar looking like the old National square necks tricones.

Just for me to remember that it's not a weissenborn, it's a resonator guitar :-)
Mike Lewis, a pro luthier near Paris, does it:

http://www.fineresophonic.com/triplate4m.htm


The firs one I built was a tricone, with a less pronounced back bend

Xavier :D
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Hi Xavier,

Thanks for sharing!
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Post by Xavier Baron »

Guys,

Some sound files:
Joe's tune, from ROB anderlik, in open d

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sey8p4xvstzcm ... 20tune.mp3

the same tune with the tricone (sorry, it was a quickie :D )

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3rv4cl3skrdss ... ricone.mp3


And some (slow) bluegrass, my arrangement of "eight more miles to Louisville, great song!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/465 ... sville.mp3
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