v-bar/capo repair: Seiler pictures 2

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Ron, Barbara
  Although I'm not a compression crowned  soundboard builder I have built 
many boards with many kinds of spruce &  grain oreintations. Even pressing ribs 
on at 5.5 to 6.% compression still exsist  in the panel. If I'm sending a board 
to the desert it gets dried a bit  more.  If the Bay area less is fine.
    My preference for tight grain Sitka has  come after hearing many of my 
own boards. Tighter grains are of course mean  harder & denser thus heavier 
wood. No surprise there. 
    Exactly how that impacts the clarity of the  sound is no doubt impedance 
related but beyond that it comes down to I like what  I hear from this kind of 
tight grain, in the type of boards I build here.  A Powerful clear dark sound 
with good balance.  NO, it is not magic  wood but it does have a bearing IMO. 
...along with so many  things.  With this much soft spring wood in the Seiler 
board I suspect  it will lend itself to more reactive movements with humidity 
swings especially  or more so if the Seiler board is compression crowned & 
that can mean  more tuning in-stability & the possibility for pre- mature or 
moisture  induced cellular crushing.
  Just my 2 cents
  Dale

WOW on a  different subject. Is the entire soundboard panel constructed 
> with  spruce that is about 8 grains an inch? What's up with  that?
>   If so Holy Cats!!
>    Dale


And just why would that be a problem?
Ron  N


 

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