Stuart: I've seen at least one that I can recall. It was at the Horniman Museum in London. You can google the museum, but the photos are crap. I have a couple of photos that I took there in 1997, but they are on film. I would have to get them scanned and sent as attachmetns. That may take some time, I'm afraid. The one cittern has a tortoiseshell fingerboard with pearl or abalone segments along the edges of the fingerboard, in each fret so that it appears like a solid strip. It looks like a Preston,but if it is, it's an early one, as it has friction pegs. I don't recall ever seeing one with ebony on the fingerboard. Brad
Stuart Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, > I'm restoring a Preston English guittar to playing condition and am > now at the stage where some > decoration on the fingerboard needs to be restored. I don't really > know whether to use bone, ivory, > ebony or something else. The fingerboard is tortoise shell. I have > looked at a few Prestons but > have not found any with the same fingerboard. I'll bet some of you > will know what material should be used. > > I've put some photos up at www.art-robb.co.uk/rest2.html. All advice > gratefully received. > > All the best, > > Art > > > It's a puzzle, isn't it. You suggest the ebony strip on each side of the fingerboard might not be original? But if it is original then more ebony would be a real possibility and it would contrast with the ivory nut. I'm sure I've seen English guitars with tortoiseshell fingerboards - has anybody else? Stuart > Arthur Robb Luthier > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.art-robb.co.uk > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. --
