Bill, Given that some old lutes were made of materials like ivory I can see no reason that a graphite resin couldn't make a lute bowl that would sound quite well - but somehow the aesthetics don't appeal to me. Yet given the abilities of the space age types to concoct almost any internal structure even the soundboard might be possible with synthetics - but I'm not ready for it.
Best, Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ron Fletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:36 PM Subject: Re: Gone 'the whole hog'! > check out www.rainsong.com in hawaii. they make 100% > graphite resin guitars with the "classic" graphite > sound. it's a beautiful building material - a solid > graphite lute of one-piece construction can't be far > off. i have a crafter mandolin with a polyresin bowl > (similar in principle to an ovation guitar) and it > sounds fabulous. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
