The discrepancy is found in areas which are seldom touched, except (gently, one would hope) by the lid of the case.
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Vance Wood wrote: > It may be from places where you are consistantly touching the wood, either > where you anchor your little finger, right hand, or where the left hand > tends to touch the sound board in the higher registers, or where you may > tend to occassionally rest your chin or cheek on the top of the top side of > the Lute. If your problem is not in one or all of these areas it may just > be the nature of the wood. Usually this type of thing is caused by the > grain raising, and this is usually caused by an imbalance of moisture > accross the sound board. It should not be a problem as long as the wood > does not split. > > VW > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:53 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Grain texture on soundboard. > > > > > > In some areas of my soundboard the grain of the wood can > > be felt as slighly raised ridges. > > > > In other areas, the grain, though visually apparent, > > cannot be felt. > > > > Is this discrepancy due to an inherent difference > > in the wood, or is it due to the manner in which the lute > > was built? > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > >
