07 October 2009

prepairing the fingerboard

The fingerboard will be made of a lighter piece of the walnut.
According to the expert opinion of my daughter the dark colour of the inner part would distract too much from the dragon....

As far as I can see from the drawing the radius of the curving of the fingerboard is approximately 9 cm at the nut as well as on the other end. More or less cylindrical. The bridge would also get nearly the same radius (9.5 cm?)
A small drawing of a possible bridge (5.5 cm high in te middle) with a radius of 9.5 cm on the surface of the top shows that all strings would be perfectly reachable with the bow.

Thus I'll make the fingerboard 'cylindrical' with a radius of aprox. 9 cm.

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