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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 20, 2020 9:05:48 GMT
Hmmm.... I have known of Versoul's work for quite a few years and the owner, Kari Nieminen, has been experimenting with his own ideas since the beginning. Some of his work is beautiful and highly regarded. He has just created a tricone and the three cones are made out of pressed birch veneers. It is hard to give an opinion of what it is really like without seeing it in the flesh, but it appears to have some potential. Certainly a clever idea and the design, although not to my taste, does have some style to it.
I am reminded of some ideas that a friend in Germany was trying a while ago with wooden spiders for Dobros.
Shine On Michael
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Post by pete1951 on Feb 20, 2020 9:23:40 GMT
Possibly 3 spruce cones might be a way to get an unusually but usable tone. They could be turned and domed a bit like the top of a violin. I have tried to use balsa wood ( with very little weight on it) without success, and wooden spiders come to that. Pete
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Post by richclough on Feb 20, 2020 10:50:24 GMT
I've wondered about wooden cones. My thought was that the cones should be carved/turned and tuned in the same way that the better archtops are, rather than being pressed.
It's an interesting sound, but hard to draw solid conclusions.
I'm curious as to what happens next though. I've never heard of Versoul before.
Cheers, Rich
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 20, 2020 11:13:49 GMT
I've wondered about wooden cones. My thought was that the cones should be carved/turned and tuned in the same way that the better archtops are, rather than being pressed. It's an interesting sound, but hard to draw solid conclusions. I'm curious as to what happens next though. I've never heard of Versoul before. Cheers, Rich Rich, that is exactly how good cones are made. They are hand-spun and tuned just like an archtop. There are very few people in the world with the skill and experience to do this properly. While I think the Versoul wood cones are clever, unique and quite cool, I don't believe there is really any mileage in the idea beyond that instrument. Shine On Michael
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Post by pascal on Feb 20, 2020 15:44:00 GMT
Likewise I am not a fan of the "Dreadnought" body, and the cones look not in the right way, BUT the sound is interesting, a bit bright too, which is unexpected coming from wood...
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Post by hawgwash on Feb 21, 2020 18:25:26 GMT
Hey MM if it’s okay to ask how did you solve the cone manufacture part on your journey turning out MM resonatorszzz.....-they turned out nice whatever you did ...
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 21, 2020 18:33:23 GMT
The guy that spins the cones is very good at it, especially considering that he turns out a lot of them. When I went out to Shanghai to get everything started he was already spinning cones. I took a few real vintage National cones with me and gave them to him. He had not seen real ones until then. The rest, as they say... is history.
Maybe we should move this conversation into its own thread. I will do it.
Shine On Michael
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