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JacksonMaberry

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  1. JacksonMaberry
    I'd agree the arching is more important. You see this kind of very thin in the flanks, thick in the middle on a lot of Amati school instruments including Stainer, and it works well. The "Amati smile" can be seen in CT cross arch sections.
  2. JacksonMaberry
    Any relation to Gom Jabbar?
  3. JacksonMaberry
    Jokes aside, I'm not a drinker!
  4. JacksonMaberry
    Bitrex isn't too bad, once you've developed a taste for it
  5. JacksonMaberry
    Still interested
  6. JacksonMaberry
    Wow that's a beautiful gouge.
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  8. JacksonMaberry
    Yes, of course, the survival imperative has a way of overriding other concerns.
  9. JacksonMaberry
    "Tend to" in my original post, which you quoted. This implies my recognition that not all behave in this way, just the majority (more than half).
  10. JacksonMaberry
    I'm not suggesting there is any advantage - I'm pointing out a fact of use, that's it. But yes, maple makes lousy fenceposts. Maybe that's why they pulled them up and turned them into violins.
  11. JacksonMaberry
    Be that as it may, this was obviously unimportant to a lot of really excellent makers, as evidenced by great fiddles by then still in use that may as well have been made of fenceposts.
  12. JacksonMaberry
    This is far less important historically than we tend to believe now. And many an excellent maker today doesn't care whether the maple is figured or not. Players, on the other hand, which aren't required to have a detailed knowledge of what makes wood suitable for making, tend to judge more on looks.
  13. JacksonMaberry
    https://www.nps.gov/articles/spruceclones.htm
  14. JacksonMaberry
    I agree. I was sharing more for the sake of the discussion on clonal trees, such as happen in nature by various means.
  15. JacksonMaberry
    Neat article on clonal forestry of Norway Spruce in Sweden (so Sweden Spruce? Haha) https://annforsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s13595-020-0920-1
  16. JacksonMaberry
    Hm, not been my experience. At first glance yes, but there is always something and if I get to know them I can see it after a time. Freckles and moles are always different, but there are other less obvious tells. I should mention epigenetic factors are as important as environmental vis a vis phenotypic expression, as we've come to find.
  17. JacksonMaberry
    Regrettably, yes.
  18. JacksonMaberry
    That's it! This is why "identical twins" are never quite identical, either in appearance or behavior. Close, but there is an observable difference and it can be important.
  19. JacksonMaberry
    Whales are hunted in many jurisdictions. From the Wikipedia article on Whaling: Canada, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Russia, South Korea, the United States and the Danish dependencies of the Faroe Islands and Greenland continue to hunt in the 21st century.
  20. JacksonMaberry
    See: genotype vs phenotype
  21. JacksonMaberry
    No
  22. JacksonMaberry
    Whoever bought it did well. Red maple from OSW is almost all I'll use, even though it carved like glass. I bought a whole log of the stuff I like most and it should last a while
  23. JacksonMaberry
    What are you asking for the older sets?
  24. JacksonMaberry
    That would make me uncomfortable at the neck especially, where some more surface area would, to my mind, be advantageous for stability.
  25. JacksonMaberry
    Absolutely, EC testers for water quality can be had for about $50 on Amazon and work for this.
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