Les différents styles

Langue pendue Nombre de messages : 110 Date d'inscription : 14/06/2009

Bonjour!

Je vais me prendre ma 1ere Weiss (d'ailleurs on dit "un" ou "une weiss"?), et j'ai eu un peu de mal à trouver les définitions des différents styles. Tout est dans les liserés alors? C'est juste ça?
Si j'ai bien compris:
une style 1 est sans liseré
une 2 a un liseré table,
une 3 table-rosace et dos,
et 4 table-dos-rosace-manche...

C'est que ça? Ca me parait louche... :p

plus le style augmente plus le bois est "beau " en general pour le koa par exemple tu pars du A grade -> AA grade-> AAA Grade-> master grade, qui est flamé ondé et tout ce que tu veux.
voilàpour mon opinion.
ça ne change rien eu son.

Langue pendue Nombre de messages : 790 Date d'inscription : 02/12/2005

oui et pour être plus précis sur les finitions (des originales):

une style 1 est sans liseré
une 2 a un liseré table et dos noir,rosace rop binding et touche liseré blanc
une 3 rop binding table-rosace et touche,
et 4 rop binding table-dos-rosace-manche-touche...

Extrait d'un article de Ben Elder (in english...) sourire

http://www.vintagemandolin.com/weissenborn_article.html

Citation :: WEISSENBORN STYLES

Most Weissenborns were made of koa (some early examples have bird's-eye maple backs and sides), 39 inches long with a 25-inch scale, 15-1/4 inches across the lower bout and 10-1/4 inches across the upper bout. They were made in four styles of trim:

Style 1 instruments have no body or fingerboard binding. There are three concentric wood circles inlaid around the soundhole, and single mother-of-pearl dot markers at frets five, seven, nine, 12, and 17. "Bat-wing" bridges with metal saddles were standard on all Weissenborns. Spruce tops were optional (but rare) on Styles 1 and 2.

Style 2 instruments have black celluloid tops and back body binding, rope binding (termed "clown binding" by David Lindley) around the soundhole, white wood fingerboard binding, fancier fret markers in various patterns, and sometimes a first-fret triangle with its flat side resting against the nut. (Interestingly, this feature also appears on square-neck Style 3 and 4 tricone resonator guitars. Collector and luthier R.C. Allen recalls conversations he had with the late John Dopyera, inventor of the National and Dobro, in which he said that his brother, Rudy, had once worked for Hermann Weissenborn.) Style 2 fingerboards have a French curve overhanging the soundhole (the other three styles are squared off).

Style 3 Weissenborns feature rope binding around the top, fingerboard, and soundhole; usually a diamond inlay at the 12th fret; and double dots at frets five and nine.

Style 4 is similar to Style 3, with added rope binding around the peghead and back, and a triangle inlay between the nut and the first fret. Some examples have sanded braces and internal wood surfaces.

Another Weissenborn shape has come to be described, mostly for lack of an official designation, as the "teardrop" model (Bob Brozman suggests "the salad spoon"). It is otherwise a Style 1 but lacks upper bouts. The result is a bizarre-looking, bottom-heavy instrument with a sound that's just the opposite. An example appeared in the Teisco Del Rey 1993 Weird Guitar Calendar. Some of the teardrop's features suggest an instrument of the late '20s or early '30s; in the Depression era, these models may have been cheaper to make and sell. They have lacquer finish (which replaced shellac at about that time), a thicker headstock (with tuning posts placed closer to the nut), and a bridge that's 4-1/4 inches across its top edge. This narrower bridge is partnered with an enlarged bridge plate (to counter top sinkage in front of the bridge and bellying behind it) that begins under the cross of the X brace and tapers behind the bridge.

Although many exceptions exist, the higher-end Weissenborns tend to be constructed of the fancier, figured koa wood. Ironically, many players, including David Lindley, prefer Style 1 and 2 Weissenborns with their (generally) plainer, straighter wood, attributed to the wet side of Hawaii's Big Island. Lindley's "A-Team" Weissenborns include two Style 2's and a Style 1.