> Is that so? Are CC soundboards designed? Are they simply "built the way > the original masters built them"? Maybe it's just an art. Maybe, like > Spock, the master does a Sitka/Eastern-White Mind Meld, and then just > knows what the wood wants. > > But seriously, are they designed? Or is it just a combination of > empirical results and "that's the way they've always done it"? > > Terry Farrell Someone at some point built the first one by drying the panel and gluing on flat ribs. That's design of the process or method, I'd say, if not individual boards. The rest seems to be short term assumption, trial and error, and guesswork. The results pretty obviously indicate that the outcome and aging property of any particular board is still largely serendipity, even closely following the method. Ron N
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