Question about nut and saddle.

[nashmore]

Does anyone here know how Ervin Somogyi laminated the nut and saddle?

[Ned Milburn]

Beautiful craftsmanship. Love the Lute style rosette.

I'd imagine he simply glued the layers of bone-centre-bone together with his favorite glue. Not quite sure what you want to know...

[nashmore]

Originally Posted by Ned Milburn

Beautiful craftsmanship. Love the Lute style rosette.

I'd imagine he simply glued the layers of bone-centre-bone together with his favorite glue. Not quite sure what you want to know...

Well that's what I thought... be it hot hide glue, super glue or wood glue. My bet would be HHG.

Thanks Ned!

I'm going to make up a spare saddle for myself like this.

[murrmac123]

Originally Posted by Ned Milburn

Beautiful craftsmanship. Love the Lute style rosette.

I'd imagine he simply glued the layers of bone-centre-bone together with his favorite glue. Not quite sure what you want to know...

Maybe the OP was wondering about the provenance of the green center bone in the nut, and the black center bone in the saddle ...

[nashmore]

Originally Posted by murrmac123

Maybe the OP was wondering about the provenance of the green center bone in the nut, and the black center bone in the saddle ...

Hey Murrmac123, I really was just wondering if he glued them together with HHG or super glue. Another question would be if laminating the bone impacts the tone. If I were to guess it would have minimal impact if any.

Nathan

[Tom West]

Originally Posted by Ned Milburn

Beautiful craftsmanship. Love the Lute style rosette.

Ned: Not sure if you know or not but Ervin also does this type of carving separate from luthiery as an art form on to itself. Super talent indeed...!!
Tom

[D. Churchland]

he most likely glued the blanks together (uncut) and simply made the needed size blank from the individual pieces.

Knife makers do this all the time with various materials including bone as well as leather and wood.

[mirwa]

Originally Posted by nashmore

Does anyone here know how Ervin Somogyi laminated the nut and saddle?

First, simply beautiful craftsmanship as noted by others above.

If I was asked to replicate,

My process would be to slice the bone into the desired thickness's and then vacuum impregnate with a stain such as aniline, gluing the bone back together would be plain old superglue.

If you could not vacuum impregnate, possibly soaking the bone for a week in the solution would suffice.

Steve