is the upcarve theory a myth

[Sct13]

they make good canoe oars....

but not fishermans oars....they scare the fish

 

[IRussell]

Frank

And why can I only click the like button once?!?!?

One heck of a shot Frank

 

[truetone6]

My pictures aren't so good but I think you can see it on my 2011 R9

 

[tspoon5150]

Nice pictures and presentation Frank.

I have always heard the term "Moat", Re-Curve is kind of new to me.

What ever the term, I have always seen them on my R9 Historic's.

 

[Bill Hicklin]

The recurve was a holdover from archtop practice- remember, the Lester's top carve is there because Gibson was tooled up to do it, something they had over Fender. On a fine acoustic archtop - an L-5, say, or a D'Angelico - the recurve area and its thinning are a key part of defining the guitar's tone and responsiveness; it's roughly the equivalent of a speaker cone's foam surround.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

This is a custom built thinline ExNihilo, which appears to also have an upcarve.

That is a seriously cool looking guitar. Looks,.....mean.

Are you convinced?

well,.....I'm out of tissues.







from crying over the beauty of that guitar,..get your mind out the gutter, pervs.

...though now that I look at it again....





Beautiful guitar. I've always liked that photo. Even in tiny avatar size.

 

[Wayek_]

Nice examples!
I would like to get mine 'upcarved' which you can see is there but just not as prominate as other historics. I guess whoever was on the belt sander that day was a little lazy or under the weather but I love the finish right now...

 

[nico b]

AS the original poster of this thread, and after reading all your replies, I decided to do the Pine test (with a small 90 degree set-sqare), and lo and behold, my 95 and CC15 do have a small upcarve. I will post pics asap. So, apologies to all for my being such a doubting Thomas. Just shows that my comments about you see what you want to see (not that I did not want to see, if you see what I mean, in this particular case) is just not true. And me being an artist and all!!!

 

[boyscout]

<snip>

Are you showing that recurves are caused by erosion? I didn't know that!

Thanks Frank, great posts.

 

[Open_Book]

There are also some great shots on Charles Daughtry's site.

 

[3armdave]

I was skeptical about this too, until I set my r6 on a level surface and placed a large steel marble along the widest part of the top. It stayed in the "valley" as I lightly nudged it around the edge. On one of my r9s though, it rolled right off immediately. So clearly not all lps have this feature but I can confirm at least one does... I intend to test my other lp's as well but they're all in their cases atm. Interesting!

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[pinefd]

^^^ I like that approach! I've heard some people refer to the recurve area as a roulette wheel, and now we know why!


Frank