27 Mar
2012
27 Mar
'12
4:30 p.m.
On 27/03/12 6:19 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 27 Mar 2012 at 17:51, William Donzelli wrote:
Or the fingerboard on a fine violin--or a clarinet or recorder.
Where the "sound quality" of the wood actually makes more than a
"doesn't it look pretty" difference on something that stands of
chance of being used more than a century.
For your PDP-8, use veneer--at least that stretches the supply--and
in this application, who's going to know? Somewhat akin to the gold
held at Ft. Knox really being gold-plated tungsten bricks. It's not
as if it's going to be used for anything, just as long as we
*believe* it has value.
There is gold at Fort Knox? I think everyone knows by know that when it
comes to national matters you can just make sh*t up and people will
believe it - so why go to the trouble of making fake ingots? Though if
you had to do that, just order "cheap but authentic" gold bullion from
the Chinese. :D
--Toby
Perhaps
there are worthy uses of rosewood - maybe a PDP-8 front
panel is one of them
I would bet that restoring a PDP-8 would be way down on the public's
list of worthy uses, compared to, for example, restoring a beat up
antique Gibson.
--Chuck