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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2004-09-04 12:28
An R-13 (grenadilla, not greenline) currently on sale has "polycarbonate fiber reinforced tenons".
Is this normal? Or does it mean it has been repaired? The seller appears to know what he is talking about.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2004-09-04 13:50
Don't really know for sure,David, but a good guess is that it is glass filled polycarbonate (i.e. "Lexan" ) which is one of the three forms this material is commonly found in. The "fibres" are short rather than thread-like. There have been some reports of greenline tenon breakage so this could be an attempt to reduce that problem. So...it could be an experiment by the Greenline maker or it could be a repair job on an existing horn. It sounds like a reasonable approach to making a stronger tenon....imho.
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Author: Todd W.
Date: 2004-09-07 22:23
David --
I looked at a number of ebay listings for R-13s. The descriptions on some of them clearly were copied from (probably without permission) the Buffet (The Music Group) web site descriptions, which did, indeed, mention "polycarbonate fiber reinforced tenons" as a feature, and so they are therefore "normal," not a repair.
Whether the reinforcements are in the form of a tenon cap (taking the place of the traditional metal) or are somehow impregnated into the tenon itself, or wound around it is not specified. I think I first saw this advertised as a feature on the Buffet Elite model (which has a number of features that are different from the majority of the Buffet instruments), but it is now (and perhaps even then was) listed for the R-13s as well.
Todd W.
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