Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-01-25 00:12
Dibbs,
They say they don't use coloring of any kind, and that the darkening is from oiling. I asked. The grenadilla is the same way. The billets are lighter, sort of milk chocolate, and have nice grain, more or less like the high end Buffets, but the finished instruments are straight black. Jochen specifically mentions linseed oil in his video on oiling instruments - https://youtu.be/gFcRYbSHkUo. In other threads, people have mentioned that linseed doesn't penetrate unless mixed with something else, and I don't know if hie does that, or if he uses a vacuum process when "seasoning" the wood. He also, by the way, plays a few notes in the video on a German system horn. Sounds pretty dark, and also like the Boehm system French bore ones I played there; they don't sound much like the videos of the Buffets. I understand they source the wood a little from Spain but mostly from Turkey.
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