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I'm noodling around on the UK Ebay site, and found this wood reproducer/soundbox, (bezel, diaphragm, needle bar...)

Yet another novelty item? Somebody's home woodworking project? I would post a picture directly, but I'm on my tablet...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221114070526;js ... 26_rdc%3D1

Here it is... Winning bid: GBP 66.00

Retrograde wrote:Here it is... Winning bid: GBP 66.00

Thanks for uploading the pic!

i gues its a early version of the pugh soundbox normaly the diagraph would be wood too but this could have been replaced pugh machines where all wood except the motor and some soundbox parts


greetins
tino

mrphonograph wrote:i gues its a early version of the pugh soundbox normaly the diagraph would be wood too but this could have been replaced

pugh cabinet red mahogany 7.jpg

pugh machines where all wood except the motor and some soundbox parts


greetins
tino

That's pretty interesting looking from a curiosity perspective... I do have to wonder what the sound quality would be like, however, with a wood soundbox (especially with a wood diaphragm)?

Tinkerbell wrote:

mrphonograph wrote:i gues its a early version of the pugh soundbox normaly the diagraph would be wood too but this could have been replaced

pugh cabinet red mahogany 7.jpg

pugh machines where all wood except the motor and some soundbox parts


greetins
tino

That's pretty interesting looking from a curiosity perspective... I do have to wonder what the sound quality would be like, however, with a wood soundbox (especially with a wood diaphragm)?

Didn't some of the Sonora's have wooden tone arm- reproducers? I've never heard one, would be interesting.

Norfolkguy wrote:

Tinkerbell wrote:

mrphonograph wrote:i gues its a early version of the pugh soundbox normaly the diagraph would be wood too but this could have been replaced

pugh cabinet red mahogany 7.jpg

pugh machines where all wood except the motor and some soundbox parts


greetins
tino

That's pretty interesting looking from a curiosity perspective... I do have to wonder what the sound quality would be like, however, with a wood soundbox (especially with a wood diaphragm)?

Didn't some of the Sonora's have wooden tone arm- reproducers? I've never heard one, would be interesting.

Some of the Sonora tone arms were wood (Invincible, Grand, and Elite models, as I recall), but the reproducers were traditional metal and mica sound boxes.

Wonder if it's made from "violin wood" ?

Dousona arms are made of wood too - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Douso ... 288wt_1170

I think it shows that sound reproduction is not limited to only a few materials.
These days they would all be plastic.
The wood might be better at certain frequencies.
No one ever thinks of making a Violin out of plastic or metal.
Wood has certain properties nothing else does.