Click on sound files below to hear Table Top & Legs Hard Maple bridge on my RB-OO Kalamazoo/Sullivan conversion.
Click on sound file below to hear Table Top & Legs Hard Maple bridge on my style 3 copy Memphis Belle no hole/Cox 2-ply rim
Table Top & Legs Hard Maple
I got two large hard maple tables from a local Dillard's clearance store at the Asheville Outlet Mall. My wife works there and the manager was going to throw them in the dumpster. I was able to salvage them and boy! I'm glad I did! This is excellent sounding hard maple. It is nice and bright with just the right sustain. Very responsive and volume to spare. The tables are around 25 to 30 years old. Sound files coming soon.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
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Click on sound file below to hear the Old Gym Floor Hard Maple on my mahogany banjo with Memphis Belle no hole ring.
Old Gym Floor Hard Maple
This Old Gym Floor Hard Maple was discovered and given to me by
my good friend Kirk Barker from Suches, GA.. Kirk and Barry Abernathy drove up one day and brought me some of this maple flooring that came out of a school gym around the area he lives. It is some great sounding bridge wood. Very much like the Select Maple but a little more volume. This wood is around 60 to 70 years old.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
my good friend Kirk Barker from Suches, GA.. Kirk and Barry Abernathy drove up one day and brought me some of this maple flooring that came out of a school gym around the area he lives. It is some great sounding bridge wood. Very much like the Select Maple but a little more volume. This wood is around 60 to 70 years old.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
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Click on sound files below to hear the Birdseye Hard Maple, with African Blackwood top, on my mahogany banjo with Memphis Belle no hole ring.
Birdseye Hard Maple
This Birdseye Hard Maple comes from a new exotic wood supplier
here in Western North Carolina. You will find some birdseye markings in the grain of these bridges. I hand pick close grain 2" x 2" x 18" blocks. I've tried African Blackwood as well as Gabon Ebony for top wood and both sound great on this wood. This is one of the closest in tone to the old flooring wood that I've come across.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
here in Western North Carolina. You will find some birdseye markings in the grain of these bridges. I hand pick close grain 2" x 2" x 18" blocks. I've tried African Blackwood as well as Gabon Ebony for top wood and both sound great on this wood. This is one of the closest in tone to the old flooring wood that I've come across.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
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The short sound file "John Henry" is Roasted Red Maple with a Katalox top
The "Hide Head Blues" sound file is Roasted Red Maple with Ebony top.
The "Hide Head Blues" sound file is Roasted Red Maple with Ebony top.
*New* Roasted Red Maple
This *New* second batch of Roasted Red Maple has some beautiful markings on the quarter sawn back side. The grain lines are nice and straight and are closer than my last batch. This wood is a little darker. Just like the last batch, this wood has excellent tone like most Red Maple. Nice sustain with a richness to the notes. Excellent 4th string as well.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
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click sound file below to hear John Mark Batchelor play the Red Maple Bridge
Click sound file below to hear Tim Purcell play the Red Maple Bridge
Red Maple
Red Maple Bridges are made from the finest red maple selections. The tone is very clear, open, with good volume and sustain. A great choice for melodic style players as well as Bluegrass Scruggs style players.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
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Click sound files below to hear Tim Purcell play the Ambrosia Red Maple Bridge
*New* Ambrosia Red Maple
Ambrosia Maple is simply Maple wood that was infested with the Ambrosia beetle. Don't let that turn you away!! It has turned out to be some of the best bridge wood I've come across. It is very much like the regular Red Maple I have except for the color variations from the beetle infestation. This new Ambrosia Maple has quite a bit of dis-coloration through out the wood. I stay away from the beetle bore holes but you may see some coloration in some places on these bridges. It has volume to spare and very balanced all over the fingerboard. It produces a nice 4th string bass tone too.
Price: $22.00 +
$4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
Price: $22.00 +
$4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
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Click sound file below to here the *New* Select Hard Maple played on my RB-OO Kalamazoo/Sullivan conversion
Click sound file below to hear the "New" Select Hard Maple played by Doug Knecht
*NEW* Select Hard Maple
**Just in** New Select Hard Maple! This new select hard maple is the best new hard maple I've come across to date. This maple comes from a local exotic wood supply house. It has great note separation and with just the right balance of sustain. I have two varieties of Select Hard Maple. One comes from outside North Carolina and the other comes from within a 30 mile radius of Asheville, North Carolina. Both are very similar in tone.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
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Old Submerged Birch
Old Birch Bridges are made from reclaimed sunken logs from the Great Lakes region. A very clear tone all up and down the fingerboard. A favorite of archtop players as well as flathead banjos.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
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*New* Black Locust
This *New* Black Locust comes from a local hardwood lumber yard. The wood originated from southern Virginia. Locust has been a favorite bridge wood to many open back clawhammer players. The hard dense wood tends to give a nice quick decay with great volume and note separation.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
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4 string bridges available in your wood choice as well as your choice of height and string spacing. Email me your specifications...purcellbridges@gmail.com
4 string tenor regular style. Works with Mike's Tenor Mute.
4 string tenor heart shape style.
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"Old Stairs" Birch Wood
I obtained this old birch wood from Russell Sawler. The wood came from an old set of stairs from Dorchester Penitentiary, in New Brunswick Providence, Canada. The building was recently torn down. It was built in 1885.
This wood has some very clear tone all over the fingerboard and a nice rumbling bass from the 4th string. I found it to sound better with a weight around 2.2 to 2.3 grams. Believe it or not, the sound file below is a 2.6 gram bridge I made for Laurence Diehl. You can tell from the sound file that this wood has nice note separation.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
This wood has some very clear tone all over the fingerboard and a nice rumbling bass from the 4th string. I found it to sound better with a weight around 2.2 to 2.3 grams. Believe it or not, the sound file below is a 2.6 gram bridge I made for Laurence Diehl. You can tell from the sound file that this wood has nice note separation.
Price: $22.00 + $4.00 shipping in lower 48 .....$4.00 - outside USA
I offer sizes: 1/2'', 9/16", 5/8'',.656", 11/16'', 3/4", or custom height
Your choice of spacing: Standard,Crowe, or a spacing of your specifications. I offer radius tops as well.
Click on sound file below to hear Laurence Diehl play the Old Stairs Birch Bridge
