Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

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Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby congalou » Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:14 pm

Here is a 70' quinto Delaporte (From France) 7 lugs.

12 re-gluing, new varnish and a new skin.

With cork on the bottom to make it smaller, it's a try, I will see the result if it's interesting or not.

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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby congalou » Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:16 pm

Here it is !!
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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby CongaTick » Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:41 pm

You are amazing.
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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby Madlatin » Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:17 pm

Nice job Congalou!!
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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby Kaban » Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:38 pm

It's smoking!
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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby KING CONGA » Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:58 pm

I want it!!! :twisted:
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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby Mike » Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:59 pm

I have one similar to that! :P

Congalou, what type of wood is it?

And maybe I am dumb, but I did not understand the bit with the cork.
You shortened the conga, OK. But why did you glue the cork on the bottom inside?
Could you explain that to me please? Merci :)

Otherwise: Awesome skills as always!
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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby bongosnotbombs » Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:51 pm

Mike wrote:I have one similar to that! :P

Congalou, what type of wood is it?

And maybe I am dumb, but I did not understand the bit with the cork.
You shortened the conga, OK. But why did you glue the cork on the bottom inside?
Could you explain that to me please? Merci :)

Otherwise: Awesome skills as always!


I don't think he shortened the conga, it looks like the cork is in the interior of the bottom to make the diameter smaller.
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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby congalou » Fri Jan 11, 2013 5:23 am

Bongo, you're right, I have just make the diameter smaler for have a little bit more "compression" (kind of "djembe effect").

About the wood, I don't know exactly. Shure it's African wood, samba maybe, but I'm not shure.

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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby Mike » Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:03 am

I see. It just looked as if you shortened the conga in photo #4 of your second post because the
wood at the bottom seemed freshly and a bit roughly sawn, at least I thought so, as the bottom
did not have the rubber bottom (may Michel Delaporte did not use them in the 1970s yet)

And please tell us what effect on the sound the cork has, if any.
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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby congalou » Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:26 am

The owner cut it long time ago (around 1 inch tall) but lost a lot of sound because of that. That's what I'm triying to repair.

I will keep you informed if it works.

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Re: Old Delaporte quinto 7 lugs

Postby congalou » Sat Feb 02, 2013 10:02 am

So ! This drum sounds amazing !!! One of the best soundind drum I have played.

But honnestly, I don't know if it's due to the cork on the bottom. The guy can't tell me if it's better now compared to before. The super sound is due to the complete regluing, the new skin and MAYBE A LITTLE BIT to the cork..

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