17/04/2026
Three newly designed prototype backbores I spent the morning working on. Each of the inside flares utilising a different mathematical model to optimise for stability (inertance) and intonation.
Eventually I'll be able to use instrument bore measurements and/or impedence mapping (if I have the specific instrument and player available to map) to optimise the matching of the impedence curves to the instrument, and to manipulate shape and position of impedence peaks in a way that is instrument specific. I have some preliminary thoughts on how this mapping might even be able to be done remotely without specialty equipment, but it's going to take a while to build and test that system.
It's one of those things that everyone goes *too hard, just use brute force trial and error*. This is the 21st century, and we have the means and ability to do this sort of stuff, we just need to build the system. Seems bizaree to me that it will have to be little old me with zero R&D budget who builds this sort of stuff but I guess that's the frontier we've been stuck at for 100years, and someone has to be bothered to at least try!
