Fingerbox thread. Pictured is my 1924 Milton-Burgess Falconcrest, not selling it so don't ask

what are the reason behind these threads?
i understand most of it, just not what op and other followers want to gain

Is there a reason you can't find these for sale...anywhere anymore?

newfag detected

MB went out of business during WW2 so it's honestly a supply issue. There just weren't many of them made
This guy knows. Fucking chinks.

ffffffffucking BEAUTIFUL op
Classy look; and so many boxes I see lack the acoustic panels. So rare to get a decent resonance nowadays.

Is anyone taking part in this years Baxendorf Trials?

I hear they are going online this year and invitations are due to be sent out in the next few weeks.

Ive got a 1945 pure bone Willamshoff 34c Model B Ive been practicing with.

My sweet summer child. Research who's been funding the Baxendorfs for the last decade or so. Hint, it starts with J. Nice rig though, 34c B's have amazing speed if you keep them maintained

I hope I get invited, I come from a poor family, so all I've had for practice is a classic homemade wooden fingerbox that we inherit from dad to son since about 4 generations ago. If I make it to the trials my late grandpa would be so proud...

I dont really care who funds it - the purse is huge and I always come away with a fair chunk of it.

So what if the money comes from wherever the rumours say it does - they deserve it after the Mansfield Incident.

Tbh prefer mostely the more simpler ones. The fingerfeel gets more attention when they don't have to spend too much on the exterior I guess.

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Keep your box clean, and regularly replace the Hintons shaft and youll be fine.

fucking newfag

The fact they let the Chinese compete now is enough to turn me off completely. The Mansfield Incident was needed to protect the integrity of the sport

I had one of these that my grandfather actually made himself. The casing was two halves carved by hand out of a red oak burl. I seem to remember him telling me he had to get the internals from a clocksmith in Bavaria, but he said it was worth it.

Unfortunately I was only 6 at the time and had no idea what an amazing gift it was. It got thrown in a drawer somewhere and might have actually been thrown away when my parents cleaned out my room when I went off to college. They also gave away a collection of Lego that would have gone for thousands on today's market, so it's no surprise, really.

I'd give a lot to have that beautiful fingerbox back today.

Tbh it's a surprise fingerboxes never took off in China the way you think it would. I think when fingerboxes had their heyday, it was a perfect storm of economic and political factors in mainland China that kept fingerboxes from really catching on.

Can you imagine if they had taken off over there? The market would have been flooded with cheaply manufactured fingerboxes. People everywhere would have gotten the impression that all fingerboxes were crummy throw-away stocking stuffers not meant to last past New Year's. Even now, most people don't understand the value of a real professionally built fingerbox.

i knew i should have called this out in the first post

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I'm sorry, I'm pretty new to fingerboxing but I'm doing my best.

Jealous! Waiting on a replacement bracket for my '72 Grayline Bold... could take months to arrive, thanks corona! Next season maybe.

I spent a year in China teaching English and there's definitely a market of cheap, shitty fingerboxes, at least in Shanghai. I almost had to go to the hospital the first and only time I tried one. They're soulless over there

Cool rig! 2 Questions for OP:
Do you prefer clockwise or anticlockwise?
Can you tri-stand WITHOUT interlocking on the Falconcrest?

lol nice reproduction piece. And don't worry, no one will offer

corona. They even cancelled all the pride parades so that's a double aw fuck for you

what about great grandad? Since that's 4 gen ago

>poor and stupid, such overcoming incredible odds

lol you like huge purses

Tits or remove yourself

Clockwise, it just feels right to me. And yes you can tri-stand without interlocking, good question. that's one of the Falconcrest's main draws. Remember fingerboxes didn't generally have rodstoppers until the mid-30s, after the Barlow Hearings

not OP, but I believe you CAN tri-stand, but the Falconcrest models aren't meant for such high speed maneuvers.

Pretty much what I would expect. I heard in the big cities you can find old retired engineers who carve the cases and machine all the parts from scratch. They always work out of other businesses like places that extend the lives of beat-up appliances for people who can't afford to replace them. Always in run-down neighborhoods, and they build individual fingerboxes at an amazingly slow rate, since they make the whole thing from scratch, but supposedly the workmanship would have won prizes if they had been entered in the bi-annual galleries in Germany, back when they used to put those on.