New Shires Straight Gooseneck Design?
- MalecHeermans
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Nick Finzer reviews a .525 Shires here and you'll notice a curved brace rather than their straight brace with thumb rest style gooseneck. Anyone know if they've changed the production design?
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- bbocaner
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ohh, I like that. and you could put a rest bar on it, too, which you couldn't on the old one.
- JonTheCadet
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[quote="bbocaner"]ohh, I like that. and you could put a rest bar on it, too, which you couldn't on the old one.[/quote]
Doesn't the old one come with a fixed rest bar?
Doesn't the old one come with a fixed rest bar?
- bbocaner
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It comes with a fixed dummy trigger lever to rest your thumb on. I'm talking about the rest bar that goes across your hand inbetween the thumb and the pointer finger which helps actually support the instrument. Similar to the edwards bullet brace, but connecting to the tenon rather than to the bell brace.
- MalecHeermans
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Aesthetically I prefer the old style.
- Matt_K
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For some reason, that part is still available in their catalogue for what I understand is the discontinued 36CO (?). Eric Edwards converted my Shires F attachment with the same part and it looks darn near identical. FWIW, Edwards also makes the neckpipes like that. I have one that I converted to my Shires. Definitely dig the "F" brace myself!