Re: Stick Exhibitions in France, we need some help from you!
Resurrecting this very old discussion...
A few years ago, I worked on an exhibition, consisting of large plates with texts and pictures, which has been asked by some french cultural centers. At the time, some players here on stickist.com helped me by providing pics.
I'm now doing a new updated and more exhaustive version of the exhibition as I've been asked by a cultural center of my hometown to do a lecture/showcase on late 2019. Perfect schedule as this summer, there's no Stickcamp to organize (next year very likely) and the Free Hands has turned 50 years!
I did some extensive searches about the history of the Stick recently, dissecting websites, books (Jim Reilly's book is a gem) and methods to gather all the information the audience could asked for . The plates will be done by a friend of mine, who made the posters of the Allaire tapping festival and Folies Tapping a few yeas ago.
For this new version, I want to make a plate describing the Stick in its actual shape. All around the main picture, there will be some explanations about all the equipments the Stick is made of : truss-rod, bridge, nut, frets, material... For each piece of equipment, I would like to insert some smaller pictures of those previous equipments used by Emmett Chapman, so we can see the continuous evolution of the Stick for 50 years. So, I'm looking for some closer pictures of those equipments, especially the oldest ones.
Here is the list of the pics I may need :
Nut : first version with the plate, second version with the screws, third version with the Flaps
Headstock : first version with the angular tip of the headstock (viewable on the very old sticks)
Metal nameplate : old trapezoidal shape
Bridge : non adjustable bridge (the one with only screws into the wood)
Damper : the ones made of velvet than fur
Belt hook : the first ones, in wood, then in metal
Frets : I need pics of the older ones : guitar type frets, then Jumbo, then Rods. For those pics, I would like to have some pics taken from the side, to see the actual shape of the fret
If you have some good quality pics of your Stick as well, and some close-up shots showing a interesting/beautiful view of the grain of the material/wood, I may be interested as well!
Feel free to send me your pics at
bruno.joel.ricard@gmail.com and ask me for some info you may need.
Thanks for your help!