My Conversation with Simmons

[B. Dudley]

I do not now the specifics of this particular Simmons effort, but I know that last year I spoke with them about the possibility of re-matting an original Parker rib and they were scared as heck to even discuss it as soon as I mentioned the rib being concave. All they said was that IF they could figure a way to do it, I would likely not want to pay for it. They never mentioned a price range.

It seems that matting a flat rib is no problem for most.

[Bill Murphy]

The Simmons project died on the vine when the first supposedly finished barrel set was shown at the 2010 Vintagers and was a bit less of a result than anticipated.