AHG (and sometimes U)

[GGJaguar]

Glad you're feeling better and The Supervisor is looking out for you.

 

[Stuball48]

Fever was gone this morning, but the whole body felt like I had overdone a workout. (Probably from shivering all day with fever.)
But I managed to get the end graft in and sand and shellac the sides.



Suitable for rubbing.

Only the high-end instruments get the "Cat Fur Rub."

 

[AcornHouse]

I just discovered a new test for responsiveness in a soundboard. I was watching a Who concert DVD (Shea Stadium, 1982) and happened to pick up the uke body. Shortly I started noticing that there were strong sympathetic vibrations when I had my fingers lightly resting on the top.

Strings attached should be a piece of cake!

 

[Stuball48]

Hoping you are continuing to improve from your booster shot.

 

[AcornHouse]

I got the neck blank glued up. In order to keep things light and not make it out of balance I used Spanish cedar with a strip of koa in the middle. This stuff is light! And, being Spanish cedar, as opposed to, say, figured maple, it'll be a breeze to carve.

 

[AcornHouse]

I got the neck blank glued up. In order to keep things light and not make it out of balance I used Spanish cedar with a strip of koa in the middle. This stuff is light! And, being Spanish cedar, as opposed to, say, figured maple, it'll be a breeze to carve.

It's times like these when you really mourn the lack of Feel-o-vision technology. (And Smell-o-vision in the case of Spanish cedar.) It's something that you have to experience first hand.

And be a wood nut.

 

[AcornHouse]

Wood be fickle.
I ganged my bloodwood binding strips together after thicknessing so I can bend them all at once.
Doing the sharpest waist bend, 2 of them were cooperating. 2, not so much. Those two must have had a particular weak spot of runout right there. Sometimes it doesn't take much, but once it starts, that's game over for those strips.
Nothing for it but to cut a couple more strips. Preferably after the storm passes (have to go out to the workshop.)

 

[GGJaguar]

Sometimes it doesn't take much, but once it starts, that's game over for those strips.

You're gonna have to put 'em down. Or re-purpose them.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Wood be fickle.
I ganged my bloodwood binding strips together after thicknessing so I can bend them all at once.
Doing the sharpest waist bend, 2 of them were cooperating. 2, not so much. Those two must have had a particular weak spot of runout right there. Sometimes it doesn't take much, but once it starts, that's game over for those strips.
Nothing for it but to cut a couple more strips. Preferably after the storm passes (have to go out to the workshop.)

GSR?

 

[AcornHouse]

GSR?

"Gsr?"?

 

[AcornHouse]

I went ahead and got the good two strips bent. One of them wanted to give way just at the edge of the waist, but they are oversized so I can plane that part away after they're glued in. (The bad two split to far down.)

 

[AcornHouse]

Cutting the back's binding channels old school.

 

[AcornHouse]

And a good reminder that, in most cases, tops and bottoms aren't really glued to the sides at all in the end, only to the kerfing.

 

[GGJaguar]

tops and bottoms aren't really glued to the sides at all in the end, only to the kerfing.

Good reminder about the optical illusion.

 

[GAD]

Cutting the back's binding channels old school.

Did the cat take that picture?

 

[AcornHouse]

Did the cat take that picture?

 

[AcornHouse]

Getting the wee stuff honed and cutting crisp is a tricky job.

 

[GGJaguar]

Getting the wee stuff honed and cutting crisp is a tricky job.

Are you using Japanese whetstones?

 

[AcornHouse]

Are you using Japanese whetstones?

Yes, water stones. Although on the 1000/4000 one it's made by Norton, so I'm not sure that really qualifies as "Japanese". But the 8000 one certainly is.

 

[AcornHouse]

Nothing like a freshly sharpened edge to get a clean finished surface.