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An Amateur Luthier: The Fiddle: Carving the Body
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Monday, March 10, 2014. The Fiddle: Carving the Body. I told you that maple was hard, and I meant it. One reason I haven't posted recently is because I'm actually a little intimidated by it. I tell my friends that the reason making my. Woodshavings: part of a balanced breakfast.". You should see the other guy. In certain places, the spoon plane could really only go in a direction that was against the grain, which isn't ideal. That left rough, fibrous holes in the wood that would have taken a while to...
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An Amateur Luthier: February 2014
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014. The Fiddle (Part 3). I'd like to confess that I didn't take too many pictures up front this time. I went to my friend's workshop once again and was in production mode, rather than worrying about blogging very much. However, I did have my tripod set up, so while there are few pictures of the first bit of this post, there are pictures. A scroll saw operates like a coping saw: it oscillates up and down to remove the material in front of the blade, like tiny shovels. The width...
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An Amateur Luthier: The Steamer Box
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Sunday, August 24, 2014. It feels as though it has been a long time since I've posted anything, because it has. Extenuating circumstances have left me feeling rough emotionally of late, but the real problem, as you may recall, is due to the stage of construction the fiddle. I decided to build the largest box the instructions recommended, which is a 6" x 6" x 4' box. I thought that would just about suffice for most of my luthierie projects (hopefully including a guitar), so I began cutting the wood...
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An Amateur Luthier: Cutting the "F" Holes
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Sunday, May 11, 2014. Cutting the "F" Holes. It has been a while, but I'm back to continue relating my lutherie adventures. Last time, you may recall, I posted about carving the neck, which includes the fancy, seussical scroll and peg box. Now, things have begun to take shape, and the spruce top looks even more like a fiddle. Again, I'm not really going for your traditional violin ( Lizzie. No luthier is complete without his hat. The razor knife. I typically learn from my mistakes, and ironically I c...
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An Amateur Luthier: Carving the Neck
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Monday, April 7, 2014. As you may recall, the neck looked something like this when we left it last:. The pretty, curly part of the neck is called the scroll, which in this picture is nothing more than a design drawn in pencil on the wood. To turn two dimensional drawings into a three dimensional shape means drawing your design on all the sides to make sure you don't cut somewhere you don't intend. That leads me to just how you go about creating a scroll. Relates that the scroll can be carved by a pocket ...
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An Amateur Luthier: April 2014
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Monday, April 7, 2014. As you may recall, the neck looked something like this when we left it last:. The pretty, curly part of the neck is called the scroll, which in this picture is nothing more than a design drawn in pencil on the wood. To turn two dimensional drawings into a three dimensional shape means drawing your design on all the sides to make sure you don't cut somewhere you don't intend. That leads me to just how you go about creating a scroll. Relates that the scroll can be carved by a pocket ...
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An Amateur Luthier: March 2014
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Monday, March 10, 2014. The Fiddle: Carving the Body. I told you that maple was hard, and I meant it. One reason I haven't posted recently is because I'm actually a little intimidated by it. I tell my friends that the reason making my. Woodshavings: part of a balanced breakfast.". You should see the other guy. In certain places, the spoon plane could really only go in a direction that was against the grain, which isn't ideal. That left rough, fibrous holes in the wood that would have taken a while to...
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An Amateur Luthier: May 2014
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Sunday, May 11, 2014. Cutting the "F" Holes. It has been a while, but I'm back to continue relating my lutherie adventures. Last time, you may recall, I posted about carving the neck, which includes the fancy, seussical scroll and peg box. Now, things have begun to take shape, and the spruce top looks even more like a fiddle. Again, I'm not really going for your traditional violin ( Lizzie. No luthier is complete without his hat. The razor knife. I typically learn from my mistakes, and ironically I c...
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An Amateur Luthier: August 2014
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Sunday, August 24, 2014. It feels as though it has been a long time since I've posted anything, because it has. Extenuating circumstances have left me feeling rough emotionally of late, but the real problem, as you may recall, is due to the stage of construction the fiddle. I decided to build the largest box the instructions recommended, which is a 6" x 6" x 4' box. I thought that would just about suffice for most of my luthierie projects (hopefully including a guitar), so I began cutting the wood...
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