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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:09 am 
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I am moving along on my harp ukulele; I put in the end wedge today and have the top glued down. I know the end wedge is backwards :roll: ? ; I am sure the reverse direction will improve the tone. Gluing down the top was interesting. Usually I use a mold to hold the shape when I glue the first plate down. I decided not use the mold because my mold is thicker than the harp peg head block. What I did instead was, while properly aligned in the mold, mark all of the braces on the kerfling and used a pencil in key places to mark where the body was supposed to end up. When the kerfling rebates were routed and the brace ends trimmed properly, I was able to re-align the body without a mold using a combination of the braces in the rebates and my alignment marks. I just used nearly every clamp in my shop to hold the top down. I did end up with even squeeze out all around.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:38 am 
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Finally got back to work on my Les Paul after screwing up the first neck attempt.

Got it fit to the body, made a router template for the initial headstock shape, then started shaping the neck profiles. I've decided that I need to nothing but shape necks for a week if I ever want to gain any proficiency at it.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:17 am 
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I've been working on my first mando - I have most of the parts built - now for some final graduations/sanding - then gluing it all together -

here it is with the neck, sides and blocks all glued together, top and back carved


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:28 am 
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I finished this thing:
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Plus there was another wave of ants that declared war on my yard. I used some incendiary devices to obliterate them. Good times.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:56 am 
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Had a big week delivering two recent commissions to their new owners in NYC. One is a wenge and sinker redwood parlor based on Martin's 2 1/2 size. Built for a friend who spent 2 years in Mali with the Peace Corps, it has an African theme, complete with pre-ban ivory bridge, tailwedge, and fingerboard inlay.
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On the other end of the spectrum, is a 28"-scale baritone with a sitka top and fiddleback koa back and sides. This is my own shape, based on my Odalisque design, but scaled up to jumbo proportions.
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And now that my shop is somewhat clear, I'm doing a few repairs, including modifying a Steve Klein Transtrem tailpiece.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:02 am 
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I didn't get a whole lot of guitar building done, instead I was able to move a few things around in my shop and fit in a (new to me) used bandsaw.
Out with my little table top unit!
My next "tool" project will be to remove my West Penn cyclone system and install my new Clearvue CVMAX. Ill be needing to run 220 to my shop first though.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:48 am 
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Spent the weekend, well make that Wed & Thurs evening plus all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. This show has been running 39 years and I've been attending most of the last 30. Got lots of vitamin D from lots of sunshine.

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Got the inlay lines cut in the viola da gamba back and started to get some of the inlay glued in. Not much in the way of photos yet, but soon!

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:09 pm 
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Spayed the nitro on this round shoulder dred. Now waiting for sufficient dry time. I would not have gotten it sprayed with my old conventional set up due to high humidity. But was no problem for the Fuji mini mite.

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Neck To Body alignment . Will finish cutting the heel now and fine tune alignment .

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:36 pm 
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Closed the box on the pine topped, all Michigan L-OO; and after putting off doing a heel graft on a claro walnut FB-185 for weeks, I finally hunkered down, sharpened the chisel, and got it done. Still needs to be final shaped, but the hard part is behind me:

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:11 am 
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Ken C wrote:
Closed the box on the pine topped, all Michigan L-OO; and after putting off doing a heel graft on a claro walnut FB-185 for weeks, I finally hunkered down, sharpened the chisel, and got it done. Still needs to be final shaped, but the hard part is behind me:

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I don't generally like laminated necks but this one with those detail lines is a really nice piece of work.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:52 am 
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Beautiful work!

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I made this:

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Otherwise all I did was restore the 12 string guitar...

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:14 pm 
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Thanks Douglas and Max! :D

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