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Dan Pennington
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A couple of years ago I made a duplicator similar to yours for carving banjo necks.
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I abandoned the idea after one neck. It was loud, sprayed sawdust everywhere, left a rough surface that still needed a lot of hand work, and took longer to do than with rasps, files, and knives.
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Yessir, definitely not the best tool for neck craving. Archtop plates, on the other hand....
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Goat Rock Ukulele
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I do my headstock inlay a little differently. Most of the time I make a jigsaw type puzzle with my reducing pantograph rather than actually cutting a channel to inlay into. The red king snake is inlayed however so I kept the out cut. I cut out my patterns with a scroll saw with jewelers blade My reduction is 2.7x, I use a dremel with 1/32" endmills. I have it down now so I get really nice fits and don't need to do any filing on the inlay materials. I like to get pearl @ 50 thousands. It is a lot nicer to cut recon stone, wood, or ivory, ablam than hard white MOP.


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