Status of project, as of Sept 11, 2012

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Posted by Chet Bishop on Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Weather was pretty nice tonight; not likely to overheat...coyotes are whooping it up down in the woods...nice night.

What got done was:

Removed all the lining clamps,
Leveled the front of the garland,
Shaped the blocks and linings,
Scraped the outside of the ribs (needs more),
Fit and installed the bassbar,
Made a neck/scroll template from the Plowden poster,
Cut out and refined the neck/scroll profile, then
Cleaned up and called it a night. :-)

Picture over on the forum.

I teach tomorrow, so I won't be home until late, but still, maybe, I can get started on that volute, and clean up the inside of the corpus...maybe do the edges on the front plate. We'll see.

For the next ten or twelve weeks I will be teaching a course at work, and it involves staying over an extra two hours a couple of nights a week. That's OK...I can plan small jobs for those evenings. :-)

Thanks for looking.

Chet

2 comments on “Status of project, as of Sept 11, 2012”

Chet Bishop Says:
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 @8:37:42 PM

Well...not as much as I hoped, but I didn't totally blow out.
I cleaned up the inside of the corpus, using scrapers, then
Trimmed the bass-bar, and scraped it, finally sanding it with 400-grit.
Rounded the edges of the front plate, using a file, and finally 400-grit, so that it is essentially ready to install.
Time to head for bed.

Chet Bishop Says:
Friday, September 14, 2012 @6:01:39 AM

Well-- it was sad, and frustrating, but AFTER the bass-bar was in, and the edges rounded and I was ready to install the front plate, I gradually realized that the "optical illusion" that the bass f-hole was further "north" than the treble f-hole was NOT an illusion at all: that somehow as I was positioning the template, I had shifted it a couple of millimeters notrth, and failed to see it until now. (sigh...)

A beautiful plate, with great wood, and a great ringing tap-tone--but garbage,,,firewood, because I neglected to re-check my measurement before I began cutting.

I hope I learn by it....meanwhile, I bookmatched and glued up a new front plate, and will cut it out this evening, arch it and begin purfling.

Hopefully by Monday I will have this fiddle ready to close up. I laid out and began cutting the volute last night, too, before it was too late and time to quit. (Looking good so far...)

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