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Post by geddarby on Sept 30, 2016 22:07:17 GMT
You never know, I can be quite scary sometimes.
Watch out!!
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Post by yorkie on Oct 1, 2016 7:27:52 GMT
Without wishing to stray too far into the land of double entendre.... That looks really hard.
Carving that should give you a nice workout.
Looking good, Francis. Thanks for continuing to share.
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Post by Akquarius on Oct 1, 2016 8:01:46 GMT
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Post by francis on Oct 1, 2016 13:29:06 GMT
Without wishing to stray too far into the land of double entendre.... That looks really hard. Carving that should give you a nice workout. Looking good, Francis. Thanks for continuing to share. I can confirm - B-hard and .... sweaty! Progress so far today:  |
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Post by ourmaninthenorth on Oct 1, 2016 15:39:52 GMT
I'm completely transfixed by this thread. May I echo the above thanks for the continuing updates?
Fantastic.
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Post by francis on Oct 3, 2016 10:11:34 GMT
Quite a 'bitty' day yesterday - too much non luthier stuff to do, but I did manage to carve the 'f-holes' in the soundboard:  Waiting for the narrow decorative lines to go with the lacewood binding before I can progess the soundboard much further. Today I've started blending the domed back curve into the recurve with scrapers - small hump between the two still visible in this photo:  TBC... |
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Post by earthbalm on Oct 3, 2016 19:13:51 GMT
Quite fab!
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Post by francis on Oct 4, 2016 14:42:02 GMT
Outside face of the back plate with a coat of white polish. Few small indents remain from the drilling around the recurve, these will be removed once the box is closed:  Next the inner face - aiming for an initial 4.5 - 4.7 mm right across the whole back plate ! |
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Post by ourmaninthenorth on Oct 4, 2016 15:04:26 GMT
Those curves are fantastic Francis...  |
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Post by Riverman on Oct 4, 2016 15:10:03 GMT
Now we know where all the bodies from Halifax are buried...  |
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Post by ocarolan on Oct 4, 2016 15:21:20 GMT
Stunninger and stunninger...
Keith
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Post by lavaman on Oct 4, 2016 16:24:14 GMT
I'm beginning to understand why archtops are expensive. Looking good Francis
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Post by francis on Oct 5, 2016 18:03:41 GMT
Started removing the bulk material from the inside face of the back plate - the remaining lump is where my bench drill doesn't have the clearance needed to cover the whole surface (later removed with a chisel)  Side effect of the drilling process for me on this has been some surface bruising to the outer face caused by the pressure on the drill while removing the bulk stock - this was removed with some light sanding - the photo makes it look worse than it really is. For future reference I need to put a longer radius on the support post so pressure is distributed over a larger area, about 1½ inch radius would be just shorter than the recurve radius on this one. Funny how I've never seen any mention of this in books on the subject of drilling out bulk material from guitar plates...  I've now started to smooth the inner surface with a squirrel plane and scrapers. TBC... |
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Post by francis on Oct 10, 2016 8:31:34 GMT
Binding this weekend - the archtop's f-holes:   Composed of black & white wood veneers (5 x 0.3mm as B-W-B-W-B) |
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Post by ocarolan on Oct 10, 2016 11:36:27 GMT
.. that is very classy Francis!  Keith |
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