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elwoodblue
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Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 1668
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, August 07, 2015 - 8:39 pm:   Edit Post

I have some ongoing projects to share.

For now I had to rest the arms because this rosewood is sooo dang hard ! I've been at it over an hour with 60 and 80 grits and it's maybe two thirds there. I even screwed the radius block to my 1/4 sheet sander, worked great for two minutes, but the plastic threads in the sander heated and failed. I am back to good ol' elbow grease while meditating on playing this soon to be 30" scale 6 string instrument.
The neck is a cocobolo ,that's gonna be another workout to carve and sand. The body is a single chunk of mango(pics soon).



...just a little more...


I've thought about making it fretless because...the Grain!
It's gonna get frets, I'll play it much more.


I'll post progress pics , stayed tuned ;)
elwood
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 11917
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - 4:07 pm:   Edit Post

That is nice grain indeed!
edwardofhuncote
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Username: edwardofhuncote

Post Number: 532
Registered: 6-2014
Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - 5:46 am:   Edit Post

Sometimes when shaping the profile of an upright fingerboard, particularly for cutting an E bevel, I will use a (handheld) electric planer for the bull-work. Looks like you're beyond that though... pretty piece of treewood you got there!

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