AHG (and sometimes U)

[AcornHouse]

4 broken extra fine blades, 1 broken fine blade, many expletives later...



I may do a little touching up with the file, especially when you look from 2" away.

 

[Stuball48]

My concentration level is at an "all time high" just watching you cut. Hard to imagine the concentration it takes to cut inlays.

 

[AcornHouse]

Here's the tweaked leaf close-up. There's one bit that I'd like to do further, but my fine needle rifflers are too big to get in there.
So people should only view it 3" or further away.

 

[AcornHouse]

Routing out in two passes to not stress the tiny bit. But I'll finish tomorrow. Too much eye strain for one day.

 

[GAD]

So cool.

 

[AcornHouse]

It's in. Still working on minimalizing the amount of fill around it, but I'll forgive myself because of it's size.

 

[GGJaguar]

Looks good to me! Amazing work.

 

[GAD]

Another winner!

 

[Stuball48]

Super exciting following your two recent builds.

 

[AcornHouse]

I can understand sharpening a chainsaw but to sharpen the saw you cut the fret slots with must take a special jig--sharpening those small teeth must take the touch of a surgeon.

And, speaking of sharpening.



Alternate teeth get sharpened at alternate angle. So you work down the blade, skipping every other tooth. Switch to the other side, and do the same on the other teeth. Just a couple of light strokes per tooth.



It's easy to see which teeth you've hit with the proper angle light.

 

[Stuball48]

And the angle (60*) Is the correct angle of saw teeth? The shiny edge of teeth just sharpened look good

 

[AcornHouse]

And the angle (60*) Is the correct angle of saw teeth? The shiny edge of teeth just sharpened look good

Saws are sharpened in two basic patterns: rip and crosscut. In a rip saw, it goes with the direction of the grain and the teeth are filed 90⁰ like tiny chisels. For cross cuts, which is what happens here, there are angled to be more of a knife cut to cut the fibers of the wood. Because of the size of the saw I'm not doing too big of an angle. The bigger the saw, the more exaggerated the angle becomes.
True saw sharpening experts will have precise angles and talk of fleam, but for my purposes, as long as they're more or less the same, it'll do the job. It's certainly cutting better and faster now.

Roy Underhill (PBS's The Woodwright's Shop) had a good demonstration of the differences using a straw broom but I can't find that video excerpt. Here's the UK sharpening guru.

 

[amnicon]

It's in. Still working on minimalizing the amount of fill around it, but I'll forgive myself because of it's size.

Beautiful!

 

[Stuball48]

Saws are sharpened in two basic patterns: rip and crosscut. In a rip saw, it goes with the direction of the grain and the teeth are filed 90⁰ like tiny chisels. For cross cuts, which is what happens here, there are angled to be more of a knife cut to cut the fibers of the wood. Because of the size of the saw I'm not doing too big of an angle. The bigger the saw, the more exaggerated the angle becomes.
True saw sharpening experts will have precise angles and talk of fleam, but for my purposes, as long as they're more or less the same, it'll do the job. It's certainly cutting better and faster now.

Roy Underhill (PBS's The Woodwright's Shop) had a good demonstration of the differences using a straw broom but I can't find that video excerpt. Here's the UK sharpening guru.

Thank you

 

[AcornHouse]

Bloodwood binding and BW purfling on the fingerboard.

 

[GGJaguar]

Very classy binding work.

 

[AcornHouse]

And, for a little size context...

 

[Stuball48]

And, for a little size context...

That picture gives me clear understanding of size neck on Uke.

 

[AcornHouse]

That picture gives me clear understanding of size neck on Uke.

On a soprano uke. Personally, I wouldn't want to go smaller than concert size, about 1" longer scale.

 

[Stuball48]

Your work amazes me. You ever think about building a Railroad Grade pocket watch?