GGJaguar
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What will the nut width be?
AHG (and sometimes U)
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AcornHouse
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1-3/8"
13-1/2" scale
Lookin' great, Chris!And, for a little size context...
AcornHouse
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Up in Columbus today, but I grabbed a quick pic of the side dots before I headed out.
The Guilds of Grot
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They don't appear centered in the binding, is there a reason for that?
AcornHouse
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I haven't radiussed the fingerboard yet. That's going to lower the top part.
The Guilds of Grot
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And there ya go!
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Beautiful work
Nuuska
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I had to take a paper sheet and put it on top of my screen to verify - I saw one dot EXTREMELY small part of one dot being higher than others - maybe about 0,1 mm . . . . = 1/250 of an inch - close enough.
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AcornHouse
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I'll just have to scrap the whole thing!I had to take a paper sheet and put it on top of my screen to verify - I saw one dot EXTREMELY small part of one dot being hihger than others - maybe about 0,1 mm . . . . = 1/250 of an inch - close enough.
(Yes, I'd seen it. Tiny drill bits like to drift, no matter how much you pre-awl.)
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I'll take hand-made over "machine perfect" any day.
AcornHouse
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Got home from Columbus this evening (managing to avoid all the storms somehow!) to find a package waiting for me.
I'd been wanting a new carving knife. The Swiss Pfeil knife was good, but it's straight edge proved limiting at times. So I went to Sweden for a good Sloyd knife. (Sloyd was a Scandinavian system that taught children basic, and some not so basic, hand crafts. Chief among them was learning to use a Sloyd knife for various things. @Nuuska was this a Finnish thing too?)
You can see that it has a carved edge, which will help carving heels, etc. Even comes with a sheath (albeit plastic )
I'd been wanting a new carving knife. The Swiss Pfeil knife was good, but it's straight edge proved limiting at times. So I went to Sweden for a good Sloyd knife. (Sloyd was a Scandinavian system that taught children basic, and some not so basic, hand crafts. Chief among them was learning to use a Sloyd knife for various things. @Nuuska was this a Finnish thing too?)
You can see that it has a carved edge, which will help carving heels, etc. Even comes with a sheath (albeit plastic )
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Tedious work you are doing Chris.
AcornHouse
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Binding a fingerboard means there will be some glue squeeze out in the fret slots. Leaving it in could cause problems when putting in the frets so, yeah, there's a tool for that.
I never even thought of that, Chris! So much detail in so little space.Binding a fingerboard means there will be some glue squeeze out in the fret slots. Leaving it in could cause problems when putting in the frets so, yeah, there's a tool for that.
Nuuska
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Never heard of Sloyd - but in my childhood every kid had a knife and was cutting wood with it. We had woodbutcher-classes in school. Depending of teacher - sometimes nice - sometimes agony. Luckily I managed to keep the flame burning . . .
AcornHouse
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Triple checking the fingerboard position and locking it in with positioning pins. Then I can work on the headstock before gluing on the board. It's better not to have the board in the way.
AcornHouse
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Withe the headstock wings glued on an flattened on the top side, I need to check whether the proportions of the ebony overlay are wide enough for the tuners, but not too wide to overwhelm the small size.
I think so.
I think so.