Here is the routed cut on Stu Fuchs"s tenor. The work on the soundboard starts with this.
Once the rosette is fitted and glued in the soundboard is sanded down to its final thickness of .080.
Now it is turned over to start installing the tone bars but first-the bridge brace is glued on.and the tone bar positions are plotted out.
Glueing on the tone bars.
Now it is finished, with all the tone bars in place, a thin brace up the center seam and a brace around the sound hole
You want your sound board to be nicely quarter sawn, This is a nice piece.
Then I got the three braces for the back made and glued on, curing in the "go bar".
The next task was roughing out the neck.
The next task was roughing out the neck.
Then I roughed out the neck. Here was the final step, cutting the side slots on the band saw. Stu ordered a wide 1 1/2 neck at the nut but narrow at the 14th fret at 1 6/8. This ought to be a fast neck. Thats enough for Stu's tenor for today- next up is Ron's baritone.
This Bubinga baritone needs its side sound port, but before I put it in I want to glue a brace on the side. The hole will go through it. I use a tough but very thin piece of maple veneer with grain counter to that of the Bubinga side.
Once the glue set it did'nt take long to fit the side port oval in and fix it with super glue. Next step will be to fair the ring into the side, and then I can box this bari up.
I also got several applications of French Polish on the Mahogany tenor and it is getting close to finished. I will be stringing it up in just a few days I suspect. A productive day in the workshop.
I also got several applications of French Polish on the Mahogany tenor and it is getting close to finished. I will be stringing it up in just a few days I suspect. A productive day in the workshop.