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A PRODUCTIVE AFTERNOON

9/30/2014

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Today was the dreaded day to take the little router to those delicate Ukes and route out the grooves for the bindings,  always a scary time as you can destroy a months work in a second.  Today, to make it worse I decided to put purfling behind the bindings so I had to make two cuts  around the ukes-  
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I hold the uke steady in this device attached to a big piece of plywood. It is kind of like a big clamp fitted to the tenor ukulele
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The key to it is this eccentric cam lever that locks the movable side into place against the uke, holding the uke in its firm grasp.
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Now you can take the laminate cutter to it without the uke moving around.  Here I am completing the large groove for the binding.
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And here I have completed the second cut making room for the black/white/black purfling.  Next step is to bend the binding to shape and then glue it and the purfling on.  It is going to look grand.
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