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A TERRIFIC DAY

5/16/2017

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This was just the end of it!  I had a lovely afternoon in the workshop too.
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It began with installing  the frets in the Pinecone fretboard
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Next I devised a cool system for gluing a thin piece of ebony veneer on the inside of the tenor to reinforce the place where I will install the side sound port.  The ebony grain goes opposite the grain of the Cocobolo side.  A curved caul held it firmly to the side as the glue dried.
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Got a nice tight fit.  Here it is after the glue dried.
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Then I glued the fretboard onto the neck.
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Now you must take care and very slowly fit the oval ring into the hole.  Takes lots of trial and error but it is really not too hard to do if you take it slowly
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Once you fit it into the hole, a little superglue inside and out and your side port is installed.
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And after a little carving and sanding here is the fitted oval sound port.  The ring is the same wood as the neck and will match nicely.
  • IT WAS A LOVELY DAY
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Joan
5/16/2017 10:31:58 pm

You are an amazingly gifted soul Brian. Thanks for sharing your words and energy. You crack the aging stereotype and I love it!!

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nadine p heald
5/17/2017 01:35:20 pm

Thought of you & your "music" last night....OPB had great program, featuring how "old time music" got to Public distribution, after Victor Records sought out "new" artists from the Appalachians, Memphis, New Orleans...................John Peer, of Victor Records took Huge Recording equipment of the time, drove to the areas, ran ads asking "people" to come audition..............and they came from hundreds of miles.....The original Carters....the Memphis Jug Band, w/Will Shay.....(great old movie bits.....blacks, in top hats...several -playing different kind and size of "jugs"....while Will played a "Gut Bucket" just like you had in our dining room on Eldridge...showed (in Memphis, I think) a Cocaine-piece w/ sniffing dancers, which we SAW pouring it out, into small spoons & "sniffing it up"...then dancing like happy fools....It was GREAT Music................and History.....am hoping Washington Public TV is showing it too......it seems to be a series....so will watch fro more..............do think you'd have LOVED it !!....oh, showed a early Elvis, when he "opened" for The Carters....
(wonderful music/family photos of them performing.....Forgive the "raving" but it WAS SUCH A TREAT !!....Loved seeing actual "jugs" being played.......camera got up very close, so you could SEE what the mouth was doing.re shaping notes...hope you can find it.................smiley-face-w/music note halo !!

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