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CONFESSIONS OF A LAZY WOODCARVER

2/12/2015

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I TRIMMED THE 3/4 INCH THICK back today and began to carve it into a slightly arched shape.  Faced with all that hard and curvy tiger striped maple I turned to modern technology for a little help.
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Stradivari would be horrified at this lack of old world craftsmanship but I saved myself a lot of time and hard work by hogging out much of the wood 0n the "slope" of the back.  I deepened the cut as I progressed outward-  worked fine and will make the final hand-work much easier.
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But rest assured that there will be plenty of hand work invested in this back.  Here, driven by guilt, I abandoned the router and turned to the leather glove and the rasp-and I am feeling better already.  This is going to be a lot of exercise-but I can feel where I am going as I rasp the proper curve into this back.  I am using a rough rasp  , graduating up to two grades of finer rasps until I get this to the sandpaper stage.  I am optimistic.  So far so good.
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