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PROGRESS ON STU FUCH'S KASHA TENOR

9/12/2018

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The water tank Redwood  is glued up in my simple but effective contraption.  All held in place with 25 pounds of lead shot.
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When dried, the new soundboard is cut to shape on the band saw and the tone bars cut to length ready to be whittled .
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Just to keep track of things, I have laid the cut pieces out in their proper position.  Whoops, I need to get a bridge patch laid out.  But first I need to make some more tentalones, I find I am all out.
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So it is over to the band saw and my homemade tentalone cutting jig.  I had a bunch of basswood stock already cut and ready to go.
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It only took about half an hour to cut all of these, and now with a sharp knife to cut the slope and sand it smooth and I am ready for a few more instruments.
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And the first to get the new tentalones is Ron's Bubinga baritone.  A little glue, some clothespin clamps and --
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VOIlA!  This baritone is ready to receive it's side sound port.
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Tony
9/17/2018 11:39:30 am

Looks great, Brian. My Stew Mac tenor kit is coming along slowly but surely between some other projects around the house. I've also started collecting stuff for #2. a Kasha tenor. I discovered a box of Black Walnut planks I had bought about 14 years ago for my old guitar project. I've already planed and sanded a set down to thickness for the sides, and have a bookmatched set dry and ready for thinning for the back. The fretboard is also going to be from the same reclaimed BW stock. I have a Redwood plank that's been laying around my shop about as long as the BW. Don't know where I got it, but I'm planning to resaw it this evening, and if I don't mess that up, see how it would look as a bookmatched top to go with the BW body. I have some Spanish Cedar I'm going to rip to use as braces for #2.

I bought Hana Lima Ia's uke building book, as well as their Kasha tenor plans. I threw in their Kasha bridge blank while I was at it. Having fun again in the workshop at the tender age of 59!

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