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RAINDROPS

10/7/2021

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This lovely Maple uke, number 174, is being built for a gent in Canada named Paul Raines. 

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What could make more sense than to substitute rain drops for my usual round Paua Abalone dots?,  But how could that be done?  Well my friend Kurt at Bay Engraving had the answer.
So after that laser magic I came home with a fretboard with holes and lots of little pieces of holly to fill them
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Lets just place the rain drops in their holes and see what they will look like--oh,  I like it
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Now a little drop of glue in the hole,  tap the raindrop in gently, and move on to the next one.
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Now they are all in.  We must wait an hour for the glue to dry and then we can begin the finishing.
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we are going to sand in a 12 foot radius  and the rain drops will be sanded down flush in the process.  the fretboard is taped to a flat surface and the sanding begins.
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This sanding takes a bit of time, and a bit of energy but the result is a nicely radiused fretboard and raindrops that are perfectly smooth to the curved fretboard and very pleasing in their almost white Holly contrasting with the brown Honduran Rosewood.
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And so, here is the almost final result, What could be more fitting for a man named Raines to have rain drops on his ukulele fretboard.
2 Comments
Paul
10/7/2021 08:36:10 pm

Love it!!!!

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George Woodruff
10/7/2021 08:58:58 pm

Okay, this is the last time! It is not a 12 foot radius, it is a 12 inch radius! If you draw a circle with a 12 foot radius, and take a 1-1/2 inch arc out of it (the width of the neck), you would have virtually no radius at all. Do this in your shop; make a circle with a 12” radius, then measure 1-1/2” across it at any point, and it will be what you are calling a 12 foot radius. Take the “radiused” neck, put it perpendicular to your finding, and you’ll have an exact measurement. By the way, a 12” radius on a uke or guitar is hardly noticeable. A 10” radius is better, and a lot of guitars have an 8” radius. Send me a clever answer by email to justify your 12 foot radius!

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