PROGRESS CONTINUES. I made the braces for the top. Today the tuners came from Chuck Herin, the inventor.
Leveling the braces by sanding them perfectly flat on the saw table top. That is stick on 180 grit sand paper. Remember, stroke only one direction to make it flat.
Here is my bracing plan. These are big braces that will hopefully support the pressure and tension of the large bass strings I am going to use. The extremely thick center brace will hopefully support the bridge which will be in a yet tp be determined position somewhere along it's length.
Today the pegheds arrived from Chuck Herin and I can now finish the fiddlehead. Here I am beginning the excavation for the string winders.
The rough excavation completed ,now I am ready to ream the tuner holes and temporarily set the tuners.
the reaming goes slowly, this tiger stripe maple is tough stuff.
the reaming goes slowly, this tiger stripe maple is tough stuff.
We are getting close. I have learned that I will be able to slim down this fiddlehead quite a bit, a prospect that delights me. lots of whittling yet ahead, but that is what is fun. By the way the long ends of these Pegheds get sawn off and finished round once all the other work is concluded.
