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WORKING WITH A JEWEL

1/26/2015

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I glued in the rosette this afternoon and when the glue had set up I took my new tool, an Ibex finger plane, to the protruding black and white purfling.  What a sweet tool, solid shiny bronze,  beautifully made, beautiful to use,  sharp as a razor and easy to control.  One of the chief joys of building instruments is the excuse it gives you to buy lovely tools like this.
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Now that I have the black and white shaved down to the level of the blackwood ring I will take the sander to this top and make the rosette perfectly flat to the spruce.  Then I will put it back on the rotation pin and cut out the sound hole inside this rosette.  oh! but I loved using that pretty little finger plane.
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