I use a bandsaw to resaw the stock to approximate thickness (about 3.5mm) and then a thickness sander to take it down to 1.8mm. The biggest mistake an amateur makes in rib thicknessing is to make the too thin. They bend nicely but you have left no "meat" on the rib for scraping, sanding and edge corrections. For start leave them at 2.0mm until you have a number of lutes under your belt.
Rob Dorsey http://LuteCraft.com -----Original Message----- From: robert fallis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:43 AM To: Jon Murphy; [email protected]; Brod Mac Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] Re: lute > For my thicknesses I resawed on the bandsaw, then I tried both the > "Luthier's Friend" sanding device and the Wagner Saf-T-Planer - both > on the drill press. The final thickness probably should be with a > cabinet scraper - one way to use a planner to thickness the ribs is, to plane a good face on the rib blank. then tape(double sided tape)this good side down to a piece of ply wood, mdf,so that you have a thicker piece of wood, it's planing 2mm thick bits of wood that the planer won't do.. then plane that till it is nearer the thickness you want and finish with a scraper.. bob -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
