If you don't have a thickness sander (the Old Ones didn't either, so
don't worry) simply clamp one end onto your flat bench top, and using a
small plane (I use a low angle one-handed plane), plane to the required
thickness (ie to allow some trimming and shaping on the mould). For
rippled sycamore and other cross-grained woods plane at right angles
(or thereabouts - you'll find the best angle by trial) to the direction
of grain (ie across the width) using an old dummy rib tacked to the
flat surface as an edge stop. Finish, of course, with a scraper.
MH
--- On Mon, 26/1/09, Rob Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Rob Dorsey <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] Re: lute
To: "'robert fallis'" <[email protected]>, "'Jon Murphy'"
<[email protected]>, [email protected], "'Brod Mac'"
<[email protected]>
Date: Monday, 26 January, 2009, 2:32 PM
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
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