Rob I have checked out your website. Great philosophy - and your workshop is something I can only dream about; it looks fantastic!
I am an amateur maker, like you were, with just a few lutes under my belt. I am restoring a ren 10 course, and want to try something new, and would appreciate a few tips: First, I want to add one of those 'heart'/'spade'-shaped inlay designs at the bottom end of the soundboard. They are a common feature, and I have a vague idea of how to do this but a couple tips would be useful. I have some 0.8mm ebony veneer, so presume this will be ideal? Main question is how I can cut out the recess on an already thin soundboard. I am determined to have a go, but do not want to trash the soundboard now that it is fitted! Secondly, I want to retrofit a treble string, single mini-riser on the peg box. The neck and pegbox are fitted and the pegbox has a solid back. Is there a simple and reasonably elegant way to retrofit something like this without it looking like it was made using cereal packets? I hope you or some of the other forum members can help. Cheers Mike > Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:33:00 -0500 > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] Re: lute > > Just remember to not try to get the ribs to final thickness before > assembly of the body. Final thickness - and note, rib thickness is not > all that important, it will play fine with a paper mache body, I know, > I did it - is actually achieved after the body is glued up through > scraping of the interior and sanding/scraping of the outside. > > > > Rob Dorsey > > [1]http://LuteCraft.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > From: Martyn Hodgson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:00 AM > To: Rob Dorsey; Lute builder Dmth > Subject: Re: [LUTE-BUILDER] Re: lute > > > > 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 > -- > 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 > > > > > -- > > References > > 1. http://LuteCraft.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos Free [1]Find out more! -- References 1. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/132630768/direct/01/
