Hello everyone,
I'm thinking of taking a shot at David van Edwards "build your own Baroque lute" course, but, having made an EMS lute 25 years ago, I made a complete mess of the rose. I'd like to try to practice this a few times before I go for the whole thing, but I'm having some problems. I've got a piece of Picea Abies to practice on, and I read that an exacto knife is used for this purpose, after glueing a paper drawing of the rose to the prospective soundboard. Is this how most people do it? I find it extremely difficult to control (the exacto knife) and I can't help feeling I'm missing something. I looked up some info about chip carving on the web, they use larger knives for much the same purpose, only on a much larger scale than the detail we're used to in a rose. Can anyone tell me what the best tools are for this work? And if it's not too impertinent of me, could you give a rough sketch of how a professional does it? Many thanks, Laurence Hall, Amsterdam -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
