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A Baroque Lute - new project
The ebony binding strips have been hot bent and fitted to the sound board - temporarily taped in pla ... |
12-16-2018 at 03:29 PM
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A Baroque Lute - new project
The workshop has been set up for fitting the ebony half binding with the lute conveniently secured i ... |
12-15-2018 at 04:37 PM
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A Baroque Lute - new project
Cutting the half binding rebate begins with cutting around the soundboard edge with the scribing too ... |
12-14-2018 at 03:10 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
Cutting the half binding rebate is one of those jobs where it has to be 'right' first time. A repair ... |
12-7-2018 at 05:59 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
Baroque lutes often had some form of reinforcement to the sound board edges usually a half depth ha ... |
11-30-2018 at 03:47 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
At the outset this project was planned for completion by June this year an objective that has not be ... |
11-27-2018 at 03:40 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
Cutting the peg shanks in a peg shaper is hard on the fingers. This quickly made tool makes the job ... |
9-12-2018 at 03:35 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
Progress has been very slow due to the uncomfortable heat and humidity of July and August. Hopefully ... |
9-10-2018 at 05:47 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
Although the peg box is almost complete and the pegs rough turned there is still quite a bit of work ... |
8-5-2018 at 04:59 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
The surviving 18th C German 13 course Baroque lutes have a significant fingerboard curvature. Howeve ... |
8-2-2018 at 04:25 PM
by: jdowning |
What densities to use when calculating tension of various string types (Pyramid PVF, Pyramid, silver wound, Aquila nylgut, etc)?
To add to Brian's comments.
I use the convenient Pyramid string slide rule calculator to select th ... |
7-28-2018 at 01:16 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
The wide fingerboard surface is shaped with a significant curved cross section. This is to ensure th ... |
7-25-2018 at 03:06 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
The revised fingerboard has been made in four pieces - a central panel with an ebony end piece and t ... |
7-22-2018 at 03:20 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
The lute has a 105 mm wide fingerboard so two pieces of book matched ebony were glued together to ma ... |
7-6-2018 at 05:13 PM
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A Baroque Lute - new project
The points are placed in position and traced around with a scalpel blade cutting to the full sound b ... |
6-25-2018 at 05:19 PM
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A Baroque Lute - new project
The fingerboard 'points' protect the edges of the sound board overlap on the neck and extend onto th ... |
6-24-2018 at 04:59 PM
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A Baroque Lute - new project
Before finishing the neck profile the upper face of the neck will be planed back about another 1mm a ... |
6-22-2018 at 04:25 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
With clamping tapes removed, the alignment of bridge with neck etc. was verified as correct and the ... |
6-19-2018 at 04:16 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
Taking advantage of a couple of days of relatively low humidity the sound board has been glued to th ... |
6-19-2018 at 04:02 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
The bridge was glued to sound board yesterday using high strength hot hide glue. The glue gels rapid ... |
6-13-2018 at 03:55 PM
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A Baroque Lute - new project
The bridge has been aligned with the neck and the precise position on the sound board marked with pa ... |
6-10-2018 at 05:21 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
The full size drawing of the 65-1408E lute that I am referencing for this project does not detail th ... |
6-5-2018 at 05:10 PM
by: jdowning |
A Baroque Lute - new project
This morning with dewpoint values in the 8 to 9 range the back was glued to the peg box frame using ... |
6-3-2018 at 04:26 PM
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A Baroque Lute - new project
There has been a significant change of weather conditions over the past few days so that relative hu ... |
6-3-2018 at 04:07 PM
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A Baroque Lute - new project
It is a busy time of year so work on the lute has been given second priority. We have been hit with ... |
6-1-2018 at 05:18 PM
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