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[*] posted on 7-24-2010 at 11:54 AM
new workshop and project


Hi everyone,
I apologize for being somewhat of a ghost these days. I am quite busy with work but I have been finding some time to start on a new project these days.

I am putting a new video tour of my redesigned condo workshop along with some shot of the progress on a new instrument bowl.

this one is white walnut & wenge
Thanks for the wood Jameel ;)

here is the work shop tour. Sorry for the shaky hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M92ocJmI1tQ

All the best Mike and the mikeouds family.

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[*] posted on 7-24-2010 at 04:00 PM


Hello again fellas,

I have also launched my new oud making blog where I will be making entries about this and other projects.

http://samirnassifoudluthiery.blogspot.com/
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[*] posted on 7-24-2010 at 04:30 PM


Hi Samir
good idea the blog!
see you there

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[*] posted on 7-24-2010 at 04:48 PM


Wow, what a workshop! And I like the unknown guy you hired to play background music, who is he? :D
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[*] posted on 7-24-2010 at 09:32 PM
Good luck


Best regards and luck... with the workshop and the new projects
Yaron.




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[*] posted on 7-24-2010 at 11:29 PM


Nice workshop Samir and the new project is looking good. The white walnut is quite interesting. Keep us posted.

Ibrahim...
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[*] posted on 7-24-2010 at 11:31 PM


mabrook samir, very nice workshop...best of luck ;)
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[*] posted on 7-25-2010 at 06:32 AM


thanks for the nice words everyone!
it means a lot coming from you guys :)
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[*] posted on 7-25-2010 at 08:32 AM


Nice work Samir. Good luck.
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[*] posted on 7-25-2010 at 12:18 PM


beauty - keep up the good work.
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[*] posted on 7-26-2010 at 05:15 AM


A spare bedroom as a workshop...the secret dream of every woodworker. :))

Enjoy it Samir.




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[*] posted on 8-14-2010 at 02:21 PM
Completed bowl


Hi everyone,
Finally... here is the finished bowl.

Never... EVER! working with wenge again.


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[*] posted on 8-14-2010 at 11:37 PM


Nice work Samir.

Can you elaborate on your wenge experience. I was tempted to make the bowl out of wenge and walnut but opted otherwise after reading that it was very irritating to the lungs.

Now comes the part where you have to scrape and scrape and scrape.
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[*] posted on 8-15-2010 at 04:57 AM


Hi Ibrahim, thank you for the nice words.

Of course I can elaborate,
Fortunately, I was not affected negatively health wise by working with the wood. I took great care to mostly use cutting tools (planes and chisels) so I dont create much dust. The only time I had to sand a bit is for the final jointing of the ribs where I just used a flat melamine particle board with some sand paper glued to it. This is just to remove the plane marks and make the joint smooth. Even after wearing a dust mask and going very slow I had a couple of sneezes. Similar to what I get from sanding rosewood sometimes.

Now onto working with wenge, first it is really hard to bend and it wants to spring back quite a bit as it cools. This is probably compounded by the fact that I was working with the white walnut in between and it a charm to work with. Wenge is also very hard and will dull your tools in no time. I dont know how much you like to sharpen but you will have to do it often. I am not sure how it compares to rosewood in that sense but I will find out in my next project. Finally, the biggest problem with working with wenge is the grain direction issues. It only takes well to planing in one direction (like most woods) but then it also splinters like hell. those splinters are quite dangerous and I got stuck many times. They stay in your skin on your hands and they are really to small to remove with tweezers, they are barely the size of a hair.

Anyways I hope this helps,
You are right now onto the scraping part. I started doing it yesterday... what a drag that is.





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[*] posted on 8-15-2010 at 09:41 AM


Confession: I hate sharpening too. I sharpened my plane twice for working on the bowl and I think the second time was not necessary.

The splinters can be very annoying and I reckon that especially if they are really small. They hurt and they swell and you can't do any work for a few days because of them.

Thanks Samir.
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[*] posted on 8-16-2010 at 08:43 AM


Fine work Samir, keep us posted if you have the time. Its a delight to see this in progress and your lovely workshop. Oud workshops are fascinating little dwellings. Self contained little universe where all the ouds come from. I hope all progresses well for you.



Best Wishes, Charlie
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[*] posted on 8-29-2010 at 08:41 AM
some updates


The bowl is now scraped smooth.
:)

and here are some of the diamond inlays I will be using as the theme for this oud.


for more details and updates visit my blog at
http://samirnassifoudluthiery.blogspot.com/

thank you,
Samir.

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[*] posted on 8-30-2010 at 10:41 AM


Nice work Samir, can't wait to see and hear the finished oud. Is that Maple/walnut inlay?
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[*] posted on 8-30-2010 at 11:20 AM


yah Maple Walnut.
I didnt decide yet but I might make some wenge and white walnut ones to keep the same wood theme.
But the raqma will be walnut so... not sure what will look best.

The face will be alskan yellow cedar... and its not really pleasant to work with either. It smells VERY strong but not like western red cedar which smells nice.
This smells like Zaatar almost but not as delicious.




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[*] posted on 9-1-2010 at 06:23 PM
Inlaying by hand


Hi everyone,

some more updates on the oud.
the face has been planed down and I started hand inlaying the decorative pieces into the face.

check out the pictures at the link below to see how I do this by hand instead of using power tools

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[*] posted on 9-1-2010 at 07:58 PM


Looking good Samir, and I like the idea of music rather than power tools, but I reckon I'd be concentrating too hard to listen to it!:)
Looking forward to seeing and hearing this one finished.




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[*] posted on 9-2-2010 at 02:37 AM


Hi Samir,

this looks very nice,

Bravo :xtreme:


Looking forward to see and hear the final result!

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[*] posted on 10-25-2010 at 05:09 PM


Here are some more updates folks.

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[*] posted on 10-25-2010 at 05:38 PM


The oud's looking great Samir -- thanks for the updates - Cheers..Paul
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[*] posted on 10-25-2010 at 07:26 PM


Great work Samir.

Almost there. It feels great doesn't it?
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