Pmaj7 wrote: Looks good Brad!
So, you did a full width lining sandwich and then cut it into strips on a bandsaw? If so, did you need to use a caul in the waist or bouts sagitta?
Does your block radiusing jig register somehow on a certain pivot distance from the disc?
Pat
Thanks, Pat!
For the lining I use spring clamps. I pretty much use Burton LeGeyt’s exact steps in his solid lining tutorial in the tutorial forum here except I use bias tape for the side reinforcement. For this Uke it’s not a tapered body so it makes it a bit easier.
In terms of needing a clamp at the waist, I’m starting to get that worked out. Initially I was bending the side and the linings sides all on the same bending form. It would work but I would have to torture the lining to get it clamped in place. Recently I’ve been making new molds for all the shapes I build and making them so they are reduced size. What I mean is, I used to make a bending form by taking the outside mold, tracing that shape onto a board and cutting it out to use as the template for making the bending mold. Of course doing that doesn’t account for the 0.075” or so side thickness. Also there is the thickness of the metal slat in the sandwich to add in as well. Mine are 0.020 thick. So what I did was made a bending form template as usual and then use a rabbeting bit to reduce it by 0.095 which gives me space to accommodate my normal side thickness of 0.075 and the 0.020 slat on the bottom of the bending sandwich. So that sorts the bending form for the side.
For the laminated lining, I did the same thing but reduced it down by 0.250” to account for the thickness of the side plus the thickness of the lining strips after laminating them. I use that form for bending the lining sides, I bend all three at the same time, and then use that same form when laminating them together.
It’s not 110% dialed in, but it’s very close and things nest together a lot better now that I’m doing it this way. I did the same for the molds for the last two Dred’s that I finished and they were also a lot easier to fit together. Hope that makes sense.
This is the clamp setup.
Close up of the waist and how things seat together.
Like I said, it’s still a little fiddly but manageable compared to before when I was using one mold.
In the future I want to spend time learning to bend on a pipe. I think I could tweak on the fly if I was using a pipe vs needing so many molds. Maybe not though. 
Brad
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