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Much the same as I do, bandsaw just outside the line just I use a 90 degree shooting board and a block plane.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Ziribari filled and sealed - ready for topcoats tomorrow. Spraying the Cardinal UV urethane for the first time.





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This is an Indian Rosewood 7 string Hawaiian guitar neck with a picture of Howard Dixon (of the Dixon Brothers--20's NC based duo. Howard played Hawaiian Guitar) on the headstock. Gold lip pearl, white pearl and black pearl. Engraved banjo style inlays on the fingerboard.

I'll get this thing done one of these days!

Dave

Sweet, very nice work!

Trying Osmo Oil on a neck, this is silk.
Feels pretty good.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

This is the only place I have ever heard of the stuff. Result looks nice.

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Beautiful,

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Very nice!

Grit Laskin should be worried.

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I don't have anything cool like those inlays. I just decide to finish some things, one at a time, that have been sitting around almost done.

A Bastogne Walnut and Alaskan Yellow Cedar violin.





I have a fingerboard started, so I started with the pegs. I use a basic heart shape. I do them like production; one op at a time. I don't mind doing this at all. It took about an hour to get this far. I hade to make another, because I split it with the center! I've done that before with ebony and rosewoods. Think of the pressure on that center. I've made maple pegs for a baroque guitar, so I imagine that the walnut should be fine for a violin. Maybe I'll superglue the shaft?

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I'm looking forward to hearing about your work with the Cardinal UV products, Brad. My Cardinal products arrived today, but I won't have time to try them out for a short while.

I'll write up where I land with a spray schedule and feedback. Already a couple of lessons so far:

- The Cardinal UV cured porefill takes more careful attention and more time with the light to fully cure. ~50% more time and needs the light source to be really squared up to the surface. The simtec was much more forgiving in this area.

- The solids % is much lower with the Cardinal compared to Simtec. Like 50% compared to 75%. It sprays a bit differently. I had no issues with test panels (flat boards) but had a couple of sags with the first coats on the uke above. Nothing I couldn't fix between 1st and 2nd coats when scuffing though.

I will share the end to end at some point. Looking forward to seeing you at the end of the month.

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Same here! Pulling everyone into the loop: please consider visiting Appalachian Tonewood (Lewisburg, WV) with me, Brad, and a few others on April 30. It's an opportunity to both see a tonewood wholesaler's operation in person, and buy some wood in person. These are rare opportunities for some of us. See the separate thread for details, and PM me if you are interested.

All luthier projects are on hold whilst doing some long overdue house repainting and refinishing.

The small desk in our kitchen has a support with a +/- 4" radius roundover piece glued to a plywood panel. When I built it, I glued up before the roundover (which I did with hand planes and custom sanding blocks).

Here's what I came up with for gluing on the replacement panel. I don't always bother with dry clamping, but glad I did in this case. Pleased to see the joint pull together nicely.

Mark when I started building guitars all my wooden furniture got..... nervous including my 100 year old Birdseye maple bedroom set It sure sounds good now (just kidding... ).

Not inside the shop but just outside. What does a luthier do when a big White Pine falls on his property?

Cool Jf. How long are the sections? It that pine as big around as it looks?

Only thing happening in my yard right now is this:




I suppose the white will reflect light into the window to make cutting veneer easier? There has to be something good in it.

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32in diameter and 22 inches long. They probably should have been cut longer but these will be for my small folk art parlor guitars. We got a dusting of snow in the highlands of Virginia today too. Yesterday I was out mushroom hunting at 65deg LOL!

I just resawed some EWP from a tree we milled last year.

For some folk art little guitars myself.

Nice!

I got in on an old Maple tree that fell a few years ago on one of my local University's property, a historic museum. The tree fell and they offered it up to local wood workers with an agreement that they would build something for the museum. The profs of the forestry department estimated the tree was 350 years old so it was a piece of history itself. Anyway, the wood is just about dry enough to use now. I've also got some other local soft wood that I need to get tested. It looks a lot like red spruce. It was a shelf that my wife used to dry her pottery work on. When we moved away from the old farm to a new house she told me I ought to look at that shelf. I didn't really feel like it but went down in the basement anyway and it was this perfectly quartersawn board of what looks like spruce that was 23 inches wide and vertical grain all the way across. Got a few nail holes in it but that's just part of the folk art story.

Love rescued / repurposed wood.
We got a similar call about a big oak that came down local. I’ve got a couple of pieces in my kiln now.
The mayor called the other day about a big maple. Going to look at it this week.

Tried this today on fretboard when wicking CA under the frets, worked like magic.
I've tried a few furniture waxes, beeswax and candle wax, but this beats them all.
The CA (Bob Smith Industries Insta Cure Super Thin CA) just floated on it and wicked under and around the frets leaving very little residue on the fretboard for the attention of a single edged razor blade.
Leaves a nice sheen on the board and feels very good under the fingers.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Yep we are waxers and wickers too and it works great save time and energy with less clean up too.

16" model, EIR/Torrified Sitka, Padauk neck and bridge, just off the bench.
Finish is Osmo Oil (silk) neck, back & sides, GluBoost top and headplate.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.