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| Author: | Ken Nagy [ Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Serendipity |
I cleaned up the Cello ribs today. The liners are glued in, but need to be tapered. I worked on getting the area of the bottom block where the original and replacement ribs joined together. I always think the join will be good, and it never is. I knew this one was going to be off, because when I was fitting it, it was too long. The plane when a little deep on the end, so I evened it out. Yep, it has a mm gap. Way worse than normal. Usually you can just easily tell that it is there. But the grain lines up like it was a one piece rib.I didn't even LOOK at the grain when I lined it up. Besides, it didn't have room to play around with the tapered ribs. So I cleaned out the glue from the gap, and glued in two, .5mm black purflings before lunch (dinner time) and I just went down, and planed and scrapped the extra mm or so off the black purfling. It looks great. It isn't the right way though, violin makers make perfect joins. I never get them perfect. But the old masters didn't either. They usually used on piece ribs on the upper and lower. No joins at all! Attachment: IMG_1234.jpg Attachment: IMG_1235.jpg
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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Serendipity |
Sometimes it works out like that! |
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