Friday, January 16, 2009

Long Awaited Post

An overdue update from before the semester break...
This will turn into the neck of my violin...My instrument has kind of turned into an experimental one...the back is cut on the slab...and so we decided to do the neck on the slab as well. This is the most you'll see of it for now.

An upside down view of the margins being trued. This means that I have taken down the gaps between the ribs and the top to 3.5 mm. The corners are cut down and the top matches the back now.



Margins are matching and corners are mostly done



Another view



Here is another view of the whole thing put together. This is the last time the box will be "closed up" until it is permanently ready to be put together. The ribs are also slab cut. While this may be a very unstable instrument, it will be very pretty when finished.


Filing the margins down to match top and bottom.
Up next: The purfling is being put into to the top...

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