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Rocknroller912
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@darrenking

Thanks I see now what I’ve been doing wrong and it should be turned like a hand scraper blade. It didn’t come with any instructions and I’ve been trying to get a normal edge. It’s my roughing out plane for pernambuco violin bows so goes blunt quickly as it’s a difficult wood to work. In the school they keep you apart from violin makers so you can’t ruin their tools. I can do hand scrapers so off to give it a try now.

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Being a tool junkie I bought a very nice carbide scraper burnisher from Workshop Heaven, but it seems you can use pretty much anything that's hard enough.

https://paulsellers.com/2015/02/scraper-burnishers-that-work/


   
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I do like to do things the hard way. Radius the fretboard by hand. Can anyone spot the mistake.

Thanks to @darrenking for instruction on how to sharpen the Nielsen scraper blade I’m cooking on gas now.

 

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Can anyone spot the mistake.

A 21 and 9/10ths fretboard @rocknroller912

Practice on scrap...


   
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Well spotted you have a keen professional eye. I got carried away with the fret saw and didn’t look at the pencil mark. I will have to think of a cover up but it’s only a practice build before I use the good stuff so I expected to have a mistake.

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Hand sanding the radius, nearly there. Have to stop and get ready for music zoom then Acoustic Bliss.

 

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Selecting wood from the scrap pile for my practice build body. It’s 35 mm thick so I should be able to plane the holes out and join two bits. It used to be as school bench.

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It could look really cool if you can preserve that top with all the holes, scratches and dings, combine it with aged hardware. Even if it  is just a practice build, you can make it look really nice 😎 

I will probably do the same thing now, practice planing, radiussing, flattening and refining my skills on less then stellar wood.


   
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@koendb

That’s an interesting idea which didn’t occur to me. I’ve heard of builders ageing new instruments to look old but I’m not up to date with the current trends as I’m not an electric player. The photo doesn’t show how extreme the damage is, there are some nails so I will have to use a rough belt sander to take the thickness down to join a back or front plate or it will be too thin.

I would be interested to read some other opinions on building an aged instrument and if anyone wants to try it I’ve got a fair size bit to spare. I’ve never seen ready made aged hardware either so would be interested in any links to firms that sell it.

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Slow progress on the build due the gardening season, routing out the head thickness. There’s still 2 mm to remove but when the neighbours start looking out of their windows and it’s after 9pm maybe it’s time to stop making a noise.

 

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I think you said a while ago you suck at routing. You're not the only one. Look at my patch work of repairs to cover up sloppy router work.Fretboard will hide all thank goodness.

 

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Sloppy router work: Check !


   
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I think technically it was @mattbeels that first said I sucked at using a router 🤣 but who am I to argue.

 

No one will ever see it so it's all good. I really need to get back to this, crappy weather has been keeping me out of the shed.


   
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@cheesewhisk

Looks like we are all in the remedial class for routing, extra practice needed.

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Looks like we are all in the remedial class for routing, extra practice needed.

@rocknroller912 Absolutely! 😉 


   
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Fretboard glued on using the pin method for lining up as shown in the live stream by Mark. I’ve never tried it before and used to just stand over it till the glue set.

 

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It was you @cheesewhisk that said you sucked at routing, I would never say such an awful thing about a fellow forum member...

Practice on scrap...


   
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...nice try though.

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*cough

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🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 


   
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