August 24: an auspicious day. After months of research and musing, the project transitioned from an intellectual exercise into actual hands-on work.
My father and I spent 2 hours in sweltering humidity planing all the cedar and walnut down. It was nice to discover how attractive that wood is once all the saw marks and outer roughness disappeared. We generated an incredible quantity of shavings: a thigh-high Shopvac canister was filled up 1.5 times over! No wonder serious woodworkers talk about a 35% waste factor when going from rough to dimensioned lumber.
The irony, of course, is that all this lovely wood will be almost totally hidden once the instrument is done. Only the underside of the bottom will be seen when the instrument is set on its side for transport.
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