Thursday, May 29, 2008

Moldings: Soundboard level

The next installment in the molding saga: the wrestplank moldings are complete, and the soundboard area is almost done.


Only the bentside molding remains to be glued down. This must be bent to shape somehow; by hand, perhaps, but it seems to tip forward when forced around the curve, and clamping it flat is challenging because it's so skinny. I might try kerfing it slightly along the inside of the curve to take out some of the bending strain.

Shown resting on the soundboard is the neat little miter box I used to cut all the corner miters. I also used it on the bridge and nut. It has a 54 TPI blade that cuts slowly but extremely smoothly: absolutely no sanding is required to clean up the cut.

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