Templates

Templates are due today. I'm not going to be finished with them because I need to remake 3 more of them!

Carving and Templates

Today I finished carving the inner area of the blocks.

Also, filing templates is very time consuming and frustrating, especially when you just realized that a corner chipped off from being cut with the band saw and needs to be remade.

Templates, Ribs, Cauls

I traced and glued my templates a while ago, but today I finally cut them out. Now to get them down to size.

My ribs were also sent through the time saver to get them close to the right thickness.

I also finished my cauls today. I ended up not measuring right, and the upper and lower block cauls are not as wide as they need to be. I will have to wait and see if they will work.

Carving Blocks

Today I started carving the inside of the upper and lower bout blocks where the c-bout ribs will be attached.

Gluing in blocks

 Dry fit

Blocks glued in

Blocks and Spacer sticks

Today I finished my blocks and spacer sticks!

Blocks

Today we got a spruce block to use as the starting point to build the rib structure.

Here are the steps to preparing the blocks:

1. Flatten the face (radial) surface
2. Square the edge (tangential) to the face
3. Split the block using a knife and hammer
4.  Mark the remaining surfaces using a razor blade and square from the squared radial and tangential edge
5. Cut excess material away-at least 1mm from where already marked
6. Use a disk sander to get close to scribed marks, and use a block plane to finish it off
7. Check with a square

We were also told about spacer sticks. They are to be 9mm thick for violin.