I had already made a rather unorthodox set, which was very unprettyful and icky and so on and so forth. So we opted into making new ones.

MOLD

First thing was getting the mold done, upon which the ribs would be, well, molded. I still had that old one I made way-back-when, but the problem was that it wasn’t thick enough - the mold has to be ( Read more... )

Mixed pics & video, with explanation whatnot inbetween.

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It’s a slightly different drill for the convex side. I’m deathly scared of the metal grinder, chisels (basically anything that cuts with any amount of speed), so I just used the same sander at 120grit the whole way through this. It’s not bad, it’s just... slow. Just a couple of pics of this process.


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I'm finished with the front now. ^.^ Later today I'll be working with one of the supervisors to pick out what wood to use for the back and to fix the bandsaw (which I don't want ripping out my throat while I'm cutting the back out.) There's still a bunch of pics on my camera, including the ones of the break... I'll do halfish now, halfish later, ( Read more... )

Viola, right-o. Drove up to Seattle this morning and our first stop was a lovely wood warehouse. A month ago, we had talked on the phone with a guy there and he was very accommodating for this project, very eager, said he actually kept a stock of old-growth Sitka spruce just for stringed instruments actually (though we turned down his offer of ( Read more... )

I'm terrible with keeping this updated. :P But this finishes the ribs for this first viola, and I'm about to go for a long whiles, so I need to, really.

We ended up choosing hickory, instead of maple, for the ribs. We were going to do maple until the last minute, until we realized that we could just laminate with our pretty flame maple strips and ( Read more... )

I've been procrastinating posting these, so here I go. Also, I haven't been able to work a few days, due to supervisors not being available, so I've only gotten four days in (I'll do the others... later.) I also need to apologize for the picture quality, the supervisor was the one taking them (versus me setting a timer and putting it somewhere with ( Read more... )

This is actually for yesterday. :P

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For those I haven't rambled at yet, I'm building a viola for the 'Sounds of Music' event in Sci Oly. Um, yeah. I'm ambitious, but if we could pull off dulcimers and harps and organs, I think we can manage a viola. The reason I'm putting this online is because I want to show off because building-logs are required if you're any good in the event to ( Read more... )