Roughing out the neck
A co-worker asked if I could build something like a bass viol for him. I told him that it sounded like a long process, but I did not say 'no."
Below is what a bass viol can look like. Mine whon't quite look like it, but it should act like it. I will be making every piece of this aside from the strings.
For me, the neck starts out as a glueup of four oak boards. Oak is what I got and oak is what I'm using.
Onje end of this has to remain too thick to fit in both my bandsaw and my scroll saw, so I used my handheld circular saw to roughly cut the taper down the lenth of the glueup.
I drilled 3 large holes in the blank to act as relief cuts. Because of the dimensions I will do it all by hand using a saw, chisels and rasps.
And here you can see I have it roughly roughed out.
A co-worker asked if I could build something like a bass viol for him. I told him that it sounded like a long process, but I did not say 'no."
Below is what a bass viol can look like. Mine whon't quite look like it, but it should act like it. I will be making every piece of this aside from the strings.
For me, the neck starts out as a glueup of four oak boards. Oak is what I got and oak is what I'm using.
Onje end of this has to remain too thick to fit in both my bandsaw and my scroll saw, so I used my handheld circular saw to roughly cut the taper down the lenth of the glueup.
I drilled 3 large holes in the blank to act as relief cuts. Because of the dimensions I will do it all by hand using a saw, chisels and rasps.
And here you can see I have it roughly roughed out.