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#1 ·
1st fiddle

my first attempt at fiddle building.i will post progress each day.
i'm using my homemade tools that you can see in my projects from last year
i haven't did anything in a while .hope this can inspire and help someone to build

the neck is maple
i'll post pictures when i can figure it out
 
#6 ·
good to hear from all my old friends again and a couple of new ones
if anybody is interested i will give a detailed and measurments of the process. i am guess about 6 months to get to play it. i don't know how to work the pictures. i use to just download from my computer
nothing expencive needed. lots of time and hard work.
i have 20 hours in 2 days on the neck and haveni cut the scroll yet. i will tackle it tomorrow.i have took detailed pictures of the daily step by step process
i am just learning to play the fiddle bought a cheap one for $70 to learn on

send me a personal email JonJ
 
#8 ·
start of the pictures..i'll give a description of process later

hers the start, it's going to be a long hard build. but i know if it was easy everybody would do it!!
 
#14 ·
day 6 & 7

day 6 and 7 spent working on the mold
didn't have the right thickness of wood so i used my small IBEX plane to bring it down to size. i figured it would give me some practice using and taking apart ,sharpening, then putting back together and resetting the cutting edge before i start carving on the plates. i have both the toothed blade,for cutting across the grain, and the smooth blade for cutting with the grain.
i have to cut and shape the end blocks, then i will be ready to make a homemade,of course!, side bender

http://picasaweb.google.com/roydahlgren/FirstFiddle#
 
#17 ·
bending the sides

tryed to bend the sides today
oops!!! side split
don't use a brace that don't cover the entire side. when it dryed it split on 1 side where the grain was wavey
it split because the brace i used was just a thin piece where i cut out the mold.
i will build some more braces that are thicker than the sides so that it covers the entire piece!!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/roydahlgren/FirstFiddle#
 
#25 ·
carving top

here is the start of my "attempt" at carving a fiddle top. I am using basswood. i got some for 75 cents a board foot. thought i would see how it went with cheap wood before i used expensive wood. fiddle #2 will get the good stuff if this one turns out good. this will give me some practice on carving and if i mess it up it don't matter.

http://picasaweb.google.com/roydahlgren/FirstFiddle#
 
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