Glueing the body
Kategori: Allmänt, Instrumentbygge, tenor mandola
I've been too busy building to blog :-)
Here are some pictures of glueing the top to the body. I didn't take any pictures of glueing the back, but the process is exactly the same.
While doing this I found that the rim had another - steeper - radius than the top and back! I've shaped them all in the same mould or through, but I must have put too much pressure on the sides while shaping the rim. The through is shorter than the instrument as its size whas determined by the only scrap piece of plywood in my workshop. So when dragging the rim back and forth in the through, the sides where sanded all the time, but the neck and tail piece only at the end of the movements. I'll have to build another through for the next project, but I'm actually rather content by this mistake, as I've secretly been thinking about trying more extreme radiuses as I've been reading about Howe-Orme, the Larson brothers and other pioneers who made cylinder-shaped instruments at the beginning of the last century.
This is my seventh or eighth stringed instrument build, but I've never glued on the top the same way twice. Here is how I made it this time!
And this is what the body looked like:
