In between jobs, errant Otter undertakes to pursue long-held interest in instrument building and repair by attending the Galloup School of Lutherie in Big Rapids, MI.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Go Decks
Another round of clamping braces -- this time to the top -- using the Go Deck. I did better with it this time. Richard here is using a bench-top version, since we were all clamping at once. It is shorter, the sticks are shorter... advantage is that you can get at it from all sides.
There is something so lovely and perfect about using only wood to clamp this stage of the process -- the instrument and the tools to make it being so much the same.
I suppose. Although we've been using big honking power tools to do a lot of the work on these... the wooden clamps are an organic moment in an otherwise industrial process...
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There is something so lovely and perfect about using only wood to clamp this stage of the process -- the instrument and the tools to make it being so much the same.
Elliott
I suppose. Although we've been using big honking power tools to do a lot of the work on these... the wooden clamps are an organic moment in an otherwise industrial process...
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