11" Draw knife. Very sharp. Doesn't take very much time. Scrape to desired
smoothness using a piece of broken glass. Tape the glass with duct tape where
you want to hold it or tape all but the edge you're scraping with to avoid
injury and breakage.
Or you could just use the Norm Abram method: Buy
rd' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, lute list
Subject: RE: Woodworking question.
11" Draw knife. Very sharp. Doesn't take very much time. Scrape to desired
smoothness using a piece of broken glass. Tape the glass with duct tape where
you want to hold it or tape all but the edge you'
ether so
they more or less function as one.
Vance Wood.
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From: "Dr. Marion Ceruti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Herbert Ward'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute list"
Cc: "Garry Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g
: lute list
Subject: Re: Woodworking question.
I agree, without the strings you will get no feel for where the fingers are
going or the back pressure you have to contend with. Frankly though, I
think your problem is greater than that. One of the difficulties with the
Lute is support of the neck without
Herbert,
As an inveterate "jig" builder I agree with the other answers. But will add
my own. If you are dealing with plain old pine stud you don't need a sharp
draw knife (which costs money), a good sharp hunting knife or such will
allow you to whittle it to a gross size (the wood isn't hard). The
It sounds more and more like you want a lute-Soloette. Jon's getting you
real close to it.
If you'll willing to all the trouble of using wrest pins and fixing a
nut/saddle of some type, why not just build a mock-up lute? Fix the
strings at one end, get a couple sets of cheap guitar tuners off
Actually, it's pretty difficult to fly to Europe with a 10c lute. The size
restrictions can be very tough. I just heard a horror story about a lute having
to be checked in a US trans-continental flight! The horrors. The venues in the
US are generally terrible for lutes anyway so maybe an amplified
> ... on a bus sounds might not be allowed ...
Indeed, the bus rules say "do not play musical instruments".
> than nothing and a long bus ride may be just the time to
> practice left hand part.
I have in mind an very nice exercise well-suited to my mock-up's
wooden immovable "strings".
In fact
> The suggestions for stringing it seem to go beyond what you are looking for,
> but they have a point. How do you know if you are in the right place. And
I glued some twine onto the fingerboard.
When the glue dries, I'll have hard ridges to represent courses.
This is easy, cheap, sturdy, comp
