First pic shows the underside, with bends at the two fret slots I started with.
So I thought about ways to remedy this but decided that a new fretboard was the only way out, forward or wherever, but south.
I chose lilac, the hardest wood species in Swedish nature. My friend Ludvig gifted me a trunk of unusual diameter, and I have used it for a number of fretboards. First I planed it with my* Stanley no.6.
Then I scraped it with a cabinet scraper that was actually sharp and in good shape.
Then I made one edge straight, also with the no.6, and slotted it on the wee Proxxon table saw. I marked out the width at the nut and 12th and made the taper. You see my no.5 in the background, I used that to hog off most of the material and finished with the number 6.
For the inlay I came up with another symbol for twins, and routed it out with my Proxxon drill/router.
And I had a lot of ebony leftover... so I made sticks to go into the channel.
And shaped them. That was a bit fiddly. In the pic I’ve started glueing them in.
And the end result, I think it turned out better than the the first one. The dots on 3, 5 and 7 are 2 mm pencil leads. I covered the dots with dabs of superglue, hopefully that will keep it from rubbing off on the fingers.
*My father might disagree so don’t discuss the no.6 with him.
3 comments:
Now that is really beautiful!
All my nice planes have the same asterisk!
Thanks for all your posts. I enjoy reading them and appreciate the tips you share.
Fanx Frazer and Dave!
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