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Friday, January 9, 2009

My son's build

My six year old son made this Legolele, I helped with the strings.

Resawing wood for two sopranos

Things have been said about the capacity of my small Proxxon machines. Of course they're small - but they're very handy for resawing in the downstairs living room. This was a 50 year old piece of Honduran mahogany measuring 35x12 centimeters, 12 mm thick. And after cutting the last bit with a japanese hand saw it will become tops and backs for two ukuleles!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Wood supply refined

Spent a couple of days in the bigger workshop resawing and planing
wood. Now very much is prepared, and a few ukes will practically build
themselves! Well not, actually. But in the pile is ash, maple, walnut,
cherry, mahogany, spruce and cedar. Also rosewood, ebony, jatoba and
something that was called African walnut.

A lot of it is from Sweden, some even from dad's own land.