Meeting
Aug 20, 2017
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Tom supervises the thicknessing of the back.
Travel Guitar modification
On Larry's travel guitar, the strings bind on the aluminum cylinder causing the strings to go sharp after tuning. On his next one, he plans to replace the aluminum cylinder with pulleys with bearings so that each string will be free to move independently when tuning.
Larry Sakayama's shop in Wirtz, VA
Project Guitar: The Amazon Rosewood Back
Before the meeting, Howard joined the back plates.
At the meeting we cleaned up the glue joint, brought thickness of the back down to 0.100" and glued on the center strip.
Project Guitar: The bookmatched Amazon Rosewood headplate
Before the meeting, Robbie joined the bookmatched pieces of the Amazon Rosewood headstock overlay (headplate).
The headstock is 1/2" (0.500") thick without the overlay. We plan to put a light veneer (about 0.030" thick) under the headplate. The final thickness of the headstock will be 5/8" (0.625") so we sanded the headplate to about 0.100" thick.
raw headstock 0.500 inches veneer 0.030 headplate 0.100 --------------------- Total 0.630 inches (Target 0.625, close enough)
Larry's dulcimers in progress
Being built from various scraps laying around the shop. One will have a JJB Electronics pickup system. He put an access door in the back, held on by 3 small magnets, to have access to the pickup.
Howard's visit to James Olson's Shop
Jim’s shop is located next to his home in Circle Pines, Minnesota, just north of the “Twin Cities” of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
