Before proceeding further, the wood for the instrument is chosen and the rib stock is prepared. Gregg and I selected the following wood for my first instrument – on the left is the spruce block for the two piece top plate, in the middle is the maple block for the neck and scroll, and on the right is the two-piece maple back plate:
To prepare the rib stock, sheets of thin maple are sawn on the bandsaw to a thickness of approximately 1.4 mm. Pictured here are several sheets:
These sheets are cut into 34mm wide strips, sanded to a thickness of approximately 1.2 mm on the drum sander, and then scraped to a final thickness of 1.0-1.1mm using a metal scraper.
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