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Alan Roberts said:
The first few cedar flutes I made, I used a chisel, hand drill and draw knife. I use a router now, but wouldn't have really grokked what I was doing if I hadn't started by hand.
Wow...I haven't heard anyone use the word "grok"...and properly...in a long time! I think it's best that people work at that level, especially in the beginning, so they can achieve a basic understanding of how things work. I build rustic furniture and the only power tool I use is a drill...rest of it is knife, drawknife, hand saw, rasp and sandpaper. And I couldn't imagine doing it any other way. And it drives me crazy when I run across web designers that use WYSIWYG editors that don't know how to make changes by hand using the most basic HTML tags.
Alan Roberts said:
The first few cedar flutes I made, I used a chisel, hand drill and draw knife. I use a router now, but wouldn't have really grokked what I was doing if I hadn't started by hand.
Wow...I haven't heard anyone use the word "grok"...and properly...in a long time! I think it's best that people work at that level, especially in the beginning, so they can achieve a basic understanding of how things work. I build rustic furniture and the only power tool I use is a drill...rest of it is knife, drawknife, hand saw, rasp and sandpaper. And I couldn't imagine doing it any other way. And it drives me crazy when I run across web designers that use WYSIWYG editors that don't know how to make changes by hand using the most basic HTML tags.
Check out some of my vids here on the nation, I hope they will help you along with other builders out there that are having a hard time with their first build.. A good mind set of a first build for me anyway is to keep it simple. Nothing too fancy. And you don't have to have fancy tools to do a lot of this stuff. In fact, a drill, some screws, a good, and I mean, good hand saw that has small teeth on it, and some sand paper is all you really need to make a nice, good sounding, sturdy cbg. Sure, a electiric hand sander, and a dremel are nice to have...but if you don't have that stuff, it's not a problem. I bought a really nice hot glue gun a few weeks back and I am hooked. The glue that I liked was kinda pricy and it did not come in a very big tube, and I have heard that hot glue was good to use on peizo's...so now, I use got glue for almost everythig, except for my neck fret board, the last neck I made I used just plain wood glue. I have not had amny experience on making bone parts for my cbg's, but I have called my local butcher and he said he would hook me up with a couple of boes for free. I just need to go and pick them up.....I normally use bolts for nuts and bridges, but I am runing short on good bolts to use, so I figured I would try my hand and bone. It's free, so why not. I also have thought of just using simple dowls for nuts, I think you can get them a big bag for decent, and with a dab of hot glue, they would work realy well.
As far as the gorllia glue, I went down the same road, I used it and it foamed up some feirce....A good rond of elbow greese and some sanding and it took care of it....I also used my pocket knife to remove the bigest part of it. Needles to sa, I don't use it anymore.
An old friend of mine here in Missouri David Wolfs Robe, aka the Flute Man. David is an awesome musician, and as well a master flute maker. He and I talked about doing a project together at one time, but things just never panned out. Here is his website, hope this is not breaking any rules. No intentions of spamming just thought I'd share ti with you.
http://www.akaflutemanent.com/
KaptnKen said:Alan Roberts said:
The first few cedar flutes I made, I used a chisel, hand drill and draw knife. I use a router now, but wouldn't have really grokked what I was doing if I hadn't started by hand.
Wow...I haven't heard anyone use the word "grok"...and properly...in a long time! I think it's best that people work at that level, especially in the beginning, so they can achieve a basic understanding of how things work. I build rustic furniture and the only power tool I use is a drill...rest of it is knife, drawknife, hand saw, rasp and sandpaper. And I couldn't imagine doing it any other way. And it drives me crazy when I run across web designers that use WYSIWYG editors that don't know how to make changes by hand using the most basic HTML tags.
Alan Roberts said:
The first few cedar flutes I made, I used a chisel, hand drill and draw knife. I use a router now, but wouldn't have really grokked what I was doing if I hadn't started by hand.
Wow...I haven't heard anyone use the word "grok"...and properly...in a long time! I think it's best that people work at that level, especially in the beginning, so they can achieve a basic understanding of how things work. I build rustic furniture and the only power tool I use is a drill...rest of it is knife, drawknife, hand saw, rasp and sandpaper. And I couldn't imagine doing it any other way. And it drives me crazy when I run across web designers that use WYSIWYG editors that don't know how to make changes by hand using the most basic HTML tags.
Rex, where in Missouri? Are you up for the hoped for Festival in KC?... how about a picnic on Doughboy's farm on the Gasgonade? I'm a MO transplant by way of Puerto Rico...
the best,
Sam
Rex said:An old friend of mine here in Missouri David Wolfs Robe, aka the Flute Man. David is an awesome musician, and as well a master flute maker. He and I talked about doing a project together at one time, but things just never panned out. Here is his website, hope this is not breaking any rules. No intentions of spamming just thought I'd share ti with you.
http://www.akaflutemanent.com/
KaptnKen said:Alan Roberts said:
The first few cedar flutes I made, I used a chisel, hand drill and draw knife. I use a router now, but wouldn't have really grokked what I was doing if I hadn't started by hand.
Wow...I haven't heard anyone use the word "grok"...and properly...in a long time! I think it's best that people work at that level, especially in the beginning, so they can achieve a basic understanding of how things work. I build rustic furniture and the only power tool I use is a drill...rest of it is knife, drawknife, hand saw, rasp and sandpaper. And I couldn't imagine doing it any other way. And it drives me crazy when I run across web designers that use WYSIWYG editors that don't know how to make changes by hand using the most basic HTML tags.
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