I had my first adventure with cutting F-Holes today.  This resulted in the use of the F word often.

Mostly, it was my fault.  I cut them on my scroll saw.  I had one blade left, and it was not a very good one.  Then I kept hitting soft patches in the wood.  On those parts, the blade cut really well.  Really fast too!  

I also had the bright idea of using my wife's vinyl cutting machine to cut templates.  Well, vinyl and sawdust really like each other.  Something about static.  I usually couldn't see my cut line.  My built in air pump on the scroll saw couldn't keep up, and neither could my own built in hot air machine.  

End the end, I'm relatively happy.  I have more sanding to do, and I'm considering painting the edges black, but I haven't decided on that yet.  

This box is going to be a Ukulele soon.

Trey

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Those turned out well.

Thank you!

Nice job, they look good.

Thanks!

lookin mighty  fine   ..

 ps  ..  here's a tip  on something you should  borrow from the wife to  help  in final sanding touch up  .

 

She is good at hiding things that I could consider useful.

I took some popsicle sticks, some spray glue, sandpaper, and made my own. This worked really well because the sandpaper had the fuzzy velcro type stuff on the back, so it gave them a little padding.  

sweet   ;-) 

I use a big Sharpie to "paint" the inner edge of sound holes, and speaker holes in cigar box amps.

That's a great idea! I went ahead and tried it, and it worked awesome. Much better than painting. Thank you!

I use a Q-Tip and spray paint, but I like the sharpie idea...

Beautiful job on your F*#$%*!@# holes, lol

Beautiful work!  One trick to try:  I put blue tape on the box, and use spray paint on a stencil that's lightly glued down... 

Really slow speed on my scroll saw is all I can handle... 

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