I hate carving soundholes. And yet, with every build, my soundholes get more and more difficult! The P was a tough one, just carving away the material. When I started the W, I discovered the RotoZip. This powerful tool cut out the W in about ten seconds. Follow that by about 60 minutes worth of smoothing and fine tuning, and that soundhole was DONE!

I'm hoping Phil gets a kick out of this... after all, how many of us ever had an instrument with our initials for soundholes?

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Comment by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on August 20, 2009 at 11:33pm
I was cutting my sound hole and had to extend the diameter by 1/8". _Barely_ enough to put in the hole cover. Rotozips follow the grain and have a tendency to grab when the grain changes.
Comment by Nathan King on August 20, 2009 at 6:19pm
What happened Wes?
Comment by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on August 20, 2009 at 5:13pm
Be careful with a rotozip. It will get away from you in a flash. I outta know.

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