What's happening in your shed?

Purty ukes and I love the paua purfling however maybe it was best you changed the bridge shape. I'm not saying it was ugly or awkward or might have looked like a miniature corrective shoe glued to the top or anything like that but... I'm sure it sounded great. New bridge shapes are tough. That is why I go with the boring classical shape. Hard to screw that up, but so boring...
 
sequoia said:
miniature corrective shoe glued to the top
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HAHAHAHHA- i love that image- your humor is aligned with me it seems.

For shape, I don't think you can beat a small as possible rectangle for ukes. My first uke bridges were basically a rectangle but with some unnecessary shaping on the wings.
Guitars do benefit from a belly bridge though due to much more string tension, (but all my personal guitars have a small rectangle bridge.)
 
Beautiful, I've saved it to my things to try! But where's your label? Oh, the top's not attached yet?

Bob
 
Neck not glued on yet- im about 1 week ill fret this up

P.S
Beaurump is Making Lutherie great again!
Beaurump- the only man who can get both hands in a soprano sound hole at once.
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Just spent part of today setting up the presses and machinary to begin making the first batch of spacing gauges tomorrow...it's amazing how you forget how you did things just a few months ago...The first one off the line took ages to put together.
 
On the one hand, if you have a quad you also have a triple. But there have been times when the span of the quad has been too narrow when used as a triple. So, I'm in also if you decide to make a wider triple.
 
saltytri said:
On the one hand, if you have a quad you also have a triple. But there have been times when the span of the quad has been too narrow when used as a triple. So, I'm in also if you decide to make a wider triple.
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For me, its more about wanting a cheaper 3 pointer that I can leave on the bench and dont have to be as careful with. My 4 and 6 pointers live very safely in a draw.
 
DPO said:
Good, but lacks the sex appeal of a Timm's creation. :D
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Ken's spacing gauge is not for finding one simple center, but for multiple centers, all simultaneously, all pointed out visually, without juggling a slippery center-finding rule on the nut or bridge, for later notches.

My guess is, that there are other uses for this device, maybe beyond the luthier domain.
 
Beau Hannam Ukuleles said:
Rosette with art nouveau engraved leaf in paua and gold mop. (this is actually a guitar rosette. dont be mad)

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For crying out loud, Beau; hide it. It makes the rest of us sick. Sick with envy. :drool: That settles it, my stuff won't get pictured here. Well, maybe to illustrate a point; that is, how "not" to do it. :bowdown:

In reality, that is the nicest looking rosette inlay, without reservation.
 
Rrgramps said:
Ken's spacing gauge is not for finding one simple center, but for multiple centers, all simultaneously, all pointed out visually, without juggling a slippery center-finding rule on the nut or bridge, for later notches.

My guess is, that there are other uses for this device, maybe beyond the luthier domain.
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I do use a 4 pointer on odd occasions to remove a splinter from my finger :eek:
 
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