Paul Bouchard
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I didn’t set the angle of the neck to what I'd wanted and wasn’t happy with the look of the neck/body connection, so decided to bite the bullet and and steam it off with this pressure cooker, fuel line, ball inflation pin contraption. It was pretty hair-raising but worked out. I hadn't planned to to take the fretboard off but it came off the soundboard pretty easily and I decided to continue on up the neck. That sure made getting the steam into the joint easier.
Between this and doing the binding twice (because of scraping it too thin in a spot), this uke has been as much an education in repair as it was building....which is fine - I wanted to try to learn as much as possible.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S_wfHzh37NmRgbGYN3FlZ7FN-8n9-C9V/view?usp=drivesdk
Here it is prior to neck shaping and attachment. The fretboard is Osage orange and the bridge will be as well.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ITu9Kv6gMI3Cnt-fY-gG1tR6MEHqNfe/view?usp=drivesdk
Between this and doing the binding twice (because of scraping it too thin in a spot), this uke has been as much an education in repair as it was building....which is fine - I wanted to try to learn as much as possible.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S_wfHzh37NmRgbGYN3FlZ7FN-8n9-C9V/view?usp=drivesdk
Here it is prior to neck shaping and attachment. The fretboard is Osage orange and the bridge will be as well.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ITu9Kv6gMI3Cnt-fY-gG1tR6MEHqNfe/view?usp=drivesdk
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