Saturday, August 11, 2012

Bridge

While waiting for the Yagrumo to arrive I started carving a bridge from scratch. I took a small piece of walnut and marked it where I wanted to cut. First I rough cut the blank using my band saw and a fence. I used a plane to square everything up. I followed this with using my japanese pull saw.I  used a chisel to cut the wedge/angled area. Overall I am pretty happy. I will probably bind it with some maple, just because.
The best part is that I used scraps from other projects, which saved a bit of cash.

A la espera de yagrumo para llegar empecé a tallar un puente desde el principio. Tomé un pequeño trozo de madera de nogal y lo marcó a donde quería cortar. Primero cortar la áspera en blanco con mi sierra de banda y una valla. He utilizado un avión con destino a todo lo cuadrado. He seguido esta con el uso de mi japonés pull saw. Yo utiliza un chisel para cortar la cuña / área en ángulo. En general estoy bastante contento. Yo probablemente lo unen con un poco de maple.



Thursday, August 9, 2012

Yagrumo

Well, I have located some Yagrumo for  the top. It should be arriving in a few days.
I love the way this wood looks as a top. This wood is native to Puerto Rico. Now to try and come up with the corpus wood, which is typically Guaraguao. I have located some spanish cedar, which I  am told works well for this style instrument.

Yagrumo tree