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Sal's Flamenco - gluing the fingerboard
9/16/2009 6:32:00 PM
I used to round the soundhole by hand with a file. Now, I make a round disc to fit my soundhole, fit it with sandpaper, hook it up on the drill and let it trim out a perfect circle.
The fingerboard is being glued on.
Sal's Flamenco - fingerboard - cutting out soundhole end
9/10/2009 7:34:00 AM
The ebony fingerboard is indexed to the Spanish Cedar neck into pre-drilled holes with two brads, on the first and eleven frets' positions. This allows accurate marking and shaping of the fingerboard on the soundhole end.
With the line as guide, the fingerboard is roughly cut out with a coping saw.
Sal's Flamenco - fret slotting
9/3/2009 3:02:00 AM
I'm cutting the 6th fret... all are cut to the depth of 3/32" with a simple guide block clamped on the left of saw. It gets a little harder to saw through on the last 1/32", so the parrafin (white) helps lubricate the saw a bit.
After all the 19 frets are cut, the fingerboard is tapered from nut width of 50cm to 12th fret width of 61cm. With the lines drafted, the fingerboard will be carefully planed to them.
Here's work done so far...
Sal's Flamenco - ebony fingerboard
8/12/2009 4:00:00 AM
This african ebony fingerboard is being scraped to achieve the glue face, to the neck.
African ebony micro scraper shavings.
The scraped surface needs no sanding.
Sal's Flamenco - final scraping of the bindings
7/24/2009 12:33:00 AM
The bindings are leveled out at every place.
(Single purflings of maple/walnut, for the back, like the sides)
Here's the new heel design with the consistent binding/single purfling scheme.
Here's the double purfling scheme for the top.