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🦋 Tin-can Cello: tool inventory

The tools I have found the most useful in the course of building the Tin-can Cello:

1. bandsaw. This project would have been just about unthinkable without a bandsaw.
2. angle grinder. Has been an invaluable time-saver and has made a fair amount of shaping possible that I would never have started on otherwise.
3. dragon rasp. Just a great, great hand tool.
4. sanding blocks: Wow. In the course of my woodworking avocation to date, I don't believe I've ever glued sandpaper to wooden blocks. Certainly not the amount I'm doing in this project. It is a wonderful thing!
5. scrapers (especially the french curve shape)

posted evening of Sunday, September 23rd, 2018
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Have been hunting and hunting for an appropriate tool to carve out the bottoms of the bridge feet -- they sit on a raised ring on the washtub's base, so they need to have a pretty specific concavity. This evening it hit me, there's a section of the french curve with similar curvature to the ring on the washtub base. I was able to scrape the feet very quickly into an almost-correct shape... A little more work another day and they'll be perfect.

posted evening of September 25th, 2018 by Jeremy Osner

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