🦋 Tin-can Cello: gluing up the nut...
So I'm pretty impatient, which is not a particularly good quality when it comes to woodworking; even less so when it comes to luthery. (Well ntm, just in general.) Most every wood project I've ever worked on has had issues in the glue-up. Well now I'm using hide glue rather than wood glue, which means I get a second chance!
After a couple of abortive attempts yesterday I got the nut glued in place; but when I looked at it this morning I saw that the way I had clamped it had not held it in place abutting the fingerboard, and there was a gap. Since the glue is hide glue, it was pretty quick work to break the joint apart. Now it is glued up and clamped in place again, with a brace holding it tight against the fingerboard... I'm impatient to start shaping the nut but first I have to get the blank glued in place properly.
posted morning of Sunday, October 14th, 2018
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Update, the clamps are off and the gap, if it's there at all, is quite minimal. Wondering how it will look in the morning...
posted evening of October 14th, 2018 by Jeremy Osner
...no movement! I can start carving this evening!
posted morning of October 15th, 2018 by Jeremy Osner
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