Friday, March 04, 2011

No Chorus Line Here!

Tonight I finished drilling the tuning pin holes.  All I can say is they are not lined up like the Rockettes.  I'm telling myself that it lends "character" to my soundboard.  


I spread this drilling out over three evenings because I found it to be the most boring job yet.  Ugh.  I did not force the bit into that rock-hard oak, but used the weight of my Dremel to sink the bit into the wood 1-5/16" deep.  I went low tech and attached a little masking tape flag to my bit to tell me when I had reached the desired depth. The holes were drilled with an ever-so-slight lean toward the right case wall.  I found I had to do a lot of vacuuming along the way as the drilling generated an unbelievable amount of sawdust. After finishing that ordeal, I pulled out my Swiss Exacut, attached the fine-toothed saw, got my husband's little plastic miter box out and measured and cut the thin soundboard molding.  Easy peasy.  The manual makes a big deal out of how to spread the glue, but I found that a small (craft size) paintbrush worked perfectly to apply the glue along the right angle where the bottom and back of the molding meet.  I used just enough glue to spread out when I pressed the molding into place, holding them briefly while the glue set up. Voila!  Done.