Awesome demo! Your curly walnut is a lot fancier than my wood! I watched with great interest. Earlier this week I was doing the same thing with white oak and crab apple for my pineapple tenor ukulele builds. I slabbed, planed and glued 7 front/backs. I will sand them in a few weeks. My goal is 5 ukuleles in 2023. I finished 3 in 2022. I usually plane both sides of a book match together (left and right sides stacked) so I take off the same amount from each side. And I glue with a “Spanish Cross” cord & wedge jig. But your economy of plane strokes is impressive so you don’t create offset. Starting with a jointed edge certainly helped. Very nice and productive. My wood comes from my neighbor’s trees as 4’-6’ logs, 14”-24” diameter. I rip them into pie shaped quarters with a manual frame saw. Then I dry them in my basement for a few years. I cut my thin panels with a “little ripper” bandsaw attachment as the faces on hand ripped logs are not very flat. I select book match pairs and layout the ukulele shape with my template carefully considering the hinge line. I then tape the sides together (stacked as sawn) with the show face to the middle and mark the body outline . I then cut an line on the bandsaw with 1/8” or so clearance, clamp the pair in a vice and plane to the hinge line datum. All that work sort of catches me up to where you were with your nice flat and smooth jointed edge.
Hi Aaron, if you don’t mind saying, what thickness are you sawing the top and sides to before they go through the drum sander? I love that band saw… Cheers.
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much respect for your skill .I would have loved to have seen the instrument put completely together.
wow nice score on that chunk of black walnut
more videos like this please! I love seeing the process.
Awesome demo! Your curly walnut is a lot fancier than my wood!
I watched with great interest. Earlier this week I was doing the same thing with white oak and crab apple for my pineapple tenor ukulele builds. I slabbed, planed and glued 7 front/backs. I will sand them in a few weeks. My goal is 5 ukuleles in 2023. I finished 3 in 2022.
I usually plane both sides of a book match together (left and right sides stacked) so I take off the same amount from each side. And I glue with a “Spanish Cross” cord & wedge jig. But your economy of plane strokes is impressive so you don’t create offset. Starting with a jointed edge certainly helped. Very nice and productive.
My wood comes from my neighbor’s trees as 4’-6’ logs, 14”-24” diameter. I rip them into pie shaped quarters with a manual frame saw. Then I dry them in my basement for a few years. I cut my thin panels with a “little ripper” bandsaw attachment as the faces on hand ripped logs are not very flat. I select book match pairs and layout the ukulele shape with my template carefully considering the hinge line. I then tape the sides together (stacked as sawn) with the show face to the middle and mark the body outline . I then cut an line on the bandsaw with 1/8” or so clearance, clamp the pair in a vice and plane to the hinge line datum. All that work sort of catches me up to where you were with your nice flat and smooth jointed edge.
Impressive process demonstration
Nice process! You make it look easy!
Really enjoy these build along videos!
Me too! I hope to make more of them.
Really fascinating to see a master at work. The wood you use is extraordinarily gorgeous examples. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching Mike!
Hi Aaron, if you don’t mind saying, what thickness are you sawing the top and sides to before they go through the drum sander? I love that band saw…
Cheers.
Around .100”
Is that 2hp on the hitachi resaw or something larger? Obviously not the original ear buster
3hp. The blade is a little dull so it slowed down a bit on this board.
Wow! 😍