Used my Go-bar jig to glue team patches over cracks in the lids. Uses small wooden blocks lined with a piece of 4 mm Yoga mat as a support. This step is one of the reasons why I made my Go-bar jig, you can glue without problems anywhere in the lid. Almost all team pieces ended up in…
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All GG in the batch have now got their ribs in both lid and bottom. I had to work a bit with my new GO-bar jig to make it work well, but after a few corrections of details I am happy with it. It went a little faster than I thought and next time it will be even better…
Using my new GO-bar jig seriously in this batch. It is especially useful when the stable plate and the reinforcement plate between the two ribs below the sound hole are to be glued. With a radius disk (a plate dug out to a radius in both directions) as an abutment, you can glue the plates with the correct radius in both X- and Y-joints…
A Levin was a Monday specimen where the hole of the string sticks ended up right on the front edge of the stable plate. The stable plate had cracked completely at the edge of the stable plate and it was difficult to loosen the string ball when changing the string. Stewmac's BridgeSaver, which I otherwise use for stable tiles in spruce, is the solution. It is made to be able to repair a stable plate that…
