annetteswoodworking

Making wooden delights

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Installing butt inlay and mitered purfling and binding to the top channel of my classical guitar. Working at Brian Burns shop in Fort Bragg, California.

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Great time working in Gil Carnal’s shop last weekend. Guitar #178 is born.

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Instrument currently on the bench: dobro resonator guitar.

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Shawl pins by Annette Truong. Ebony, rosewood, hickory, cedar, plum, and lemon wood.

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Finished the 1700 Boston Harp!

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Working on some redwood carving. Assign for above my husband's espresso machine.

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Working on the harp: neck and post cut out, som lamination and shaping.

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Getting started on my next luthier project: a harp! This is a replica of the 1700 "Boston harp". Shown here: the spruce sound board and teak back to the sound box.

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30 sound holes for psalteries drilled today.

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Today I got the chamfing done on my psaltery. This is the beveled edge. I also drilled the peg holes and worked on the two bridges.

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Attaching the top on the psaltery. Shaving down the binding.

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Getting the back binding on my hog nosed psaltery.

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Progress on the psaltery: top and back plates thicknessed and cut to shape. Red zebra wood & maple.The carved sound hole here is my luthier instructor's work (Ron Cook), I am using as a pattern to make my own. By Annette Truong

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Finally finished my first ukulele! Red zebra wood and maple neck, rosette, and binding, ebony fretboard.

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Working on the spline joins and laminating I learned at Timothy Lydgate's box making class.

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Took a box making class on the weekend with Timothy Lydgate, whose sample work is shown here. (Cabrillo college, Aptos, CA) Next weekend I hope to make a box similar to one of these.

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Using up the scraps in the workshop making these wooden dragonfly shawl pins.