jeudi 19 mai 2016

Day 2

 So this morning I started with the long arch, what is interesting is that Rémi likes to put the highest point in front of the bridge (2 cm away) to obtain a more equilibrated tension on the bridge. If you put the bridge at the highest point, the bridge tends to lean forward because the break angle of the strings. So his bridges are actually leaning towards the tailpiece rather than being square with lets say the rib structure.

  Long arch (13mm + 4mm platform) :


 Roughing out this with a plane took a lot of time, there is a lot of wood to remove

 In the beginning of the afternoon around two we went with Rémi in a sawmill located at the entry of the biggest Oak forest of France named "foret de Tronçais"

On the road to the sawmill :


 Looking at some nice olive ash and obviously in a sawmill you need to go trough a lot of planks just to get the ones that are quartered but its fun to actually buy it in an other way than ready made sets at 4mm all sanded and ready to use !



 Back to the workshop after moving around about 25 planks just to get the best ones. Rémi bought some Chestnut, Robinia and some ash. When you see that you pay about 50€ to get a 1/4 sawn plank like this, I must say it's quite worth it event if you waste more than half of it because of defects.

 After the sawmill it was time for me to finish my long arch before going home.

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