Joining violin plates with the jointer plane is so tricky and so important that it’s the ONLY step that we don’t get to do on our first violin. But remember, I’m on my SECOND VIOLIN! which means plenty of fodder for my new violin making mini-series: JOINT PAIN!
…. Thank goodness the last panel is a hyperbole. I did bump the vise. But it didn’t fall. And she wasn’t horrified. In fact, I think she was not surprised at all. And it has a safety net under it (aka a big trash can).
I’m supposed to be studying for a violin construction quiz. Thought I’d cheat on my blog here and just post some of my notes. As you will see, they can be a little, um, excessive at times.
I definitely drew that around Thanksgiving.
How to fail at webcomics: Alienate your readers with boring CNC jokes.
Also, just so you know, I agonized a little over how to orient the tools to look like they were “facing” forward.
New kids have arrived at my school (CSVM), and they are all scrubbing their stones to flatten their stones to flatten their plane soles and sharpen their blades to flatten their first pieces of spruce to make linings. Reminded me of that cumulative song, I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. So here, I present you the violinmaker’s version:
I know an old lady who flattened her straightedge,
but I don’t know how she flattened her straightedge.
She flattened her straightedge to flatten her marble,
she flattened her marble to flatten her whetstone
she flattened her whetstone to flatten her plane sole
she flattened her plane sole to flatten her jointer
she flattened the jointer to flatten her plate edge
but gave it a hollow against her straightedge,
And then she glued.
Note: I confess I took various liberties in accuracy to make the song work better: We do not flatten our straightedges – the way to keep a straightedge flat is… never ever drop it ever. And although we don’t flatten our marbles, we do wiggle our straightedges all over them to find high spots! Oh, and we do not flatten our stones on the marble, though it’s fine to do it that way.
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