Flat Land

Went down for a weekend trip to Long Beach Island this weekend and brought along my violin and some tools. I decided it'd be a good time to try out the hand planer. The setting seemed right since the island only has an elevation change of 12 feet over the course of 18 miles.

The first two pictures are of the backside. If I was going to mess up, it should be on the side people won't necessarily see. You can plainly see where the different sections were glued together. Also you can see the shaping I did two weeks ago, the side pieces were hand filed down to get the curve I wanted.

Before planing:




Then after some trial and error, some blood and blisters, and about 4 hours later. The top and back of the body were nicely planed down, as well as the top of the neck and the top of the headstock.

After planing shots:




Here's the look of the whole thing so far, couldn't crop this picture down while at work. There's still plenty more work to be done on it. I need to file down the curves more and take off a lot more wood.