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11-18-2007, 04:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: cherry hill nj | | | my handmade brazilian cherry frog
what do you guys think, made it with about 4 pieces of sand paper, a chunk of cherry wood and a sharp knife in 4 hours
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11-18-2007, 06:25 PM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyduded  what do you guys think, | For a start, I think you need to use the Macro setting on your camera.  |
11-18-2007, 07:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: cherry hill nj | | haha 
slightly better |
11-18-2007, 10:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: New York City | | | looks a bit rough to me man... |
11-18-2007, 10:55 PM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | Not as rough as this ...
Check out the purfling on this giant brazilian horned frog!  |
11-19-2007, 05:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Forest Grove, OR | | | Those things bite, too, I am told-- very aggressive.
The cherry frog is headed in the right direction-- the Brazilian one looks as though he could croak... |
11-19-2007, 07:16 AM
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humble instrument maker | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada | | | Congrats on you're first try, Jimmy.
My first bit of advice, regarding the "chunk of cherry".
Even if you are making something that ends up with a lot of curves in it, and requires a lot of carving, you have to start by making you're chunks square. That is, all sides must be parallel to each other, and all sides must be square to each other.
Precision is a must. Looking at the top and botom lines of you're frog, they don't look parallel to each other, or straight. And the back doesen't look square to either of those lines.
So that would be where I would start. Think precise. think straight. Think parallel. think square. Think sharp. When you're making a frog, 95% of you're time is spent doing those things, the final carving and sanding and shaping, is only the final 5% of you're time.
And don't be discouraged. You have to make the first one, to see where to start improving.
Why not start another one today, and when it's done, put them both side by side in a picture so we can see the progress? |
11-19-2007, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: cherry hill nj | | | well I dont have a jigsaw, so I have to cut the cherry by hand, Im not sure if youve ever cut cherry but by the time your done a nap is in order, not making a frog haha |
11-19-2007, 02:29 PM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | A jigsaw probably wouldn't have helped.
What Darren says is good advice and you don't have to have power tools.
If you start out with a rough cherry stick and carefully plane all four sides flat and square until they are almost exactly the final size, you'll be able to cut off a couple of inches for your frog. Use a fretsaw to rough out the cutout and you'll have a "blank". You could get a few blanks out of the one stick.
Then your carving is minimised and you have a nice straight piece of work.
A bit of googling helps too:
Look here: http://www.altmanbows.com/frog_making.html
Try making some cherry thumb planes along the lines of the ones I showed before. Good practice in small hardwood carving and you end up with really useful tools. Same principle; get your stick straight first. |
11-19-2007, 02:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: cherry hill nj | | | well its in a 3 foot by 6 inch form, so it has to be cut, ill think about investing in some power tools |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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